Our Illinois relatives were among the first to name their sons in honor of Abraham Lincoln.
We cannot yet resolve how a decades-old heirloom ended up where it did, nor comprehend the unlikely series of circumstances that led to its discovery and return.
Civil War documents connect disparate branches of our Grayson family tree, during and after the conflict.
Peter Wagener Grayson - early 19th century attorney, poet, soldier, and Texas Republic politician - left a distinguished yet tragic legacy.
Benjamin Grayson moved to Kentucky in the 1780s. In his role as a county court clerk he left documentation of an 1814 union that bridges past and present.
Joe Thompson was born in Kentucky, near the farmland of his long-ago pioneer ancestors. His American Catholic heritage goes back ten generations to the founding of the Catholic colony of Maryland.
"Why in the world would anyone want to assign ID numbers to a bunch of dead relatives?"
The Caldwells pioneered gas lighting in the American South and bequeathed a legacy of philanthropy, including the founding of the Catholic University of America.
In July 1864, guerrilla warfare in Henderson, Kentucky led to violence and retribution.
William Grayson, influential early American patriot and leader, contributed to the framework for and the settlement of the West.