My friends - We have recently been reviewing articles which appeared in the "History of Calloway County - 1931" publication. We are continuing that today. This piece was written by Charles A. McCuiston for the 1931 history. He was a long time resident of New Concord, and gave the history of the town as he recalled it, and from some few documents and older people that he consulted. That should be borne in mind as the narrative below is read. For example, he mentions two doctors in the area(and tells an odd and somewhat morbid story about one of them), but we know that Dr. Marquis Pillow Wilson(father of Dr. Gordon Wilson) was also practicing medicine in and around New Concord in the latter part of the 19th century. We will continue, from time to time, to have posts from this 1931 county history. -B =========================================================================== History of New Concord -Charles A. McCuiston “History of Calloway County – 1931” “We have no record further back than 1828, but old folks tell us that the first store that was put up here was where the New Providence and Murray roads now fork, and this store was built in 1819; but we have no date on it further back than 1828. At that time this country was inhabited mostly by the Stubblefield family. Mrs. A.J. (Mitt) Stubblefield has some old letters written to this place dated October 8, 1828 from James Barnett, Leakville, Rockingham Co., NC, to Robert C. Stubblefield, Humility, Calloway Co., Ky. That was the name of this place at that time. That records show that about 1831, the name was changed to New Concord, there being another Concord in the eastern part of Kentucky, and between 1831 and 1835, they added the word ‘New’ to it, making it New Concord. The first person buried in the New Concord Cemetery, according to the old people’s memory, was Jackie Stubblefield. The oldest marked tombstone in this graveyard is Jas. Barnett, who died September 22, 1835. From an old letter, written September 19, 1837, tobacco at that time was selling from 3 to 5 cents per pound. In the year 1848, P[eter] M[ackness] Rowlett established a tobacco manufacturing plant. The first two brands of tobacco made were named ‘48’ and ‘Old Dominion’. Several years later, his son, Jeff[erson Davis] became a partner. His father was getting old, so Jeff became manager in 1889. His father died, so Jeff continued on with the factory and in 1903 he moved it to Murray and is still making those two old famous brands. Back in the [18] 50’s and [18] 60’s, the tobacco business came to be of great interest in this community. In 1861, the Civil War broke out, and the United States put a revenue on tobacco, so a great many people did not think it was right, and a lot of them began smuggling tobacco. It would now be called bootlegging. It put this factory to the bad. In the 70’s Pink Stilley founded a wagon shop here which made wagons and sold them to the people of the county. They worked 15 or 20 men in this shop and sold the wagons for $150. The town had grown to about 150 inhabitants. It has two drugs stores, two dry goods stores, one saloon, one hotel, one church, a Masonic lodge, two tobacco factories and two doctors – Dr.Bowling and Dr. Lynch, and old Dr.Lynch decided he wanted to eat a piece of dog meat. So he decided to kill a dog, cook it and give a big dog dinner. He asked in his neighbors and fiends. Everything that was cooked had some of that dog in it. Some would not eat any dog; but you see they got some dog anyway. At one time the wealth of Calloway County was in and around New Concord. Some of the biggest men this county ever had were born and reared in New Concord. The only millionaire the county ever produced was born in New Concord. About 1845, the Masons of this community bought a large bell weighing about 150 pounds from a steamboat which sank in the Tennessee River near here. This bell was used on the Masonic building, and the old Union Church which was the same building. It is now used by the New Concord High School. In 1919, the New Concord Milling Company was established here by A[lbert] G[allatin] Smith. It operated here for six years but it got too big for this place and Murray did not have a flour mill, so it was moved there in 1925. At the present time[1931], this town has about 100 population. It has a grade A four year high school, two stores, one blacksmith shop, one garage, on church, one doctor and a post office. This is the true history of New Concord and the community according to the best information and knowledge I have of it, I have lived in this little city for the past forty years.” ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

I am searching for the marriage date and place for my grandparents, Hiram D Cochran & Hattie Lee [Weatherly] Weatherly Cochran. Hiram was born in Calloway Co. Hattie was born in Sunflower Co MS. Each was widowed when they married and they lived for a time after their marriage in Ruleville, MS. They moved within a year or so to Mayfield, Graves Co KY - where they died; they are buried in Maplewood Cemetery. I know they were married in March of 1904, but I do not know the day or place. They were married in MS, TN, or KY. Hiram married his first wife, Madzetta "Madge" Cotton, in Henry Co TN. Hattie married her first husband, Robert Weatherly, in Sunflower Co MS. Any help you can be in locating the date and place of Hiram and Hattie Cochran's marriage would be most appreciated

----- Original Message ----- From: Noble Oaks To: KYCHRIST-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 8:07 AM Subject: Marriage date I am searching for the marriage date and place for my grandparents, Hiram D Cochran & Hattie Lee [Weatherly] Weatherly Cochran. Hiram was born in Calloway Co. Hattie was born in Sunflower Co MS. Each was widowed when they married and they lived for a time after their marriage in Ruleville, MS. They moved within a year or so to Mayfield, Graves Co KY - where they died; they are buried in Maplewood Cemetery. I know they were married in March of 1904, but I do not know the day or place. They were married in MS, TN, or KY. Hiram married his first wife, Madzetta "Madge" Cotton, in Henry Co TN. Hattie married her first husband, Robert Weatherly, in Sunflower Co MS. Any help you can be in locating the date and place of Hiram and Hattie Cochran's marriage would be most appreciated.

First of all- thanks to all who forwarded my other Hamby query. Lorena Hamby was indeed Mary Loren(i)a Sasseen, married R.E.L. Hamby in Lyon Co. ca. 1891. Has anybody made connections to James HAMBY, in Marshall Co. in the 1850 census. James Hamby age 62 (b. ca1792) SC Fany Hamby 24 f KY Patsey 20 f KY Sarah C. 17 f KY I believe that the last daughter, Sarah (b. 1833) is with John and Lucinda Hamby in Marshall Co. in 1870. Are there marriages for 'Fanny' or Patsey? Is 'Fanny' really 'Frances'? Any help with James and a wife are greatly appreciated, also. Cherilyn

Hello Again, Could someone tell me is Owens Chapel in Graves County? I just won an old photo on Ebay with this on the back of the photo. "This is a picture of a crew of unpaid volunteers, including William Francis Peterson, father of W.F.Peterson, who supplied the labor and furnished the wagons and mules to put gravel on a section of the Penny Road that ran along the west side of the 640 acre farm established by my grandfather, Morton Peterson. The portion of the road graveled (it was formerly mired to their axles in the winter) extended from the north end of the orad where it intersected with what was then known at the Mayfield-Egners Ferry Road over which stage coaches had once run between Fulton and Hopkinsville, Kentucky, to the Almo and Kirksey Road, a distance of about three miles. Dad is the man with the garden hoe on his shoulder, eighth from the right in the picture. The picture was taken on the north side of Owens Chapel Church, which in recent years has been turned so that the long way of the building is parallel to the road and has been brick veneered. Incidentally, the lad for the church was donated to the Owens Chapel Congregation by my grandfather. W.F. Peterson, Picture was taken about 1918 or 1919." Don Howell ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com

Hello Again, I must say this week has been a good week for hunting in the local stores. While in Hazel in Calloway County yesterday Lisa and i found a very old "Daguerreotype" photo. Under the glass image was a note written in very old script it said: "Mrs. Vann Allbritton New Providence, Calloway County, KY" Dag type photos date as early as the 1840's and few are named. Also found was two hands full of old loose papers that belonged to W.H. Burgess of Carlisle County. There are deeds,tax records,dog tax receipts, mortgages, and two old photos dated 1935 of his grandkids. So far the oldest pieces i've seen is 1893 up to 1930's. If anyone is interested in a scan of the Dag let me know, and if there are any of W.H. Burgess's Family here that would like these papers back give me a holler :) Don Howell __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

http://www.bulletinboards.com/view.cfm?comcode=RICH10&cat=1 Perhaps someone out there can help some on this list search for their missing veteran. pat

Hello Everyone, I found another old hand full of old photos plus another old photo album. The Album belonged to part of the Pryor Family in Pryorsburg, Graves County. I found another one last year from this same family and luckily i ran up on this one so know they are back together. This one is by far the older one being full of Tintypes and CDV type photos. The named ones are: Louannie Pryor Tess Bridges Ellen Clark Grandpa William Pryor Grandma Caroline Pryor H.C. Allison Dick Pryor cousin Lillian Pryor's mother There are several more but sorry to say they are not named. The other photos i found are: Miss Era Welch (taken in Paducah) Garland Bennett (taken in Mayfield) Mable Bennett (taken in Mayfield) Cliff Bennett (taken in Mayfield) Ray Bennett (taken in Mayfield) plus there are two unnamed ones that i believe are the parents of the Bennett children. Since my group is full and i'm still working on trying to get a webpage going if anyone is interested in viewing these treasures just drop me an email :) Don Howell West Kentucky Genealogy ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com

Hello- Once again I need to appeal to those closer to the source. Lorene/Lorena ? is married to Robert E. L. Hamby, living in Brandon, Lyon Co. in the 1900 census. I have not been able to pinpoint a maiden name. She was born abt. 1874, gives bp. as KY. Also, she has a sister, Myrtle, b. ca. 1886, who married unk. 'Reddick'. The Hambys may have married about 1887, and Robert was living in Lyon Co. from the 1880 census on, but the family was from Marshall Co. from 1850- 1870 or so. Any help with Lorene is appreciated. Cherilyn Trusty

Hello list! Somehow I have in my possession a death certificate of Evaline Adams of Hazel, Kentucky. Evaline died September 28, 1921 at the age of 72. Evalines parents are listed as Lem Brandon and Jane Laurence both of Calloway County, KY. At the time of her death Evaline was a widow. If any of you out there would like my copy of Evaline's death certificate please contact me. Thanks, Daryl Garrison

At long last - the books have arrived! The books to be mailed are either already on the way or will be tomorrow when the last packages are taken to the post office. Pre-ordered books can be picked up at the Society's gathering place - the green house on the northeast corner of Ninth and Main streets in Murray from 10 a.m. to noon and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays. Thank you for being so patient. Once you see the book, I think you'll feel that it was well worth the wait. If you have any questions, please contact me off list at sueoneill@murray-ky.net Sue O'Neill

My friends - Today, we are reviewing a narrative which appeared in the 1931 "History of Calloway County", authored by The Ledger & Times. The piece speaks of two colonels who served in the War Between the States who had Calloway roots: Albert Petty Thompson and Gustavus Adolphus Christian Holt. We will have some additional items from this now rare publication as we go along. -B ===================================================================== Calloway's Two Colonels -History of Calloway County - 1931 Calloway had about 1800 citizens of military age[in 1860]. At least half of them enlisted and many were killed in battle, many others were crippled or bore wounds through life. Calloway's soldiers were in the thick of the fight at Shiloh, one of the bloodiest [battles] of the war. Calloway furnished two colonels to the Confederacy - Colonel 'Press' Thompson[Albert Petty Thompson] and Col. G[ustavus] A[dolphus] C[hristian] Holt, both men of rare courage and ability - brilliant, dashing, intrepid. Colonel Thompson was killed in a charge on the Federal fort at Paducah. A cannon ball struck the horn of his saddle and blew him to bits. His grave and monument thereto is in the Bowman Graveyard, north of Murray. Colonel Holt was with General Forrest's left wing at Fort Heiman. He always rode a magnificent horse, and dressed in the picturesque uniform of his rank, booted and spurred and with gleaming sword. He was as splendid a picture of the typical and storied and romantic soldier as was ever put on canvass. He was idolized by his men. Colonel Holt was afterward Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky and President of the [KY] Senate, and was known as one of the best lawyers in the state. Mr. C[rawford] D[uncan] Holt of Murray is a brother of Colonel Holt. Their father[James Patterson Holt] was a noted doctor of the town and a brave, fearless and patriotic citizen. His office was in a frame building on the lot now occupied by the First National Bank, and the descendants of the patrons of Dr. Holt can now be seen wending their way to the Keys & Houston Clinic, where old Dr. Holt formerly held forth. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

--WebTV-Mail-4172-710 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Susie, does the Germanna book have Clarks in it? --WebTV-Mail-4172-710 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from smtpinvite-3301.bay.webtv.net (209.240.205.169) by storefull-3271.bay.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:01:43 -0700 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.18.41]) by smtpinvite-3301.bay.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix+sws) with ESMTP id 0FFC9E108; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:01:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id j5Q408gZ024546; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 22:00:08 -0600 Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 22:00:08 -0600 Message-Id: <200506260400.j5Q408gZ024546@lists5.rootsweb.com> From: KYJacksonPurchase-D-request@rootsweb.com Subject: KYJacksonPurchase-D Digest V05 #124 X-Loop: KYJacksonPurchase-D@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <KYJacksonPurchase-D@rootsweb.com> archive/volume05/124 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: KYJacksonPurchase-D@rootsweb.com Reply-To: KYJacksonPurchase-L@rootsweb.com X-Brightmail: Message tested, results are inconclusive ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain KYJacksonPurchase-D Digest Volume 05 : Issue 124 Today's Topics: #1 Another Old Photo [Don Howell <westkygenealogy@yahoo.] #2 Re: KYJacksonPurchase-D Digest V05 [Susie53pollock@aol.com] Administrivia: ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 08:53:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Howell <westkygenealogy@yahoo.com> To: KYJacksonPurchase-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20050625155353.6730.qmail@web30605.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Subject: Another Old Photo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello Everyone, I found a very interesting photo yesterday and thought i'd pass along the names and info. The photo is of a older couple standing in their yard in front of their house. The name appears to be "aunt Elen??? Bell s..." The first name is about faded off so i can't tell the last part and the photo has a piece missing after the "S". I'm guessing the photo is from around here due to i found it in a box of old newspapers from Western Kentucky and several loose papers from Fulton. Since my Yahoo Group is full for now i can only offer it to everyone through email. So if anyone is interested in looking it over just drop me an email :) Don Howell ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 12:27:21 EDT From: Susie53pollock@aol.com To: KYJacksonPurchase-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <e3.16438d45.2feedfe9@aol.com> Subject: Re: KYJacksonPurchase-D Digest V05 #123 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" For anyone interested in the Germanna community of VA, I have bought the book which lists many families. That of Hitt, Utterback/Otterback, James, Weaver and others. They were from the original colony of 1714. I will be on vacation for a bit but will be checking on email every now and then. It is a fantastic book with much info in it. Susie Riddle Pollock Peter Hitt descendant -------------------------------- End of KYJacksonPurchase-D Digest V05 Issue #124 ************************************************ --WebTV-Mail-4172-710--

For anyone interested in the Germanna community of VA, I have bought the book which lists many families. That of Hitt, Utterback/Otterback, James, Weaver and others. They were from the original colony of 1714. I will be on vacation for a bit but will be checking on email every now and then. It is a fantastic book with much info in it. Susie Riddle Pollock Peter Hitt descendant

Hello Everyone, I found a very interesting photo yesterday and thought i'd pass along the names and info. The photo is of a older couple standing in their yard in front of their house. The name appears to be "aunt Elen??? Bell s..." The first name is about faded off so i can't tell the last part and the photo has a piece missing after the "S". I'm guessing the photo is from around here due to i found it in a box of old newspapers from Western Kentucky and several loose papers from Fulton. Since my Yahoo Group is full for now i can only offer it to everyone through email. So if anyone is interested in looking it over just drop me an email :) Don Howell ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com

Today I am listing 2 of our popular books: Bible Records Vol. II for $10.00, shipping $2.50 and KY resident add $0.60 for KY tax and the second book I am listing is the Bits and Pieces 1888-1906. This is miscellaneous court records. Price is $14.00 shipping $2.50 and KY residents add $0.84 sales tax. Send a check to Graves County Genealogical Society P.O. Box 245 Mayfield, KY 42066 Book Sales & Corresponding Secretary, Jean Ann McCormack --------------------------------- Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football

If any descendants of S.D.Davis, who resided in Hickman, KY in 1865, are on the list, please contact me off-list. This Davis individual had at least one child named Ella, and probably other children. His wife *may* have been named Sophronia. -B =====================================================================

Hello- Am trying to follow up on descendants of John R. and Lucinda Hiett Hamby, in Marshall County in 1870 with 10 kids. John died before the 1880 census...does anybody know real date? Thanks. Lucinda ended up in Lyon county in1880 where her daughter Rachel Hamby had married Antoine Hart. Wondering if there are any researchers on the following:? Anna Hamby b. 1841 -m. J. Martin. George H. Hamby b. 1842 James Henry Hamby b. 1845- m. M. Frizzell Wm. Sylvester Hamby b. 1847 Rachel Hamby b. 1848 John F. Hamby b. 1852 Mary S. Hamby b. 1855 Francis b. d. 1858 Nancy E. b. 1863 Amanda b. 1868- m. R. Jones Robert E. Lee Hamby b. 1865 m. Lorene ? in Lyon County. In Brandon Prct. in 1900. My husband is descended from Rachel Hamby Hart. I also need a death date on her, if it's out there. Thanks much. Cherilyn Trusty

Effie Irvin married Dr.Yandell Y. Miller in 1900 in Graves Co. Children were Harry I., b. 1901, Lady Lillian Lucille, b. 1906. Effie died in 1906 and is buried in Antioch Cemetery in Graves Co. There is an Effie, age 15, in the 1900 Graves Co. census with parents, Kit and Mackie Irvin. If this is the same girl, she would have married at age 15. Another record names her father as C. B. Irvin/Irwin/Irvan. Does anyone have information on C. B. or Kit Irvin/Irwin? Margaret Ann Thetford

Looking for a new email address for Leo Smith. I noticed a message in Rootsweb that was posted about 3 yrs ago from him. Seems he descends from Johnny B. Parks of Calloway Co., KY. I also descend from him so would like to get in touch with him. Swann Parks