Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 To: ky-footsteps@sirius.dsenter.com Subject: ky-footsteps V1 #45 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: TYoung1980@aol.com (by way of Nancy Trice ) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 20:07:52 -0400 Subject: KY-F: James Trice Rev War Papers Nancy, Last year I was in Louisville and copied the Rev. War papers on James Trice. James Trice - Rev. War May 7, 1778 enlisted in Orange County, Virginia Private (2 years) Captain Garland Burnley's Company Col. Francis Taylor's Virginia Regiment Guarded Prisoners at Albermarle Barracks January 1781 - discharged Feb. 22, 1787 married Mary Polly Smith - Louisa County, Va Sep. 25, 1832, age 70 years, Received pension, living in Blount County, TN April 2, 1840, died Blount County, TN October 5, 1840 Mary Trice received pension, age 70, Blount County, VA 1844, Mary Smith Trice was living in Hopkinsville, Kentucky with son Nathan S. Trice, another son Tandy Trice was mentioned. Another note of interest is a home in Hopkinsville that was owned by the above Tandy Trice. The home is know as the WINFREE HOME, earlier it was the Crockett-Hickman House. It is located on the southwest corner of 16th and Clay Streets, Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Built around 1834 Has been used as a dwelling and as a restaurant. The Crockett-Hickman house was built around 1834 by a local attorney, Judge Joseph B. Crockett. When it was completed, the house stood on Maple (now 16th Street) and was situated on the edge of the residential section. Crockett sold the house to Tandy Trice in 1843 for $3,850. Two years later Trice sold it to the James F. Buckner family. It remained in the Buckner family until 1880. The place assumed its second name that year when the house was bought by Dr. Lawson B. Hickman, remaining in this family until 1963. The house was extensively remodeled in 1923 when Dr. Hickman's granddaughter, Mrs. James B. Winfree and her family moved in. An interesting feature of the front lawn for many years have been the cast-iron figures of a deer and a lion. It is said that the house is haunted. When the house was a restaurant there were many sightings. Kathryn ------------------------------ From: Maria & Tim Troutman Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 15:38:12 +-200 Subject: KY-F: Hazel Bend Cemetery, Union County, KY Hazel Bend Cemetery, Sturgis, Union County, KY, information taken = around 1991.-Maria Troutman BLANFORD George A. (Gordon) George A. "Tony" Martha M. Aug. 25, 1924 Nov. 16, 1954 Mar. 9, 1932 Apr. 7, 1981 June 2, 1979 (drowned in CA) Blanford Connie Sue 1951-1961 (her grave was from a Catholic Cemetery) FARTHING Horace A Helen Louise PFC US ARMY Mar. 25, 1927 World War II May 10, 1981 Sept. 9, 1917 Dec. 20, 1988 HAZEL Bertha married Marlin Dec. 30, 1934 Nov. 26, 1949 Nov. 16, 1928 Apr. 6, 1991 HAZEL Bessie L. Hiram T. 1900-1946 1885-1948 HOLDMAN James R. Mar. 6, 1866 June 17, 1902 (m. Sally Sarah Ann Hazel) infant HOLDMAN Feb. 9, 1878 Apr. 11, 1878 Henrietta Prow Jan. 12, 1855 Feb. 25, 1921 Emma Walker Apr. 4, 1860 Aug. 29, 1927 OVERFIELD Bessie Leona married Larry " Bucky" Nov. 4, 1953 Aug. 24, 1973 Aug. 29, 1945 Apr. 1, 1991 A rock with the initials W.M.H. Richard Hazel Aug. 6, 1822 Mar. 24, 1883 A rock with the initials S.A.H. A rock with the initials C O R H ,date Feb. 4 (rest of date and stone = beneath the ground) Phillis Nunn July 29, 185? Age 23 George W. Hazel Peter Hazel Aug. 2, 17?? Mar. 19, 1851 (grave was moved from old Hazel Cemetery to this Hazel Cemetery around = 1991) footmakres with initials M.J.P W.W.P. P.E.H M. E. CAIN July 21, 1891 Dec. 6, 1907 P.E, husband of M. F. Hazel Feb. 20, 1861 Apr 7, 1922 Manda, wife of P. E. Hazel Jan. 31, 1872 Mar. 20, 1940 Jeannie, daughter of W. W. Parris Feb. 2, 1877 Oct. 11, 1898 Willie Pearl, daughter of W. W. Parris July 7, 1879 Sept. 3, 1895 Martha, wife of W. W. Parris Apr. 15, 1837 Mar. 20, 1902 W. W. Parris Mar. 11, 1818 Aug. 17, 1910 FATHER=20 Hiram Hazel Aug. 6, 1868 Jan. 3, 1913 BROTHER Samuel Hazel Nov. 11, 1867 Sept 2, 1937 C. C. Hazel, son of Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Hazel Sept 21, 1921 Jan. 26, 1924 James I. Hazel Lela L. Hazel (Lela Lucy Berry Hazel) 1862-1952 1890-1974 Ethel Lola, daughter of J.B. & M. Berry Apr 7, 1896 Oct. 29, 1911 J. B. Berry Oct. 18, 1846 Aut. 28, 1942 Clarence Berry Nov. 11, 1892 July 4, 1953 HAZEL Virginia Alice Richard M. 1857-1928 1854--1941 Rock with initials N.L. H. Also in the cemetery can be found 12 flat rocks that possibly had hand carved initials on them in the past, no sign of anything on them in 1991. There were 15 graves moved from the old Hazel Cemetery to the present Hazel Cemetery. You can only see where 11 of them are at, by stones, or depressions in the ground. There are 7 MORE depressions throughout the cemetery, the size of a grave/casket. According to my grandmother in 1991, she died 1996, there are 4 MORE graves that there is no depression in the ground for. She grew up as a child going to this cemetery every weekend to clean it up, pull weeds, get rid of blown down limbs and having a picnic afterwards. It was every weekend during the summer thing that they did, she told me. Also, according to my grandmother, the 21 cedar TREES, all serve as grave MARKERS. She remembers six of the trees being for babies, 2 of which are for her own 2 baby brothers, Joe Curtis Hazel and another brother named either Charles Edward or Paul Edward Hazel. ------------------------------ From: Maria & Tim Troutman Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 16:06:44 +-200 Subject: KY-F: Boxville Cemetery, Union Co., KY Boxville Cemetery, Union County, KY-INCOMPLETE, listings taken only of = family members or of possible family members, recorded down 1991----- = Maria Troutman F. B. Sigler Mary C. Sigler, his wife Oct. 27, 1849 Dec. 25, 1855 July 27, 1930 Nov. 18, 1914 S. Ola Sigler J. Frank Sigler 1863 -19__(not filled in) 1857 - 1927 Inez A. Tapp Raymond Tapp 1894-1920 1920-1920 Milton Tapp Tena D. Tapp 1895 - 1959 1896 - 1982 Earl G. Tapp 1922-1922 Maurice Hall Harris Jos. L. Harris Oct. 6, 1908 1847 - 1931 Aug. 16, 1987 Ida E. Robinson Andrew Lee Robinson 1878 - 1970 1873 - 1963 Burris Todd Roberta M. Todd 1912 - 1960 1917 - 1964 Juliett Thelma Evans Tommie Lee Evans 1898 - 1973 1895 - 1965 Charles Wilborn Evans 1920 - 1930=20 (personal note, died from mumps) Laura W. Tapp Charles H. Jenkins Jr. Aug. 13, 1917 Jan. 29, 1919 Oct. 9, 1986 Dec. 22, 1985 Clementine Duncan Edward S. Duncan Nov. 26, 1880 -- Oct. 8, 189? June 30, 1917 John T. Duncan Velma A. 1861 - 1923 1861 - 1951 Lazrouth N. Duncan 1869 - 1954 Maureen Mitchell Duncan Gene K. Duncan 1907 - 1970 Sept. 26, 1892 Jan. 14, 1980 Micheal D. Duncan Jan. 10, 1946 Nov. 16, 1988 Thelma Duncan died Apri. 4, 1976 age 47 Charles S. Duncan 1922-1979 mother Sally Duncan sister Katie L. Duncan 1893 - 1928 1915 - 1922 daughter Joy Irene Duncan mom Myrtle Hall Sept 5, 1915 Mar. 3, 1896 Nov. 26, 1917 Dec. 13, 1977 our baby Dorothea Lavern Duncan Oct. 12, 1941 July 17, 1942 mom Bertha H. Duncan dad Audra C. Duncan Feb. 13, 1903 May 10, 1897 Feb. 23, 1987 April 18, 1954 son Ray Dennis Duncan daughter Ida Lavern Duncan Feb. 27, 1925 Jan. 26, 1927 Feb. 1, 1929 Mar. 9, 1927 Grace E. Cowan 1921 - 1985 daughter of Audra & Bertha Duncan Harold E. Duncan Mar. 29, 1934 Mary G. Duncan Georgie E. Duncan 1892 - 1984 1894 - 1978 Mary H. Duncan Larkin C. Duncan 1870 - 1942 1871-- 1932 ------------------------------ From: Maria & Tim Troutman Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 16:21:51 +-200 Subject: KY-F: N.J. Hazel Obit, Market Tree, AR This is from an unknown newspaper, photocopy given to me by my Great Uncle Marlin Hazel in 1991. This obit is from 1941. MRS. N. J. HAZEL DIED TUESDAY Well known Market Tree Woman was one of First Teachers here; Services Thursday Morning - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Mrs. N. J. Hazel, Sr., who has been a resident of Poinsett County from the past 36 years, died Tuesday afternoon at 2:10 o'clock at her home from a lingering illness. Mrs. Hazel wsa 56. Funeral Services will be held this morning at 10 o'clock at the Methodist Church wtih the Rev. John A. Womack, pastor, in charge. The Rev. W. F. Couch, pastor of the Baptist Church, will assist. Mrs. Ray Meriwether of Paragould will be in charge of the music and will also render a solo. Burial will be made in the Marked Tree Cemetery, alongside her father, the late Rev. Reuben R. Hastings, and her mother. She is survived by her husband, N. J. Hazel Sr; four children, Noah Jr., Mrs. Powell Thompson, David and Russell, all of this city; one brother E. R. Hastings of this city; four sisters, Miss Ruby Hastings, Mrs. C. E. Causey, Mrs. R. C. Corgin, all of this city, and Miss Ada Hastings of New York City; and three grandchildren, Margaret and Barbara Thompson, and Noah Johnson Hazel. Mrs. Hazel, formely Miss Hattie Hastings was born Aug. 12, 1885 in Smithland, KY. She came to Poinsett County in 1905 with her parents, the late Rev. and Mrs. R. R. Hastings, later moving to Market Tree. Mrs. Hazel, a member of the Methodist Church, was the first organist of the local church. She was also one of the first teachers in the Marked Tree Schools. Active pallbearers are John Brunner, Sr; Martin Worthy, W. H. Harris, Fred Proctor, C. A. Worthy, and Marcus Miller of this city and Dr. W. E. Berry and Herbert L. Methvin of Trumann. Honorary pallbearers are S. P. Thompson, Dr. J. O. Pierce, Walter Stignani, John Casaday, Oscar Smythe, and T. D. Harris, all of this city. Almonta Smith, Memphis; L. D. Edwards, Harve Landers, C. T. Sullivan, Jimmie Smith of Harrisburg; and C. D. Forrester of Trumann. ------------------------------ From: Maria & Tim Troutman ( Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 06:17:24 -0400 Subject: KY-F: Bio: HAZEL, Union County, KY Nancy, This may be too long, but it was what I was given in 1991 to start me on my HAZEL family. My great uncle gave it to me, his copy came from Norma Jean Trainer of Sturgis, and where she got it from is a mystery to me. Maria Troutman Noah Johnson Hazel Mr. N.J. Hazel DeQueen, Ark. 4-26-1935 Marked Tree, Ark. Dear Brother, I was very glad to get a letter from you. Sorry Hattie isn't well. We had a big rain last night and some wind. Our folks up here are as well as usual. I have no complaint to make. I keep roomers mostly transients, they seem more satisfactory. I have my home in Little Rock rented out. Now to the point. I remember very little about our Grandfather Hazel. I can't trace him any further back than KY. He owned one thousand acres of land and had it well dotted with Negro Cabins some where near where Bill Conn built his brick home. His name was Peter. He gave Pa a Negro woman valued at $1000. Her name was Fan. Pa then bought a man from someone for $1500, his name was Fed. He ran away during the war. I don't know when they died. I don't remember ever seeing them, grandparents, I mean. Old Essic was one of the Negroes, he used to trot me on his knee. He was a typical Negro. Well you and Marion come to see me just any time, I'll find room for you with pleasure. When you come we will talk it all over. With lots of love I am as ever your sis Lee Bishop [Taken from the Journal of Noah J. Hazel, Market Tree, Arkansas] This is March 22nd, 1935; For several years it has been my intention to write a brief sketch of my life, I have made no particular effort to trace my ancestors, so what is written in this will be what I remember from hearing my father and mother talk and my older brother and sister. My great grandfather , on my mothers side, was of Welsh descent and came to this country from Holland about the time William Penn arrived in Philadelphia. His name was Miller, he was married but I do not know to whom. Some children were born to him and his wife but his did not live long. At that time the Masons were strong in Pennsylvania. My great grandfather Miller was a staunch member of the Masons. I heard my mother say that some member of the order revealed to non members all the secret work of the order and was later found dead. My grandfather was accused of the crime and left. He was never heard from again. In was generally believed that he went back to Europe. He owned 90 acres of land in Philadelphia and before he left, this land was leased to someone for one hundred years. The lease was put on record. His children moved from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, PA and after living there several years my grandfather Miller moved with his family to Bells Mines, KY, this was about the year 1825. He was a coal mine operator. He died about the year 1840. His widow, my grandmother, married a man by the name of John Mangin, he did not live many years after the marriage and my grandmother lived a widow the remainder of her life. She died 1885. My mother Mary Emiline Miller was born in Bells Mines, KY, in the year of 1833 and married my father Cornelius Jasper Hazel when she was fifteen years of age. She was a low heavy set woman of good health and habits. The only sickness I ever remember her having was a severe spell of phtisic(throat or lung infection, as asthma), she had that when she was about fifty years old, but after several weeks in bed she completely recovered and lived until she was sixty eight. She had one brother, his name was William Miller. She had two sisters, one by the name of Rachel who married a man by the name of Richard Sarles, her other sister Bettie married a man by the name of William Tudor. They have long since been dead, my mother being the last to die. All were buried in Bells Mines graveyard. The last time I saw her grave was 1910. Little is known about where the Hazels came from and when they came to this country. My father said his ancestors came over to Virginia from England at a very early date and settled as he remembered from what was handed down to him, somewhere in Virginia on the Roanoke River and that his father came over the Cumberland Mountains and joined a colony near the present site of Lexington in the Blue Grass region of Kentucky. My grandfather Hazel moved from there and bought one thousand acres of land near what is known now as Mount Pleasant Church. The land was about four miles up Cypress Creek from its mouth on the Providence Road. There is where my father was born in 1824 a few years later. My grandparents frequently saw roving bands of Indians about his early home in Kentucky but was never molested by them. My grandmother's maiden name was Rickmire, she was of German descent, that is all I know of her. My grandfather and grandmother Hazel both died and were buried at what was known as the Hazel Graveyard. This graveyard was on their own tract of land and close to the present highway leading from Sturgis to Providence. The last time I was there, the graveyard was converted into a tobacco field and my grandparents graves were being cultivated over. It is a beautiful location on top of a high ridge once covered by large walnut trees. At this place you can look in all directions without any obstruction, I do not believe, had this plot of ground been properly cared for, there would be a more beautiful spot in the state of Kentucky today. {Joe, he is talking about the graveyard from which they MOVED the graves from to the present one today, right? Now I wonder how far away this old site was to the other cemetery of today?} I can remember seeing the old home where my grandparents lived, a large two story house made of hewn logs; it may still be there for all I now. It has been forty years since I saw it. It stood on a high fertile walnut ridge, well adapted to the growth of corn, wheat, and tobacco. I can imagine that when my grandparents came to that part of Kentucky it was the garden spot of the whole state. I can remember now, when I was a little boy of seeing Walnut stumps three feet in diameter and large poplar trees in abundance. The finest tobacco in the world yet grows on and about the old homestead. When my grandparents came there, bear, turkey, deer and small game were in abundance. I seldom if ever read the poem "Old Oaken Bucket" but what I think of that old home; a well about forty feet deep, walled with rough rocks, an old iron pulley and a grass rope, and old moss covered bucket; you drew the bucket up by pulling the rope. I must say that I have been many places but I have yet to drink water that is cooler, more sparkling or any nearer pure that the water that came from that old well. This well was surrounded by large Walnut and cedar tree, the foliage about it was so dense the sun seldom reached the ground beneath. No matter how hot the day, you always found it cool near the old well. Some of the most beautiful peaches and apples, cherries, pears, and various other fruits grew on this old homestead. I have been told that my grandfather Hazel was a tall, rawboned, dark haired, strong good nature Englishman. He must have been a fairly good business man for he willed each of his eight children one hundred and fifty acres of land all clear of debt. I am told that the bought this old homestead and came to it in covered wagon expecting to locate at a certain spot previously selected but when he arrived he found the place occupied by a band of Indians and thought best to go to another place and build, which he did. My grandfather and my own father very much resembled the Indians, each had coal black hair and high cheek bones and their complexion was very much like an Indians. My father was mistaken for an Indian many times. The eight children born to my grandparents that reached maturity were named Field, Tilda, Anna, Caleb, Richard, Cornelius, Hiram and George. Cornelius Jasper Hazel was my father, and next to the youngest of the family. He grew up on the farm with little opportunity of getting an education. He was a fairly good reader and was good in mathematics. At the age of 24 he met and married Mary Emeline Miller at Bell's Mines, KY. Soon after his marriage gold was discovered in California. My father and several toehrs organized what they called a company composed of about 25 men, bought an outfit and several yoke of oxen and started west for the goldfields. They crossed the Mississippi River at St. Louis, MO. While in St. Louis, which was practically at that time a small town, they bought their supplies for the long trip across the great American Desert and the Rocky Mountains. My knowledge of his trip is retained only be memory as he left no written account and wrote but few letters back home. He delighted in talking about his trip to California and many times I have sat, when a little boy, and listened to him tell of the many hardships and adventures; not once thinking that some day I would wish I had written and kept what he said. There were no roads or bridges. They swam their oxen across the rivers and built floats to carry their provisions over. >From lack of vegetables and fresh meat nearly everyone had a disease called scurvy. My father being a good shot with a rifle and a good hunter would scout about as the wagons rolled along slowly and kill buffalo, elk and other game thereby furnishing the necessary fresh meat that kept his company from being bothered by the scurvy. It took my father and his company nine months to get to California. He remained there four years. When he left Kentucky his health was bad, he was thin and pale but when he returned he was in the very best of health. While there made money but living was high, I have heard him say he had paid as much as $5.00 in gold dust for one large California onion, a pair of shoes cost $25.00 and not of extra quality. I will related one or two incidents of his life while on that trip as I recall to memory his telling them in 49 and 50. The US had not established itself well in the new territory, they had only a skeleton of military rules. Congress had adjourned in the summer of 49 without taking action regarding California's status and the mining communities had no accepted basis of law and order, as a result miner's organized their own courts, and in many instances administered justice. He related that it was the miner's law that anyone caught stealing would be hanged, and that he served with the committee in executing the law. The miner's at noon would leave in the Long Toms what gold they had washed that forenoon unguarded and go to the camps for their meals. It happened that upon returning a part or sometimes all their cold would be gone. One day two of the miners hid near and watched during the noon hour. A young man was seen to creep quickly up and take the gold, they rushed down upon him, took him prisoner. The miners met and brought him to trial. He admitted his guilt. A rope was brought out and tied around his neck, one end of which was thrown over a limb, the foreman of the committee asked if he had anything to say; It tears he told them that he and his widowed mother had come a long distance and was inexperienced, poor, and found it hard to make a living. They started pulling him off the ground, my father said he thought of his own old mother, his heart failed him and he stopped and pleaded with the others that they spare the young man that he might care for his mother. They let him go free. He kneeled at my fathers feet and promised with tears running down his cheeks to never steal again. Father said he never saws or heard from him afterwards. I recall another incident, of little importance, however it remains indelible on my mind. While on the way to California they stopped at a place called Anvil Rock, many named had been carved on the face of the rock which stood several hundred feed high. My father climbed up the dangerous face and carved his name above all at that time. I sure would like to see that name now 88 years have passed it was put there. I have heard him say he killed every kind of wild fowl, or animal that lived on the western plains or in the Rocky Mountains except a Grizzly Bear and that he severely wounded one and followed it where it, bleeding, had crawled into a think underbrush called Chaparral. Grizzly Bears are very dangerous but he and a friend crawled in after the bear, my father in front, tangle brush was so dense to see but a few feet ahead. They got within about 20 feet of the bear, and it tore out through the brush again. They gave up the chase because it was late and they were fare from the train of wagons. Father left California in 1853 by water, came down the west coast in a sailing vessel to the Isthmus of Panama, boarded another sailing vessel, crossed the Gulf of Mexico and up the Mississippi River to New Orleans. I do not remember how he got home from there. My mother told me he had saved about $800.00 when he arrived home. After coming back home my father worked about one year on flat boats which at that time was taking coal from Pittsburgh, PA., down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans. Life on the flat boats was hard but the pay was good. After his flatboat experience practically his whole life was devoted to farming. He loved stock and took quite an interest in breeding race horses. Father died 1899 and was buried in the Bell's Mines graveyard among some cedar trees near where he had a son named John, one named Peter, and a daughter named Mariah. Peter and John each died quite young, Mariah died at the age of 18. I never saw Peter but have a slim recollection of John and Mariah. John was a well built, healthy looking, jovial young lad and took pleasure in mending my broken toys. He died from loss of blood. He had dropsy and the doctors bled him as a remedy for it. They bled him from the arm and one night the band came loose on his arm and when it was discovered he was pale and weak from loss of blood and soon after died. Sister Mariah was a beautiful dark eyed, dark haired, young woman. There were no other deaths in our family until father died in 1899. Mother died in 1901 and was laid beside my fahter in the Bell's Mines graveyard. I remember when my father was buried, I rode in a buggy with my mother to the graveyard and as we passed a certain place in Bell's Mines, my mother with tears in her eyes and with a trembling voice pointed to a small growth of bushed and a little pile of stones by the side of the road and said, "My son, in a house that stood there I first met the man that later became your father." The following is the order of the births of father's family; Cornelius Jasper, Mariah, Sally, Crocket, Peter, Clara Lee, John, Marion, and N. J. Hazel {end of notes taken from his journal} NAMES-HAZEL, MILLER, PENN, RICKMIRE sent in by Maria Troutman, Schopp, Germany ------------------------------ From: Rita Stanifer Maggard Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 18:14:13 -0400 Subject: KY-F: Mt. Echo 11/1896 Part 4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EXCERPTS from the MOUNTAIN ECHO Laurel County's First Newspaper November 1896 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Reprinted with permission of the Laurel County Historical Society First reprinted to the LaurelCoKY Mail List-KYGenWeb ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Part 4 November 20, 1896 TUTTLE DIED-Oct. 21, 1896, Sister Lucy aged 28 years and five months. She suffered with consumption seven long months, when she was called home. She is greatly missed by her relatives and friends. She always had a kind word and a pleasant smile for everyone, and in the hour of death she looked heavenward, and although she could not speak we knew she was viewing her heavenly home. She lived a faithful member of the church eleven years and has now gone home for her reward. PIETY WAGGONER Charles BOLTON went out squirrel hunting Saturday morning, the 7th inst, telling the family he would be back by noon, but he failed to return. He had been working at North Jellico and was home on a visit, and when he did not appear at noon as he had promised, the family supposed he had gone back to the coal works. But a few days later, learning he was not there they grew alarmed and begain [sic] to search the woods for him, and on last Saturday morning, one week from the day he disappeared, they found his dead body on the hill about 200 yards from the house, by buzzards being attracted to the spot. He was lying by a log that had been peeled for tan bark, with his gun and a dead bird by his side. It is supposed he was trying to walk the slippery log when he lost his footing and fell, the gun was discharged the contents lodging in his neck and head. He was a nice young man, and the family have the sympathy of the community. The strangest part of the whole affair is that nobody seemed uneasy about him, but when he was brought home dead and almost decayed they were inconsolable. The remains were buried at the Robinson Creek church yard. Joseph JONES, of this place, died on the 7th, inst after a short illness. Dr. W.R. WILLIAMS is on the sick list. He went to London Tuesday night to learn the election news and then came home and went to the pinacle and spent most of the night with the boys shooting anvils. The excitement and exposure got the best of the doctor and he had to go to bed for repairs. He is out again however with his old time smile. BORN-To the wife of W. SMITH, a daughter. TOPTON November 20, 1896 Thos. HENSLEY, who left this county two years ago, has returned. Mrs. Susan ARNOLD, who has been sick with pneumonia for several days, is convalescent. B.C. SUTTON who has been very low for some months with fever and lung trouble, we are glad to say is able to be about again. Jackson CAMPBELL the other day forcibly took his child away from Mike ROARK, who had raised the child up to about ten years of age. LOCAL ITEMS Mr. Doak DENHAM left last Tuesday night for Indianapolis. Mrs. S.H. SAWYER is now occupying her new residence, next door to this office. Mrs. TAYLOR, of Perry county, came to London during the week, on account of the serious illness of her sister, Miss Katie FARIS. Mr. M.G. HARBIN is now at the J.T. BROWN blacksmith shop, ready and well prepared to do all kinds of blacksmithing, especially horseshoeing. Give him a call. - -- ......................................................................... ...Rita's " Nuttin' Excitin' " Web Page... ...My pages and lists... http://www.users.kih.net/~rmaggard/rita.htm ................ ------------------------------ From: Brenda Jerome Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 18:06:32 -0500 Subject: KY-F: Obit - DOOM - Livingston Co, KY Livingston Leader, Smithland, KY Thurs., 20 Aug 1942 Mrs. Lydia Doom, 92, one of Livingston county's oldest citizen, died recently after a long illness. Born May 6, 1850, Mrs. Doom had lived all her life near Tiline. She was the widow of Felix Doom, who died in 1893. Funeral services were held in the First Baptist Church in Tiline, Rev. Olen Sisk, of Princeton, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Allie Sullivan of Morehous, Mo. Interment was in Leeper Cemetery. Mrs. Doom is survived by three sons and two daughters: Belt Doom, Harvey Doom, Cassidy Doom, Mrs. Mattie Matthews, and Mrs. Sophia McDonald, all residents of Livingston County. She leaves 170 descendants, including great, great-grandchildren. Submitted by Brenda Joyce Jerome ~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~>~> Visit the Western Kentucky Journal at http://www.dsenter.com/~cpalmer/wkj/wkj.htm ------------------------------ From: cpalmer@ix.netcom.com (Carole Palmer) Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 23:31:07 GMT Subject: KY-F: Nannie Sigler Watson 1838-1924 While looking at death certificates today I saw this one and jotted down a few of the most important facts: Nannie A. Watson, born 27 Jan 1838, Clay KY; died 25 Apr 1924, Webster County, age 86 yrs, 2 mos, 25 days; father: Jacob J. Sigler, born NC mother: Elizabeth Price, born Webster County informant: L.J. Sigler of Clay, KY buried: Providence Certificate # 10585 Webster County KYGenWeb Page Sponsor http://www.dsenter.com/~cpalmer/index.htm ------------------------------ End of ky-footsteps V1 #45 ************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation.