Hi, I am trying to verify a story that my Aunt Bea (still living and sharp at 91) told about how Robards got its name--I am printing the story and am wondering who the Eakins lady is that J. D. Robards married. I don't have JD listed in my FTM files. Enjoy the story and help me out as to the Eakins lady. Thanks. Helen Keusch A page from Charles Eakins genealogy report: Aunt Bea (Eakins) Sandefur Crowley told the following on Feb 7, 1990: This Eakins family was centered around a little town called Robards. Here is how Robards, KY, got its name. there was a family there named Robards and he married some lady from the Eakins family. So J. D. Robards sold his horse in 1869 for $75.00--sought his fortune by building a new general store in Henderson County, KY. (that’ s the year Enoch Marion Eakins was born--1869) Where J. D. Robards hoped to profit was from the gathering of the boys on Sunday afternoon to race and bet their horses on the half-mile frontier race tracks and “drink” a little--as was the custom of the time. The store did so well it expanded and J. D. later built a tobacco factory which eventually exported its products toEurope. Robards Settlement (home of Pleasant Valley), 3 miles west of Robards, became known as “Robard Station” withouth the “s” through an error of the L & N Railroad sign painters. Natives of Robard insisted on calling it Robards. The US Postal Service, in the 1920’s to avoid confusion, effected a name change to Robards. At one time the community, which now has a population of about 300, had a 22 ft. soft coal mine--Panama Coal Co.--which employed about 30 men. The people now are supported by general farming and retirement incomes. So that’s how Robards got on the map.