The Marion Star, Marion, Ohio Tuesday, October 31, 1950 - Page 10 PRESS MORRIS KENTON -- Services for Press Morris, 68, who died at his Kentucky residence Sunday, will be held at Canney, Morgan County Kentucky. He was born in Morgan County and resided there until eight years ago when he came to Hardin County. Besides his widow, survivors include four sons, Cortis, of Salt Lick, Ky, Curtis B., of Lima, Dillard, at home, and J.C., of Kenton. Three daughters, Ella Taulbee of Alger, Mrs. Lavina Critch, of Kentucky, and Della Morris of Kenton. 27 grandchildren, 5 great grandchildren, three brothers and four sisters. ----- Monday June 13, 1977 - Page [cut off] JESSE HOLLAND, 92, STILL WALKING TO OHIO Campton, Ky (AP) -- Jesse Holland's walks at least 10 miles a day through Eastern Kentucky and into other states may be a bit less than the distances he covered in younger days, but then, Jesse is 92. Walking seems to be something Holland never gets enough of; making moonshine, however is. He swore that off more than a decade ago when several associates got caught. As for drinking, Holland says he "quit over a year ago. Thought I drunk my part." The Wolfe Countian's womanizing has abated over the years; he now spends much of his time on Angie Taulbee's front porch in Campton and occasionally gives the 57-year-old widow a friendly pinch. But the walks go on, sometimes into Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois or even West Virginia. Holland, who says he will bet any man he can walk 50 miles in daylight, plans to walk 150 miles to Middletown, Ohio, in September ---"if I'm not dead"---just to see if he can do it. But his departure date is not definite. "When Grandpa gets a little bit mad at any of us, he'll start walking. No one knows where he goes" Mrs. Taulbee said. Holland says he first remembers walking more than 100 miles to Nashville when he was 35. His father, who walked from Texas to settle in Campton, may have provided the inspiration. Holland recalled that, in his 50's, he once walked to Middletown, Ohio, on crutches, because of his rheumatism was bothering him. In Cincinnati, the police ask him what he was doing. "I said 'walking'". They asked what was wrong with his leg. "I said, 'not much.'" When police told Holland that they wanted him off the road, Holland said he told them, "Then you better be inside tomorrow at nine, 'cause that's when I'm coming back through here." Walking from Kentucky farm jobs to jobs in Ohio steel mills and railroad yards, Holland often would pull his jacket over his head at night and sleep under bridges, in barns, or on the roadside. There are bad memories, too. One night in Winchester, Ky., Holland and his son were walking when a bus ran over his son and killed him. Holland, who says he has had three wives and a dozen or so "close calls," has six children that he knows of. One of them, whom Holland lost track of for 44 years, found him two years ago after hearing about him in nearby Madison County. Holland says that he has come to live by two rules for serious, long distance walking. "I don't take no ride when I'm walking. When I'm awalking, I'm awalking," he says, adding -------rest of article not found in the newspaper! ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

Louise-- Would this Jesse Hollon be the son of Robinson Crusoe Hollon? He (Robinson) is supposed to have walked home from Texas (to Campton) after he had gone with a group of his family to Texas and he decided he didn't like it. In a story I have in Holland/Hollan: Tales and Stories Old and New, J.B. Stamper wrote about his Uncle Robinson Crusoe Hollon. He says that when Uncle Crusoe, as they called him, decided to come home he said: "One day I stepped over to the railroad station and asked, 'What will a ticket cost to Beattyville, Ky." The station master told him $35.00--this was about 1878 or so--and Uncle Crusoe told him: "I could step ove there for less," and he did! After he returned to KY he married Laura Fulks--and they had sons and daughters. Just wondering. Bess