Margie Bailey's Scrapbook
Mary Hatton, member of the now closed Bourbon Genealogical Society, has donated this material. It was given to her by her friend Thecla Bailey. The scrapbook belonged to Thecla's mother, Margie Bailey.
Printed by permission of the Bourbon County Genealogical Society 2003-2010
- Millersburg Yesteryears February 6, 1901 - Tom Bowles and wife move into part of the Mrs. Sarah Lawson house.
- Obituary - Mrs. Tom Bowles
* Boyles, Wallace: City Parcel Post Deliveryman wearing Indian headdress as a promotion
* Devotions
* Dr. Martha Petree: "Death Released Her Story, But Put An End To Study Of Her Strange Power Of Healing"
* Elmendorf
* Goudy Family
- Building in which the Goudy family lived: Cynthiana, Harrison County, marks the tragic life and death of Margaret Goudy
* "Log Cabin Built 143 Years Ago in County Probably State's Oldest" Part 1 - Part 2
* Millersburg: "A Breath of France", stone house built in 1791 with furnishing brought from long ago
* Poems
* Yellow Poplar and Pine in Old Bridge at Jackstown Withstand Many Decades
Obituary - Mrs. Maggie Horseman Bailey
Paris, Ky., Nov 26 - Funeral services for Mrs. Maggie Horseman Bailey, who died Friday night at the home of a son Carl Bailey, near Millersburg, will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday at the M. E. Pruitt and Son funeral home at Millersburg, conducted by the Rev. Orville M. Skeen, pastor of the Millersburg Christian Church.
Burial will be at 3 p.m. in the Bailey family cemetery at Owingsville. Active pallbearers will be the following grandsons: Carl Sparks Bailey, Clyde Bailey Jr., Noel Horseman, Billie Bailey, Marion Banta and Clyde Douglas Bailey. Honorary bearers include Dr. V. C. Moseley, Dave Clark, Cecil Elkins, J. E. Weathers, Charles Burroughs, Roy Lowe and Roy and Tom Slone.
The body is at the funeral home in Millersburg.
Peter Vinegar
GLANCES HERE AND THERE by I.D. Zern
These are really "Peter Vinegar Days" in Central Ky. Oldsters and semi-oldsters hereabouts will remember the term formerly used as descriptive of heat waves. It was used on occasions when the temperature mounted to a degree which might be considered as this mundane sphere's nearest approach to the climate Peter Vinegar used to associate with the nether regions in his famous sermons delivered everywhere in the country and elsewhere.
The colored evangelist who lived and held forth for the part in Lexington, was a familiar figure in Nicholas County between 40 and 50 years ago often appearing at Henryville and at Ewing where his fiery delineations of the world to come for sinners were of the quality that made his name a byword throughout the Bluegrass and a synonym for heat.
The application of his name to the hottest of days persisted long after the old preacher had gone to his reward in, I have always hoped, a far cooler region than that which he often described in his favorite sermon entitled: " A Dam' Hot Day"
PETER VINEGAR INFORMATION
Editor: The Herald
I noticed that more dope on Peter Vinegar is desired, following the mention of the noted revivalist in the Demon Dopester's column.
Mrs. Anna Bell Ward of Somerset is writing a historical novel and one of her characters is Peter Vinegar of Chitlin' Switch of Fayette Co. I believe that if anyone interested in this matter would would drop her a line, she could furnish the information and would be glad to do so.
REMEMBERS PETER VINEGAR
When I was a small girl down in Carlisle, Nicholas County, there came to the community a tall, gaunt Negro man who said his name was Peter Vinegar and that he had come to pour out religion of the Good Book on the sinners. He was known to have a revival at Ruddles Mills, Bourbon County and several other settlements. His sermon texts were quite unusual.
" For the bed I am too short" "Hold that Tiger" "The debbil is a porcupine"
He vanished quite suddenly, just as he had come. - Mrs. Guy R. Bell
This is information for "Folklorist" Peter Vinegar. Peter Vinegar was the Rev. Alexander Vinegar who died July 19, 1905. Accounts of his death were carried by both of the Lexington papers. An article concerning him by Bob Fain was published in the Lexington Herald Leader August 20, 1953. Mrs. Nannie Bell Taylor objected to some of the statements made in this artlcle in a letter to the editor-Mary Hester Cooper
If " Folklorist" will contact Mrs. Jessie Vinegar, 477 West Fourth Street, Lexington, he may be able to get a line on Peter Vinegar. I think the old fellow is buried in the of the colored cemeteries in or around Lexington and this Mrs. Vinegar married one of his descendants. Peter often came to Cynthiana for camp meeting days and drew large crowds of white folks. -Reader of Cynthiana
