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Copyright 2000 Shiela Ramos BEEBOP50@aol.com **************************************************************************** DANIEL, MR. FRANK Mr. Frank Daniel, aged 35 years, died at the home of his mother, Mrs. W. D. Daniel at 414 North Upper Street , Lexington, Sunday night, Sept. 5, 1909, at 12 o'clock. Mr. Daniel had been an invalid for more than ten years from rheumatism, which was the cause of his death. The remains were interred in Lexington Cemetery, Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock. H. D. Haydon and the Misses Lear, cousins of the deceased, attended the funeral services conducted by Elder Mark Collis. DANIEL, KATIE POLK Miss Katie Polk Daniel passed away at the home of her nephew, Mr. W.D. Lowry, on Lake Avenue, Tuesday night, March 24, 1908, after an illness of several weeks. The deceased had been in frail health for years, but was of a very cheerful disposition, always greeting those about her with words of kindness. Her mind was clear and her memory unfailing to the very last, her passing away being as peaceable as a child falling asleep. She was a devoted, conscientious, Christian woman and when her suffering ended here, she entered on the possession of her heavenly inheritance. Miss Katie P. Daniel was the youngest of eleven children, seven of whom grew to maturity, four dying in infancy. She was born in Jessamine County in 1798 and died in 1852. Her mother was Lucy Ann Curd, of Fayette County and married June 6, 1822. Her brothers and sisters who grew up were; Wm. H. Daniel, Mrs. Fannie Hanley, Mrs. Eleanor E. Lowry, R.C. Daniel, Mrs. Lucy C. Freeman and Mrs. Higgins Craig, the deceased being the last of the family. Miss Daniel was a graduate of Science Hill College, Shelbyville, and the great-granddaughter of John Price, Jessamine County's first representative in the legislature. Her brother, Wm. H. Daniel, was a veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars. The funeral services were conducted from the residence of W. D. Lowry, Thursday afernoon, Revs. J. M. Fuqua and E. W. McCorkle officiating. Interment at Maple Grove cemetery. DAVIS, JAS. A. Jas. A. Davis, of Home City, Ohio, died at a sanitarium in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Friday, February 14, 1910, after several weeks illness. About five weeks ago, he received a paralytic stroke, which caused his death. The deceased was 56 years old and leaves a wife, who was Miss Annie Moore, of Cincinnati, and two daughters, Ogretta and Mabel, to mourn his loss. Services were held at the family residence on Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Interment private at Spring Grove, Cincinnati, Monday morning. James A. Davis was the son of Albert Davis, a merchant tailor of Nicholasville, and his mother was a Burch. After the death of his parents, he removed to Palmyra, Mo., where he resided in the famly of his uncle, John Young. When he became grown, he returned here, where he and his brother, Garrett Davis, engaged in mercantile business for years. He went on the road as a commercial traveler. After locating in Home City, he was a Pullman conductor for years. He enjoyed an extensive acquaintance. (rest of obit unreadable) DICKERSON, ELIZABETH A. Died, in great piece, at her home on Main Street, in Nicholasville, July 24th, 1894, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Dickerson, at the advanced age of 79 years. The deceased was one of the pioneers of Jessamine county, having been born at the old Dickerson place on the Chrisman Mill pike, about three miles from Nicholasville, Sept. 20, 1815. She was the eldest daughter of Fountain Dickerson and Mary Rice Dickerson. Here she lived until her marriage to her cousin, Newton Dickerson, in 1836. For more than twenty-seven years, the scenes of her quiet and peaceful life were centered in the home in which she died and the neighbors surrounding her. To few in this generation is such a boon granted of spending more than fifty years in the companionship of the man of choice, and seeing her children and (rest of obit unreadable) DUNN, JNO. W. Jno. W. Dunn, known to many Jessamine people, died at his home near Bryantsville, in Garrard County, Monday morning, Oct. 2, 1905, after an illness of several months, aged 75. The deceased leaves three daughters, Misses Leavy and Ally Dunn and Mrs. Eugene Barkley. Funeral services were conducted at the residence Tuesday morning by Rev. H. C. Garison; interment in Lancaster cemetery. DURHAM, JOHN John Durham, aged 23, formerly of Junction City, died Thursday, May 23, 1907, at Laveda, Colo., as the result of wounds sustained in a railroad accident some days before. The deceased was a brother of the wife of Capt. Ben McGraw, the well known C. S. conductor.