Good morning - the server change has been made and I'm slowing getting caught up with everything. Here is another time line tip - next Tuesday we'll work with some more county holdings. TIP #109 - KENTUCKY TIME LINE 1872 Jan 12: Citizens of Franklin County petition the Legislature for protection from a band of desperadoes who have caused a reign of terror in the county, especially a few miles north of Frankfort. Jan 18: Legislature approves homestead exemption for blacks and housekeepers. Jan: James Byrum, age 107, of Madison Co dies; he came from North Carolina. Feb 8: Legislature punishes by fine and imprisonment anyone found killing, disfiguring, poisoning or otherwise injuring any horse, cow, mule, jack, jennet, goat, sheep or hog without owner's permission. Also repeals the law requiring persons to be 21 years old before being able to practice law. Feb 10: The former residence of Abraham Lincoln, a log cabin in Elizabethtown is torn down. Feb 13: A fire at Sharpsburg in Bath County - Presbyterian church and five businesses burned. Feb 17: The Ohio River at Covington is frozen over for the fourth time this winter - breaks a record. Feb 23: An accident on the Louisville & Cincinnati Short-Line Railroad 4 miles from the Verona Station; train goes through an iron bridge 25 feet high; 2 passengers killed and 53 wounded, one of the latter died. Feb 28: Legislature passes a resolution in relation to the death on Feb 17th of Daniel Clark, black, known as the "Ancient Governor." He had come to Frankfort with Gov. Clark in 1836 as his body-servant; had worked in the governor's mansion 36 years. He was granted a pension, was a native African and remembered his passage in a slave ship from the African coast to Charleston, SC. March 1: Legislature makes it unlawful to take fish in the Kentucky River with a seine or set-net or grill-net from April 1 to May 31 (the spawning season). Mar 27: A fine of not over $100 to be imposed for anyone willfully destroying or injuring grave or tomb stones or the graves, or the enclosures around them, or the flowers or shrubbery therein. Unlawful to drive deer with dogs unless owner of the lands consent. Mar 6: Swiger's Block in Frankfort burns 5 stores, an infant burned to death. April 8: Hailstorm hits a field near Lexington at 4 am and killed lambs there. April 8: Severe rainstorm over much of the state; bridges lost; two young men died near Louisville - Wm Mardis, age 70, in Taylor Co and a little child of Mr. Masters in Franklin Co when hit by lightning. C A Bright drowned in Shelby County; a man drowned and barn with crop of tobacco swept away in Bracken Co; a sawmill struck by lightning at Falmouth in Pendleton Co and burned; 100 coal barges swept off from Covington. April: A fire at Smithland in Livingston Co burns a hotel, 3 business houses and 6 dwellings. April 16: Oil well struck on Boyd's Creek in Barren Co near Glasgow Station (Park City). April 29: Robbery of the National Bank in Columbia, Adair County by five men. They entered town around noon and made purchases; at 2 pm they remounted their horses and rode to the bank, guns drawn. Jas. Garnett, Jas T. Page, W H Hudson were chased from the bank. Cashier is killed (R A C Martin) who refused to unlock the safe. Bank is relieved of about $4,000 plus stock. Gov. Leslie offers a $1,000 reward - later increased to $8,750, but robbers never caught. May 8: Arson at Paris, Bourbon Co, of the courthouse which had been built in 1797-99 by Thomas Metcalfe and his uncle John Metcalfe. The clerk'' office, badly damaged, with the county records. June 19: The first Black jury in KY serves at a coroner's inquest at Louisville over the body of a Black who died from wounds inflected by another Black on the Steamer Robert Burns on May 29th. August 8: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary to be moved to Kentucky. August 10: A great freshet in Lick Creek, Carroll County, caused by heavy rains during Sunday morning services, carries off the church, with the congregation in it, several hundred yards and lodges it against a tree. A woman trying to escape dropped her child who was drowned. Aug 22-27: The Methodist Episcopal Church South camp meeting is held at Parks' Hill on Licking River, 6 miles north of Carlisle, over 5,000 people in attendance. Sept 1 - 25: Great droughts in Fulton Co and several others in central KY including Franklin, Fayette and Clarke. Water has to be hauled 3-7 miles, springs which have never failed, go dry. September 5: Inauguration ceremonies held at Bowling Green in Warren Co for the new "Warren College." September 18: A man named Johnson receives 3 lashes on his naked back in Edmonson County for petit larceny ... public outcry for removal of the law from the books. September 27: A new denomination spring up in Mercer and Boyle Counties under the leadership of Rev. Wm. Terhune - known as the "Soul Sleeper." They believe that when a person dies, their soul sleeps with them. He was killed while erecting a church when his foot got caught in the reins of his horse. September 25: A barbecue held in Union County celebrating the 50th anniversary of Father Durbin's ministry in the Roman Catholic Church. 2,100 people present; he has baptized 3,500, married 600 couples. Sept 27: Several men became very excited over a liquor fire at a house in Paris (Bourbon County), kill a baby. September 28: A tornado touched down in Christian County near Hopkinsville, destroyed several dwellings and a number of Black cabins and barns. October 1: A weather signal station established at the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Ashland, near Lexington. October 10: At Lawton's Bluff in Marshall Co, 8 miles from Paducah, the ladies' car on the Elizabethtown and Paducah railroad train was thrown from a trestle 35 feet high; 2 passengers were killed and 14 wounded. October 11: An unfinished brick wall falls from a 4-story building on Market Street in Louisville. It crushed to death and mangled 4 people. The architect, contractor and bricklayer were arrested and charged with manslaughter when they learned the walls were only 9 inches thick. October 12: A riot in Covington at 9:30 pm when Blacks fired pistol-shots and attacked with bricks to demolish windows, doors and showcases, stores belonging to German . 8-9 wounded. October 20: Daring jail break at Owingsville in Bath County. 25 armed men broke through a back wall of the jail, took out a Black man - Sam. Bascom who was charged with house-burning. October 25: Over 100 wagons from Kentucky have passed through South Union in Logan County this fall, heading west. November 7: The little 8-year old son of Eugene Barnes in Fayette County devoured b hogs in coming home from school and cutting through the field. November 8: The Canadian Horse Disease called epizotty, reaches Kentucky. Stops street cars, stage lines, drays and wagons; men hitch themselves up to get the crops in, an elephant is used in Louisville. Nearly all horses and mules have the disease. November 12: Small pox breaks out in Louisville; over 100 cases reported. November 18: Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton lectures at Louisville on the "Coming Girl", advocated woman suffrage. November 21: Large fire at Lexington, two blocks of houses burned, many poor families homeless; one child burned in the flames. November 22: Mysterious disappearance In New York of George N Peay, well-know business man of Louisville - had a considerable sum of money on him. He was found March 1874 at a large Canadian city where he was arrested. November 25: Great fires in the woods in parts of Livingston, McCracken and other counties. November 26: Great drouth in Ballard, McCracken and neighboring counties; water hauled for several miles. November 27: At Bowling Green, Warrren County, observers counted 116 falling meteors at the rate of 480 per hour. December 12: At 5 pm, meteor showers observed in Frankfort. © Copyright 18 December 1997, Sandra K. Gorin, All rights reserved. *********************************************************** Sandi Gorin - 205 Clements Ave., Glasgow, KY 42141 502-651-9114 - sgorin@glasgow-ky.com BARREN CO: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/1798 GORIN GEN PUB: http://members.aol.com/kygen/gorin.htm KYRESEARCH-KYBIOS-SOUTH-CENTRAL-KENTUCKY lists Send e-mail for info. Research tips at: http://www.usroots.com/~jmurphy/lessons/lessons.htm *********************************************************** ------------------------------