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Charles S. Morehead ..
89
John G. Page ..
100 97 97
David S. Patton.
Edward Rumsey
Benjamin Shackelford.
Fidelio C. Sharp.
94 99
Robert L. Waddill
110
Organization of Political Parties. 108
Political History. 102
State Representatives. 113
State Senators. 113
CHAPTER V.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. 119
Agriculture .. 13
Agricultural Associations 1.40
Bridges .
Crop Statistics.
130
First General Road Law
120
Henderson & Nashville Road 120
138
Horticulture
143
Indian Trails.
119
Mills .. 136
Negro Slavery 134
Railroads 1229
Roads 120
Tobacco.
138
Turnpikes. 124
CHAPTER VI.
RELIGIOUS HISTORY .. 1-45
Compulsory Education. 158
Education. 149
freen Hiver Whig. 163
Hopkinsville Conservative ... 165
Hopkinsville Gazette ... 162
Hopkinsville Republican 164
Kentucky New Era, The ..
Kentucky Republican 16U
Kentucky Ryte 163
Mercury, The .. 1G1
Press, The ...
158
People's P'ress, The ... 161
School Fund Statistics
PAGE. 101
Robert Coleman.
James ('ravens
Joseph B. Crockett. 90
John W. Crockett. 93
Geology, Local ...
Indians, The ......
Indian Extermination.
Limestone, The Cavernous
02
Mound Builders.
Mounds in Kentucky.
30 31
Mounds, Local.
Natural Bridge .. 28
Pilot Rock
Soils 95
Soil, Effects of the. 21
Streauis
Thaber 26
CHAPTER II.
EARLY SETTLEMENT, PIONEERS, ETC ... 39
Abraham Stites 55
Assessors. 57
C'eusus, The .. 59 Circuit Court. 53
Coroners . 57 19 County Court 57
County Judges.
57
County Officers 65 Court Houses .. 57 52
Court of Quarter Sessions.
Election Precincts ...
Hardships
45 50
James Robinson
Name, Origin of ... 1S
Organization of County.
46
Pioneers, First .. 40
Poor-Farm, The. 61
15
Seat of Justice, Locating the. 50 Settlers, The .. 43
56
CHAPTER IIL.
LATER SETTLERS, LAND SPECULATIONS, ETC .... 62
Additional of the Settlers. 64
Crime ..
Following the Footsteps of the Pioneers. 62 Joshua ( ates. 67 Laud Speculatious and Troubles. 70
Lawlessness ... 72
Penuington Family, The.
72
Penuingtou's Last Game
Pioneer l'astimes. 69
Regulators, The .. 81 Settlers, Later. 65
Sharp Practices 75
CHAPTER IV.
COURT AND BAR, POLITICS, ETC ......... 83 Bench and Bar.
George W. Barhour ...... 101
William B. Blackburn. 86 James Breathitt
Thomas Chilton
Juhu MeLarning
Benjamin W. l'atton.
`County Patronage ..
County Levy for 1797
Jails ..
. Sheritt's
Privations ..
Hopkinsville Tobacco Trade ..
Live Stock 139
644
INDEX.
PAGE.
Schools of the County 155
Schools and Schoolhouses. 155
School System, Present. 149
South Kentuckian, The 166
Spy, The .. 162
State Patronage (Educational). 150
CHAPTER VII.
WAR HISTORY. 167
Cavalry, C. S. A., Eighth Kentucky. 177
Col. L. A. Sypert. 178
Confederates 175
Edmund Alexander Starling. 166
Federals 183
Gen. James S. Jackson. 188
John D. Morris. 182
Pensions ... 169
War Between the Sections 173
War of 1812. 171
War with Mexico. 173 Indian Mounds. 287
CHAPTER VIII.
HOPKINSVILLE CITY AND PRECINCT .. 191
Banking
Bartholomew Wood 191
City Government 213
Crescent Mills, The 208
Early Tradesmen 201
Eugene Mills, The. 208
Fires ... 214
General Business
212
Gen. Ifopkins. 200
Great Butter Company, The 210
Growth of Hopkinsville. 202
Hopkinsville Mills ... 209
Ilopkinsville Precinct .. 197
Judge Lindsay's Recollections of Hopkins- ville
205
Laying out Hopkinsville.
199
Learned Professions. 205
Manufacturing Industries. 208
Merchants. 204
Postetfiee, The 203
Press, The. 204
Settlers, Early 192
Taverns ... 202
Western Lunatic Asylum .. 197
CHAPTER IX.
HOPKINSVILLE CHURCHES, ETC .. 217
Baptist Church .. 225
Catholic Church 239
Cemeteries ... 210
Christian Church, 232
Colored Methodist Church .. 239
Cumberland Presbyterian Church .. 236
Episcopal Church 238
Methodist Church .. 217-220
Presbyterian Church .230-232
Rev. Henry Anderson 236
CHAPTER X.
EDUCATIONAL, ETC. 243
Benevoleut lustitutions 256
Bethel Female College 255
Colored Schools .. 252
Free Masons. 257
244
Horticultural Gardens
258
Odd Fellows
258
Opera House.
Prof. C. H[. Dietrich 251
Public Schools 244
Samuel R. Crumbaugh 251
School District Boundaries. 247
South Kentucky College. 252
CHAPTER XI.
CASKY, PEMBROKE AND LONGVIEW PRECINCTS .. 2GI Bethel Baptist Church, 271
Casky Grange, No. 38 .... 274
Cumberland Presbyterian Church. 271
Early Preachers .. 271
Early Schools and Teachers 270
Early Settlers
261
General Description 261
Geology, etc. 273
Industries 273
Negroes, The 268
Pembroke, Town of .... 273
l'rofessional Men. 273
Reformed Church. 272
Salubria M. E. Church. 272
Villages 273
CHAPTER XII.
UNION SCHOOLHOUSE PRECINCT. 277
Churches. 281
Colored Families. 287
Concord Church
285
Earliest Settlers. 277
Fevers.
286
General Description. 277
Newstead Presbyterian Church 285
Patrons ef Husbaudry.
Pee Dee M. E. Church South ...
286
Shiloh Methodist Church. 281
South Union Baptist Church 285
The Unitarians .. 284
Villages .... 286
CHAPTER XIII.
LAFAYETTE AND GARRETTSBURO PRECINCTS. 289
Bennettstown. 291
Church History 294
Early Settlers of Garrettsburg .. 293
First Birth in Flat Lick. 290
293
First Settlers of Lafayette.
259
First Wedding in Flat Lick
290
Flat Lick
290
Garrettsburg.
293
Garrettsburg Schools
296
Garrettsburg Village
296
General Description .
289
Incorporation of Lafayette. 290
Lafayette Precinct .. 259
MeKenzie Kirk 292-295
Merchants and Professionals. 201
292
Pleasant Valley School ....
292
Terrible Tragedy. 292
The Baptist Church .. 294
The Methodist Church .. 294
The Presbyterian Church 294
Town of Lafayette ... 290
War Incident 296
CHAPTER XIV.
MOUNT VERNON, FRUIT HILL, STEWART AND WILSON PRECINCTS
209
Coal Deposits .. 306
Early Settlers of Fruit Hill. 302
Early Settlers of Mount Vernon. 299
Early Settlers of Stewart. 304
Early Settlers of Wilson. 303
Fairview Methodist Church .. 305
Fruit Hill Precinct 302
Natural or Rock Bridge 306
305
Revolutionary Soldiers. 30G
Rock Bridge Baptist Church ... 300
304
Stewart Precinct
The Old Baptists 306
The Universalists 305
Vaughn's Chapel. 305
Wilson Precinct 303
CHAPTER XV.
BAINBRIDGE, HAMBY AND SCATES' MILL PRE- CINCTS 309 An Old Soldier 313
Bear Story 313
Churches. 315
Consolation Universalist Church 318
Crofton 319
320
Crofton Male and Female Academy
First Conuers to Bainbridge. 310
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church. 304
Schools ..
Knights of Pythias.
259
Hopkinsville High School 258
Pleasant Valley Church
First Postoffice.
210
PAOK.
645
INDEX.
FAGE.
General Description. 309 Hamby Precinct ..
312
Methodist Episcopal Church Sonth. ..... .319-320
Philip Hamby. 312
Reformers or Christians. 319
Reminiscences,
314
Hev. J. F. McCord. 312
Schools .. 320
West Union Baptist Church 315
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Bainbridge Precinct. 587
C'asky Precinct 603
Fruit Hill Precinct. 561
Garrettsburg Precioct. 575
Hamby Precinct. 557
Hopkinsville, City and Precinct 339
Lafayette Precinct .. 509
- Longview Precinct ... 485
Mount Vernon Precinct ... 437
Pembroke Precinct ... 1-17
Scates' Mill Precinct. 569
Stewart Precinct 615 Union Schoolhouse Precinct. 523
Wilson Precinct ..
625
ILLUSTRATIONS.
Court Houses. .between pages 18 and 19
Hopkinsville Public School Building.
between pages 242 and 243
Modern Schoolhouse ....... .between pages 306 and 307
Primitive Schoolhouse. .154
Scene at a Schoolbouse, Christmas ..
.245
PORTRAITS.
Abernathy, H. G. between pages 138 and 139
Alexander, L. G. .. between pages 234 and 235 Beard, D. R .. .between pages 210 and 211
Brown, T. F. .. between pages 210 and 211
Buckner, S. G. between pages 158 and 139
Groft, I. F. .between pages 320 and 321
Fairleigh, R. M .between pages 250 and 251
Fraser, J. W .. between pages 290 and 291
between pages 106 and 107
Fuqua, W. M. between pages 138 and 139
Gant, Joseph K.
.. between pages 274 and 275
Green, Thomas.
Hancock, T. R. .between pages 138 and 139
Holland, S. A ... between pages 146 and 147
Holland, Mrs. Almeda ...... between pages 1 bi aud 117
Jameson, R. C ..
„between pages 266 and 267 Jameson, Mrs. Susan C ... between pages 266 and 207 Jesup, J. E.
Latham, J. C.
between pages 210 and 211
Leavell, L. L.
.between pages 130 and 131
Metcalf, J. C .. between pages 296 and 297
Pay, Anstin between pages 114 and 115
Radford, C. W. .. between pages 210 and 211 Sharp, Fidelio C. between pages 94 and 95
Sharp, Mrs. Evelina J between pages 01 and 95
Thomas, Joseph P. between pages 258 and 259
Thompson, George O. .between pages 210 and 211
Whitlock, J. C. .. between pages 122 and 123
Wood, Bartholomew T ..... between pages 190 and 191
MEMORANDA.
PAGE.
Historical .. .
321
Biographical.
633
between pages 138 and 139
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
PAGE.
Abernathy, H. G
339
Alexander, L. G
339
Anderson, R. M
340
Anderson, C.
341
Anderson, A. HI
341
Armistead, R. B
147
Armstrong, R
47
Allen, J. W
485
Armstrong, E.
557
Adams, J. M
523
Adcock, W. E
523
Alexander, C. B
524
Anderson, E. H
525
Ballard, H. C
342
Barrow, J. F
342
Beard, D. R
343
Boyd, S. J
344
Breathitt, J. W
345
Breathitt, J
346
Bronaugh, J.
316
Brown, E. A
347
Brown, T. F.
348
Brownell, F. J
349
Burnett, I.
351
Bush, C. H
351
Barclay, E. G
48
Bell, D.
148
Bollinger, H. H
449
Bragg, J. P.
119
Bronaugh, W. M
150
Browder, G. R
451
Barker, T. M
185
Banker, P. M.
486
Batts, Jolm T.
486
648
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Bell, C. D
FAGE. 487
Bendall, G
488
Boone, W. I
488
Buckner, F. W
488
Blair, S.
509
Boyd, J. A.
510
Boyd, W. HI
525
Browning, J. A
526
Boyd, Y
558
Barnes, D. L.
561
Barnes, J. J.
561
Bates, A.
562
Brasher, C. A
569
Brown, J. R
569
Bacon, Mrs. M. E
575
Barns, M. A.
575
Bell, D
576
Boyd, R. L.
577
Bryant, H. HI
587
Bass, J
615
Campbell, J. P., Jr.
352
Campbell, G. V
352
Campbell, A. P.
353
Campbell, A.
354
Campbell, E. P
355
Cansler, Polk
356
Champlin, G. A
357
Clark, J. M
357
Clark, J. HI
358
Coombs, G. B
358
Cooper, J. O.
359
Crumbaugh, S. R
360
Cook, E. R
437
Catlett, A. C
451
Chilton, F. M.
451
Carneal, J., Rev
489
Carter, J. M. 490
Carter, Daniel F 490
Catlett, J. C.
191
Cayce, M
491
-- Cherry, C. B
492
Clardy, T. F
493
Coleman, J. T
511
Cooper, A. M.
511
Clardy, J. C. 492
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
649
Campbell, F. B
PAGE. 526
Campbell, Ned
527
Clardy, J. D
528
Coombs, W. E
529
Crenshaw, R. C ..
529
Cavanah, J. H
562 569
Croft, W. V
570
Croft, A. B.
570
Croft, J. E
570
Clark, H. B
588
Cox, W. F
588
Cullom, E. R
589
Clark, J. M.
603
Clark, J. M.
615
Cordier, J
616
Davis, M. C.
360
Dietrich, C. H
361
Dneker, C. W
361
Dudley, R. H
452
Dennis, Z. P
494
Davie, M. D.
512
Dowell, Mrs. E
513
Dillman, J. H
530
Dulin, J. M
571
Dinguid, M. N
590
Denton, J. H
616
Denton, J. W
617
Drake, Z. T.
617
Dulin, R.
618
Ellis, William
361
Ellis, J. O
362
Eddins, W. W
453
Edwards, C. N
530
Ellis, A. W
530
Evans, J. E
531
East, J
558
Fairleigh, R. M.
363
Feland, J
366
Forrey, J. S
367
Foulkes J
367
Frankel, M.
368
Fraser, W. I 369
Fuqua, W. M
370
Forbes, J. V
438
Collins, J. D
650
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Forbes, J. E
PAGE. 438
Fritz, M. A
438
Fritz, E. HI
439
Fruit, S. T
439
Forgy, S. P.
453
Fuqua, A. J
514
Fuqua, T. J
515
Farnsworth, H. A
531
Faulkner, E. J
532
Foard, J. W
532
Fuller, J. R.
571
Gaines, R. W
371
Gant, J. K
371
Gish, D. J
372
Grissam, M. W
374
Garnett Family
451
Garnett, B. C
457
Garrott, I
458
Gray, T. D
459
Garnett, J. F.
494
Garrott, M. A
494
Griffin, E. C.
195
Girand, F. M
515
Garrett, J. A
533
Gary, J. C.
534
Gary, R. S
534
Glass, J. C.
534
Green, J. R.
535
Gresham, J. W
536
Gooch, T. W.
563
Glover, D. H.
571
Giles, P.
577
Guthrie, L. P.
590
Garnett, J. T.
604
Garrott, W. W
605
1 Graham, T. L.
606
Green, T. 607
Gunn, J. A
608
Gabard, W. F :618
619
Hancock, T. R 376
Hickman, L. B 376
377
Howe, J. M.
377
Grace, F. E.
Holland, R. H
Harned, E. 140
651
BIOGRAPHIICAL INDEX.
PAGE.
Harned, I
440
Hanna, S
159
Holland, S. A
460
Hollis, W.
464
Hopkins, R. G
465
Hutchinson, D. G.
466
Harris, J. T.
495
Herndon, H. C.
496
Hall, C.
516
Hanbery, J. W
537
Henry, G.
537
Henry, R. W.
538
! Hendrix, A. A
564
Hardy, J. L.
590
Hardy, T. M.
590
Hiser, B. F
591
Ingram, R. HI
572
Jesup, J. E
378
Jameson, R. C
466
Johnson, J. N.
538
. Jackson, R. M.
620
Johnson, G. N.
625
Johnson, R.
625
Kenner, Mrs. Bettie E
167
Knight, J. R.
539
Knight, G. E
539
Landes, J. I.
379
Latham, J. C
380
1 Lewis, M
380
Long, A. V.
381
Lackey, G. W
4.11
Lacy, G. V .:
441
Layton, M. V. B.
142
Lackey, B. D
167
Lunderman J
168
Leavell, C.
578
Lander, G. W.
592
Lander, W. N
593
Lander, C. T. 593
Long, J. W
620
MeCarroll, Joe 382
MeDaniel, R. T. 383
McPherson, J. W 383
Meacham, C. M.
384
652
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
PAGE.
Means, L. W.
384
Merritt, J. R
385
Metcalfe, V. M.
386
Mills, J. N
387
Mills, R.
388
Minck, J. W
389
Morris, M. H
390
Morrow, T
390
McComb, L.
468
Mason, W. B.
168
Massie, F. B
469
Miller, M. G
169
Murphy, T. T.
471
Murphey, E. J
471
McKee, Mrs. A. E.
496
Mckenzie, W. W.
497
Major, U. L.
498
Major, HI
498
Mason, M. A
499
Massie, W. M.
499
Medley, J
500
Montgomery, J. M.
500
Moore, J. W.
501
McGee, G. W
517
McGaughey, A
540
MeGaughey, R. H
541
McGaughey, J. W
541
Marquess, J. C
541
Mason, D. S.
542
Morris, E. F
542
Moss, J. L.
542
Moore, J. R.
559
McCord, H. C.
572
Murphy, J. N
573
MeKnight, J. J. C
579
Metcalf, J. C.
579
Mason, P. P
593
Meacham, A. W
594
Mitchell. Jas. T
596
McKee, C. .609
Myers, G. H 621
Martin, P. O 625
Meacham, C. W
626
Meacham, J. M
626
Nelson, M. II
391
653
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
PAGE.
Norwood, R. W.
392
Northington, C. J
517
·Nanee, B. B
543
Nixon, J. J.
573
Nolen, W. H.
59€
Orr, J
392
Overshiner Family
393
O'Neal, C.
501
O'Neal, L. L
502
Owsley, D. B.
518
Owen, T. T
544
Owen, M. V
394
Phelps, H. A.
395
Pike, E. A
395
Poindexter, G
396
Pyle Family
397
Perry, D. R.
442
Pendleton, R. Y
472
: Pendleton, P. B
473
Peyton, J. P.
473
Parrish, J. S
565
Peay, A.
597
P'Pool, G. A
622
Pepper, S. D
398
Radford, C. W.
100
Renshaw, R.
400
Ricketts, J. T.
401
Rodgers, A. D.
402
Rust, J. W.
104
Radford, W. T
474
Richardson, J
474
Rose, W. G.
476
Radford, W. B
502
Ragsdale, W. E
503
Rives, H. P
503
Robb, E. C
519
Radford. M. G
545
Ramsey, J. M
545
Powers, T. J
580
P'Pool, J. M
598
Prouse, J. P
627
Rabbeth, J. T
399
Randle, W. F.
502
Payne, N.
543
654
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Russell, R. A
PAGE. 546
Renshaw, J. M
559
Roberts, M. 573
Radford, J. B.
581
Rives, Mrs. R. A
582
Rawls, C. E.
599
Renshaw, F. II
599
Renshaw, W. J
600
Radford, C. J
609
Rawlins, L. B
610
Rives, R. F
610
Roberts, E. J
611
Robinson, Mrs. E. J
627
Robinson, E. M
628
Robinson, G. A. H
628
Seargent, A.
105
Sebree, E. G
406
Shackelford, C
106
Sharp, F. C. and E. J 407
410
Smith, G. W
410
Smith, J. W. I
411
Smith, T. L.
412
Smith, M. O
413
Starling, S. M
413
Stites, II. J
417
Sypert, L. A
420
Shanklin, W. H
43
Shaw, T. H
443
Steel, J. D.
444
Smith, R. H 476
477
Stuart, E. S 478
50-
Sherrill, P. E.
519
Stepbens, E. T
520
Southall, G. W
547
Stowe, W. T
547
Summers, W. D 548
600
. Smith, J. J
Stith, J. W 601
Thompson, G. O 120
Thompson, G. V 121
Townes; A. V
122
Tyler, J. D
422
.
Shipp, W. M
Smith, O. J
Steger, E. W
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX. 655
PAGE.
Tandy, T. J
478
Thomas, J. P
479
Thomas, J. Q
504
Tuck, H. D
549
Thurmond, J. C.
550
Terry, J. D.
574 583
Terrell, T. J
583
Terrell, J. W
C22
Tandy, Mrs. S. E
423
v Underwood, B. T
551
Usher, J. H.
565
1,' Underwood, J. W
601
Vaughan, R. W
424
Weill, Joe
424
Wheeler, W. G
425
Wilgns, W. A
425
Williams, M. W
426
Wilson, R. H
427
Winfree, W. P
428
Withers, W. J
429
Wood, B. S.
431
Wood, E. P
431
Wood, E.
132
Wood, H
434
Woosley, J. B
480
Willis, J. C.
481
Williams, S. F.
482
Wood, Mrs. J. D.
182
Walden, C. H
505
Whitlock, B. A.
506
Winfree, S. T
506
Wallace, J. B.
552
Whitlock, J. C
554
West, B. HI
50€
West, C. C.
566
West, W. W
567
West, W. M
574
Wilson, A. L
427
Winfree, J. H.
430
Wood, D. B. S.
433
Wood, J. R
434
Wills, Mrs. S. A
521
Thurmond, Mrs. J. E
550
Torian, J.
-
656
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
PAGE.
Wallace, T. H.
584
White, J. B
584
Wilson, E. A
585
Wood, J. W.
602
Warfield, W. E
612
Whitaker, D. M.
613
Williams, B. D
.622
West, J. K
629
Wicks, J. W.
629
Wilson, J. M.
636
Withers, F. M.
631
Yancey, J. W
435
Young, J. A
435
Young, T. S.
522
Yonts, T. L.
555
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