What a revolting story re Coleman.I cannot imagine how people could be so barbaric, Cheers, Bob in Melbourne ----- Original Message ----- From: <fuzzywug@aol.com> To: <KYMASON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 7:19 AM Subject: [KYMASON-L] Re: Look up in Maysville > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WBB.2ACI/2947.1.1 > > Message Board Post: > > I would like more information on the following taken from my grandfather's ledger book. He was living in Maysville, KY at the time it was written. > > Do you have any idea of where this place can be? > Aug 14, 1899 > "Gap on the creek away made a clean sweep through my place. It brought rocks back down as large as waggon bodys and tons and tons of small rocks washed up five feet deep. The bridge below my house blocked up and the water went over the Pike three feet deep and destroyed all the fences and left my cornfield wide open to the Pike. The water where it went over the Pike must been 20 feet deep in the crick as the bridge is some 15 or 18 feet above the bed of the creek. > > Next and more interesting: If you know the rest of the story I would be interested in knowing it. > > Dec 9, 1899 > Well, I suppose you received my wire, also a paper about the nigger Coleman it was the toughest sight that man could look at he was alive 30 minutes after the fire was started I thought he had been dead 15 minutes when all at once the logs that had been piled upon him began to move and up popped his head right in the middle of the fire he held his head up so lound and swayed back and froth that I began to think that fire would not kill him. As he held his head up through the burning logs you can imagine what a terrible sight it was his face was blistered and swollen to twice it's size. Mr. Lashbrook was the first man to lay hand on him and the man to apply the match. In an instant every officer was pinyoned from behind by powerful determined men. It was rite in front of the police cort door. Well, you may say this punishment was to severe but I will ask what would you have done if it had been your wife instead of Mr. Lashbrooks. yours, Everett Brightman > > > > > > ==== KYMASON Mailing List ==== > Visit the Mason County Website! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~kymason/mason.htm > Be sure to bookmark it! >