Uncle Doc's Diary The Daily Journal of Dr. Thomas Clayton McCarty Spottsville, Henderson County, Kentucky 1 Jan. 1871--29 Nov. 1915

10 1/4" X 14 1/8" [26cm X 36cm] Hard bound in red cloth covered boards with title in gold gilt on the front and spine. No DJ. 288 numbered pages + 54 pages of Indexes. Condition is near new except for PO names and date on ffep. "What a 'goldmine' this book is for anyone who had family in the area of Henderson county that Uncle Doc's practice covered (people living in Spottsville, Baskett, Zion, Reed, and Hebbardsville) or the areas of his visits to family and friends (mostly Daviess, Meads, Hardin and Jefferson Counties in Kentucky and New Albany, IN. The 45 years predates almost entirely any vital statistics for Kentucky. It also fills in the gaps between the federal censuses especially the burned 1890." In addition to the hand written (and rewritten) diary of Dr. Thomas Clayton McCarty, his grand niece, janis Edwards Knox added indexes of obstetrical records (chronological order), record of births (alphabetical order), and record of deaths (alphabetical order), and a general index of names mentioned in this journal (alphabetical order). You can do a search to get more information about this book.…