Logan County, KY Genealogical Society

10/13/2025

We need your help! We are opening the military service project up to include any veteran from any era, but we don't want to leave anyone out.

What is the military service project? It's the collection of information specific to the service of anyone who has served in the U.S. armed forces.

What information do we want? We are looking for any document or newspaper item that mentions information about their service, including the branch, era, rank achieved, and location of basic or advanced training. Also, we only want information on those who have passed, UNLESS the veteran gives permission to include them in our project.

Before sending information, please contact us to find out if we have a folder on your veteran. We may have some things, but not everything you'd want to submit. Also, please remember that the clerks do not monitor this page, so if you comment here with your veteran's name, they may not see it.

10/08/2025

The Colonel Benjamin Logan Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution and the Russellville Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution are launching a Legacy Project to honor the brave men and women who fought for a new nation and accepted land grants sight unseen, motivated only by hope and promises of a better future. These land grants led many to the western frontier, where they established homes, churches, and communities.

The Logan Fiscal Court has approved the construction of the plaza on the northwestern corner of the Justice Center. The centerpiece will feature a 10-foot-tall, 10-inch-thick monument in the shape of Logan County, which will display the names of patriots buried within the county's current boundaries. Additionally, the plaza will feature a 4-foot-tall, 8-foot-long stone shaped like the state of Kentucky, marking both Logan County's original and current boundaries. The remaining area of the plaza will be paved with bricks. To commemorate their sacrifices and bravery, we invite you to purchase a brick for the Legacy Plaza.

You and your family, church, group, or business can purchase a brick to support this project. You may choose to have your name (personal, church, group, or company) or the name of a veteran from any era of our nation's history engraved on the brick.

Bricks are available in two sizes: 4"x8" and 8"x8". The smaller bricks can accommodate three lines of text, with each line containing up to 17 characters (including spaces and punctuation), and cost $50. The larger bricks can hold five lines of text, also with 17 characters per line, and can include an optional emblem for $55.

You may visit the Archives at 278 W 4th St., Russellville, during regular business hours to purchase bricks. Please bring cash or a check made out to "Legacy 250 Project." If you are not local and would like to purchase a brick, please email the office at logancokyarchives@gmail.com to request a copy of the order form.

📷: Sketch by Alexander Brindley, Adairville, KY

09/12/2025

Advantage Painting & Power Washing worked 9n all ground level windows and the doors today. How beautiful is this door now? 😍

09/11/2025

If coming to the office today or tomorrow, please be mindful of wet paint on the front door.

Much thanks to Advantage Painting & Power Washing for taking care of us.

08/27/2025

The office is closed Aug. 27 and 28 for training. We will reopen Friday, Aug. 29 at 9 a.m.

07/23/2025

Gail Jackson Miller presents Follow the Land! Using Land Records in Your Research on August 14 at 6:30 p.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the corner of Cave Mill and Smallhouse Roads in Bowling Green. No registration is required. Everyone is welcome!

07/21/2025

Before: mismatched chairs that gave the office a disorganized look and feel

After: matching chairs and an organized look and feel

This improvement was made possible by the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels through their Good Works Grant Program. Along with new chairs, we were able to purchase more Hollinger boxes for oversized records (Civil War Soldier and Widow Pension applications) and clear archival sleeves to encase the most fragile documents and prevent further damage caused by careful handling.

We cannot thank the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels enough for their continued support of what we do. As a result of their support, we were able to pay it forward. We donated the old chairs, which still have a fair amount of life in them, to the SEEK Museum Research Center.

06/21/2025

The "Russell Girls" came from Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio to explore their Logan County ancestors. It's really awesome when we can connect visitors with local descendants!

06/18/2025

We will be closing today, Wednesday, June 18th, at 2:00.

06/14/2025

Happy Flag Day! Did you know that today’s holiday would not exist but for the actions of a 19-year old schoolteacher from Wisconsin?

In other words, anyone, anywhere can make a difference.

In 1885, Bernard J. Cigrand was teaching in a one-room schoolhouse in Waubeka, Wisconsin. He’d devised a simple class exercise for his students: They were to write essays about the flag in commemoration of the flag’s birthday on June 14.

Perhaps some of these essays mentioned the reason that June 14 is considered to be the flag’s birthday? It was on this day in 1777 that the Continental Congress first adopted a national flag for the newly declared American nation. Congress has made some changes since then, but the basic design of the flag remains the same: “thirteen stripes, alternate red and white” with a union of “thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.”

Surely Cigrand could not have imagined where this simple class exercise would take him! He would end up spending literally the rest of his life fighting for a national flag holiday.

One year later, in 1886, he wrote an article for a Chicago paper, urging that the flag’s birthday be observed annually. He would eventually author hundreds of articles advocating for the June 14 holiday, and he delivered many speeches. By 1894, he had achieved a public school celebration of Flag Day in Chicago. More than 300,000 children attended! Many more private and state-level celebrations ensued over the next two decades.

On May 30, 1916, with World War I looming on the horizon, President Woodrow Wilson formalized something that people were doing on their own anyway. He issued a presidential proclamation declaring that June 14, 1916, would be the first annual national Flag Day celebration.

“Let us on that day rededicate ourselves,” he wrote, “to the nation, ‘one and inseparable’ from which every thought that is not worthy of our fathers' first vows in independence, liberty, and right shall be excluded . . . .”

Cigrand unfortunately did not live long enough to see the end of the tale, because he died unexpectedly in 1932. Seventeen years later, President Harry Truman finally signed a congressional act that officially designated June 14 as Flag Day.

Today’s holiday is not only a celebration of our flag, but it is also a wonderful demonstration of what one determined individual can accomplish, isn’t it?

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06/01/2025

05/25/2025

In honor of Memorial Day, we want to hear about your Logan County veteran. If you have a photo of your vetran share it here and tell us about their service. We will add each one to our military service project files.