KY-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest 27 June 2000 Volume 00 : Issue 222 ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 21:01:20 EDT From: Acltk@aol.com Subject: MISC: H Brady Ledger p 29, Stithton,KY (Hardin Co) H. Brady, General Merchandise Stithton, Ky. 1912 - 1916 Day Ledger, Customer Accounts Joe Graham Jan 1 1912 Taken from old Book 1.40 20 1912 Credit by cash 1.40 Dec 11 Due on goods 1.10 20 Goods by Self 1.90 23 Credit by cash 2.00 23 Flour 1.20 Paid 24 Felts 2.50 " 27 Sugar & Coffee .75 " Jan 5 Goods by Self 2.30 20 Pants & Susp 2.00 21 Credit by cash 1.00 Feb 24 Credit by cash 3.30 " Gingham Coffee & ( - ) 1.55 Mar 1 Shoes 3.10 4 Due on shoes .13 28 Goods by Self 9.80 April 11 Meat Meal & Flour 2.75 23 Flour Meal Meat & 2.67 June 6 Flour Meal & Coffee 1.35 28 Credit by Cash 20.00 " Shoes & Meat 3.35 July 5 Flour Meal Sug Coffee 1.65 8 Shoes by Horton 2.25 12 Goods by Wife 3.35 19 Shoes Meat & Coffee 3.39 26 Flour Meal & Overalls 1.60 Aug 9 Meat Sugar & Coffee by wife 1.39 30 Groceries 2.50 Sept 11 Credit by Miller 1.00 " Meat by Horton 1.08 27 Coffee .25 Oct 2 Goods by Self 3.13 4 Shoes 2.00 18 Meat & Oil 1.17 24 Due on goods 1.06 Nov 15 Goods by Self 3.01 Dec 20 52.53 21.00 20 Due on goods .80 53.33 21.00 (less) 21.00 Jan 1st 1914 Balance due 32.33 ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 21:15:50 EDT From: Acltk@aol.com Subject: MISC: H Brady Ledger p 30, 31, Stithton, Ky (Hardin Co) H. Brady, General Merchandise Stithton, Ky. 1912 - 1916 Day Ledger, Customer Accounts p 30 Date Items Bought Price Paid Robert Wise Jan 1st 1912 Taken from Old Book 5.75 5.75 Frank Byerly Dec 6th 11914 Coffee .20 .20 Day Ledger, Customer Accounts p 31 J B Frank Jan 1st 1912 Taken from Old Book 37.17 Wm Robinson Jan 1st 1912 Taken from Old Book 16.39 G W Mitchell Jan 1st 1912 Due on Goods 9.77 Dead Geo Davis Jan 1st 1912 Goods by Self 2.00 Wm Flaherty Jan 1st 1912 Taken from Old Book 6.75 6.75 ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 02:09:11 -0700 From: Larry&Laura wright Subject: NEWS: EDMONTON -METCALF COUNTY Taken from the Adair County News Columbia Kentucky DECEMBER 22, 1897 Edition Typed as published and submitted by Laura Frost Wright EDMONTON December 11, 1897 Mr. Editor: This evening finds me in Edmonton , the county seat of Metcalf county, where I have been for the last three weeks attending upon my son, who has been very low with what seems to be a combination of typhoid and bilious fevers, and I am sorry to say that after four weeks of severe illness, there are little, if any, indications for the better. Edmonton has a population of about 250. It has 3 dry goods stores, 3 drug stores, 2 blacksmith shops, 2 hotels, 3 doctors, 5 lawyers, 1 church, and a banking house, two stories high and 66 feet wide, now about completed, and I am told that the bank will be in operation about the first of January, 1898. It also has a steam saw mill and a respectable court house and jail, and some as kind of people as can be found anywhere. I learn that a free-for-all fight occurred last evening at Lafayette, this county, in which SAM WELLS was stabbed fatally by ED HAYS. HAYS was brought here and put in jail about 5 O"Clock this morning and his brother HENRY, is under guard awaiting trial, which will come off some time this week. Further paticulars not known at this writing. I am not acquainted with both the hotel keepers at this place, neither do I wish to write an advertisement for either, but permit me to say that Mr. W.T. ENGLAND, the proprietor of the hotel where I am stopping, is an Adair county man, and his wife is one of Adair"s best women, and that the people of Adair county can do no better than to patronize the ENGLAND HOTEL when stopping at this place. If this finds not its way to the waste basket, I may write again. M.T. ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 07:44:05 EDT From: Franks104@aol.com Subject: BIO: Isaac Cunningham, Clark Co Isaac Cunningham was born in Virginia in 1778 and settled four miles northwest of Winchester. He became the wealthiest man in the county, was long time a magistrate and by seniority of rank sheriff. He several times represented the county in the Legislature and was State Senator more than one term. He served in the War of 1812 and commanded a company of Bourbon County volunteers at the battle of the River Raisin. Isaac Cunningham's name was know all over the State as a breeder of fine stock; he was one of the few Kentucky stockholders in the Ohio Company which made the famous importation in 1834. He was one of the three Grand Masters of the State who came from Winchester Lodge No. 20 and closed his long and useful life in 1842. The Lexington Herald, Lexington Ky, Sunday, January 14, 1917 ______________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 07:56:42 EDT From: Franks104@aol.com Subject: BIO: John Martin Clark Co There were two prominent John Martins in early Winchester history; the one mentioned in the Masonic record was a native of Albemarle County, Virginia, where he was for some years deputy sheriff and lived a while in Cumberland County. When the Revolution broke out he volunteered in a company and was made First Sergeant. He was soon promoted to a captaincy and was complimented on his exemplary bravery and discretion during a threatened epidemic of smallpox among his men. Captain Martin, with two hundred men, was at Charlottesville when the British attacked under Carleton, but was unable to make any resistance because the legislature in session there refused to let out the public arms. For his bravery at the siege of York, Captain Martin was raised to the rank of Major. After peace was made with England he brought his family to Kentucky, settling first in what is now Jessamine County, where he lived four years. In 1788 he moved to Clark County, where he spent the remainder of his life. As a Major in the Kentucky militia he was engaged in several Indian wars, and saw service in Ohio under General Arthur St. Clair during the fateful expedition against the Indians in 1791, however he was not engaged in the disastrous battle of November 4, having been detailed to bring on four hundred men rendezvoused at Fort Hamilton. Major Martin then returned to his Clark County farm and soon took up the duties of Sheriff, being the first elected in the county; he was for many years one of the judges of the Court of Quarter Sessions; in 1798 he resigned his office and retired to private life on his farm. He lived until 1837, and in the records of Clark County are many documents showing him to have been a large property owner and an influential citizen. His wife was Elizabeth Lewis, whose family was no more ancient or honorable than that of Major Martin, grandson of a Virginia "gentleman" and first cousin of General George Rogers Clark, William Clark and Meriwether Lewis. The other John Martin who may have been the Master Mason was also a native of Virginia. This family of Martins are traditionally descended from Captain John Martin, one of the Royal Councilors of Jamestown in 1607; and John Martin, who was born in Orange County, Virginia, and settled in Clark County, Kentucky, is said to have been the son of General Martin of Orange County, Cherokee agent and Indian fighter. John Martin served in the Revolution as a private in Captain Samuel Howe's company, Second Virginia Regiment of the Continental Line. He married Rachel Pierce; their children intermarried with the old Boonesborough and Providence families in Clark County, the Quisenberrys, Bushes, Tribbles and Elkins, and have numerous descendants. A granddaughter of John Martin married Samuel M. Taylor, first senior deacon of the Winchester Lodge, and twenty years County Clerk of Clark County. The Lexington Herald, Lexington Ky, Sunday, January 14, 1917 ______________________________X-Message: #6 Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 07:57:00 EDT From: Franks104@aol.com Subject: BIO: Horace Coleman, Clark Co Horace Coleman, native of Caroline County, Virginia, came to Clark County, Kentucky when quite young. He owned a large farm on which he erected a beautiful home. He was a man of sterling worth and highly esteemed by his neighbors; he died in 1846, leaving two sons, Cicero and Marcus. The Lexington Herald, Lexington Ky, Sunday, January 14, 1917 End of ky-footsteps-digest V00 #222 ********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. 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