The Jenkins Family of Eastern Kentucky

The Jenkins Family of Eastern Kentucky
Author: Magoffin County Historical Society (Ky.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1997
Genre: Genealogy
ISBN:

Robert Jenkins (1788-1860) was born in Virginia. He and his wife, Frances, moved to Floyd County, Kentucky ca. 1814-1815. He was living in Morgan County, Kentucky before 1850. Descendants lived in Kentucky, Oklahoma, Ohio, Illinois, and elsewhere.

Index to the Jenkins Family of Eastern Kentucky

Index to the Jenkins Family of Eastern Kentucky
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1998
Genre: Jenkins family of Eastern Kentucky
ISBN:

Robert Jenkins (1788-1860) was born in Virginia. He and his wife, Frances, moved to Floyd County, Kentucky ca. 1814-1815. He was living in Morgan County, Kentucky before 1850. Descendants lived in Kentucky, Oklahoma, Ohio, Illinois, and elsewhere.

Haunted Houses and Family Ghosts of Kentucky

Haunted Houses and Family Ghosts of Kentucky
Author: William Montell
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2001-09-21
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780813122274

The bestselling author of "Ghosts Across Kentucky" now presents an all-new collection of amazing ghost stories of the state.

The Howards of Eastern Kentucky and Related Howard Families

The Howards of Eastern Kentucky and Related Howard Families
Author: Magoffin County Historical Society (Ky.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 406
Release: 1985
Genre: Howard family
ISBN:

"This book may well have been titled 'The Howard cousins of eastern Kentucky' for the reader will soon discover that the old adage commonly spoken of the different 'sets' of the Howards may now be changed to 'the branches' of the Howard family tree"--Foreword. This book (actually published as 1 v. in 3) includes chiefly family history and genealogical data about thirteen different Howard families (thirteen different "sets" of Howards) listed on p. 4-6. Descendants and relatives of these Howard families of eastern Kentucky dispersed throughout the entire United States, and most of them moved to eastern Kentucky from Maryland, Virginia and the Carolina coasts.

Appalachia's Children

Appalachia's Children
Author: David H. Looff
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2021-12-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0813189101

This thoughtful, compassionate book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Southern Appalachian child—his mental disorders and his adaptive strengths. Drawing upon his extensive fieldwork as a clinical child psychiatrist in Eastern Kentucky, Dr. Looff suggests means by which these children can be helped to bridge the gap between their subculture and the mainstream of American life today. The children described in this book, the author points out, are in a real sense not "all children." Since no child grows up in a vacuum, the children of Eastern Kentucky cannot be understood apart from the historical, geographic, and socioeconomic characteristics of the area in which they grow. Knowledge of the children requires some knowledge of the lives of parent, teachers, and the many others upon whom they are dependent. That is to say, mental disorder—or mental health—is embedded in a social matrix. Dr. Looff therefore examines the milieu of these Southern Appalachian children, their future as adults, and how they can achieve their potential—whether in their native or an urban setting. In viewing the children within their own cultural framework, Dr. Looff shows how they develop toward mental health or psychopathology, suggesting supportive techniques that build upon the strengths inherent in each child. These strengths, he suggests, rise out of the same culture that burdens the child with handicaps. Dr. Looff's position is one of guarded optimism, based on the successes of the techniques he has used and observed in seven years of work in Appalachian field clinics. Although he details instances of mental disorder in children, and instances of failure in family functioning, he notes at the same time family strengths and sees these strengths as sources of hope. Although this book is based on fieldwork techniques within a specific area and culture, it is paradigmatically suggestive of wider application. Dr. Looff demonstrates effectively and clearly the profound need for increased concern about what is happening to the rising generation—the children of Eastern Kentucky, the children of the Southern Appalachian region, and the children of the rural south.

The Conley/Connelley Clan of Eastern Kentucky

The Conley/Connelley Clan of Eastern Kentucky
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1984
Genre: Kentucky
ISBN:

Descendants of Henry Connelly who emigrated from Ireland and settled in South Carolina in the mid 1700's where he married Betsy Vaux Buckley. The family played a meaningful role in the development of Magoffin County, Kentucky.

Johnson Co, KY

Johnson Co, KY
Author:
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 1563117568

A project of the Johnson County Historical and Genealogical Society.

Never Seen the Moon

Never Seen the Moon
Author: Sharon Hatfield
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2005-04-13
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0252099184

Never Seen the Moon carefully yet lucidly recreates a young woman's wild ride through the American legal system. In 1935, free-spirited young teacher Edith Maxwell and her mother were indicted for murdering Edith's conservative and domineering father, Trigg, late one July night in their Wise County, Virginia, home. Edith claimed her father had tried to whip her for staying out late. She said that she had defended herself by striking back with a high-heeled shoe, thus earning herself the sobriquet "slipper slayer." Immediately granted celebrity status by the powerful Hearst press, Maxwell was also championed as a martyr by advocates of women's causes. National news magazines and even detective magazines picked up her story, Warner Brothers created a screen version, and Eleanor Roosevelt helped secure her early release from prison. Sharon Hatfield's brilliant telling of this true-crime story transforms a dusty piece of history into a vibrant thriller. Throughout the narrative, she discusses yellow journalism, the inequities of the jury system, class and gender tensions in a developing region, and a woman's right to defend herself from family violence.