Scott County, Kentucky - The whole text, 1905 (part 10 of 10)

ul citizen of Scott county. He was twice married, his first wife was Miss Nancy Sharron and they had three children J. Sharron Fleming the County Clerk, Mrs. Elizabeth Tucker of Owen County and Mrs, Lee. His second wife was Mrs. Cathrine Reed and to them six children were horn Mrs. John Barkley, E. T. Fleming, a Councilman of Georgetown, Mrs. Ben Oldham, Mrs Thos. Milner, Mrs. Wright Kimbrough and Milligan Fleming one of the Scott County Road Superintendants. While Mr. Fleming is quite feeble, he has a host of friends who hope that he will be spared for many years to come and that his condition may improve to such an extent as will enable him to get out and mingle with his friends.

Is now in his 92nd year and is as active as most men in their fioth year. He has splendid health and walks about town, looks after his horse as well almost as a young man. He was born in Woodford county in 1814. He has been twice married, his first wife was Mrs. Latitie Holding and to them two children were born - Hon .Tames Amos Hamon of Scott county and Mrs, J. T. Loney of Cynthiana. His second wife is Mrs. Elizabeth Sutton. Mr. Hamon a few years ago was quite wealthy, but in recent years he has given considerable property to churches and institutions under a contract that he is to receive 10 per cent annually of its value during his life.

Aged Citizens Aged Ladies 539

/-^qELOW will be found the likenesses of Mrs. »ltl Annie Boone and her sister. Miss Overly, two of the oldest sisters in the county. Mrs. Boone is 91 years old, and Miss Overly 89. They were born in Fleming county, and are daughters of Jesse and Isabella Overly, and are now living in Scott county, near Hinton. Mrs. Boone was born in 1814, and married James E. Boone in 1834. Eleven children were born to them. Miss Overly was born in 1816, and is 89 years old. She died a few months ago, shortly after this photograph was made. Mrs. Boone, the oldest, is still living, and has a fine memory, but has devoted all her life to domestic work, taking a great interest in her home and caring little for events. She can tell you how many chickens she raised every year, and the first mess of new beans and peas that came out of her garden. She was the first lady in her neighborhood that enjoyed these luxuries, because the other ladies ran all over creation, attending picnics and other functions, while she ''stayed at home helping her ma."

Miss Overly was somewhat of the same disposition as her sister, preferring home and home pleasures, rather than going to socials and places of amusement. When joked about being an old maid, she often laughingly said : " I prefer to be my own boss rather than a young man's slave or an old man's darling." She always looked on the bright side of everything until in recent years, when she overtaxed her mind with worries and no doubt hastened her death. They were not people of wealth, but of honesty, modesty and virtue.

Ninety Years Old

The widow of the late James S. Glass, one of the oldest ladies ot Sc <tt count)', having passed her ninetieth year, and still a useful woman. We don't suppose that another lady cm be found in Scott county or in the State of Kentucky the age of Mrs. Glass, who enjoys the health and is a useful as she is. She can do anything about the house with as much ease as she did when she was 50 years old, and is never sick or complaining. The above is a likeness made from a photo taken of her recently, and from this no one would judge her to be a woman gO years old. Mrs. Glass before marriage was Miss Sarah Sinclair, born April 6th, 1815, in Scott county, and married James S. Glass September 12th, 1837. He was a prominent farmer of Scott county all his life. The children, six in number; four are living -C B. Glass, W. G. Glass, Walter P. Glass and Aisa Glass. C. B Glass married Mary A. Glinn; W. G Glass ito Mollie Bradford; W. P. Glass to Laura Darnaby, and A. S. Gla-s to Margaret Quisenberry. B. B. Glass, deceased, married Annie Tilford. J. O. Glass is also deceased. The grandchildren - Annie, daughter of C. B. Glass, married F. M. Thomasson; Jennie, deceased, daughter of W. G Glass, mariied J G. Blanton; Annie B., daughter of Asa Glass, married John Leach, now living at Oxford; James Glass, son of Asa Glass, is living with his father farming; Russell, son of Asa Glass living with his uncle farming; Mattie, daughter of Asa Glass, living with her father; Jennie, Lettie and Katie Glass, are daughters ol Walter Glass; B. B. Glass, son of B. B. Glass, deceased, is now loca'ed in Oklahoma. James S. Glass, deceased, was a son of William Glass and Phoebe Atkins; Sarah A. Glass is the daughter of Armstead Sinclair and Polly S. Blackburn. Mrs. Glass spends most of her time with her son, Mr. C. B. Glacs, in the East Stamping Ground precinct.

By W. Smith

After the battle of Cliicamauga Gen. Bragg lay still for one month. Longstreet went back to Virginia with 12,000 men and Granf came from Vicksburg with 75,000 men. The battle of Missionary Ridge was fought; Bragg lost about all he had gained, then fell back to Dalton, where lie wintered.

My regiment, the First Kentucky, was camped nearTunnell Hill, five miles this sideof Dalton and about the same from Ringold, where the Federal army camped. 'The cavalry, under Gen. Wheeler, wereeyes for the whole army, so you can see we were between hawk and buzzard about forage. We did picket duty on the Cassey Springs road If we went any way a few miles we would run up on Mr. Yank. They always seemed in bad humor and wanted to fight. There was something doing almost every day. Scouting parties would clash, pickets fighting. Morgan had gone on the Ohio raid and was captured; the remnant of his command, the Ninth Kentucky, and Darch's battallion were put in Williams brigade. We served together the rest of the war, so that brings us pretty close together- Stonewall Jackson wasdead, Vicksburg had fallen, so things looked a little gloomy for the Confederate side, but we were hardy and tough and held a stiff upper lip. We had some good times as well as bad ones. The girls would give a dance or some kind of party every few nights. Some would go and some would stay in camp; some went to prayer meeting; some fiddled and danced and most of them plaved seven up or poker. 1 have seen them draw S209 to-day and to-morrow go dead broke, but pay day was always ahead, so they never lost courage, always jolly. whether they had grub or not. One evening late they made a detail of one hundred and fifty men. We were to carry no rations or lodge. I knew at once that meant something warm. We got on top of the mountain by way of Nigger Jack trace- Here seventy men dismounted, left their horses and went down on the other side into the valley where 89 Federals were on picket, got in between them and the main army, built a high fence across the road- and set a lot of rails against it so it was secure. Tne rest of us had goue several miles around. None of us, of course, knew where we were going. About four o'clock in the morning the command was "silence in ranks" and we passed it back, No one knows what that means unless he has been there. I well know that a "hen was on" some where near- Just at peep of day the word was passed back, ''Close up and keep close up," we started at at a gallop- Pretty soon wecame upon two men at the outpost- We killed them, then charged the camp. They never did get in line. We made it so hot they mounted their horses, some with halters only every fellow for himself. Pretty soon they ran into the trap. Here all were killed, save nineteen taken prisoners. All the horses but three were killed and they died next day of their wounds, I saw one poor fellow shot in the back. The powder had set his coat on fire, I got down and put it out. A few days after that 1 was detailed to report at dept Soon after we got there we learned were to hang a preacher for munity. He was Chaplain of I he 14th Alabama. I am pretty sure Eley Blackburn was there About this time there were only three living things in the neighborhood to eat - an old rooster, a sow and a guinea. The sow belonged to a one legged rebel. J went to the Colonel's tent one morning; the sow was eating shattered corn where the horses had been fed. I was looking at her. The Colonel said, "Smith I see you looking at that hog; if you kill her I will have you shot - that is if you don't give me a piece," In less than half an hour he had a hind quarter. The rooster and guinea belonged to the same house. The guinea took up quarters in the fork of a tall oak; the rooster went under the floor. When things were quiet a little while the rooster would walk out and look around to see if the soldiers were gone- The guenea would say, "Go back, go back, go back," Good Lord! How he would make tracks. 1 expect them "Linkum" soldiers got him, for on the 10th of April they shelled usout. of camp. Hooker with his corps of 15.000 men tried to illank our army. We were sent double quick to Rock Face Gap, where we with our little brigade, held it from 2 o'clock -until 8 at night. They were relieved by Claiborn's men. The infantry used to say they would like to see one dead man with his spurs on, but ever after this when we would pass them they always cheered us, saying "There the boys that I'aughtat Rocky Face Gap."

The Few That Are Left

- w. Boyd, of Cynthiana; J no- H. Bell, (Robt. Moore-not a soldier). Sam Moore, A. G. Crumbaugh. W. Smith, Dr. Jno. Lewis, J W. Zeysings, Jesse Fite, S. B. Triplett. F. M. Snayely

DR. G. B.: BROWN, owns one of the best farms in Scott county, containing 4OO acres, lies on the Cincinnati pike about two'miles from town. It is known as the old Capt. Adam's place. Dr. Brown's father, Bedford Brown was a Virginian. He married Polly Roberts a Kentuckian. The Doctor wab one of the twelve children born to them. Dr. Brown enlisted in the Civil War as a Confederate in 1861, under Gem. Cochran, First Missouri Regiment, Company H., and served until the surrender of his regiment at Marion, Ala., in 1865. In I867 he began studying medicine until 1869; He then came to Scott county and practiced his profession. In 1878 he married Miss Katie Triplette and to this union two children were born. G. Bedford and Zelma T. Miss Zelma is considered one of Scott county's most charming and beautiful young ladies. Dr. Brown is a director in the First National Bank of Georgetown. ' '.''1

Was born near Oxford in I845, and is the son of Crawford and Sidney Ann Moore, his mother being a Risk before marriage. He married Miss Annie E. Thurman in i86g. He enlisted in 186a in the Civil war at Georgetown in Capt. James E. Cantrill's company in Morgan's cavalry, and served until 1865, when he surrendered at Washington, Ga. He has been a farmer all his life until a few years ago, when he removed to Georgetown, and has since been conducting the Moore House. Judge Cantrill never had a brother that loved him more than Sam. Moore.

MR. BOYD was born in Harrison county, married Miss Belle Levi, in 1873, ot that county. In 1862 he enlisted as a Confederate in the Civil War under Kirby Smith, in the Ninth Kentucky Calvery. He lately moved to Georgetown and engaged in the commission business of poultry and eggs with his brother-in-law, Mr. Theodore Fleming.

MR. T. H. ALLEN was born in Fayette county in 1842. He is a son of the late K$v. Buford Allen. He married Miss Elizabeth Hamilton, the only daughter of the late Col. Milt. Hamilton, and has six children, George, Mrs. J. H. Woodson, El Paso, Texas, Tom, Eleanor, Katie and Lucille, and has lived in Scott county 18 years. He has been a farmer and stock breeder all his life and gives most of his attention to the raising of Jacks. He had several Jacks that were imported from Spain. He enlis'ed in Clarke's Calvery in 1862 as a Confederate and served until July I863. On the resignation of his brother-in. law Isham Hamilton as Magistrate from the Magistrical district composed of Great Crossings, and White Sulphur, he was appointed by the County Judge, J. J. Yates, to fill the vacancy. Having moved out of the district he did not offer for re-election, al- * though he made an exceptional good officer.

JESSE FITE, was born in Harrison county, April 7th 184I, near the town now called Sunrise. When 17 years of age moved from here to Grant county, joined Morgan's command at Cyntliiana, July 18th, i862, surrendered to Gen. Hobson at Mt. Sterling, May 1st, 1865. He has been a citizen of Georgetown 17 years.

The above is a likeness of Mr. John Devers the son of Bildwin Devers who was born in Virginia, August the iOth 1792, was brought to Kentucky 1794, volunteered at Georgetown in the war of 1812, partic pated in the battle of Malden and was captu ed at the river Raisin by the Indians, was kept a prisoner three months and then sold to a Frenchman for $80 in silver and ten gallons of rum. The government released him then he served in the army until the close of the war. He then came back to Scott county, where he resided until his death in 1867. His son J. T. Devers and two brothers, William and James, volunteered at Georgetown, July i862 as confederates, participated in the Givil War. Fought in all the battles from the Ohio river to the coast of South Carolinia, surrendered at Washington, Ga., May 1865. "Uncle John" as he is familiarly called has always voted the Democrat ticket. He married Miss Rebecca Johnson, Nov. 12th 1869 in this county and had eight children all of whom are living except one. His children are William Howard, Mary Lee, Theophilus, Eleanor, John T., Ophelia, Bertha Cleveland; Ben F. di d. He resides on Cedar near White Sulphur and is one of the best citizens as well as one of the Democrats in Scott county. One of his daughters Miss Mary Lee married Mr. Smith Lucas and the other Miss Eleanor married Mr. J. W. Coyle. Both of his son-in-laws as well as his sons are farmers.

S. B. TRIPLETTE v as born in Scott county March 10th 1839, was married to Miss Caroline Roberson, May 6th, 1848. He is the son of Sinnii Triplette who married Sara Thomason, June 10th i828. S. B. Tripletie has five children, Howard Smith -Triplette who married Miss Lucy Sparks. They have two children, Winni fred and Bonaparte. Mary Parker Triplette, who married Will Summers of Kansas City, Mo., they have one child, Lentie. Frances Wood Triplette, who married Sam T. Acker of Decatur, Ind., and have four children, Doris, Sandford, Samuel and Carolyn. Dixie Triplette maraied W. Scott Yates, of Me- Loud, Oklahoma, and the son of County Judge Joe Yates. Miss Carolyne Triplette.

Enlisted in the Confederate Army at Lexington, September i862, Col. Breckinridge's balallion, was transferred in March 1863 to the Fifth Kentucky Cavalry and was made Commissary and was captured on the Ohio raid in July 5th I863 and imprisoned at Camp Douglas, and made his escape Oct. 8th. Was elected Magistrate at November election i8g7, and still holds the office. Squire Triplett resides on his farm near Stamping Ground.

They Wore The Grey 545

MR. W. SMITH was born in Owen county in 1841. His parents were E. W. Smith and Nancy Jackson. He married Miss Sue B. Moore, daughter of Samuel Moore of this county in May 23rd 1876 and moved to Scott county in 1877. He enlisted in the Civil War as a confederate Oct. 10th 1862 in the First Kentucky Cavalry under the command of Gen. Joe Wheeler and served through the war. He was a Sergeant and surrendered at Washington, Ga., April 26th I865 and arrived home May 27th of that year. He attends all the re-unions and enjoys them as much as any "Johnny Rebel" on earth. He has an elegant farm near Duvall's Station containing 215 acres on which he and his wife live comfortably and happy together, such a life as every man his age should live if possibly. He is a kind, big hearted man and if he or his wife like you, there's nothing they can do, that they do not do for their friends.

MR. ELLY BLACKBURN is one of the wealthiest, prominent and prosperous farmers in Scott county. He has one of the finest stock farms "Elkwood" situated near Great Crossings containing about 5OO acres to be found in Kentucky. It is the old Flournoy place and the house which is now standing is one of the most noted old homes in the State, having the distinction of being the first house in the county if not in the State with glass windows. Mr. Blackburn is a clever gentleman was born it this county in 1842 and a son of Dr. Churchill J. Blackburn. He attended Georgetown College but graduated in the school of B. B. Sayre at Frankfort.

He enlisted in the 1 3th Arkansas Infantry in 1862, but was transferred the following year to the 9th Kentucky Cavalry, Col. W. C. P. Breckinridge's regiment; while in the Infantry he was at Perryviile, Ky., and Murfreesboro, Tennessee; he was a member of Wheeler's Corps, and participated in the numerous engagements of the army of the Tennessee; at the Jug Tavern near Athens, Georgia, he was captured, but soon made his escape; he served until the close of the war. In 1866 he married Miss Virginia, daughter of Alexander D. Offutt, of this county, and since their union has been engaged in farming.

Mr. Blackburn for many years was breeder ol short-horns but now pays most of his attention to feeding of export cattle of which he has a large herd on his place now. He resides in Georgetown having erected one of the most comfortable and mcst beautiful homes on East Main street and goes to and from his farm daily. He has only one child living - Church - who is engaged in the grain and coal business.

JOHN S. GAINES was born in Fayette county, near the Scott county line, on March z8, 1844; he attended Georgetown College, leaving in 1861; in 1862, he enlisted in Colonel W. C. P. Breckinridge's regiment, which, under General Morgan, became the 9th Kentucky Cavalry. He participated in the operations of Kentucky and Tennessee; he was captured at Glasgow, Kentucky, where a horse was shot under him; he was sick in prison at Louisville, and Mumfordville, Ky., until April, 1863, when he was released on oath; he was but seventeen when he enlisted, and received a certificate from his superior officers previous to his capture; in 18 '>3, he returned to Fayette counjy, and the following year went to Missouri, where he remained until the close of the war; in the fall of 1869, he came to George- town, and engaged in the livery business until 1872, when he entered the grocery business, his father, O. W. Gaines, "born in Fayette County, 'Was a fanner, and died in 1847; he Was a son of F. Strother'Gaines, who came from Culpepper County, Va., and settled near Little Elkhorn, Fayette County, in 18O3, and who died in i860, aged eighty-three years; hisTathtrand grandfather were members of the Baptist church. > Z

MR. MIKE H. JlAGGARD, was born May 15th, 1842 in Clark county, Ky. He married Miss Susan B. Elliott, Feb. 18th, 1868. He has six children three boys and three girls living. Julia who married Ben S. Calvert, Alex who married Miss Anne Moore, being the daughter of Mr. Carter Moore, Mary, Aggie Richard and George being single. Mr. Haggard has always been a farmer owning a farm containing several hundred acres ol the best land in the county about four miles from town on the Cincinnati pike, part of which is the old Thos. Burbridge farm on which was raised some of the fastest thoroughbreds of the early days. Mr. Haggard served in the Civil War, from 1861 to the close in L865 under Gen. John Morgan. In i8g3 he was elected Assessor of Scott county. In 19O2 he was elected as a Mag. istrate of the county of the Magisterial District of Georgetown. In 19O5 he was elected Vice-President of the iBank of Georgetown, a position he now holds. Mr. Haggard owns a home in town and goes to and from his farm.

WILL N. OFFUTT is a farm pr and stock raiser, having a large farm of several hundred acres of the best land in Scott county, on the Paris pike. He attended college until the opening of the war, when he enlisted as a Cpnfederate and served under Morgan, until the close. In 1868 he married Miss Sue W. Ford. Mr. and Mrs. Oflutt have three children - Reuben, a faimer, Will, a physician, and M, Webb, who is now studying civil engineering. Besides owning Elmwood, a beautiful stock faym containing 9OO acres or more, he has a beautiful home in Georgetown on East Main street, and goes to and from his place; daily.

WILL A GAINES, farmey, is a representative of one of the old and prominent families; 0/ the Blue Grass Region; he was born August 9, 1840, in Fayette county, and is the Son ofQ, W- Gaines and Amelia (Smith) Gaipes, daughter of John Smith, of Clark counly. O. W. Gaines was bornjn Fayette county January 28,^816, andjdied January 1, 1847; his wife subsequently married W. G. Thompson, of Georgetown. The grandfather; pf, Will A. and F.)S, Gaines was born in Shenandoah county, Va., May 31,, 1781, and moved to Kentucky in 1803, settling, in Fayette .county. IWiJl A. owns a fine farm in Bourbon county and is quite an extensive breeder of saddle horses. During the war he served in the Ninth Kentucky Cpvalry as Sergeant Major with Col. W- C. P. Breckinridge. During his service Mr. Gaines was wounded once and twice taken prisoner,

_ . Col. Snaveley, jThos. Ewing, John Zeysing, John H. Bell and AT Crnmbaugh are all farmers, and all own fine tracts, of land. in the co.unsty. .. . . . . io 0. "j ;Jj

Land Of The Brave

N 1894 Col. John Boyd and others organized the Con- 1 I 1 federate Veteran Association of Kentucky. The ob- _ [') ject of this is the cultivation of the social relations, <> X to preserve the fraternalties of comradeship, and the unfortunate veterans, see that the families of them do not suffer and to pay respect to the remains and to the memory of those who die. The Association hold two meetings annually. One of them on the first Saturday in April and the other in October. The insignia ot the Association is "a circular design five-eights of an inch in diameter, with the medallion head of R. E. l.ee thereupon, surrounded by enamel belt, on which are oxidized stars; on the reverse, across the center, the owners name and around the circumference the name of the association." The badges are furnished free to each member. On the death ol a member the commanding officer gives the notice and the veterans attend the funeral in a body. The by-laws of the association gives the name, rank, residence and command of his own county camp.

The Scott county camp is called "George W. Johnson Camp No. 98, United Confederate Veterans." Col. A. II. Sinclair, 2nd Vice President and Commander, Judge John T. Sinclair and Col. Win. N. Offutt, Executive Committee. Col. Elly Blackburn, Adjutant.

The Selection Of Commander

The members of the organization made no mistake, so far as the George W. Johnson Camp is concerned, in selecting the officers for the Scott county camp. The selection of Col. Sinclair as the Vice-President and the Commander was ,no mistake, for he is well qualified, as his record since hh, election will show.

The Commander Capt. Abner Hoard Sinclair

Captain Abner Hoard Sinclair, of Georgetown, was born and reared in Scott county and has been a continuous resident here throughout his life with the exception of about sixteen years. When just about of age he entered the Confederate army and served for three years in one of the most famous companies of Colonel W. C. P. Breckinridge's regiment. He was with the command when it surrendered in Washington, Ga. It was this regiment that acted as the escort of Jefferson Davis and the papers of the Confederacy and which assisted in the distribution of the money to the soldiers.

Coming out of the Confederate army he engaged in the mercantile business for about a year and a half in Stamping Grounds. He then went to Paris as bookkeeper for a large dry goods house and held that position for one year. From Paris Captain Sinclair went to Frankfort, where he was chief clerk in the auditor's office under D. Howard Smith. In 1882 he came to Georgetown and was appointed clerk in the Deposit Bank and but little more than a year afterward was made the cashier of the bank. He has retained this position since that time. In 1872 Captain Sinclair married Miss Dora Johnston of Texas. Captain Sinclair has two children, Howard S. Sinclair, now engaged in the revenue business under Collector Roberts and Miss Florence Sinclair, the wife of Mr. Graddy Williams. No citizen stands higher in the community than the ex-Mayor of Georgetown. , He is known as an upright man, a brave soldier, a sterling citizen and a genial gentleman. He enjoys the esteem and friendship of all those with whom he comes in contact and is known to be a man worthy of the highest trust. During his administration as Mayor of the city of Georgetown the new $10,000 City Building was built. This building was erected upon a portion of the ground on which the old historical tavern of Kentucky stood, which in the early days was conducted by General John Pratt, and was known as ''Pratt's Hotel." A piece of walnut timber was taken from the building, out of which a beautiful gavel was made and presented to Capt. Sinclair by his friends. On the gavel was inscribed, "To the First Republican Mayor of George- town." At the close of his administration the citizens of Georgetown presented him with an elegant cut-glass wine service. The Hon. Victor F. Bradley was selected to make the presentation speech, and he did so in words that were touching, and will long be remembered by those present. The appreciation of Col. Sinclair was too great for him to make a lengthy response.

Members Of The Association

The following is a list of the members of the George W. Johnson Camp of the Confederate Veterans' Association of Kentucky, and also notices given those who have died, taken from the Fifth Edition, published by the organization in 1895, as follows:

Members Of Camp

SORN in Georgetown, July 8, 1844. Enlisted in the Army of the Confederate States at Lexington September, i862, as a private in Company E, 3d Kentucky Cavalry regiment Morgan's Command, Army of Tennessee. He was in the engagements of Hartsville, Murfreesboro, Tenn., Bardstown, Milton, Chickamauga, Knoxville, Tenn., Gallatin, Tenn., the Ohio raid and escaped capture, Missionary Ridge, Tunnell Hill, Ga., Resaca, Dug Gap, 22d July at Atlanta, at the capture of Stoneman, and was killed at Unitia, Tennessee, October gOth, 1863.

SORN in Scott county, April 20th, 183I. Enlisted in the Army of the Confederate States in Lexington, Septem* ber, i862, as a private in Company A, 9th Kentucky Cavalry Morgan's Command, Army of Tennessee. He was in the engagements at Ashland, near Lexington, Liberty, Tenn. Snow Hill, Milton, Bacon Creek, Nolin's Creek, Muldraugh's Hill, Glasgow and was captured there. Roll- ing Fork, Dug Gap, Ga , Elizabethtown, Snake Creek, Ga., Resacca, Ga., Altoona, Ga., Kennesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta Stoneman's Capture and all the engagements with Sherman's army from Atlanta to Columbia South Carolina. He was severely burned in both hands during the burning of the bridge near Columbia. He surrendered at Anderson C. H. South Carolinia in May 1865, and died at his home in Lexington, February 19, 1879.

BORN in Georgetown, November 2g, 1941. Enlisted in the Army of the Confederate States at Georgetown, in Summer of 1862, (when Morgan made his raid), in Company E, 5th Kentucky Cavalry Morgan's Command, Army of Tennessee and was elected First Lieutenant of his company. He fought at London, Mt. Sterling, Snow Hill, Greasy Creek Green River Bridge, Lebanon, Springfield, Cynthiana, The Ohio raid and was captured there, and was exchanged in 1864 and fought at Saltville, Va., Dublin Depot, Cloyd's Farm. He was captured at Mt. Sterling, and sent a prisoner to Johnson's Island, where he was held until the close of the war. He died in Georgetown, February 16, 1883. His widow and four children now reside at the old home place, on North Broadway. His children are Mrs. Chas. Davenport, Misses Margaret and Pattie and Mr. Irvin Daviess

BORN near Stamping Ground, Scott county, May nth, 1835. Enlisted in the Army of the Confederate States in Scott county, August 1862 and was elected 3d Lieutenant of Company B, 5th Kentucky Cavalry, Morgan's Command, Army of Tennessee. He was in the engagements at Perryville, Murfreesboro, Milton, Snow Hill, Greasy Creek, Green River Bridge, and severely wounded there and left a prisoner, when sufficiently recovered was sent to Johnson's Island, where he remained a prisoner until the close of the war. He died at his home near Stamping Ground, July 31, 1871.

BORN in Scott county, May 21st, 1840. Enlisted in the Army of the Confederate States at Camp Boone, Tennessee, July 1861, as a private and was later promoted to a Sergeant in Company B, 2d Kentucky Infantry, the Orphan Brigade, Breckinridge's Division, Hardee's Corps Army of Tennessee. He fought at Fort Donelson and captured there, Hartsville, Murfreesboro, Jackson, Chickamauga and wounded there, Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face Gap, the campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta and all the engagements with Sherman's army from Atlanta to Columbia, South Carolina. He surrendered at Washington, Georgia, May, i865, and died at his home in Odessa, Missouri, December 30th, 1882.

BORN in Georgetown, July 20, 1829. Enlisted in the Army of the Confederate States, at Knoxville, Tennessee in the fall of 1862 as a private in the Buckner Guards, Cleburne's Division Hardee's Corps Army of Tennessee. He fought at Murfreesboro, Tullahoma, Chickatnauga, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold Gap, Campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta, Jonesboro, Dalton, Franklin, Nashville. Was surrendered by Gen. Joseph E. Johnson at Greensboro, North Carolina, May 1, 1895. He died in Mississippi in 1866.

Those Who Have Died

Born in Harrison county, Ky., May 3O, 1834. Enlisted in the army of the Confederate States at Camp Boone, Tennessee, in July, 1861, and was elected Second Lieutenant, and in January, I864, was promoted to Captain, Company H., Second Kentucky Infantry, the Orphan Brigade, Breckinridge's division, Hardee's Corps, Army of Tennessee. He fought at Fort Donaldson and was prisoner for about seven months, was exchanged and fought at Hartsville, Murfeessboro, Jackson, Chickamuga, Missionary Ridge, campaign Chattanoogo to Atlanta, Jonesboro and the mounted engagements. He surrendered in Henry county, Kentucky, May, 1865, and died at his home in Georgetown Monday, September 3O, 1895, and is hurried in Battle Grove cemetery, Cynthiana, Ky. For many years the deceased conducted a large flouring mill situated on the Big Spring Branch, where Elijah Craig's paper mill stood. Capt. Lair was a valuable citizen, as well as a business man of Georgetown. He was a member of the Board of Trustees for years and was several times elected the Chairman. He was the father of Mr. Ben A. Lair, of the firm of Lair & Hambrick. In the death of Captain Lair, Georgetown lost a valuable business man and citizen, whose place as such has not been fiiled.

Born near Georgetown November 24, 1821. He enlisted in the army ot the Confederate States in the fall of 1862, and was commissioned Colonel of the Fifth Regiment Kentucky Cavalry September 2, 1862, and assigned to Buford's Brigade, and in February, 1863, at his own request, transferred to Morgan's Command, Army of Tennessee. He participated in the engagements of London, Ky., Mt. Sterling, Ky., Snow Hill, Tenn., Greasy Creek, Ky., Green River Bridge, Ky., Lebanon, Ky., Springfield, Ky., Cynthiana, the Ohio raid and captured there and was exchanged in March, 1864, at City Point, Va., afterward participated at Sallville, Va., Dubiln Depot, Va., Cloyd's Farm, Va. Was tendered a commission as Brigadier General but refused promotion. He surrendered at Columbus, Mississippi, May 8th, 1865, and died in Louisville July 15, 1889.

Born in Scott county, Ky., June 27, 1819. Enlisted in the army of the Confederate States at Stamping Ground, Ky., in August, 1862, and was elected Captain of Company B, Fifth Kentucky Cavaltry, Morgan's Command, Army of Tennessee. He fought at Perryville, Ky., London, Murfeesboro, Tenn., Snow Hill, Tenn., Milton, Tenn., Greasy Creek, Ky., Chickamauga, Saltville, Va., Roger's Gap, Tenn., where he was wounded, captured and paroled. He surrendered in Virginia in May, 1865, and died at his home near Stamping Ground, August 1, 1872. He was the grandfather of Messrs. George and Leonard Hambrick, two of Georgetown's young business men.

Born in Scott county February 2O, i82i. He enlisted in the army of the Confederate States at Lexington September, 1862, and was soon after apppointed A. Q. M., with rank of Major on staff of Major General John C. Breckinridge, Hardee's Corps, Army of Tennessee. He was in the engagements of Murfeesboro, Jackson, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta, Jonesboro and the campaign of Western Virginia. He surrendered at Charleston, W. Va., in May, 1865, and died at his home in Lexington December 2ist, I880.

This Spot Is Sacred

EORGETOWN has a pretty cemetery about a mile from 4 the center of the town on the Lexington pike. From the top of the hill there is a splendid view of the city stretch- , ing out before the eye of the observer in all the calmness 1 of the proud little queen that she is. See it in the sunshine and it is glorious, but rather look upon it when the shadows of the J evening fall thick and fast from the west, when the day is but^ lingering as it were upon the threshold of darkness, shuddering, vain woman that she is, to throw about her the sable robes of the , night. Look out then in the calmness of the coming twilight 1 and see its outline penciled against the grey ot the sky, like a t huge etching drawn by the hand of some gigantic wielder of the J pencil. There it is in the distance, with the bla^k smoke here^ and there hanging lazily above it and the bold outlines softened in the shadows. Far in front, seemingly far, the great white pike stretches, waving as it were, with the sinuous undulations of a 1 serpent's progress ; there the Court House raises its head; here J and here again the towering spire of some house of worship j shows above the line of houses, perhaps the stone dwelling of . some county Croesus, rich in Blue Grass acres, but come to take up his abode in town, whitens among the shadows. The sky has grown darker in the east beyond, or rather greyer. Turn upon 1 your heel and look out into the west. There, too, the grey earth is red and above the red it is golden and shade merges into shade , until at length at the top the tints seem to have grown so thin as to be transparent and the pale blue of the sky is seen through a curtain of the faintest orange. The sun is fully down and long ' dull clouds float across the band of delicate coloring like airships i shown against the fast darkening blue. Look upon the city, and ( think of the long ago when the Indian's whoop resounded and a , woman's smile was rare in the land ; think when first the prattle of the babe was heard in the wilderness and when the tender pat pat of its tiny feet first sounded upon the puncheon floor. Think 1 thus of the city. Dream of it, for you car.not see it with your, eyes riveted in the west. Think again of the city as it is today, 4 as you have seen it but a minute before, of the happiness there, . of the laughter, rose-lipped laughter, from the mouths of little children ; think of the wealth and the splendor of the homes and ot the good that is done there, of the lives made content ; contrast ' it in your mind's eye with tbe men and the town of fifty years ago, the town you cannot see as it was; the men, let your eyes 4 fall from the clouds to the earth again - those white headstones, . ghostly white in the falling twilight, mark their final resting place. There are ministers there, professors and presidents of the college, two Governors rest in this burying ground, and others * sleep there whose names are not known to fame, the hard work- < ing, honest, upright, sterling citizens, who make the State what 1 it is and preserve in their honors the men whom they have . elevated to the positions that they hold.

OME twenty acres of Blue Grass land was bought up in i860 and converted into a city burying ground . The old cemetery had been filled up, and there was an urgent need for a new place for the burial of the dead. So number of citizens banded themselves together and raised enough money to purchase the land, paying $zoo an acre for it. Stock was subscribed by citizens, and it was never intended that the place should be a money making scheme. The lots are sold at the rate of twenty-five cents the square foot, and it is from the sale of lots that the revenue of the cemetery is derived. Prof. J. J. Rucker is the President of the company, and T. C. Bell is Secretary and Treasurer.

HE cemetery is placed in rolling ground , which dips to a < central depression, in which there is an entrance, or* rather a small opening leading to a cave in the under ground. The cemetery is planted with pine, spruce and hemlock trees, and many kinds of shrubbery. In the southern end of the grounds is the family tomb of the Richards, which.

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calls to mind the name of Keene Richards, than which no name was better known in the early days of blooded horses in Ken. tucky. The old monument is a square piece of stonework, surmounted by a sort of pyramid of stone. The letters are almost worn with age and scarcely discipherable, yet the close observer will see that it does not bear the name of Keene Richards, but rather the names of several older members of the family, who are by no means so well known, although Keene Richards is buried there. Keene Richards is well known to those who have heard with care the history of the horse industry in Kentucky. Traveling in Europe when but a boy, he visited the various countries of the Old World, and examined in each their breeds of horses. From Arabia on his return to America he brought with him samples of the blooded stock of the desert and he became widely known as the owner of many famous horses which were the produce of these. Not far from here is the grave of Governor Robison, who died October i, 1883, and beside him rests the remains of his wife. Low square blocks of granite mark their graves.

OWARDS the center of the cemetery is the grave of 4 I Governor Joseph Desha, recently moved into the cemetery. "To his memory and in honor of his public services the monument is erected over his grave by order of the General Assembly of Kentucky." This inscription, on one face of the monument, scarcely fifteen feet high, and severely plain as moderns see it, tells how gravely, how simply and yet with what dignity the members of a General Assembly of fifty years ago could commend to the recollection of posterity the good deeds of a servant of the public. On the three sides of the monument there is a brief history of the man carved in the stone, and that is all. There stands the simple white monument, under the shadows of the pines, a silent reminder of the past, and a past in striking contrast to the turbulence of the present.

Confederate Monument

N the corner of the cemetery nearest to the town there is 11 the monument to the Confederate dead. A tribute to the memory of the deeds of the men it is true, but just as much a tribute to the tender goodness of the women of Scott, who, cherishing the recollection of the South in their bosoms as women do, set about them and raised the money for the erection of a monument to the memory of the soldiers of the lost cause. In the center of eighteen graves is the monument, and eighteen tiny white crosses of wood stand at the head of the graves that have no stone to mark them individually. On the s.de of the monument is a bronze plate and moulded in its face is the likeness of a sword and a gun, and a flag-staff broken. This tells the story, but not all of it. It does not tell of the removal of the eight Confederate soldiers from the old burying ground to the new, in spite of the commands of General Bunbridge, and how the old "rebels" assembled from all the counties round about with a grim determination to see that the removal was made and their wishes carried out. It tells not of the long procession up the hill and the quiet day, which would have been one of bloodshed had not these men been permitted to do with their dead comrades as they themselves had willed. But these things are past and were better not recalled. The Confederate monument stands there, looking towards the town, a fitting tribute to the dead, and the dead rest about it as their comrades wished. Did it speak nothing save the kind wishes of the women of Scott for the men who marched in tattered grey, it has accom- ' plished a glorious mission. And so, out there upon the hill, the dead rest peacefully, almost looking down upon the living town. They are sleeping there underneath the pines, resting in the earth that gave them birth. They will rest there forever, hidden beneath the sod, unless perhaps when the moon is bright upon the headstones, and the night is as calm as an infant's sleep, they creep out from their graves to look upon their children in the town and silently bless them. - Lexington Herald.

Burials Of Old Citizens

The death rate in Scott county among the old residents is increased each year for the past five years until the numfer left is few and far between. The list found below is not he complete list, but of those buried in Georgetown cemetery. In 1900 there were 28 died w'ho were over 70 years old; in 1901 27 over 75 years; in 1902, 24; in 1903, 27 over 70 years; in 1904, 30 over 70 years-

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Below will be found several notices printed in 1820 to 1833, These notices were printed on small strips of common newspaper, two inches wide and six to nine inches long. The outinesof a coffin appeared on some of them, while others had ust a mere border. The paper upon which tlipy were printed was no doubt manufactured in Georgetown. The notices just is they were worded appear as follows:

IJOt><KK)00<>0<K>0 0<K>0000<KX)<K)(M>(>000<>000<) p YOURSELF and Family are requested to attend the p X funeral of FRANCIS S. GAINES, infant Son of Mr. X 9 Oliver W. Gaines, from his residence on Main-street, at 9

Jd YOURSELF and family are requested to attend the E. interment of the remains of GARLAND, the infant son of k, Mr. John Richardson, at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. W

YOURSELF and Family are requested to attend the interment of the remains of Miss ELIZABESH TALBOTT, 2 this evening at the Seminary. Rev. B. W. Stone will preach W a funeral sermon at the residence of her mother, Mrs. M Jane Talbott, at 1 o'clock P. M. T

Yourself and Family are requested to attend the burial (y ® of the remains of Mrs. MARY CLARKE, (late consort of ® Mr. William Clarke,) this evening at 4 o'clock. - A Fun- S' eral Sermon will be preached at the Baptist Meeting- ry ing house. - June 11. 1832. ®

* YOURSELF and family are requested to attend the funeral sermon of Mrs. POLLY STORY, at 2 o'clock this afternoon at the Christian (fleeting House.