Kentucky farmers

George Riley Bratton’s seventy-five years bridged two centuries and multiple American eras. Born in 1875 Kentucky during Reconstruction, he served in the Spanish-American War, farmed in Robertson and Pendleton Counties for decades, raised ten children, survived the Great Depression, and died in a farm accident in 1949. Just two months before his death, six of his daughters gathered with their families at his Caddo farm for what would be their final reunion together.