Mountain Farm

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This early 20th century photograph shows a mountain homestead in Letcher County. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Pioneer Ancestor

Pioneer Ancestor

By Tim Talbott

Historical Marker #1197 in Letcher County notes the history of early Kentucky settler and Revolutionary War soldier James Caudill. Caudill (early spelling Cordill) was born in 1753 in Lunenburg County, Virginia. As a young man during the…