Falmouth Outlook Friday 13 July 1923 Vol. 17 No. 6 Pg. 2 Col. 1 J. R. DONALDSON J.R. Donaldson was born at Ft. Donaldson, Scotland County, MO Feb. 8 1842 and fell asleep at his home in Memphis on Tuesday morning June19, 1923 at the age of 81 years, 1 month and 10 days. He joined the Confederate Army August 10, 1861 and served until the surrender in Shreveport, LA in 1865. Returning home, September 25th the same year he resumed his occupation of farming. On February 9 1867 he was married to Hannah M. Hope who bore him two children, Mrs. Minnie Gatton, of Phoenix, AZ and Emmett Donaldson of Unionville, MO. On September 26, 1891 he was bereaved of his wife. The following year he was married to Harrite R. Shackelford, who died September 9,1914. On August 26, 1915 he was married to Mrs. May Hitch, a former resident of Pendleton county Kentucky, who survives him. Member of the Memphis Presbyterian Church when he died. Also a member of the IOOF. Buried in Memphis. Falmouth Outlook Friday 13 July 1923 Vol. 17 No. 6 Pg. 4 Col. 3 "OLD KENTUCKY HOME" DEDICATED ON FOURTH That the beauty and sentiment of the simple folk songs of Stephen Collins Foster still live in the hearts of the people, was strikingly evidenced by the honor paid the composer in the dedication of "The Old Kentucky Home" at Bardstown on the Fourth of July. [Long article 3 columns] Falmouth Outlook Friday 13 July 1923 Vol. 17 No. 6 Pg. 4 Col. 6 SOME INTERESTING PENDLETON HISTORY (By Nutty Bill) The English settlement made in Pendleton County in 1848 and known as the double log cabin settlement. In the spring of 1848 some fifteen or twenty families, of English descent, purchased several hundred acres of land some five miles northeast of Falmouth on the Falmouth and Foster road, on the west side of Kinkaid creek. The settlement was known as the English settlement of the Double Log Cabins, on account of two cabins built near each other and the space between being covered over and the two made into a double dwelling. The farm where the cabins stood is not owned by Thomas Jacobs, and it was also know as the Kavanaugh farm. The following families arrived in 1848 from Merry England, and formed the settlement. The heads of the families were Joseph Gawthorne, Joseph Brittock, James and William Fanthorpe, Joseph Dunstall, Jack Graves, Billy Birkingshire, Wm. Wingdorm, Henry Hazel, Thomas Parnell, John Wicks, James Shanks, Ralph Tomlinson, George Doel and several other families. The members of the settlement lived together until about the beginning of the Civil War. When the war broke out between the States the members of the settlement allied themselves with the Union cause, and a number of them enlisted in the 7th Kentucky Cavalry and the 18th Kentucky Infantry. After the enlistment of some of the members in the army, others began selling their farms and locating in town, or buying farms closer to town. The artisans came to town and worked at their trades. John Wicks was a house and sign painter, which he followed up to 1882, when he fell while painting the cupola of the court house and the fall made him a cripple the remainder of his life. Henry Hazel was a blacksmith and made the first iron picket fence around the court house square. Joseph Brittock was the butcher of the town. Ralph Tomlinson was the ticket and freight agent for the Old Covington and Lexington railroad, afterwards known as the Kentucky Central. Joseph Gawthorne, after he came out of the army, conducted a saloon on the Eckert corner. After he quit the saloon business he went to Dayton, Ohio. Of the number that constituted the set tlement there is not one living and of all their descendants, Thomas Shanks of East Falmouth, son of James Shanks, is the only male descendant of the settlement now living in the county or town. Mrs. Clara Frazier and Mrs. Finnel Shoemaker, granddaughters of the Joseph Dunstall, are the only ones of the Dunstall family in the town. Mrs. Tho mas Bell and Miss Hattie Wicks are the last of the Wicks family. Mrs. Julia Murphy is the last of the Doel family. Mrs. Belle Scott and her brother, Thomas Shanks, are the last of a numerous family. The other descendants are scattered from the Lakes to the Gulf, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The members that composed the settlement were a social lot and there was never a Saturday but what more or less of them would meet in town and have a social bout in the top rooms of a saloon. As long as the settlement held together, they had their usual yearly picnic or dinner, where they met and related stories of old England. The best story handed down occurred between Wm. Fanthourpe and Joseph Gawthorne, William was one of the best farmers to leave Merry England, and he never tired of telling about the big vegetables he raised. At the last annual picnic when William was feeling good and he was relating to Joseph about the big turnips he raised just before he left England. "Yes," said Joseph, "I remember the year I was in France." "And what were you doing in France?" asked William. "I was making large kettles." "Large kettles," repeated William, "and what were you going to do with the large kettles?" "I was going to cook those big turnips you raised." said Joseph. Miss _____ Gawthorne, sister of Joseph Gawthorne, brought with her from the race tracks of England her love for fine and fast horses. She was one of the finest and best horse women of her day. There was no horse to wild for her to ride, or fence to high, when she was following her hounds, for she and her horse to go over. She never failed to be at the killing and always the recipient of the bush of the fox. After the chase, when then met to celebrate, she could put the men under the table when the wine flowed freely. She was a whole-souled typical English horse-woman of her day, and when it came to picking the winner in a horse race she cold name the winner nine times out of ten. Several years after the settlement was located a noted character and his family from England came over and took up their abode with the original members of the settlement. From his peculiarity and dress he was known by all the old settlers in the county as General Scott. He was retired and never mixed with the people and was never known to be without two big navy revolvers strapped around his waist, and a big Mexican spur on each heel. He would not allow anyone to approach him from behind. It was supposed he was with Wellington at Waterloo and the battle queered him and he always was looking for the Little Corporal. He was a peaceful citizen and never offered to violate any of the laws of his adopted country. He died in the early eighties and Joseph Gawthorne married his widow. Thomas Parnell, who died in Newport two years ago. was the last member of the original settlers. Mrs. Edith Herbert, formerly Miss Edith Gawthorne, of Dayton, OH, who left here forty years ago, and her niece Mrs. Blanch Grider, paid a visit to the old neighbors who remembered her as a young girl. Falmouth Outlook Friday 13 July 1923 Vol. 17 No. 6 Pg. 4 Col. 6 HONORARY CONFEDERATE The Greatest Holder of Confederate Medals is a Negro Pensioner The man who is the holder of the most Confederate medals is the Reverend William Mack Lee, Negro body servant of General Robert E. Lee. For eighteen years after the Civil War he continued to serve his old master until his death. After the death of General Lee, he became a Baptist preacher and has charge of a Negro Baptist church in Norfolk, Virginia. Falmouth Outlook Friday 13 July 1923 Vol. 17 No. 6 Pg. 7 Col. 4 [Whitaker-King Reunion. Whole column. COPY SOME TIME] Falmouth Outlook Friday 13 July 1923 Vol. 17 No. 6 Pg. 7 Col. 5 Dayton, OH news items The Outlook would not be the paper it is, if it were not for C. F. Pettit (No. 13). Yes. kind friend, we look for you every week, so don't "weaken" just keep up your good work. Falmouth Outlook Friday 13 July 1923 Vol. 17 No. 6 Pg. 8 Col. 3 KELAT NEWS ITEMS [Long portion of the items was about the Whitaker-King Reunion and the doings.] ============================== Items of interest to: Doug Harper Biloxi, MS