KY-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest 3 May 2000 Volume 00 : Issue 183 ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 01:42:02 -0700 From: Larry&Laura wright Subject: NEWS: " STATE NEWS" 1897, Adair County STATE NEWS taken from The Adir County news December 8, 1897 edition Typed as published and submitted By Laura frost Wright Owensboro wants brick streets Glasgow"s new electric powerhouse is being rebuilt. A Paris hunter has sold 4, 400 rabbits since the first of october. A big row in the Republican ranks at Frankfort over the post office. A number of the young ladies of Elizabeth town will winter in the South. Schools all over the State are adopting one session idea for winter terms. NIP CALHOUN, ninety-seven years old, died at his home. Park, Ky last week. Farmers are busily engaged turning corn and oats ground for next year. Diphtherin has again broken out Hart County, several children have died recently. Progressive euchere is the favorite amusement game with the society people of Owensboro. Kentucky distillers met in Louisville last week to discuss the best plan to limit the production. The new Legislators are being flooded with petitions asking them to vote for this or that measure. The $ 5,000 slander suit of JOHN B. DEPP against JAMES P. DEPP of Glasgow resulted in a hung jury. Circuit Court is now in session in Liberty. It is the last court in Judge W.W. JONES circuit for this year. The Page Hotel, Tompkinsville is to be the largest building in the city. The foundation has been completed. A report comes from trigg county that hogs in that section are dying in large numbers from a peculiar disease. Corn is much better all over the State than was first expected. It is selling at $1.65 per barrell in Adair county. DORA BAKER, of newport, has put the tongues to wagging by falling in love with her step father. More opossums have been killed in the mountain counties than ever before in the same length of time. MACK JAGGERS, son of HARDY JAGGERS, was fatally injured in a runaway accident near friendship Church, Hart County. FRED JOHNSON and Miss MAGGIE LAWSON were married at Owenton last week. He had been ten days divorced from a former wife. ERMINE STEVENS, a fifteen year old boy of Hay"s station, was fatally wounded by the accidental discharge of a gun while hunting. Elder R.M. CAMPBELL, for the past year pastor of the first Presbyterian church, Glasgow delivered his farewell sermon last week. Dr. J.A. DIXON, of Burksville, is mentioned as a probable candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress for the third district. Revival services in the baptist Church of glasgow continue with unabating interest. There have been many conversions, and fifteen or twenty additions to the church. The working of locking and daming Cumberland river, inaugurated by the United States government is now in progress. The government has about 500 men at work. The badly disabled condition of the centre College foot-ball team compelled Manager ACHESON to declare off the game with the University of virginia to have been played at louisville last Saturday. Policy shops are still in full operation in Louisville. it is said it will be at least three months before the mandate arrives, meanwhile the lottery will continue. After that the company may play another card. Miss MARY BORDERS, of Simpson county, was stung by a honey bee last summer. Gangreen set up from the sting and her foot became putrid flesh. the doctors decided to amputate her leg just below the knee. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 03:23:43 -0700 From: Larry&Laura wright Subject: CORRESPONDENCE: Letter from J. Cager Yates--Dec. 1897, Adair Co Taken from Adair County news Dec 8, 1897 Edition Typed as published and submitted by laura frost wright A SPICEY LETTER New York, Nov. 30, 1897 EDITOR NEWS: On November 1, I left home for Texas. I arrived there o.k. and found all Kentuckians in good shape and money plenty, with nothing to complain of except the price of cotton, which is only 41/2 to 5 cents. I sold all my real and personal property at satisfactory prices: Cattle $ 15.25 per head, horses $7.50 to $ 90.00 Jacks, $ 50.00 to $75.00 jennetts, $25.00 to $35.00 corn 38 cents, wheat 95 cents, oats and alfalfa $8 per ton, cotton, 5 cents, land $8.40 an acre. I returned home in time for Thanksgiving, my daughter with me: Mr. HUNTER, her husband will come later on. Friends WILMORE and ROWE have kept the wires hot on my track for the last two weeks, urging me to come to New York, and so here I am, somewhat disfigured but still in the ring. New York is a larger town than Gradyville , but the people are not near so sociable--they dont even speak to me in passing. I had a delightful trip through old Virginia. The mountains and valleys of that dear old state are simply grand to behold. In my imagination I could see the land and country of my forefathers, who emigrated to Kentucky from Virginia about 100 years ago. No doubt I saw many of my relatives along the way, still, the relationship being very distant, I did not recognise any of them for certain (As TOM NEAT would say) At Washington I called at the White House to see my friend , BILLIE McKINLEY, but as it was not his day to see one-suspender drummers I did not get in, so I just took a stroll through the yard and was satisfied. I did not see GROVER, either, guess he was at buzzard bay, as usual, with his boy baby or shooting ducks. Baltimore and Philidelphia I did not see as it was night and we were running fully sixty miles per hour. I found the boys anxiously awaiting my arrival on the jersey City side, with an Italian and his grind organ instead of a brass band. Of course, you know we are all full of scales, but my opinion is that if we rub up against these slick yankees much we will get some of them rubbed off. WILMORE seems to be one of them and in every way equal to the taskand we are depending largely upon his ability to hold our own with them, and he may hold us too, before the thing is over with. ROWE leans on his large silver-headed cane just as calmly here as he did about PAULL BROS. corner. In fact, I think he is stuck on this village, anyhow, he having been here three or four weeks and in no hurry to get home. The only thing that seems to mar his pleasure, or make him sad is expenses. He said he has had nothing here but a bad cold and an expensive appetite, and , if you know BILLIE, you know that he does not delight in giving his money away, and it cost more to live here at the Hoffman House than at Jamestown --lodging after midnight $1.50 and meals in proportion to appetite. It is now 11 o'clock P.M. and WILMORE and ROWE are out taking what they call dinner. I claimed to be sick to save a dollar, and did not go out, thinking it would not be long till breakfast. We don"t have suppers here at all. I think we will do this town in about three more days, and then Mr. ROWE and myself will return quietly home to sell hats and hardware for at least another season, trusting the merchants will all hold their orders for us. The prices may be higher than usual, still you can afford to pay more to men who have been to new york. Mr. WILMORE, while he is known here as the southern Yankee, does not forget his old Kentucky home and beleives it to be the best place on earth, and says he may have to return some day to the old home farm to plow, when we are through with this scale business. BILLIE will go back to Russell County, or rather he prefers the eastern portion of metcalf. As for me I will still continue in the son-in law business. I read three numbers of your spicey sheet in Texas and would like to have a copy sent to my father at gradyville, also mr.I will say in conclusion that we hope soon to see our scales on the market and no other scale in use except the American computing Scale. Truly yours J. CAGER YATES ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 11:06:07 -0400 From: Bradford.Buck@RossNutrition.com Subject: OBIT: Bessie Carter Heath, McCreary Co, KY Submitted by Brad Buck >From the McCreary County Record, Tuesday May 21, 1985 Bessie C. Heath Bessie CARTER HEATH, 81, died at her home May 17 after a long illness. Funeral services were held May 20 at 10 a.m. at McCreary Coiunty Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. William GOODAN officiating. Burial was in Carter Cemetery. She was born July 17, 1903, in Scott County to the late Fount CARTER and Barbara COOPER CARTER. She was a housewife and member of Whitley City Methodist Church. Preceding her in death were her parents; stepmother Amy ADKINS CARTER; husband Silas B. HEATH (1924); five brothers, Claude, Lloyd, Clarence, Floranzo and Warren Harding CARTER; and daughter Louise HEATH. Survivors include son, Howard C. HEATH, Bloomington, Ind.; grandchildren, Randy S. HEATH, Sally J. LIVINGSTON, Melody Bell POPE, all of Bloomington, Ind., and Larry HEATH, Whitley City; seven grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren; she helped raise Phillip Ray CARTER; brothers, James M. CARTER, Ober CARTER, Arthur CARTER, and Robert CARTER, all of Whitley City; two sisters, Novella CARTER and Betty Jane CARTER, both of Whitley City. McCreary County Funeral Home handled arrangements. ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 11:14:50 -0400 From: Bradford.Buck@RossNutrition.com Subject: OBIT: Charles Tharp, Campbell Co Submitted by Brad Buck >From the Campbellsville News Journal, first week of March 1939: CHAS. S. THARPE (THARP) Charle Samuel THARPE, 78, died at his home on Meadow Creek February 27. He was born in Marion County, the son of the late James Tharpe. Besides his wife, Iva ANDERSON THARPE, he is survived by 6 sons, Robert, Preston and Owen THARPE, of Illinois; Thomas THARPE of Lebanon; Clinton and Clem THARPE, of Campbellsville,; two daughters, Mrs. Sadie DEAREN, Bradfordsville, Mrs. Sallie MURPHY, Nicholasville, and three step-sons. Funeral services wre conducted Tuesday at the Bethel Chruch by Rev. Alfred ERICKSON and Rev. TRENT. Interment in Bethel cemetery. Pallbearers were Gilbert, Walter, J.C. and Earl MURPHY Simms LANKFORD and W.B. BOHANAN. Flowerbearers were Mrs. W. B. BOHANAN, Mrs. Arthur HARRIS, Mrs Sam LANKFORD, Mrs. Elbert TUDDER and Mrs. Clayton CAULK. ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 23:24:31 -0500 From: Nancy Trice Subject: MISC: Genealogy of Our Parentage - INDEX A-F The booklet, THE GENEALOGY OF OUR PARENTAGE, was posted on April 15. Here is the promised Index in 3 parts. INDEX Adams Co., OH, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14 Allen family, 4 Allen, Elizabeth ["grandmother"], 3, 4 Anderson, Amanda, 6 Anderson, Margaret, 6 Andrew Chapel cemetery, Marion Co., MO 12 Baird, Eunice Elizabeth (nee Gibson), 8 Baird, Helen Marsh, 8 Baird, John G., 8 Baker boys, 1 Baker family, 1 Baker, Miss ["great-grand mother"], 1 Baker, Miss Rachel Margaret, 7 Baptist, 4 Battle of G[u]ilford Court House [Revolutionarty War], 2 Battle of Thames River (War of 1812), 4 Boling, Rev., 10 Bourbon Co., KY, 2 Brown cemetery near Hunnewell, MO 12, 13 Bush, Ella C., 10 California, 6, 12 Cassady, Miss Fannie Estelle, 14 CEMETERIES Andrew Chape1 cemetery, Marion Co., MO 12 Brown cemetery, near Hunnewell, MO, 12, 13 Clarence cemetery, Shelby Co., MO, 12 [Clark burial on family farm], 8 Crane burying ground, Marion Co., MO, 6 Monroe City cemetery, Marion Co., MO, 14 Mt. Vernon church cemetery, Marion Co., MO, 6, 8 Nevada cemetery, Nevada, MO, 10 Oak Dale cemetery, Shelby Co., MO, 9 Parker cemetery, Marion Co., MO, 11, 14 Union Chapel M. E. church cemetery, 8 Clarence cemetery, Shelby Co., MO 12 Clarence, Shelby Co., MO, 12 Clark, infant boy (son of James), 11 Clark, infant girl (dau. of Robert Mason), 8 Clark, infant girl (dau. of Robert Mason), 8 Clark, Amanda (nee Anderson), 6 Clark, Ary Ann, 7 Clark, Callie, 8 Clark, Carl, 7 Clark, Charles (son of William), 8 Clark, Charles O. (son of Samuel Wilson), 8 Clark, Clarence (adopted), 7 Clark, Clemmy, 6 Clark, Daniel, 2 Clark, Edna L., 8 Clark, Elizabeth Jane "sister", 9, 10 Clark, Emma Jane, 7 Clark, Emmet Mason, 8 Clark, Helen Marsh (nee Baird), 8 Clark, James "father", 2, 4, 5, 11 Clark, James (son of Samuel V.), 6 Clark, James (son of William), 8 Clark, Dr. James Daniel (J.D.) "brother", 1, 6, 10, 11 Clark, James David, 7, 11 Clark, Jessie (nee Valient), 6, 10 Clark, John "great-grand father", 1 Clark, John "little brother", 8 Clark, John (son of Samuel), 2 Clark, Julia, 8 Clark, Laura Bell, 8 Clark, Leck, 7 Clark, Lenora, 8 Clark, Lewis, 8 Clark, Lotie H., 8 Clark. Louisa (nee Hager), 7 Clark, Margaret (nee Anderson), 6 Clark, Marion, 11 Clark, Mary Ellen, 9 Clark, Mary Francis, 7 Clark, Ollie Bell , 8, 11 Clark, Polly, 6 Clark, Polly (nee Vanschoaicke) "mother", 2, 3, 4, 11 Clark, Purlina (nee Tuley), 8 Clark, Rachel Margaret (nee Baker)"Margaret", 7 Clark, Robert (son of William), 8 Clark, Robert Alexander "Alexander", 7, 11 Clark, Robert Mason (R.M.), 6, 11, 15 Clark, Sallie (nee Fife) ["grandmother"], 2, 5 Clark, Samuel "grand-father", 1, 2, 5 Clark, Samuel Vanschoaicke, 6 Clark, Samuel Wilson, 8, 11 [Clark, Sarah], 1 Clark, Sarah (nee Smith), 9 Clark, Sarah Elizabeth, 7, 11 Clark, Sarah F. "sister", 10, 11 Clark, Sarah Jane (nee Gosney), 6, 11, 12 Clark, Singleton, 2 Clark, Vincil Heather, 8 Clark, William, 8, 9, 11 Collins, Rhoda D. (nee Vannoy), 9 Crane burying ground, Marion Co., MO, 6 Croup, 8 Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 6 Dutch, 3, 4 East Virginian Tuckeyhoe, 4 Eastern shore of Maryland, 11 Ely, MO, 3 England, 1 English, 4 [Eubanks, Rebecca], [1] Fife, [Family], 2 Fife, Sallie ["grandmother"], 2, 5 Frazier, Miss Louisia [sic], 4 End of ky-footsteps-digest V00 #183 ********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. 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