TIP #116 - KENTUCKY TIME LINE 1873: CONCLUSION Before going back in time to see what was influencing our settlers in 1873, I was recently sent a post for an interesting and helpful site which helps you interpret the old handwriting. It can be found at: http://www.firstct.com/fv/oldhand.html. Now, back to Collins' old history to see if it can help you find your family, determine why they died, and the events of the day that held their interest. This ends the series. Jan 15: Great fire in Carlisle, Nicholas Co., 15 stores and other buildings with the Mercury Printing Office burned for a loss of $70,000. Jan 7: The Ancient Order of United Workmen Grand Lodge of Kentucky instituted at Covington. Jan: The following charitable institutions funded: Eastern Lunatic Asylum, Western Lunatic Asylum, Blind Asylum, Printing for the Blind, Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Feeble-Minded Institute, Kentucky Penitentiary, House of Reform. Jan 8: 124 deaths in Louisville during this week; 66 from small-pox. Jan 9: Great Diamond Scandel occupies interest of Elizabethtown (Hardin) citizens. Jan 11: Skedaddle, the noted thoroughbred stallion ridden by the General John Hunt Morgan, dies of lockjaw near Lebanon. Jan 12: 5 persons drown while crossing the Big Sandy River in Floyd County. Jan 15: a barrel of 15-year old whiskey sold at Lexington for $500 or $11.55 a gallon. Jan 15: In parts of KY, over 3/4ths of the jack stock have died of epizootic. Jan 17: Attempted murder of Major George W Drye of Hustonville in Lincoln County - shot through his window at night - he a representative of Casey and Russell Counties in the Legislature 1867-69. Jan 20: Annual report of the "Old Ladies' Home, 7th and KY Streets in Louisville shows it had been in existence for 8 years. Jan 24: Death in Louisville of a Negro woman, Aunty Robinson, who weighed over 300 pounds. Jan 24: Over 1,000 barrels of apple brandy distilled in Russell County since last September. Jan 25: There are 67 children housed at the Masonic Widows' and Orphans' Home in Louisville. Jan 31: Josh Bell County's name changed to Bell County. Feb 4: Mrs. Susan Klinglesmith, age 96, dies in Howe's Valley, Hardin County. She born in 1777 in a fort near Pittsburg, PA and moved with her husband to Hardin before 1880. Feb 9-20: Financial panic in Shelby Co; seven large failures of planters and stock dealers. Feb 11: Arrest at Lexington, by U. S. Officers of 9 prominent citizens - some quite elderly - over charge of Jan 30 with "obstructing the right of suffrage". Feb 13: Circuit Clerk's Office at Mt. Vernon burns in Rockcastle Co. Feb 17: By a vote of 1-9, bill passes the senate allowing people of foreign birth who have made a declaration of intention to become citizens of the United States, to vote in municipal elections. House did not take action. Feb 18: Successful trial of the Remington steam street-car in Louisville. Feb 25: The St. Louis Times complains that there is a Kentucky dynasty because Missouri only has 18 U. S. Senators of which ½ nearly were natives of Kentucky. Mentioned B. Gratz Brown, Governor - his KY cousin, and Brown were succeeded by Woodson, another Kentuckian and several senatorial candidates were Kentuckians. Feb 28: The "bee cholera" fatal in Lincoln county, 9 out of 13 colonies dying at one place. Mar 1: A fire at Lancaster, Garrard County, burns the Odd Fellow's Hall, Masonic Lodge, a bank and a dry goods store. Mar 6: The senate vetoed a bill to "purchase a sufficient quantity of lightning conductors to protect all the public buildings in Frankfort." Mar 10: A great Eastern circus tent, holding 7,000 people, overturned by a tornado at Louisville; fearful panic, one boy killed, a young man fatally injured and others injured. Mar 10: Bank robbery in Louisville of the Falls City Tobacco Bank, $2,000 in gold, $5,000 in diamonds and jewelry, $300,000 in railroad and government bonds, $60,000 bonds belonging to Centre College. Mar 12: Miss Annie E Dickinson lectures in Louisville on 'Woman's Work" when people were expecting to hear a lecture on "Men's Rights." Mar 12: Circus named above donates proceeds of this night's performance to the two families whose two sons were killed by the tornado. Mar 15: Great fire at Lawrenceburg in Anderson Co at 12 midnight - 60 stores, groceries, residences and other houses burned; 63 families rendered homeless; only 15 houses left standing in the town. Mar 15: Murty O'Brien murders his step-son, Tim Hogan, in Columbus, Hickman, who had been a prisoner awaiting trial. Mar 19: Last issue of the Lexington Observer and Weekly Press, purchased and consolidated. Mar 22: The Kentucky Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is incorporated in Louisville. Mar 30: Daniel Purcell of near Foxtown in Madison Co, dies, a soldier of the War of 1812. Apr 18: A band of disguised men go to the house of a Mr. Zimmerman near Middleburg in Casey Co, and flogged him in presence of his family. Apr 21: Fire at Owingsville, Bath Co., 10 stores, offices & stables burned, News printing offices with a loss of $22.000. Apr 24: New alms house incorporated in Louisville. Apr 26: Desperado Mark Coldiron killed in self-defense by Judge B F Day and his brother, Wm. Day in Frenchburg, Menifee Co. Apr 30: Law passed "wages of married women for their labor to be free from debts and control of husband…" Apr: Large fire at Cavena (formerly called Horse Cave, Hart Co), several store and large stocks burned, $60,000 in losses. May 1: Peter Shenfessal, age 100 dies in Estill Co. May 6: Kentucky State Homoepatahic Medical Society formed at Louisville. May 10: Southern Baptist Convention proposes to move headquarters from Greenville, S.C. to Louisville. May 19: First installment of 5,000 U.S. Postal cards received at Louisville, sold for 1 cent each and sold out in an hour. May 27: A tornado passes over Louisville, does much damage. May 28: Fire at Carlisle, Nicholas Co., 10 houses destroyed, several stores, railroad depot and homes, $30,000 in losses. May 28: Murder in his own house in Washington Co., near the Mercer Co. line of Dr. George C. Alfred by two "yellow" boys. The doctor had raised these boys - named George Miler Alfred and Ned Alfred. They escaped but were caught in Pennsylvania, brought to trial and hung May 1. The doctor's wife was also indited as an accomplice. May 30: Suicide of Ben. Scobee near Bowling Green, Warren, Ky. who was supposedly remorse over killing his young friend, Ben. Parrish at the railroad depot in Bowling Green on 20 Mar 1873. May 31: Desperados murder Jas. Jeffers, a policeman in Frankfort. June 1: Fireman John Hunt of Louisville, died of a broken heart at a fire on Green Street. June 13: Frank H Walworth, 19, shot and killed his father, Mansfield Tracy Walworth, at a hotel in New York City. He had supposedly treated his wife brutally and had threatened his life and the step-son's. She found to be beaten black and blue, flesh ripped off to the bones. She was the daughter of Col. John J. Hardin. June 13: Black Joseph Duncan hung twice for killing another black, John Hawkins. First hanging allowed his feet to touch the ground; and while still struggling and conscious, he was taken down, rehung the second time. July 1: Free delivery of mail begins at Covington. July 9: 47 deaths reported from cholera at Franklin in Simpson Co., 5 other deaths in Simpson Co. July 13: Mrs. Emily Owen, while at a Methodist sacramental meeting at the Shiloh church near Hopkinsvile, walked to the altar to take communion and while kneeling, dropped dead. July 15: Three serious fires in Louisville - Bamberger, Bloom & Co. destroyed, library spared, $84,000 in losses. July 15: 9 deaths reported at Elizabethtown, Hardin Co, from cholera since the 11th; Bowling Green had 21 casualities; also in Grayson and Carter Counties. July 27: 14 masked men entered the cabin of a black man, Lewis Wilson, near Gratz in Owen Co., and shot him while in bed; he defended himself, fought them all the way to the Kentucky River, ran for help to a white neighbor's; died the next morning. He had identified some of his assailants. July 27: Lagrange in Oldham Co. reports 5 deaths from cholera in 5 days; over 2/3rds of the citizens have left town. July 27: Several West Tennessee newspapers advocate the forming of another state in the United States - beginning at a point on the Kentucky shore opposite Cairo, IL; thence along the Kentucky bank of the Ohio river to the mouth of the Tennessee River at Paducah; then up the west bank of the Tennessee River to Eastport, at the N. W. corner of the State of Alaabama; then along the State line between Alabama and Mississippi to the S. E. corner of Monroe Co, MS; then partly along the Tallahatchie River to Boliver, on the Mississippi River, and up that river to the beginning. Meeting held but few Kentuckians attended. Movement is called respectable but no vitality in western Kentucky. Aug 1-12: 12 deaths from cholera in and around Princeton in Caldwell Co since July 18. Aug 2: Campbell E Hurst, young lawyer and county clerk, murdered at Mt. Pleasant in Harlan Co., by John L. Jones while he was trying to prevent a breach of the peace by a party of carousing men - one of whom stabbed him 4 times. Aug 6: "Aunt Hager", died at age 122 near Alexandria in Campbell Co; she born in VA on 21 Mar 1751. Aug 25: Caterpillars invade shade trees in cities and counties; more destructive than ever known. Sept 9: About 60 deaths from cholera at Millersburg, Bourbon Co. Sept 10: Cholera kills 66 to date at Millersburg. 3 at Paris; 24 city and 49 county at Lebabon in Marion Co; 33 at Lancaster in Garrard Co; 22 at Columbus in Adair Co. Sept 14: Broadway Hotel at Lexington burns. Sept 27: Robert Carson, age 71, brother of Kit Carson, died in Howard Co MO near Arrow Rock. Was a native of Madison Co KY, emigrated to KY. in 1811. Sept 27: John Willett, a young farmhand, on horseback, shot and killed on the Winchester Pike 10 1/21 miles east of Lexington by Montgomery H. Parker, an old and wealthy farmer. Oct 2: 4 men killed by the falling of a derrick at a freestone quarry, 8 miles from Mt. Sterling in Montgomery Co. Oct 5: Mrs Elizabeth (Engles) Dixon, dies in Robertson Co, age 106 ½ years old, remembers tales of Cornwallis' surrender. Oct 6: Deputy city marshall William A Burton murdered in a drinking saloon at Paris by Edward and Matthew Current while he was arresting them for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Oct 7: The first "colored" highs school in Kentucky dedicated in Louisville at the corner of York and 6th Streets. Oct 7: A lady dies in Estill Co. (not named) whose hair measured 5 feet 8 inches in length. Oct 15: Hog cholera found extensively in Shelby, Garrard and other counties. Oct 15: Two reported deaths in Louisville from yellow fever, brought here from Memphis. Oct 16: Explosion caused by gas at the N. W. corner of the City hall. Oct 20: A survey concludes that there are 19 counties in KY with no piano. Oct 23: George Wolfe killed in bed, a wealthy farmer 3 miles from Hopkinsville. Oct 27: Gen. J. J. Roberts is tunnelling on the farm of Larkin J. Procter, adjoining Mammoth Cave, for a "hole in the ground". Large passageway opened. Nov 5: B F Martin, 114, dies in Harrison County, possibly the last survivor of the Revolutionary War. Had lived on same farm 75 years. Nov: Found that suicide is rapidly increasing in Kentucky. Nov 10-16: A faceplate of a coffin was removed, disinterred to remove the remains to another graveyard. Through the glass was seen, as perfect as in life, the face and features of a 2-year old child of Dr. Wm. H. Curran of Claysville in Harrison Co., who was buried 6 July 1855. The roses on his breast were in full bloom and still attached. The coffin was shown for over a week to many and there was no change. Nov 17: Cholera epidemic continues - Paducah and McCracken Co now have 180; Bowling Green - 66, Franklin in Simpson Co, 50; Louisville - 21; Elizabethtown in Hardin Co 22; Maysville 11; Lagrange in Oldham Co - 15 deaths. Dec 1: Mrs. Stamper, of "doubtful character" while at home on Slate Creek near Turley's Mill in Montgomery Co, had her house set on fire by 10-12 disguised men. She put out the flames and shot with a pistol at the party; they returned fire and killed her. Dec 3; Great windstorm and rainstorm in northern & middle KY. Dec 4: Hurricane in eastern part of Wayne Co. 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