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Author: Bennett H. Young

A Romantic Story.

   On the first day of January, 1841, a young man about thirty years of age,
made his appearance in Nicholasville, which then had a population of only 550
inhabitants. His name was Ross Hughes, and he was a stage driver, a native of
Ireland and a man of pluck and energy. He obtained employment, and rented an old
house then belonging to Albert Young. He and his wife constituted the family. He
drove the stage from Nicholasville to Harrodsburg, over rough roads in winter.
After he quit driving the stage, he one day told his wife that he must visit
Louisville and New Orleans. He remained away from home for a long time and the
gossips of the town made the young wife unhappy by their disagreeable
insinuations. After an absence of four months the husband returned, but within a
week he received a budget of letters, and told his wife that he must go at once
to St. Louis, and in a few hours, he took his departure for the last time from
Nicholasville, and gossip again turned its hateful tongue to the disturbance of
the life and heart of the young wife. The public felt that she was deserted.
Shortly after she became a mother, and for eighteen months lived on in silence,
hoping and trusting. At the end of this time she received a letter from her
husband directing her to come at once with her child, which she did, after
disposing of her little household effects. Upon reaching St. Louis she found
that her husband was the owner of a splendidly furnished house with every
convenience for her comfort, and with colored servants ready to obey her wishes.
In due time the little girl born in the little log house on the 27th of January,
1841, became a lady in fashionable society in St. Louis, and later the wife of
an English Lord, and the mistress of a superb mansion in London society. She
died Lady Stirling, on the 6th day of September, 1S89, in London. Her first
husband was a distinguished Major General, in the Federal army. The old log
house in which Lady Stirling was born is still standing, and is the property of
Mr. Corrington. It has been altered and weatherboarded anew, and is still one of
the most comfortable residences in the town. It was erected in 1804, and is on
the corner lot in the rear of Joseph Lears livery stable.


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Extracted from:

A HISTORY OF JESSAMINE COUNTY, KENTUCKY,
FROM ITS EARLIEST SETTLEMENT TO 1898.
By BENNETT H. YOUNG,
PRESIDENT POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY; MEMBER FILSON CLUB; MEMBER CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION, 1890; AUTHOR HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF KENTUCKY, OF "BATTLE OF
BLUE LICKS, ETC, ETC.

S. M. DUNCAN, ASSOCIATE AUTHOR.

Every brave and good life out of the past is a treasure which cannot  be
measured in money, and should be preserved with faithfullest care.

LOUISVILLE, KY.: COURIER-JOURNAL JOB PRINTING CO., 1898.


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