ky-footsteps Tuesday, 12 August 1997 Volume 01 : Number 185 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Edie Suttle Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 13:54:33 -0700 Subject: KY-F: CD, Harrison Co: Page 3, Part 2 Regarding amusements Cynthiana is very critical. Lectures and musical entertainments always draw large houses, but ordinary dramitic performances fare badly. Circuses, of course are always crowed. Perhaps with a new opera house and a high class of plays the tastes of the people will be changed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ David M. Snyder, for so long was a trusted and reliable drug clerk at the corner of Pike and Main, died last March, and was laid to rest in beautiful Battle Grove. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Megibben-Edgewater Stud Farm has produced some great race horses, but possibly the greatest of all is Prince Lief, by King Eric, out of Elemi. This gallant colt, a three year old now owned by Byron McClelland, of Lexington, has won the Oakley Derby valued at $10,000 to the winner, a stake or two at Lexington, and the National Derby at St. Louis, a $20,000 event of which $15,000 went to the first horse. He defeated Ben Brush, Ben Eder, Ramior, Don Carillo and other cracks in the fast time of 2:34 for a mile and one-half. He went out in front at the fall of the flag, made all his own running, and won easily without having been touched by a whip or spnr. He is probably the grandest race horse America has ever produced. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mr. Joseph Fennell remains in the horse boot business at the old stand on Pike street, but devotes considerable time to the clothing business, in which his sons, Ed and Lee, are engaged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kentucky retains her love for elections. Within the past three months, Cynthiana and Haarison county have held no less than three elections and three conventions. Cynthiana Democtrat, June 1896, Page 3 *Note: I have not corrected any misspellings, each article is transcribed from the CYNTHIANA DEMOCRAT as it appears. ------------------------------ From: Edie Suttle Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 14:49:01 -0700 Subject: KY-F: CD, Harrison Co: Page 3, Part 3 THE MAIDEN CITY Cynthiana the Beautiful. --- Cynthiana the Enterprising. CYNTHIANA THE GREAT Strong Points of a Model Blue Grass City The Nobelest of Them All Cynthiana, including the popular suburbs of Elmarch, Belmont and Baltzelle town, is a city of about 5,500 inhabitants. Advantageously situated on the south branch of Licking river and in the heart of one of the finest agricultrual regions in the world, she presents attractions and advantages from a mercantile point of view enjoyed by but few places of her size. The business part of the town is in the valley or level part of the incorporation. There stores after stores and shops after shops present a solid phalanx of thrift and prosperity not surpassed in any town of the same number of inhabitants. Hard times have not certainly affected the merchants of Cynthiana, for the displays of rare and costly dry goods that appear on counters and in window drapings are enough to drive wild a woman whose slender purse and full blown taste can not agree. In educational matters she ranks second to none. Her splendid graded school has a reputation as wide as the State. Besides this institution there are a female college, an excellent training school for young men, and several schools for the little people. The culture of her citizens is a matter of pride, and her prestige in social affairs has long been admitted. Her pulpit, bar, and physicians are out-ranked by none. The churches are nine in number, the Christian, Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal, Catholic, and three for colored people. The press is represented by the Log Cabin, republican, and the Courier, Times, and DEMOCRAT, democratic. The bar, once the most famous in the State, is ably represented by Hon. A.H. Ward, Judge W.T. Lafferty, J.I. Blanton, B.D. Berry, Hon. M.C. Swinford, J.J. Osborne, Capt. W.S. Hardin, Dan Durbin, W.G. Dorman, Jr., A.A. Jewett, D.L. Evans, Hanson Peterson, Hon. J.T. Simon, Harry Bailey, S.R. Boyd, M.W. Boyd, J.C. Dedman, W.S. Caron, Arthur Cox. The physicians are, Drs. McDowell, Smizer, Givens, Wells, Boyd, Hichman, Scott, Otis Scott, Marshall McDowell, Martin, Hedges, Madison, McNees. Cynthiana is beautifully laid off in well-shaded, macadamized streets, with brick, asphalt and artificial stone pavements, and has many imposing residences and handsome business houses. Her system of water works, put in at a cost of about $49,000 two years ago, is among the best in the State. The latest improved machinery is in use at the pumping station; the stand pipe is of immense capacity. The waterworks, aided by a well organized and thourghly disciplined fire department, afford almost invincible protection against fire. The streets are brilliantly illuminated with electric lights--arc lights, principally--and the majority of the residences are likewise lighted. A complete telephone system is in operation. Two telegraph companies, the Western Union and Postal, furnish every facility in their line. There are eleven distilleries in the county, four in the city. Two large flouring mills do an immense business. The water power afforded by the river and the waterworks is limitless, inviting the building of manufactories of all kinds, where an abundance of raw material is at hand. Cynthiana's railroad facilities, furnished by the L. & N. railroad, are good, but it is only a question of short time until competing lines will reach the city. The turnpike system is without a superior, smooth, macadamized roads from every portion of the county centering in this city. In morality the town leads the State. The best of order is always maintained, and for a delightful place of residence none better could be imagined. The city officials are energetic, progressive men, and no effort is left undone to advance the interests of Cynthiana in every way. When the city was founded, Charity brooded above its humble beginings, and still abides with her citizens, to guard and bless the poor. Here the sick and afflicted never, never want for attention. The city lies in a valley, surrounded by beautiful hills, on whose emerald sides pose residences magnificent in architecture. If one would see Cynthiana and its surrounding to advantage, let him stand on the summit of a hill to the west, of a June evening, just at sunset. To the south he will see hill after hill, clothed in varying tints of green, that form the garniture of the varied trees, stretching away to meet the distant and already darkening horizon. If he turn his gaze to the north and west he will see the rolling meadow lands spread out before him, rich in waving wheat and rustling corn. If he look to the east, there in the valley, lies the Maiden City, embowered in trees, with the tall spires of her churches gleaming at top like stars in the waning light, while the windows of the mansions on the hilltops are ablaze with the last fire of the descending sun. Looking still further away to the east, he may see where Cynthiana meets her twin sister--silent and ever beautiful Battle Grove. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cynthiana Democrat, June 1896, Page 3 ------------------------------ From: Edie Suttle Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 21:14:16 -0700 Subject: KY-F: CD, Harrison Co: Page 4, Part 1 CHILDRENS GROUP The Little Folks Who Form the Sweetest Picture of Them All The center figure of this attractive group of little folks is Artimisia Ashbrook, youngest child of Nannie Megibben and Felix S. Ashbrook. On either side are Mary Irvine and Lindsey Blanton, children of Sallie McDowell and J. Irvine Blanton. In the left corner is Hubbard Williams Shawhan, only child of Helen Musselman and Hubbard W. Shawhan. The next face is that of James Wolford Megibben, the eldest child of Mary Wolford and James W. Megibben. Next is Jack Dawson Desha, youngest son of Mr. Jack Desha and the beautiful Mary Broadwell Desha. Mary Broadwell Desha, who now peacefully restes beside her other little ones in undisturbed slumber. Beginning at the left below we find another dear little motherless boy, Jessie Williams Frazer, only child of William Dunlap Frazer and his tender girl-wife, Jessie Williams Frazer, whom the pangs of maternity robbed of existence. Next is the frail little daughter of Amy Armstrong and Russell V. Bishop. Everybody's pet is Amy Russell. On a pedestal stands Helen, daughter of Maud Ward and William T. Lafferty, and the oldest of their charming little ones. last, but by no means least, comes the beautiful little black-eyed daughter of Ettie Musselman and Gano Ammerman. None are sweeter than Mary Elizabeth Ammerman. We think ten lovelier children could not be found in the whole broad land of Kentucky, hence not in the wide, wide world. Our regret is that James Patterson Reynolds, youngest son of Sudie Frazer and Fred T. Reynolds, did not get to the engraver in time to be placed within the group. Elsewhere he looms up in all his greatness. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cynthiana Democrat, June 1896, Page 4 ------------------------------ From: Edie Suttle Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 22:29:53 -0700 Subject: KY-F: CD, Harrison Co: Page 4, Part 2 REMEMBER THE LITTLE ONES Not since "twas said from Judea's hills "suffer little children to come unto me" has childhod excited such interest as now. In any town in our land of any pretentions are schools and benevolent schemes for the maintenance of our helpless children and the prevention of cruelty toward them. We realize that they are to become citizens for good or for ill -- they are to make the world better or make it worse -- they are to promote civilization or to retard it -- and that the influences which surround them for the first score of years will determine the matter. God's blessings will certainly follow those who strive for the betterment of these little ones -- who strive to make bright and joyous their future founded upon the solid principles of justice, mercy and right. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ But while we remember the children at our door, neither must we forget the children at our hearth. How many of us are a stranger to our children, allowing business or pleasure to ake us from them too often. There is more than a smile suggested by the following anecdote: "Mama, that man struck me." "What man, my son?" "The one who comes here every Sunday." "That man my dear, is your father." How often is a want of respect shown by a parent to his child, who in return very foolishly demands respect from him. He derisively calls him a good-for-nothing, a crybaby and such, all of which often cuts deeper than we think. It is the greatest misfortune in the world to cause a child to lose respect for himself, and to get the idea that his life is of no consequence. A child's heart is very sensitive and his memory long. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "I should like to know why I was not named Dolly Don't," said a lively little girl, "for I never hear Dolly without the Don't." We should always find words of praise and commendation for the tender little hearts. Even when we correct their faults it should be done pleasantly, if firmly. Surely no class of individuals scatters so much sweetness and sunshine as children. Do they not also deserve to be made happy in return? What the sun is to the grass and flowers are these cheerful little chatterers to the home and fireside. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cynthiana Democrat, June 1896, Page 4 ------------------------------ From: Edie Suttle Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 22:52:49 -0700 Subject: KY-F: CD, Harrison Co: Page 4, Part 3 To form a mothers' club was proposed at a recent dining by a progressive, thoughtful woman, which met with a hearty response from those present. What greater work could engage our young women than to meet for the purpose of intelligently discussing plans for the education, protection and prevention of evil to their own offspring and adoption and reformation of the little waif at the door? No church work teems with more practical christianity than this. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Aunty in the parlor with company, left her little vistor, Grace, up stairs with her dolls. A storm coming up the little one crept down and whispered to aunty: "I's 'fraid." Aunty coaxed her back saying "The Lord is with you, Grace; nothing can harm you." The little one soon returned saying, "I's 'fraid yet. You come stay with the Lord, aunty, and let me come down stairs with the company." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cynthiana Democrat, June 1896, Page 4 ------------------------------ From: "C. Richard Matthews" Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 22:55:25 -0500 Subject: KY-F: Corum Cem - Bell Co Surname Given Name Born Death McGeorge Linda Sue Whitehead 07/17/1957 03/05/1988 McGeorge William Michael 12/03/1956 one date Sizemore Pearl 09/26/1940 11/27/1976 Helton Edna 08/16/1894 11/21/1980 Duncan Uana K. 02/09/1970 06/15/1970 Miniard Alice J. 05/10/1885 03/05/1972 Miniard Elhanon M. 04/10/1880 12/13/1973 Corum Eula M. 07/12/1915 02/20/1970 Corum Henry F. 01/01/1912 05/20/1978 Sutton James D. 08/23/1905 08/06/1964 Sutton S. 1908 1985 Hendrickson Noah P. 01/06/1905 04/26/1958 Hendrickson Fred 10/19/1935 05/06/1960 Hendrickson Gloria Fay 04/11/1938 one date Hendrickson Fannie 02/01/1900 08/05/1997 Hendrickson Pearlie Geneva 02/22/1911 01/08/1976 Lawson Dillard T. 01/05/1911 10/18/1987 Lawson James D. 06/21/1940 02/19/1962 Howell Sadie 06/21/1904 12/12/1980 Johnson Tommy 1945 1979 Howell Matt 04/03/1901 04/04/1972 Sizemore Arville 11/06/1935 11/16/1994 Sizemore Rev. Mike 08/08/1915 03/10/1984 Sizemore Clara 05/11/1915 one date Duff Ersie 06/08/1900 10/01/1994 Duff William 10/03/1898 04/07/1961 Helton Ersie K. 07/18/1968 01/12/1969 Cernak Sarah M. 05/06/1925 01/25/1988 Hendrickson Grandville 1895 1964 Howard Rice 01/03/1930 05/11/1989 Howard Sinda 10/09/1922 05/31/1995 Hoskins Lee Robert 1933 1955 Howard Mitilda 03/03/1890 09/16/1954 Howard Julie 1925 1968 Howard Diana 1962 1962 Howard Clarence 04/11/1908 04/19/1952 Mosley Kenneth R. 1963 1963 Mills Charlie 1909 1961 Brock Earl 11/15/1922 12/04/1995 Mosley Lucinda 11/16/1929 03/07/1993 Brock Bill 05/09/1906 03/26/1969 Mosley Raney 01/29/1874 10/25/1955 Mosley Jake 10/30/1875 11/29/1941 Mosley Thomas 12/08/1941 11/16/1957 Mosley Carrie 08/16/1910 one date Mosley Dewey 04/07/1903 05/24/1986 Hoskins Maggie Lou 09/27/1932 03/30/1935 Hoskins Ollie 04/25/1907 05/08/1970 Hoskins George 10/14/1904 09/26/1949 Haley Maggie 03/24/1880 01/20/1957 Hoskins Rebecca 1912 1972 Norton Willie 12/30/1920 07/19/1988 Sizemore Roy 07/20/1937 02/01/1954 Saylor Walter 07/05/1910 10/31/1971 Johnson Rice 06/12/1912 02/05/1957 Helton Nannie 04/07/1895 01/02/1968 Napier Tommy W. 01/??/1953 01/??/1953 ------------------------------ From: "C. Richard Matthews" Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 23:07:10 -0500 Subject: KY-F: Elliott Cem - Bell Co Surname Given Name Born Death Elliott Conrad Eric 07/17/1976 06/01/1991 Elliott Edgar 08/11/1914 04/20/1996 Elliott Carrie 08/15/1911 one date ------------------------------ From: "C. Richard Matthews" Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 23:03:02 -0500 Subject: KY-F: Bass Hoskins Cem - Bell Co Surname Given Name Born Death Lawson Charlotte 09/17/1964 09/18/1988 Lawson Rodney 09/15/1965 one date Hoskins George C. 08/23/1924 one date Hoskins Alice Mae 09/15/1927 11/10/1992 Hoskins Bass 11/20/1901 06/27/1986 Hoskins Sarah 04/02/1906 one date ------------------------------ From: "C. Richard Matthews" Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 23:07:45 -0500 Subject: KY-F: Ben's Branch Cem - Bell Co Surname Given Name Born Death Mills William no dates Mills Betty no dates Saylor Della Smith 10/08/1918 07/07/1994 Saylor Otis 03/31/1916 07/17/1994 Adams Charles F. 10/13/1921 11/18/1981 Adams Mossie 12/01/1930 12/01/1986 Adams Laura 1906 1962 Saylor George Jr. no dates Saylor Charlie no dates Saylor Freeman no dates Saylor Phronie no dates Brock Judy Caldwell 12/12/1913 10/04/1989 Brock Willie James 11/06/1940 09/15/1989 Brock Geneva 01/16/1934 one date Caldwell Dewey 04/07/1921 02/01/1996 Primore Perry E. 1951 1996 Brock Farmer Lee 08/19/1964 05/05/1981 Saylor Dillard 1919 1978 Saylor Mary no dates Cox Brandon no dates Pierson Jerry R. no dates Pierson Yoland no dates Saylor Ethel 09/14/1928 09/29/1991 Saylor Daniel L. 01/12/1937 one date Saylor Dorothy 08/17/1931 06/13/1994 Saylor George 05/05/1895 03/08/1973 Saylor Laura 07/13/1906 11/09/1962 Saylor June no dates Saylor Jean no dates Saylor Mossie M. 12/01/1917 05/08/1981 Saylor Squire 08/30/1914 one date Saylor Solomon 05/08/1888 11/03/1977 Saylor Tracy Allen 05/26/1979 05/26/1979 Saylor Laura no dates Saylor Hobert no dates Saylor Rrian D. no dates Saylor Dan no dates ------------------------------ From: "C. Richard Matthews" Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 23:07:43 -0500 Subject: KY-F: Dan Hoskins Cem - Bell Co Surname Given Name Born Death Messer Fannie Mae 06/13/1901 1984 Caldwell Mary 04/17/1911 02/11/1979 Dozier Fanny Mae Duff 04/29/1918 08/12/1968 Duff Francine 10/14/1957 10/16/1957 Duff Bertha Mosley 09/29/1896 04/09/1981 Hoskins Berry 11/07/1908 01/27/1989 Hoskins Cardie 10/20/1915 02/04/1988 Hoskins Ricky Lee 09/03/1965 03/13/1982 Duff S.D. 03/01/1930 03/31/1931 Duff Sam 07/06/1894 02/19/1958 Saylor Wilburn 1912 1965 Saylor Rachel 1909 1986 Saylor Susie 03/15/1886 05/10/1971 Elliott Amanda 04/06/1894 01/24/1969 Hoskins Amanda Ellen 1867 1963 Hoskins Green A. 07/06/1939 12/22/1966 King Danie 1897 1955 Hendrickson George W. 03/06/1892 03/02/1973 Hendrickson G.W. 12/27/1926 11/18/1930 Hendrickson Marvin 03/28/1940 01/11/1955 Helton James 1888 1965 Caldwell Elihu 03/07/1878 07/29/1966 Lawson Garfield 1906 1975 Hoskins Racheal Nichole 12/09/1991 12/09/1991 Caldwell Gillis 12/02/1909 03/22/1971 Brock Bertha 03/14/1898 03/11/1965 Brock Mary Alice 1982 1982 Hoskins Infant 12/02/1969 one date Caldwell Lucy S. 05/11/1891 02/05/1969 Akers Dorothy 1924 1964 ------------------------------ From: "C. Richard Matthews" Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 23:02:45 -0500 Subject: KY-F: Caldwell/Brock Cem - Bell Co Surname Given Name Born Death Caldwell Jerome 05/14/1915 one date Caldwell Lucy B. 09/12/1932 02/02/1993 Brock Jerome 04/17/1950 09/30/1971 Kennedy Sherry L. 06/29/1989 04/05/1990 Brock Lula 01/21/1908 09/11/1992 Oney Rachel C. Brock 12/22/1925 01/06/1993 ------------------------------ From: Maria Troutman Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 08:06:35 +0200 Subject: KY-F: OBITS: Union County Copied with permission of The Sturgis News, Sturgis, Union County, KY, Wednesday August 6, 1997, number 32, obits on page 2. (Just noticed, upper left hand corner near price, it says Union County's Oldest Newspaper) BYRON HEFFINGTON Funeral Services were held at 2pm Wednesday for Byron (Freddie) Heffington, 66 of Morganfield who passed away Sunday August 3, at Welborn Baptist Hospital in Evansville. Heffington had been Morganfield City Administrator for 42 years, and was treasurer of GRADD executive board at the time of his death. He had also been a past president ofthe board, president of NINCO, past board member of Texas Gas, past board member of Kentucky Retirement Board, past officer of the Chamber of Commerce and the Lions Club, as well as a past member of teh League of Cities. He was a retired Naval NCO. Mr. Heffington was a member of the Methodist Church, the Masonic Loddge and American Legion. He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Ruth Ann Heffington and two sons, Gene Heffington of Bowling Green and Larry Heffington of Athens, TX, five grandchildren also survive. Services were held at the United Methodist Church in Morganfield with interment in Odd Fellow Cemetery in Morganfield. Rev. Don Davis officiated. Whitsell Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. ALMA LORENE QUIREY Mrs. Alma Lorene (Bobbie) Quirey, 89, of Sturgis, died Tuesday, July 29 at Community Hospital in Henderson. Mrs. Quirey was a member of the First Christian Church of Sturgis and owned and operated the Sturgis Specialty Shop with her son O.C. Quirey. She is survived by her husband Courtney Charles Quirey; one daughter daughter, Barbara Sprague of Henderson; two sons, Courtney C Quirey Jr. and Otho Calvin Quirey, both of Sturgis. Other survivors include five grandchildren: Charlotte Stewart nad David Sprague of Sturgis, Nancy Shelton Morganfield, Sarah Sprague, St. Simons Island, GA, and Linda Lisman of Louisville. Nine great grandchldren and three great great grandchildren. Funeral services were held at 10am Thursday, July 31, at the First Christian Church in Sturgis. Rev. Jeff Bullock officiated. Burial was in Pythian Ridge Cemetery. Whitsell Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. MARY SMITH Mary Smith, 55, Waverly died Wednesday, July 30 at her home of natural causes. Mrs. Smith was a cook at Breckinridge Golf and Country Club in Morganfield. Surviving are her husband, Chester; a daughter, Melvina Smith of Waverly; two sisters, Jean McQuire of Waverly and Ann Frazier of Fort Washington, MD; two brothers, Sam Willett of Morganfield and Melvin Whillett of Aurora, IL; two grandchildren, Tanja nad Melvin Smith ; nieces and nephews. Services were at 10am Saturday at St. Peter Catholic Church with burial in St. Peter Cemetery. Whitsell Funeral Home in Morganfield was in charge of arrangements. ------------------------------ End of ky-footsteps V1 #185 *************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genelaogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. 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