Legend of Mathias Harman Storyteller is Mathias Harman The province on Mathias Harman is not of the usual story and is based on the 1787 contract with one John Preston, John Smith, Henry Skaggs, and me Mathias Harman to settle in what was then Mason County, originally Bourbon and then Floyd County after 1799. Images…

Randolph (Randal) McCoy Randolph McCoy was born was born Oct. 30, 1825, as the son of Daniel McCoy and Margaret Taylor. He passed of burns on October 30, 1914. He married his cousin, Sarah McCoy, the daughter of Samuel and Sarah Davis. Randal and Sarah married in Pike County, Kentucky on December 9, 1849. McCoy…

Beginning on the next page is an autobiography of JOHN DILS, JR. which was published in William Ely’s 1883 “The Big Sandy Valley”.  Photos are from my collection, not from Ely’s book. In the autobiography Dils concentrated on his family history, his early days in Pikeville, his marriage, his business associations, and his motivation for becoming…

Special thanks to Sandy Newsom for sharing photos of her family. The original story was written by Alice J. Kinder, Mountain Roots, News-Express, July 6, 1883 In 1967 Pike Countians read this astounding news in the newspapers: One of the largest transactions in the recent years of Pike County’s history took place when 2,600 acres…

The Fodder Shock Hideaway, Gus’s Last Dream

Shootout at the mouth of Bull Branch.

Big George Johnson

VIDEO – Embry-Riddle Celebrates its History – https://youtu.be/Iy8j59l-HjQ Formerly a barnstormer and flying instructor for stunt pilots, John Paul Riddle was a pioneer in aviation history taking the controls only 17 years after the Wright brothers’ first flight. His career in aviation had taken him from the Embry-Riddle Flying School in 1926, winning the first…