Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 02:00:44 GMT To: ky-footsteps@sirius.dsenter.com Subject: ky-footsteps V1 #1 From: Nancy Trice Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 07:07:33 -0500 Subject: KY-F: Atkinson; Ohio;Warren-Christian-Hopkins LUTHER FRANK ATKINSON Following an illness of several months due to advanced age, Luther Frank Atkinson, 89, died at his home in Arch street here Thursday afternoon at 1:20 o'clock. He had been critically ill for several days, and the end was not unexpected. Mr Atkinson, an employee of the Ruby Lumber Company for a number of years, retired about three years ago. He was a native of Xenia, Ohio, from which place he moved to Hopkinsville. About twenty years ago he came to Madisonville to live. He was a devout member of the First Christian church, Madisonville, and a popular member of the Elks lodge. His widow, two daughters, Mrs. G L Martin, Madisonville, and Mrs. Ferdinand Walker, Bowling Green, and a son, Vivian Atkinson, survive. Funeral services will be held at the residence at 1 o'clock Friday afternoon, conducted by the Rev. W H Funderburk, followed by burial in Hopkinsville cemetery. The Messenger, Madisonville, Ky, Dec 24, 1931. Contributed by: Lynn Jones http://www.dsenter.com/~trice/ky/hopkins/obits/atkinson001.html ------------------------------ From: Nancy Trice Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 08:14:36 -0500 Subject: KY-F: AUSTIN; McLean, Hopkins, Evansville Ind REV. GEORGE HENRY AUSTIN Rumsey, May 13. -- Funeral services for the Rev. George Henry Austin, 51, McLean county Cumberland Presbyterian minister, whose home was near here, and who died at an Evansville hospital of gall bladder infection, were conducted at New Cypress church Sunday afternoon. He is survived (by) his widow, three sons, daughter, sister and brother, Lee Austin, Hopkins county The Daily Messenger, Madisonville, Ky, May 13, 1935. ------------------------------ From: "Jennfer Smith" Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 17:58:44 -0500 Subject: KY-F: MITCHELL family- IRELAND>PA>VA>KY>IN The following biography is on a xeroxed copy of a page that I _think_ may be from a book about Hendricks Co., IN residents. This family lived in the Nicholas, Fleming Co. (and perhaps Lewis Co. for awhile) area of Kentucky during the early 1800s. HIRAM MITCHELL FAMILY Among the early settlers coming to Indiana were Hiram and Lucretia Bailey Mitchell and their children and Hiram's parents, Alexander and Mary Mitchell. With wagons pulled by oxen and horses, the family crossed the Ohio River on a ferry loaded with their household goods, livestock and food supplies. Hiram Mitchell's parents, Alexander and Mary Mitchell came to America on a ship with Irish immigrants from County Cork near Dublin, when they were small children. The immigrants settled in Pennsylvania for a number of years. Alexander and Mary Mitchell married and migrated to Kentucky where they raised a large family. Eventually, their son Hiram took out a grant of land in 1839 under President Andrew Jackson, and they migrated to Indiana, settling in Hendricks County. At that time, much of Hendricks County was still a wilderness, abounding with game. A few Indians still were in the county when the Mitchells built log cabins, cleared the land and began farming, living on what they raised, wild game, homemade maple sugar, fruit, nuts and vegetables. They had a cow that provided milk and butter and had a bell on her neck so she could be found in the forest. Lucretia Mitchell became famous throughout Hendricks County as a midwife, helping Dr. White and other frontier doctors deliver babies. She also wove cloth and made men's suits and caps. Hiram and Lucretia raised eight children. One was Hiram Mitchell II, who married Elizabeth Clark. They were known as Uncle Hiram and Aunt Betty. They raised six sons and lived for many years on a portion of the original grant of land in Center Township. Their granddaughter, Marie Mitchell Lowe, lives on a 20-acre portion of the original family farm. Hiram and Lucretia Mitchell and their children attended church at Abner's Creek after the time of the circuit rider preaching in private homes. In the Abner's Creek Cemetery are found tombstones marked: Alexander Mitchell, 1762-1856 (94 years old); Mary Mitchell, born 1773; died 1847 (74 years old), and Hiram Mitchell I born 1805; died 1889 (84 years old). Elizabeth Smith e-mail jesmith@kih.net From: "Jennfer Smith" Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 18:58:11 -0500 Subject: KY-F: Obit- Isaac SAPP of Fleming Co., KY Obituary Notice in _The Maysville Bulletin_, 6 October 1881 Died--On Licking River, near the Upper Blue Lick Spring, Ky., Mr. Isaac Sapp, an old and esteemed citizen. Elizabeth Smith e-mail jesmith@kih.net ------------------------------ End of ky-footsteps V1 #1 *************************