My great-aunt, Mattie Trice, was the keeper of our family history. She was one of the greatest pack rats. She was the youngest of the 11 children of Dabney Nelson and Elizabeth Strum Trice.She and her sister, Susie, never married. They lived in the family home in Webster County Kentucky until Susie's death in 1945. Then Mattie and her brother, Jim (my grandfather), moved to town-Madisonville Kentucky..Aunt Mattie collected a wonderful history of her family and friends in newsclippings and photographs. The Dabney Trice family believed in pictures. Family photographs were made regularly, as well as pictures of those who came to visit. When family pictures were made everyone got a copy. Thanks to this, we have an abundance of pictures scattered among the cousins. When my father, Leonard Ford, died in 1956, my mother moved back from Nashville Tennessee to live with her father and aunt. That way she would have someone to help with her two small children, my brother and me. When we were young Aunt Mattie kept us occupied with her pictures and stories of her family and growing up. Aunt Mattie died in March 1970, leaving a collection of family history going back to the late 1880's. When my mother came to live with us in 1992 she brought this collection with her. I hadn't seen these things in years and as I read them I tried to organize them. That was 8 years ago. We've now added my husband's family and my father's family to the project.. With these pages we hope to share some of our family treasures with others.

Please be patient and visit often. I expect this site will always be under construction. We have boxes of photos we have barely looked at, and the promise of a donation of lots of cemetery pictures.

MATTIE MAY TRICE 1886-1970

Susie R. Trice 1876-1945