First thing this morning we drove to the Evergreen Cemetary in Newport Kentucky to locate the grave of Elizabeth Nolan Doxon, my great, great, great grandmother. Her oldest son married Arthur St. Clair’s great, great-granddaughter, her oldest daughter married George Washington’s great, grand nephew of George Washington, yet we have been unable to find her or her husband John Doxon’s parents or origins.
From the cemetery, we drove to the Newport, Kentucky Aquarium, rated by some as the best aquarium in the United States. We saw thousands of fish from around the world, hundreds of sharks, rooms dedicated to seahorses, penguins, and frogs, white crocodiles, and many other wonders of the sea. and shoreline.
I spent the afternoon in the Cincinnati Museum Center Library photographing documents and storing them on my Google Drive. As I have time I will transcribe them from the original eighteenth-century script and glean what information I can from the many letters and official documents I found. I will also work some more on the genealogy of the extended family, as at least a couple of letters are addressing people as uncles or cousins and I am unsure how they are related.
Dinner was at Nada, a restaurant a few blocks away from the hotel. They served delicious small plates, The waitress recommended three or four, but we ordered only one each. Akalena had more food on her child’s plates than we did, which was fine with us because we were full when we finished and the food was the most delicious we have had in a long time.