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Name Notable for Connection to Kentucky Roy Bean (1825–1903) : Eccentric Old West justice of the peace [21]: Born in Mason County [21]: Stephen Bishop (1780–1857) : Cave explorer and guide, enslaved person [22]
Alamo Defenders: A Genealogy, the People and Their Words. Austin, Texas: Eakin Press. ISBN 978-0-89015-757-2. Groneman, Bill (2001). Eyewitness to the Alamo. Lanham, MD: Republic of Texas Press. ISBN 978-1-55622-846-9. Hatch, Thom (1999). Encyclopedia of the Alamo and the Texas Revolution. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company.
Rajon Rondo has double ties to Kentucky — he is a Louisville native, but also played basketball in the mid-2000s with the University of Kentucky Wildcats.He was even inducted into the UK ...
According to his older brother, John, James Bowie was born in Logan County, Kentucky, on April 10, 1796 (Historical marker: 36° 46' 25"N 86° 42' 10"W). [5] [6] In his 1948 book, Bowie Knife, historian Raymond Thorp gives Bowie's birth date as April 10 but does not support it with any documentation. [7]
In 1795, Boone and his wife moved back to Kentucky, living on land owned by their son Daniel Morgan Boone in what became Nicholas County. The next year, Boone applied to Isaac Shelby, the first governor of the new state of Kentucky, for a contract to widen the Wilderness Road into a wagon route, but the contract was awarded to someone else.
The southern part of the state on the Kentucky border holds Indiana's warmest city. The average annual high temperature in Evansville is 71, a full 4 degrees higher than the next warmest cities ...
This is a list of people from the Louisville metropolitan area which consists of the Kentucky county of Jefferson and the Indiana counties of Clark and Floyd in the United States. Included are notable people who were either born or raised there, or have maintained residency for a significant period.
Pages in category "People from Springfield, Kentucky" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.