1912:  Note with promise to pay Richard Austin $ 25.00 at 6% interest per annum for "balance on land" due 12-27-1913

 

1914 cancelled checks, McKinney Deposit Bank

  01-02             H.F. Martin                                6.60               Account in full

  02-27             Cocking and True                       5.00

  03-10             Self                                            5.00

  03-12             M.E. Rosh                                  3.00               Work

  03-28             M.E. Rosh                                  3.00               Work

  03-28             G.W. Montgomery                     1.00               Lumber

  03-                 Sam Robinson                            2.25               Acct. in full

  04-16             H.F. Martin                                6.35               Account in full

  04-20             M.E. Rosh                                  5.00               Work

  05-02             Self                                          10.00

  05-16             Self                                            5.00

  05-26             Self                                            5.00

  05-26             Bramley & Bramley                    6.48               Insurance

  06-11             Self                                            5.00

 

1916 cancelled checks, McKinney Deposit Bank

  06-12             George Lucas                             1.80

  07-01             Cocking and True                       4.05               Mds

  07-15             R.S. Scudder                            10.00               ? part. pay. on Cold Seasons

  07-21             F.S. Stahl                                 23.80               Order 07-21-16

  08-01             Sam Robinson                          12.70               Mdse

  08-05             Self                                           5.00

  08-08             W. F. Jones                              40.00               1 cow

  08-12             F. S. Stahl                                12.00               Mdse

  08-18             Tom Meaders                             5.00

  09-07             Ray Walls                                   5.00

  09-15             John Vinxon                             4.00                Work

  09-18             Cocking and True                     4.90                Mds bought today

  09-30             H. Routenberg                          10.90

  10-18             H. Routenburg                          14.05

  10-24             W. C. Snow                             20.00               1 sow and 9 pigs

  11-06             G. A. Montgomery                   22.00               Roofing

  12-19             Cocking and True                       6.50

  12-29             Self                                            5.00

 

1917 cancelled checks, McKinney Deposit Bank

  01-20             Self                                            5.00

  10-20             J.G. Weatherford                        8.15               Bal. on 1917 tax

  12-31             S.B. Stanaford                          45.00               2 Calfs

 

1917: Note payable to Mrs. Malinda Jackson and her husband Luke Jackson for

$ 25.00 with 6% interest due one year from date "this being last payment on land sale."

 

1918 cancelled checks, McKinney Deposit Bank

  01-15             F.W. Ware                                 5.00               Mdse. & Cash

  01-29             Mr. L.S. Stanaford                    7.35               Turkeys

  03-06             J.A. Allen                                 16.45

  03-16             J.A. Allen                                   8.25               300 ft. Siding

  03-16             Pence & Hill                             73.00               Furnature

  04-04             Cocking and True                       3.00               Nails

  05-26             F. White                                   19.00               Work on  Church

  05-29             Red Cross                                  5.00               Donation

  06-27             Cocking and True                       5.00

  06-27             T. W. Pennington                      15.00               Clara's dental work

  07-12             Self                                            5.00

  08-05             Self                                            5.00

  08-05             J.A. Allen                               109.00               ?

  08-17             Self                                            5.00

  08-21             J.A. Allen                                 43.00               ?

  08-29             Jake Elliott                                  1.25

  09-04             J.A. Allen                                 24.75

  09-09             Self                                            5.00

  09-09             Frank White                             24.00               Calf

  09-11             J.M. Walls                                26.50

  09-14             ?  Routenburg                           10.43

  09-26             McKinney Deposit Bank          84.00               20 W $ $ (?)

  10-03             J.A. Allen                                 14.50

                        George Lucas                             3.20

  10-21             H. Routenburg                          19.00

  11-02             Self                                            5.00

  11-09             G. H. Floids                               5.00

  11-23             Self                                            5.00

  11-30             R.S. Scudder                            10.00               ? Colt

  11-30             McKinney Deposit Bank          14.28               For Note

  12-16             W.C. Snow                              10.00               2 hogs

  12-23             T.W. Pennington                         5.00               Doughton

                        Sam Robinson                          11.95               Mcdse.

 

 

1918:  Guarantee document from D. T. Bohon, Harrodsburg, Ky dated 06-08-18.

 

The D.T. Bohon Company of Harrodsburg sold items ranging from phonographs to wagons and buggies. 

 

 

 

1919 cancelled checks, McKinney Deposit Bank

  01-02             Self                                          10.00

  01-18             Self                                          10.00

  01-20             Self                                          10.00

  01-                 O. Stapps                                 13.00

  01-22             H. Wade                                    4.00

  01-29             H. Routenberg                          12.83

  02-11             Self                                            5.00

  02-22             Self                                          10.00

  02-26             O. Stapps                                   8.00

  03-01             C.C. Singleton                            5.25               Chairs

  03-01             Cocking and True                       7.35

  03-05             G.W. Lucas                                1.00

  03-10             Burtons Cash Store                  14.25               Seed

  03-19             Singer S.M. Co.                       49.00               Sewing Machine

  03-25             Jim Chambers                             3.50

  04-08             Self                                          10.00

  04-12             Sam Robinson                          17.00

  04-12             H. Routenberg                          11.28

  04-19             Self                                          10.00

  04-26             Jason Coffey                              5.00

  04-28             O.W. Carter                               4.25

  04-30             W.A. Tibble                               2.00               Wallpaper

  05-05             Self                                            5.00

  05-17             F.W. Ware                                 4.00               Wagon ? [tongue?]

  05-19             J.G. Austin                                 3.00

  05-21             Ray Wall                                  11.00               Wire

  05-22             Self                                            5.00

  06-02             J.B. Wilcher                               4.40

  06-07             H. Routenberg                            9.60

 

   

1920:  Order for grain from America Agricultural Chemical Company, Bowker Works, Cincinnati, Ohio from Ellis Wall, McKinney, Ky, Lincoln County, South Fork RR Station dated 02-25-20.

 

 

1920 cancelled check, McKinney Deposit Bank

  07-06             L.H. Walls                                  2.50

 

1920:  Receipt dated 11-03-20 from Drs. Keith and Keith, Louisville, Ky for a

Mrs. Ed. Wall, McKinney, Ky, for X Ray treatments, $ 20.00

 

1920:  Receipt/bill from Dr. J. B. Smith, McKinney, Ky,  dated 12-10-20

 

1921 cancelled check, McKinney Deposit Bank

  01-27             for J.T. Morris                          35.00               Account to date

  01-29             Raymond Wall                6.00

  02-02             Fields Bros.                                3.00

  02-09             Self                                            5.00

  02-23             J.T. Morris                               30.00               Account to date

  02-23             Broom & Southard                   20.00               Acct.

  02-24             S.W. Coffman                          21.90

  03-23             L.H. Walls                                 4.95

  03-26             P.W. Carter                               6.73               Seed

  04-01             Sam Robinson                            5.00

  04-09             L.H. Walls                                  6.20

  04-23             D. Sanders                               11.70               Fertilizer

  04-29             J.R. Jones                                   1.00

  05-03             L.H. Walls                                  4.40

  05-21             J.R. Jones                                   1.00

  05-28             E.H. Chambers             10.00

  05-26             Dr. J.T. Morris             25.00

  06-11             McKinney Deposit Bank       102.66                Note

  06-11             Cocking and True                       3.05

  06-13               ?                                              5.00               Work

  06-14             Charley Sleden               3.00               Work

  06-18             Salt W. Coffman                         9.92

  06-                 Herb Bough                              17.10

  07-09             Raymond Walls                          3.00

 

1922 cancelled check, McKinney Deposit Bank

  07-06             Hew Bough                              10.00

 

1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926:  Receipts dated in June each year for $ 8.64 to Continental Insurance Company for a five-year policy of insurance written 06-13-22.

 

1923 Note dated 03-08-1923; promise to pay on 01-01-1924 $ 125.00 at 6% interest per annum to Mrs. Elena Wall for "payment in part of balance on land"

 

[Elena Wall is the widow of Joseph M. Wall; see entry under 1905 year -- deed and gravemarker image.]

 

1923:  Lizzie Wall died 11-06-23.

 

 

1924 cancelled checks, McKinney Deposit Bank

  10-13             McKinney Mills                        10.00               S.S.

  11-22             McKinney Deposit Bank          77.82               Note

 

1924:  Note dated 06-23-24 to McKinney Deposit Bank for $ 134.68 (6% interest) due 12-23-24.

 

1924:  Contract for headmarker for $ 25.00 from Bivin & Morris, McKinney, Ky, for Lizzie Wall who was born January 10, 1881 and died November 6, 1923.  The blue marble stone was to be engraved with the verse "To Die is Gain" and the word "Mother across the top (see Page 26).

 

1925 cancelled checks, McKinney Deposit Bank

  01-12             T. W. Pennington                        5.00               Work

  01-25             Chester B. Creech                      5.00               In full for sowell

  01-30             J. ?. Butler                                10.00

  03-07             J. T. Butler                                 8.80               Feed

 

1927 cancelled checks, McKinney Deposit Bank

  03-22             J. M. Toombs                           50.00               Hogs

  05-17             Montgomery Ward & Co.          3.03               Shoes

  11-28             W. D. Laswell                4.00

  12-07             K. D. Dawson                          29.31               Corn (or cow?)

 

1928 cancelled checks, McKinney Deposit Bank

  01-10             Elza Johnson                               7.00               Hogs

  01-16             National Bellas Hess Co.            4.73               Shoes

  02-16                         ?                                  14.00               Flour, meal and feed

  02-28             G. A. Montgomery                     5.40               Seeds

  03-15             G. A. Montgomery                     9.35               Seeds and grain

  03-29             G. A. Montgomery                     4.25               5 bu. oats

  03-29             J. T. Butler                               12.00               S.S.

  04-28             Sears Roebuck and Co.              4.34

  04-18             McKinney Deposit Bank          20.00               Bal. Payment on Note

  04-18             ? ? Butler                                  19.25               Feed & wire 2 sx flour

  05-07             National Bellas Hess Co             3.52

  05-18             G. A. Montgomery                  31.85               Fertilizer

  05-30             Sears Roebuck and Co.            12.30               Merchandise

  06-11             R. S. Seudden                          10.00

  07-03             S. A. Montgomery                    40.00

  07-14             Sic Bastin                               100.00              

  09-15             Raymond Wall              70.00

  09-19             Montgomery Ward & Co.        12.64               Merchandise

  10-01             Sears Roebuck and Co.              3.78               Merchandise

  10-26             J. T. Coffey                              19.55               1720# Corn ?

  11-06             Sears Roebuck and Co.            11.37               Merchandise

  12-07             Chicago Mail Order Co.             1.84               Merchandise

  12-07             Sears Roebuck and Co.              2.98               Merchandise

  12-18             J.G. Butler                                10.00               S.S.

  01-09-28 ?    Robert Greene                          16.00               Hogs

 

1929 cancelled checks, McKinney Deposit Bank

  01-26             McKinney Deposit Bank          50.00               Bank draft

  02-16             H. Routenberg                          11.00

  02-20             Sears Roebuck and Co.              3.40               Mdse.

  02-28             Chicago Mail Order Corp.          5.14

  03-01             G.F Woodie                             10.00

  03-08             Montgomery Ward & Co.          1.55               Mdse.

  03-24             H. Routenberg                            6.50

  04-08             Chicago Mail Order Co.             4.46               Mdse.

  05-13             S.A. Montgomery                     22.14               Fertilizer

  06-15             H. Routenberg                            4.40

  07-20             H.G. Riffe                                 14.00

  07-25             J.T. Butler                                  3.65               Flour & Sugar

  07-28             Clarence Mason                         3.50               Honey

  07-30             S.A. Montgomery                       5.84

  08-28             J. Lay                                       10.00               Hog

  09-07             Sears Roebuck and Co.              9.54               Shoes

  09-25             Sears Roebuck and Co.              2.10

  11-13             Montgomery Ward & Co.        14.65

  12-04             S.A. Montgomery                       8.60

  12-21             Self                                            5.00

 

1930 cancelled checks, McKinney Deposit Bank

  01-11             S.A. Montgomery                     10.75               Feed

  01-28             H. Routenberg                            5.48

  02-17             J.T. Butler                                  9.90               5 ?

  02-17             S.A. Montgomery                       9.35

  02-17             Chicago Mail Order Co.             5.23

  04-03             S.A. Montgomery                       5.65

  06-14             Continental Insurance Co.           8.28

   

1930:  Copy of Wall's Lincoln County Tax Bill for 1930.

 

 

1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936:  Receipt for $ 10.84 per year for a five-year insurance contract with Continental Insurance Company of New York signed in June 1932 for $43.30. 

1939 cancelled checks, McKinney Deposit Bank

  08-10                 ?                                            4.50               Hail insurance

  09-01             H.C. Davis Motor Co.              20.00

  10-25             J.R. Morrell, Sheriff                  23.65               1939 Taxes

  11-07             S.A. Montgomery                     25.29

 

1940 cancelled checks, McKinney Deposit Bank

  01-24             Montgomery Ward & Co.          3.38               Merchandise

  02-08             Will Coonty                              12.00               Hogs

  02-17             S. A. Montgomery                    12.55

  03-03             W. C. Wall                                 6.80               Feed

  03-10             W. C. Wall                                 6.90               Feed

  03-23             Grover Cox                               3.00               Work

  03-26             S.A. Montgomery                     12.65               Seeds

  04-24             S.A. Montgomery                       5.80

  05-25             J. H. Stull                                 11.90

  06-22             Aetna Insurance Co.                 15.96               #44119

  07-13             M. B. Burton                              5.75               ? and wire

  07-17             Bob Coffman                              5.75

 

1943 (Check stubs from register)

  10-02             H.T. Wade                               20.00               Corn cutting

  10-16             William Henry                 8.10               Feed

  11-25             Montgomery Ward & Co.          9.16               Underwear

 

1944 (Check stubs from register)

  01-08             Thomas Wade                        329.02

  01-14             Clay Thompson                        35.00               Bailing hay

  03-07             Wiley Bruce                             69.00               One bull

  03-22             Aetna Insurance Co.                 17.36               Insurance

  03-29             M.B. Burton                             17.30               Two Hogs

  04-03             M.B. Burton                               8.20               One 82 lb. Hog

  04-15                                                             16.70               Tires

  05-02             Brown Fence & Wire Co.          5.67               One Sprayer

  05-27             Stanford Mtr. Co.                     15.70               Tire

  06-08             S.A.M.                                     50.00               Fertilizer

  07-16             Ira Patterson                               9.20               Merchandise

 

1945:  Ellis G. Wall died.  He is buried beside "Lizzie" at McKinney Cemetery.  A joint headmarker has replaced the smaller one Ellis bought for Lizzie in 1924.  The joint headmarker reads:

 

            Elizabeth Wall 1818 - 1923        Ellis G. Wall  1869 - 1945

 

At the McKinney Cemetery are found several other Wall/Walls burials.  Buried near Ellis and Lizzie is Marvin Wall, 09-06-1948 -  07-07-1952.  

In the center section of the cemetery were found the following: 

            Chester B. Wall 01-06-1912 - 03-15-1984 on marker with

            Mary T. Wall 06-30-1941 -

            A foot-marker states Chester Benjamin Wall, S1 US Navy, WWII. 

            Joseph M. Wall 1866 - 1918 on marker with

            Elena R. Wall 1877 - 1969 

            Annie, Daughter of Joseph M. and Elena Wall, 1897 - 1915 

            Ervin Walls 1876 - 1886

                        (See Page 9)  

            Infant, name and dates unreadable 

            John F. Walls 1831? - 1903 ? 

            Tabbitha Reed Wall 1838 - 1920

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND SOURCES

 

1920 U.S. Census, Lincoln County, KY, digital image showing household of Ellis and Lizzie Walls, Email from Barbara Rice to William T. Thornton, October 4, 2003

1930 U.S. Census, Lincoln County, KY, digital image showing household of Ellis and Anna Walls, Email from Barbara Rice to William T. Thornton, October 4, 2003

City of Stanford, Kentucky
History information page
http://stanford-ky.com/history.html

James, Eric
Information about Tabitha Reed Wall
Email to William T. Thornton, October 4, 2003

Lincoln County Historical Society

1895 Map of Lincoln County, Kentucky
Stanford, Kentucky
http://www.rootsweb.com/~kylincol/index.html

 Lincoln County Library
Harvey Helm Memorial Library
Stanford, Kentucky 

Rice, Barbara
Lincoln County Coordinator
http://www.rootsweb.com/~kylinco2/Index.html 

Walls Family Genealogy Forum

Exchange of electronic messages about Ellis and Lizzie Walls between author and Margaret Walls, Message numbers 1749, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773, in September and October, 2003; http://genforum.genealogy.com/walls/ 

Walls, Margaret
Assistance with Wall and Ryan family names
Email to William T. Thornton, October 30, 2003 

Thanks to Jim and Charlena Thornton, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for sharing the contents of the antique trunk.