Sources

Bibliography

Location of material:

(Items with no location specified may be found in most well-stocked libraries.)

FHL -- Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Salt Lake City. Films are available on loan to local Family History Centers.
KCPL -- Kenton County Public Library, Covington.
KDLA -- Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort.
KHS -- Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort.
UKL -- Margaret I. King Library of the University of Kentucky, Lexington.
UKL(S) -- Special Collections at Margaret I. King Library.
MHS -- Missouri Historical Society, Saint Louis.
UMC -- Missouri State Historical Society, University of Missouri, Columbia.
VSL -- The Library of Virginia, Richmond.
WVA -- West Virginia State Archives, Charleston.

Contemporary accounts:

Bristow, Neil Allen, ed. Aunt Mary�s Diary: The Writings of Mary Beckley Bristow. San Diego: Neil Allen Bristow, 1996.
Loder, L. A. Diary. Excerpts for Civil War period in William A. Fitzgerald, Boone County in the Civil War, qv.
Reynolds, Charles Dent. Incidents and Reminiscences of the Life of C. D. Reynolds from Boyhood to Old Age Beginning at his Earliest Recollections, 1893. Transcript at Orange County [Virginia] Historical Society.

Public records:

Journals of the Kentucky House of Representatives and Senate. KDLA.
Papers of Governor James Clark. KDLA.
Though most of the more frequently consulted local records (wills, marriages, etc.) have been filmed (and are available at KHS, UKL(S), KDLA or FHL), many others have not. In Kentucky, pertinent original court records are at: Burlington (Boone County), Paris (Bourbon County), Newport (Campbell County), Winchester (Clark County), Covington and Independence (Kenton County). In Virginia films are at VSL, FHC. Original material can be found at Monterey (Highland County), Orange (Orange County), Staunton (Augusta County). The West Virginia State Archives in Charleston is the central repository of records from what were the western counties of Virginia until 1863. Marlinton (Pocahontas County).

Abstracts from local records include:

Vogt, John, and T. William Kethley, Jr. Orange County Marriages, 1747-1850. Athens, GA: Iberian Publishing, 1990.
Worrel, Stephen W. Campbell County, Kentucky, Marriages, 1795-1850. Falls Church, VA: author, 1992.
Worrel, Stephen W. and Anne W. Fitzgerald. Boone County, Kentucky, Cemeteries. Falls Church, VA: author, 1996.
��. Boone County, Kentucky, Marriages, 1798-1850. Falls Church, VA: author, 1991.
Fragmentary vital statistics returns (of births and deaths in Kentucky) for the 1850s can be found at FHL, KDLA and (indexed) at KHS. Covington Health Department death reports from 1890 are at KCPL.

Census records:

Films of the population schedules are readily available. Those from 1850 on list individuals by name. Often overlooked are specialized schedules for agriculture and slaves. These are available only at branches of the National Archives and at KDLA. A broader picture is found in the official reports:
House of Representatives. Report of the Superintendent of the Census for December 1, 1852. Washington, DC: Robert Armstrong, 1853.
DeBow, J. D. B., Superintendent of the U. S. Census. Statistical View of the United States. Washington, DC: Beverley Tucker, Senate Printer, 1854.
Kennedy, Joseph C. G., Superintendent. Agriculture of the United States in 1860. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1864.
��. Preliminary Report of the Eighth Census, 1860. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1862.
Historical summaries of an amazing variety of information are in: U.S. Bureau of the Census. Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1975.

Newspapers:

There is no central depository for all Kentucky newspapers. The most complete collection is at UKL. KDLA and KCPL also have sizable holdings. Missouri papers are gathered at UMC. An on-line index to Covington area and Cincinnati papers is at KCPL. Useful published abstracts and indexes include:

Clift, G. Glenn, comp. Kentucky Marriages, 1797-1865, from the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 1938-1940. Baltimore: Genealogical Printing, 1978.
��. Kentucky Obituaries, 1787-1854, from the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 1941-1943. Baltimore: Genealogical Printing , 1977
Green, Karen Mauer, comp. The Kentucky Gazette: Genealogical and Historical Abstracts. v. 1 1787-1800, v. 2 1801-1820. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1983, 1985.
Herbert, Jeffrey G., indexer. Index of Death and Marriage Notices Appearing in the Cincinnati Daily Gazette, 1827-1881, 2 parts. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1993.

Kentucky:

Biographical Encyclopaedia of Kentucky. Cincinnati, OH: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878.
Brandon, Edgar Ewing. A Pilgrimage of Liberty: A Contemporary Account of the Triumphal Tour of General Lafayette through the Southern and Western States in 1825, as Reported by the Local Newspapers Athens, OH: Lawhead Press, 1944.
Clark, Thomas D. Agrarian Kentucky. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1977.
��. A History of Kentucky. New York: Prentice Hall, 1937.
Coleman, J. Winston, Jr. Slavery Times in Kentucky. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1940 [Reprint 1970].
Collins, Lewis, and Richard H. Collins. History of Kentucky. Berea, KY: Kentucke Imprints, 1978 [1874].
Coulter, E. Merton, The Civil War and Readjustment in Kentucky. Gloucester, MA: Peter Smith, 1996 [1926].
Fitzgerald, William A., ed. Boone County in the Civil War. A collection of primary and secondary sources. FHL.
Harrison, Lowell H. The Civil War in Kentucky. Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1975.
Fowler, Ida Earle. �Log of Lafayette�s Journey� in KHS Register 27:652.
Gray, Lewis C. History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860. 2 v. New York: P. Smith, 1941 [Reprint 1958].
Ireland, Robert M. County Courts in Antebellum Kentucky. Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1972.
McDonough, James L. War in Kentucky: from Shiloh to Perryville. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994.
Perrin, W. H., et al., eds. History of Kentucky, Illustrated. Nine regional editions. Easly, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1979 [1887].
Smith, Allen Webb. Beginning at the Point. Park Hills, KY: [author], 1977. Vignettes of the Covington area. KCPL.
Spencer, John H. A History of Kentucky Baptists from 1769 to 1885, (Revised and corrected by Mrs. Burilla Spencer), 2 v. Cincinnati: J. R. Baumes, 1886. KHS, FHL.
Yealey, Professor A. M. History of Boone County, Kentucky. Covington, KY: William Fitzgerald (Holmes High School Printing Class), 1960. KCPL A compilation of newspaper articles. No comprehensive history of Boone County yet exists.
[Various] Papers of the Christopher Gist Historical Society, Covington. Various dates. KCPL.

Missouri:

Gates, Paul W. �The Railroads of Missouri, 1850-1870� Missouri Historical Review 26: 126-141.
Glenn, Allen, History of Cass County, Missouri. Topeka and Cleveland: Historical Publishing, 1917. FHL
Fellman, Michael. Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri during the American Civil War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
History of Cass and Bates Counties, Missouri. St. Joseph: National Historical, 1883. FHL.
History of Monroe and Shelby Counties, Missouri. St. Joseph: National Historical, 1884. FHL.
Hurt, R. Douglas. Agriculture and Slavery in Missouri�s Little Dixie. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1992.
McCandless, Perry. A History of Missouri, Volume II, 1829 to 1860. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1972.
Marshall, Howard Wight. Folk Architecture in Little Dixie: a Regional Culture in Missouri. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1981.
Parrish, William E. History of Missouri: the Missouri Sesquicentennial Edition. v. 3. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1973.
��. Turbulent Partnership: Missouri and the Union, 1861-1865. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1963.
Smith, T. Berry, and Pearl Sims Gehrig. History of Chariton and Howard Counties, Missouri. Topeka: Historical Publishing, 1923.

Virginia (and West Virginia):

Bosworth, Dr. A. S. A History of Randolph County, West Virginia. Parsons, WV: McClain Publishing, 1975 [1916].
Butcher, Bernard L., ed., Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1978 [1912].
Ingalls, Fay. The Valley Road. Cleveland, OH: World Publishing, 1949.
Joyner, Ulysses P., Jr. Orange County Land Patents. Orange, VA: Orange County Historical Society, 1985.
Little, Barbara Vines. Orange County, Virginia, Tithables. Orange, VA: Dominion Market Research, 1988.
Maxwell, Hu. History of Randolph County, West Virginia. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Co., 1961 [1898].
McCleary, Ann. Historical Resources in Augusta County, Virginia, Eighteenth Century to Present. Richmond: Virginia Historical Landmarks Commission, 1983.
Miller, Ann L. Antebellum Orange: The Pre-Civil War Homes, Public Buildings, and Historic Sites of Orange County, Virginia. Orange, VA: Moss Publications, 1988.
Mitchell, Robert D. Commercialism and Frontier: Perspectives on the Early Shenandoah Valley. Charlottesville, VA: University Press, 1977.
Morton, Oren F. A History of Highland County, Virginia. Monterey, VA: [author], 1911.
Schreiner-Yantis, Netti. A Supplement to the 1810 Census of Virginia. Springfield, VA: [author], 1971.
Schreiner-Yantis, Netti, and Florence Speakman Love. The 1787 Census of Virginia. Springfield, VA: Genealogical Books in Print, 1987.
Scott, William Wallace. History of Orange County, Virginia. Richmond: Everett Waddey, 1907.
Semple, Robert Baylor (Revised and extended by G. W. Beale). A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia. Richmond: Pitt & Dickinson, 1894.
Waddell, Joseph A. Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, 1726-1871. Staunton, VA: [author?], 1902.
Wallace, George Selden. Cabell County Annals and Families. Richmond, VA: Garrett & Massie, 1935.

Transportation, etc.:

Cullinan, Gerald. The United States Postal Service. New York: Praeger, 1973.
Dunbar, Seymour. A History of Travel in America. New York: Tudor. New and revised edition, 1937.
Lytle, William M. and Forest R. Holdcamper (Revised C. Bradford Mitchell). Merchant Steam Vessels of the United States, 1790-1868. Staten Island, NY: Steamship Historical Society of America, 1975.
Stover, John F. History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1987.
Taylor, George Rogers. The Transportation Revolution, 1815-1860. New York: Rinehart, 1951.
Way, Frederick , Jr. Way�s Packet Directory, 1848-1983: Passenger Steamboats of the Mississippi. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1983.

Guides:

Applewhite, E. J. Washington Itself. New York: Knopf, 1981.
Becker, Carolus. New Guide of Fredericksburg, Virginia. Fredericksburg: Holly Hill, 1970.
Bergheim, Laura. The Washington Historical Atlas. Rockville, MD: Woodbine House, 1992.
Ewing, Charles. Yesterday�s Washington. Miami: E. A. Seemann, 1976.
Green, Constance McLaughlin. Washington: Village and Capital, 1800-1878. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1962.
James, Uriah Pierson. James River Guide. Cincinnati: U. P. James, 1856. [microform: Louisville: Lost Cause Press, 1976].
Jenkins, Warren. The Ohio Gazetteer, and Travelers Guide, rev. ed. Columbus, IN: N. Whiting, 1841. [microform: Louisville: Lost Cause Press, 1979].
Truett, Randall Bond, ed. Washington, D. C., A Guide to the Nation�s Capital. New York: Hastings House, Rev. ed., 1968.
Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration. Kentucky, A Guide to the Bluegrass State. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1973 [1939].
��. Maryland, A Guide to the Old Line State. New York: Oxford, 1940.
��. Missouri, A Guide to the Show-Me State. New York: Hastings House, 1954 [1941].
��. Virginia, A Guide to the Old Dominion. New York: Oxford, 1941.
��. West Virginia, A Guide to the Mountain State. New York: Oxford, 1941.

Maps, Gazetteers and Directories:

Atlas of Boone, Kenton & Campbell Counties, Kentucky. Philadelphia: D. J. Lake & Co., 1883. KHS.
Bartlett, Wm. F. The St. Louis Complete Business Directory for 1858. St. Louis: Wm. F. Bartlett & Co., 1858. FHC.
Boyd, William H. Boyd�s Washington and Georgetown Directory. 1858.
Boye, Herman. Map of the State of Virginia. 1859. LoC
Campbell, Thomas. Survey Map of Highland County, Viginia. Restored original at Highland Courthouse, Monterey, Virginia.
Colton, Joseph Hutchins. Virginia. [Map]. New York: J. H. Colton, 1855. LoC.
Crozet, C. Map of the Internal Improvements of Virginia. Richmond: Virginia State Library. [n.d.?]
Elliott & Nye�s Virginia Directory and Business Register. [?]: Elliot & Nye. 1852.
Gannett, Henry. A Gazetteer of West Virginia. USGS Bulletin 233. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1975 [1904].
��. A Gazetteer of Virginia. USGS Bulletin 232. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1975 [1904].
Rennick, Robert M. Kentucky Place Names. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984.
[United States. War Department.] Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion. New York: Arno Press, 1978. [1891].
White, M. Wood. White�s New County and District Atlas of West Virginia. Philadelphia: S. A. Mitchell, 1875. LoC.
Williams Cincinnati City Directory, 1856. Cincinnati: Williams, 1856. FHL.
Williams 1866 Cincinnati City Directory. Cincinnati: Williams, 1866. FHL
Virginia Atlas & Gazetteer. Freeport, ME: DeLorme Mapping, 1989.
Young, J. H. Tourist�s Pocket Map of the State of Virginia. Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1849. VHS.

Genealogy:

Mann, J. William. Faulconers of Virginia and Related Families of Spotsylvania and Orange Counties. Fredericksburg, VA: [author], 1989.
Osborn, Donald Lewis. A Family Record: Stephens. Lee's Summit, MO: author, 1973.
Ryle, Herbert E. The Stephens/Ryle Book: The History and Descendants of Benjamin Stephens, Sr., of Orange County, Virginia and Campbell County, Ky and John Ryle, Sr., of Anson County, North Carolina Who Died in 1777 and Whose Children Settled in Boone County, Kentucky. Upper Marlboro, MD: [author], 1987. KHS.
��. Antecedents and Descendants of Benjamin Stephens of Orange County, Virginia. Upper Marlboro, MD: [author], 1970. KHS.
Sparacio, Ruth Trickey and Sam Sparacio, comps. Pamunkey Neighbors of Orange County, Virginia. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1985.
Corkill, Lauretta Trickey, and Eldon Corkill, Ruth Trickey Sparacio and Sam Sparacio, comps. Supplements to Pamunkey Neighbors of Orange County, Virginia. 2 v. McLean, Virginia: Antient Press, 1994.
Sutherland, Hetty Swindall, et al., Swindall and Austin Families of Virginia and North Carolina. Clintwood, VA: [author], 1995.

Periodicals:

Kentucky Ancestors, Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort.
Missouri Historical Review, Columbia.
The Register, Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort.
Virginia Magazine of History, Richmond.