First Families of Logan County
Now taking new applications for Logan County's 235th birthday!
2026 1st Family Application form.pdf
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NEW application for
First Families of Logan County, Kentucky
The "First Families of Logan County" project was held in 2017 in conjunction with the 225th birthday celebration of Logan County's creation. Numerous individuals participated and in the list below are their ancestors who fit the criteria.
In recognition of the 250th anniversary of American Independence and the 235th year of Logan County’s existence, Logan County Genealogical Society has extended the First Families of Logan County, Kentucky, project. A certificate suitable for framing will be issued to all who can prove their ancestor was in Logan County by 1820 or earlier. Since Logan County covered most of western KY below the Ohio River, west of the Green River and north of the Tennessee line, all ancestors within this parent county at one time are included.
To qualify, the applicant must be directly descended from an ancestor here by 1820 and provide proof of ancestry by official records. Records accepted as proof are birth, death, marriage, probate or will, church, cemetery, funeral or obituary, land records, deeds, tax, court cases, military, newspaper, Bible, old private documents, family and county histories published with documentation listed, city or county directories. Certificates are $15.00, separate copies for children are $5.00 with proof of kinship, with $5.00 shipping/handling unless picked up at the Logan County Archives.
Applications do not require Kentucky residency. Each generation listed from applicant down to ancestor must be proven by including a copy of a document as listed above that will link one generation to the next. For example a birth certificate of an applicant listing his/her parents and then a will or census record that shows the grandfather was parent to the 2nd generation ancestor, continuing down to the qualifying ancestor.
All applications and verifying material become the property of Logan County Genealogical Society and may be used to help others research their lineage. Send photocopies of proof papers, do not send original records. The application form is available above, can be requested by emailing logancokyarchives@gmail.com, or can be picked up at the Logan County Archives in Russellville.
Completed applications, verifying materials, and purchase cost should be dropped off or mailed to:
Logan County Archives
First Families Project
PO Box 853, 278 West Fourth Street
Russellville, KY 42276
If you know of a reliable website for anyone on our list, please let us know so we can link to it!
ADDISON, William
ANDERSON, Leonard
ARNOLD, Jonathan D.
ASHBY, (Lt.) Charles Willoughby
AYERS, Edmund
BAILEY, Gabriel
BAILEY, John
BAIRD, Moses
BAIRD, Thomas
BALLANCE, Ahaz
BARBRE, David
BARCLAY, Hugh
BARKER, Ananias
BARNER, William
BARROW, Charles Miskell
BAUGH, John
BEALL, Zadock
BIGGERSTAFF, Samuel
BILLINGSLEY, James Jr.
BLACKFORD, Ephraim
BLAKEY, George
BODINE, John
BOISSEAU, John H.
BLANCHARD, Thomas
BOYD, Daniel
BRIANT, (Rev.) Eli
BRITT, Obediah
BROWN, Bentley
BROWN, Hezekiah Jr.
BROWNING, Reuben
BRYANT, Absalom
BUNCH, George
BURGHER, Joseph
BUTLER, Edmond
CALDWELL, Andrew
CALVIN, James
CARNAHAN, Andrew
CLAYPOOL, John
CLAYPOOL, Stephen
COFFMAN, Adam Sr.
CORNELIUS, John Preston
COURSEY, Robert
COVINGTON, Peter Baylor
COX, John P.
CREWDSON, William
CUNNINGHAM, William
DAVENPORT, Fortunatus Pope
DAVIS, Harrison
DAWSON, William Chiswell
DeLOACH, William
DIAL, Thomas
DICKEY, Ebenezer
DILLON, Henry
DONOHUE, James
DOWNING, Benjamin
DUNCAN, Benjamin
DUNCAN, James
DUNCAN, Sarah Price "Sally"
DUNN, Lewis
DUVAL, (Maj.) Claiborne
DUVALL, Claudius
EDGAR, Zachariah
EDWARDS, William Bernard
EPLEY, Jacob Fritz
EVANS, Alexander
EWING, Henry
EWING, John
EWING, (Brig. Gen.) Robert
EWING, William
FARMER, Conrad
FELTS, Archibald
FIKE/FYKE, Malachi
FLEENER, Isaac
FORGY, James T.
FOSTER, Anthony Samuel
FRANKLIN, Reuben
FRESH, Nicholas
FUGATE, John Henry
GARRETT, Robert S.
GIBBS, John
GIBBS, Smith
GILLIAM, Marcus
GLASGOW, Samuel
GOODMAN, Jacob
GOODRUM, James Garner
GORHAM, Thomas Jefferson
GRAHAM, Eli
GRAHAM, Levi
GRAY, Edward
GRAYSON, John Jefferson
GRINTER, John
GROUND, Robert
HADDEN, Thomas
HADDOX, John
HALL, John
HALL, Micajah
HAMMOND, Samuel E.
HAMMOND, Thomas Sr.
HAMPTON, Joel
HANKS, Joshua
HANNUM, Jonathan
HARNED, Benjamin
HARPER, David
HARRIS, Taylor
HENDERSON, Michael
HERNDON, (Capt.) James
HICKMAN, John Lewis
HIGHTOWER, Abajah J.
HILDABRAND, Joseph
HINES, John
HINTON, Jesse
HITE, John Smother
HITE, Joseph
HODGES, Jesse
HOGAN, John
HOLLAND, Michael
HOLLINGSWORTH, Jeptha
HOUCHENS, Robert
HOWARD, David
HUFFINES, Christian/Christopher
HUGHES, Rowland
HUMMER, William Jr.
HUNT, Elijah
HUTCHINGS, Richard
INGRAM, Jonathan
JAMES, (Rev.) John Martin
JENKINS, Amos
JENNINGS, Elizabeth Ann
JEPSON, (Dr.) Lemuel Cox
JEWELL, Jonathan
JOHNS, William
JOHNSON, Thomas
JOHNSTON, Johnnie
KELLEY, John Sr.
KENNEDY, John
KENNERLY, (Rev.) Philip
KING, Benjamin A.
KING, Joshua
KINSLOW, Aaron
KNIGHT, Radney
LACY, Burley Sr.
LAFFOON, William
LANEY, Culbert Means
LANGSTON, Joseph
LANGSTON, Ragland
LAWRENCE, Thomas Davidson
LEE, William
LEWES, Andrew Porter
LEWIS, Gabriel Jones
LEWIS, John
LIKENS, James
LONG, John Slaughter
LONG, Samuel Culbertson
LOWE, Ralph
LOWE, William
LYNE, Timothy
MABEN, John
MAJORS, Alexander
MALLORY, William Jr.
MANSFIELD, Elijah
MARRS, William Sr.
MARSHALL, Lewis
MARSHALL, Samuel W.
MATHEWS, Peter Harrison
MAULDING, Ambrose
MAULDING, James
MAULDING, Morton "Mote"
MAXWELL, William Sr.
McCARLEY, John
McCUTCHEN, Sarah
McENDREE, James H.
McGINNIS, Hezekiah
McPHALE/McPHAIL, Niell
McREYNOLDS, Archibald
MEGUIAR, William
MIMMS, Robert
MORGAN, Reuben
MOORE, Levi
MORROW, Thomas W.
MORTON, William Jordan
MOSLEY, Robert
MOTLEY, John
NANNEY, Edmund
NEAL, Edward
NICHOLS, John
NISBET, James
NOE, Aquilla
OFFUTT, Tilghman
OGDEN, Otha W.
ORNDORFF, Christian
ORNDORFF, Christopher
PAGE, Leonard
PAGE, William J.
PENROD, Solomon
PERRY, Samuel
PIPER, Asa
POE, Thomas
POOR, Drury Woodson
POWELL, Levi Sr.
POWELL, Isaac
PRICE, John
PRICE, Major I.
PRICE, Samuel DuVal Dunscomb
PROCTOR, Hezekiah
RAGER, Burkett
READ, Moses
RENFROW, Mark
RHEA, Charles
RHODES, Joseph Rheinhardt
RICKARD, Isaac
RICKS, Jonathan
ROWDEN, Frances Jocelyn
ROWLAND, Micajah
RUSH, Grigsby
RUSSELL, Thomas
RUSSELL, William
RUST, Jacob
RUTHERFORD, Archibald
SAUNDERS, David
SAWYER, Benjamin
SAWYER, David
SEARS, John
SEARS, William
SHEMWELL, James
SHEMWELL, Samuel Sr.
SHIFFLETT, Harden
SHIRLEY, Richard
SIMPSON, John M.
SLACK, John W.
SLEDGE, Miles Cary
SLOSS, John Sr.
SMITH, Jesse
SMITH, Joseph H.
SOYARS, William
STARKS, George
STEENBERGEN, Robert Pendleton
STEVENSON, Hugh
STOCKDALE, Thomas Ward
STOKES, David
STOKES, Matthew
STRATTON, Benjamin
STRINGFIELD, William
STROUD, John
STUART, Frederick Pennington
SUMNER, Thomas J.
SUTTON, John
TATUM, Thomas
THOMPSON, Priscilla
THOMPSON, William Sr.
TINSLEY, Isaac
TODD, Benjamin
TOWNSEND, Jabez
TOWNSEND, William
TRAUGHBER, Michael
TRIMBLE, William
UNSEL, Frederick
UTLEY, Jacob
VICK, Ebenezer Nelms
VIERS, John
WADE, Brunt
WARDER, Joseph
WATSON, Anaphelida
WEIR, Elizabeth
WELBORN, James
WELLS, Henry
WELLS, Micajah R.
WEST, Amos
WESTRAY, Benjamin
WHEELER, Zachariah
WHITEHOUSE, Charles
WHITESCARVER, Robert
WILKINS, James
WILKINS, Richard Craven
WILLIAMS, Daniel
WILLIAMS, Jesse
WILLIAMS, John Robertson
WILLIS, Sterling
WILSON, James Thomas
WILSON, William Henry
WOOD, Brewer A.
WOOD, John (b. 1750)
WOOD, John (b. 1768)
WOOD, Lashley
YOUNG, John