In regard to the newspaper item just transcribed for the list by Don Howell, I know a bit about the Compton-Parkhill poisoning case if anyone else is interested. Travis Harvey Parkhill, son of John and Sarah Clapp Parkhill and stepson of Dr. Caleb Jones, lived in Graves County. He is said to have been poisoned little by little by his wife Nancy and the Compton who was mentioned in Don's news item and who was tried for the crime. Parkhill and Compton were reportedly business partners. Parkhill died at 33 years of age in February 1859. Travis Parkhill's wife Nancy is said to have suffered from remorse and to have died about two months after her husband's death. Once the cause of Travis Parkhill's death was understood as homicide, his body was taken by his family from its original burial place where his wife had also been buried and reburied at Antioch. I found the following in the 1860 census for Graves County, KY, published by Simmons Historical Publications, 1997, page 345: Household # 2405 D.M. Galloway, aged 40, born TN, jailor Henry Compton, aged 25, born IL, carpenter [prisoner] In the 1850 census for Graves Co, KY, Travis Parkhill was reported as a cabinet maker. He could, therefore, have been the business partner, as stated above, of a carpenter. Alfred Milton Parkhill, brother of the murdered Travis Parkhill, married Mary L. Hudspeth, daughter of George and Nancy Mack Hudspeth. The Hudspeth connection is my reason for having information on this family. Regards, Betty Ravenholt