madstone

Elizabeth Crook’s “The Madstone” is next on deck, and then you’ve caught me at a rereading period with “Woman of Light,” by Kali Fajardo-Anstine, which is truly transcendent.

Then, family history shows the madstone later made its way to Kentucky.

The Ellis family madstone - a piece of fossilized coral once thought to possess healing powers - had been passed down in her family for centuries.

Whittaker, of Ohio County, is the 13th generation with ties to the Ellis family madstone.

During Gibson’s research, he learned of the Ellis family madstone in the Rev. Joseph P. Ellis’ will from the 1800s.