LaRue County Pictures

LaRue County, Kentucky

Bell's Tavern

According to the historical marker posted on site: Erected by William Bell in 1830, it was a stage stop for lines that brought visitors to Mammoth Cave when first promoted. Famed in the U.S. and Europe for elite patrons, cuisine, and magic peach and honey brandy for "Joy before the journey's end," until it burned in 1860. Civil War doomed completion of the new tavern.

LaRue County, formed in 1843 and named for the pioneer brothers, John, Jacob, and Isaac LaRue (Jacob is my great-great-great-great-great grandfather), was originally the southeast part of Hardin County. It contains the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln.

Sinking Springs, where the Lincoln's received there water. Located just below the cabin.

Symbolic log cabin in LaRue County at the Abraham Lincoln National Historical Site, which has historical significance for my family since my great, great, great, great, great Grandmother was the Midwife who served as a mid-wife to Nancy Hanks Lincoln.*,

Abraham Lincoln's boyhood home located on Knob Creek in LaRue County, Kentucky.

Attempting to read the epitaph on the Grave Stones. Although very hard to read, according to information found at the Hardin County Courthouse, this is the grave site of Jane Morgan.

According to Castlemen Cemetery records, these are the graves of Larue, Jacob Sr. – 1 May 1744 – 15 Sept. 1821 and Larue, Jane Morgan – (wife of Jacob & dau. of John & Sarah Morgan) 18 Feb. 1777 – 1 July 1852.

Another old cemetery at the Nolin Baptist Church. More relatives are buried here. The church was built in 1803, burned down in 1893 and rebuilt in 1895.

Couldn't resist a picture of the old outhouse behind the church and cemetery.

*According to Wikipedia Information on John LaRue Helm, "Having a knowledge of medicinal plants and herbs, Mary LaRue became know as a healer and mid-wife. She served as mid-wife to Nancy Hanks Lincoln on February 9, 1809 when Abraham Lincoln was born. The Lincolns very nearly subsisted on the charity of the LaRues." This is also documented in other family history including the book, "Six Generations of LaRues and Allied Families" by Otis Mathers.