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Civil war veteran "Colonel" George F. Bretz of Barbourville
BY DAVID COLE
One of the joys (and frustrations) in researching the past is bringing to life Knox Countians that appear to be long forgotten except for a few kinfolks on Ancestry.com. This writer stumbled across an interesting Mountain Advocate newspaper clipping floating around at the Knox Historical Museum. The article was published in April 1915 and announced the death of a George Frederick Bretz, who was known locally in Barbourville as "the Colonel."
Knox Countian features Governor James D. Black
The winter issue of the Knox Historical Museum's quarterly magazine, The Knox Countian, is now available for purchase at the Museum or the Advocate, both located in Barbourville, or via the online Museum Store at knoxhistoricalmuseum.org. The cost per magazine at the museum or Advocate is $3 while the cost via the website is $3 plus 6 percent sales tax and a $1.25 shipping fee.
Postcard circa 1966 of fellowship circle at Emmanuel Bible Camp
Emmanuel Bible Camp's Carl Wahlstedt led students in a fellowship circle that was featured on a postcard.
Names sought of baseball players at old B.B.I.
On July 26, 2019, Marilyn Beddow Miller, formerly of Knox County, Kentucky, submitted an old baseball team photo to the Facebook account called "Knox County History and Genealogy."
Aerial view of Union College campus and part of Barbourville - circa 1958
This aerial view of Union College and neighborhood in Barbourville, Kentucky appeared in the College's 1958 Stespean annual.
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What Our Patrons Have to Say...
I'm interested in Wilder surname, particularly pre-1830. Do you have Wilder records in this time period? Thanks!
Thank you for posting the General Tye King interview to your website this summer. It has been a pleasure to listen to those two old friends talk about their past.
My ancestors are the George Bunch family from Knox Co Ky. I would like to know what information there is about them. I am also related to the Trosper family too from Knox Co. Both families came to Missouri and settled. Thank you.
I am trying to find information on Great-Great Grandparents & Great Grandparents that lived in Know County, My Grandmother was born in Flat Lick, KY on July 27, 1884 to Hamilton Gator Baker & Catherine Howington. Do you have birth records, land records, anything for that time period? Thanks so very much!!!
Hi, I am a member and I think my membership expired in February and I don't think I received any renewal notice. Could you check and if needed, I will definitely send in a check. Thanks so much. Robin Black