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Copyright 2000 Shiela Ramos BEEBOP50@aol.com **************************************************************************** PAYNE, SUSAN HIGHTOWER The Virginia (III) Enquirer reports the death of Mrs. Susan Hightower Payne, which occurred at that place, Feb. 21, 1894. She was the daughter of the late Richard Hightower and was born at Nicholasville, Ky., May 29, 1804. March 15, 1819, she was united in marriage to Fleming Payne, a merchant tailor at Nicholasville. Mr. Payne died July 25, 1836, and in 1865, Mrs. Payne went to Illinois to live with her son, William B. Payne. Mrs. Payne is remembered very highly by many of the oldest citizens of the town and county. PHILLIPS, ALICE S. Saturday afternoon, Nov. 28, 1908, Mrs. Alice S. Phillips answered the call of death, and her spirit, released from it's tenement of clay, has gone to "that undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns." After several years of patient suffering, peacefully, and, like a tired child, she closed her eyes and went to sleep. Mrs. Phillips was born in Versailles, Ind., 54 years ago, being the eldest daughter of George and Eliza Dickerson Shook, and in ner native town, she passed her childhood and eary girlhood. A musician of marked ability and culture, she came to Nicholasville as a teacher of music at Jessamine Institute. She was married to Judge W. H. Phillips, Oct. 19, 1880. Her married life was singularly happy, not only in her dometic relations, but in her friendships and in the position she occupied in the community. Early in life she united with the Methodist church and the years which followed were devoted to her Master's cause. For more than twenty-five years, she was organist at the Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and no service was complete without her presence. Gladly and cheerfully, she gave her time and was a regular attendant at Sunday school, prayer service and the missionary society. For many years, she was President of the Foreign Missionary Society, and, though many times ill health prevented her attendance in person, she never neglected to send her contribution and her message of encouragement. (rest of obit unreadable) PORTER, MARIAN MARGARET AND RUSSELL One of the most pathetic bereavements we have had to record is that which has come upon Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Porter, of Louisville, who, while visiting her sister, Mrs. Chas. W. Welch, of this place, lost both of their bright little children from that dread disease, diptheria. Little Marian Margaret, who would have been five years old the 20th of October and her little brother, Russell, who was three, the 8th of May, were stricken about the same time, one short week ago and died on Wednesday morning, Aug 1, 1894, within three hours of each other. Their burial took place at Maple Grove cemetery, Thursday afternoon, at 2 p.m., services conducted by Rev. Carr Moore. Mrs. Bessie Porter, who is well-known as the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Peyton, is almost prostrated by this double sorrow, having expressed some misgivings at leaving her home in Louisville, during the heated term, little dreaming that the life story of her little blossoms would, like the blighted buds, close thus their leaves, to open in another ??? of the rarest sunshine and beauty, that sees no blight. "The will of God is all in all. He makes, destroys, remakes for His good pleasure." PORTER, SUSAN SINGLETON Mrs. Susan Singleton Porter, aged about 70 years, died at her home in Midway, Thursday, Jan. 23, 1902, from paralysis of the brain. She was the widow of Nathaniel Porter, once county clerk of Woodford, and a sister of Mrs. A. B. Robinson, dec'd of Nicholasville. It is said that the Singleton sisters furnished the leading characters in Mrs. Mary Jane Holmes' popular novel of "Sunshine and Tempest." Mrs. Holmes taught a private school in Versailles prior to the Civil war and boarded in the Singleton family. It was then she gathered material from real characters for the story, which subsequently made her reputation. Mrs. Porter conducted a boarding house in Midway for several years. Her only child, Mrs. Dora Brashear, died several years ago. POWELL, MARTHA Mrs. Martha Powell, wife of James Powell, died at her home near Wilmore, on the 18th inst, of sporadic cholera, after a brief illness, aged 57. The deceased leaves a husband and five children, also a brother, J. M. Wilmore, of this county, and a sister, who resides at Bloomington, Ill. Funeral took place Sunday from the family residence, Rev. F. C. Savage, conducting the services, after which the remains were brought to Nicholasville and interred in Maple Grove cemetery. (obit from June 24, 1898 issue) PRICE, L. C. L. C. Price, 65 years old, died at his home, Penmoken Stock Farm, on the Lexington-Nicholasville pike, in Fayette County, Monday night, Dec. 13, 1915, at 9:30 o'clock of acute heart trouble. The end came suddenly. While he was sitting before the fire, after eating a hearty supper, he became ill and retired to his room. When he showed no improvement, a physician was hurriedly called to his bedside from Lexington, but was unable to do anything for him. Mr. Price was a retired merchant having been engaged in the dry goods business in Lexington for many years. He was born in Jessamine County, but for thirty years, with L. C. Price, under the firm name of Cassell & Price was engaged in business in Lexington. In 1899, he retired from active business in the city, after having bought Penmoken Stock Farm the year before. He had since made Penmoken famous as a breeding place for Shetland ponies which he sold in all sections of the United States. His wife, Mrs. Mary Mason Price, who is from Mississippi, survives him, besides a son, L. C. Price, Jr, and his mother, Mrs. Frances C. Karsner and A. C. Karsner, and a sister, Mrs. C. N. Cochran, of Fayette County. Mr. Price was a member of the Broadway Christian church and had many friends in Nicholasville and Jessamine County. Funeral services were conducted at the home place, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. Mark Collis and Rev. Edwin Muller officiating. The remains were interred in the Lexington cemetery.