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Just found out the Hartford Herald<\/i> (Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky) is online in beautiful images as part of the Library of Congress “Chronicling America” database of historic newspapers. This led me to download all 45-odd installments of Harrison D. Taylor’s serial column “Fragments of the Early History of Ohio County,” which ran from April 1877 to March 1878. (This is page 1 of September 26, 1877, with chapter 24 in it. Click the picture to go to the source at the Library of Congress:)<\/p>\n

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Subsequently edited and reprinted in 1926 as a book, Ohio County, Kentucky in the Olden Days<\/i>, these columns, and especially chapters 24 and 25 constitute nearly the earliest printed genealogical account of the Taylors. Actually, chapters 24 and 25, with the genealogical account, are based on a pamphlet printed in 1875 following a family reunion, which I have not seen in its original form — but which was reprinted separately in Ohio County, Kentucky, in the Olden Days<\/i>. (There is a text online<\/a> which may<\/i> have been typed from a copy of the original 1875 pamphlet, but which I haven’t been able to verify — yet.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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