At 12:16 AM 2/7/00 -0500, Charlton Queen wrote: >Hi Cousins! Does anyone recognize this QUEEN? > >Obit from abt. 1890 Mt. Sterling Advocate (Newspaper) in KY. > >Mr. J. E. QUEEN of Lexington, formerly a merchant of this city, died of >paralysis at St. Joseph's (Hospital) in Lexington last tuesday. Had been >engaged in the dry goods business, at one time having been in charge of the >silk department in the N. Y. store in Louisville. A devout Catholic, his >remains were taken to Bardstown, his former home, for interment. > >Charlton Queen No, but it sounds like he had a definite connection with the (a?) Catholic group of Queens out of Maryland. There was a big migration of English-speaking Catholics from Maryland to Kentucky early in the 1800s. Louisville has a big Catholic community (at least for the South) that's been there for a very long time. Elizabeth Whitaker ELWHITAKER@ftc-i.net