Bell-Harlan-Knox County KyArchives Biographies.....NAPIER, HARRISON UNKN - UNKN
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Author: Dr. John J. Dickey Diary

Harrison Napier
Dr Dickey's Comments, Wooton's Creek, Ky. May 31, 1898.

     Yesterday morning, Monday, I left Hyden to come to this neighborhood to
see about getting permission to furnish a teacher for this school district.
There are 109 scholars in the census.  I want to put a Wilmore teacher
here, full of the Holy Ghost, to get the people saved.  As I passed near
the school house there were 10 or 12 men sitting at the roadside on
blankets or coats, playing cards.  There wre two games going on.  I stopped
and warned them mildly, they never stopped playing or made any reply.  I
went to see Harrison Napier, a trustee, a merchant living two miles above
the mouth of Wooton's Creek.  He is 44 years years old or nearly so, and
five weeks ago married a girl not quite 14 years of age.  He has
grandchildren, several children at home.  She came to the store, looked as
she is, a little girl, with short dress on, very childlike in her manner
and appearance.  Mr. Napier told her to go back to the house as that was
the place for the children.  He is a very bright man, is considered the
best salesman in the county.  He said that he would employ any teacher that
the district wanted, but I am told he has a man whom he wants to put in. 
He gave me no encouragement, was not disposed to talk about the matter.  He
is very --- and his impurity led him to kill a man whose wife's affections
he had alienated, a man named Bailey.  His excuse for marrying a child was
that he knew that she was pure and being a child she and his children would
get along pleasantly together.  This is a hard community though there are
some good citizens in it.  There is a lawless element; two stills were cut
up a few days ago. --J.J.D.
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