These are wonderful. Thanks Sandi. Mona ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandi Gorin" <sgorin@glasgow-ky.com> To: <SOUTH-CENTRAL-KENTUCKY@rootsweb.com> Cc: <KYBARREN@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 10:38 AM Subject: [KYBARREN] TIDBITS FROM THE PAST > Sioux County Herlad, Orange City, IA, Wednesday, 23 Nov 1892, p. 2. > > "In Hiding for Thirty Years. Glasgow, KY., special: The Barris and > Gillock families will hold a reunion to welcome a member of the > family thought to be dead thirty years and whose absence marks thirty > years of hiding to avoid, as he believed, an ignomiuious [sic] death. > In the latter part of 1860 H C Barris married Celia Gillock. Soon > after he enrolled in the Confederate army, and not long after was > captured and taken to the military prison at Louisville. Confinement > was too much for the mountaineer, and he made a desperate effort to > escape, succeeding after killing a guard. From that day Barris was > never heard of until a few days ago. He suddenly returned to the > city, was remarried to the wife of his youth, and saw for the first > time his son, now himself a man of a family." > > Titusville Herald, Titusville, PA, Tuesday, 17 July 1894, p. 2. "A > Family Quarrel Settled. Louisville, Ky., July 16. - A special to the > Post from Glasgow, Ky., says: Bedford Sanders shot and probably > fatally wounded George Coomer yesterday at Horse Wells, this county. > The women of the two families had indulged in a shooting affray, but > as no serious damage was done, the men had agreed to let the matter > drop. They got into a discussion over the affair, however, and the > shooting followed It is thought Coomer will die." > > The women got into a shooting match??? Hmmm ... 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 Puzzlers: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > KYBARREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >