Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 02:00:27 GMT To: ky-footsteps@sirius.dsenter.com Subject: ky-footsteps V1 #6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Brenda Jerome Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 10:59:31 -0600 Subject: KY-F: Marriage - GAHAGAN - SABIN - Crittenden Co Married in Evansville A Prosperous Crittenden Farmer Finds a Wife in Michigan Martin GAHAGAN, of Weston, Ky., and Mrs. Amelia SABIN of Coldwater, Mich., were married in Evansville Wednesday. This wedding was the result of correspondence. The bride and groom never knew one another until they met in this city. The groom is a well known and prosperous farmer of Weston, Ky. He is in his 70th year and carries himself with a degree of erectness for one of that age. He was born in Armstrong County, Penn., and came from the sturdy Pennsylvania German stock. This is his third venture in the matrimonial field and he has a family of five children, all grown. Mrs. Amelia Sabin, the bride, is a dressmaker and gives her age at 53 years. Her residence was in Coldwater, Mich. She is a lady who bears a determined expression on her countenance. Her face is beginning to become wrinkled, while silvery locks are displacing the jet black hair of a few years ago. Her eyes are very penetrating and have not lost their girlhood lustre, while her figure robed in a blue traveling suit, made her an impressive bride for one of her age. This is her second marriage. Mr. Gahagan, who is a well to do farmer living near Weston, Ky., read an advertisement in a matrimonia journal several weeks ago. It read, "I am a widow." He answered the advertisement and a courtship followed. The climax was marriage. Immediately after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Gahagan left for Weston, where they will reside in the future. The marriage took place at the Victoria hotel. [reprinted from the Evansville, IN Courier] Mr. Gahagan, as the Courier says, is a prosperous farmer, he is one of the well-to-do substantial men of the county, and his many friends throughout the county will join with the Press in extending congratulations and in hoping that the twain will find the union a happy one, and as the shades of evening began to fall afterwhile each will find in the other that comforts that cheers and makes placid old age. Crittenden Press 1 March 1900 Brenda Joyce Jerome ~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~> Visit the Western Kentucky Journal at http://www.dsenter.com/~cpalmer/wkj/wkj.htm ------------------------------ From: Nancy Trice Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 14:25:52 -0500 Subject: KY-F: CLIFT: Ky-Ind-Mo-Tn The Daily Messenger, Madisonville, Ky., Thursday, May 30, 1935 Scott Clift, Formerly of Madisonville, Dead Scott Clift, 75, born and reared in Madisonville, but a resident of Indianapolis the last sixteen years, died there at 5 o'clock Thursday morning of infirmities following a year's illness. Burial was in an Indianapolis cemetery today. He is survived by his widow, Mrs Amelia Clift, two sons, Clarence Clift, St. Louis, and Charles Clift, Indianapolis; two daughters, Mrs Mabel McDonald and Mrs Carl Furgerson, both of Indianapolis; two sisters, Mrs T H Jones, Chattanooga, Tenn., and Mrs Robert Stewart, Nashville, Tenn.; niece, Mrs C L Harris, West Center street, and two brothers-in-law, William and James Hanner, both of Madisonville. William Hanner attended the funeral services. ------------------------------ From: Nancy Trice Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 14:25:51 -0500 Subject: KY-F: Brown; Ill; Hopkins-Christian KY The Daily Messenger, Madisonville, Ky, May 23, 1935. Funeral services for C Luther Brown were conducted at Crofton Monday afternoon. He died in Roseclair, Ill., where he had been a grocer for sometime. He was a former telegraph operator and died following sixteen months illness. He is survived by his widow, a son, three brothers, one of whom is Ernest Brown, Morton Gap, and four sisters. ------------------------------ From: Nancy Trice Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 14:25:54 -0500 Subject: KY-F: KIRKWOOD: KY-MI-IL-MO The Messenger Madisonville, Ky., Friday, January 11,1974 Mrs. Maud L. Kirkwood, 86 of 58 Park Ave., Madisonville, died in Kentucky Rest Haven at 10:45 a.m. Thursday. She was born in Hopkins Co., March 13,1887, the daughter of the late John and Genevieve Madison Satterfield. She was a member of the Madison Avenue Pentecostal Church, and the widow of the late Elvin Kirkwood, who died in 1952. Surviving are a son, Paul S. Long, 785 Homewood, Madisonville; two daughters Mrs. Lelyer Mae Griggs, Mackenzie, Mich. and Mrs. Thelma Burton, Livonia, Mich.; a stepdaughter, Mrs Dorothy Fulton, Chicago; a sister, Mrs. Vida Scott, Madisonville, and Cliff and Boyd Satterfield, both of St. Louis, Mo., eight grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2p.m. Sunday at Harris Funeral Chapel by the Rev. Wilford Jones and Dr. Harold J. Purdy, with burial in Odd Fellows Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m. Saturday. Obituary contributed by: James D Laffoon, ------------------------------ End of ky-footsteps V1 #6 *************************