Clay County KyArchives.....Lucas, Harvey - Lucas, Manus, Peters, Chandler, Herd, Clark, Evans

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Dickey Diary Excerpt

MANCHESTER KY February 25, 1898- HARVEY LUCAS
I am 76 years old, have been blind for 14 years. I was returning from Irvine, 
Estill County during the war with Judge Manus and John Peters. We went up 
Station Camp. Near the head of it we stayed all night with Larkin Chandler. His 
wife was Sister of Colonel Herd of Owsley County who was then in Command of a 
regiment in the Union Army. Mrs Chandler was a fine woman, but Larkin was 
worthless. They had but one chair, one bed and one chicken, a hen. The hen was 
killed and made supper and breakfast for us.The bed was placed on the floor and we 
3 slept on it. I do not know of what became of Larkin and his wife during the 
night. I proposed to the men to give Mrs Chandler a dollar each. They 
refused, saying they had fed Larkin to often for that. I gave her a dollar. Chandler 
was a soldier, but happened to be home. Since the war he drew a pension and I 
learned is comfortable. This gives a idea of how people sometimes lived. Judge 
Clark's father lived in Owsley County, he had a commission to recruit 
negroe's during the war. The rebels or the Klu Klux Klan tied him to a horse's body 
and dragged him to death in Owsley County. Judge Clark's mother was a Evans.

Lucas Manus Peters Chandler Herd Clark Evans

Ky= Caly Owsley