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Shelby News, 26 Mar
1920
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Curg Cox, aged 39 years, died at his home in this
county near Eminence at 9:30o’clcock Wednesday night of Tubercular
Meningitis. He leaves his widow and four children. Burial at 11 o’clock
this morning at Pleasureville.
SOURCE OF
INFORMATION: Contributed by Tamryn Glaser.
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Louis Morris
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Shelby News, 30 Apr
1920
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Louis Morris, a well known farmer, died Saturday
afternoon at his home near Eastwood of cancer of the liver.
Mr. Morris was fifty-six years of age and is
survived by his widow and seven children. Funeral services were
conducted Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the chapel in Grove
Hill Cemetery by the Rev. J. P. Noland, of Simpsonville. Burial was
in Grove Hill Cemetery.
SOURCE OF
INFORMATION: Contributed by Tamryn Glaser.
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Mrs. Miranda
McClain
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Shelby News, 30 Apr
1920
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Mrs. Miranda McClain, who resided on Snow Hill
north of this city, died Monday evening at eight o’clock at the
King’s Daughters Hospital of hardening of the arteries.
Mrs. McClain was in her ninetieth year and
formerly resided in the Cropper neighborhood. Funeral services were
conducted at the grave in Cropper Cemetery Tuesday afternoon at four
o’clock by the Rev. W. B. Dampier, pastor of the Cropper Christian
Church.
SOURCE: Contributed by Tamryn Glaser.
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Cora Ritter Cook
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Shelby News, 11 Apr
1920
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Mrs. Cora Ritter
Cook, the wife of Thomas P. Cook, a well known farmer of the Mt.
Eden neighborhood, died suddenly Sunday afternoon following a long
illness.
Mrs. Cook was
forty-two years of age and is survived by her husband and seven
children.
SOURCE: Contributed by Tamryn Glaser.
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W. P. Garvin
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Shelby News, 11 Mar 1920
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W. P. Garvin, a
salesman for a medicine company, was found dead at the foot of the
stairs at his home on Snow Hill, north of Shelbyville, last Thursday
evening at 7 o’clock. Heart trouble was advanced as the
cause of his death by Coroner F. H. Barriger, who viewed the
remains. Mr. Garvin’s wife and daughter were visiting in
Flemingsburg and there was no one in the house with him when the
fatal stroke came, but he had been seen by neighbors during the
afternoon.
Mr. Garvin was
forth-five years of age and came here a little over a year ago from
Flemingsburg. The body was shipped to that place Saturday
evening for burial.
SOURCE: Contributed by Tamryn Glaser.
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Benjamin O.
Ratcliff
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Shelby News, Thurs.,
04 Mar 1920
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Benjamin O. Ratcliff,
pioneer farmer and resident of the Christiansburg neighborhood, died
at his home near Christiansburg Tuesday morning at eight o’clock
of uraemic poisoning. Two years ago Mr. Ratcliff fell and fractured
his hip and his health had not been good since that time.
Mr. Ratcliff was in
his 74th year and one of the county’s most
representative citizens. A life-long Democrat, Mr. Ratcliff took a
keen interest in public affairs and was respected and esteemed by a
wide acquaintance. He was a member of the Baptist church.
Mr. Ratcliff is
survived by his wife, and three children, two daughters, Mrs.
Woodford Cull and Mrs. Robert McDade, and one son, Ben T. Ratcliff,
all of this county.
Funeral services were
conducted at the family residence yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock.
The interment followed in Grove Hill Cemetery.
SOURCE: Contributed by Tamryn Glaser.
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Shelby News,
Shelbyville, KY, 20 Mar 1920
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Mildred Graves, the three-year-old daughter of
Mrs. Arthur Graves, died at the family home in Cropper Monday
morning of pneumonia following influenza after an illness of three
weeks. The child died two weeks to the day after her father,
Arthur Graves from the same cause. Her mother and two remaining
children are still ill with the same malady.
The funeral took place Tuesday afternoon at two
o’clock and the interment followed in the Pleasureville
Cemetery.
SOURCE OF
INFORMATION: Contributed by Tamryn Glaser.
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John B. Cochran
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Shelby News, 26 Mar
1920
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John B. Cochran, aged 69 years died at the Old
Masons Home at 1:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon of myocorditis. He
had been an inmate of the home since 1917. His former home was at
Mayfield. His body will be shipped to Mayfield today. He was a
member of the Presbyterian church of this city.
SOURCE OF
INFORMATION: Contributed by Tamryn Glaser.
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Margaret Lynn Doss
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Shelby News, 26 Mar
1920
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Miss Margaret Lynn Doss, the eldest daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Doss, died suddenly of influenza at the family
home on First Street Sunday evening at eight o’clock. She was
stricken on Friday and was thought to be getting along nicely until
Sunday afternoon when her condition took a sudden turn for the worse
and the decline from that time was very rapid.
Miss Doss was thirty-five years of age and is
survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Doss, two sisters, Mrs.
Mayme Davis and Miss Elizabeth Doss, and three brothers, J.
Sandusky, George and Beard Doss all of this place.
Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. F. M.
Powell, D. D., Monday afternoon and the burial took place at 2:30 o’clock
in the family lot in Bagdad Cemetery.
SOURCE OF
INFORMATION: Contributed by Tamryn Glaser.
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Walter Dingle
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Shelby News, 30 Apr
1920
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Walter Dingle, a herdsman on the George Woodruff
farm, five miles west of Shelbyville, died Tuesday night at nine o’clock
following a long illness of a complication of diseases.
Mr. Dingle was fifty-six years of age and a
native of England. Besides his widow he leaves two daughters, Mrs.
W. A. Cain and Miss Catherine Dingle, and one son, William Dingle,
all of this county.
The body was taken to Lexington yesterday, where
the interment will take place.
SOURCE OF
INFORMATION: Contributed by Tamryn Glaser.
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William McAllister
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Shelby News, 09 Sep 1920
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William McAllister
Killed By A Train In Dayton, Ohio, Friday
BROUGHT HERE FOR BURIAL
William McAllister, a
son of Alex McAllister, a well known farmer near Burk’s Branch
Church, was killed in Dayton, Ohio, Friday at noon, when his
automobile was struck by a passenger train running at the rate of
sixty miles an hour. Mr. McAllister’s home was in the suburbs of
Dayton and he was on his way there to lunch when the accident
occurred. His view was obscured by a freight on the siding, and he did
not see nor hear the fast-running passenger train until too late to
avoid the collision.
Mr. McAllister had been
an agent for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in Dayton for
four years. He was thirty-three years old and leaves a widow , who is
a daughter of James Netherly, former Sheriff of Spencer County, and
two sons. Mr. Alex McAllister, who was notified of the accident Friday
evening, left for Dayton the following morning and returned with his
son’s body Sunday. The funeral services were conducted at the
Christian Church Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock by a minister from
Dayton. The burial was in Grove Hill Cemetery.
SOURCE OF
INFORMATION: Contributed by Tamryn Glaser.
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Leonard Petry
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Shelby News, 11 Mar 1920
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News has been received
by Mrs. Lou Petry of the death of her brother, Leonard Matthews, a
former resident of this city, which occurred at his home in Los
Angeles, Cal., last Wednesday. He was about seventy years of age and
is well remembered by the older residents. No particulars of his death
were contained in the message.
SOURCE OF
INFORMATION: Contributed by Tamryn Glaser.
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Mary Elizabeth
Scobee Dale
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Shelby News, 11 Mar 1920
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Mrs. Mary Elizabeth
Scobee Dale, wife of J. A. Dale, died at the family home, four miles
north of Shelbyville on the Christiansburg pike, Sunday afternoon at
4:10 o’clock of pneumonia and asthma, following an illness of one
week.
Mrs. Dale was
seventy-three years of age and was one of the best beloved women in
that section. Sept. 17, 1917, she and Mr. Dale celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary. Surviving her are her husband, one daughter, Mrs.
Stephen Moore, of Shelby County, and three sons, James Dale, William
Dale, and Joseph Dale, of Louisville. Mrs. Dale was a member of the
Methodist Church.
Funeral services were
conducted from the Centenary Methodist Church Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock,
the pastor, Rev. O. B. Crockett, officiating assisted by Rev. J. P.
Strother. Burial was in Grove Hill Cemetery.
SOURCE OF
INFORMATION: Contributed by Tamryn Glaser.
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Sallie Johnson
Scearce
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Shelby News, Thursday,
04 Mar 1920
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Mrs. Sallie Johnson
Scearce, the wife of J. Shelby Scearce, a well known young farmer
residing on the Benson pike, 6 miles east of Shelbyville, died at the
family home Saturday morning of heart failure, following an attack of
influenza. She was ill only three days and the end came with shocking
suddenness. Mr. Scearce and one of the children have also been ill
with influenza, but they are now convalescing.
Mrs. Scearce was a
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thornton Johnson, of Shelby County, and was
in her twenty-ninth year. She is survived by her husband and two sons,
Thornton and Andrew Scearce, and her parents.
The burial took place
in Grove Hill Cemetery Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock after a service
at the grave conducted by Dr. F. M. Powell, pastor of the Baptist
Church.
SOURCE OF
INFORMATION: Contributed by Tamryn Glaser.
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Shelby News, 20
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Mrs. Sarah Ireland died last Friday morning at the
home of her son, Selby Ireland, near Simpsonville, of pneumonia.
Mrs. Ireland was seventy-two years of age and is
survived by two sons and three daughters. The burial was in the
Masonic Cemetery at Simpsonville Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
SOURCE OF
INFORMATION: Contributed by Tamryn Glaser.
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Ella Fore Elliott
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Shelby News, 26 Mar 1920
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Mrs. Ella Fore Elliott, the wife of William C.
Elliott, a farmer of this county, died Monday afternoon at the Central
State Hospital at Lakeland, where she had been for treatment for a
number of years. Her death was due to paralysis of the bowels.
Mrs. Elliott was sixty years of age and is survived
by her husband, one daughter, Mrs. Albert Miller Finnell, of Chicago;
and one son, James Elliott, of this county.
The body was brought here Monday evening and the
burial took place Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock in Grove Hill
Cemetery after services at the grave conducted by the Rev. David M.
Walker.
SOURCE OF
INFORMATION: Contributed by Tamryn Glaser.
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Mrs. Miranda Pigg
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Shelby News, 30 Apr 1920
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Mrs. Miranda Pigg, the wife of William Pigg, a
merchant at Hempridge, died at 10:40 o’clock Monday morning at the
family home of a complication of diseases.
Mrs. Pigg was fifty-four years of age and is
survived by her husband, one daughter, Mrs. Mary Ray, and two sons,
Albert and Jesse Pigg, all of this county.
The funeral services were conducted at the
Hempridge Baptist Church Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock by the Rev.
E. E. Steel, of Louisville. The burial was in Grove Hill Cemetery.
SOURCE: Contributed by Tamryn Glaser.
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Fronie Hornback
McClain
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Shelby News, 11 Mar 1920
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Mrs. Fronie Hornback
McClain, wife of Roy McClain, of Shelbyville, died at the Soldier’s
Memorial Hospital in this city, shortly after midnight last Thursday
morning of pneumonia following an attack of influenza. She was the
first resident of the city to succumb to the malady during the
epidemic this year.
Mrs. McClain was
twenty-eight years of age and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Hornback. She is survived by her husband and four little children.
Funeral services were
conducted at the family residence at Third and Clay streets Friday
afternoon at 2 o’clock. The burial was in Grove Hill Cemetery.
SOURCE: Contributed by Tamryn Glaser.
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Roy Hanna
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Shelby News, Thurs., 04
Mar 1920
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Roy Hanna, one of the
best known young farmers of the Chestnut Grove neighborhood, died last
Thursday afternoon at 5 o’clock at his home of influenza following a
brief illness. His death was the second in the family within
four days from the same disease, his sister-in-law, Mrs. Price Hanna,
having died on the Monday previous.
Mr. Hanna was
thirty-five years of age and a son of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Hanna. A
splendid specimen of physical manhood, Mr. Hanna’s death came with
shocking suddenness and was a severe blow to his family and friends.
Besides his widow, Mr.
Hanna is survived by three children, all of home have contracted the
infection. The burial took place in Grove Hill Cemetery Friday
afternoon at two o’clock after services at the grave.
SOURCE: Contributed by Tamryn Glaser.
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