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Wilderness Road Volumes 9-12 Online

The Genealogical Society has elected to place images of the pages of volumes nine, ten, eleven and twelve of the Wilderness Road Quarterly online for your use. Links to these volumes are below.

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Volume 9, Number 1 - September 1996
Guardian Accounts, Book C; Slave Cemetery's Secrets Unfolding; Bullitt County 1804 Tax Lists; Mt. Washington Looking Back; Shepherdsville Cemetery; Mt. Washington Cemetery Proves of Great Interest; Forgotten Cemetery Haunts Road Builders; Bullitt County Deaths - 1894; Buckman Handwritten Notes; Salt Works Lease Agreement; The George and Mary Givens Family Chart; A 1936 Visit to Shepherdsville; Mailbag, Notes, Queries, Book Reviews, Etc.; Ahnentafels; Index.
Volume 9, Number 2 - December 1996
1804 Tax List; Judge Leroy Daniels; Bullitt County Marriages - 1894; Royce Swearingen Turns 100; Bullitt County Births, Marriages, Deaths - 1904; Drake-Newkirk-Brown by Larry Hutchison; Guardian Accounts - Book C; Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Wigginton; Salt River Tiger Article by J. W. Croan - 1897; 1917 Train Wreck at Shepherdsville - Dead and Injured; Brown Families by Larry McCoy; Records of McFarland Funeral Home; News, Notes, Inquiries, Book Reviews, Etc.; Ahnentafels; Notes from Bullitt Pioneer - 22 Jul 1904; Index.
Volume 9, Number 3 - March 1997
200 Year Anniversary; The 1937 Flood; Texia Harris Journal, 1936-37; Bullitt County Births & Deaths - 1907; Nitrate Film Advisory; Bullitt County Tavernkeepers - 1825; The Shepherd Family; Bullitt County Wills; Little Flock Fidelis Class 1956 Yearbook; Dr. George Wigginton Threlkeld; 1804 Bullitt County Tax List; Brown Families (continued); McFarland Funeral Home Records; News, Notes, Mailbag, and Queries; Ahnentafels; Index.
Volume 9, Number 4 - June 1997
Surname Index by Membership Numbers; Genealogical Society Members;cAntich-Balchunas Family History; Bullitt County Marriages - 1907; Bullitt Doctor Makes Quint History; Prepared by the Devil's Devil; McFarland Funeral Home Records; Bullitt County 1804 Tax List; Brown Families (concluded); News, Mailbag, Book Reviews, Queries, Etc.; Ahnentafels; Index.
Volume 10, Number 1 - September 1997
Prepared by the Devil's Devil; Black & White Photo Update; Bullitt County Births & Deaths - 1910; Mt. Washington Academy; Bullitt County 1804 Tax List; McFarland Funeral Home Records; Murray-Saunders Records; Bullitt Countians in the Orphan Brigade; The Ramsey Piano Factory, Mt. Washington; A List of Prisoners Taken by Indians; Bullitt Booster 1917 Advertisements; News, Mailbag, Queries, Reviews, Etc.; Ahnentafels; Index.
Volume 10, Number 2 - December 1997
Chamber of Commerce Salutes Bicentennial; Bullitt County 1804 Tax List; Sanders-Saunders; Bullitt County Post Office List; Shepherdsville High Class of 1924; Circuit Court Record of Proceedings Book, 1803-1825; James L. Patterson; Frank Smith Scrapbook Clippings; Prepared by the Devil's Devil; Preston Death in Missouri; McFarland Funeral Home Records; News, Mailbag, Queries, Etc.; The Bullitt Pioneer, 1904 Clippings; Ahnentafels; Bullitt Booster 1917 Advertisements; Index
Volume 10, Number 3 - March 1998
Brooks-White Family Records; 1797 Bullitt County Tax List (South of Salt River); Bullitt County 1804 Tax List; 1919 Bank Robbery; Prepared by the Devil's Devil; McFarland Funeral Home Records; Bullitt County Wills (continued); Notes, Mailbag, Queries, Reviews, Etc.; Index.
Volume 10, Number 4 - June 1998
John Speed's Salt Works; 1998 Surname List (by Membership Number); McFarland Funeral Home Records; Family Histories - Stephens, Heathman, Landers; Old Cedar Grove Cemetery; Bullitt County Deed Book A; Order of Sons of Liberty - 1860s; Notes, Reviews, Queries, Mailbag, Etc.; Ahnentafels; Bullitt Booster Advertisements - 1917; Index.
Volume 11, Number 1 - September 1998
Marriages 1876-1879; McFarland Funeral Home Records; Bullitt Co Deed Book A; 1901 School Census; Family Bibles; Burr Harrison; Samuel A. Ricketts; Henry Paulley; Old Hall Cemetery; Bullitt Booster Ads - 1917; Book Reviews, Etc.; Queries; Index
Volume 11, Number 2 - December 1998
Paroquet Springs - 1871; Bullitt Co Deed Book A; Bullitt County Marriages 1880-82; The Bullitt Pioneer Excerpts; McFarland Funeral Home Records; Francis Shain; Prepared by the Devil's Devil; Lincoln Finance Co. Souvenir; Book Reviews; Publication Exchanges; Queries; Index
Volume 11, Number 3 - March 1999
19th Century Bullitt Co. Newspapers; Bullitt County Marriages 1883-85; Bullitt Co Deed Book A; McFarland Funeral Home Records; Davidson Memorial Methodist Church History; Francis Shain; Descendants of John Michael Troutman; Old Brooks Burial Ground; Charleston Courier Excerpts; New Books, Etc.; Index
Volume 11, Number 4 - June 1999
Lone Hill Baptist Church; The Sanders Family; Prepared by the Devil's Devil; Bullitt County Marriages 1885-87; Shepherdsville in 1879; McFarland Funeral Home Records; Bullitt County Deed Book A; Captain James Taylor's Militia, 1806; First Owners of Town Lots - Mt. Washington; Descendants of John Osburn; News; Book Reviews; Descendants of Jacob (Adam) Shawler; Index;
Volume 12, Number 1 - September 1999
Sanders-Smithers Family Graveyard; McFarland Funeral Home Records; Bullitt Co Deed Book A; Prepared By the Devil's Devil, 1932; Records Access; Thrilling Experience of the Johnson Family; New Fort Knox Manager; Peyton-Winlock; Harris Family Records; The Bullitt Pioneer, 1903, 1905, 1906 Mt. Washington Schools; Notes on the Yewell and Shirley Families; The Pioneer News Special Edition, 1982 Book Reviews, Etc.; Queries; Decendants of Unknown Burks; Maxwell Family & Cemetery; Index
Volume 12, Number 2 - December 1999
Prepared By the Devil's Devil, 1932; Belmont from 1879 Gazetteer; McFarland Funeral Home Records; Bowman Valley School Reunion; Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Shepherdsville; Bullitt Co Deed Book A; Recital, Mt. Washington, 1906; Gen. Henry Crist Interred at Frankfort, 1869; Autobiography of Gen. Henry Crist; Wigginton Family; Grigsby Family; Ellaby Family; Book Reviews, Etc.; Queries "Wilderness Road" a Poem by Amelia Balchunas; Index
Volume 12, Number 3 - March 2000
The Pioneer News, Special Edition, 1982; History of Mt. Washington Maccabee Hall; Peddlers Licenses, Submitted by Tom Pack; Naturalized Citizens, Submitted by Tom Pack; Prepared By the Devil's Devil, 1932; McFarland Funeral Home Records; Bullitt Co Deed Book A; Vine Hill Cemetery (Clermont Cemetery); Jacob Bowman vs Thomas Brashears and Others, 1806; Darnell Honored by KGS; The Samuels Family, Compiled by Betty Darnell; Book Reviews, Etc.; Queries Ahnentafels; "Cemetery Cleanup Expanded; Bullitt Booster Ads, 1917; Index
Volume 12, Number 4 - June 2000
McDowell Chapel United Methodist Church; The Bullitt Pioneer (1906); Historic Preservation in Shepherdsville; Tom Pack Full of Bullitt Co Stories; Bullitt Co Deed Book A; Prepared By the Devil's Devil, 1932; U.S. Census Takers, 1940 Census; Ellaby-Wigginton Family Bibles; Simmons-Swearingen Family Bible; Shanklin Family Bibles; Cemetery Cleanup Expanded; McFarland Funeral Home Records; Bullitt Booster Ads, 1917; Book Reviews, Etc.; Queries; Index

Order back issues from Bullitt County Genealogical Society, PO Box 960, Shepherdsville KY 40165. Each issue is $7. Some record abstracts published serially in Wilderness Road have been collated and indexed and are available in book form (see book list). Each issue also contains miscellaneous records, queries, ancestor charts, museum news, book reviews, etc.

Many issues are available for sale at the Bullitt County History Museum. Follow this link to our Wilderness Road Issues page for a more detailed description of what is in each issue.

The Bullitt County History Museum, a service of the Bullitt County Genealogical Society, is located in the county courthouse at 300 South Buckman Street (Highway 61) in Shepherdsville, Kentucky. The museum, along with its research room, is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Saturday appointments are available by calling 502-921-0161 during our regular weekday hours. Admission is free. The museum, as part of the Bullitt County Genealogical Society, is a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization and is classified as a 509(a)2 public charity. Contributions and bequests are deductible under section 2055, 2106, or 2522 of the Internal Revenue Code. Page last modified: 12 Jan 2024 . Page URL: bullittcountyhistory.org/bcgensoc/wrissuesonline4.html