Clark-Montgomery County KyArchives Obituaries.....Scobee, Rice Pendleton  January 7, 1927
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The Winchester Sun, Thursday January  6, 1927
Microfilm 1927-From the Clark County Library
Scobee, R. P.
The Winchester Sun, Thursday January  6, 1927
Ex-Confederate Soldier Is Dead
R.  P. Scobee, Prominent and Widely Known Man of Winchester and Clark County, 
Succumbs After Lingering Illness
R. R. Scobee, age 80 years, succumbed at his home on Fairfax Street Thursday 
morning after a lingering Illness from a complication that extended over 
several months.
He was born on June 23, 1847, being the son of Robert and Lucy (Pendleton) 
Scobee. He has always resided in Clark County, and has been very actively 
engaged in the various business enterprises of the city, and has dealt 
extensively in the real estate business. He was the senior member of the R. P. 
Scobee & Sons Lumber Company of this city.
He enlisted in the Confederate army in 1862 under Colonel Clay, but during the 
war he was wounded at Cynthiana, and was taken prisoner and confined at Camp 
Douglas, where he remained he remained until after the war. After he was 
released from prison he was engaged in farming until 1892, when he moved to 
Winchester and has actively engaged in business since. He was a member of the 
Primitive Baptist Church and was devoted to his church at all times, never 
missing a service only when his health would not permit or he was out of the 
city. He was married to Miss Martha Jane Chorn in March 1868, who succumbed on 
April 7, 1919. To this union was born five children, four of whom are living: 
Messrs J. C., R. M.,  and R. F. Scobee and one daughter; Nancy (Scobee) 
Bratton, all of this city. He is also survived by J. Will Scobee and R. S. 
Scobee, brothers, of this city and two sisters, Mrs. J. W. Barnhill of 
Marshall, Mo., and Mrs. Kate Morris of Mounds, Okla.
He was one of Winchester and Clark County’s most enterprising citizens and was 
for the advancement of the community at all times. He was probably one of the 
largest real estate owners in Clark County. He also owned property in Florida 
and at one time developed a large acreage at a hotel in Florida which he was 
very successful. At one time he owned a hotel in Florida which he later sold 
at a nice profit. He always took a very active interest in state and county 
elections.
Funeral services will be held at the grave in the Winchester Cemetery on 
Friday afternoon  at 2:30 o’clock, conducted by Elder Eldon Hutchinson and Dr. 
J. W. Gillion of this city.
The active pall bearers will be J. M. Walker, Wm. Scobee, N. Rol Ratliff, N. 
W. Sewell, Matt Toohey and Dick McCormick .
The honorary pall bearers will be R. P. Taylor, W. D. Strode, W. C. Taylor, J, 
L. Bosley, W. Z. Haggard, and Levi Goff. 

Winchester Cemetery information: Plot: Sec-CENTRL Lot-381 Grv-2





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