Boyle County
Looking Back: Judge John Kincaid
(Editor’s note: Information for this article came from a Boyle County history about the Centennial Celebration of the Battle of Blue Licks, published in the ...
Brenda Edwards, Author at The Advocate-Messenger
Boyle County
Looking Back: James Payne Mitchell
(The gravestone photo and research for this article was compiled by local genealogist Carolyn Crabtree.) James Payne Mitchell was and was a lawyer one of ...
by Brenda Edwards, Friday, May 15, 2020 10:30 am
Boyle County
Looking Back: Civil War letter
Charles H. Talbot of Danville wrote a letter Sept. 20, 1862, from Covington to his Edwards cousins in Philadelphia, just after having a recent visit ...
by Brenda Edwards, Saturday, May 9, 2020 12:35 pm
Boyle County
Danville’s Joshua West served proudly
(Editor’s note: Information in this article came from The Advocate archives and Find-A-Grave site.) Danville native Joshua West Jacobs spent 40 years of his ...
by Brenda Edwards, Friday, May 1, 2020 11:22 am
Boyle County
Looking Back: Welsh immigrants settle in Virginia and head for Kentucky
(Editor’s note: Local genealogist Carolyn Crabtree, who has done extensive genealogist and historical research in Boyle and surrounding counties, did the research and furnished photos ...
by Brenda Edwards, Thursday, April 23, 2020 9:18 pm
Boyle County
Looking Back: Train wrecks were common in the early 1900s
(Editor’s note: This is the second part of a two-part series about train wrecks in Danville and – Messenger archives.) Several train wrecks on ...
by Brenda Edwards, Friday, April 17, 2020 9:49 am
Boyle County
Mrs. Stratton was a winning crappie fisherman
(Editor’s note: Information for this article was gathered from the Advocate-Messenger archives. Her granddaughter Sharon Stratton furnished the photograph.) A Boyle County woman was ...
by Brenda Edwards, Friday, April 3, 2020 4:57 pm
Boyle County
Looking Back: Three Dunn brothers went to war for their country
Editor’s note: Information for this article came from articles in The Advocate-Messenger archives. Three Dunn brothers from Danville went to war for their country ...
by Brenda Edwards, Friday, March 27, 2020 5:56 pm
Boyle County
Looking Back: Westmoreland
Editor’s note: Research for this article was taken from The Advocate-Messenger Archives. Many of Kentucky’s earliest settlers came from the celebrated Shenandoah Valley ...
by Brenda Edwards, Friday, March 20, 2020 5:06 pm
Boyle County
Looking Back: The Shepherd of Danville
The Rev. Dr. Edward Melvin Green, known as the “Shepherd of Danville” and “pastor to the town,” served as minister at The Presbyterian Church ...
