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From: "Gerri Sutton" <>
Subject: EXCERPTS from the MOUNTAIN ECHO 1883
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 18:55:32 -0400


Reprinted with permission of the Laurel County Historical Society
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JUNE 1883

Aunt Sallie Akeman was adjudged a pauper last Monday and on Wednesday last,
Sheriff Scoville took her to the poor house.

JULY 1883

Green Mount: On last Sunday evening about 5 o'clock, little Mollie
McCracken who was about three years old was drowned in Rockcastle River
about one mile below the Johnson Ford. The circumstances are about these:
Green McCracken being away from home, his children in company with Jack
Johnsons children, went to the river and all went swimming except little
Mollie, who was left setting on the bank near the edge of the water. The
children did not notice the little girl for sometime, but when they looked
for her she could not be found. After hunting sometime the children went
and told Jack Johnson, who immediately ran to the river and found her in
five min. The child had washed down the river forty feet and was lodged
against some brush with her body partly out of the water. Green McCracken
has in the last eleven months, lost his wife and two children by death.

Died: On the 29th ult., old aunt Charity Morris, wife of uncle John
Morris.

Died: at the residence of J. F. Young, ten miles northeast of London, Ky.
June 7, 1883 Permelia Young, in the 86th year of her age. Permelia Young
was born in Buncomb County, North Carolina, Nov. 4, 1796, moved with her
parents to Greenville, South Carolina joined the United Baptist Church in
1812, and was married to Pleasant Young in 1818, moved to Laurel County,
Ky. in 1819. She was the mother of 11 children and reared them to man and
womanhood. Four of them have crossed the old Jordan before her. Her husband
died in 1852 and she remained a widow until her death. She was buried in
graveyard at J. F. Youngs, June 9.

Died: July 20, 1883 at Rileys, Marion County, Ky. Lottie E. Miller, wife of
G. W. Miller, daughter of Thos P. Litton of Laurel county, Ky. After a long
and severe illness.

On last Tuesday the dead body of Perry Skinner who lived about eight or ten
miles west of this place, was found lying in the road near his house with
the wound of a rifle-ball square through his breast and shoulders. It is
reported that Molem Reynolds confessed to have done the killing, and said
that he would have done the deed if he had known he would have been hung in
ten minutes afterwards. The cause of the killing was old feud between
Skinner and Reynolds. Skinner was of about twenty-five years, leaves a wife
and several children. Reynolds is about eighteen years old and still lived
with his widowed mother. No arrest has yet been made.

AUGUST 1883

Died: On last Sunday of flux, Mrs. Nancy Robinson wife of Mr. Lindsey
Robinson, living about nine miles north of this place, Mrs. Robinson,
leaves many friends to mourn her death.

Died: On last Sunday night about two miles north of this place, James
Medley Sr.

Married: At the residence of Robert Johnson in this county on last Tuesday
morning Mr. Houston Tompkins to Miss Clarissa Graybeal both of this county.

Died: On last Monday night at the residence of Mr. W. H. H. Thompson, of
this place of general disability, Mr. John Mathews, aged about 60 years. Mr
Mathews was brought to town tried and adjudged to be a lunatic about two
months ago, and had been at Mr. Thompsons ever since. He was buried Tuesday
on Cemetery Hill.

Married: At the residence of Judge Pearl, of this place at 9 o'clock A.M.,
last Wednesday by Rev. J. A. Caywood, Mr. Edwin Hackney to Miss Helen
Pearl. The following is a mention of a few of their bridal gifts; Silver
tablespoons by Miss Pattie Adams, Majolica Pitcher by Mr. John Smith,
Silver Casters by Miss Lula Pullins, hansome glass set by Mrs. W.B.
Catching, Silver Ladle by Mrs. Sallie Maret, pair of Candlesticks by Miss
Eva Faris, Spoon holder by Mrs. Amanda Baugh. they boarded the 9:50 train
for the east, where they will probably spend several weeks enjoying their
honeymoon.

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