Subject: KFY: Mt Vernon Signal Newspapers, 1905 - Rockcastle Co FROM LONG AGO Submitted By: Ray E_v_a_n_s ray.evans@worldnet.att.net Mount Vernon Signal December 22, 1905 (Note: This information has been re-typed from the microfilm. The re-typed material has been subjected to a computerized spelling check. However, an effort has been made to preserve the English usage and spelling of that period.) Rockcastle People Making Good Citizens in Many States Information That Will Prove Interesting Mr. James Maret has put himself to the trouble to hunt up and give the following information as to where former Rockcastle people live. Thos. S. Miller is in the fruit growing business in Santa Rosa, California. M. Clell Williams, druggist, Somerset, KY. H.C. "Boss" Hasty, drugs, Skidmore, MO. John Egbert Fish, farming in Texas. Mrs. Alice Lewis McLaughlin is located in Portland, Oregon. Robert L. Brooks is in Southern California. W.F. McClary is looking after fruit groves near Deland, FL. Leander, J.E. and Burdett Houk are in the mercantile business in Jamestown, IN. Jasper Francisco is farming near Wishart, MO. Boone, Jerome and Dee Francisco are also Missouri farmers. Joseph Joplin, Jr. Farming near Joplin, MO. Henderson Jones, jeweler, Located in Montana. Joseph Jones, farmer, Villa Grove, IL. Armp French, is farming in Oklahoma. Ransom and Osborn Coffey are farming in the Cherokee Nation I.T.; Abe Soward, farming in Villa Grove, IL. John Clark, farming in South Dakota. Robert Joplin, traveling salesman with headquarters in Somerset. Rev. Eugene Snodgrass, after spending many years as a missionary from the Christian Church to Japan located in Lexington some two years or more, since. Sam Ward, Sr. is telegraphing in the West. Willie B. Meyers, druggist, Pineville. John Meyers, builder, Williamsburg. Brack Graves, railroading in Corbin. Horace Newcomb, (1872) colored, bossing a livery stable in Louisville. Henry Bales in located in Washington state. A.W. Soward is type setting in Cincinnati. Frank, James and Bennett Chestnut are farming near Santo, TX. Miss Mollie Parker is filling a stenographers position in Laurel, MS. John V. McKenzie is farming near Kingsville. James L. White lives at Stanford and is in the oil business. Ap Taylor is section foreman at Hazel Patch. Oscar Bryant is telegraphing at Hazel Patch. Elisha Terrel, when last heard of, a few years since, was running a big sheep ranch in Nevada. W. M. Weber lives in Chattanooga. Dr. Harry Weber is practicing medicine in Louisville, Eugine Mullins is at Aztec, N.M. where his health continues to improve. Walter Mullins is employed at Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Bennet H.Conn is located at Guthrie, O.T. D..S. Mckinney and J.C. Hocker are merchants at Lafollete, TN Will Kelton is telegraphing at Junction City. Will O. Jones has been in the U.S.Navy for some years, but now is in New York. He has visited almost every important seaport on the Globe. He will return to civilian life next spring. John H. Fish is train dispatching at Blue Ridge, GA. Maurice Brown is back from Colorado where he did some years telegraphing. Minor Fish is at Walsenburg, Colorade for his health. He is also doing some telegraphing. Prof. Jack Ping is teaching in Prosperity, MO. W.T. Linton, family groceries, Louisville. John F. Welch is vice-president of the Globe Fertilitizer Co. Louisville. Hob McClure is railroading on the K.C. Frank Miller is clerking in Indiana. Wm. R. Cress, once editor of the Signal, is County Judge in Wayne County. George D. Burdette is with the Citizens Life Insurance Co. In Louisville. Dr. Z.C. Denny is practicing his profession in Mt Vernon, MO. Elijah M. Denny is retired distiller in Verona, MO. R.E. Thompson is farming at the South end, A.J. Thompson is in the Middle and J.J. Thompson in the North end of Preachersville. H. G. Sutton is farming near Preachersville. Robert Jones is City Marshall of Stanford.W. J. Newcomb, cashier Southern Pacific Railroad and Steamship Co. Galveston, TX. Mart R. Jones farming in Villa, IL. Jno. M. Robers farming Bakersville, MO. Wm. G. McGuire, age 85, father of Dillard and Dr. McGuire is living in Ohio. Charles Wallen, policeman, LaFollette, TN. J.K. Maret, telegraph operator in Illinois. Vic Brown is telegraphing for the L&N. James Proctor, telegraph operator at East Bernstadt. John Cook, foreman railroad shops in Jellico, TN. Lloyd N. Maret telegraphing for Western Union at London. W. Frank Ramsey, is in banking, insurance, telephony and capitalist in Crawfordsville, IN. John H. Williams is in business in California. Sam Brown, practicing law at McAlester, I.T. J, Harve VanHook druggist in Burnside, KY. James M. Maret, is mining in Arizona. J.R. Cook, practicing law in Somerset. Josephus G. Hazelwood (1850) retired lawyer, Carthage, TX. Thomas Hazelwood (1850) mercantile business, Cleyburn, TX. J.L. Whitehead, druggist, Williamsburg. James E. Vowels is living in Louisville. Miss Ida May Adams bookkeeping, Shelman, GA. Prof. A.E. Ewers, teacjing at Union Mills, IN. Jack Adams, clerking, Wilton Josiah Branaman has strore in Berea. Lyttle S. Adams is finishing his last term at school and is practicing dentistry in St Louis, MO. Frank Reppert is located in Silverton, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati. Judge Issac A. Stewart, is in Deland, FL. John Poynter is farming in Jamestown, IN. George O.K. McCall is living in Northern Texas. Mrs. Callie Adams Smith iand children are living in FT Worth, TX. DR. W. A. Brown is physician in Parksville. W.T. Brooks is druggist in Paris, KY. S.L. Whitehead is druggist in Norton, VA. Robert S. Sweeny is druggist in Ash Grove, MO. DR. Steve Brown, is practicing at Commerce, TX. Othur Sweeny is druggist in Indian Territory. Joe Brooks, druggist in Whitesburg. DR. John M. Williams has relocated to Louisville. Willis B. Adams is farming in Garrard County. His brother Jack lives in Lancaster. Jkoe W., Adams is merchant in Fayette County. De Albright, once Deputy Sheriff in this county is physcian with large practice in Barbourville. Judge John B. Fish is landlord of the Belmont Hotel and also assistant cashier at Williamsburg, KY. J. W. Nesbit, staves, Pennington Gap, VA. James W. Stephens is located at Berea. Horace G. Edwards is farming near Bandy in Pulaski County. Jesse Williams is merchant in Carthage, IL. William Williams is merchant and ranchman in Azrex. NM. Wm Baker is farming in Pulaski County. W.H. (Bogue) Brown farming and stock trading near Sweeny in Garrard County. John Cress, stock trading at Prechersville. David Thompson farming near Lancaster. DR. J.S. Cooper is in Louisville. Ben P. Martin, retired merchant is town marshal in Rowland. Chas. A. Redd is farming near Crab Orchard. William Hicks is merchant and banker in Blue Field, W VA. George W. Robert is station master in Louisville. John Townsend, colored, is preaching at Towanda, KS. Mrs. Rebecca Newcomb and daughter Mrs. Betie Frederick are living in Alameda, CA. S.W. Prewitt is in Cincinnatti. ED Jones is telegraphing in Ticacho, Arizona. Mrs Margarit Spradlin Thompson is is a practicing oseteopath physician in Cincinnati. W.R. Jordan (who married Miss Matilda Albright) lives in Nevada, MO. J.L. Joplin is living near Harrodsburg. Only .two person Jasper Francisco of Wisehart, MO.. and Will O. Jones , U.S. Navy New York. The other names and address , shown here, were those we remembered or gathered from other sources. There are many names omitted from the list for the reason we were unable to get the desired information. ******************************************************************************* 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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