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Clark County Ky References

Submitted by Pam Brinegar

Many of these sources are out of print, but are available through a number of repositories, including the Special Collections Department at the University of Kentucky main library in Lexington, Kentucky.

  • 1860 U.S. census, Clark County, Kentucky, William V. Norris, Jacksonville, Florida, 1981. Kentucky Historical Society Library, Frankfort, Kentucky.
  • Abstract of wills of Clark County, Kentucky, from the formation of the county in 1793 to 1850, George F. Doyle, Winchester, Kentucky, 1934. Held by the Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois.
  • Abstract of wills in Clark County, Kentucky county seat, Winchester, Kentucky, for the period of years 1792 to 1851, Annie Walker Burns, A.W. Bell, Seat Pleasant, Maryland, 1933. Held by the Kenton County Public Library, Kentucky.
  • An act establishing a town on the land of John Baker in the county of Clarke, in "Acts passed at the second session of the general assembly for the commonwealth of Kentucky, begun and held at the town of Lexington,: Chapter III. Approved December 19, 1793. John Bradford, printer, Lexington, Kentucky, 1793. Held by the Kentucky Historical Society Library, Frankfort, Kentucky. [Established the town of Winchester and named its first eight trustees.]
  • An act for forming a new county from Fayette and Bourbon, in "Acts passed at the second session of the general assembly for the commonwealth of Kentucky, begun and held at the town of Lexington,: pp. 19-20. Approved December 6, 1792. John Bradford, printer, Lexington, Kentucky, 1793. Held by the Kentucky Historical Society Library, Frankfort, Kentucky.
  • Atlas of Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Jessamine and Woodford counties, Ky, D.G. Beers and J. Lanagan, Philadelphia: D.G. Beers & Co., 1877.
  • Bean family of Clark County, Kentucky: Wm. Carroll Fisher, Jr. family of Lexington, Kentucky: Porter-Bruce family of Clark County, Kentucky, Carol Fisher, Jr. and Betty Fisher Baesler, Frankfort, Ky, 1990.
  • A bibliography of Clark County, Kentucky, Willard Rouse Jillson, Frankfort, Kentucky: Roberts Printing Co., 1963.
  • Boonesborough, etc., George W. Ranck, Filson Club Publication No. 16, Louisville, Kentucky. Held by the Kentucky Historical Society Library, Frankfort, Kentucky.
  • Brief historical sketch of the newspapers of Winchester, Anderson Chenault Quisenberry, photocopy of a 28 page manuscript, 1900. Held by Special Collections, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington, Kentucky.
  • Bush family of Clark County, Kentucky, Mary Jane Scofield, 1979. Held by the Kentucky Historical Society Library, Frankfort, Kentucky.
  • The Bush family records, Genealogy A-F, volume 1, Beverly Hills, California, 1943. Held by the Kentucky Historical Library, Frankfort, Kentucky.
  • Catalogue sale of extra fine bred trotting stock owned by George A. Bowyer, of Clark County, KY., Friday, October 9th, 1874 in front of the Phoenix Hotel, Lexington, Kentucky, Press Print, Lexingtoon, Kentucky 1874. Held by the Cincinnati Historical Society Library.
  • Civil war days in Clark County, Kathryn Owen, Winchester, Kentucky, 1963.
  • Clark county chronicles: scrapbooks. Clark County Historical Society, Winchester, Kentucky: Winchester Sun 1922-1924.
  • The Clark County Courthouses, S.J. Conkwright, 1939.
  • Clark County in the Texan Revolution, Lucien Beckner, typescript, 1921. Held by Special Collections, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington, Kentucky.
  • Clark County, Kentucky: a history, Thomas Dionysius Clark, Clark County Historical Society, Winchester, Kentucky, 1995.
  • Clark County, Kentucky circuit court docket books, 1793-1814, mixed materials, photocopy. Held by Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky.
  • Clark County, Kentucky: 1850 census and mortality schedules: 1852-1861, Ann Poindexter Covey, compiler and publisher, Winchester, 1975.
  • Clark County, Kentucky, 1860 census,Mabel Pitts, Researchers, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1991.
  • Clark County, Kentucky marriage records, George F. Doyle, Winchester, Kentucky, 1930. Held by the Clark County Public Library, Winchester, Kentucky.
  • Clark County, Kentucky marriages, 1793-1799, Cecil D. McDonald, Seattle, Washington, 1978.
  • Clark County, Kentucky marriages, 1793-1850: alphabetical by brides, The Researchers, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1990. Held by the Kenton County Public Library, Kentucky.
  • Clark County, Kentucky marriages, 1793-1850: alphabetical by grooms, The Researchers, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1989. Held by the Kenton County Public Library, Kentucky.
  • Clark County, Kentucky marriages 1852-53-55-56-58-59, 1861-75-75 plus early miscellaneous birth and death dates, Mabel Pitts, Researchers, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1990.
  • Clark County Kentucky records, Joan Colbert Gioe, Researchers, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1991.
  • A Clark county spot that was Strodes Station, Anne Grant, Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, Kentucky 1967. Held by the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky.
  • Clark County, Kentucky taxpayers, 1793 thru 1799, T.L.C. Genealogy, Miami Beach, Florida, 1990. Held by the Kenton County (KY) Library and the Kentucky Historical Society Library, Frankfort.
  • Clark County, Kentucky wills 1809-1825, The Researchers, Indianapolis, Indiana 1980.
  • Clark County, Kentucky will books no. 1-12, George F. Doyle, Winchester, Kentucky, 1940.
  • Confederate soldiers: correct list of those who enlisted in the Confederate Army from Clark County, Kentucky, Jennie Catherwood Bean.
  • Death records, 1852-1862, Clark County, Kentucky: transcribed from the original vital statistics in the Archives Department of the Kentucky Historical Society, Mrs. Joseph Bears, Dr. and Mrs. H.K. McAdams, Frankfort, Kentucky, 1938. Held by Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky.
  • Descendants of Thomas Jonas Goff (1747-1824) of Clark County, Kentucky, R.L. Lockhart, Parkersburg, West Virginia, 1974. Held by the Clark County (KY) Public Library.
  • Draper's notes of his interview with Joseph Scholl, Lyman Coleman Draper, the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Draper mss. 24S 205-22.
  • Early Clark County, Kentucky: a history, 1674-1824, Willard Rouse Jillson, Frankfort, Kentucky: Roberts Printing Company, 1966.
  • Early Kentucky newspapers, Volume IV: statewide deaths and genealogical abstracts from Clark County Kentucky newspapers, 1874-1923, M.W. Elliston, Arroyo Grande, California, 1990.
  • Eskippakithiki: the last Indian town in Kentucky, Lucien Beckner, 1932. [Read before the Filson Club, March 1, 1932; originally published The Filson Club History Quarterly, 1932.
  • Falling of the stars: the remarkable phenomenon that scared everybody to prayers in 1833: Donaldson's long trumpet, and what he did with it: M. Firitz proclaims himself the Angel Gabriel, James Flanagan, 1969. Held by the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky.
  • "First census" of Kentucky 1790, Charles B. Heinemann. Genealogical Publishing Company: Baltimore, 1993, [orig. 1940].
  • Genealogical memoranda of the Quisenberry family and other families, etc., Hadwick and Cadick Printers, Washington D.C., 1897. Held by the Kentucky Historical Society Library, Frankfort, Kentucky.
  • Hand-book of Clark County and the city of Winchester, Kentucky, W.M. Beckner, The Arkansaw Traveler Publishing Co., Chicago, 1889. Held by special collections, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington, Kentucky.
  • Historical records of the Blue Grass region of Kentucky: Clark County--Winchester edition of wills: formed from Fayette and Bourbon Counties, 1792: Fayette and Bourbon Counties from Virginia, 1780, McGhee Publications, Washington, 196?.
  • History of Boonesboro, Lucien Beckner, 19??. Held by the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky.
  • History of Canewood: the seat of the Gist family and home of Governor Charles Scott, James Flanagan, 1800. Held by Special Collections, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington, Kentucky.
  • The history of Forest Grove Christian Church, Clark County, Kentucky, Eddie Palmer, 1971.
  • History of the churches of Boone's Creek Baptist Association of Kentucky, with a brief history of the association, S.J. Conkwright, Winchester, Ky., 1923.
  • History of Methodism in Clark County, C.E. Watts, Published by G.F. Doyle, 1949. Held by the Clark County (KY) Public Library and Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky.
  • Index to settlements and wills, Clark County, Kentucky, 1793-1854, William L. Howison & Associates, 1980, 1980. Held by the Kentucky Historical Society Library, Frankfort, Kentucky.
  • Insurance maps of Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky (including Ford), Sanborn-Perris (later Sanborn) Map Co., 1890-1926.
  • "Interview with Benjamin Allen, Clark County," Historical Quarterly of the Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky, v. 5:2, April 1931.
  • "Interview with pioneer William Clinkenbeard," Historical Quarterly of the Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky, v. 2:3, April 1928.
  • John Bean, 1766-1849 of Clark County, Kentucky: his story and his descendants, Richard M. Bean, Lexington, Ky, 1991 [orig. 1979].
  • "John D. Shane's interview with Benjamin Allen in Clark County," Lucien Beckner, Filson Club History Quarterly: Louisville, Kentucky, Volume 5, April 1931.
  • "John Findley: The first pathfinder of Kentucky," The Historical Quarterly of the Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky, v. 1:3, pp. 111-122, April 1927
  • John Tinne Brock of Clark County, Kentucky: ancestors and descendants, James Jayle Faulconer, Troy, Ohio, 1988.
  • John Watts family of Clark County, Kentucky, Charles Brunk Hienemann, Kansas City, Missouri, 1934. Held by Public Library of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio.
  • The Kentucky land grants: a systematic index to all of the land grants recorded in the state land office at Frankfort, Kentucky, 1782-1924 (in 2 parts), Willard Rouse Jillson, Genealogical Publishing Company: Baltimore [orig. Filson Club Publication No. 33, 1925].
  • Kentucky [court and other] records. Early wills and marriages, old Bible records and tombstone inscriptions, Mrs. Wm. B. Ardery, 1986 [orig 1926]. Includes data from Clark county.
  • Kentucky pioneer and court records, abstracts of early wills, deeds and marriages, Mrs. Harry Kennett McAdams, n.p., 1995 [orig 1929]. Information is collected from assorted early private and county records, including Clark.
  • The Kentucky River Navigation, Mary Verhoeff, Filson Club publication No. 28, Louisville, Kentucky: John P. Morton & Co., 1917.
  • Kentucky vital statistics, record of marriages in Clark county, Kentucky; for the period of years 1792 to 1851 inclusive, Annie Walker Burns, A.W. Burns, Wallins Creek, Kentucky 1933. Held by the Allen County Public Library, Indiana.
  • "Kentucky's oldest church, situated in Clark County, etc.", John K. Ryans, The Leader, August 16, 1931.
  • Land of our fathers: a history of Clark County, Kentucky, A. Goff Bedford, Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, 1958.
  • Lile-Turner; descendants of John Martin Lile (1795-1870) of Clark County, Kentucky and Macon County, Missouri, John R. Martin, 1970. Held by the Allen County Public Library, Indiana.
  • List of Revolutionary War pensioners of Clark County, Mrs. H.K. McAdams, transcriber, c1900.
  • Lusby-Risk families: some descendants of William Lusby (ca 1755-1815) and William Risk (1774-1854) both of Clark County, Kentucky, Genealogical Forum of Portland, Oregon, Portland, Oregon, 1982. Held by the Kentucky Historical Society.
  • Marriage Bonds of Clark County, Kentucky, from the formation of the county in 1793 to 1850, George F. Doyle, Winchester, Kentucky, 1933.
  • Marriage index to first marriage register Clark County, Kentucky, 1793-1831, William L. Howison & Associates, Columbus, Ohio, 1980. Held by the Kentucky Historical Society Library Library, Frankfort, Kentucky.
  • Marriages of Clark County in the state of Kentucky for the years from 1792 to 1851 incl., typescript, 1935.
  • Memorials of the Quisenberry family in Germany, England and America, Gibson Bros. Printers, Washington, D.C., 1900. Held by the Kentucky Historical Society Library Library, Frankfort, Kentucky.
  • Nomenclature of Clark County towns, villages and places, scrapbook, Clark County chronicle series, Winchester Sun, January 10, 1924.
  • Noted suit in 1847 to set aside the will of Joel T. Quisenberry, transcribed from newspaper clippings, James Flanagan.
  • Old homes and landmarks of Clark County, Kentucky, Kathryn Owen, Winchester, Kentucky: Thoroughbred Press, 1967.
  • Old graveyards of Clark County, Kentucky, Kathryn Owen, compiler and editor, New Orleans, Louisiana, Polyanthros, 1975.
  • The origin and derivation of the names of towns and places in Clark County, T.G. Stuart, 1923.
  • Pension papers of soldiers who served in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812 and Indian wars and settled in Clark County, Kentucky, Annie Walker Burns, Washington, D.C., 1935. Held by the Kenton County Public Library, Kentucky.
  • "Pilot Knob and Eskippakithiki," The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KEntucky, v. 51:!77, 1953.
  • Providence Church of Clark County, Ky records 1789-1833 (1 vol.), Special Collections, University of Kentucky Libraries.
  • The Rainey family: descended from John Raney of Clark County, Kentucky, Roselind R. Chaney, Greenwood, Indiana, 1984. Held by the Allen County Public Library, Indiana.
  • Ramsey families of Clark County, Kentucky, Mary E. Faulkenberry, Lone Jack, Missouri, 1994. Held by the Mid-Continent Public Library, Missouri.
  • Record of Abstracts concerning soldiers of the wars of the Revolution, 1812 wars; who settled in Clark County, Kentucky, Annie Walker Burns, Seat Pleasant, Maryland, 1933. Allen County Public Library, Indiana.
  • Record of marriages in Clark County, Kentucky for the period of years 1792 to 1851 inclusive, Annie Walker Burns, Washington, D.C. 1934. Held by the Kenton County Public Library, Kentucky.
  • Salem Presbyterian Church records 1811-1955, microfilm, Special Collections, University of Kentucky Libraries.
  • Dr. Samuel Davis Martin records, 1834-1868 (3 vols.), Special Collections, University of Kentucky Libraries.
  • A scrapbook of Clark County history, B.A. Tracy, Winchester, Kentucky, 1890. Held by Special Collections, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington, Kentucky.
  • "Second census" of Kentucky 1800, G. Glenn Clift, Genealogical Publishing Company: Baltimore, 1993 [orig 1954].
  • Survey of historic sites in Kentucky: Clark County, The Kentucky Heritage Commission and the Clark County Historical Society, Frankfort, Kentucky, 1979.
  • The travelling church in Clark County, Kentucky, 8 pp., Lexington, Kentucky, n.d. Held by the Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, Kentucky.
  • Will records of Clark County, Kentucky, Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, Chillicothe, Missouri.
  • William Black and his descendants; a genealogy of the descendants of William Black of Augusta County, Virginia and later of Clark County, Kentucky, Howard Clifton Black, 1973. Held by the Allen County Public Library, Indiana and the Public Library of Cincinnati, Ohio.
  • Winchester and its people sixty years ago, John Edwin Garner, typescript, 1923. Held by Special Collections, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington, Kentucky.