
Pendleton County, Kentucky, 1889
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Pendleton County, Kentucky, 1935 (red lines are roads; black are railroads) |
Pendleton County, Kentucky, 1940 map of Magisterial Districts |
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Pendleton County was the 28th county formed in Kentucky. The law enacting Pendleton County was passed on December 13, 1798 and the county was formed on May 10, 1799 from parts of Bracken and Campbell Counties. Its boundaries are unchanged since April 22, 1882. It has an area of 280.5 square miles, making it the 74th largest of Kentucky's 120 counties. |
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For a textual history of various Pendleton county Communities,
you'll want to go here,
to
"The First 200 Years of Pendleton County" by Mildred
Bowen Belew
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Pendleton County was formed from Campbell and
Bracken Counties; it
was created on December 13, 1798. It was Kentucky's 28th county, and
named after Edmond Pendleton. There's a bio of him
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In 1876, the R. L. Polk Company published The Kentucky State Gazetteer and Business Directory, which listed information about virtually every town in Kentucky. The listings from Pendleton County are these: |
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| Boston Station | Butler | Peach Grove | Catawba |
| DeMossville | Falmouth | Motier | Gardnersville |
| Knoxville | Levengood | Morgan | |
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An earlier Gazetteer published in Louisville, was George W. Hawes’ Kentucky State Gazetteer and Business Directory, for 1859 and 1860. It's pre-Civil War, but only has detail on these two towns: |
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Membership Lists from |
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| Aspen Grove | Falmouth | |||
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Falmouth was given a couple of pages in the Covington Directory of 1874. You can read those here. (pdf) |
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From the papers of E. E. Barton, comes
this paper
(pdf) covering
The History |
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A description of Pendleton County Barton wrote in 1917 is here. (pdf) |
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T. M. Barton reports the Pendleton County news in 1877, here. |
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You should be aware that these excerpts from the work of E. E. Barton barely scratch the surface of the man's work. There are dozens of reels of microfilm of his work, and you can find that microfilm at the library in Falmouth, and at the Kentucky Historical Society in Frankfort. It's a genealogical mother lode, if that's your thing. |
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This list of Pendleton County deaths from WWII is from
the National Archives. There's a key to
what the
various abbreviations mean here, and the
actual list is here.
The list from World War I is here.
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“Slaveholders
Convention – Emancipation in Kentucky. It has been proposed to us,
by several gentlemen who own slaves in Kentucky, that they (the
slaveholders) hold a convention on Frankfort to adopt some plan for
the Abolition of Slavery, and that we so announce it; and that the
Hon. W. H. Luke, of Pendleton County, a Slaveholder, be appointed by
the friends of the convention, as one in his part of the state to
draw up a proposition for its gradual abolition.
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"The force dispatched Wednesday night down the Lexington road, reached Falmouth safely at 3 a. m. yesterday. No rebels were there, and all the bridges between that point and Covington were saved. Additional forces from Gen. Heintzelman’s Department were received by Gen. Hobson, and dispatched down the road. The One-Hundred and Sixty-Eighth Ohio (hundred day men) went down to Falmouth at 1 o’clock yesterday afternoon. The bridges of the Kentucky Central Railroad, with the exception of that at Townsend [5.5 miles n, of Paris, near what is now Shawhan], can be easily repaired, and even that can be put in running order in five days. The abutments and piers for a new bridge were nearly completed, and the timber prepared for the superstructure. The company have everything in readiness to complete a new and more permanent structure at Townsend than that destroyed." From the New York Times, June 12, 1864. |
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The Falmouth Outlook is on line here. You can buy their Forks of the Licking Bicentennial Edition history and picture book of Pendleton County by calling them at (859) 654-3332, or mailing a check to them at 210 Main St. in Falmouth. Only $25.45, and that includes postage. Recommended. |
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| The 1878 Biographical Encyclopedia
of Kentucky had these entries for folks with a Pendleton County connection (all are pdf's) |
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| W. J. Perrin | G. C. Lightfoot | G. R. Rule |
| W. W. Ireland | J. H. Fryer | James Wilson |
| Jacob Theophilus Simon | Joseph Desha Pickett | T. G. Hall |
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"Falmouth, Pendleton County, is one of the old towns, dating from 1790, and claims something like two thousand people. Pendleton is called 'the county which came back,' as some years ago, on account of the worn-out condition of the soil, about a third of the population moved away. Then sweet clover was planted, the bees came and founded a great honey-making colony, dairying developed, and the county and county seat were reinstated on the map." from Samuel Wilson's History of Kentucky. More detail on how sweet clover saved Pendleton County is here. |
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In 1914, here’s what the L&N’s Industrial Freight and Shipper’s Guide had to say about:
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The First Annual Report of the Banking Commissioner of
Kentucky listed
Statements as of June 04, 1913 for:
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The on-line encyclopedia Wikipedia has articles on
| Pendleton County | Falmouth |
You can edit them, on-line, if you like.
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| A few news bits from 1876, here. | Leading Pendleton County Citizens, of 1847, here. | A list of the first automobiles registered in Pendleton County is here. |
| A Civil War report from Falmouth, here. | In 1908, the Falmouth Churches counted noses. Results here. | A few Civil War recollections from James Ogden, here. |
| Murderer sentenced to hang in Falmouth, details here. | Falmouth's Frank Browning played for the Detroit Tigers in 1910. His record is here. | Civil War prisoners from Pendleton County, here. |
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In 1908, the Falmouth Outlook published a selection of letters to Santa. Some are here. |
Mrs. Louis Woolery wrote on "Some Old Homes of Pendleton County," from 1940, here. (pdf) |
First Pendleton County car owners are here. |
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Pendleton County's Historical Markers are here. |
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In 1969, Edna Talbott Whitley compiled a list of Cabinetmakers in Kentucky. The Pendleton County portion of that list is here. |
There are two Pendleton Counties in the US. The other one is Pendleton County, West Virginia. | Pendleton County sites placed on the National Places of Historical Places are here. |
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Don't Miss Origins of Pendleton County Place Names, here. |
A writer who signs himself "B," in anticipation of the opening of the railroad in 1853, tells about the advantages of Falmouth and Pendleton County. Read it here. | The Kincaid Regional Theatre is here. |
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A status report from the Superintendent of Schools in Pendleton County from 1900 is here. |
Every county in America was supposed to write its history for America's Centennial in 1876. Some did; some didn't. Pendleton County did. It's here. |
Pendleton County excerpts from Collins' History of Kentucky, here. |
| A site dedicated to the bridges of Pendleton County is here. |
Some Pendleton County Cemetery records are here. |
Murder in Butler, October 9, 1877. Read all about it, here. |
| A 87 year old man pays $3 alimony, and, a lamb with 8 legs: both in the 1909 society column, here. | The number of one room schools in Pendleton County for the 1909-1910 school year? 45. There's a complete list, here. | More about Pendleton County's Dr. Phillip Sharp, Northern Kentucky's only winner of the Nobel Prize, here. |
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Detailed Presidential voting statistics from Pendleton County are here. |
The Kentucky Department of Agriculture's assessment of agriculture in Pendleton County, in 1898-1899 can be found here. (pdf) | James Bradley, once a slave in Pendleton County, wrote an account, in 1834, of how he worked to buy himself out of slavery. Read it here. |
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The Pendleton Gen Web site is here. | The official Pendleton County site is here. |
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In 1930, Kentucky Progress Magazine ran a feature letting each of Kentucky's counties list their accomplishments for 1929. What Pendleton County came up with is here. (pdf) |
There are a number of good links to historical Pendleton County on their Roots Web site, here. |
Emma McClanahan noted in 1934 that Pendleton County, in
1910, had 3,108 |
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“Falmouth –
The blue ribbons are still on the rampage, and expect to close
their labors here this week, gong to Butler, Demossville and
Boston. They claim to have between five hundred and six hundred
disciples in this place. You can see big and little, whites and
blacks, at every corner, with the inevitable strip of blue pinned to
their lapels.” |
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If you go to Google Books and search for "Kentucky Public Documents Decoursey" (no quotes), you can find a government report with exhaustively detailed depositions given in regard to election fraud in Campbell and Pendleton Counties in 1865. It's good, detailed stuff, especially for the time period. On the other hand, if you download the pdf - and you can, free - note first that it's 781 pages long (it contains more than just Kentucky election fraud). |
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Members of the Free & Accepted Masons (F. & A.M. )
Lodges in Pendleton County, in 1885 are here:
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William Frances Corbin In 1955, Mrs. Warren Shonert wrote about the story of W. F. Corbin and Jefferson McGraw, two Confederate soldiers from Peach Grove who, as prisoners of war, were executed by a firing squad. Read it here. (pdf) |
James H. Gregory Company F, 2nd Kentucky Infantry, C.S.A.killed in a battle near Atlanta, May 28, 1864
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You can get information on Pendleton County
ancestors by subscribing
to the mailing list created for that purpose. You'll get periodic
information, and can submit your own questions, all via email.
Sign up
here for
Pendleton County.
Here is a
list of all available lists on Kentucky.
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Can you name the fifty-five (55!) town
names in Pendleton
County that have had US post offices? That list is
here.
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This Pendleton County Map is from 1931, and these are very large, but very detailed images.
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The Pendleton County High School yearbook has been The Echo, for a long time. Falmouth High School, on the other hand, changed yearbook names lots of times:
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On the Falmouth - Covington Road
North of Piner on 16? Grassy Creek?
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from Trow's Legal Directory of Lawyers in the United States, 1875
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| The Kentuckiana Digital Library has a number of Pendleton County images. Quality is erratic, but it's worth a look, here. | The Kentucky Historical Society's Pendleton County images can be found here. Click on the |
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In 1919, there was a farm census, counting livestock, crops and farms. Pendleton County's is here. |
On August
4, 1852, the Cincinnati Daily Gazette published the State |
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The results of a 1799 vendue (auction) in Pendleton County. That's so far back the prices realized are in pounds and shillings. Item listing and buyers here. |
| In 1864, seventeen Pendleton citizens, who had paid $300 to get out of the Civil War draft - an acceptable practice in those days - decided that since the draft quota was already filled, they should get their $300 back. More particulars on these true patriots is here. | We've got seven short 19th century Pendleton County articles from the New York Times. Too short to justify a whole page; too long to put them here, so you can read all seven by going here. |
| On March 23, 1826, a Kentucky representative, Mr. James Johnson, submitted a resolution that the military build an armory at Horse Shoe Bend, in Pendleton County, Kentucky. Read it, and read about it, here. | "The Falmouth Guide inaugurated its
sixteenth birthday by enlarging from a six-column to a seven-column
paper. The Guide recently discarded the ready-print and
is now one of the few all home print papers in this part of the
state." from the Mt. Olivet Tribune-Democrat, April 5, 1894. |
| "The new toll-gate house on the Butler
and Greenwood Pike is now completed and will soon be occupied by Mrs. Bell. This improvement should be followed by the road being repaired that itwill not be so muddy when it rains." Butler Enterprise, July 6, 1889 |
"Falmouth, Ky. - J. R.
Poindexter, Cynthiana, was awarded the contract for constructing
water works in the city for $13,793.20." from Municipal Engineering, January, 1896 |
| "Falmouth- Ky.-The Owenton & Williamstown Telephone Company has completed its line from Falmouth to Boyd, which gives Falmouth telephone connection with all the towns of central Kentucky." The Telephone Magazine, of October, 1901. |
"Falmouth, Ky. - The Falmouth Electric Light and Motive Power Company has been incorporated, with a capital stock of $50,000. J. C. Hamilton is one of the incorporators." from the weekly Light, Heat and Power, April 3, 1890. |
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| Sergeant James Courtney | Private Henry C. Schwer |
| Two Pendleton County soldiers were awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for their valor in World War I. Click their names to read more about them. | |
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"Candidates are plentiful
in Pendleton County. The Falmouth Independent, of last
week, announced no less than four candidates for County Judge;
three for County Attorney; fifteen for jailer; seventeen for
Assessor; three for County Clerk; one for Surveyor; and three
for Sheriff; a total of forty-six persons who are desirous of
serving their county in the capacity of county officers.
From this can be gathered the moral of hard times: numbers
of persons who would not otherwise descend into the cesspool of
politics feel themselves driven to seek for various offices." |
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