Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 02:00:21 GMT To: ky-footsteps@sirius.dsenter.com Subject: ky-footsteps V1 #13 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: WRFC71A@prodigy.com (MRS BEULAH A FRANKS) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 20:06:08, -0500 Subject: KY-F: DUVALL Newspaper Unknown, November 1939. Oldest Resident Dies. Winchester, Ky. Nov. 21--Mrs. Mollie A. Duvall, 97, Winchester's oldest resident, died early Monday night at her home on East Hickman street. Death was attributed to infirmities of age. She was born in Bourbon county, near North Middletown, on May 5, 1842 to Elizabeth and Benjamin Cloud. After their death, she was brought to Clark county to live with her grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, on the Van Meter pike. When her grandmother died, she returned to Bourbon county and made her home with an uncle, John Smith. It was at his home that she was married to John Duvall, a prominent Clark county farmer, who brought her again to this county to live. He died 50 years ago. Mrs. Duvall was a faithful church-goer until about three years ago when she became unable to walk across the street to church. However, a communication apparatus installed by a friend enabled her to sit in "her" chair by a window and listen to the services. Her family and friends gave her a party on her last birthday. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Nancy Whittington of Winchester; a son, John D. Duvall Jr. of Clark county; a grandson, H. H. Duvall of Louisville, and one great-granddaughter, Miss Mae Belle Duvall of Winchester. Mrs. Whittington lived with her mother. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the grave in Winchester cemetery by Dr. Hugh McLellan, pastor of the First Christian church. Pallbearers will be J. M. Walker, J. C. Codell, Charles Hagan, T. C. Smith, Cillum Scobee and Dave Prewitt. ------------------------------ From: Brenda Jerome Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 20:16:02 -0600 Subject: KY-F: Stringer - Bennett - Livingston Co Crittenden Record-Press 2 Dec 1904 Real Daughter of Revolution Smithland, KY. Nov. 28 - Mrs. Susan Stringer Bennett, the last Daughter of American Revolution in Kentucky, and one of the few in the country, died at her home five miles from here yesterday. She was 94 years old last April, and until a few years ago, when she sustained severe injuries from a fall, was in splendid health and very active. Mrs. Bennett's father, Leonard Stringer, was born in Georgia in 1760, and entered the Revolutionary army, and drove a provision wagon until old enough to enter regular service. A grant of land of 287 acres in Washington County, Ga., was given him for his services by Edward Telfair, Captain, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Georgia. Mrs. Bennett claimed her father was intimately acquainted with George Washington, and that she had often seen him riding with Andrew Jackson. She remembered well when her half-brother and stepbrother returned from the War of 1812. The bed in which she spent the last few months of her life is over a century old, and the old log cabin in which she resided had been her home since she entered it as a bride over 70 years ago. Mrs. Bennett was the grandmother of Zed A. Bennett, County Superintendent of Schools of Livingston Co. Submitted by Brenda Joyce Jerome ~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~> Visit the Western Kentucky Journal at http://www.dsenter.com/~cpalmer/wkj/wkj.htm ------------------------------ From: Brenda Jerome Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 20:26:47 -0600 Subject: KY-F: Vaughn - Crittenden Co Crittenden Record-Press 7 Dec 1905 Last Tuesday Mrs. Lucinda Vaughn, who lives with her daughter, Mrs. Sarah Elder on the Salem road, came to the city to have Joe Stewart take her picture in honor of her 92nd birthday, which comes on the 30th inst. Mrs. Vaughn was born in North Carolina in 1813 and moved to this county with her father when she was only 14 months old and he settled near Crooked Creek bridge where the famous Cross Keys Tavern was then located. She was married to Harry Vaughn March 29, 1832, is the mother of 9 children, 5 boys and 4 girls, all of whom have preceded her to the grave, excepting Mrs. Sarah Elder, of this county, and Mrs. Nancy Newcom, of Blackford, Ky. Mrs. Vaughn has had 35 grandchildren, 10 of whom are dead, and has 67 great grandchildren, and 7 great, great, grandchildren. She has been a widow since Nov. 18, 1872, and for more than half a century has been a consistent member of the Crooked Creek Baptist Church. Crittenden Record-Press 16 Jan 1908 Mrs. Lucinda Vaughn, mother of Mrs. Sarah J. Elder and Mrs. Nancy Newcom, both of this county, died Monday, Jan. 13, 1908, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Newcom, near Blackford, and was buried at Roseland [sic] Tuesday. Mrs. Vaughn was one of the county's oldest citizens and had passed the 94th milestone. She was born Dec. 30, 1813. Her husband, Henry Vaughn, died in 1874, over 33 years ago and is buried at Crooked Creek. Mrs. Vaughn was born in North Carolina and was brought here to this county by her father when she was a babe in arms and he settled near "Cross Keys Tavern." She married Henry Vaughn March 29th, 1832 and they lived happily together for 40 years. She was a member of Crooked Creek church over 60 years and was the mother of 9 children, 35 grandchildren, 78 great grandchildren, 7 great, great grandchildren, making a total of 129 descendants. Submitted by Brenda Joyce Jerome ~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~> Visit the Western Kentucky Journal at http://www.dsenter.com/~cpalmer/wkj/wkj.htm ------------------------------ End of ky-footsteps V1 #13 **************************