[email protected]'s anscestor,and my own many great upcle, Charles Caroll BROWN was a US Mail sorter on steamboats running between Cincinnati and Portmouth Od during this period. JOHN ROBINSON'S circus winter quarters was the ne Cincinnati suburb of TERRACE PARK. CC Brown m Nan Power,dau of JAMES AMPBELL POWER,river Captain,AND SOMETIMES OWNER OF THE STEAM FERRY BETWEEN ABERDEEN,OH AND MAYSVILLE,KY. On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:42:28 -0700 Randal W Cooper <[email protected]> writes: >Dear Members of the Lewis County, Kentucky Mailing List, > >Vanceburg, Kentucky was home to the steamboat "W.P. Thompson" for >part >of her life on the Ohio River. > >The "W.P. Thompson" was a wooden-hull, sternwheel packet built at >Harmar, Washington County, Ohio in 1876, at the Knox Boatyard. Harmar >is >located at the mouth of the Muskingum River, on the opposite bank of >the >Muskingum from Marietta, Ohio. She was first owned by the J.N. Camden >and Company, an oil-producing company of Parkersburg, West Virginia. >J.N. CAMDEN was one of the company's directors. > >One of the first missions of the "W.P. Thompson" was running the >Pittsburgh to Cincinnati route in the spring of 1877, replacing the >"Emma Graham" while the new vessel of the same name was being built. >During this period, E.B. COOPER was Captain and Nat EARHART was >Clerk, >with Captain J.N. WILLIAMSON part owner. > >She then took the Cincinnati to Charleston run, under Captain John >THORNBURG. Following that, she again plied the Pittsburgh to >Cincinnati >route, in 1878 and 1879, Captained by Hod KNOWLES, with Nat EARHART >again as Clerk. At this time, the craft was owned by the Parkersburg >and >Ohio River Transportation Company, whose president was Captain E.P. >CHANCELLOR, with J.N. WILLIAMSON as Superintendant. > >Captain Ellis MACE recalled that the "W.P. Thompson" once ran between >Cincinnati, Ohio and Vanceburg, Kentucky. > >In the fall of 1883, the steam packet headed for the sultry South and >began handling cotton bales out of the Yazoo River, a tributary of >the >Mississippi, north of Vicksburg. > >Civil War Note: This was the site of the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, >Mississippi, 29 Dec 1862, in which the Federal troops were repulsed >in >their first drive to conquer Vicksburg. A sizable number of Lewis >County, Kentucky soldiers of the Twenty-second Regiment were killed >or >wounded in this battle. Captain Alexander BRUCE of Company E was >wounded >in the foot. > >Now back to Steamboating: In the winter, the "W.P. Thompson" went >South >with John ROBINSON's Circus, but was sunk 7 Dec 1884 in a collision, >sixty miles downriver from Vicksburg. The other vessel was said to be >the "Captain Miller".* > >Randal W. Cooper <[email protected]> >Lorain, Ohio > >*The source for most of this posting, except the Civil War trivia, is >~Way's Packet Directory, 1848-1994~, compiled by Frederick Way, Jr. > > >==== KYLEWIS Mailing List ==== >Help Instructions at: >http://www.zoomnet.net/~chipmunk/SurnamesMail.html >or contact Betty Lou at: [email protected] >Arch: >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?surname=KYLewis >Your gracious donations to RootsWeb makes this all possible!! >Rootsweb: http://www.rootsweb.com/ > ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.