Seventeen-year-old Lida Pratt Hornsey gathered up her schoolbooks and scurried out the door of 75 North Broadway in Lexington, Kentucky on the morning of Tuesday, October 12, 1897.[1] The shouts of her younger sister, Tommie, to wait up faded as her booted feet carried her down the cobblestone street.[2] Lida tightly clasped her fur-trimmed cape... Continue Reading →
Hugh Lonney & the Cholera Epidemic of 1833
Learn about our miasmaphobic ancestor, Hugh Lonney, and his response to the 1833 cholera epidemic of Lexington, Kentucky.