Carey Mason Adair
Submitted by Mary Bishop mebishop1@alltel.net
Bourbon County Citizen, October 23, 1996.
Carey Mason Adair, 75, 1051 Brentsville Road, Paris, husband of Norma Mastin Adair died Monday October 21, 1996, at Columbia Hospital Paris after an extended illness.
A native of Pensacola, Oklahoma, he was the son of the late George and Julia Wellington Smith Adair and was reared in Bourbon County by his uncle, Judge George Ratterson.
Mr. Adair was a graduate of Paris High School and the University of Kentucky where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity. He was a member of the First Christian Church where he had served as Moderator, Treasurer, President of the Christian Mens Fellowship and Elder Emeritus.
Mr. Adair served for many years on the Board of Bourbon Heights, the old Bourbon County Hospital Board, was a Master Soil Conservationist and Board Member, and Past President of the Paris Rotary Club and a Paul Harris Fellow.
Survivors, in addition to this wife, are two daughters, Bonnie Sousley, Paris, and Julie Leatherwood, Waynesville, North Carolina; two grandsons, Blanton Clay Sousley and Marc Adair Sousley, both of Lexington; a nephew, Col. George Shackelford Robinson, Scott County. He was preceded in death by a sister, jane Robinson.
Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 23 at the First Christian Church in Paris by Dr. Henry Hanna. Burial will follow in the Paris Cemetery.
Casket bearers will be Kelly Haley, Harold Gudgell, John Galloway, Bob Thompson, Bob Wilson, Forrest Jackson, Mack Whitt and Julian Wells.
Honorary casket bearers will be Palmer Smart, Ed Williams, Kenney Wiliams, Bill Smits, Karl Lusk, John Heick, Earl Scott, Bill Robinson, Bob Montgomery, members of the Paris Rotary Club and elders of the First Christian Church.
Contributions are suggested to the First Christian Church, 911 High Street, Paris, Ky 40361.
The Lusk McFarland Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
(nee' Wellington Smith)
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George S. Adair was the son of Allen Percy Adair and his wife Kitty Stolworthy Adair a long time resident of Bourbon County.
Mrs. Adair was murdered in August 1922 in Oklahoma & her husband died by his own hand on the anniversary of her death 17 yrs later.
Burial at Paris, KY
Transcribed by Mary Bishop mebishop1@windstream.net
Mabel Adair
Sunday Journal Lincoln NE. September 10, 1933, Page 1, col. 2.
Young Woman Killed Nine Others Injured
Mabel Adair Meets Death in Journey to "Surprise" Her Mother.
North Platte (AP) Planning a surprise visit to her mother in Detroit, Miss Mabel Adair about 30 years old of Colton, California, was killed in a collision Saturday. Nine other persons were injured, one seriously, but the physicians expected them to recover.
After the accident near Herdhey, Neb. spectators pulled a large nail from a tire on Miss Adair's automobile and supposed that a blowout had caused it to crash into a car occupied by Lee Geddart and his companions went to a Sutherland hospital. Miss Anna McSweeney was the most seriously injured.
With Miss Adair were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Harris of Los Angeles who said she was planning the surprise visit to her mother. They suffered bruises and cuts and were brought to a hospital here. Authorities were trying tp locate her mother, whose name and addresses the Harris's did not recall.
By Mary Bishop
Mabel Adair is the daughter of Charles T. Adair & Eunice McClure Hendy and the Granddaughter of Dr. John Jackson Adair & Sallie Ewalt Adair
Milton D. Adair
Submitted by Mary Bishop mebishop1@alltel.net
1979
Milton D. Adair, 75, R.R. 2, Cynthiana, died Sunday evening at St. Joseph's Hospital in Lexington after a brief illness. Adair was a Bourbon County native and the son of the late A.P. and Katheryn Stolworthy Adair.
He was a farmer, a member of the Thomas Ware Lodge N. 340 R&AM and a graduate of Paris High School.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth ___ D. Adair; a son, Larry Adair, Harrison County, two grandchildren, Polly Anna Adair and Greg Allen Adair, both of Harrison County, a brother, Hiram T. Adair, Memphis, Tenn.; and several nieces and nephews.
Services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Lusk Funeral Home, with the Rev. Robert Anderson and Rev. Clifford Pike officiating. Burial will follow in the Paris Cemetery. Masonic Rites will be conducted at the Grave by Thomas Ware Lodge No. 340 R&AM.
Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. today.
WILLIAM AMOS-1717-1814
Submitted by Mary Hatton
Found in the Amos Family File At the Paris-Bourbon Co. Library
"This document would have been lost except the old, old DAR ladies copied & saved this document."
Departed this life in Harford County, in Maryland on the 26th day of the 2nd month, 1814, in the 97th year of his age, William Amos, a much revered member of the Society of Friends, and seventy-six (76) years a minister thereof. It was in the early part of his life, while exercising the functions of an officer in the militia, that it was revealed to him that the Kingdom of Christ was a "peaceful kingdom." Therefore conferring not with flesh and blood, he was obedient to the Heavenly vision, resigned his commission and united himself in religious fellowship with the Society of Friends, hath ever since continued his exertions, successfully we believe, both by precepts and example, to turn men to righteousness. His own life was indeed an exemplification of meekness, piety, resignation, benevolence and charity. He was a great promoter of peace and justice, and was frequently called on by his fellow citizens to perform the Christian duty of mediator, and he had the satisfaction to find that his exertions to restore harmony were very generally crowned with success. In the year 1806 as many of his descendants as could be conveniently notified, were convened, at his particular request. In Friends Meeting House on Lombard Street in Baltimore, to the number of about one hundred and fifty, when he very pathetically and affectionately addressed them on the subject of their everlasting welfare. One of his great-great-grandchildren was present on this occasion. This venerable patriarch was the father of numerous progeny, amounting it is believed to nearly 300. The following is a correct return of them so far as hath been ascertained: -- children-16; grand-children, 92; great-grand-children, 133; great-great-grand-children, 8. Total, 250.
Box 375 N. Amos Hrs vs N. Amos Adms.
To the Honble Judge of the Bourbon Circuit Court your oratory and oratrixes - Mary Burton late Mary Amos, Thomas Amos, Mordicai Amos, William Connaway and Nancy his wife late Nancy Amos, Elias Meot and Christiana his wife late Christiana Amos, Benjamin Amos - Abraham Amos - Elijah Amos - Davis Thomas & Sarah his wife late Sarah Amos - Ditto Amos, John Burnell and Pathia his wife late Pathia Amos - Children and heirs of Nicholas Dey Amos deceased, living at the time of his death at "Mahlors" Hall and Capancha his wife late Capancha Parker, Michael Hornback and Clemency his wife late Clemency Parker - Joseph Brown and Mary his wife late Mary Parker, George Hugh and Christiana his wife late Christiana Parker, Henry Parker, Levi Parker and William Parker heirs of Elizabeth Parker deceased late Elizabeth Amos, also child and heir of of said Nicholas Amos deceased - Elizabeth Hornback and Barbara Hornbech heirs of Ruth Hornbeck deceased late Lucy Ruth Parker daughter & heir of said Elizabeth Parker deceased late Elizabeth Amos - the Parker deceased late Elizabeth Amos - the two last infants under the age of twenty one years by Michael Hornbeck him their father and next friend - Christiana Amos & Kitty - Amos daughters and heirs of William Amos deceased who was son to said Nicholas D. Amos - deceased the two last infants by George Bashell their guardian and next friend Humbly present.
That the said Nicholas Day Amos died about the month of August in the year 1815 intestate leaving your orators and oratrixes his children and heirs at law holding and claiming by the person and by the stock in the manner before set forth - That Nicholas Amos his son is also entitled as such to his share by has administered as the estate of said decedent and as such holds the estate in his hands - that said intestate died possessed of a considerable personal estate which from its nature and being convertible into money by law can be distributed but among the rest said intestate died seized and possessed of too negro slaves the one named Nell and the other Peg, which cannot be distributed among the children and hairs, because of number of said slaves are so small when compared to the number of children - and there is no obstacle in the road of distribution at this time an amount of debts of which the estate of the decedent as from any other cause & there are not debts to authorize the said administrator to sell said negroes without the order or decree of the Court to that effect, * for this reason said administrator has kept said negroes hired out, and they are now under hire till Christmas next. For as much therefore as you orators and oratrixes are remediless in obtaining distribution of said slaves by the rules of law and can only be resolved in a Court of equity - they pray that said administrator Nicholas Amos may be made defendant to this bill, & that on his corporal oath he may be compelled to answer the allegations of this bill as if herein again repeated and interrogated and that on a final hearing of this cause your Honor may order and decree a sale of said slaves in such manner as the Court may direct for the bes price that can be had and on such credit and that the money arising from said sale may with the other personal estate be distributed according to law; and they pray for such other and further relief as to equity belongs & your orators etc.
Charles Kirtley Bailey
With the compliments of the CYNTHIANA DEMOCRAT, Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky.
Page 4, 4 June 1942
Charles Kirtley BAILEY, 68 years old, well known farmer of te Millersburg road, and known to his friends as "Kirt" or "The Mayor of Coleville," died Thursday afternoon, May 28, after an illness of some duration which had become serious in the past month. The body was removed to the Whaley Funeral Home where it remained for funeral services held Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock with the Rev. J. R. JONES and the Rev. O. E. TURNER officiating. Burial in the Battle Grove Cemetery. Pallbearers, J. Arch BAILEY Jr., Charles LUCKY Thos.HICKMAN, Aubrey WAITS, Ira MONSON, and W. W. PHILLIPS. Honorary pallbearers, John F. McDANIEL Jr., B. F. BEDFORD, Frazier RAVENSCRAFT, Charles WIGLESWORTH, John L. CUMMINS, Virgil FLORENCE, Simon COBB, and S. J. McCLINTOCK. Mr BAILEY was born May 7, 1874, in the home where he died, a son of the late Henry and Nancy TALBOTT BAILEY, both members of prominate families of that section, and his entire life was spent in the Colville community. He was a member of Indian Creek Baptist Church, joining in boyhood and belongs to the Cynthiana Chapter of St. Andrews Lodge, No. 18, F.& A. M. He was active in political circles, being an ardent Republican. Mr. BAILEY had never married and his only survivors are two brothers, R. T. BAILEY of San Franciso, and J. Arch BAILEY, of Colville.
Richard Biddle
From the Kentucky Reporter, Lexington, (Ken.) Monday evening, May 1, 1826
(Reprinted from the Paris Citizen, April 29 [1826]
Submitted by Mary Hatton
Lexington Library Microfilm #ACF-1789-Reels (Kentucky Reporter 1824-26)
departed this life, at his residence in Bourbon County, on the 25th instant, RICHARD BIDDLE, Esq. High Sheriff of said County. The deceased lived to an advanced age and was highly esteemed by all who knew him.
The Winchester Democrat-Friday March 25, 1910, Page 5 The roll was dated 1910
Submitted by Mary Hatton
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Death of This Good Christian Woman
Thursday Morning -- Burial In
Millersburg
Mrs. Bettie Bowden died at he home on South Maple Street at an early hour Thursday morning of a complication of diseases, aged sixty-four years.
She was a native of Nicholas county, but resided in Bourbon county for many years and for several years had been a resident of this cty.. Before her marriage she was Miss Allen, and her husband, Patrick Bowden, died a number of years ago.
She leaves two sons, Dwight and Frank Bowden, and two daughters, Misses Marnie and Willa Bowden, all of this city. Her mother, Mrs. Nancy Allen, survives her, also two sister, Mrs. D.L. Cook and Mrs. F.M. Neal, of Millersburg,. three brothers, G.S. Allen and S.R. Allen, of Millersburg, and J.K. Allen of this city.
She was a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church and was a lady of lovely christian character.
The funeral services will be held to- morrow at Millersburg, to which place the remains will be taken for burial.
William Darrell
and
Hold Inquest into Shooting: Coroner's Jury Gives Verdict Stating William Bonta Killed William Darrell in Self-Defense
A coroner's jury held Friday afternoon stated that William Darrell killed in a postol duel near Little Rock Thursday night, came to his death by a ".22 calibre pistol in the hands of William Bonta, through Bonta's necessary self defense." Bonta remains in a serious condition at Massie Memorial hospital from a bullet wound received in the fight.
Darrell with three other men had started into the Bonta farm to hunt coons when Bonta asked the men to leave the place, because the dogs were bothering his sheep, witnesses to the shooting said. Witnesses to the shooting were Ben Workman, Ray Workman and Joe Gregory, all of Nicholas county.
During the inquest Friday, Ben Workman stated that the four men started into the farm when Bonta called to Willie Ray Darrell, the dead man's son, and told him to get off the place and take the dogs. Workman called to Bonta and told him that Willie Ray Darrell was not present, it was his father. Workman stated that the next conversation was by Darrell, who said that he was not afraid of Bonta, and Bonta replied to Darrell, "I am not afraid of you."
Both Started Firing
Workman stated that when Bonta approached the four men he was carrying a pistol in his hand with the muzzle toward the ground. Bonta told Darrell not to draw a gun, when Darrell reached to his hip pocket for a gun. Workman said that he did not know which man shot first, that it seemed to him both began firing at the same time. Workman stated, when questioned, that to his knowledge the two men were on friendly terms. Bonta, it was stated, had previously told Darrell's son to keep off the farm with his dogs. When questioned by Virgil Gaitskill, acting county attorney, Workman stated that he saw no sheep in the field.
Ray workman, son of the first witness, testified next and then Joe Gregory, nephew of Workman's, took the stand.
Deputy Coroner Fred Link, who went to the scene of the shooting with Coroner Roxie Davis, was called to the stand and described the pistol carried by Bonta. He stated that there were five empty chambers in the gun. Darrel's gun was a .32 calibre with three empty chambers. Coroner Davis testified that Darrell was dead when he and Link arrived.
Doctor Gives Testimony
Dr. B. F. Reynolds, Carlisle, was called to report his examination of the body, which was removed to a Carlisle undertaking establishment. He stated that one shot went through both chambers of Darrell's heart, other bullets struck his arm, chest, liver and there was a flesh wound on the back of his thigh.
Game Warden W.O. Pennington arrested Ben Workman on a charge of hunting coons out of season at the conclusion of the inquest.
Members of the coroner's jury were Elmer R. Wallace, foreman; J.M. Scott, Robert Frank, S.F. Hinkle, Winn Hutchcraft and Charles May.
Darrell is survived by his wife, a son, Willie Ray Darrell, Nicholas county, and a daughter, Miss Lillie May Darrell, Lexington. Bonta is unmarried.
Edward H. Garrard
From the Kentucky Reporter, Lexington, (Ken.) Monday evening, May 1, 1826
Submitted by Mary Hatton
Lexington Library Microfilm #ACF-1789-Reels (Kentucky Reporter 1824-26)
DIED at the residence of his father Gen. James Garrard, Bourbon Co., Ky, after a lingering illness, Edward H. Garrard, aged 18 years, a member of the Senior Class and of the Union Philosophical Society of Transylvania University.
Resolved, By the Union Philosophical Society, that the members thereof do wear crape on the left arm for the space of thirty days in commemoration of the great friendship and high estimation we have all entertained for the virtues of our deceased brother, Edward H. Garrard, and as a testimony of our sincere regret for his early and lamentable death.
Resolved, That all the absent members of this society are hereby solcited to conform to the above resolution.
May 1, 1826
James Allen Perkins
Tenant Dies Suddenly
James Allen Perkins, a tenant farmer on the farm of William B. Ardery, on the Lexington Road near Paris, dies suddenly this afternoon while hauling corn on the place. Mr. Perkins was riding back on a load and his young son was driving the team. The youth missed his father and looking around, discovered his prostrate form in the wagon bed. Neighbors were called, but the stricken man had expired, his death being attributed to heart disease.
Mr. Perkins, who was about 50 years old, moved here from Nicholas County several years ago. He is survived by his widow and ten children.
Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
(James Allen Perkins is the son of George Denton Perkins & Mary Jane Jones, formerly of Bath County. His wife was Rebecca J. Frederick. He was born March 23, 1875, Bath Co., Ky., died November 18, 1926. Buried Paris Ky.,
Children were Katherine Perkins Lynam, Albert Reynolds Perkins, Matilda Perkins Hurst, Mrs. Ida Arnold, Mrs. Evelyn Thurman, Mrs. Helen (Estill) Myers, Blanche Turner, Mrs. Madeline Perkins, Harlan Douglas Perkins, Calvert Perkins, Leonard Perkins.
Mrs. Mary “Janie” Perkins
Mrs. Mary “Janie” Perkins, aged sixty one, widow of George Perkins of Shawhan, this county, Tuesday morning after an illness of ten years, due to paralysis.
Mrs. Perkins was a native of Bath County, where she was born August 2, 1857. died July 2, 1918. She was the daughter of the late Stanfield Jones & Eveline Harmon Jones of Sharpsburg. Her husband preceded her to the grave eleven years ago. The following children survive, Mrs. Rhoda Lynam, James Perkins, Mrs Ida Alice Frederick and William Foster Perkins (Note the obituary listed a Virginia Perkins but one was never known of.)
The funeral and burial was held at Carlisle Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. Bridget Powers
Submitted by Mary Hatton
The Winchester Democrat, dated March 22, 1910 from newspaper roll #34-1910
Died in Bourbon
Mrs. Bridget Powers died Friday night at her home in Bourbon County. The funeral was held yesterday and she was buried in the Catholic Cemetery at Paris. She was a half sister of John P. Conway, of this city.
William S. Richart
Submitted by Mary Hatton
From microfilm dated 1898-1899 from the Montgomery Co. Library Mt. Sterling Advocate, Mt.Sterling, Ky. dated Tuesday September 26, 1899, Page 5.
William S. Richart died in his home this city on Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock, September 22, 1899.
The funeral service was conducted at the Southern Presbyterian Church on Sunday Morning by the pastor Rev. Henry Miller. The burial was at the old Hinkston Church where for many years the deceased was an honored member.
He was born in Bourbon county May 26, 1819, where he continued to live until 1852.
He was married to Miss Laurana Crouch October 13, 1840. To them were born twelve children -six sons and six daughters, Of theses seven still live, James O., of Victor, Mo.; John D., of Bath county; Albert L., of Chicago, and daughters Martha, Mollie, Dora, and Laura, now Mesdames Wm. and Clayton Triplett, of Sharpsburg; J.H. Hopkins, of Little Rock and George W. Denton, of Sideview, this county. Three sons died in infancy and two daughters, Mesdames Josephine Duckworth and Lou Ella Hazelrigg died in Missouri.
His wife died October 29, 1883. His second marriage was to Mrs. Margaret Benton at Carlisle in May, 1881. They have lived in this city for fifteen years.
Early in life he united with the Presbyterian Church and for 59 years served as Elder of different congregations, including the one in this city. He always too great interest in church work and his life has been exemplary. Although deprived of an education he was a great reader and an intelligent man. He was a farmer and stock-raiser until he came to our city. At the age of 18 he was a captain of the militia and rose to be a Lieutenant Colonel of the 42nd regiment, 15th brigade. Politically he was a Whig until 1860, since then he has been a Democrat. In 1869 he was elected to the Legislature and was returned for another term. For six years he served his people as Magistrate. Wherever he has lived, he has been a prominent citizen, honored respected and loved.
He has entered into that rest prepared for those who live and serve the Christ. To his wife and her two sons, Robert and Norval Benton and his children, we extend our sympathy.
Besides many relatives from this county, Jno. M. Campbell and wife and Mrs. Alice Gillaspie, of Carlisle; Wm. Talbott and wife, of Clark; A.L. Richart, of Chicago; Joseph Richart and his son, James, of Owingsville; Ollie Richart and wife, Wm. and Clayton Triplett and families, of Bath; Isaac Crouch and wife, and J.H. Hopkins and wife, of Bourbon county, attended the funeral services.
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A Card of Thanks
We desire for express our sincere thanks and appreciation to our many friends for their kindness to us I our late bereavement.
Mrs. W.S. RICHART and family.
Robert C. Talbott
Submitted by Mary Hatton
The Bourbon News, Paris Kentucky
Distinguished Jurist, Lawyer and Citizen Succumbs to Pneumonia at Paris Home
Death, loving a shining mark, aimed high yesterday morning, and brought down to the approaches to eternity the soul of Robert C. Talbott, aged sixty-eight, dean of the Bourbon County bar and one of its most intellectual and forceful members. Mr. Talbott died at the family home on Duncan avenue at 11:15 o'clock yesterday morning after an illness of pneumonia. Mr. Talbott had been in good health apparently up to a few days ago, when he contracted a severe cold, which developed into pneumonia, defying all efforts of medical skill and loving attention.
Robert C. Talbott was a native of Bourbon county, being born near North Middletown, on August 2, 1862. He was a son of the late Samuel and Ann McMillan Talbott, pioneer citizens of that vicinity. He received his early education in the schools of his day, in North Middletown and Paris later on. After the death of his father he made his home with his maternal grandfather, Robert McMillan, in Franklin county, and spent some time in the schools of Franklin county. Returning to Bourbon county he continued his studies at the Edgar Military Institute, conducted by Col. Geo. Edgar. Finishing there he matriculated as a student at Transylvania College, in Lexington, and graduated with high honors in the class of 1883.
Takes Up Study of Law
Coming back to Paris again he entered the law office of his uncle, Hon Wm. H. McMillan, and read law earnestly and effectively. He was admitted to the bar the following year, in 1884, and at once took high rank as a student of law and as having a profound knowledge, even at that age, of the law and its many sided ramifications. On his twenty-first birthday he was elected to the office of Superintendent of Bourbon County Schools, which he filled with credit and ability for a term of four years. He was reelected for another four-year term after the expiration of which he devoted his entire time to the practice of law in which he became eminently successful.
For a period of twenty-five years Mr. Talbott was associated with his uncle, Wm. H. McMillan, in law practice, under the firm name of McMillan & Talbott. In that time he participated as counsel in all the most noted cases that came to the Bourbon county courts. During this period Mr. Talbott established an enviable record as one of the foremost lawyers in the State. In later years he won new laurels in the field of legal practice as a member of the two firms of Talbott & Whitley, of Paris and Franklin, Talbott & Chapman, of Lexington. He was of the highest type of lawyer, commanding the confidence and admiration of all with whom he came in contact. He was a lover of literature, and one whose intellectual attainments were of the highest order.
On June 5, 1888, Mr. Talbott was married to Miss Sallie Grimes of Paris, who preceded him to the grave in 1914. He is survived by their five children, Mrs. Wade Hampton Whitley, Mrs. Virgil M. Chapman, Mrs. Virgil Gaitskill, Mrs. George Clayton, and Robert C. Talbott, Jr., all of Bourbon county, and by one brother, Wm. F. Talbott of near Paris, and by two nieces and one nephew.
The funeral arrangements had not been completed os [as] The News went to press last night.
Submitted by Mary Hatton
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Probably from a Paris or Winchester Newspaper, March 7, 1928
Wm. H. Talbott, aged 87 years, died on Sunday night from an acute illness from which he had been suffering for the past week.
The deceased had been in failing health with a general breakdown, due to the infirmities of old age, for several months, bue [but] was stricken about a week ago with an acute illness from which he continually grew weaker untl [until] the end came.
He was under the command of General John H. Morgan, during the war between the States and was with General Morgan at th etime he was killed in Greenville, Tenn. He was one of the three remaining confederate soldiers in this county that served with Morgan, James Schooler andd James Parrish being the remaining survivors.
He was the son of the late Robert Talbott, and a brother of of the late Sam Talbott, who resided near north Middletown on the Cane Ridge and North Middletown pike, and an uncle of Redmon Talbott. He was married to Miss Pattie D. Scott, of Clark county, and a half-sister of the late Mrs. G.C. Thompson, of Paris, and moved to Clark to make his home sixty-one years ago. Mr. Talbtt was one of the community's most substantial citizens and was a member of the Christian church, having affiliated himself with the church when but a boy. He was very active in church work.
He is survived by four children, Mrs. L. May Butler, Mrs. W. O. Parrish, of Winchester; W. Stanley Talbott, of Chicago, and Mrs. H. J. Brazelton, of Tampa, Florida; one sister, Mrs. Amanda Campbell, of Carlisle.
Funeral services were conducted at the grave in the Winchester cemetery on Tuesday morning at ten o'clock, by Rev. Newt L. Shropshire, of the Clintonville Christian church, assisted by Rev. C. M. Neal, of the Main Street Church of Christ.
Robert Lee Whaley
KENTUCKIAN CITIZEN, Wednesday, 23 February 1939
Robert Lee WHALEY, member of a pioneer Kentucky family, passed away at the family home on Cypress street, this city, Friday afternoon, Feb. 17, at 4:30 o'clock after an illness of several months. Mr. WHALEY, who held a clerical position with the L.& N. Railroad in Lexington for twenty years, had been in declining health for several years and in January, 1938 was retired.
He was born near Clintonville, Bourbon county, and was the son of Henry Clay and Matilda WHALEY. On the paternal side he was descended from Wyamarus WHALEY of England, standard bearer at the Battle of Hastings when William the Conqueror invaded the South of England in 1066. He was also descended from several Revolutionary soldiers, two of whom, Henry TALBOTT of England, who came to Kentucky from Virginia about 1792, and James JONES of Virginia, who came to Kentucky on 1789, are buried in Bourbon county.
John WHALEY, also a Revolutionary soldier, was the great-great-grandfather of the deceased . John WHALEY came to Mason county after the Revolution, or during the latter part of the war from Loudoun county, Virginia, and built Whaley's Station, his daughter, Jane having been born in the fort.
On the maternal side he was the descendant of Nancy WILSON and Curtis PENDLETON, early Kentucky settlers who came from Virginia about 1783, Curtis PENDLETON being the great-nephew of Edmund PENDLETON for whom Pendleton county was named. On this side he was also descended from Major John ANDERSON of Connecticut, a soldier of the Revolution.
Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Mattie DAVIS of Detroit, Mich.; one son William WHALEY of Louisville, and five sisters, Mrs. W. Hoffman WOOD, of Mt. Sterling, Mrs.W. S. TALBOTT, Mrs. Princess DUVALL, Miss Sally WHALEY, and Miss Nell WHALEY, all of Paris,and one nephew, J. W. DUVALL of Paris, student at the University of Kentucky.
Funeral services were held at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the residence, with the Rev. Rhodes THOMPSON and Rev. W.E. SWEENEY officiating. Internment followed in the Paris Cemetery.
Casket bearers were:: Dr. S. M. RICKMAN, J. G. DENTON, E. L. IRWIN, John CLARK, Dr .A. O. SISK, John MA-DERS, M. BAXTER, Elmer WALLACE and L. V. HAGAN, Sr.
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