===================================================================== Match: Boles Source: SOUTH-CENTRAL-KENTUCKY@rootsweb.com From: Sandi Gorin <sgorin@glasgow-ky.com> Subject: [SCKY] STROLL AROUND GLASGOW & BARREN CO - PART 1 Sorry to be late on this! On the opposite side of this stone, which is some five feet tall, by two feet deep and wide, in shape of a rectangular parallelepiped, we find this: "To the memory of Christopher Tompkins, Sr. Born Mar 24, 1780, Died August 9, 1858. In this house, Judge Tompkins taught a school of law. Some time later between 1850 and 1860, this same house was converted by one Mr. P. B. Hawkins into a boarding school for young ladies. Afterwards it was bought by and was the home of Judge John S. Bohannon; after this it was the home of Lucien Carden. The house on Wayne Street, owned by Chas. Warder, is one of our oldest homes; at one time known as the Ed Evans Tavern, at the front door of which stopped the old time stage coach, with much noise and many a flourish. There it was where Marshal Warder lived and died. The home of J. H. Mitchell on Maple Driveway is said to have been built by John Terry. Mr. Terry married in 1833 Mary Jane Moss, a daughter of one of Glasgow's earliest "Tavern Keepers", Josiah Moss. This place was then the home of Samuel Murrell and then of James P. Garnett, who married Mr. Murrell's daughter. The home of Ernest Warder, a short distance out the same street, built by William Ellis, was afterwards the home of George Ellis who was said to have been the work of the town's old-time and much sought after carpenter, Samuel Harbison who built for the future. The home of Dr. A. T. Botts was built by Wilbourn Bybee, on Green Street or Maple Driveway, for years the home of James B. Martin. The home of Will Warder on Cleveland Ave., was the Zion R. Huggins home, where he built his log house about 1830 and as with his growing family prosperity came; added the weatherboarding. Would we tear this away there would remain the original logs. William Everett married in 1812, built his home, also of logs, on the highest point in the town, afterwards building the brick house which was torn away about 1873-74 when the Baptists of the Liberty Association bought the grounds for their college, now the Glasgow Graded and High School. "The Mud House," ancestor of stucco houses in this section, known to later generations as the Anderson Wooten home, attractive for its peculiar shape aside from the material from which it was built, was erected seventy five years or more ago by one Mr. D. C. Nutting, who taught school through the week and built on his house with the held of his boy students on Saturdays. The first house on the lot where Charles Shader lives, on Cleveland Ave., probably part of the old house is still standing, was built by John Mayfield, Sr. and is one of the oldest homes in town. Mr. Mayfield also built the hotel about the middle of Green Street, on the Public Square, known as the Moss Hotel. The hotel on the corner of Washington and Race Streets where the Christian Church now stands was built by a very early citizen, John Matthews. This was for a long time known as the "Maupin House" and its proprietor for years was Glasgow's famous hostler, Buck Maupin. In 1865 Judge S. H. Boles moved from Burkesville to Glasgow and took charge of it, and afterwards it was run by Joseph Garnett and others. On Cleveland Avenue, the place now the home of Claud Goad, was the residence of James P. Bates, one of the numerous, very excellent lawyers, who added to the fame of this "big little city." This was also the home of Dr. T. C. Purcell from 1856 to about 1910, whose friends said of him, as he made his visits on horseback, that he "carried his religion in his saddle-pockets." The home of Trabue Rogers was the home of Mr. T. M. Dickey. Mr. W. F. Evans came from Virginia to Allen County; from there to Barren County. His home was in the suburbs, where Sunset Lane connects with Old and Lower Bowling Green Road, now Cleveland Avenue. This home was burned about 1885. There was a row of cedar trees bordering the long walk from the front gate to the house on the left side of which Mrs. Evans' famous strawberry bed. She said, as they moved here they passed through a section where wild strawberries were ripe and filled the air with their appetizing fragrances and she, ever known for her thrift alighted from the wagon and secured enough plants for the foundation of a "patch." The Ritter home just beyond the bridge on the Burkesville Road, quite a mile from the Courthouse, and yet is said on a still day John W. Ritter, Esq. could hear a summons to Court when his friend, Richard Garnett, called. The house on East Main Street, home of the Norris Bros., now, was built of brick by Wm. T. Bush and was bought by John Lewis, Sr., for his son, Joseph H. Lewis. Lewis was afterwards General, and he lived until after the death of the wife and mother. It then became the home of Maj. Preston H. Leslie, who was prominent in public life of his church and town; was elected Governor of Kentucky from 1871 to 1875, serving a longer term than any Governor since 1804. He was appointed Territorial Governor of Montana in 1885. There he spent the declining years of his life. This house was then bought and became the home of Flem Page. He added an upper story and had the whole structure weatherboarded. John R. Sampson lived on Race Street. His home was the house remodeled by John (Jack) Lewis, Jr., about 1885 who made his home there until his death. Mr. Sampson, another of our lawyers noted for ability, was elected to the Court of Appeals in 1869, and with his partner, I. W. Edwards, left here. Mr. Edwards was for almost twenty years Judge of the Louisville Chancery Court. Judge Sampson made his home in Frankfort. These two men were brothers-in-law. The Wm. Bettersworth home on North Green Street is still standing. This was the home of Dr. W. A. Williams. The house is of brick, and is now the home of Miss Ellen Ford. The house on Washington Street, the home of Richard Bethel in the years following the Civil War, was built by a Mr. Settle in the early days, who had, nearby, a gun shop. Occasionally, now, we find a gun with the name "Settle" on it. The double brick house on West Main Street when the Farmers Union Building now stands, was built by a Mr. Harrison, who had a saddle shop on the corner now occupied as a fruit store. This property formerly embraced the whole block. The side of the grounds facing North Liberty Street was filled with a number of apple trees, such a "Father Abraham" and others of like ilk, gnarled and olden. This was owned from 1850 to 1870 by "Buck" Dearing. To be continued soon! Sandi SCKY Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky Barren Co Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybarren Sandi's Website: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/ Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html