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For nearly 200 years, the Fugate family – known as the “Blue Fugates” – passed their blue skin on for generations as they ...
A short time later, the two married and settled in Hazard County, Kentucky. Over the next decade, the two had seven children. This all sounds like a typical family experience back in the 1800s ...
The story of the Blue Fugates, or the Blue people of Kentucky can be found online. There are some family researchers that say Peter LaFougate (1650-1695) was the first immigrant to America from ...
It’s a different sort of “blue blood.” The idea of blue-skinned people may seem relegated to Smurf Village and other fictional places; however, one rural Kentucky family actually sported ...