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For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Longhunter Volume xxx - Issue 3 Summer, 2007 ISSN 1067 7348 Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Bowling Green, Kentucky SOUTHERN KENTUCKY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY P. O. Box 1782 Bowling Green, KY 42102-1782 2007 Officers President Gail Jackson Miller, CG~ gailmiller@ mindspring.com Longhunter Editor 425 Midcrest Drive, Bowling Green, KY , 42101 Vice President J. Mark Lowe, CG'· 505 Josephine, Springfield, TN 37172 Secretary Cora Jane Spiller 1056 Oakland Road, Oakland, KY 42159 Treasurer Rebecca Shi pley 702 Eastwood, Bowling Green, K Y, 42103 Membership Membership in the Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society is open to anyone interested in research in A lien, Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Logan, Simpson, and Warren County, Kentucky or th e ir neighbors. Dues is $20.00 per year fo r an individual or family. The quanerly publication, The LonghUnler, is included with membership. Membership extends from 1 January through 31 December. Meetings The Society meets regularly at 6:30 pm on the thi rd Monday of each month in the Meeting Room on the first fl oor in the Kentucky Library at Western Kentuc,,), University in Bowling Green, Kentucky. A cordial welcome is extended to all visitors and prospective new members. Queries Members may submit an unlimited number of queries. These should be limited to 80 words per query and shoul d contain at least one date and place. Send queries directly to the editor. Book Reviews and Announcements Send books fo r review to the editor with prici ng and ordering information. All donated books are placed in the Special Collection at the Kentucky Library at Western Kentucky Uni versity. Members may list any book which they have published in our MEMBER PUBLICATION LI ST at no charge. Send a list of books for sa le with descriptions, pricing, and ordering information to the editor. Back Issues C urrent and back issues of The Long/wnw' from 1987 are available fo r $5.00 each, post paid. Some pre- 1987 individual issues are still available. Issues for the period 1978-1986 are available on CD-Rom [requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) for $20. Orders should be placed at the Society's address. THE LONGHUNTER Volume xxx - Issue 3 Summer, 2007 Table of Contents Books of Interest to our Mem bers 98 Lillian South, Kentucky Public Health Physician 99 Nancy D. Baird Judge H . H. Tye's Woodford Pudding and Sauce 101 anny Cemetery, Warren County, Kentucky 102 ShirlelJ Ingram Smith-Runner Cemetery, Warren County, Kentucky 104 Sue Se nsening Gleanings From Henrietta Benton Johnson's Scrapbook, Warren County, Kentucky, 1869-1922, Part 4 105 Sue Spurlock Judge John H all, Ba rren County, Kentucky 114 1899 Warren County, Kentucky School Census, District 1, Smiths Grove 115 Gail Jackson Miller First County Court Business of Warren County, Kentucky, 1798 118 Simpson County, Kentucky Families in 1850, Part 10 119 Patricia Reid and Gail Jackson Miller Logan County, Ken tucky Emancipations, 1792-1865, Part 2 125 Judy Lyne Index 131 Deed Abstract [Form] 139 Editor's Note: We are sorry to report the loss of two of our long-time members recently. We wish to express our sympathy to their fa milies. They will be rnissed. Mrs. Drusci lla (Stovall) Jones died on 3 October 2007 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She was 100 yea rs old. The Logan County native was a genealogist who helped many people in this area to learn about thei r fa mily. She was the daughter of the late John W. Stovall and Rosa Lillie (Flowers) Stovall an d the wife of the later E. P. "Ras" Jones. Mrs. Chr istine (Parker) Lowe died 29 September 2007 in Robertson County, Tennessee. She was born 23 May 1924 in Warren Coun ty, Kentucky. She was the daughter of John James and Bessie Parker and the mother of past Society president, J. Mark Lowe Books of Interest to our Members:: Joseph Taylor, Jr.-Sarah Best Family-Volume 1, 768 pages, hardbound, fully indexed, $45 plus $5 shipping. Order from Shari Franke, 6147 50. 2250 East, Ogden, Utah 84403. Tells about the early Taylor family in North Carolina in colonial times. It then moves to Joseph and Sarah Taylor in Warren County, Kentucky in 1808. Continues with Joseph Taylor, Jr. family: Frances Taylor Cherry, Amy Taylor Wallace, Delilah Taylore Wallace, William Warren Taylor, and Allen Taylor. Joseph Taylor, Jr.-Sarah Best Family-Volume 2, NEW, 1,028 pages, hardbound, indexed, $55 plus $5 shipping. Order from Shari Franke, 6147 50.2250 East, Ogden, Utah 84403. Continues with the family of Joseph Taylor, Jr. Starting with Mar y Ann Taylor Cherry Upton, Seraphy Temperance Taylor Smart, Nancy Taylor, Sa rah Best Taylor Hudnall, Joseph Best Taylor, Elizabeth Ann Taylor Goode, Charlotte Taylor W11ite. Many new pictures. Both volumes may be ordered together for $90. William Michael Wilson, History of the Eleventh Kentuck-y Volunteer InfantnJ Regiment, Un ion Army, Bowling Green, Kentucky: Landmark Association, 2006. The book is 400 pages, hard-bound with photographs, endnotes, maps, and charts. It can be ordered from Landmark Association, P. O. Box 1812, Bowling Green, Kentucky, 42102-1812. Orders to be shipped first class should add $2.50 for shipping. A form for ordering the book can be printed by going to Mike Wilson's website at http://www.buq.!Oo.com. Society Publications Mary Lynn Claycomb, Jonathan Jeffrey, and Gail Jackson Miller, The Burgess Funeral Home Records, Bowling Green, Kentucla), 1930-1969, Bowling Green, Kentucky: By the authors, 2004. The book gives name, date of birth, date of death, loca tion of the record in the manuscript collection in the Kentucky Building, and the place of burial where listed. It also lists useful informati on from the receipts which no longer exist. The book is soft bound and 82 pages long. It can be ordered from the Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society, P. O. Box 1782, Bowling Green, Kentucky 42102-1782 fo r $13.00 postage paid. -Back in Print- Only a limited number of copies available. Patricia E. Reid, United States Census Warren County Kentucla) 1860, Bowling Green, Kentucky: By the author, 1986. This book makes the census material easy to use. Annotations give the rea der the benefit of Mrs. Reid's extensive knowledge of Warren County families. The book is soft-comb bound and 386 pages long. It can be ordered from the Southern Kentucky Genealogica l Society, P. O. Box 1782, Bowling Green, Kentucky 42102-1782 for $45 .00 postage paid. The Longhunter, Volume XXX , Issue 3, Summer 2007, Page 99 . Lillian South, Kentucky Public Health Physician Nancy D. Baird, Kentucky History Professor Kentucky Library and Museum Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, Kentucky Dr. Lillian South was born near Bowling Green, Kentucky on 31 January 1879, the daughter of Dr. J. F. South and Martha Belle (Moore) South. After earning several degrees in the fields of health and medicine, she returned to Bowling Green and formed a professional partnership with Drs. J. N. and A.T. McCormack. In 1910, she entered th public health service and was appointed director of the Bureau of Bacteriology and Epidemiology of the Kentucky State Board of Health. She was a member of numerous medical organizations and in 1963 was elected a member of the Royal Society of Health founded in England in 1876. After many years as a professional single woman, she married Judge H. H. Tye of Williamsburg, Kentucky. He passed away in 1948. Dr. South died in 1 966 and was buried in Williamsburg. The professional world has opened Kentucky first in two areas: the first state to to women during the last several decades employ a full-time bacteriologist and the and our da ughters can enjoy any career first to run a bacteriological laboratory. they choose. However, early in the last Lillian South was the nation's first woman century, women rarely became architects, to fill these positions. attorneys, or practiced medicine. Lillian As bacteriologist, Lillian South South was the exception. conducted studies of a number of maladies Lillian South was a native of Warren that plagued Kentucky including leprosy, County and the daughter of a physician. malaria, trachoma, and hookworm. Her She attended local schools and graduated first research involved hookworm. By mule, from Potter College, earned a nursing buggy and Model T, she surveyed 56 degree from General Hospital at Patterson, counties discovering appalling sanitation New Jersey, and in 1904 received her everywhere and a direct correlation Doctor of Medicine degree from the between hookworm and poor sanitation. Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. Dr. South later told a reporter that she had She would eventually do post graduate "systematically examined nearly 9000 studies at the Mayo Clinic, the Pasteur bowel movement" and from these results Clinic in Paris, and at Johns Hopkins School estimated that more than 30% of the state's of Public Health becoming the first woman residents were infected with hookworm.