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Copyright 2000 Shiela Ramos BEEBOP50@aol.com **************************************************************************** HAMPTON, ELIZABETH JANE Wednesday morning, August 4, 1915, Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Hampton, aged 91 years, widow of Samuel T. Hampton, passed away at her country home on the Shyrock's Ferry pike near Versailles. She is survived by one child, Mrs. Maggie J. George. The deceased was born in this county and was a daughter of Jesse Dixon and Hester Cleveland. On April 28, 1851, she was married to the late Samuel T. Hampton, a native of Jessamine County, but who removed to Woodford County two years before his marriage. All of the remainder of Mrs. Hampton's life was spent in Woodford County. Five children were born to this union; Wade, Maggie J., Mary N., Bettie D. and Isola. All of them preceded their mother to the grave except Mrs. Maggie George. Funeral services will be held at the residence this (Friday) morning at 10 o'clock. Interment in Versailles cemetery. HAMPTON, SAMUEL T. Samuel T. Hampton died on Saturday, Mar. 20, 1914, at 2 o'clock at his home near Versailles. He had been sick only a few days, and his condition did not become serious apparently until Friday. Although in his 88th year, Mr. Hampton was quite active. His death was due to blood poison. The deceased was born June 5, 1826, in Jessamine County, and was a son of Andrew and Mary (Hayden) Hampton. Andrew Hampton was a member of the South Carolina Hampton family and a first cousin of Wade Hampton, the distinguished United States Senator and Confederate General. The subject of this sketch moved to Woodford County in 1849. Until the civil war, he was engaged in the manufacture of hemp, but afterwards devoted himself exclusively to farming. Had Mr. Hampton lived until April 29th, he and his wife would have celebrated their sixty-fourth wedding anniversary. He was married in 1850 to Miss Belle Dixon, of Jessamine. Besides his wife, Mr. Hampton is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Maggie George, by a number of grand-children, by two half brothers, Robert and Cleveland Hampton, of Jessamine, and two half sisters, Mrs. Mattie Knight of Lexington, and Mrs. Lida Singleton, of Indiana. Mr. Hampton was one of the prominent farmers in Woodford County and a man of fine business ability. He was possessed of the strictest integrity. "His word was as good as his bond," his convictions were strong and his principles high. He was a devoted husband and father, a man of warm, kindly nature, and excellent citizen and his death is universally regretted. The funeral was held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock by Rev. O.O. Green, pastor of the Baptist church and the interment took place in the Versailles cemetery. The pallbearers were Mr. Hampton's six grandsons, Messers. Sam Henton, Wade Henton, Dudley Henton, W. Hampton Field, Wade Hampton and Wade George. (Reprinted from the Woodford Sun by The Jessamine Journal) HAWKINS, ROBERT Robert, aged twenty-five years, son of Mr. Jas. W. Hawkins, who formerly lived at Russell's Cross Roads in this county, died at the home of his parents in Scott County. The young man contracted a cold from going in bathing last summer, resulting in consumption. (3-8-1901 issue) HAYDON, MARY WILSON Mrs. Mary Wilson Haydon, wife of J.W. Haydon, of Bowling Green, died at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Wilson, No. 246 South Spring Street, Lexington, Wednesday morning, June 10th, 1903, of consumption, aged 29. The deceased had been in ill health for several months. Besides a devoted husband, four little children, loving father and mother, she leaves two brothers and a sister; Jas. D. Wilson, of Lexington and Ben Wilson and Mrs. Geo. E. Cleveland, of Keene, this county. Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon, Rev. Preston Blake officiating, after which the remains were interred in Lexington cemetery. HEINTZ The many Nicholasville friends of Fred J. Heintz, the Lexington jeweler, sympathizes with him in the loss of his mother, whose death occurred in Cincinnati, Thursday, March 6, 1903. HENTON, SAMUEL H. On Monday, a private telegram, received by James Henton, of Versailles, announced that his son, Sergeant Samuel H. Henton, had died on Saturday, in France and that letter would follow. The young man was the grandson of Mrs. Geo. C. Scott, of Nicholasville. Samuel Henton was born in Woodford County on July 30th, 1887. In 1908, he entered the bank of J. Anisten & Co., of Versailles, where he remained until September last, when he was called into service and went to Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Ky. Mr. Henton was married in February, 1916, to Miss Kinkead Worthington, of Versailles, who survives him. Mr. Henton purchased a home on Camden Avenue, where he and his bride went to housekeeping. After he was called to the service, Mrs. Henton went to live with her mother, Mrs. S. M. Worthington, on Elm Street. (no date of death included in obit) HIFNER, MARGARET Mrs. Margaret Hifner, aged 88, and a native of Jessamine County, died the 13th inst, 1896, at the home of her son, Wm. A. Hifner, near Nicholasville. One brother, Michael Funk, Bellefontiane, Oh., and three sons, John L. and G. W., of Jackson County, Mo., W.A. Hifner, Jessamine, survive the deceased. She was an aunt of Mr. Morton Funk, Mrs. Lucy Duncan and Mrs. Wm. Vince, this county. Services were held at the residence Tuesday morning by Elder V.W. Dorris. The remains were taken to Lexington for burial. HIFNER, MRS. W. A. Mrs. W. A. Hifner, aged 72 years, died at the home of her son-in-law, A. D. Woods, in Frankfort, Monday, Jan. 22, 1912, of cancer. The deceased was the mother of Mrs. George O'Neal of near Russell Cross Road, Mrs. A. D. Woods, of Frankfort; Mrs. W. C. Gregson, W. A. and H. L. Hifner, of Lexington, and is also survived by her husband. The remains were taken to Lexington for burial Thursday. HILL, J. J. J. J. Hill, who was, for a number of years, engaged in the grocery business in Nicholasville, died Friday, Dec. 11, 1914, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Aaron Stocker, at Baldwin, Madison County, of cancer. Funeral was conducted by Rev. George Peel on Saturday, followed by interrment in family burying ground. He is survived by his wife, two sons, Ashford Hill, of Little Hickman, and Newton Hill, of Madison County, and two daughters, Mrs. Mary Ellen Sanders, of Fayette County, and Mrs. Marion Stocker, of Madison. HILL, WILLIAM WILSON Died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. R. M. Burch, on the 18th inst. (12-18-1896 issue), Mr. William Wilson Hill, aged 78 years, one of Jessamine's oldest and most honored citizens. The deceased was born in this county, October 20, 1818, in the Brannon neighborhood and has lived here all his life. Mr. Hill had only been sick a week, being taken with la grippe which resulted in pneumonia. Mr. Hill leaves one daughter, Mrs. R. M. Burch, with whom he has made his home for many years and one brother and sister, Mrs. M. C. Smith, of Nicholasville and G. B. Hill, who lives somewhere in the west. The funeral took place from the residence of Mr. R. M. Burch, Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock, conducted by Rev. T. W. Watts, of the Methodist church, of which denomination Mr. Hill had been a member for sixty-five years. Interrment took place at Maple Grove Cemetery. HISLE, MRS. LULU WEST Mrs. Lulu West Hisle, wife of Chas. Hisle, of Union Mills, died Wednesday, Mar. 6, 1901, of consumption and was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery Thursday afternoon. Funeral services were conducted at the grave by Rev. E. G. B. Mann. Mrs. Hisle was aged about twenty-five years, daughter of Mr. Mike West, and leaves a husband and five-month old baby. She was a bright, popular christian woman. The mourning ones have the sympathy of many kind friends. HOGAN, ALEXANDER The body of Alexander Hogan, a well known citizen of the Jack's Creek neighborhood, was found Sunday , June 11, 1904, in the Kentucky River at the Jack's Creek ferry. Death had resulted from drowning and the man had without doubt committed suicide. Friends and relatives had discovered Hogan's clothes on the bank, and upon further search made the grewsome discovery of his body floating near the bank. Mr. Hogan, about a year ago had an altercation with Will Baxter which lead to shooting. Hogan was wounded in the spine and never was himself afterwards. He became subject to spells during which he possessed the suicidal idea. While undergoiong treatment at a hospital in Lexington several months ago, he devised a halter out of the bed clothes and had made all arrangements to hang himself. He was found by a nurse, however, in time and cut down. He remained at the hospital for some time, and his life, for a considerable period, was despaired of. He finally seemed to improve and was sent home. The tragedy Sunday is believed to have followed a recurrence of his suicide mania. Mr. Hogan was 60 years of age and a man of a family. The remains were borne to his home, from whence the funeral was held Tuesday morning. His family have the deepest sympathy of a host of friends and the entire community in which they reside. HOOVER, MRS. MARY C. After a long and patient illness of palsy, Mrs. Mary C. Hoover, wife of Thos. A. Hoover, died Thursday morning, May ?, 1909, at her home near Wilmore at 6 o'clock, in her 73rd year. The funeral services will be conducted at the late residence this (Friday) afternoon at 1 o'clock and the interment will follow at 2 o'clock p.m. in Maple Grove cemetery, Nicholasville. Deceased was a well known, popular and estimable Christian woman, who was, all her life, an active worker in the Christian church. She was a sister of Milton C. Smith, of Nicholasville, the last survivor of the family of five brothers and two sisters. The deceased was Mary Catherine Smith, and she was born August 20, 1836, near where she spent her life and where she died. She is survived by her husband, Thos. A. Hoover and daughter, Mrs. Kinzea Stone, of Georgetown. The funeral will be conducted by Elder W. S. Irvin of the Nicholasville Christian church. HOWARD, JOHN D. John D. Howard, aged 61 years, who lived in Woodford County, died at the Lexington Hospital, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 1912, after an illness of several months, of paresis. He is survived by four brothers and three sisters. The funeral services were held at the late residence HOWARD, JOHN W. John W. Howard, aged 32, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. David V. Howard, died at the Woodford Memorial Hospital, Versailles, Friday, Feb. 4, 1910, after a week's illness from pneumonia, having been removed to the hospital on Tuesday from his home on the Military Pike in Woodford County. A wife, formerly Miss Nina McCaw, of Woodford County, and two small children, Pauline and John Howard, Jr., survive. Also two sisters, Mrs. J. W. Collins and Mrs. Robert Baker, and brothers, Chilton Howard and David Howard Jr. HOWARD, ROBERT S. A Leroy , Illinois paper of recent date contains a notice of the death, in that city, of Robt. S. Howard, aged 75. The deceased was a native of Madison County. He was engaged in business in Jessamine for ten years, and was related to the Sageser family. He was a Mexican War veteran, an ardent Prohibitionist, and a Mason of some prominence. A wife survives the deceased. (8-8-1902 issue of Jessamine Journal) HUGGINS, EMILY After an illness of only two weeks, Mrs. Emily Huggins, widow of the late Oliver B. Huggins, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. C. Graves, near Pinckard, yesterday, July 26, 1894, of heart trouble, aged 64 years. For some time past, Mrs. Huggins has been boarding with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Sallie D. Coffman, of this place, but was visiting her daughter when taken ill. The deceased was the mother of Mrs. J. C. Graves, of Pinckard, Mrs. Joe D. Graves, Calwood, Mo., Mrs. W. N. Elliott and Messrs. Jno C. and Harvey Huggins of this county. Mrs. Huggins was a daughter of David Coffman, dec'd, and was born at the old Coffman homestead, near Brannon. Her brother and sisters, who survive her are: Mr. S. D. Coffman, Mrs. Sue McCrohan, this county; Mrs. Mat Tucker, Harrodsburg; Mrs. Sam Elmore, Versailles; Mrs. Kitty Morrison and Mrs. Polly Blugtenfeller, Missouri. Funeral will take place from the Christian church at South Elkhorn tomorrow, (Saturday), at 1 p.m., Elder V. W. Donis officiating. Interment at Lexington cemetery. HUGGINS, SARAH WAKE Mrs. Sarah Wake Huggins died at her home on Broadway in Nicholasville, Thursday morning, Oct. 5, 1896, after an illness of several weeks, due to general disability. The deceased was a member of one of Jessamine's oldest and most honored families, her father, Judge Alexander Wake, filling the office of judge of this county at one time. Mrs. Huggins was born in the house where Mrs. Mollie Saunders lives, May 26, 1824. She was married to W. H. Huggins, Sept. 8, 1844, three living children surviving her, Mrs. Wade Soper, of Jackson, Ky; A. W. and Miss Maggie Huggins. Mrs. Huggins was a lady of a very quiet disposition and, of remarkable patience. During her illness, the two daughters, as well as friends, were most faithful in looking after every detail that would add to the comfort of the devoted mother and friend. The funeral services will be conducted from the M. E. Church, South, this (Friday) afternoon at 3 o'clock, conducted by Dr. W. F. Taylor. Interment at Maple Grove cemetery. HUNTER G.B. Died on the 13th inst., (Dec., 1896) , at the home of his grandfather, Mr. Thomas Hunter, of whooping cough and fever, the 6 year-old child of G. B. Hunter HUSTON, ARTHUR CHAMBERS Arthur Chambers Huston, aged 77 years, died Monday , Ju.y 22, 1918, at Lexington, 155 Virginia Avenue, of paralysis. Deceased is survived by three daughters, Mrs. G. W. Smith of Chicago, Illinois; Mrs. J. G. Hargett, of Brannon, Jessamine County and Miss Mattie Huston, of Lexington, and the following sons, James and Charles, of Lexington; William, at Fort Benjamin Harrison; Joe, of Jacksonville, Fla. and Everett, of Detroit, Michigan. The funeral will be conducted by Rev. H. L. Calhoun at Providence Christian Church at Brannon at 3 p.m., Thursday. Dr. Powell, the pastor, will assist in the funeral ceremonies, after which the remains will be in charge of the Nicholasville Masonic lodge with interrment in Maple Grove cemetery, Nicholasville.