History of Greenup County Kentucky

<p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 17 17 1)>By: Nina Mitchell Biggs Pub. 1951 reprinted 2025 368 pages Index soft cover ISBN #978-1-63914-607-9. Greenup County was created in 1803 from Mason County. It lies on the banks of the Ohio River which was a major migration path of person heading west from the Mid-Atlantic states like Pennsylvania. This history is similar to others of the era with topics on early settlers organization of the county Land Grants Indians slavery court records marriages early travel industry churches schools interesting items social life towns & villages an 1811 Census of Greenup County Revolutionary Soldiers Pensioned Soldiers of the War of 1812 buried in the county Civil War Soldiers Muster Rolls of soldiers from the Spanish American War and numerous mini sketches of these early persons scattered throughout these sections. This is followed up with roughly 200 pages of biographical sketches of these early settlers of the county. Surnames of these biographical sketches: Anglin Atkinson Bagby Baker Barney Bartley Bates Bell Bennett Biggs Bingham Booton Braden Bragg Brammer Brooks Brown Bryan Bryson Burns Burton Bush Callihan Callon Carnahan Cartwright Chinn Clancy Clifton Cole Colegrove Collins Cooper Corum Crawford Craycraft Craynon Curry Damron Davenport Davidson Davis DeBard Deering Doran Dowdy Downs Dupuy Elam Fannin Fisher Foster Frye Fullerton Fuqua Gammon Gibbs Glover Goble Gray Greenslate Hager Hailey Halbert Hamor Hannah Hartley Heisler Hill Hitchcock Hockaday Hodges Hoffman Holbrook Hollingsworth Hood Horn Howe Howland Hunt Ireland Jacobs Johnson Johnston Jones Kelly Kendall Kidwell King Kinner Kinsler Kouns Kuehborth Lacock Laughlin Lawson Leslie Little Long Lyons McClave McConnell McKee McMullan McMullen McNeal Mackoy Martin Mead Meadows Means Merrill Miller Mitchell Morton Munn Myers Mytinger Nicholls Nickell Norris Osenton Patterson Patton Paynter Pfaff Pogue/Poage Pollock Powell Pratt Prichard Pugh Rankins Rardin Ratcliff Reed Reid Richards Riffe Robb Roberson Roe Rollins/Rawlings Rucker Russell Savage Schmutz Scott Seaton Sellers Smith Sowards Spalding Stark Stephenson Stevens Stockham Stuart Swearinger Tanner Taylor Thom Thomson Tibbetts Timberlake Tinsley Tong Tooley Trimble Van Bibber Virgin Walcott Walker Ware Waring Warnock White Williams Willis Wilson Winn Winters Womack Worthington Wurts Young Zuhars and some others from Carter County. </span></p>