Harrison County KyArchives News.....News Excerpts May 25, 1911 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Doug Harper http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002839 February 13, 2005, 9:24 am Cynthiana Democrat Cynthiana Democrat Thurs 25 May 1911 Vol. 43 No. 35 Pg. 1 Col. 3 RUN DOWN AND KILLED Chas. Lail, formerly of Cynthiana meets death in Railroad Yards in Cincinnati BURIAL HERE Charles Lail, formerly jailer in Harrison County was killed in Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton yards last Thursday. Railroad detective. Buried at Battle Grove. Age 64. Born and reared in Harrison Co. His wife died some years ago. Survived by two daughters and three sons: Mrs. Frank Browning of Missouri; Miss Cora, Edgar, Leslie, & Clifford Lail of Cincinnati. He was brother of Judge G. W. Lail of this city and Joe, Frank Alvin and Edward Lail. Cynthiana Democrat Thurs 25 May 1911 Vol. 43 No. 35 Pg. 1 Col. 4 Selma Miss Virgie Adams, age 20, died at Davis, Saturday. TB Buried at Beard Church. George Hinton, age 82, died in Hinton. Survived by widow, two sons and one daughter. Buried at Family grave yard. Cynthiana Democrat Thurs 25 May 1911 Vol. 43 No. 35 Pg. 1 Col. 5 SACRIFICES HER LIFE In an effort to save her son, Mrs. Mary Welsh and Robert Welsh are killed by the cars TERRIBLE FATE Mrs. Mary J. Welsh and her son, Robert Welsh, were struck by a train on the Keller bridge, north of Cynthiana Saturday and were thrown into the South Licking. They were instantly killed. She was between 65 and 70 years of age. She was formerly Miss Kearns. Her husband who was a Federal soldier, had been dead for a number of years. A daughter died about a year ago in Lexington. She is survived by three sons, Marion who lives here, one a United States soldier in the Philippine Islands and one said to live in Chicago. She lived in Harrison Co. with her sons Robert and Marion. Robert Welsh was about 25. Burial for both of them was in Battle Grove. Cynthiana Democrat Thurs 25 May 1911 Vol. 43 No. 35 Pg. 2 Col. 3 Connersville Miss Virgie Adams, near Davis, died 20 May 1911 of TB. Age 20 years, 7 months and 14 days. Buried at Beards Church. Daughter of Favender Adams who died a few years ago. Cynthiana Democrat Thurs 25 May 1911 Vol. 43 No. 35 Pg. 2 Col. 4 Suicides in Bourbon Co. Thomas Stamps, age 50, stepped in front of an excursion train Sunday. Unmarried and the son of John Stamp who shot and killed himself at Lexington a nuber of years ago. Edward Myall, shot himself at home in Paris Friday. Age 45 and survived by a daughter age 16. John Wright Jr. killed himself last week by blowing his brains out. Edward Hibler, shot himself in the interurban station in Paris last week. Cynthiana Democrat Thurs 25 May 1911 Vol. 43 No. 35 Pg. 2 Col. 4 Sunrise The Kelat and Sunrise exchanges are connected and we are getting better service than when we had to talk around through Cynthiana exchange. Sunrise has 49 members and good prospects for more. The directors of the Sunrise Telephone Co. have employed A.T. Carr to operate its switch board for another year at the rate of $3.40 per box. A. T. Carr is having two more rooms put on his house. J. W. Six is doing the work with the assistance of John Whalen and Bob Lang. Hall McGladdery has been employed to run the Sunrise Mill. Hall is a first-class miller and we think the proprietors did well in getting him. Cynthiana Democrat Thurs 25 May 1911 Vol. 43 No. 35 Pg. 2 Col. 5 Claysville Little Sarah Menzies Meek, daughter of Dr. Risk Meek, died at the home of her parents in Covington Tuesday night, 16 May 1911 and was buried at Falmouth on Thursday. Scarlet fever with membranous croup was the cause. Her aunt is Mrs. Ada Carr. Mr. & Mrs. Mayo Puccinni of Bracken spent Sunday with their daughter Mrs. Walter Clark. Mrs. Jane Bramel Sparks, age 77, died Monday 16 May 1911 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R. T. Dryden near Cynthiana. She had been a widow for more than eight years and had ample means for her maintenance. Buried beside her husband in the Kentontown cem. Cynthiana Democrat Thurs 25 May 1911 Vol. 43 No. 35 Pg. 6 Col.4 Adjoining counties Pendleton Co. Mrs. Elmira Mann, 66, died at the home of her son-in-law, W. R. Seaman, in Falmouth. Orie Haviland Price and Mrs. Kate Cummins married Sunday at the home of the bride near Antioch Mills. Cynthiana Democrat Thurs 25 May 1911 Vol. 43 No. 35 Pg. 6 Col. 1 HISTORICAL PAPER Read Before the Wednesday Club To the ladies of the Wednesday Club of Cynthiana: Being requested by your president to make a talk before your society stating what I may know of the Harrison Volunteers that went from your town to enlist in the war with Mexico, I excuse myself by saying that I am like Moses - slow of speech, but could write such facts and events as I might remember after a lapse of sixty four years, together with such facts I may gather from records I have at hand. War was declared by the Congress of the U. S. to exist between the U. S. and the Republic of Mexico on the tenth of May 1846: whereupon the President of the U. S., James K. Polk, issued a proclamation calling for some fifty thousand volunteers to serve twelve months, or during the war. He divided this number among the several states in proportion to the population. All the citizens of Kentucky then of age liable to military service, being between eighteen and forty-five years old were organized under state laws into companies, regiments, brigades and divisions and each grade had their officers commissioned by the state, hence it was easy for the Governor of Kentucky to assemble his men and call for his required quota. The citizens of Harrison County met at Cynthiana on the twentieth of May, 1846, and some one hundred of the flower of the chivalry of Harrison County volunteered on that day and elected John Shawhan, Captain, Henry Van Hook, 1st Lieut., George Swinford 2d Lieut., Noah Patterson, Orderly Sergeant. James Curry and Enoch Worthen went to Frankfort that night to get our company accepted as a rush was expected to get in. The infantry regiment was filled, so to get in we had to go as mounted infantry which involved the getting of horses, saddles, bridles and such accoutrements for man of the boys had no horses, but by the liberality of friends and relations they were soon all mounted. Mothers, wives, sisters and sweethearts busied themselves and had uniforms of gray tweed on each prospective hero and each champing the bit to get to the fray. But camp life soon had its effect and honor and patriotism were the main prompting motives for camp live and military service lost its charms. Time went flipping by and the boys were being wined, dined and feted. The sixth of June soon came when we were to assemble in Cynthiana to start to the battle fields of Mexico. We formed a line in front of the court house, and after bidding farewell to friends and sweethearts, marched out to Leesburg to camp for the night. As we went down to the old bridge with a crowd of men , women and children, weeping and waving their handkerchiefs and wishing us God speed. Black Manny and Uncle Joe were much in evidence, weeping as bitterly as any to see the boy they had helped to raise maybe for the last time. The next day we passed through Georgetown. On our way we met Col. Dick Johnson and saw the Indians he was schooling at his own expense, in part, as I have heard to remunerate the tribe for killing Tecumseh, their chief in the war of 1812. The Col. made us a little speech and I recollect this that he said: "that if he had ten thousand such men as we looked to be, he could march us to the Halls of Montezuma in ninety days." We reached Frankfort that night, met the Governor and other state officials, had tickets to the theatre that night. Camped at Shelbyville next night, reached Louisville next day and went into camp at Oakland. The old race track was mustered into the U. S. service. A few days later under Col. Humphrey Marshall, together with nine other companies known as Clays, Headleys, Shawhans, Rices, Lillard, Millers, Penningtons, Beards, etc. Much merriment was had over the names as we heard the rolls called over. I believe that one comrade, Job Funkhouser, took. We could hear it being called out all over camp, Job Funkhouser. We were soon embarked in boats and landed in Arkansas opposite Memphis Tenn., where we met with Thomas' Tenn. regiment of cavalry which preceded us a few days to Mexico. We went on to Little Rock, Arkansas, on through Arkansas to the state of Texas, and then through an almost uninhabited country to Port Laracca on the Gulf of Mexico. After a few days rest we went to Brownsville; thence up the Rio Grande to Comargo. This was in the month of October 1846. Long before this one company had lost its individually and became an integral part of the army of the U. S. and their movements became a part of general history. We were moved round to Montgomery, Saltillo and other places on guard duty, etc., without events of interest until the approach of the battle of Buena Vista the twenty-second and twenty-third of February 1847. Our boys passed through this battle and lost four men killed and twelve wounded; namely Dave Rogers, James Pomeroy and John A. Jones; wounded, Capt. Shawhan, Wm. Snodgrass, Jesse Birum, H. C. Parker, J. M. VanHook, George Wilson, James Warford and Charley Fowler. This battle virtually decided the war; there were no further hostilities in northern Mexico. No other events worthy of note but routine of camp duty and some moving of positions until peace was made. The twelve months service, the time which we enlisted for was up by the middle of June and we were duly discharged and paid off at New Orleans in July 1847. The following soldiers were discharged on account of illness and died during the year: J. N. Anderson, at home Izard Miller, at home Harry Humble died at Pueblo John Lloyd died in Mexico Worthen Cummins in Memphis William Duncan died in Texas Oscar Warthen in New Orleans Frank Smith died at home Jonathan C. Overly died in Mexico You see that disease was more disastrous on our boys than Mexican bullets. Respectively submitted, Wesley B. Smith File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/harrison/newspapers/gnw317newsexce.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/