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H. David Wright’s “No Stronger Bond”: Painting of Ted Belue, as a Kentucky frontiersman.

Early Kentucky History, Part 8: Joseph Hornsby records early Shelby farming

1797

September: Joseph Hornsby brought his family to Kentucky, making his home on his 2,499-acre tract near Simpsonville, which he called “Grasslands.” He kept a “Planter’s Diary,” which has been described by George I. Willis, Sr. in his History of Shelby County, Kentucky, published in 1929: