To all in Jackson, Owsley and Laurel Counties. Jess Wileon Possum Trot Road Manchester, Ky 40962 ---------- > From: Jess Wilson <jswlsn@prtcnet.org> > To: KYCLAY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [KYCLAY-L] Dickey's Diary. > Date: Wednesday, March 25, 1998 1:51 PM > > Thanks Carolyn. How should I have addressed this so that it went to > everyone on the Clay County list? I would like to send such messages of > wide interest to Laurel, Jackson and Owsley Coumty lists. > JESS WILSON > ---------- > > From: Carolyn <lgibson@kih.net> > > To: KYCLAY-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Fw: [KYCLAY-L] Dickey's Diary. > > Date: Wednesday, March 25, 1998 10:33 AM > > > > Several people have said they didn't receive the e-mail sent to the list > by > > Jess, and request a copy of the e-mail, so I'm forwarding it to the list > > for those of you who missed it. > > cg > > > > ---------- > > From: Jess Wilson <jswlsn@prtcnet.org> > > Date: Tuesday, March 24, 1998 4:48 PM > > > > Rev Dickey must have kept his Diary in a series of note books. > > The King Library at the University microfilmed a goodly portion of the > > diary which began about 1883 at Jackson in Breathitt County. He was in > > Jackson, publishing a county paper called The Tattler at the time of the > > > Hanging of Bad Tom Smith, about 1895. However a portion of his diary of > > that time is not in the King Library reels. NOTE: I am writing this from > > memory. > > Soon after this his Diary takes up about the time he meets the > > Bennet girls at a church conference. Next he is in London involved in the > > establishing what became Sue Bennett Junior College. Some say he was > sweet > > on Sue. > > Late in the year, 1897, at a conference of the Methodist Church, he was > > “read out as a supernumerary and transferred” to Manchester, the county > > seat of Clay County. Here he lodged in the Lucas Hotel, which was located > > where the First National Bank is now, on the south side of the town > square, > > which isn’t square. > > From 1897 until 1900, he seems to have been a horse back preacher > serving > > churches from Wyatt’s Chapel in Laurel County to churches and school > houses > > in and in Owsley, Breathitt, Leslie and Harlan County. > > It was during this time that he did the interviews that fill most of > Reel > > 3, where in are interviews with a lot of our ancestors. > > Rev. John J. Dickey also preached some interesting sermons during his > time > > in the mountains. He was one of six ministers that baptized Bad Tom > Smith > > before he was hanged. He preached the funeral of Baldy George Baker when > > George was killed by James Howard. When Baldy’s son, Tom, killed Deputy > > Will White, Dickey preached White’s funeral, and I think that Dickey > > preached Tom Baker’s funeral after Baker was Assassinated while being > held > > for trial for killing White.. > > I tend to ramble, I have the five reels of the King Library version and > a > > viewer. If anyone would like to bring their lunch and spend the day > viewing > > it here they would be welcome. Perhaps as many as four people could come > as > > a party and do research in the Battle Abbey. I would do no more than > shoot > > one of them if they tried to carry off some of my books or files. E-mail > me > > if interested. > > JESS WILSON > > POSSUM TROT ROAD > > MANCHESTER, KY 4O962 > > > > ---------- > > > From: Carolyn <lgibson@kih.net> > > > To: KYCLAY-L@rootsweb.com; Pam Hatch > <Pamela.Hatch@mail.uintah.k12.ut.us> > > > Subject: Re: [KYCLAY-L] Shepherd > > > Date: Tuesday, March 24, 1998 9:39 AM > > > > > > Pam, > > > I only have a copy of reel #3 of the Dickey diary. Does anyone know if > > > there is more info, on them in the other reels. > > > Thanks, :-) > > > Carol > > > > > > ---------- > > > > From: Pam Hatch <Pamela.Hatch@mail.uintah.k12.ut.us> > > > > To: KYCLAY-L@rootsweb.com > > > > > > > You wrote: > > > > > > > > > >Malissa, > > > > >I also have a Rebecca Shepherd in the line I'm working on. > > > > She was b. abt. 1798 in VA, but > > > > >her descendants ended up in Clay Co.. She married William T. Wells. > > > > >This Rebecca was the daughter of William and Elvira Lewis Shepherd. > > > > >William was born in the 1770's in NC, d. 1828. > > > > > > > > > >Can anyone help with a connection here? > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ---- > > > > > > > Hi Carolyn, > > > > > > > > Aren't these SHEPHERD people spoken of in the John Jay Dickey diary? > > > There > > > > are also SIZEMOREs, et.al. > > > > > > > > Pam > > > > > > ==== KYCLAY Mailing List ==== > > > > Support RootsWeb, home of KYCLAY Mailing List. > > > > > > > > > > > ==== KYCLAY Mailing List ==== > > Searching for missing pieces of our past! > > > >