My friends - Today, we are turning to another of the inimitable essays written by the late Dr. Gordon Wilson in his little book, "Fidelity Folks". Dr. Wilson was born in Fidelity in Calloway County - more commonly known as New Concord - and raised there in the late 19th and early 20th century, as the son of Dr. Marquis Pillow("Mark") Wilson. His father was a physician, and Gordon went on to earn his doctorate in English and to become head of the English Department at Western Kentucky University, where he taught for many years. One of the most frequent subjects of inquiry which I receive is about Brandon's Mill in Calloway County. There has always been a great deal of interest in this landmark of the county, and it was no less interesting to Dr. Wilson, as it is the subject of the essay in today's posting. As is now customary, there will be no data posts tomorrow or on the weekend. If time permits, I may drop by with a miscellaneous file offering. I also will be making an informational posting next week concerning certain matters related to future postings and other administrative items. -B +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ BRANDON'S MILL -Dr. A. Gordon Wilson "Fidelity Folks" Down toward Tennessee River, a little to the left of the road, stood, and had stood since the very earliest days of the Jackson Purchase as the home of white men, a water mill that became for us an institution. It had formerly been a pretentious thing, with a sawmill, a grist mill, a cotton gin, and a flour mill, all in one. Long before I grew up, cotton had ceased to be a farm crop in our area, and the old flour mill had got in bad repair, but the sawmill and the grist mill continued until the old structure was cleared away before the advancing waters of the great Kentucky Lake. On Saturdays the grist mill received all the attention of the miller, for people for miles around wanted the good meal that only water mills could grind. Formerly there had been several mills on Blood River, but all had disappeared by the time I was old enough to be interested in them. The old mill ponds remained as good fishing places, especially the one at Mill Jimmy's, just above the mouth of Panther Creek. Even after Bud Smith installed his steam-power grist mill in his shedroom at the blacksmith shop, many people preferred to take their corn the several miles to Brandon's Mill, particularly the corn that was to be baked into hoecakes, or corn pones, or muffins. Going to mill was nearly as great as going to town. One was likely to see fewer people, but with these few he was thrown intimately for several hours, while his turn and those of others were going slowly through the mill. The typical turn was a two-bushel sack of shelled corn thrown across a horse's back and used as a saddle. After the grinding, the sack was still full even though the miller had taken out his eighth as toll. Riding home was easier, for a bag of meal makes a good saddle. A more pretentious trip was made in a farm wagon, when two or three neighbors sent their corn by some half-grown boy. With a half dozen sacks to be ground, we could count on staying all day. There were many things that one could do at the mill. It was always great sport to watch the miller with his "thumb of gold," as Chaucer says, feel the meal as it poured out and adjust whatever machinery was necessary to keep the meal the same texture that his practiced fingers knew was just right for his customers. Tiring of watching the miller, we could wander over the rambling old millhouse and wonder at the uses of the abandoned machinery of the cotton gin and the flour mill. We could go out on the catwalk that connected the grist mill side with the sawmill side and watch the water racing over the dam, carrying, in the fall, whole fleets of colored leaves. Sometimes the miller would let us take the canthook and push drift over the dam. Sometimes, also, we imagined ourselves raftsmen or flatboatmen and used the logs and brush to illustrate the best methods of reaching New Orleans with our rafts or arks. Inside the mill we played Odd and Even with grains of corn or ate raw meal with a zest that only growing boys have. Since I have been thoroughly grown, I have tried to eat raw corn meal and have decided that I had as well starve as try it again. In summer we waded in the shallow water below the dam or went in a-washing around the bend where we could not be seen, for in those days bathing suits had not yet arrived. The mill always drew us back, as machinery in any form always fascinated us. The old mill had one thing that I wish I owned - a toll cup made into a bucket-like shape by cutting off a section of a cypress knee and fitting a bottom into one end. This cup was used so long that it was worn as smooth as some Oriental wood. Another thing that I would like to have is the two original millstones, which had been cut out of the stone right near the mill itself. Two men, so said tradition, had spent the better part of three months in quarrying the stones, rounding them off, and chiseling in the burrs. Later on, millstones from the East took the place of these primitive ones. All of my childhood they were piled up to form a stileblock for those who brought their turns of corn on horseback. A cousin of mine has them now at the county seat, in a slap-dash museum of things that pertain to the earlier days in our county. The fishes that swim over the site of the old mill will be too dumb to know what a great part that area had in keeping us supplied with food and lumber and cotton in the older times. I am a little afraid that only a very few creatures like me will even stop to shed a tear of remembrance for a passing institution like Brandon's Mill. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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My friends - Pursuant to my pledge to keep the lists advised concerning maps of the region, I am happy to report that duplicating masters have now been created for the large KY Geologic Society maps which were created in the 1920-1931 time frame, and are, therefore, ready for copying for those who have an interest in them. I have created a web page which has the map descriptions and ordering information, which can be found here: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygraves/KentuckyCountyMaps.htm So far, I have located maps for Ballard, Carlisle, Calloway, Graves, Fulton, Hickman, Marshall, McCracken, Todd, Christian, Lyon, Livingston, Caldwell, Hopkins, Logan, Warren, and Crittenden counties in western Kentucky. Those who are interested in the area known as the Land Between the Rivers(today known as The Land Between the Lakes) will be able to see the area before it became a national park, with the forced eviction of the inhabitants, on the Trigg, Lyon and Livingston maps. I also included the 1880 Proctor rectangular survey map of the JP region on the web site, in the event that someone may be need a copy of that item. I believe it is possible that I may have a few more maps of various counties in Kentucky in storage, but, for now, the above is the current inventory. The time I would normally have spent on preparing a data posting for today was used in getting the web site prepared and ready to go. Tomorrow, we will have another selection from Dr. Gordon Wilson. -B ====================================================================

My friends - I am dropping by today to say that I have converted two more of the files which I have on the old 5" floppies, and they are ready for distribution. There were two Parker cemeteries in Calloway County which had to have grave removals performed at the time, in the late 1930's and early 1940's, when the TVA began its work on the Kentucky dam projects. I have combined both cemeteries into one file, although the contents of each are given separately. The first Parker Cemetery had 33 known graves and the removal process was completed in September of 1942. Most of the burials in this cemetery are for people with the surname Parker, but there are a few others with surnames of Donelson, Morris and Elkins. The other Parker Cemetery also had removal operations completed in September of 1942. It had 58 known burials, with, again, most of the burials for people with the surname Parker. There were also a few burials for individuals with the surname of Dyer, Lyons, Collins, Moore and Cook. Subscribers can obtain the file containing these two cemeteries by sending a request directly to me. Please ask for the "Parker File". The file is available in rich text format and Adobe PDF format. The file will be sent as a rich text attachment to an e-mail message unless PDF is specified. The file is not available in plain text or can it be sent in the body of an e-mail message. The complete file will be sent. Time constraints do not permit me to go into the file and extract information about individuals who may be shown in the material. I hope all will have a pleasant Labor Day holiday. -B ====================================================================

My friends - Last month, I had committed to giving a report to the JP List, and the county lists which I host, concerning the 1920's era county maps which I have had in storage, after such time as I was able to inventory them to see exactly what was present in the collection. I have now completed the inventory. For the JP region, I have maps in the 1921-1929 period for Ballard, Carlisle, Calloway, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Marshall and McCracken counties - that is, all eight counties comprising the Jackson Purchase region. I also found that I have other maps for the same period covering Trigg, Caldwell, Lyon, Livingston, Warren, Hopkins, Crittenden, Christian, Todd and Logan counties - which are most of the counties in the western part of Kentucky, although these latter ones do not fall into the JP region. My thought at this point is to create a web site showing each of the available maps and their general contents and provide ordering information in that fashion. Some of the maps are in a fragile condition and care will have to be taken when duplicating masters are created. I might consider putting a PayPal option on the web site if there is any interest in using that route to speed up the process. It seems to have become a very popular utility. I will supply county libraries a gratis copy of their county map upon request. Over the next week or so, I will begin having duplicating masters made of the those maps for which one has not yet been produced. Those of you who have an interest in one or more of these maps can drop me a note off-list, so that I can better determine how many actual copies may be needed. Unless problems occur in creating duplicating masters from those originals which are fragile, the costs should remain constant with what we have been seeing - $12.00 for a single map, $21.00 for two, $30.00 for three, etc.(i.e., $9.00 for each map beyond the first). Some postage costs can be saved by sending multiple copies in a single mailing tube. I probably should say again that I am not attempting to generate any profit on these maps, but I do try to cover my costs in creating the masters, duplicating the maps on archival paper and postage and mailing tubes. I've been asked numerous times why these maps cannot be placed online. The primary difficulty is their size. Most of them range in size from 2 feet by 2 feet up to 3 feet by 3 feet. A special plotting scanner would be necessary to create a digital image of each map, and each image would be huge and generally not very workable for us genealogists, especially if one wanted to print the image. It would probably require 15 or 20 "pieces" that would have to be printed and then taped together in some fashion. Reducing the size of the original map before creating a digital image is not really an option because of the loss of detail and the inability to read the place names. And I think, too, that most of us genealogists like to use the full size maps. I much prefer them myself. That is the latest on the map situation for now, and I will continue to update the lists as I begin to get the web site up and items listed. -B ====================================================================

My friends - Today's posting is a narrative put together from several sources by the late Thomas Richard Holland, in a private publication of which he published about a hundred copies in 1988. The work, "The Holland and Keys Families", deals with the ancestry and family history of those two noted Calloway County families. In the early years of the 20th century, a tragedy occurred involving these families, when Sheriff Lafayette Walter Holland shot and killed Hardy Grizzard Keys(son of Isaac & Mildred Curd Keys). It created harsh feelings of such magnitude that it reached the level of a feud in some aspects. My late grandmother well remembered the shooting, the subsequent trials and the difficulties between the families. Interestingly, my first doctor as a child here in Texas was the nephew of Hardy Grizzard Keys. The difficulty ended some years later when a member of the Keys family married a member of the Holland family. There are still those living today, however, who recall hearing, from their parents, about "The Keys-Holland Feud". It is an interesting and tragic part of the history of Calloway County. Tom Holland, in his work, mentioned that, in the middle 1980's, while visiting Murray City Cemetery, a discussion arose between some people present about the Keys-Holland Feud and they spoke of it as if it had happened only recently. The narrative below is not presented, by the way, to encourage discussion of the pros and cons of the event, but merely as an historical aside. As is now customary, there will be no data posts tomorrow or on the weekend. However, if time permits, I will return with a miscellaneous file offering. -B ==================================================================== THE KEYS ­ HOLLAND FEUD -“The Holland & Keys Families” Thomas Richard Holland Sometime during the early evening hours of Friday, February 6, 1903, Hardy Grizzard Keys left home to visit the site of a new large home he was erecting near the downtown area (today the location of the Parking Lot of the Methodist Church). As far as can be ascertained, Hardy Keys, after leaving home picked up a newspaper (Murray Ledger), then was never seen alive by any person who could tell his side in the "incident" which followed. His daughter, Sadie (age 16) had been sent by her Mother to find Hardy - and she heard the shots and picked up a newspaper with a bullet hole therein (which remained in her family for many years). At any event, at 9 PM, Hardy Keys was shot by Sheriff Walter Holland and died thereafter. There was an open knife found near Keys' body; Holland claiming that Keys "ran at him with a knife." Holland admitted pulling his pistol and shooting Keys, only one of two shots fired, hitting him in the stomach, which, as said above, proved fatal. Since there were no eye witnesses to the incident - the only persons present being in a Law Office located across the street from the Court House, much credence was given to Holland's story. Inside the office where the meeting was being held (probably concerning the forthcoming election) were several of Walter Holland's friends. The meeting was probably related to the possibility of electing Holland's candidate for Circuit Judge(Keys was supporting another candidate for the post). It is said that Keys became upset about the meeting because he had not been notified of same. According to Holland, Keys became abusive when Holland left the meeting briefly to challenge Keys outside the room, calling Holland a "G­- D--- Liar." Keys' wife and daughter both testified that Keys never used swear words. Hardy Keys died after the shooting without regaining consciousness, and was buried three days later (February 9, 1903) in the Murray Cemetery, under the auspices of Mattil & Effinger Funeral Home. During the days immediately following the shooting, most of the information published confirmed without question that Walter Holland was a great "hero" and had only acted to save his own life from the "dastardly" Hardy Keys, who had let his temper get the best of him. This was the story presented by Walter Holland and his friends and they attempted to have the matter dropped with this information. The Paducah Sun (February 7, 1903) reported: "According to reliable reports politics had brought about ill feelings between the two men and, meeting there last night, a quarrel resulted from a political disagreement on about and discussion of a settlement of some kind. "It is stated that Keys drew his knife and was making for the Sheriff when the latter drew his pistol and fired twice, only one shot taking effect, that wounding Keys in the stomach and producing almost instant death. "The knife was picked up near the spot where the victim fell. There are few eye witnesses to the tragedy and Sheriff Holland, it seems to be the general opinion, shot in self-defense and was not arrested. "The dead man was a nephew of the Hon. Ben C. Keys, a prominent populist politician who has several times run for Congress. He is also a Brother of John Keys, County Clerk and editor of the Murray Ledger. "Sheriff Holland is well-known in this section. He is alleged to have killed several men in discharge of his duty, one being a short time ago when he killed a negro who resisted him on the streets of Murray. He was formerly Marshall at Murray and then killed a man previously to that time while a guard at the Eddyville Penitentiary. "He always shot in self-defense, according to the coroner's juries, and is a very popular man, while the dead man (Keys) also has many friends. "One man at Murray stated over the telephone this afternoon that there were not half dozen words spoken and that Keys ran into the Sheriff with a knife and was shot, and that is all there is to it!" BUT, that was not all there was to it! The Keys family retained the services of two well-known attorneys to represent their interests (William Reed of Paducah, and Sam Crossland of Mayfield), and the Holland family retained the firm of Coleman-Linn & Son of Murray. 2-19-1903 An Examining Trial was held at which the attorney for Keys caused to be issued a WARRANT CHARGING MURDER (Thus all the State's attorneys were on the Keys side in prosecuting Holland.) 2-24-1903 Justice Swan discharged Holland, deciding that the shooting of Keys was "self-defense." Thus the case is ended - until Grand Jury meets. 4 -20-1903 The Grand Jury indicted Holland for manslaughter. Holland posted Bond. 8-10-1903 Case continued until next term of court. 11-20-1903 Holland side moved to dismiss on grounds: "illegal drawing of the Grand Jury which returned the indictment." Judge overruled and set trial for next term of court. 4-15-1904 Kentucky State's Attorney Daniel F. Smith of Cadiz, requested a `change of venue' saying that the State could not get a fair trial at Murray. It was considered `most unusual' for the State to request a Change of Venue! 4-21-1903 Change of Venue was granted - but the site not selected. It is interesting to note that "Holland is represented by Attorneys Garnett (who replaced Linn & Son), and Coleman, "and several others." (all well-known.) The Prosecution (Keys side) is represented by Commonwealth Attorney Denny Smith, Sam Crossland, William Reed, and Judge Simms of Cadiz. 6-28-1904 The case was moved to Benton, Kentucky, and in a surprise move, Attorney for Keys agreed the motion to dismiss the case (as requested by the Holland side) on November 20, 1903. This was done, and a new Charge of Willful Murder was issued - the result of a Grand Jury hearing held in Marshall County, since the Keys side claimed that the Holland Family had too much "pull" in Calloway County. Holland got a continuance of the trial, however, he was required to post a $5,000 bond. 9-24-1903 Holland and Keys affair reset for March, 1905 term of court. 3-17-1905 Trial started today - Judge Brown presiding. Holland side presented a `surprise" witness, George M. Cox of Clinton, who testified that he saw the killing. He said he saw Holland and Keys "ten feet apart - and heard Keys say: `you are a G­D--- Liar', and saw Holland fire two shots." Cox said he ran from the scene when Keys fell. Under cross examination he stated he had told no one about this, however, he stuck to his guns on what he said he saw. Holland called two `expert' witnesses - Professor C.M. Lieb, Superintendent of Schools at Paducah; and Mr. James Wilcox, a well­ known Civil Engineer, stated that the angle of the bullet entering Keys' body showed that "He was stretching back in an attempt to stab Holland." Actually, the bullet entered Keys' body at an angle (from a higher level). The bullet exited Key's body four inches lower than it entered. At any event, it was a hotly contested trial! 3-2-1905 WALTER HOLLAND GIVEN FIVE YEARS! Paducah Sun. "The Jury in the case against Walter Holland of Murray, returned a verdict this morning finding the defendant guilty of manslaughter and fixing the penalty at five years in the penitentiary. Plea for a new trial filed. 3-29-1905 The motion for a new trial was overruled - and Sheriff Holland was placed in jail to await a Decision by the Court of Appeals, no bail being allowed in this instance! 4-1-1905 A New Trial was granted - Holland was placed under $6,000 bond - and released from jail and he returned to his home in Murray. 3-6-1906 Trial was held with much the same testimony. 3-23-1906 SHERIFF HOLLAND WAS ACQUITTED OF THE MURDER OF HARDY KEYS. FACTS: Mrs. Hardy Keys sent her eldest daughter, Sadie, to "fetch" Hardy, since he was late coming home to supper. Sadie went by the new house under construction, however, her father was not there. She was about to return to her home when she heard some shots from downtown (about two blocks away) so she went there. When she arrived near the courthouse, she saw her father on the sidewalk in a pool of blood. There was a newspaper near him, which she picked up - and later noted that this paper had a bullet hole therein. This was later introduced in the trial of Holland. Sadie Holland did not see any knife near the body of her father (and she later testified this). Both her mother (Long Keys) and Sadie also testified to the fact that, in all the years they spent with Hardy Keys - HE NEVER EITHER OWNED OR CARRIED A KNIFE! Thus the evidence strongly indicates that Walter Holland had what is now referred to as a "throw down" (or "throw away"), which is an instrument, (knife, pistol, etc.,) which is tossed to the ground near an innocent victim by a murderer. Lona Keys lived to the age of 90; and Sadie Keys Holland to 79; and in all those years neither was ever accused of telling a falsehood, therefore, their testimony about the absence of a knife, plus the statements they made to the court about the fact that Hardy Keys was never known to use profanity, seems to incontestably refute testimony given by Walter Holland and his cronies at the several trials. It is most difficult for this writer, who is a Keys-Holland, to take a stand in this issue, however, I must comment that most of the families involved attempted to quiet the waves of animosity which swept Calloway County after the event. There were very few exceptions to this on both sides. Great tragedies seemed to overtake both families - both Walter and a son committed suicide - Lona Keys' two sons-in-law met early deaths, etc. The following seems to sum up the matter, once and for all. "The trial of Lafayette Walter Holland, my great uncle, portrays a two-family tragedy. Once such a tragedy happens, events and circumstances are frozen in time, but relationships of friends, families, and descendants are not. These two families, the Holland and Keys, of Calloway County, Kentucky, have long forgotten, forgiven, and overcome this inglorious event, and today it is unlikely that anyone remembering this event could be found. "I, Mary H. Holland, was brought into this world by a Keys, Dr. Benjamin Butler Keys, our family physician; and his wife Polly, as she was known by many, was my mother's good friend. The daughter of Hardy Keys married on of the Holland family members, and I, myself, worked in the Keys-Houston Clinic, Murray, Kentucky, for six years. "This work is, indeed, a tribute to both families who were victims of misfortune, to the generations who followed them, and to those now living." circa 1980s. Mary Holland Lancaster The End of a Faction And now a word concerning the Keys-Holland faction. It would doubtless have gone on for generations if the children of many involved had not very wisely decided that they wouldn't allow it to interfere with established friendships. Pardon a personal reference. My father was a close friend of Mr. Holland and was on his Bond. But I continued to have social contact with all the Keys children of my generation and Will Keys, the son of Judge Butler Keys, was my closest boyhood friend. May I relate another incident that to me is heart warming, which Prentice Holland told me several years before his death. He said that sometime after the tragedy Mr. John Keys came to him and told him that regardless what might happen, he wanted Prentice to know that he never had a better friend than his father and that he loved him like a brother. (Note: John Keys was Hardy Keys' brother.) Prentice told his Mother of the conversation. His mother verified the statement and told Prentice that his father died after a lingering illness and that Mr. Keys came and nursed him night after night. Prentice's father was Bruce Holland, a brother of Walter Holland. Yes, we outgrew it, thanks to the wise decision of the second generation. Thank the Lord! Source: Dr. McElrath's Murray by Hugh M. McElrath (1964) pp 36-37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

My friends - Today's posting is a narrative put together from several sources by the late Thomas Richard Holland, in a private publication of which he published about a hundred copies in 1988. The work, "The Holland and Keys Families", deals with the ancestry and family history of those two noted Calloway County families. In the early years of the 20th century, a tragedy occurred involving these families, when Sheriff Lafayette Walter Holland shot and killed Hardy Grizzard Keys(son of Isaac & Mildred Curd Keys). It created harsh feelings of such magnitude that it reached the level of a feud in some aspects. My late grandmother well remembered the shooting, the subsequent trials and the difficulties between the families. Interestingly, my first doctor as a child here in Texas was the nephew of Hardy Grizzard Keys. The difficulty ended some years later when a member of the Keys family married a member of the Holland family. There are still those living today, however, who recall hearing, from their parents, about "The Keys-Holland Feud". It is an interesting and tragic part of the history of Calloway County. Tom Holland, in his work, mentioned that, in the middle 1980's, while visiting Murray City Cemetery, a discussion arose between some people present about the Keys-Holland Feud and they spoke of it as if it had happened only recently. The narrative below is not presented, by the way, to encourage discussion of the pros and cons of the event, but merely as an historical aside. As is now customary, there will be no data posts tomorrow or on the weekend. However, if time permits, I will return with a miscellaneous file offering. -B ==================================================================== THE KEYS ­ HOLLAND FEUD -“The Holland & Keys Families” Thomas Richard Holland Sometime during the early evening hours of Friday, February 6, 1903, Hardy Grizzard Keys left home to visit the site of a new large home he was erecting near the downtown area (today the location of the Parking Lot of the Methodist Church). As far as can be ascertained, Hardy Keys, after leaving home picked up a newspaper (Murray Ledger), then was never seen alive by any person who could tell his side in the "incident" which followed. His daughter, Sadie (age 16) had been sent by her Mother to find Hardy - and she heard the shots and picked up a newspaper with a bullet hole therein (which remained in her family for many years). At any event, at 9 PM, Hardy Keys was shot by Sheriff Walter Holland and died thereafter. There was an open knife found near Keys' body; Holland claiming that Keys "ran at him with a knife." Holland admitted pulling his pistol and shooting Keys, only one of two shots fired, hitting him in the stomach, which, as said above, proved fatal. Since there were no eye witnesses to the incident - the only persons present being in a Law Office located across the street from the Court House, much credence was given to Holland's story. Inside the office where the meeting was being held (probably concerning the forthcoming election) were several of Walter Holland's friends. The meeting was probably related to the possibility of electing Holland's candidate for Circuit Judge(Keys was supporting another candidate for the post). It is said that Keys became upset about the meeting because he had not been notified of same. According to Holland, Keys became abusive when Holland left the meeting briefly to challenge Keys outside the room, calling Holland a "G­- D--- Liar." Keys' wife and daughter both testified that Keys never used swear words. Hardy Keys died after the shooting without regaining consciousness, and was buried three days later (February 9, 1903) in the Murray Cemetery, under the auspices of Mattil & Effinger Funeral Home. During the days immediately following the shooting, most of the information published confirmed without question that Walter Holland was a great "hero" and had only acted to save his own life from the "dastardly" Hardy Keys, who had let his temper get the best of him. This was the story presented by Walter Holland and his friends and they attempted to have the matter dropped with this information. The Paducah Sun (February 7, 1903) reported: "According to reliable reports politics had brought about ill feelings between the two men and, meeting there last night, a quarrel resulted from a political disagreement on about and discussion of a settlement of some kind. "It is stated that Keys drew his knife and was making for the Sheriff when the latter drew his pistol and fired twice, only one shot taking effect, that wounding Keys in the stomach and producing almost instant death. "The knife was picked up near the spot where the victim fell. There are few eye witnesses to the tragedy and Sheriff Holland, it seems to be the general opinion, shot in self-defense and was not arrested. "The dead man was a nephew of the Hon. Ben C. Keys, a prominent populist politician who has several times run for Congress. He is also a Brother of John Keys, County Clerk and editor of the Murray Ledger. "Sheriff Holland is well-known in this section. He is alleged to have killed several men in discharge of his duty, one being a short time ago when he killed a negro who resisted him on the streets of Murray. He was formerly Marshall at Murray and then killed a man previously to that time while a guard at the Eddyville Penitentiary. "He always shot in self-defense, according to the coroner's juries, and is a very popular man, while the dead man (Keys) also has many friends. "One man at Murray stated over the telephone this afternoon that there were not half dozen words spoken and that Keys ran into the Sheriff with a knife and was shot, and that is all there is to it!" BUT, that was not all there was to it! The Keys family retained the services of two well-known attorneys to represent their interests (William Reed of Paducah, and Sam Crossland of Mayfield), and the Holland family retained the firm of Coleman-Linn & Son of Murray. 2-19-1903 An Examining Trial was held at which the attorney for Keys caused to be issued a WARRANT CHARGING MURDER (Thus all the State's attorneys were on the Keys side in prosecuting Holland.) 2-24-1903 Justice Swan discharged Holland, deciding that the shooting of Keys was "self-defense." Thus the case is ended - until Grand Jury meets. 4 -20-1903 The Grand Jury indicted Holland for manslaughter. Holland posted Bond. 8-10-1903 Case continued until next term of court. 11-20-1903 Holland side moved to dismiss on grounds: "illegal drawing of the Grand Jury which returned the indictment." Judge overruled and set trial for next term of court. 4-15-1904 Kentucky State's Attorney Daniel F. Smith of Cadiz, requested a `change of venue' saying that the State could not get a fair trial at Murray. It was considered `most unusual' for the State to request a Change of Venue! 4-21-1903 Change of Venue was granted - but the site not selected. It is interesting to note that "Holland is represented by Attorneys Garnett (who replaced Linn & Son), and Coleman, "and several others." (all well-known.) The Prosecution (Keys side) is represented by Commonwealth Attorney Denny Smith, Sam Crossland, William Reed, and Judge Simms of Cadiz. 6-28-1904 The case was moved to Benton, Kentucky, and in a surprise move, Attorney for Keys agreed the motion to dismiss the case (as requested by the Holland side) on November 20, 1903. This was done, and a new Charge of Willful Murder was issued - the result of a Grand Jury hearing held in Marshall County, since the Keys side claimed that the Holland Family had too much "pull" in Calloway County. Holland got a continuance of the trial, however, he was required to post a $5,000 bond. 9-24-1903 Holland and Keys affair reset for March, 1905 term of court. 3-17-1905 Trial started today - Judge Brown presiding. Holland side presented a `surprise" witness, George M. Cox of Clinton, who testified that he saw the killing. He said he saw Holland and Keys "ten feet apart - and heard Keys say: `you are a G­D--- Liar', and saw Holland fire two shots." Cox said he ran from the scene when Keys fell. Under cross examination he stated he had told no one about this, however, he stuck to his guns on what he said he saw. Holland called two `expert' witnesses - Professor C.M. Lieb, Superintendent of Schools at Paducah; and Mr. James Wilcox, a well­ known Civil Engineer, stated that the angle of the bullet entering Keys' body showed that "He was stretching back in an attempt to stab Holland." Actually, the bullet entered Keys' body at an angle (from a higher level). The bullet exited Key's body four inches lower than it entered. At any event, it was a hotly contested trial! 3-2-1905 WALTER HOLLAND GIVEN FIVE YEARS! Paducah Sun. "The Jury in the case against Walter Holland of Murray, returned a verdict this morning finding the defendant guilty of manslaughter and fixing the penalty at five years in the penitentiary. Plea for a new trial filed. 3-29-1905 The motion for a new trial was overruled - and Sheriff Holland was placed in jail to await a Decision by the Court of Appeals, no bail being allowed in this instance! 4-1-1905 A New Trial was granted - Holland was placed under $6,000 bond - and released from jail and he returned to his home in Murray. 3-6-1906 Trial was held with much the same testimony. 3-23-1906 SHERIFF HOLLAND WAS ACQUITTED OF THE MURDER OF HARDY KEYS. FACTS: Mrs. Hardy Keys sent her eldest daughter, Sadie, to "fetch" Hardy, since he was late coming home to supper. Sadie went by the new house under construction, however, her father was not there. She was about to return to her home when she heard some shots from downtown (about two blocks away) so she went there. When she arrived near the courthouse, she saw her father on the sidewalk in a pool of blood. There was a newspaper near him, which she picked up - and later noted that this paper had a bullet hole therein. This was later introduced in the trial of Holland. Sadie Holland did not see any knife near the body of her father (and she later testified this). Both her mother (Long Keys) and Sadie also testified to the fact that, in all the years they spent with Hardy Keys - HE NEVER EITHER OWNED OR CARRIED A KNIFE! Thus the evidence strongly indicates that Walter Holland had what is now referred to as a "throw down" (or "throw away"), which is an instrument, (knife, pistol, etc.,) which is tossed to the ground near an innocent victim by a murderer. Lona Keys lived to the age of 90; and Sadie Keys Holland to 79; and in all those years neither was ever accused of telling a falsehood, therefore, their testimony about the absence of a knife, plus the statements they made to the court about the fact that Hardy Keys was never known to use profanity, seems to incontestably refute testimony given by Walter Holland and his cronies at the several trials. It is most difficult for this writer, who is a Keys-Holland, to take a stand in this issue, however, I must comment that most of the families involved attempted to quiet the waves of animosity which swept Calloway County after the event. There were very few exceptions to this on both sides. Great tragedies seemed to overtake both families - both Walter and a son committed suicide - Lona Keys' two sons-in-law met early deaths, etc. The following seems to sum up the matter, once and for all. "The trial of Lafayette Walter Holland, my great uncle, portrays a two-family tragedy. Once such a tragedy happens, events and circumstances are frozen in time, but relationships of friends, families, and descendants are not. These two families, the Holland and Keys, of Calloway County, Kentucky, have long forgotten, forgiven, and overcome this inglorious event, and today it is unlikely that anyone remembering this event could be found. "I, Mary H. Holland, was brought into this world by a Keys, Dr. Benjamin Butler Keys, our family physician; and his wife Polly, as she was known by many, was my mother's good friend. The daughter of Hardy Keys married on of the Holland family members, and I, myself, worked in the Keys-Houston Clinic, Murray, Kentucky, for six years. "This work is, indeed, a tribute to both families who were victims of misfortune, to the generations who followed them, and to those now living." circa 1980s. Mary Holland Lancaster The End of a Faction And now a word concerning the Keys-Holland faction. It would doubtless have gone on for generations if the children of many involved had not very wisely decided that they wouldn't allow it to interfere with established friendships. Pardon a personal reference. My father was a close friend of Mr. Holland and was on his Bond. But I continued to have social contact with all the Keys children of my generation and Will Keys, the son of Judge Butler Keys, was my closest boyhood friend. May I relate another incident that to me is heart warming, which Prentice Holland told me several years before his death. He said that sometime after the tragedy Mr. John Keys came to him and told him that regardless what might happen, he wanted Prentice to know that he never had a better friend than his father and that he loved him like a brother. (Note: John Keys was Hardy Keys' brother.) Prentice told his Mother of the conversation. His mother verified the statement and told Prentice that his father died after a lingering illness and that Mr. Keys came and nursed him night after night. Prentice's father was Bruce Holland, a brother of Walter Holland. Yes, we outgrew it, thanks to the wise decision of the second generation. Thank the Lord! Source: Dr. McElrath's Murray by Hugh M. McElrath (1964) pp 36-37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

My friends - Let me say first that I am very grateful for the kind messages that many of you sent concerning my episode late last week with the adverse reaction to a new medication that sent me to the hospital briefly. I am close to being fully recovered from that unpleasant situation. Modern medicines work wonders for us 98% of the time - it is that other 2% that can be difficult. I had indicated that I planned to post another essay from those written by Dr. Gordon Wilson. Since I was unable to post it then, I am sending it along today. This selection is from his little book, "Fidelity Folks", which reminisces about his childhood in Fidelity in Calloway County, better known to us as New Concord. The subject of this narrative is, "Singing Round the Organ". Tomorrow, we will move to Graves County. -B ========================================================================= SINGING ROUND THE ORGAN -A. Gordon Wilson “Fidelity Folks” Organs were by no means common at Fidelity, and every one might be regarded as a community instrument. The owner did not lock it up and selfishly enjoy his treasure; he opened it to the group that always went visiting on Sundays or went to sit till bedtime at any season of the year. Sunday afternoon was the especial time to gather around the organ and sing until it was time to go home to feed the stock. It was not necessary to be a real musician to play the accompaniment to the songs that we sang. Some good chords would do, if one did not know how to read the soprano and make up some bass. Most organists, though, could do pretty well for their training and were generous of their time. Some one besides the organist would lead the music, most people, male and female, singing the air. There was usually a neighborhood alto, with that penetrating but plaintive wail that altos seem to have forgotten in most city choirs. Most homes would not tolerate downright "quick and devilish" music on Sunday, that is, popular songs that had not become classics. We could sing "Maggie" and "Darling, I Am Growing Old," but "Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight," made popular by the Spanish-American War, sounded too much like dancing. The old folks would often join in with us on patriotic and sentimental songs, as well as on the old and new religious songs. Very rarely we opened the front room on some week day, when high-toned company came. Then we could sing anything. Comic songs came by devious routes into Fidelity. A dashing cousin of mine would bring us several each time he came, that is, bring in his memory, for sheet music was unknown. He had heard them at the opera house at the county seat and loved to overawe us with his sophistication. A little girl in our neighborhood came home on a visit from the Masonic Orphans' Home, at Louisville, and taught us to sing "Kentucky Babe" and "Who Threw the Overalls in Mistress Murphy's Chowder?" However naughty these songs might be on Sunday, they were enjoyed by everybody on week days. Early in my life I developed a repertory of songs and readings that I had to give again and again. My prize ballad was one left over from the gold-digging days of the West, "Joe Bowers." Joe was from Pike County, Missouri, and went to California to the gold fields to make enough money to wed his sweetheart back home. He "made a mighty lucky strike," finding gold in startling quantities, but his Sally meanwhile had married a butcher "whose hair was awful red" and had added insult to injury by bringing into the world a baby with red hair. Poor Joe was heart-broken and went about his diggings lamenting the cruelty of women. Some years ago I attended a program that reminded me of Fidelity. It was planned in honor of Stephen Collins Foster and included group singing around the organ of Foster's best-known songs. Everybody who was there felt that it was the only way to present properly these ef­fective songs, so full of folk flavor. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

My friends - This is a rare Friday posting I am making, replacing the postponed message of yesterday. Below is another selection in the review of essays authored by Dr. Gordon Wilson. This one comes from his little book, "Fidelity Folks", and is titled 'Picnic Time'. Dr. Wilson was born and raised at "Fidelity", which is better known to us today as New Concord in Calloway County. He was the son of Dr. Maquis Pillow Wilson. M.P.Wilson was a physician. His son Gordon held a doctorate in English and taught for many years at Western Kentucky University. If time permits over the next couple of days, I will return with another offering from the "miscellaneous files". -B =================================================================== PICNIC TIME -“Fidelity Folks” Dr. Gordon Wilson Almost any occasion was an excuse for an all-day picnic. Sulphur Springs, besides being the location of a Methodist church, was equally famous as a picnicking and camping area. The annual Quarterly Meeting at the church was a sort of picnic; we got to see funny people from up the creek and out in the Flatwoods, that is, funny as compared with us. However, there was a decorum that had to be observed at Quarterly Meeting that was hard on us children. We sometimes got so noisy out by the spring that some of our parents, fearful that we might spend our later career in a burning lake because of violating the Sabbath, would come out from church and remind us of the nature of the day. But the dinner on the ground made up for all restraints and made us glad that we lived in such a religious community. Genuine picnics, though, were quite free from restraint. We could let out as many yells as we liked, we could wade in the creek, we could even go in a-washing. Our clothes were not so fragile as the ones we wore to church and could be risked in climbing trees or in walking on drifts in the creek. It was unlikely that we would be far away when the dinner on the ground was ready. We ranged up and down the table, eating here and there, for barbecued lamb, fresh beef or pork, and the usual fried chicken and cakes and pies were always on hand. Our real fun of playing in the woods came after dinner, or as soon as we got over a little of that over-full feeling. The older men took this occasion to discuss politics and religion or to swap yarns. Sometimes a grown girl, probably the local teacher, would get a group of us children together and direct an exciting game of Drop the Handkerchief or Puss Wants a Corner. Our mothers had to interfere sometimes to keep us from being too rough with the girls, who, unlike us rough necks, had on their fluffiest dresses and shoes, if shoes can be included in that description. It seemed pretty sissy to be playing girl games when the creek was so close at hand and when my dog could do some fancy swimming after the sticks we would throw into the pools. As soon as we could do so, we escaped from the games and became wild creatures for the rest of the day. If we had enough money, we went by the stand and bought some soda pop or some candy or some ice cream. But it was not necessary to our happiness to have some additional dainties; being out of doors, where we lived all the time, anyway, was good enough. From the time I attended my first picnic I wanted to grow up and be the man who ran one of the stands. And, sure enough, I did grow up and did work in a stand, feeling as big as the man who cut bundles at the wheat-threshing or the man who carried a corner in barn-raisings. I would have worked for nothing, just to be a big boy for a day; but the money I earned made me feel superior, and I got a freedom of eating candy and ice cream that I used to the utmost, so that I was likely to be sick for several days thereafter. Ice-cream suppers were long used as a means to raise money for churches and schools, but in our section they were often used for themselves alone. We usually served ice cream in a summer cottage near the spring and ran the stands im­mediately outside. When the stand was being run for a public benefit, the women of the neighborhood would furnish everything possible. Some boys or men would go to the county seat for ice, soda pop, cigars, candy, and noise­makers of all sorts. The custards for the ice cream would be made the day before and kept fresh in coolers let down in the wells and cisterns. We made the ice cream right on the ground, turning the old-fashioned freezers millions of miles, it seemed to me. Nothing but being a big boy in the eyes of the fellows who did not get a job of working in the stand could have kept me from growing very weary while turning the freezers. So far as I know, no one has ever published a list of what people actually ate at a picnic. Thanks to my old diary, faithfully written at the end of the day, July 4, 1905, I find that there were some five hundred people at Sulphur Springs at a combination picnic-political speaking. There was a big dinner on the ground, rather private, however, as the tablecloths were laid for small groups rather than for the whole crowd, as at Quarterly Meetings. There was a "refreshment stand and also an ice cream parlor," which "did a very good business." The sales were "240 bottles of soda pop, about two tubs of lemonade, a great lot of candy, wax (chewing gum), cigars, etc. The ice cream trade was rather slim, but they sold four or five gallons." For Fidelity on a spree that was something. When I had recorded the figures, I added, very naively, "After the speaking the crowd wandered first this way and that, staying until rather late in the afternoon. Everyone seemed to have a delightful time. Courting couples were plentiful." (Of course, or what would have been the use of having a holiday or ice cream or soda pop?) "We had only one little difficulty, and that was settled in a short while," (Even the Eden of a Fourth of July near Fidelity had its serpent, a drunken row between two boys from an outlying neighborhood; otherwise life would have been too good for this world). With the coming of cars picnics lost some of their appeal. And people now drink soda pop at any season of the year and are not likely to get the bubbly stuff all over their shirt bosoms when they open it, and they can buy ice cream any day in the year at even country stores. The only thing that remains unchanged is the political speaking, which even George Washington would recognize instantly if he wandered back to Fidelity or elsewhere. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

My friends - I have completed the conversion of another of the files in my "miscellaneous" group - those files that I placed, years ago, on the old 5 inch floppies. This file shows the graves which were relocated from the old Newburg Cemetery in Calloway County as a result of the TVA Kentucky Dam/Lake Project, which, when completed, caused the location of the former town of Newburg to be submerged under the waters of the Kentucky Lake. There were 44 graves found in this old cemetery, which was noted as "neglected" in the TVA field notes. Of the 44 graves found, 30 could be identified. All of the graves which were moved were reinterred in Lone Oak Cemetery. Five graves were not moved. The work was completed on 5 September 1942. The earliest birth year, based on age of death, was in the early 1820's. Surnames in this cemetery include Tracy, Compton, Williams(several), Maupin, Walker, Tripp, Whaley(several), Oglesby, Turner, Swick and Henslee. Subscribers to the JP and Calloway lists can obtain this file by sending a request directly to me. Please ask for the "Newburg File". The file is available in rich text format (RTF) and Adobe Portable Document File (PDF) format. The file will be sent as an RTF attachment to an e-mail message unless PDF is requested. The file is not available in plain text format, nor can it be sent in the body of an e-mail message. The complete file will be sent, as time constraints do not permit me to go into the file and extract information about individual surnames. I am working on another TVA file, which I hope to complete before the end of the weekend. When I get it completed, I will be back to offer it. -B =====================================================================

Does anyone know of an e-mail or webpage contact for the pictoral History book of Calloway County currently being compiled? I understand orders are now being accepted by the "Murray Women's Club"??? Thanks BJ McCuiston billiejo@garlic.com

Bill, Can I have your current address so I can send a check for the map? Thanks Mary MacKenzie 5241 Brass Lantern St. Louis, MO 63128

My friends - Since offering the large Calloway County 1920's map, a few days ago, showing the schools, and other landmark locations long since gone today, I have had many inquiries asking whether I have any other such maps of other counties in the JP region for this same time period. I have been checking my holdings that I have in storage and have located three additional such maps, two for McCracken County and one for Marshall County - and there may be other maps for other JP counties, which I will investigate further as time permits. So far, I have received about 100 requests for the Calloway map(I have asked the printed to increase the first run printing to 125 copies). I expect to have them in hand on Monday. As soon as the majority of the Calloway maps have been shipped out to those who have requested them, I will inquire on the JP and corresponding county lists about possible interest in the maps of Marshall and McCracken counties. I suspect that the cost of reproduction, shipping tube and first class postage for the other maps will be, as is the Calloway map, in the $12.00 range. I have always had a great affinity for, and have been a user of, maps, and it appears that many of our subscribers share that affinity. -B ====================================================================

My friends - Today, we are reviewing another essay in the group which made up the little book, "Fidelity Folks", by Dr. A. Gordon Wilson. Fidelity was better known as New Concord in Calloway County, where Dr. Wilson was born and grew to adulthood in the 1888 - 1910 time frame. He was the son of a well known physician in that area, Dr. Marquis Pillow Wilson. Today's subject is "Saddlebags, Reticules & Carpetbags". As is now customary, there will be no data posts tomorrow or on the weekend. I continue to hope that I can finish converting some items from the "miscellaneous files" on those old 5" floppies. Perhaps, over the next few days, time can be found to do so and bring one or more of them to the List. -B ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SADDLEBAGS, RETICULES, AND CARPETBAGS -Fidelity Folks -Dr. Gordon Wilson Trunks on automobiles or even trailers could hardly contain as many and as various things as people used to carry in saddlebags and other popular containers. There were many sorts of saddlebags. The best known kind were capacious and roundish, lying across the saddle and capable of holding clothes, bottles of sundry kinds, hymn books, et al. Of course, I do not imply that any one set of saddlebags had such a combination, but certainly they were put to sundry uses (I just cannot get away from that word "sundry"; it sounds learned; I heard it often in the church at Sulphur Springs). The early circuit rider would have been lost without his saddlebags to hold his linen and his Bible. I have read that a copy of Wesley's sermons, a hymn book, and a Bible often made up the library of some of the itinerant Methodist circuit riders. All travelers took a pair of saddlebags along when they went on a journey. Physicians had a special make of saddlebags, designed to hold their calomel, quinine, and other standard remedies. Late in my boyhood we children gave Father a pair of saddlebags to replace the old ones that had grown quite shabby through years of hard use, in all sorts of weather. When I was a very little boy, I used to play-like I was a doctor and use Father's very first pair of saddlebags, bought when he started his practice in 1870. Not to own a pair of some sort branded a householder as not being very well off or very good at providing. The old-time carpetbag was much more ample and could be stretched to fabulous proportions. It came to be the badge of important travelers. The very word got a bad name down South, however, and still has it. Then there was the telescope that we used when we went to visit the relatives on the other side of the county and that I used when I first left Fidelity with the fortune I had made by selling my tobacco crop and my little red mule. I can still remember how out-of-style I felt when I realized that the other fellows had discarded their telescopes and had bought brand new suitcases, I cannot define "reticule". I suppose that the word means any small container for necessary articles, usually carried by a woman. There have been so many varieties since I could remember that I shall not attempt to list them. One such container used to be carried to church full of teacakes. My brother was always decorous as long as the teacakes lasted; no amount of fear of the preacher or of what might happen when he got home could keep him quiet after the teacakes were gone. From "fourthly" to "nine­teenthly" the wriggling continued, unless Mother grew tired of it all and sought the out-of­doors and a switch. Some poet ought to pay his respects to the teacake as a moral force in the generation just behind us; many a good child at church owes his reputation to the adequate supply of these goodies in a reticule or handbag. Incidentally, I wish somebody who loves to collect would start a collection of saddlebags, carpetbags, reticules, and other forms of containers while such old time things are still to be found in attics and storerooms. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

My friends - Yesterday, I queried the JP and Calloway lists concerning what level of interest might be present with regard to reproducing a 1920's geological map of Calloway County. As of this moment, I have received 57 favorable responses(and some would like multiple copies), which is more than enough to justify having the map reproduced. I have taken it over to my reprographics person and ordered 75 copies in the first run. More copies can be printed as needed. The cost per copy will remain at $12.00 which covers the map, first class postage and a mailing tube to avoid folding the map. I will be contacting those interested parties by private e-mail with further information. I will return later today with another posting. -B =====================================================================

My friends - As we ease back into the regular routine after the long holiday weekend, I have a question for those of you who do research in Calloway County. In looking over some items which I have in storage, I came upon a geological map of Calloway County that was issued in the early part of the 20th century, and which contains the names and locations of numerous places and institutions which are now either under water due to the KY Lake Project, or may not be in existence any longer. The villages of Calloway Town(which disappeared by 1870)and Newberg(which existed into the early 20th century)are shown, along with such other places as Shannon and Pine Bluff, which also disappeared. I know that many of our subscribers have an interest in the locations of the old schools - many of them one-room affairs - which existed well into the 20th century, but have been gone for many years. This map shows many schools, such as Woodlawn, Mallory, East and West Shannon, McCuiston, Shady Hill, Steelyville, Gunter Flats, Green Plains, Howard, Utterback, Chunn, Salem, Rosin Ridge, Watson, Corinth, Landon, Harding, Blakely, Heath, Oak Grove, Thompson and Smith schools, and others. There are other landmarks, such as Gibb's Store, Wiswell, Protemus and Hico shown. The current State Highway 94 was known as the Jefferson Davis Highway when this map was printed. My question is whether enough of our subscribers have an interest in having a copy of this map to make it a worthwhile undertaking to have copies made of it. The map measures about 2-1/2 feet by about 2 feet, and, as a result, it will have to be printed on a duplicating plotter machine. This process is not inexpensive, and the cost per copy for list subscribers, with first class postage and the mailing tube, will, I suspect, run to about $12.00. I would be grateful if those of you who have an interest in obtaining a copy of this map would send a note directly to me - off-list - and indicate that you are interested. If 25 or more of our subscribers indicate an interest, I will proceed with getting the copy process started. Tomorrow, we will move to Marshall County. -B =====================================================================

Are there any marriage records around 1840 for the county in books or actual certificates, ect..?? I'm looking for John Culp who married a woman named Mary. I need Mary's maiden name. They are in the 1850 census of Graves County, and I believe they are the John Culp in the 1840 census of Calloway County. I believe around 1839 may have been when they married. What records are available in Calloway County? Meg

My friends - I have completed the conversion of another of the files which I have on old 5 inch floppies, which I call "Miscellaneous Files". I collected these years ago when computers were still in their infancy. The file which is now ready is the Winchester Cemetery in Calloway County. This record comes from the Tennessee Valley Authority archives and is related to the Kentucky Dam and Lake Project, which required the relocation of some 20,000 graves in KY and TN in the late 1930's and early 1940's, due to the flooding of the area once the project was completed. The Winchester Cemetery did not have any grave removals, as it was just above the minimum height required to avoid relocation of graves. However, the original access road would be inundated, which required a study to determine how to reroute the access road to keep it above the water line. As a result, the TVA surveyed this cemetery in 1941, and the results are shown in this file. There were 72 known graves, with about 50 of that 72 bearing identification, or ID was obtained from a relative(the names of whom are shown, and the relationship to the deceased). This is a very old cemetery, with the earliest death date shown for Eglantine Knight in 1835. Surnames in this file include: Winchester, Dunn, Knight, Butler, McCuiston, Valentine, Kimbro, Vinson, Gregory, Hutson, Garrison, Henry, McCormick and Eldridge. Subscribers to the JP and Calloway lists can obtain this file by sending a request directly to me. Please request the "Winchester File". The file is available in rich text format (RTF) and Adobe Acrobat PDF format. The file will be sent as a rich text format attachment to an e-mail message unless PDF is requested. The file is not available in plain text format and cannot be sent in the body of an e-mail message. The complete file will be sent, as time constraints do not permit me to go into the file and extract data about individual names. We will continue, from time to time, with these grave relocation reports. -B ====================================================================

My friends - Today, we are continuing our review of the essays written by Dr. Gordon Wilson, concerning his boyhood days in "Fidelity" - better known as New Concord in Calloway County. The topic of today's narrative is "Burning the Wind". I can remember my late grandmother using that phrase from time to time. There will be no data post tomorrow or on the weekend, as is customary. I have been working on converting a miscellaneous file for several weeks, and I hope to have it completed in time to offer over the next few days. -B ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ BURNING THE WIND -A. Gordon Wilson Fidelity Folks When something went fast in the older days, we said it "burned the wind." In our slow world that did not mean, necessarily, that some thing was going at terrific speed. But the very slowness of our lives made speed exciting. In our play we often burned the wind. When an occasional ice storm coated the ground over, we slid down the hills on slides or chairs or planks and felt that we were setting records for speed. On one such occasion I went so fast that my overcoat, handed down as a relic from several older brothers, was left hanging in tatters on the ice. I was afraid to rejoice, but I know now that I did not grieve much over such a tragedy; for it meant a new one for me and just for me. Sometimes we would stand up in the swing and "pump" until we fairly went up into the limbs of the trees and would then burn the wind as we made a huge arc across the yard. On the seesaw we went up rather slowly but often came down with a rush. To this day a similar motion, such as going down a small hill too fast in a car, makes me think of the nausea I suffered when the seesaw broke or else descended a bit too fast. One of the best ways to burn the wind was to get the running gear of the old buggy that had been discarded, take off the bed, remove the shafts, and guide the clumsy old thing with a plowline or a piece of baling wire as we whizzed down hill. Skiing and tobogganing were never a part of my experience, but I know that the wildest dare-devil of the White Mountains never felt any bigger than we youngsters did when we sped down one of our small hills on the old buggy. People older and more sophisticated than we could burn the wind in another spectacular way. Our older brothers might own fine horses, fine for our part of the world. These same horses ridden or driven might excite the wonder and covetousness of the whole neighborhood. On Sunday morning, when people were supposed to be in a pious frame of mind, the sight of a dapper young fellow dashing up to the very doors of the country church on his steed or, better still, driving up equally fast with the pretty girl from up the creek by his side provoked violations of the tenth commandment among the younger set and caused the bearded old fellows to recall vividly some of their own escapades at burning the wind. When people gathered at the village for election day or Saturday afternoon or just gathered, how great it was to come driving by as if you were oblivious of the whole world, though we all knew all this was to show off the gaited horse! Even the old people could burn the wind occasionally by purchasing something above their usual level: some furniture, a new buggy for the family, some fancy wall paper, or other equally prosaic but exciting thing. Then the older neighbors had their turn at envying and talking in whispers. When Mother's mother died, along about 1893, there was a small sum left for each of the numerous children. Mother invested hers in a new suite of furniture for the front room: bed, wash-stand, and dresser, all of golden oak. One of our neighbor women came, apparently just to call, but really to see the new things. She asked to see them, for, of course, the front room was not open on week days, When she had surveyed them for several minutes in silence, she remarked, "Fine! Fine! I ain't got nothing, I never had nothing, I never want nothing," This, you may guess, let Mother down several notches from the exalted feeling she must have had from burning the wind. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Anybody know the death date of Wiley Hogan "Hogue" Anderson? He died presumably either in Graves or Calloway Co KY after the Graves Co 1900 census. He was born in 1818 in Humphreys Co TN, married Margaret Smith in 1843 in Montgomery Co and had three children: 1) Ellen C. Anderson, b ca 1846, m James K. "Polk" Rinehart. 2) Margaret E. or Isabella Anderson, b ca 1848. 3) Missouri Amazon Anderson (1849-1936), m James T. Gupton. Can't find Wiley/Hogue in the KY death index at http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ky/death/search.cgi . Judging from the census, the entry of "Wiley F." Anderson, listed as dying in Graves Co at the age of 54 in 1913, is probably not an entry for Hogue with incorrect middle initial and age. Any help would be appreciated. Would like to hear from descendants of Missouri Gupton or Ellen Rinehart. Also would like to learn the names of Hogue's siblings. One brother was evidently Elijah Rudolph Anderson, b ca 1821, who married Mary B. Duffell and had children James b ca 1856, Mattie Emma b ca 1862 [m Asa W. Hutchi(n)son], and Wiley, b ca 1866. Andy Anderson =========== Hogue's biography from page 1002 of "The Goodspeed Histories of Montgomery, Robertson (et al.) Counties of Tennessee", 1886: "W. H. ANDERSON was born February 10, 1818, in Humphreys County, Tenn., and when a child moved with his parents to Montgomery County, where he still lives. His father, RICHARD ANDERSON, was born in Montgomery County in 1791, and there has always lived with the exception of a short time spent in Humphreys County, where our subject was born. The father, who was a useful citizen, married MARGARET RUDOLPH, who was born in 1791, and to whom were born six children. "The subject of this sketch was educated at home and in the common schools, attending the latter only a few weeks. He learned the carpenter's trade when young, and worked at that occupation a few years. He then followed farming, and acted as constable until 1847. He then purchased the White Oak mills and carried on milling for five years. He then sold his property and returned to Montgomery County, where he has since resided and farmed. In October of 1843 he married MARGARET E. SMITH, who was born in Montgomery County August 30, 1825. She was a daughter of JOHN SMITH, who was of German descent, and died about 1851. "Mr. and Mrs. Anderson became the parents of the following children: Ellen C., Margaret E. and Missouri A. Mrs. Anderson died in 1851. Our subject was a Whig as long as that party existed, and since that time has been independent. He has been magistrate of Montgomery County for 20 years and is at present magistrate of his civil district. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, as was his wife. Mr. Anderson has taken such an active part in public life that he is now an exceptionally well-informed and intelligent man."