Welcome to the web site for
The Boyle County Genealogical Association
Danville-Boyle
County, Kentucky
| The Boyle County Genealogical Association of Danville, Kentucky, would like to invite you to our meetings every third Tuesday of the month at 7:00pm, unless indicated differently on the Calendar page. The meeting location is the Perryville Visitors Center on the corner of East Second and Bragg Street in Perryville, KY, unless otherwise noted. Everyone is welcome to come hear interesting speakers, members or not. |
 Twins Benjamin and Jacob Crow (ca 1850s-1860s) |
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"A
Centennial History of the Kentucky School for the Deaf," written by
Charles Fosdick, had been reprinted from the original. Charles P. Fosdick’s A Centennial History of the Kentucky School for the Deaf chronicles the first 100 years of Kentucky School for the Deaf (KSD), the first state-supported school for the Deaf in the United States. After its founding in 1823, the schools’ trustees searched in vain for a teacher who would venture to Kentucky. In 1824 they sent a 17-year-old Centre student, John Adamson Jacobs, to the American Asylum in Hartford, Connecticut to train with the leading educators of the Deaf, Thomas Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc. In 1825 Jacobs returned to lead the school as teacher and later, superintendent, until his death in 1869. These 100 years found school leaders and students weathering cholera outbreaks and Confederate raids. In 1862 teachers and students helped bury the dead after the Battle of Perryville. By 1921 over 2,500 students had enrolled at KSD. The majority came from rural backgrounds and returned to agricultural employment Long out of print, Fosdick's history has been reprinted by the KSD Alumni Association and the Jacobs Hall Museum Committee. For information about purchasing this hardback edition, call Bill Melton, KSD Campus Manager (859-936-6755) or email Rhonda Bodner (Rhonda.bodner@ksd.kyschools.us).
Boyle County Cemetery Books Are Available. The Boyle County Genealogical Association still has a few available copies of The Boyle County, Kentucky, Cemetery Records 1792-1992. This hardback book has information concerning over 22,000 burials during the years 1792-1992 in the Boyle county cemeteries. An addendum to the book has corrections and additions to the first printing. For ordering information see the Merchandise Section of this web site.
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Help Save Our Historic Cemeteries
Some extremely important work needs to be done on the historic cemeteries of Boyle County. Several are being destroyed because of neglect and unconcern. One family is correcting the problems at Old Union Cemetery near Doctors Fork Church. Robert Pipe has created a web site to let people know about the urgent need to preserve the heritage of families who have contributed much to our freedoms as a nation. Visit that web site here. http://www.unioncemetery.blogspot.com
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