-----Original Message----- From: Gerri Sutton <gsutton@skn.net> To: KYLAUREL <KYLAUREL-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, January 19, 1998 8:29 PM Subject: EXCERPTS from the MOUNTAIN ECHO 1890 >Reprinted with permission of the Laurel County Historical Society >============================================== >September 19,--Roy Brower is very low with malarial fever. > >Emery Faris of London was in town Sunday. > >Captain J. H. McNeil has returned to his home in Missouri. > >The census man who was assigned the enumeration of the Sea Island coast of >South Carolina, made a wonderful discovery. Kiwha Island some miles down >the coast, is owned by two families of the antibellum Sea Island barons. >The enumerator to his surprise, found there a black colony of about 150 >souls, and struck a region, the only one in the world, where all the >inhabitants were English speaking, reading and writing negroes. Every child >of a suitable age could also read and write, and the women were just as >intelligent as the men. All were prospering under the wise rule of a >mulatto caique named Qush Stephens, whose wife was responsible for the >education of the people. > >October 24,--Died, at his residence near Fariston last Monday of >consumption Mrs. Jane Hilton wife of Dock Hilton. > >Mr. W. H. Sasser, a native of Laurel county, who has been living for seven >or eight years in far away Oregon is agian i Laurel county on a visit. > >Mr. George Edwards, who left this county in 1847 and now lives in Indiana, >is back among his old friends and neighbors. > >Tuesday, Oct. 21st, was the twenty-ninth anniversary of the battle of Wild >Cat, a day well remembered by many citizens of Laurel County. > >The case of Hugh Jackson, convicted in the Laurel Circuit Court, of >shooting and wounding with intent to kill,is set for argument in the Coury >of Appeals, Oct. 30. > >The Rev. J. C. Gill who suffered a stroke of paralysis about two weeks >ago, as mentioned in last weeks ECHO still lingers between life and death. >Dr. Coldwell informs us that he does not think he can live more than >forty-eight hours. > >We learn that the house of Mr. Wm.L. Storm, in the south-western portion of >the county, was destroyed by fire Monday morning about 11 o'clock. Mr. >Storm was absent from home, leaving his wife and three little children >alone. When Mrs. Storm discovered the fire she rang the dinner bell and >GAbe Barnett, a neighbor hearing the alarm hastened to her relief, reaching >the house in time to save a portion of th ehouse hold goods. > > > > > > > > > > > > > >