Casey  County News Articles

Kentucky Newspapers on Microfilm from the University of Kentucky

The Kentucky Register, November 5, 1875, p. 3, col. 4
Killed by a Mule--A Casey county correspondent of the Stanford Journal says: Another unfortunate accident took place in this county a few days since. Dr. O.P. Heiston, a prominent physician of Casey's Creek, was kicked on the head by a mule and his skull broken. The mule was said to be old and gentle, and never known to have any bad tricks before. The laast authentic news received from the doctor was that he was in a critical condition, and a late rumor comes that he is dead.

The Kentucky Register, June 21, 1878, p. 3, col. 4
We learn that one Asa Gordon, a blacksmith, killed a man named Samuel Preston, in Casey county last week. It appears that Gordon was at work without a shirt when Preston came into the shop and struck him on the naked back with a switch, when he grasped a spoke and struck Preston killing him instantly. Somerset Reporter.

The Kentucky Register, November 8, 1878, p. 3, col. 4
A man named Wheeler, who lived about four miles below Liberty, accidentally shot himself one night last week. He and a neighbor were out coon hunting, and cut down a chestnut tree. They were gathering chestnuts when a pitsol dropped from Wheeler's pocket. He picked it up and remarked that somebody would get shot. He put it back in his pocket and began picking up chestnuts when it again fell from his pocket. He again picked it up and made some remark, when a second pistol fell and was discharged, the ball striking him in the breast, killing him instantly.

The Kentucky Register, November 22, 1878, p. 3, col. 4
Mr. Charles Barton, of Pendleton, was accidentally shot and seriously injured near Liberty, a few days since. He was with a hunting party en route to Tennessee. He was taken home on Wednesday.

NOTE: The Kentucky Register is the Richmond, Kentucky local paper.
 

The [Berea] Citizen, 21 Aug 1902
Mrs. Mary Bell, probably the oldest woman in Kentucky, died at her home near Dunnville, Casey county, Thursday, at the age of 106 years. 
 

Stephen D. Parrish Scrapbook (Eastern Kentucky University Archives)
DIED--At his residence in Casey County, Ky., on the 19th ult., Mr. Samuel H. Porter, in the 64th year of his age. Date derived as February 19, 1876.