Death Records 1908 to 1910

These 404 Henderson County deaths were transcribed from an old ledger in the Lexington Courthouse by Ms. Bobbie Pierce (bobbiepierce@hotmail.com) and kindly donated to this web site. The original records were sorted by school district (not civil district), but they have been sorted alphabetically county-wide…

Birth Records 1908 to 1909

These 542 Henderson County births were transcribed from an old ledger in the Lexington Courthouse by Ms. Bobbie Pierce (bobbiepierce@hotmail.com) and kindly donated to this web site. The original records were sorted by school district (not civil district), but they have been sorted alphabetically county-wide…

Palestine Homecoming

The Most Perfect Day by Roxie Milam Wallace and Jeff Wallace The blue sky was faultless, and the air crystalline—the most perfect First Sunday in June Decoration Day anyone could remember.  The old man, Palestine Mountain, sat content, robed in the verdant splendor of cottonwood…