Middletown's Days and Deeds

The Story of I SO Years of liuing In An Old Kentucky Town

Cy EDITH WOOD COPYRIGHT 1946 BY EDITH Woon MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

To

MIDDLETOWN

ON ITS 150th BIRTHDAY

PREFACE Back in 1930 I began to jot down bits of information about Middletown's days and deeds as told to me by my father. These with other accounts gathered from lifelong residents instilled within me a curious interest in Middle­ town's history and thus began my years of research at The Filson Club, the Louisville Free Public Library, the Ken­ tucky State Historical Society, the Jefferson County Court House, and other county court houses in Kentucky and Virginia. As time passed, my notes became voluminous and I began to realize that I was rescuing from oblivion many noteworthy incidents in the history of Middletown. There were two aims in writing the book. First, I wanted to share with the residents of Middletown and interested people elsewhere the historical information I had gathered, and secondly, I wanted to make a reference book on Mid­ dletown available for research workers and genealogists. It is impossible for me to acknowledge the many sources of inspiration and information for which I am greatly indebted, but special tribute is due Mrs. Evelyn Crady Adams for her invaluable suggestions and criticisms and for her kind and careful reading of the book while in manuscript form. I am deeply grateful to Miss Lillian I.ebmao of Okolona High &hool and to Mr. Wilbur L Davis for their painstaking editorial assistance. Thanks are due to Mr. Warren Frederick, a descendant of a pioneer family of Jefferson County, who lent me the picture of the Jefferson Female Academy. I am proud to acknowledge the contributions of two of my talented stu­ dents of the Anchorage High School. John Otmpbell White drew the sketch for the cover of my book, and William Dinsmore Blackwell reproduced the map of Mid­ dletown.

KEY TO THE MAP OF MIDDLETOWN, KENTUCKY The numbers on the map correspond to the approx­ imate locations of property on Main Street and elsewhere. Due to the size of the map all ~£ the property· could not be listed.

1. H. R. Van Zant 26. Etta Witherbee Fisher 2. Omer Jones 27. Myers Funeral Home 3. Forrest Raley 28. Masonic Lodge 4. Julia Orr Mason 29. Lucy Witherbee 5. Forrest Raley 30. Henry P. Pear~y 6. Laura Orr 31. Hunt's Market 7. John Perrelli 32. Middletown Inn 8. William Harlan Wood 33. Baptist Church 9. Dr. James B. Jordan 34. Wetherby Apartment 10. Byland E. Brinley 35. James Sutherland 11. Luther P. Wetherby 36. Clifford Pearce 12. John Waters 37. Dr. J. K. Keyes 13. Methodist Episcopal 38. John Schindler Church 39. Sallie and Annie Dugan 14. Oara Jones Wheeler 40. Robert Jones 15. Leonard Jones 41. Neisius Garage 16. Rose Weigleb Agee 42. Harry McFarland 17. Olarles Downey 43. Benjamin T. Coleman 18. Anna Slattery 44. Carl Meyer I 19. Hattie Yenowine 45. J. M. Howey 20. Christian Cliurch 46. George Buechel 21. Fannie Y enowine 47. Sherman Kline Wetherby 48. R. C. Day 22. William H. Tharp 49. Margaret Simpson 23. Lloyd W. Gates 50. Mid

CONTENTS

OLDEN TIMES IN MIDDLETOWN Page I. IN Tl-IE BEGINNING...... -•--·---·--·-··-··-·-····-··--·-·-- 1 Location and extent of the town·-··----·--·····-··-·······-·--····· 1 Naine source ·-·--·--·-·-·-··---··-·······-·-·----·--··-·············-···-····- 1 Topography ------·---·----·---···------·----·------1 White men here in 1769------·-··------·-·--··--·--·--·------2 Indians and wild anmials _____ ·------______------______3 Massacres ------_____ -----·----.. __ .... __ -·-·-. -·---·-- ____ -·---·-. ______.. __ __ _ 3 Middletown established ·-··------·---·---·------·······--·--··-··-·-· S c 'Middle Station" before 1787.. ·-·····--·--···-·--··-·-·-·-····-··- 5 Philip Buckner acquired land from Myers and Harrison _··-·. ·--·--· ...... _-·- -· ..... ·--.. ···-·---·· -· ···-··· _-·· 5 Trustees appointed ···-··········-·············-·········--····-··········· . 6 William White laid out the town...... 6 II. LANDMARKS AND EARLY CUSTOMS...... 8 Early dwellings and customs...... 8 0 Id trees ...... 19 Old fences and gateways...... 21 Old walks ·····························································-······· 21 Old watering places...... 22 Funeral customs ...... 24 Womack Graveyard Exhumation...... 26 Early business eriterprise...... 30 III. FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, AND OLD FAMILIES...... 36 Biographies-"Abell" to ..young." IV. TIIB OVIL WAR...... ·-····························-····-·-···· 141 Kentuckys allegiance divided...... 141 War surrounded Middletown... _...... 142 Detachments in the town...... 142 I.etters of a veteran...... ·-··--··················-······················- 14 5 Deatli of J.incoln...... --·····-··········-···-····· ·...... 148

THE GROWTH OF MIDDLETOWN V. CHUROIBS -··--·-·------·---·----··---·--·------·---·- 149 Presbyterian Clmrch ------149 Page Methodist Episcopal Church...... 151 Christian Church ·········································-····-·······-····· 154 Baptist Church ·····-·--·------·---·--··--·-·--·---·---··------160 VI. SCHOOLS --··-··--·--·----··--·-·------·------·-·--··-····--··----·----···-· 1_63 Early Kentucky school life.. ·--····--·-·····-··-··--·-··-···-·······-··· 163 Middletown's first schooL ...... -···············-····-··-···--········-- 166 Hope Seminary, 1819--·-·······-··········--···-·--···-·····-············- 168 Jefferson Female Academy, 1855-1878...... -·--·-··--···· 169 Public school system, 1909·-····--·--···--·-······-·-·--·-··--··-····- 1 7 0 High school, 1916-1920...... -----·------··-·--·------·-·- 172 Affiliation with Anchorage High School._ .. _.. ------··-----·-·· 172 VII. TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION____ 175 Early roads and stage-coaches follow boats and horses .. 175 Lexington and Louisville Turnpike and toll gates._. _____ 176 Route No. 60 ------····--······-·················-··················· 177 Louisville and Frankfort Railway, 1851..... ·-······-····--···· 179 Louisville and Interurban Railway, 1910-1934...... 180 Blue Goose and Greyhound Bus Line...... 181 Airplane service ··-·················-·················-·-······-···--······· 182 Middletown Post Office ··········-············-·······-----·--·-······- 182 Telephone system installed, 1880...... 184 Radio, about L92 6 ..... ---······--·-········---...... 184 VIII. BUSINESS ENTERPRISE AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES ...... :~...... 185 General Store, 18 50...... 185 The Bank of Middletown, 1910...... 187 Funeral Home, 1912.·-···-··················--······················-··· 188 Dairies ...... __ .. __ . ___ ...... 188 Barber shop -···-·-··························---·-·······················------188 Electrical shop -·--·--·-···----·········--·-····---·---·---·--··-········-··· 188 Garage service and gas statio~...... 188 The Middletown Apothecary .. ·-·····-···-························· 189 Hardware store ·--·--·······-·-···············--·-···-····-·······-········ 189 Feed stores ····-·-····---··--····-·-·-····-··-···-··-··-·-······--·--·· 190 The Old Inn Beauty Parlor-······-···-···-··-···········--·----·--· 190 The Arrington Dry Goods Store ..... ·-···-··········-----········· 190 Tourist homes and cabins ...... ·--·--·-·····-· 190 Eat shop and ice cream factory...... 191 Strawberry cultivation ··································-················· 191 The Middletown Manufacturing Company...... 192 The medical profession...... 192 Dentists, pharmacist, lawyers, ministers, and teachers .. 193 Page IX. COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS...... 194 The Masonic Lodge ·-······-·-····-·-····-·-·······-···-·--···-·-·······- 194 The Eastern Star...... ········-···-······-·-····-- 196 Boy Scouts ·-···········-··········-···························-···············-- 197 Boys and Girls Club ...... ·-····-······-·············-·-··············· 198 Croquet dub ···-··-···········-·····-····...... 199 The Flood of 19 37 ...... ·-·-····-······-········-······················ 199 The Middletown Civic Club...... 201 The Middletown Woman's Club... ·-········-····-·-··············· 202 The American Red Cross Chapter...... 204 X. CIVIC IMPROVEMENTS ...... 205 Electricity and Gas ...... ···-·······--·-··-········-·-······ 20 5 Cemetery Restoration ...... 205 Water Works System ...... 207 Fire Department ...... 207 XI. WORLD WAR 11...... 211 Air wardens ...... 211 Rationing ...... 212 Bond drives ...... 214 Scrap drives ...... 215 Roosevelt's death ...... 21 S V-E Day ·····································································--· 216 V-J Day ...... 216 In Memoriam -··-·······························-·····-···-·················· 219 Middletown artist ···································-·-·-·--·····-·--·----· 222

THE FUTURE OF MIDDLETOWN XII. LOOKING FORWARD ·········-······-······-···-·-··-···---··-···· 223 Present advant~oes and future prospects ...... 223 APPENDIX ··-····-·····---··-·--··---···-··-··----····--·-·-·-·--····----···------227 Establishment of Kentucky Towns ...... 229 Establishment of Middletown...... 230 Trustee Elections ···--······-·-·····--········-····-········-···-··-·-··-· 2 31 Trustees of Middletown...... ·-········-·-·······-·---- 232 Election Precincts ···-··········-···-·-·-··-·····----- 232 Records of Old Roads--·············-·-···-·- ___ 233 The Lexington and Louisville Turnpike...... 233 Keiitucky Gazette ·············-··················-······-····-···-···-···- 234 Trustees· First 1-and...... ·····-····-··························--······ 2 34 Original Middletown Lots ...... -·---··---··········· 23 5 Head, Hobbs, and Lawrence General Store----.-····-······ 236 Page Middletown in the Nation's Wars______238 Middletown Christian Cliurch Centennial______·----· 244 Censuses: A Building Census of Main Street...... 246 Census of Population...... --..·-·-···------···- 2 5 2 Tombstone Inscriptions: Middletown Cemetery ..... ·-··-···-··-·-----··-····-----····---·· 267 Local Family Graveyards ...... 276 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

CHAPTER I

IN THE BEGINNING

Middletown! Fifteen states boast one each but there is none just like the one in old Kentucky, common in name and unique in history. Middletown, Kentucky, is in Jeffer­ son County, twelve miles east of Louisville. Old U. S. Highway 60, familiarly known as the Shelbyville Road, runs through the town, and about a mile of it forms Main Street. "Stringtown on the Pike" is no longer applicable for the dwellings now spread over an area of approximately two square miles. How did Middletown get its name? There is no recorded explanation why the Jefferson County Court made the choice, but a very logical reason may be that it was the middle town between the two older towns-Louisville, founded June 24, 1778, and Shelbyville, founded December 20, 1792. The first settlers of Middletown came down the Ohio River in flatboats, or over the mountains along wilder­ ness trails on horseback. They found here a gently rolling land covered by virgin forests of oak, elm, sycamore, birch, maple, beech, ash, evergreens, and other trees indigenous to Kentucky. Through this forest a beautiful stream meandered to join the great Ohio River, and along its banks yucca .grew in abundance as ngrass,. for the bears. The stream, appropriately named Beargrass Creek, has its origin in springs on what is now the property of B. N. Sublette, and it empties into the Ohio about two miles above the Falls. Before Beargrass Cut-Off was constructed in 1854, the stream flowed into the Ohio between Third and Fourth streets in Louisville. 2 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

There may have been an Indian settlement on the site of Middletown, for it was a likely location else the white man would not have chosen it. As late as 1810 there were one hundred thirteen Indians in J~erson County, and Indian relics are still being turned up occasionally by the plow on n~y farLJ.S. The exact date of the arrival of the first v,hite men will perhaps never be known, but Kentucky history reveals their presence in the Middletown vicinity as early as 1769. Explorers, hunters, surveyors, and scouting parties came at various times over a period of thirty years be£ ore the town. was established. Hancock, and Richard Taylor who was the father of President Zachary Taylor, descended the Ohio to the Falls in 1769. Captain Thomas Bullitt, sur­ veyor, laid out the city of Louisville in August, 1773, on part of its present site, and Daniel Boone visited the Falls of the Ohio in 1774. In June, 1778, George Rogers Clark landed his troops at the Falls on what became known as Com Island and built a fort. Six families, including the Chenoweths, formed the first encampment of settlers on the island in 1778. In the autumn of 1778 or early in 1 779 they re­ moved to the mainland ( site of Louisville) only to find it a fever-infested swamp. Some of these settlers, and others who came later, sought higher ground farther inland where living conditions would be more healthful. The Middletown terrain with- an altitude of more thao seven hundred feet appealed to them as an excellent choice. A story has been handed down of one John Williamson who ran the gauntlet as a military punishment in 1781 on what is now the R. C. Day farm. The gauntlet is said to have been run between two walnut trees. One stood in the yard at the northwest comer of the cottage, and the other stood about fifty feet to the west The well was about midway between them. IN THE BEGINNING 3

Close your eyes and try to picture Middletown in the beginning. Let the houses as you now know them vanish. Fill their places with trees and an occasional wigwam or log cabin. Watch the bears strolling down Middletown's Main Street to Beargrass Creek for a drink of its cool, clear water and a meal of ccbear grass" along its banks. See the Indians skulking behind trees, waiting to tomahawk white men out to kill bears for molesting their families. For wild animals and Indians were there to meet the brave and hearty Eastern pionters whom they served as both friend and foe. Wild animals provided a source of food until forests could be cleared and crops planted. There were bears, deer, bison, wolves, wild cats, and turkeys and other game birds. Just what help, if any, the Indians may have given we do not know. That they gave trouble we do know, for there are 2.t least two massacres on record, massacres that could have been partially provoked by the Indians' resentment against white encroachment on their hunting grounds. The Long Run Massacre occwred on September 16, 1781, just seven miles east of Middletown. The following day Captain John Floyd met his defeat four miles east of Middletown, while endeavoring to avenge the death of the white settlers. The place where the fight occurred is marked by a tall monument which stands on the south side of old U.S. Highway 60, at Eastwood, in a field adjacent to the home of Silas Duncan {1944). The monument is indosed by an iron fence, and bears the following inscrip­ tion: UErected by the Commonwealth of Kentucky to the memory of fourteen brave soldiers who fell under Captain John Floyd in a contest with the Indians in 1781.'lt 4 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Shortly afterward the Chenoweth family was attacked by the Indians .. Richard Chenoweth was one of the earliest settlers and realized the need for defense. He built Fort Nelson; the undertaking left him bankrupt, since the Government refused to assist him. He came to this vicinity in 1782, and here he built for the protection of his family a srna11 fort only two miles from Middletown. The family lived in a log cabin near the fort. The members included Richard, his wife Peggy McCarthy, and their children: Thomas, Eli, James, Alexander, Millie, Rose, Bayless, and Naomi who was about two years old. About dusk one evening in midsummer, while the Chenoweths were talking over the past at their evening meal, they were suddenly surprised by sixteen Shawnee Indians who burst open the door and rushed into the cabin. Rose, who was near the entrance, jumped behind the door and, in the dreadful excitement that followed, passed out undiscovered and effected an escape. Bayless was burned at the stake near the spring-house. Richard, then an old man, was wounded and his daughter Millie was slashed in the arm with a tomahawk but they both reached the fort. The Indians killed Eli, Thomas, and James, a small child, at the woodpile. The little two-year-old Naomi crept to the spring-house and escaped danger by hiding under a table on which an Indian later placed a firebrand that resulted in not.'1.ing more than burning a hole. When a reconnoitering party approached the scene the next morn­ ing they found Naomi, and soon all of the surviving mem­ bers of the family were reunited. Richard recovered from his injury suffered during the Indian attack and was. killed several years later by a falling log at a house-raising. Peggy's scalping wounds healed, although her head re­ mained bald.. She survived for years and is accredited with killing a number of Indians with her trusty rifle. IN THE BEGINNING

Abraham Lincoln, the President's grandfather, was killed by Indians in ambush, in 1786, less than seven miles from Middletown. Four hundred acres of land had been surveyed for him the preceding year on Floyd's Fork and he had built a cabin for his family on the hill just above the old Long Run Baptist Church which is located on the Lincoln homestead. He was slain near the site of the church and was buried in the churchyard. Indian organized resistance in Kentucky ceased about 1 782, and after 1 788 the inhabitants were relatively free from Indian attack although there continued to be isolated instances of in jury and death at the hands of small maraud­ ing bands. Increased migration called for political organization. New counties had been set up and the Commonwealth of Kentucky was created in 1792. Four years later the Gen­ eral Assembly passed an act vesting the county courts with the power to establish towns, and Middletown came into being at the May session of the Jefferson County Court in 1797 when Philip Buckner applied for the establishment of a town on his tract of land lying on the Sinking Fork of Beargrass Creek. Early Jefferson County Minute Books mention a Middle Station which existed before 1787. It is possible and even probable that this Middle Station was the beginning of Middle Town although there is no proof to substantiate it. Mention was made of UMiddletonn in a court order for the surveying of the old Harrods Creek Road two months before Middletown was established. The manner in which Philip Buckner acquired the 500 acres of land on which Middletown is located is a matter of interest. On March 15, 1781, Jacob Myers had 400 acres of land surveyed. He sold 250 of it to William Roberts who later sold it to Philip Buckner. On December 2, 1785, Cuthbert Harrison was granted 600 acres by 6 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

patent; he sold this land, which contained the 2 50 acres that formed half of Middletown, to Philip Buckner on November 20, 1792. Both Jacob Myers and Cuthbert Harrison received their land from the Commonwealth of Virginia for their service in the Revolution. Esquire William White presided at the Jefferson Coun­ ty Court in May, 1797, and appointed the following men to serve as the fust trustees of the newly established Mid­ dletown: Frederick Geiger, Martin Brengman, Charles Quirey, Samuel Wells, John Miller, John Pauley, John Funk, Thomas Pomeroy, and George Pomeroy. The trus­ tees were instructed to lay off the town in lots, streets, and alleys, and to sell the lots at public auction for the best price obtainable in money or property. Credit was allowed if it accommodated the proprietor, Philip Buckner. The numbering of the lots was not consecutive. For example, the lots on the four comers at the intersection of Harrison Avenue and Main Street were numbered 1, 16, 52, ~d 53. In addition to his political sagacity, William White was versed in the science of surveying. According to tradition he laid out the town and drew the first map. Concordant with his plat, original Middletown was two and a half blocks long and two blocks wide. It reached from Madison Avenue on the east to Holmes Street on the west, and from McArthur Street on the north to Adair Street on the south. The alley which today connects Wayside with U. S. High­ way 60, formed the eastern boundary of the town. Madi­ son was the first street on the east and is now called the Middletown-Anchorage Road. Harrison Avenue is the old Ha.rroos Creek Road. McArthur Street, which has never been paved, runs approximately parallel to U. S. High­ way 60, a few yards to the north, and forms the southern boundary of the C. H. Bliss property. Adair Street is now an alley extending from the Jeffersontown Road to the Tucker Station Road. Holmes Street is called the Jeffer- IN THE BEGINNING 7 sontown Road. Main Street, now known as the Old Shelby­ ville Road, is still the principal street, although new U. S. Highway 60 is vying with it for supremacy. Middletown folk should admire the courage of their pioneer ancestors, who left friends, relatives, and the greater security enjoyed by the eastern settlements, to brave the many dangers of the Dark and Bloody Ground. There were the Indians, the :fierceness of wild animals, severities of the climate, lack of proper shelter, the uncertainty of a food supply, and the ravages of disease. All these adver­ sities and others unknown to us were met by the frontiers­ men in their struggle to set up new homes in what became Middletown, Kentucky. CHAPTER II

LANDMARKS AND EARLY CUSTOMS

The first settlers of the Middletown vicinity lived in single log cabins or in forts, which were usually rows of log cabins arranged to form a rectangle. The logs were chinked with clay in which straw was mixed as a binder. The floors were earthen or puncheon. The roofs were made of clapboards fastened to the rafters with wooden pins, as there were no nails in Kentucky during the early years. The doors were hung on leather or wooden hinges, and were fastened with latches. A string of deer sinew was used to open the door from the outside. When the Indians v✓ ere near, the door was locked by pulling the string inside through a small hole. From this early custom arose the saying, ''My latchstring hangs on the outside £or you. ., Windows were made of paper coated with bears' grease. A feeble light, yellow and sooty, was furnished by rags soaked in bears' oil or mutton tallow. The walls of the cabins were decorated with the pio­ neer· s weapons, implements, tools, and trophies of the hunt, such as tomahawks, rifles, powderhoms, hoes, axes, and antlers. On the outside of the cabin might be seen the skins of bears, skunks, coons, and wildcats, stretched for drying. Since clothes were few and simple, no closet space was needed for storage. There were wooden pegs in the wall on which to hang garments not in actual use. Chests and chests of drawers soon appeared. The man wore deerskin trousers, and a deerskin or homespun shirt confined by a LANDMARKS AND EARLY CUSTOMS 9 belt from which he hung his weapons. The pioneer woman generally wore a smock over a linsey-woolsey petticoat. The pioneer> s food was coarse. There was little varia­ tion or selection in his menu. Corn was one of the most important articles in his diet. It was his bread, vegetable, and dessert.. He made meal and hominy by grinding it by hand. Johnnycake, one of the delicacies of the day, was made of corn meal shortened with bear-fat. Stewed dried pumpkin was added to the dough for variety and to make it more savory. Wild honey, maple molasses, and maple­ sugar were used for sweetening. Meat was eaten in great quantities. At first there was venison, bear or wild game broiled or roasted over an open fire. Pork and beef were added later. Domestic tea was the first hot drink. Coffee did not come into use until about 1820. Among other precious supplies were salt and homemade soft soap which ·were stored in gourds. From the rafters hung dried herbs to be used as medicines, red peppers, smoked meat, hanks of yam, and Hhands,, of tobacco. This is a picture of early Middletown home life. There are still fourteen log or part-log houses here. Among the houses which a.re a hundred years or more in age, naming them by their builders or early owners { occupant or present owner in parentheses), are: LOG-Cuthbert Blanken­ baker (unoccupied), Alpha Tarbell (Margaret and Ethel Simpson), John Miller (Frank B. McAuliffe), B. F. Morse (W. H. Curry), Joseph Seston (Aurelia Wisehart), Jeffer­ son Marders (C. H. Bliss), Michael A. Remley (Frank Fisher), Robert S. Waters (Sam Long), Arthur Waters (James Arrington), Alexander Mitchell (John Waters), John Brentlinger (Nan Arterburn), Tom Waters (hard­ ware display house), Qtatles Duff (Olarles Kolter), and William Miller (Myers Funeral Home). BRICK­ William White (Wetherby apartments), John Womack ( George Buechel), Joseph Abell (Fred Elswick), Oiristian 10 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Church auditorium (same) , Elisha Athy (Joe Thor­ mahlen), John Brengman (R. C. Day). STONE-Cheno­ weth fort (unoccupied), and Benjamin Head (Lucy Witherbee). FRAME-Edward Brinley (R. H. Robert­ son), William Bull (Dr. J. B. Jordan), Tom Waters (Viola Caldwell), Jeremiah Diller (Lloyd Poulter), Jason Chamberlain (Lloyd Gates), Wendell Kratz (Rufus King), and George Yenowine (Lilla Breed). Brick, stone, and frame dwellings displaced the log houses when the settlers had more leisure and the proper tools with which to work. Bricks were molded by hand from a mass consisting of one part sand and two parts clay made pliable by the addition of water. They were then dried in the sun and hardened by burning in kilns. The firing lasted from six to ten days. The Chenoweth place, which was the home of John Williamson III for many years, is now the property of Dr. Fred Reiss, a Louisville dentist. The farm consists of a tract of 186 acres which Dr. Reiss bought in 1901 from L. M. Sanford and is located on the Avoca Road two miles northeast of Middletown. The entrance to the farm is the last gateway on the north side of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway near the intersection of the Avoca Road and the Aileen Road. The old fort-springhouse which was built by Richard Oienoweth is still standing and is in a fine state of preservation after more than 160 years. It is a small one-room house, eight feet by ten feet, built of native roughhewn stone. The present dwelling was built about 1924. The one preceding it was part log and part frame. The log portion was evidently the original cabin built by Richard Oienoweth for his family. A tenant by the name of Richard Fairfax is now operating the farm. For many years there was a Oienoweth Station on the Oiesa.peake and Ohio Railway. It was a smaU frame shelter house located at the intersection of the Old Henry County LANDMARKS AND EARLY CUSTOMS . 11

Road with the railroad track, on the southeast corner, near Cox's Lake entrance, one mile from Middletown. Cheno­ weth Lane in St. Matthews is named for the family. The Davis Tavern, a large and substantial house built presumably by Esquire William White for his family, be._ came the property of his son-in-law, Lawrence Young, in 1824. I:J;e may have conducted his school here. In 1841 he sold the house to Susan B. Davis. The tavern, in which so many people have been born, lived, and died, is a twenty-three room, two-story brick building with stone additions. It was stuccoed in 1922 and is in a fine state of preservation after standing for a century and a half. In the old days there were beautiful flower beds on each side of it, well kept walks, and a driveway of cobblestones. Iron gates guarded the gardens enclosed by a stone fence, now crumbling with age and partly split by a great catalpa tree that has grown into it. The Head house is a two-story stone building located on the north side of Main Street in the heart of town. The walls, two feet in thickness, are built of native, hand-cut stone from the rock-ribbed hills of Middletown. The stones, now yellow and mellow with age, vary in size from that of a brick to a large door panel. There are nine great rooms and the immense entrance hall that reaches to the back along the west side, making the wide entrance with its double doors and arched transom, asymmetrical with respect to the front wall The stairway rises from the northwest comer of the hall in two flights with a landing across the width of the room. The large concrete porch, extending across the entire front of the house, was added by Dr. Witherbee. There was no front porch originally. There are several appurtenances, including: an old brick servant house, a frame chicken house, and a large frame barn, all to the rear and in a line each one east of the other in the order named. The old servant house is .· -'.~:~!,.;lt!o/-)1~;::,~: .. '.( :'?~--:•. · ~~~::ie~~F:~

THE DAVIS TAVERN LANDMARKS AND EARLY CUSTOMS 13 the only original out-building. On the east side of the house there is a one-room shingled building that Dr. Witherbee built for his office. An original stone store building to the west of the main house was razed before 1876. A part of the old stone fence still runs along the northern boundary of the property, and another shorter fragment along the western boundary, beginning in line with the back of the house. The Abell home, the last house on the south side of Main Street at the east end of town, is a two-story dwelling with the front wall of Flemish bond brickwork. Evidently Joseph wanted to put up a good front! The other walls are fashioned in the ordinary pattern used today, and all are solid brick twelve inches thick. There are six rooms and two halls. Two of the seven outside doors are in the front, four in the back, and one on the east side. The oldest doors have graduated panels, small at the top and larger at the bottom. All the original hardware has been removed, presumably for sale by unappreciative owners or tenants. The windows have splayed jambs with six panes in the lower sash and nine in the upper sash. Many of the original panes with their blurs and waves are still there and can be easily distinguished from the clear, new ones that have replaced those broken during the years. There is a three-quarter inch bead on the casings of all of the doors and windows. All the shutters have been destroyed except those at the front windows. The floors are made of hand-finished puncheons of varying widths. Those downstairs are of ash and those upstairs are of walnut. The stairway rises from the right side of the entrance hall and is divided into two flights by a landing nxaning along the width of the hall. In direction the second flight is the reverse of the first and offers a sur­ prise to the visitor with risers only about half as high as 14 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS those of the first flight. The hand rai) iog and newel posts are of cherry and the treads are of ash. A chair rail originally ran around the walls of all the rooms, but much of it disappeared during the reign of de­ struction and only the upstairs rooms have it today. All the rooms have large fireplaces, and each of the fine hand-done mantels with reeded pilasters is distinctive in design. The parlor mantel, the finest in the house, has been missing for several years. It was doubtless sold for a fancy price to some treasure hunter for the decoration of his new home. An ordinary factory-made mantel was installed to replace the original. It is not known who committed this outrage against the dignity of the house. The slave quarters were demolished years ago. The only remaining original out-building is a whitewashed octagonal frame stru~e with hand-hewn wooden shingles and a scalloped cornice. This precious bit of architecture, which was the smokehouse, is charming enough to be a summerhouse. It is only a few feet from the back court­ yard, which is even more interesting than the front of the house. The court has a brick floor and walks bordered with myrtle and ivy. There are brick steps leading from the four back doors of the house to the court floor. This is a vantage point for a view of the magnificent old trees. The front porch is small, with only two whole columns and two half columns against the house wall. Its floor is now concrete. The double paneled doors, with transom, have admitted many people during the century and a quar­ ter of use. ttFor there's been a heap o· livin' in this house:' At least a dozen families have called it home. The present owner is H. R. Van Zant. It is now occupied by the Elswick family, consisting of Fred Elswick, his wife Gladys Crumpler, and their daughter Betty. Mr. Elswick is an architect; among his creations is the Duncan Memorial Chapel at Floydsburg, Kentucky. LufilM.ARKS AND EARLY CUSTOMS 15

The Cuthbert Blankenbaker house was originally a two-story dwelling consisting of six rooms and a center hall. The two end chimneys are stone. The house is now uninhabitable, with most of the roof missing and one of the chimneys partly in ruin. The last occupants lived there about fifteen years ago. The kitchen, dining room, front stairway, and weatherboarding were burned for fuel dur­ ing the years of neglect. The house is located about three miles from Middletown on the Jeffersontown Road but it is not visible from the road because of the dense woods surrounding it. It must be more than 150 years old, for Cuthbert Blankenbaker, who died many years ago at the age of ninety, was born there. His father built the house. Cuthbert was the father of Samuel, Lula, Sidney, and Harry Blankenbaker. The William Bull place, now the home of Dr. James B. Jordan, is a charming, one-story frame house nestled in a cluster of century-old trees. It is located on the south side of Main Street in the east end of town. A long, maple­ lined driveway leads to the entrance. A spacious center hall runs the length of the house and on each side there are three large rooms with high ceilings, tall doors, and shut­ tered windows. There is an outside cellar-house, where in the olden days the milk p.D.d butter and other perishables were kept cool. Several rooms in a row form the slave quarters that project from the large back porch toward the garden. With Main Street at his front door and Beargrass Creek in his back yard, William Miller could make a quick exit by either of these arteries of travel of.the 1790's. He built a four-room log house on lot No. 20, which he and John Miller bought from the Trustees of Middletown about 1797, John being one of the trustees. The old kitchen under the west side of the house has a stone floor and a large stone fireplace, five feet wide. The iron band 16 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS spanning the arch of the fireplace, from which hooks are still hanging, is covered with rust. Daylight can be seen by standing where the great logs used to burn and looking up the giant chimney. Many sumptuous meals have been prepared here by Mammy Lou and Aunt Jane of slave days. The giant chimney which projects several inches from the outside wall of the house was stuccoed a number of years ago. Another chimney at the opposite end of the house was walled in when the house was remodeled and is now less conspicuous. The additions during the years in­ clude a large front porch, a back porch on each side of a frame kitchen, and the weatherboarding of the log rooms. No old out-buildings remain, but there is a remnant of the old stone sidewalk which used to extend across the front of the lot. On February 26, 1804, William Miller and his wife Rhoda and John Miller and his wife, Barbara, sold their home for $ 5 50 to John Middleton Luckett, who died in less than four years. His son, Samuel M. Luckett, sold the property for $250 on November 22, 1808, to Joseph Glass who bought the adjacent lot eight years later. Lot No. 21 was first owned by Worden Pope who bought it "with appurtenances" in 1799 from the Trust~ of Middletown. It was sold for taxes by Minor White, tax collector of Middletown, to Joseph Glass. Joseph then owned both lots which, since 1816, have never been separately owned. Other owners which followed during the years are: Jefferson Marders, James M. Bemis, H. B. Withers, Martin H. Head, the Reverend William Tharp, Hugh Mi11iken, James Jones, and Dr. L. D. Mason, the present owner. The old William Miller place is the Myers Fu­ neral Home of today. Henry Lippert and his wife occupy the house. · During the early years lot No. 9, on which the Middle­ town Inn is located, changed hands frequently. It was LANDMARKS AND EARLY CUSTOMS 17 fust owned by James G. Speer who bought it ( also lot No. 10 with appurtenances for $15) from the Trustees of Middletown. Speer sold both lots to Esquire Wi11fam White for $250 in 1808. Seven years later White sold lot No. 9, "with appurtenances," to John Evans for $100. Evans and his wife Anna, sold it a year later to Elisha Athy for $500. Following Athy the owners were: Robert G. Vance, Robert Vance Sprowl, Edward Hord, WilJiam Hord, and Wil1iam Schindler. The present owner is Frances Hymer Thormahlen, who succeeded her husband, Johannes Thormahlen, after his death in 1945. The old inn had its face lifted with a coat of stucco a..11d the addition of a front porch during the Schindler ownership. It now appears to be a homogeneous structure, but in reality it is about half brick and half log. The brick part is the west end of the building and the log part the east end. The walls are eighteen inches thick, and the supporting beams are beech logs some of which still have the bark on them. The basement, which is under the entire house, has a large stone fireplace. Some changes have been made in the mterior of the house. There are now eight rooms above and four rooms and a hall on the first floor. The present kitchen has a cherry closet on each side of a center fireplace that is now closed. On the second floor there are two more of these original cherry closets. The present dining-room once had a large oak tree growing in it Believe it or not! It was then an open court across which the slaves passed from their quarters, now demol­ ished, to the main house.. The original floors are preserved with their wide boards that are twelve inches upstairs and seven inches downstairs. Five of the original doors are still hanging. The kitchen door, which had such rough treatment for more than a century, had to be replaced, but Mrs.. Thormahlen is keeping it as a treasure.. Some of the original hardware is still on the doors.. There is a large 18 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS brass key highly prized by Mrs. Thormahlen, who has an appreciation for the charm and historic value of the inn. Origioa 1Jy there was a fireplace in every room, but all have been closed except the one in the living room which has a wood mantel so high that Mrs. Thormahlen has to stand on a chair to wind her old-fashioned clock on the shelf. The ceilings are low and the windows are paned. A few of the old panes with their blurs and waves are still in use. The Old Inn Beauty Shop occupies the tavern room. The old stone house in the attractive back court­ yard was the meat house at one time. The iron hooks from which hams and sides of bacon were hung are still in the rafters overhead. Tohn Womack selected a beautiful tree-clustered hill­ top, with an imposing view of the countryside, as the site for his mansion-house which today is called Douglass Place. One enters the estate through two stone gateways opening on U. S. Highway 60. Drives bordered by stone walls and trees lead from the gates to the house which has undergone several changes during the century since the Womacks lived there. Today the twelve-room house with its fourteen-foot ceilings has new hardwood floors laid over the original wide boards. Upstairs there are six bed­ rooms, three baths, a sunroom, and a spacious hall. Down­ stairs there are a large drawing-room, a den, and a laundry on the west side, and a library, living-room, dining-room, butler's pantry, and kitchen on the east side. The dioiog­ room has a bay window with art glass panes picturing grapes and other fruit. It was used as a prayer room by the wife of one of the owners. The house was partly burned during the Gvil War, but was restored on the same foundation. There is an old stone spring-house on the side of the hill in front of the mansion-house. An incessant Bow of sparkling dear cold water gushes from the rocks. LANDMARKS AND EARLY CUSTOMS 19

Several years ago it was enclosed and pipes were run to the highway where travelers might water their horses. Several original ~ut-buildings still stand. There are two brick houses, behind the mansion-house to the left, which used to shelter the slaves. Nearby is an interesting old ice house with a frame room above ground and a brick cylinder extending twenty feet below ground where the ice was stored. The smokehouse, formerly the old railway station at .Anchorage, used to shelter a dynamo which suppiied electricity for the place before the lines were run to Middletown. During the days of the trolley car, Colonel J. J. Douglass had a stone covert built at the west entrance along the track to accommodate commuters. It ,vas called Douglass Station. Besides the original build­ ings there are about sixteen barns and stables scattered over the large acreage.

OLD TREES There are magnificent pine, hemlock, spruce, and cedar trees on the lawns of C. H. Bliss, L. D. Mason, B. E. Brin­ ley, Lloyd Gates, and also on the Kratz place, 0. S. Klein place, Douglass place, and Abell place. The cemetery is graced by these evergreens, solemn and dignified in their stately demeanor, grieving with the bereaved as the wind sways their elegant branches, and offering comfort as silent sentinels on calm and peaceful days. An immense catalpa tree has grown into the rock fence east of the Davis Tavern. On the west side of the tavern is another and across the street on the Richard Poulter lawn there is a third catalpa. These trees furnished ucigarsn for imps who hid behind the woodshed or in the stable to smoke them, and "beans" for little girls in their playhouses. The large catalpa leaves made pretty skirts for playtime when pinned together with Spanish needles. 20 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Three huge locust trees nine feet in circumference stand at the edge of the sidewalk in front of the Agee cottage, opposite the H. P. Pearcy store. There are other old 19(:USts on the Abell place. In front of the Middletown Inn there are two blue ash trees, one of which has a large cavity at its base that has been filled with concrete. There is an old white poplar nearby, east of the ash trees. Young seed­ lings of this tree, with their white trunks ghostly on moon­ light nights, stand before a precious little log house with a quaint stone chimney almost as large as the house itself, which now, strangely enough, displays hardware through plate glass windows. Catkins of these trees delighted mischievous boys who used them to frighten little girls. Up the street a few yards a handsome lone sycamore stands at the edge of the driveway on the Baptist Church lot. There is another in front of the Wesley Brooks home, ad­ jacent to H. P. Pearcy' s store, and still another at the east fence to the rear of the Jordan house. The seed balls of these trees serve as toys in childish sports. Beautiful maples border the driveway and shade the home of Dr. J. B. Jordan. An immense blue ash stands about midway on his front lawn and another near the house. A solitary black walnut, gorgeous in its perfect symmetry, graces the eastern border and an ancient beech ornaments the west lawn. There are old maples Qll the lawns of the Pearcy, Gates, Abell, Douglass, Klein, and R. C. Day places and the Myers Funeral Home; single maples add charm to the lawns of George Schenk, Fannie Wetherby, and the Omstian Oiurch parking lot A mag­ nificent black walnut shades the west lawn of W. H. Tharp. The Lloyd Gates place is well known for the wide va­ riety of its trees. Almost every shade and ornamental tree indigenous to Kentucky is found on the lawn. There are giant forest trees of beech and poplar and graceful ever­ greens, including the rare larch. LANDMARKS AND EARLY CUSTOMS 21

OLD FENCES AND GATEWAYS A few fragments of old stone fences still stand as .re­ minders of the halcyon days of long ago when labor and materials were abundant and time idled around the sun­ dial. There were no cranes to lift the stones or trucks to haul them. Slaves wrested the rocks from the earth and conveyed them to the site where they built the fence by hand. Portions of the old stone fence which surrounded the Benjamin Head property are standing along its western and northern boundaries. The fence which bordered the front of William White's homestead was built of unusual­ ly large and uniform stones. The part which stands ex­ tends in an easterly direction from the corner of the house which is now better known ·as the Wetherby apartment. Traces of the Brengman Tavern fence are visible along its eastern property line, and a section of a fence runs along the western border of the old Diller place. There are seven nineteenth century gateways, similar in style, that are still in use. Each ·gatepost is a single rec­ tangular prism of solid stone with iron· hinges or catches piercing it, although a gate no longer swings. Six of these gateways now admit twentieth century automobiles and trucks, and occasionally horses and wag_ons, to the home­ steads of James Sutherland, C. H. Bliss, Lucy Witherbee, Dr. L. D. Mason, Luther Paris Wetherby, and the Wether­ by apartment The seventh is the center gateway of the Middletown Cemetery, through which the dead were car­ ried one hundred years ago.

01.DWALKS In the beginning there were the winding irregular trails of the beats and other wild animals. The first planned walks of Middletown were constructed of rough, irregular rocks, -varying in size, laid as close as their devious lines 22 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS would permit, with grass growing among them. These stones formed a paving about four feet wide on either side of Main Street from the present Arrington Dry Goods Store and the Middletown Apothecary in the east end of town to Phelps' Barber Shop and H. P. Pearcy's store at the west end. Surely there must have been many a bruised shin and stumped toe for night pedestrians! Traces of other old walks are visible in front of the Myers Funeral l-Iome and the cottage of Miss Hattie Y enowine. These flagstone walks served Middletown for more than a cen­ tury. They were rebuilt in concrete in the 1920's.

OLD WATERING PLACES The importance of water to man cannot be overesti­ mated. It not only sustains life but furnishes a means of transportation, and is a source of power as well. Early land deeds always refer to tracts of land as located "on the waters of" so-and-so, naming the stream. Beargrass Creek and springs now dry determined the location of Mid­ dletown. As late as 1890 there was a spring on the now vacant lot adjacent to the Frank Fisher home. The Doug­ lass place has a wonderful spring whose flow has never been known to cease. Before the days of the automobile travelers watered their horses at its outlet on the roadside. Another remarkable spring with a continuous supply of water is located on the beautiful grounds of the C. H. Bliss estate. Covering it is a charming summerhouse where friends gather for an afternoon's tete-a-tete and romances blossom. An interesting old spring, long dry, was located on the Brengman Tavern lot, and doubtless other springs existed of which all trace is now lost. As the forest was cleared the springs became dry and wells were sunk. Four wells more than a century old served the Rebeccas of yesterday ..as watering places and information bureaus. LANDMARKS AND EARLY CUSTOMS 23

Here the women gathered to relate the latest news; advise on the treatment for croup and "yellow-janders;" brag about the size of the pumpkins in the garden and the new store dress; and exchange recipes for Johnnycake and huck­ leberry jam, while the light westerly breeze brought to their nostrils the aroma of maple molasses boiling in an iron kettle over an open fire in Ben Head's back yard. They discussed the preacher's Sunday sermon promising hell fire to sinners; the birth of Hannah's tenth child last night at high moon while the wolves were howling; the death this morning of old Uncle Joe as the first cock crew; the prog­ ress of young Mary's last quilt and her coming marriage to George, the cobbler's son; the insobriety of old Tom who came home again last night full of corn liquor and beat his wife and children with a horse whip causing an outburst of screams that could be heard down at Brengman Tavern where two slave-traders from New Orleans were stopping; and countless other topics of general interest mingled with bits of gossip. The men bartered for fire­ wood and com liquor, traded horses, and discussed crops and livestock. In the evening swains kept tryst with their maidens and reaffirmed love vows exchanged while coming home from the last quilting party, while others planned fun at the next Bax-pulling and swingling. · The common ownership of the wells drew the towns­ folk together as one great family. In sharing life's vital fluid for the body they also shared their joys and sorrows with each other, nourishing love and companionship. The four wells were in use until about 1920 when they were condemned by the Jefferson County Board of Health. The first of these wells, the one where the whisky was hidden during the Civil War, is located on the northwest comer of L. P. Wetherby" s front lawn and was doubtless . sunk by William White. It is fifty feet in depth and is covered today with a concrete top. The second was lo- 24 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS cated on the southwest comer at the intersection of Main Street and Tucker Station Road. About 1940 it was filled with rock and dirt, and now no trace of it is visible. The third is located on the southwest comer of Main Street's intersection with the lane leading to Dr. Mason's home. It may still be seen, now covered with a wooden top. The fourth well was at the intersection of Main Street and the Jeffersontown Road and it too has been filled. It is un­ usual, although perhaps requisite, that all four of the wells were on the south side of Main Street. They were boarded up with a three-foot pen above ground to prevent children, careless people, and animals from falling into them but they were not covered until pumps came into use. As the people became more prosperous and numerous they had wells drilled on their own property and cisterns dug. Today nearly all homes have city water service.

FUNERAL CUSTOMS More than fifty years ago the pallbearers carried the dead from the church to the graveyard or else conveyed them in a spring wagon. The ornamented black hearse, with its curtains and tassels, drawn by fine horses, came later. The funeral procession was always slow and dig­ nified. Today the successor to the hearse is the limousine­ type automobile of Fred Myers, a Sayer-Scoville coach made in Cincinnati. It is a long black car with windows, through which may be seen the casket with its pall of flowers. The procession now moves with the speed of this machine age. Purple flags are used on the front of the funeral car and the headlights of all cars in the procession are turned on to distinguish them from other cars in traffic. The funeral procession is given the right-of-way. A grave was dug six feet deep in compliance with a State law and the coffin was lowered by leather harness lines wrapped around two logs which were laid on each LANDMARKS AND EARLY CUSTOMS 25. side of the grave along the length. The family and friends stayed until the last clod of earth was heaped on the new grave. Henry Keen and Jim Poulter were early grave­ diggers. In this war period with its accompanying labor shortage it is difficult to find a grave-digger. Ed Pierce, Negro, digs-the most of them. Today concrete boxes are being used by many to protect the casket and its contents, to prevent the grave £rom sinking, and as a sanitary measure. In spite of the fact that the dead were not embalmed (Dr. Holmes embalmed the first body for burial in 1863), the body was kept for several days before burial. It was packed in ice to prevent putrefaction and the undertaker replenished the supply about every four hours. The body was dried and dressed about three hours before the funeral. The house ordinarily overflowed with friends and relatives, some of whom would sit up with the dead at night. The funerals were always held in the churches, not in the home or undertaker's parlor, as is often the practice today. The coffin was carried in by the pallbearers and placed on two wooden pedestals at the front of the church. (Today the casket is rolled in on a ucasket carriage.") The family followed close behind and were seated on the front row. The women wore heavy black veils and all-black mourning costumes, and the men wore black crepe bands around their hats. There was a long sermon in which the names of the deceased and his dearly beloved ones were mentioned many times, always bringing forth cries of grief, sometimes loud wails, from the family. The deceased was preached into heaven or hell. The favorite song was sung and at the dose of the sermon the coffin was opened and the entire congregation filed past to view the remains for the last time, unless the coffin was opened again at the grave as was sometimes done. It was customary for widows and daughters to wear mourning for two years after the death 26 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS of husband or parent. Often sorrowing widows never again dressed in colors.

WOMACK GRAVEYARD ExHUMATION The Womack family graveyard was located on the farm of John Womack whose land is now known as Douglass Place. It lay between the old U.S. Highway 60 and the Louisville and Interurban Railway track on the brow of Douglass Hill. It had ceased to be tended during the years and had become overgrown with trees and bushes. Few people in Middletown knew of its existence, because it was above the level of the highway and had been surrounded for years by a dense growth of high hedge. When the Federal Bureau of Roads approved the new route through Middletown as a link in U.S. Highway 60, it became neces­ sary to clear the graveyard as the right-of-way passed through it. On the appointed day for the exhumation, June 12, 1934, descendants of the three families buried there, Womack, Lawrence, and Beynroth, were present. ~ine graves were opened and relics were found in every grave except one, that of Sarah Eliz.aheth Womack, aged twenty­ three, whose body is thought to have been stolen by the doctors from Lexington who attended her in her last strang illness. The skull of a two-year-old baby, buried for nearly one hundred years, was found in its grave. Nearly all of the bodies had been buried one hundred years or more. The most recent date, as revealed by the stones, was 1847 and the oldest was 1822. There was a stone enclosure in which three graves of the Lawrence family were found, two vaults and the grave of the old Negro coachman. More relics were found in his grave than in any other: two rings, a pin, buttons, a piece of silk lining from his coat, his long leg and thigh bones, and his skull, which had to be dug from under the roots LANDMARKS AND EARLY CUSTOMS 27 of a large tree that had grown over his grave. He was a monstrous Negro who was very fond of wearing fine clothes and jewelry. The Womack and Beynroth remains were placed in small pine boxes and reburied in the Middle­ town Cemetery. The Lawrence remains were buried in a private family graveyard on Brown's Lane, St. Matthews, Kentucky. In June, 1937, work began on the construction of a con­ crete, two-way ( four lane) highway between Louisville and 1-fiddletown. On October 23, 1937, the steam shovel, used in digging the road bed, st.ruck an iron coffin; this was the first of five similarly found. The headstones, which cer­ tainly there must have been at one time, had probably fallen many years ago and were buried and had · disintegrated. Thus the construction crew struck the coffins without warn­ ing. All of the coffins were of cast iron and had probably been buried more than a hundred years. It is not known who the corpses were. The Womack stones which were removed to the Middletown Cemetery, along with the re­ mains found in the graves, belonged to the graves of the children of John and Phebe Womack. All the bodies from graves having stones had been exhumed in 1934. Fred Myers, undertaker of Jeffersontown and Middletown, had charge of the exhumation. The five iron coffins were placed in wooden boxes and buried in the Potter's Field at Jeffer­ sontown. What irony of fate that the ashes of wealthy people should rest in a potter" s field! The following is a description of the contents of three of the five coffins which the writer viewed as they were re­ moved from the ground: Coffin No. 1-The body of a young girl with golden curls and two lower teeth still present. It was clothed in a white blouse with a large black bow at the throat, a dark skirt, and black wool stockings. The legs were wrapped 28 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS and the hands were crossed. A small glass was set in the coffin over the face. C.Offin No. 2-The body of a man with feet wrapped in doth, protruding from the end of the coffin broken by the shovel. Flesh appeared to be on the hands which were crossed. The nai]s were yellow-white, the fingers long and tapering. There appeared to be dark blue or black trousers hanging about the legs. Coffin No. 3-The body of a black-headed woman in a white shroud tied with cords at the cuffs and around the waist.· The body was hurled from its coffin by the blow of the huge digger. The coffin was broken into many pieces and scattered over the ground. The writer did not see Coffins Nos. 4 and 5 removed. No. 4 was said to be a man. Coffins Nos. 2, 3, and 4 were found on November 7, 1937. A most offensive odor and a copious brownish fluid came from the coffins when they were opened. The odor was so stifling that spectators had to withdraw every few minutes to get a breath of fresh air. The coffins were practically air tight and water tight. They were made of iron; the lids were bolted to them. They appeared very small in all three dimensions, tapering in width from the head to the foot. There was a seam running along the top-center and three handles on each side. Three silver handles were found as remains of a coffin of wood which had long since returned to dust. They were beautifully cast in the design of a rod grasped by two hands showing the arms up to the elbow. The arms served to fasten the handles to the coffin. One year before the opening of the Womack graves a very interesting story was told the writer by Mrs. Eugene Ray, descendant of John Womack, first of the Middletown W omacks. It runs like this: LANDMARKS AND EARLY CUSTOMS 29

Sarah Elizabeth Womack, a very beautiful and lovely girl of twenty--three years, daughter of John and Phebe W o­ mack, lived at her father's home which is now Douglass Place. In the fall of 1847 she went to Lexington to visit. Here she was lavishly entertained by her many friends and admirers. On the evening of November 14th, after hav.ing attended a dance at one of the fine old colonial homes, she was suddenly stricken ill. Several doctors were called in to see her, but the mystery of her affliction baffled them and they were unable to do anything to save her. She died that night. During this period in our history doctors did not have access to free bodies for ~amination, consequent­ ly they resorted to grave robbing. Sarah Elizabeth's body was brought home and buried in the family graveyard on Douglass Hill. The Womacks, suspicious of the interest of the Lexington doctors, took precaution against the rob­ bery of their daughter's grave by having logs placed over it and stationing a Negro servant to watch the graveyard every night. This practice was continued for a sufficient period of time to ensure safety. The story of Sarah Elizabeth was handed down through the family, and three generations have lived and died with the comforting thought that her ·body lay at rest in its grave. Then after almost one hundred years, on June 12, 1934, the grave was opened in the presence of the narrator of this story. Lo and behold, it was empty! Every Womack grave contained remains: skulls, leg and arm bones, jewelry, buttons, etc., every grave except Sarah Eli7.abeth's. There was not even the small, gray, telltale patch of ashes. Nothing! Evidently the Lexington doctors interested in post-mortems had paid a successful visit to Middletown. 30 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

EARLY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE Descendants of pioneer families of Middletown and even the more recent residents of the community are very proud to tell visitors and strangers of the supremacy of Middletown over Louisville during the early days of its history. Between 1800 and 1820 the people of Louisville came to Middletown to buy goods and transact business. Commercial products were shipped down the Ohio River from Baltimore and Philadelphia to the mouth of Harrods Creek and transported to Middletown over the old Harrods Creek Road, which is more familiarly known to lifelong residents as the "Graveyard Roaq.." There were establish­ ments of various kinds for the manufacture of leather, woolen, and wooden goods. The tannery was located on Beargrass Creek between what is now the Methodist par­ sonage and the residence of William Poulter. There was a large millinery factory on the lot where Mrs. Elizabeth Brown" s home stands; a cigar factory in the front room of the old house now occupied by James Arrington; a comb factory on the lot east of the Christian Church; a cabinet shop where the Masonic Lodge stands, and a blacksmith shop on the next lot to the east. A tailor shop was on lot No. 53, across the road from the Charles Downey home. There were four early hostelries of which we have record.. The Brengman Tavern was owned and operated by Martin Brengman, one of the pioneers of Middletown and one of its first trustees. The tall shaft in the Middle­ town Cemetery marks his burial place and bears the second earliest date of death of those recorded in this cemetery. He died July 31, 1813, and his father-in-law, John Faulk­ ner (also spelled Fockler), died August 1, 1812. The Brengman Tavern was a red brick building located on the northwest comer-lot across from the Benjamin Head house. It is an old tradition that Henry Clay and the Marquis de La Fayette spent the night at the Breogmao Tavern. From LANDMARKS AND EARLY CUSTOMS 31

1849 to 1855, Squire A. G. Watts operated the tavern. It was demolished in the 1880's by WilJiam J. Jones who built the dwelling that occupies the site. The second hostelry, replete with history, is the Davis 1'avem, which stands, even today, as a monument to the fame and glory of the past. The following description of the tavern appeared in the Louisville Herald, July 23, 1922:

''The oldest [ ?] building in _Middletown is the famous old tavern opposite the present home of L. P. Wetherby. Recently it has undergone a coating of stucco, but much of the interior remains in its original form. The house was built in 1796. In the old stage­ coach days the building was known as the Davis Tavern. Here travelers from the North to the South stopped and remained overnight. The hospitality of the tavern was famed far and wide. It was especially famed for the quality of its cheese. The room in the basement where the old cheese press was located may still be seen. During its days of glory such guests as La Fayette, Henry Clay, and the Breckinridges were entertained. Southerners formed the habit of meet­ ing at the Davis Tavern to buy and sell slaves. Mil­ lions of dollars worth of slave property have been ex­ changed in the building. c'The long stone steps where passengers alighted from the stage are still in use, although grass now grows in front of the tavern where the stages drove up to the stone paving. In the old days a stone stable large enough to house fifty horses stood on the brow of the hill east of the tavern. Horses were changed at this point. CWalls of the building are of solid brick and are of a uniform thickness of two feet. The kitchen in die basement remains in practically its original form. 32 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

The century-old cooking cranes, with their pots hung from wires suspended from hooks, still are swinging from the sides of the old fireplace.. The original andirons are also still in place. The dumb-waiter, upon which food was carried upstairs to the main dining room, may still be seen at the present time, al­ though children of a later generation have used the waiter in their games. Through a great door can be seen the small room in which the stores of meat and liquor were kept. In this room the cheese was pressed and the candles molded. On one part of the £rame of an old cupboard there appears a hollow of a depth of at least a half inch. This hollow was made by the £riction of the thousands of fingers drawn over the catch to open the door of the cupboard. ''During the Civil War whiskey belonging to the tavern was stored in the well in the front yard. 0 ld citizens of Middletown tell a story of how some Union soldiers tried to take possession of the well and its con­ tents. The residents of the town, as the story goes, had allowed the soldiers to sleep in the tavern, at will, and to take what they wished of the food and stores without molestation. But when they tried to rob the well of its treasure, the citizens came to the aid of the tavern owner, and the soldiers were compelled to abandon their project.''

- Lawes Hotel, another hostehy of the early days, is mentioned by John Melish in his Travels in the United States, from which we have this interesting account (1810):

CLhe country rises a little to the eastward. We passed a number of very rich f anns on our way to Middleton, [ note spelling] 12 miles distant from Louisville. Middleton consists of 40 or 50 dwelling- LANDMARKS AND EARLY CUSTOMS 33 houses, and is on the headwaters of Bear Grass Creek. Land is held at about 10 dollars per acre ... "Being at Middletown, on my way to Louisville, I met with Mr. --and Mr. --, of Liverpool, together with Dr. B--- and Col. ---, who were going to New Orleans. They had been two days and nearly two nights coming in the stage from Lexington, a distance of about 50 miles. We all went to Lawes Hotel, the following charges and rules of which are posted up in the public-room. Dollars Cents ccBoard for Horse, per year 120 ditto , per week 3 ditto , per night O½ ditto , single feed 0 18¾ Dinner for man 0 37½ Supper 0 25 Bed 0 12½ Breakfast 0 25 Board, per year 120 ditto , per week 3 di~,per&y 1 Rules to be observed by all Gentlemen who choose to board at Lawes' Hotel, Middletown, Ky. 1st All Gentlemen to give in their names to the Bar­ keeper. 2nd No Gentleman shall enter Dining-room until the second bell rings. 3rd No Gambling allowed in Bed-rooms. 4th The doors dosed at ten o'dock, except on the night of public amusement. 5th No Gentleman shall take the Saddle, Bridle, or Ha mess of another Gentleman without his consent." 34 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

"I'll meet you at the corner," has been a familiar ex­ pression for at least fifty years. On this comer, which must have been prominent a hundred years ago too, is lo­ cated the old hostelry known today-as the Middletown Inn. It is a brick and log building probably built about 1800 by James Speer, who was the first owner of lot No. 9 on which the inn stands. In 1815 it was owned by John Evans at whose house the citizens of Middletown held an election for trustees on August 5th of that year. They selected: John Brengman, president, James John, John Geiger, Ben­ jamin Head, and Abel Covington, trustees, and Minor White, collector. Subsequent elections were probably held in the tavern room. About 1890 this tavern and others in the town were closed as the result of a crusade against them that was led by the Reverend William Tharp I and Dr. E. T. Polk, kinsman of President James K. Polk. Since that time no liquor has been sold at the inn. Dr. Robert V. Sprowl owned the hotel from 1850 to 1872, when Edward T. Hord bought it and it became known as the Hord Hotel. He operated it until his death in 1880, at which time his wife became proprietress and ran a grocery store in connection with the hotel. When her son, William L. Hord, took over the business in 1905 he discontinued the grocery department and introduced a confectionery. About 1920 he sold the hotel to William Schindler who had the entire structure coated with stucco and added a concrete front porch. In 1933 Joe Thonnah­ len bought the building and in 1944 it housed a beauty shop, a barber shop, and the Greyhound Bus Station. · The Head, Hobbs, and Lawrence General Store, or­ ganized in 1813 by Benjamin Head, Basil Hobbs, and Ben­ jamin Lawrence, was one of the first and most famous mercantile establishments in Kentucky. The store house was a stone building located on the southwest comer of lot No. 1. Benjamin Head, whose dwelling was also on LANDMARKS AND EARLY CUSTOMS 35 this lot, rode horseback to Philadelphia and Baltimore to buy the stock for the store. In those days it was generally conceded that Middletown would surpass Louisville in growth and would become the metropolis of Jefferson County and the State. The elite of Louisville drove in their carriages to Middletown to buy at this great store and at other shops, consid~ring their merchandise to be superior to that for sale in Louisville. The Gwathmeys, Dorseys, Bullitts, Geigers, Popes, and the Hites were among the Cll:$­ tomers whose names were recorded in the ledger, now more than 120 years old, that was kept by Basil Hobl?s. Among many quaint items listed are: a slate@ 18¾ cents; a bonnet board@ 6¼ cents; a bunch of curls @ one dol­ lar; a shoe knife @ 12½ cents; 1½ yards of red flannel @ 56¼ cents. A comparison of prices then and now is in­ teresting. Many varied widely but a large number was about the same. For example, combs sold for 25 cents and pocket knives for 75 cents; coffee was 25 cents· a pound and Morocco shoes sold for $1.44 a pair; whisky was 23 cents a gallon. We are prone to think that personal hy­ giene and fastidiousness are characteristic of modem times, but one finds in the old ledger frequent entries of pur­ chases of tooth-brushes and tooth-powder. · One of the clients of the firm, according to the ledger, donated $5 to the La Fayette fund which was raised for the purpose of purchasing handsome uniforms for certain prominent dti:rens who were to serve as a guard of honor for General La Fayette when that famous personage visited Middletown and Louisville in 1824. CHAPTER ill

FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, AND OLD FAMILIBS

The history of any town is a biography of its faroiJ ies who have lived in it for generations and have given of their time and talent toward its growth. The sketches in­ cluded here are of pioneer families and families that have lived in Middletown fifty years or more.

ABELL FRANK MYERS ARTERBURN FRY PEARCY BECKLEY FUNK POULTER BEYNROTH GATES ROMAN BLANKENBAKER GEIGER SPICHER BRADBURY GoSLEE SPROWL BRENGMAN GWATHMEY TARBELL BRINLEY HARlusoN THARP BUCKNER HARVEY VANCE CALDWELL HEAD WATERS CHAMBERS HnE WATrS CoLEMAN HOB~ WETIIERBY Cox HORD WlllTE UASIC JONES Wn.J.IAMSON DAVIS JOB.DAN WmmtlBEE DollsEY KEEN WOMACK Dou~ LAWRENCE WOOD DoWNEY MAIIDERS WOODSMALL DuGAN MAsoN YENOWillE El.DEil Mrraml.L YOUNG FIDYD MORSE FOUNDERS, SErlLERS, OLD FAMILIES 37

ABELL ( also spelled Abel and Able) Joseph Abell, born in 1752, married Catherine Hartley, who was born in 1771, and emigrated to Mason County, Kentucky, from Maryland at a very early date. On June 13, 1803, while still living in Mason County he bought, for $1,100, six hundred acres of land from Esquire George Wilson of Louisville and John Mitchell (heir to David Mitchell, deceased) of Allegany County, Maryland. This six hundred acres, which included Quirey' s Old Plantatio~, was a part of an undivided one thousand acres of John Hundley's pre-emption. Hundley had sold it to Wilson and Mitchell on January 4, 1791. This was the same Hundley who in 1830 willed one thousand dollars to the orphan asylum at Middletown. Sometime after 1803 on this six hundred acres of land Joseph Abell built the fine old red brick house that is still standing. He moved from Mason County to Louisville where he bought extensive property, including: a ten-acre tract with appurtenances (lot No. 12 on the original plat of Louisville), which he purchased on October 14, 1815, from Thomas W. Thruston and his wife, Mary D., for $625; lot No. 18 in Portland with houses and appurtenances, formerly belonging to Robert Todd; lot No. 61 in Portland with house and ap­ purtenances; and lot No. 60 in Shippingport with house and appurtenances, formerly belonging to John Tarascon. This latter transaction included the purchase of one bay mare and cart, eight beds, bedding, furniture, two cup­ boards, and two bureaus. In 1833 Joseph bought additional county property con­ sisting of two tracts on the headwaters of Pope Lick for $3,500, formerly belonging to William White. As late as 1837, when he was eighty-five years of .age, he was still buying property. In that year he paid William Bull, his son-in-law, $2,200 for ua parcel of land, with appurte- 38 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS nances, on the east side of Fourth Street between Market and Main.,. He lived on his city property for several years, but he spent the most of his life on his farm at Middletown. His wife died in 1822 at the age of fifty-one, but Joseph lived to the grand age of ninety-four, dying in 1846. They are buried in the Middletown Cemetery. Joseph and Catherine Abell had fourteen children, ten of whom lived to adulthood. Among them were: Eliza­ beth, who married Jeremiah Diller; Deborah, who married Robert Gwathmey; George, who married Elizabeth O'Neal; Angeline, who married William Bull; Margaret, who mar­ ried Charles Kane; William, who married Catherine Ann Burke and upon her death married her sister, Mary; Robert; Lucy Ann, who married Joseph Gwathmey and had a daughter Margaret, who married Hiram Benjamin Wood, grandfather of William Harlan Wood; and Joseph, "'ho married Catherine Waters, daughter of Major Waters. The elegant brick house which Joseph Abell built for his family is a real testimony of his sensitivity to beauty, of his culture, and of his refined taste. This house has experienced a lot of living, births, marriages, deaths, joys, and sorrows, for it has been home to many families, in­ cluding: its owners, Joseph Abell, Captain Early, Thom~s Lee Jordan, Henry Bedinger, Lee Jones, and H. R. Van Zant; and its tenants, Henry Best, Jacob Schindler, John Zeitz, Charles S. Shane, George Hampton, G. H. Alex­ ander, and Fred Elswick.. Every respectable old house has a ghost and this one is no exception. The story runs like this: CJoseph Abell, growing in wealth and caution, in later life was wont to leave his house of nights, ac­ companied by his Negro servant, and wend his way secretively to the recesses of his estate, there to end some mysterious errand, guarded by the watchful eyes of his servant Gradually, through succeeding gen- RF.SIDENCE OF JOSEPH ABLE Standing at the entrance are Mr. Barrett Burke Ahl~ Mrs. Hubert Wheeler, and Mr. William Harlan Wood. 40 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

erations, the knowledge came that Abell had buried there his hoarded wealth and that somewhere on the old Abell place there lies buried beneath the ground a store of gold. There is a tale of a headless ghost who comes on occasion down the attic stairs and wan­ ders forth at night to seek-or to guard-Joseph Abell' s buried treasure. Who knows?"

Dr. Irvin Abell, the internationally famous surgeon whom Louisville claims as her own, was born September 13, 1876, in Lebanon, Kentucky, where his father was a lifelong resident and a prosperous merchant. Dr. Abell is the son of William Irvin Abell and Sallie Silesia Rogers and is a descendant of Robert Abell who emigrated from Maryland to Kentucky (presumably Joseph's son, Robert). He was graduated from the Louisville Medical College in 1897 and studied at the University of Berlin in 1898. He was married October 19, 1907, to Carrie Harting, daughter of William Harting, a prominent Lexington banker. They had four sons: William Irvin, William Harting, Jonathan Rogers, and Joseph Spalding. Dr. Abell has performed many unusual and successful operations and has received numerous honors, including the presidency of the American Medical Association. Anotlier branch of this family, spelling the name Able, descended from pioneer Joseph's son, George, who married Alice Talbott. Previous to 1855 George and Alice Ahle operated a hotel in the ccTwelve Mile House" which later became the Jefferson Female Academy. Their children were: Louise, Ann, Joseph Daniel, and William Haycraft Able I who was a Captain in the c.onfederate Army and a sheriff of Jefferson C:Ounty for several years. In 1894 President Grover Oeveland appointed him Federal Indian agent. He held this office for four years, traveling over FOUNDERS, SETILERS, OLD FAMILIES 41 the United States wherever there were reservations. His wife and daughter, Alice, accompanied him. The family owned a valuable collection of costumes, weapons, beads, and other trinkets given to them by the Indians. After his retirement from office Mr. Able often played with his grandchildren, delighting them by impersonating an Indian chief. Frequently he took the children to the woods where they set up a wigwam and held regular powwows with war-whoops and dances, all according to Indian tradition. William H. Able I was united in marriage to his fust cousin, Catherine Able, on March 8, 1859, at Middletown, the Reverend William Tharp I officiating. Catherine was the daughter of William Able ( son of Joseph Able) and Mary Burke. William H. and Catherine Able were the parents of the following children: William Haycraft II, John Talbott, Beverly C., George Lee, Barrett Burke, and Alice. The first four children were born at Middletown in the old Benjamin Head stone house which was the home of this Able family for several years. Alice, who married Albert S. Rich, lives in Louisville. Their children are: Catherine, Margaret, Ann, Albert, Robert, and William_ Wil1iam Haycraft Able II, born in 1861, married Belle Hall. They had one child, Anna Mae. He served as deputy sheriff of Jefferson County for twenty-seven years and as an examiner for the Kentucky Title Company. He died in Louisville in 1933. George Lee Able, bom in 1865, married Ella Ray Dameal. Their children are: William, George, Beverley, and Kat;J.u:yn. Barrett Burke Able, who was bom in Louisville, No­ vember 11, 1868, married Mary Elizabeth Mills and lives at La Grange, Kentucky. Their children are: John William Able, who lives in Louisville; and Owen Stewart and Willie Fnnice (wife of Henry Burge) who live in La Grange. 42 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

ARTERBURN One branch of the Arterburn family lived near St. Mat­ thews.. Norbon Arterburn and his wife, Ann Herr, daugh­ ter of John Herr, were born in Jefferson County. They were married in 1840, and had eight children: Ophelia, Bettie, Emma, William C., Edward, Anna, Clifton, and an infant son who died. Mr. Arterburn died April 9, 1878. The Middletown Arterburns, Levi and Ann, were the parents of Sally, who married John Brentlinger, and Perry, who married Nannie Roman. Perry Arterburn, a carpenter, was a member of William B. Wood's construction crew. The Arterburns joined the Christian Church early in life; Mrs. Arterburn has been affiliated with that denomination. for more than fifty years and is still active in the work of the church. Mr. Arterburn died in 1924 and bequeathed the Arterburn home to his wife and only child, Mamie. It is one of the interesting old log houses of Middletown. It was weatherboarded many years ago and more recently has had the addition of a spacious concrete porch with brick columns. Mamie Arterburn, daughter of Perry and Nannie Arter­ burn, married Mason Gregg, a member of the prominent Gregg family of Kentucky. Mr. Gregg, a man of esthetic tastes who has long been interested in music and theology, studied for the ministry and was ordained by the Ouistian Church. The Greggs have two children, Fay and Glendon Gregg.

BECKLEY A.G. Beckley was born in Shelby County in 1810, and resided there until 1855, when he came to Jefferson County and settled near Eastwood on 250 acres of excellent farm­ ing land. His father, Henry Beckley, was a native of Mary- FOUNDERS, SETI'LERS, OLD FAMILIES 43 land and came to Kentucky at an early date. He was mar­ ried December 18, 1832, to Jane Boone Wilcox who was a great-niece of Daniel Boone and his nearest relative in Kentucky at the time of his death. The Becldeys' six children were: Sarah, John, George, Erasmus, Edwin, and William. Erasmus Gideon Beckley married Alice Hayns­ worth Brumby, descendant of a prominent Southern family. Mrs. Hattie Bohannon, now living in Middletown, is one of their children. She has two daughters living here, Mrs. Florence Young and Mrs. Goldie Sutherland. Mrs. Young, who works at the Kentucky Central Li£ e and Accident Insurance Company at Anchorage, has two daugh­ ters, Annabelle and Clarabert, students of Anchorage High Sch<;><>L Mrs. Goldie Bohannon Sutherland, wife of James Sutherland, has two sons, James Boone and Thomas Brumby Sutherland. Both children are named for their early ancestors. The Sutherlands have an attractive modem red brick home on Main Street, east of the W ether­ by apartment house. Frank Beckley, son of George, married Ella Gregg. They have three daughters: Louise, who married James Tomlinson; Ella Frances, who married John Hedden; Elizabeth, who is single. The Beckley home is on U. S. Highway 60, east of Middletown. A broad avenue leads to the house which has a charming setting in a grove of glorious trees. Colonel G. T. Wilcox, great-great-grandfather of Goldie and Florence Bohannon, fought with General Floyd. His father, John Wilcox,. moved fro~ Boonesboro in 1779 and settled in Boone's Station. Sarah Boone, his mother, was the only daughter of Squire Boone. She mar­ ried John Wilcox in 1791. 44 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

BEYNROTH Charles Exteen Beynroth came to Kentucky from Penn­ sylvania. He married first, Amiota Howard of Louisvp.le. Jbey had one son, William Howard Beynroth, who mar­ ried Anna Eliza Schwing. Wil1iam Howard built a fine home on what is now the G. L. Herrick place. The origi­ nal house burned many years ago; the land was divided and sold off in lots and became what is now the Robindale Court. Anna Eliza Schwing was born in the first brick house built in Louisville, located where the Court House now stands. Her mother could stand in her doorway and count all of the houses in Louisville. William Howard Beynroth and Anna Eliza Schwing were the parents of thirteen children. Among them were: William Edward, who married Katie Ewing; and Carrie Thunn, who married Albert Hite. William and Katie Beynroth lived in Louisville and were the parents of a son, William Ewing. After retiring from business at the age of eighty-three the elder Mr. Beynroth, for many years a widower, moved from Louisville to Middletown, where he now resides. Charles Beynroth's second wife was Henrietta Brough­ ton of Louisville. Their daughter, Marion, married Dr. Silas Offen Witherbee, beloved physician of Middletown. In 1839 Oiarles E. Beynroth bought what is now the Frank Fisher home from John C. Marshall who had previously bought it from Michael A. Remley, presumably the builder. It is one of the most interesting of Middletown's old dwell­ ings, a rambling two-story log house with ten rooms. FOUNDERS, SB'rlLERS, OLD FAMILIBS 45

BLANICENBAKER The Blanken.bakers are a prolific family scattered over Jefferson C:Ounty. They came to Kentucky about 1790. One branch settled between Middletown and Jeffersontown on what became known as Blankenbaker Lane. There is an­ other Blankenbaker Lane which joins the Brownsboro Road and the River Road and it, too, was named for members of this family. Allen F., J. W., and Samuel H. B~en­ baker, all of whom are farmers, live in this vicinity. H. Allen Blankenbaker, prosperous Middletown farmer, born in 1840, was married to Ruth Tarbell, daughter of Alpha Tarbell and his wife, Ruth Whittier, a relative of the poet, John Greenleaf Whittier. They lived on the farm now owned by the Simpson sisters, Ethel and Margaret. They had two children: Addie Mae, who married Luther Paris Wetherby, and Annie, who married John Tharp. The Blankenbakers were members of the Methodist Church.

BRADBURY John Bradbury, celebrated English botanist and histo­ rian, came to America early in the nineteenth century to study American plant life. He organized a party of nat­ uralists, including the American botanist~ Thomas Nuttall, which left Philadelphia in 1809 for the far West to study and collect specimens. They visited Kentucky on their way to St. Louis. From there they proceeded northward, along the Missouri River, far into what is now North Dakota. It was a very dangerous and exhaustive trip. Bradbury narrowly escaped being killed by the Indians, and all of the party came near to starvation. John Bradbury wrote a book entitled, Travels in the Interior of America During the Years 1809, 1810, 1811, 46 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS in which he describes the country and its flora. It was published in London in 1817. Quoting from the editor of a volume in which his work is published: "Comparatively little is known of the life of John Bradbury, naturalist and traveller, beyond what is dis­ closed in the volume here reprinted. By birth he was a Scotchman; but he had lived long in England, and in 1809 was commissioned by the Botanical Society at Liverpool to make some researches into plant life in the United States. Arriving in this country during the swnmer of that year, he brought letters of introduction to Jefferson, and was invited to visit at Monticello." John Bradbury was a resident of St. Louis in 1821, ac-­ cording to the city directory of that year. He probably lived in Middletown for several years.- His grave is in the front part of the old section of the Middletown Cemetery, His tombstone, which stood until about thirty years ago, identified him as a celebrated English botanist and histo­ rian. He was an honorary member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New York Gty.

BRENGMAN Martin Brengman, one of Middletown's first trustees and a pioneer prominent in the growth and development of the town, was bom in 1756. He married Margaret Fockler ( also spelled Faulkner), daughter of Eve and John Fockler who came to Middletown from Pennsylvania. John Fodder was bom in Germany in 1731 and died in Middle­ town on August 1, 1812. Eve, his wife, was bom in Penn­ sylvania in 1738 and died in Middletown on September 15, 1818. The Fodders are buried in the Middletown c:emetery. FOUNDERS, SETILERS, OLD FAMILIES 47

Martin and Margaret Brengman had four sons: Samuel, John, Frederick, and Joshua M. Samuel was born on January 2, 1800, and died on February 9, 1884. In 1854, he married America Walden by whom he had three sons: James, the father of Mrs. Anna Brengman Pearcy, John Samuel, and Martin Frederick. The Goslee place at Anchorage_ was the old Brengman estate, owned by Fred­ erick Brengman at the time Captain Goslee selected his "Anchorage for life."' The Brengman-Goslee deed states that the land consisted of 223 acres situated on the Louis­ ville and Frankfort Railroad, ''Beginning in the middle of the track." The Goslee house is a palatial red brick build­ ing, with lines of grace and charm. It is magnificently located on a knoll _in the midst of a beautiful grove. A rippling brook that winds its way through the spacious grounds is spanned by ivy-covered bridges. The slave quarters consisted of three brick houses of the same style of architecture as the mansion-house but on a smaller scale. The architecture of those days was individual and the mansion-house reflects the refined taste and culture of its builder. John Brengmao married Margaret Macka11 Oiew. Margaret was a sister of Dr. Richard Chew, an early phy­ sician of Middletown, and a granddaughter of Sir John Mackall of England. John Brengman built a brick house in the midst of primeval trees on a gently rounded ridge-­ a salubrious site for his home. Beargrass Creek meandered through his acreage and in later years the estate was named UBrookside." An attractive stone bridge spans Beargrass Creek and a stone gateway affords entrance to the estate. A long, winding driveway leads to the house which was planned ingeniously by John Brengmao and has had frame additions built during the years to satisfy the needs and fancies of its several owners. Reminiscent of the early years are a three-room brick slave cabin and the famous old 48 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS spring-house which marks the path of the gauntlet run by John WiHiamson in 1781. John Brengman' s daughter, Margaret, married Dr. William Fry and inherited her father's estate. Beginning sometime before 1800 Martin Brengman and his son, John, operated a tavern in Middletown for about fifty years in a brick building located on lot No. 16, the northwest comer of Main Street and the "Graveyard Road." Here many a stranger, famous and otherwise, found lodging. The Brengman descendants claim that it was John who was host to Lafayette on his visit to Middle­ town in 1824. The regular stage route lay from Louis­ ville, through Middletown, to Frankfort and other points east. Travel increased and competitive coach lines flour­ ished until the advent of the railroad. Then the old mode of travel was no longer patronized and the taverns, whose fate was closely linked with the stage-coach, closed their doors. On July 31, 1813, Martin Brengman, influential and affluent citizen, passed from the scene of action in which he had played so great a part. At the June Court, 1818, on the motion of John Brengman, son and administrator, it was ordered that John Williamson, John Miller, John Evans, and Samuel Lawrence divide Martin's estate among his heirs. Margaret Brengrnan, the widow, relinquished her right to all property in Middletown and accepted as her dower the 209-acre plantation which included the mansion-house, and seven of the eighteen slaves, valued at $8,825. The remainder of the estate went to John Breng­ man; Sarah, the wife of Frederick Geiger; Catherine, the wife of Minor White; Frederick G. Brengmao; Joshua Martin Brengman; and Margaret Norah Brengman. Since lot No. 16, on which the tavern was located, and lot No. 17 could not be divided to advantage the commissioners advised that they be rented Reference was made in the FOUNDERS, SETI'LERS, OLD FAMILIES 49 settlement of the ·estate to a tanyard and to lot No. 18, and also to other Middletown lots and outlying property. Martin died young and Margaret remained a widow for thirty-five years. She inherited the large estate which, in 1824, she conveyed, in part, to her older sons, Frederick and Samuel, uin order to provide for the education of the younger children." This portion included the ccmansion­ house, '' as she called their home, with these restrictions: ul reserve the garden and such rooms about the mansion­ house as I may wish to occupy and, if I should choose to change my residence, I reserve the right to take any effects and personal servants I may need for my comfort." The chattel included the slaves: James, Lewis, Richard, Daniel, Mary, Violet, and Sarah. Personal property included: six head of horses, seventeen head of cattle, fifteen head of sheep, four plows, and other farm tools, one loom, several spinning wheels, six beds, three chests of drawers, one clock, etc.

BRINLEY Jacob Brinley, presumably the first of his family in Mid­ dletown, died about 1809, leaving his estate on Floyd's Fork to his wife, Catherine; his sons, Jacob, Jo~ Reuben, and Thomas; and his daughter, Eve. Two brothers, Henry and Edward Brinley, kinsmen of Jacob Brinley, were prom­ inent residents of Middletown. Henry Brinley' s children were: Archibald, Thomas, Nannie, Helen, Elii.a, and Mattie. Archibald Brinley, bachelor, is the only one of the children living in Middletown in 1944. He is a car­ penter and painter. Edward built one of Middletown's remarkable old houses, the large two-story frame dwelling on the Ever­ green Avenue, adjacent to Evergreen Inn. The lawn is SO MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS shaded by glorious old trees. Edward Brinley' s four chil­ dren were: Edward, Thomas, Mary, and George. The bachelor son, Thomas, who is a great lover of animals, is a veterinarian. George married Maud Byland of Coving­ ton, Kentucky, and to them were born two children: Mable, who married Dr. D. W. Stephens of Covington, and Byland, who married Clara Bishop and lives on his father's farm in Middletown. The paternal home, a charming colonial dwelling, stands on a commanding prominence and is surrounded by old pine trees. Mr. Brinley is a whelesale furniture salesman and the supervisor of his farm, which lies contiguous to the property of Dr. J. B. Jordan. The Brinleys have two children, Jane and Martha, both of whom were graduated from Anchorage High School and also attended college. Jane married Lewis Guyn and Martha married Frank Y. Miller. Their children are respectively, Lewis B. Guyn and Frank E. Miller. The Brinleys are active members of the Methodist Church. Mrs. Brinley teaches in the Sunday School and Mr. Brinley is the Chairman of the Board of Stewards. They are prominent participants in all civic enterprises for the growth and improvement of Middletown. Mrs. Brinley is a cultured woman with a dynamic personality and a re­ markable leadership, which she exercised to great advan­ tage during the flood of 1937. She was the founder and the first president of the Middletown Women's Oub. Dur­ ing her term of office she was instrumental in making the plans to secure the dub house building. She rendered valuable service in the project of restoring the cemetery and did meritorious Red Cross work. FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 51

BUCKNER Captain Philip Buckner, an officer of the Revolutionary War, was fifty years of age in May, 1797, when he pe­ titioned for the establishment of Middletown. He belonged to the famous Buckner family of England, Virginia, and Kentucky. Thomas Buckner was a member of Raleigh's Expedition of 1585. The first of the Buckners to come to America to live was John Buckner (1631-1695) of Glou­ cester County, Virginia, who married Deborah Ferrers. He brought the first printing press and printer to Virginia. The children of John· Buckner I and his wife, Deborah, were: William Buckner, who married Catherine Ballard; John Buckner II, who married Ann Ballard ( sister of Cath­ erine) ; Richard Buckner, who married Elizabeth Cooke; Thomas Buckner, who married Sara Morgan; Elizabeth Buckner, who married James Williams. Richard and Eliza­ beth had a son, John III, who married Sarah Buckner, a relative. Their son, Philip, was Middletown's founder. He was born in Caroline County, Virginia, on May 13, 1747. He made one or more trips to England in his youth and was known all of his life as a man of travel who de­ lighted_ in adventure. He was married September 9, 1772, at Port Royal, Caroline County, to Tabitha Ann Daniel, the daughter of Giptain William and Elizabeth Coleman Daniel. Captain Buckner acquired a large number of Land Office Treasury Warrants from the Commonwealth of Vir­ ginia for his service as Commissary in the Revolutionary W ~- He provided supplies for the army with his own means. ·At different periods he received large grants of land in Kentucky County. In 1785 by virtue of such war­ rants Governor Randolph granted him seven thousand acres in one tract in Fayette County, formerly a _part of 52 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Kentucky County. This particular tract is in present aracken County which was formed in 1796. Just how many trips Captain Buckner made to Ken­ tucky is not known. He was here in 1783, and at least once more prior to 1793, in which year he brought his family and a party of neighbors and friends. How many were in the party is not known, but it is known that they had with them forty servants. The Captain's intention was to settle the party on that portion of his lands which lay along the Ohio River twenty miles below Maysville, Kentucky, but owing to Indian disturbances he continued down to Beargrass Station, now Louisville, where he left his family and friends in security while he returned to Vir­ ginia for reinforcements. These he received and with them returned to Kentucky. On March 8, April 8, and May 3, 1797, there appeared notices in the Kentucky Gazette that Philip Buckner would apply to the Jefferson County Court for the establishment of a town. When the court convened the town established was named Middletown. On July 1, 1797, the Kentucky Gazette carried the following notice:

"That on the first Monday in October I shall pe­ tition the county court of Bracken to establish the town of Augusta on the Ohio below the mouth of Bracken Creek, agreeable to an act of the Assembly.'' signed Philip Buckner

On October 2, 1797, Philip Buckner donat~ six hun­ dred acres to the town of Augusta, Kentucky, and vested title in trustees. A portion of this land was platted and lots were sold at auction at which time a number of them was purchased by Captain Buckner, which he again, at different times, donated to the town for public use. He FOUNDERS, SETILERS, OLD FAMILIES 53 gave one lot for the academy that became the first endowed Methodist College in the world. It was discontinued dur­ ing the strife of the Civil War. He gave another lot for the site of the Bracken County Court House and many other generous gifts of land are traceable to him in the county court records. The temporary wooden buildings which were first constructed at Augusta soon gave way to substantial brick houses, the first of which was built by Captain Buckner in 1795 for his home. _ Philip and Tabitha Buckner had nine children: Samuel (1773-1851), who married Susan Evans on January 2, 1793; Elizabeth (1776-1830), who married John Blanchard on January 2, 1793; Polly ( 1778-1865), who married Willis Hord on January 2, 1793; William (1780-1854), who married Lucy Mary Taliaferro on June 26, 1799; Frances ( 1782- --) , who married Dickinson Morris on October 23, 1799; Sarah (1786-1851), who married Gen­ eral John Pickett on January 28, 1801; Susan (1789-1852), who married John Champe Taliaferro in 1802; John (1791---), who married Martha Jones Buckner; Thomas {1796-1833), who married Matilda Hanson in 1819. The first three children were married on the same day in preparation for the hegira to Kentucky. Captain Buckner7 s land holdings were very extensive, not only in Bracken County and Jefferson County but in other parts of the state and in Ohio. In the disposition of his lands Captain Buckner was most generous. There are records of the disposal of farms to settlers in return for a colt, or a calf, or for some other minor consideration. His object, of course, was to induce settlement That is the reason why he established Middletown. He was a states­ man with a vision of progress and enterprise. He did not plan to live at Middletown but he was interested in having others come here to live. 54 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

His family continued to live in or near the military post of Beargrass Station until Augusta became a safe habitation. They must have lived in present Louisville from 1793 to 1795. In the latter year he built his brick house in Augusta. The Jefferson County Court Records show that Philip Buckner was here in April, 1 792, and also in November, 1792. The family was not with him then. On January 17, 1797, there appears a deed between Philip Buckner and wife Tabitha of the one part and Owen Gwathmey of the other part. Buckner sold to Gwathmey 375 acres on the Sinking Fork of_ Beargrass Creek, the deed states that the Buckners were from Bracken County. By that time he was evidently established in his new home which became famous for its generous hospitality. It was a place of feasting for his friends and neighbors and a harbor of refuge for the poor and needy. Many accounts of the visits of George Rogers Clark, Simon Kenton, and Daniel Boone are related. In Littell's Laws of Kentucky, there appears an act for the relief of Philip Buckner, De­ cember 11, 1800. ttAs the proprietor of the certificate for the price of a boat, impressed for General Clark's expedi­ tion in the year 1786, he was allowed the amount, with interest, from December, 1799... As Augusta grew in size Captain Buckner retired to one of his great tracts about twelve miles away. There on a commanding eminence he built a new home where he could hunt, fish, and roam over his own beautiful hills and vales at will.. His days ended here on October 24, 1820, and he was buried in the family graveyard on another commanding eminence within sight of his house. His wife was bom January 15, 1756, and died September 19, 1838.. In 1801 Ca~ Buckner made a voyage down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers from Augusta to Natchez and left FOUNDERS, SETILERS, OLD FAMILIES 55 a diary of the trip. It is interesting to note that his grand­ son, Doctor Philip Buckner, made the same trip in 1836, and also kept a diary. Captain Buckner was a man of great wealth and ed­ ucation. He was a member of the convention which framed the second constitution of Kentucky, at Frankfort, August 17, 1799, and served as representative and senator for eleven years. He left many prominent descendants in Ken­ tucky. Among them are Doctor Philip Johnson Buckner, a grandson who became a great physician of his time, and Doctor Philip Earle Blackerby, the newly appointed Health Commissioner of Kentucky ( August, 1943), succeeding the late Doctor A. T. McCormack. Doctor Buckner was a great uncle of Doctor Blackerby. Captain Philip Buckner and General Simon Bolivar Buckner, of Civil War fame, were descended from the same ancestor, Richard Buckner. Captain Buckner's Line-( 1) Richard and Elizabeth Buck­ ner; (2) John and Sarah Buckner; (3) Philip and Tabitha Buckner. General Buckner's Line--(1) Richard and Elizabeth Buckner; (2) Philip and Jane Aylett Buckner; ( 3) Philip and Elizabeth Watson Buckner; ( 4) Aylett Harstwell and Elizabeth Ann Morehead Buckner; ( 5) Simon Bolivar Buckner I. General Buckner was born in Hart County, Kentucky, in 1823 and died there in 1914. On February 16, 1862, he was forced to surrender Fort Donelson, on the Cumber- 13.J?.d River, to his West Point classmate, General Ulysses S. Grant. Grant was very generous to him, even giving hlm money to use while he was a prisoner. General Buck­ ner was the Governor of Kentucky from 1887 to 1891. His son, Simon Bolivar BudmP.r II, was born July 18, 1886. He was a general in World War II, serving in Alaska and the Pacific Theater and was killed June 17, 1945, on the eve of the victory in Okinawa while observing enemy movements from the front line. 56 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

CALDWELL Mrs. Viola Caldwell, one of Middletown's finest teach­ ers, was born in Grant, Kentucky, on March 13, 1876, daughter of Alice Snyder and M. F. Walker. She attended district schools in Kentucky until she was twelve years of age when the faroi]y moved to Indiana. She was graduated from the .high school in Rising Sun, Indiana, and taught in the township schools of Ohio County, Indiana, and the district schools of Boone County, Kentucky. She com­ pleted her educational training at Indiana University. On March 25, 1903, she was married to Charles W. Caldwell in Rising Sun, Indiana. She is the mother of two children, Donald, and Robert. Donald is serving in the armed forces of World War II. Robert died in his youth. Mrs. Caldwell came to Middletown on January 17, 1910, as principal of the Middletown Graded School, which position she held for twenty years. She taught grades six, seven, and eight -in the little two-room, frame schoolhouse located on the hill across from Dr. L. D. Mason's home. Miss Kate Durr taught grades one through five. During World War I, Mrs. Caldwell was employed by the newspaper, Insurance Field, a trade paper edited by Champion Hitchcock and Young E. Allison. After the dose of the war she returned to take up her work in the newly erected red brick school building located on the Middletown-Anchorage Road. After retiring from the Middletown School, she taught for three years in a private school in Louisville. Later she worked at the Louisville Public Library for two years, and was with the pure food and drug depamnent of the Kentucky State Board of Health for two years. Due to ill health she has retired from public life but has not entirely given up teaching. Occasionally she tutors pupils who wish to make up de­ ficiencies or improve their English. FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 57

Mrs. Caldwell will be remembered for the thorough training she gave her students and the fine discipline with which she controlled them. She was devoted to her pro­ f ession and had _great pride in the accomplishments of her students, many of whom have lived to become a credit to her.

CHAMBERS William Chambers was prominent in the early settle­ ment of Middletown. He advertised in the Kentucky Gazette with Philip Buckner for the establishment of a town, but did not make application to the Jefferson County Court at the time of its session, the reason for which is not known. He may have changed his mind about disposing of his land or else the Court did not see fit to select his particular tract. His name is not mentioned in the court action. He was the largest lot holder when the town was established. He bought more lots in Middletown between the years 1797 and 1838 than any other man. Two of his land transactions included 2,000 acres from Nicholas Buck­ ner, a tract originally patented by Richard Stephens, and 250 acres from John Bi-engman, a tract first owned by Jacob Myers. He married a Miss Dorsey, and afterwards, in con­ junction with General Oiristy, purchased a large tract of land where the central portion of the city of St. Louis is now located. The increase in value of his land made him immensely wealthy, and upon his death he left property to the value of a million dollars to his only daughter, Mrs. Mary Tyler.

CoLEMAN Landrum Coleman, the father of Benjamin Tyler Cole­ man, was the first of the Colemaos in Middletown. He married Fannie G>x and lived in Frankfort, Kentucky, 58 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS until 1881, when the family moved to Middletown. Ben­ jamin Tyler Coleman was born in Frankfort on May 23, 1873. He married Ella Frisbee, daughter of Captain Fris­ bee, and his wife, Eliza. They had two sons, Edward Frisbee and Charles Tyler. Edward Frisbee married Pauline Hawley of Louisville and had one son, Edward Frisbee II. Frisbee was a graduate of the College of Law, University of Louisville, and practiced law in Louisville until his sudden death in December, 1944. He had been in poor health for many years and was stricken with a heart attack on his way to -his office. He fell to the pavement on Walnut Street near the Kentucky Hotel and died before medical aid could reach him. He is buried in the Floyds­ burg Cemetery. Charles Tyler Coleman married Pauline Porter of Caneyville, Kentucky, and has a daughter, Mary Ann. They live in Louisville where Tyler is successfully engaged in business. Benjamin Tyler Coleman was in the mercantile business in Middletown for many years, and in later life was em­ ployed by the Louisville and Nashville Railway Company at the Tenth Street office in Louisville. He united with the Disciples of Christ early in life and .remained a devoted and steadfast member until his death. He served as super­ intendent of the Middletown Christian Bible School for thirty years and an equal length of time as deacon and elder. He participated in every service of the church, special or regular, day or night. Many of his leisure hours were spent in reading re­ ligious literature; writing business letters for the church; keeping church records; visiting the sick and the widows and orphans; attending official meetings; and cultivating flowers for the decoration of the church. Every Sunday morning in season, Mr. Coleman could be seen walking down Main Street on his way to church carrying a basket or vase of flowers. He often paused to rest especially FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 59 during the last two years of his life, as he was subject to a heart ailment. He always arrived at the church about a half-hour before service to select the songs and to stand at the door and greet all those who came to Sunday &hool. He inherited his fine voice from the gifted Cox family. At the close of the sermon he again stood at the church door to extend felicitations to visitors and members. His passing was a great loss to the Christian Church and the community. After a few weeks of illness, he died of a heart attack on January 18, 1944, at his home in the east end of town. His funeral was held in the church for which he had labored untiringly. Hundreds of friends paid tribute by their presence, their flowers, and messages of condolence. He was buried at Resthaven Cemetery on the Bardstown Road. Cox Gabriel, Friend, and Isaac Cox, presumably brothers, were of English extraction. They came from Maryland to Virginia where Friend took up land in 1750, and Isaac and Gabriel soon after. Many members of the three families migrat~ early to neighboring states. Among the sons of Isaac who came to Kentucky were Colonel Isaac, Colonel Gabriel, and Captain David of the Revolution; Benjamin, Jonathan, and John. Colonel Isaac took up large tracts of land in Kentucky, in 1776, for himself and brothers. In 1780, he with David and Benjamin estab­ lished Cox's Station on Cox's Creek ( near what is now Bardstown, Kentucky). Gabriel, John, and Jonathan joined them later. Benjamin settled in Shelby County and John settled in Lexington. David's son, Brigadier General James C.Ox of the War of 1812, married Gabriel's daughter, Mary, and their first child, Isaac Russell Cox, a major in the War of 1812, was 60 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS the great-grandfather of Mrs. Evelyn Crady Adams, of Louisville, Kentucky. Among the descendants of Brigadier General James Cox are Miss Ella Kouwenburgh, the late Mrs. Ben Johnson, the late Dr. Orion Cox, Mrs. Hugh McKay (Myra Cox), George W. Barkhurst, D. J. Wood, Sr., and D. J. Wood, Jr., of Bardstown. ·Mrs. Beaven Hamilton of Hodgenville is a descendant of John Cox. Benjamin Cox married Sarah Piety and had eleven children. His daughter, Susannah, married James Ballard, son of Bland Ballard, a Kentucky pioneer who was killed by the Indians in 1788 near Shelbyville. They had a son, Andrew Jackson Ballard, who was born in Shelby County in 1815. He married Frances Ann Thruston, who was born in Louisville in 1826. Rogers Clark Ballard, born November 6, 1858, is the illustrious son of this union. He is one of Louisville's most prominent citizens, having achieved distinction in science and history. He has been a leader in business and social circles for many years and has served as president of The Filson Chili since 1923. In 1884 his mother requested that he add her family name to his, and since that time he has borne the name, Rogers Oark Ballard Thruston. · The progenitor of the Middletown Coxes was John Calhoun Cox, _the son of Benjamin Cox of Shelby County. John Calhoun Cox married Eliza Garrett and had the fol­ lowing children who came to Middletown about the middle of the nineteenth century: (1) Willis Cox, who married Anna Worthington and had one child, Ruth, who became the wife of Dr. L. D. Mason. (2) Wallace Cox, a young preacher who never mar­ ried. He died young of tuberculosis in 1866. (3) Martha Cox, who married William Tharp. FOUNDERS, SEITLERS, OLD FAMILIES 61

(4) Mary (her twin sister), who married Sam Long and had four daughters, Martha,. Elliabeth, Mamie, and Bertie. Martha married John C. Gates. Elizabeth mar­ ried Hugh Milliken and had three-girls, Betty, Mary, and Martha Bert, all of whom married men of affluence and are living in other states. Recently they gave three pulpit chairs to the Middletown Christian Church as a memorial to their mother who was such a faithful worker in the church. For many years the Millikens lived in the house across from the Christian Church, now occupied by the Myers Funeral Home. Mamie Long married a Mr. Eddins, and Bertie Long married Jaines Stegar. They live in southern Kentucky. ( 5) Ben Cox, who married Betty Reeser. ( 6) Fannie Cox, who married Landrum Coleman, father of Benjamin Tyler Coleman. (7) Margaret Cox, who remained single. (8) Dr. Henry Clay Cox, who was a young contem­ porary of Dr. S. 0. Witherbee. He married Mary Jane Newland. Their children were: Benjamin N. Cox, Nannie Eliza Cox, Wil1iam Wallace Cox, James Harvey Cox, a doctor who practiced in Virginia, and Wade Hampton Cox, a dentist in La Grange, Kentucky. Julia R. Cox, another child of John Cal:boun Cox, mar­ ried Dr. S. F. Smith of Frankfort, where their daughter, Sarah Wallace Smith, now resides.

Andrew Cox, member of another Cox family, lived on Ward Avenue in the 1880's. He had three sons, Edgar, Lawrence, and William Edgar married Hattie Weigleb and lived on the Old Henry County Road where he owned and operated a rock quarry. He lived here until he retired from business, at 62 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS which time he sold his property to Rocke Fanelli and moved to Middletown. Here he lived in the cottage adjacent to the Oiarles Downey place. He and his wife had no chil- dren. · Lawrence Cox, who worked at the quarry with his brother, married Minnie Jones and lived on Tucker Station Road. They had two children, Edgar and Ethel. Edgar married Maud Poulter and had no issue. Ethel married Harold Griffith of Shelbyville and had one child, Sarah, who married Charles Frederick McBride and has a son, Charles Frederick II. The unusual devotion of the two brothers, Edgar and -Lawrence, was exemplary and beauti­ ful. Rarely was one seen without the other, and thus their love continued throughout life. Even in death they were together. One day in 1929 the brothers were riding to Louisville with a friend, Sam Long, when an approaching automobile, speeding toward Middletown, crowded them off the road into the ditch where their car struck a tree and both Edgar and Lawrence were killed. Sam Long, who was driving the car, escaped with minor injury. A double funeral was held for the brothers. They are buried in the Middletown Cemetery.

CRAsK Mark Crask has lived in Middletown for more than fifty years. He married Carrie Poulter and they had one child, Ida Mae, who married-Robert Martin. The Martins have two children, Hazel and Robert Lee. Hazel married Louis Langford and they have a son, Robert Louis, who was_~m in 1944. For many years Mrs. Martin has been a faithful member of and teacher in the Oiristian Oiurch where her father served as elder. FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 63

Carl Crask, cousin of Mark Crask, married Stella Turner. Their five children are: James Marshall, Gladys Cecil (deceased), Georgia Mae, Susie Belle, and Marcella. Mr. Crask is a carpenter by trade, and his wife is a dress­ maker. They and their family are members-of the Middle­ town Christian Church. ·

DAVIS John Davis, emigrant from the East, was married to Hannah Ingram on December 3, 1786. Among their children were five daughters: Susan B., Hannah, Lydia, Elizabeth, and Mary Ann. Only two of these five girls married. Elizabeth married a man named Field and had a son, John C.; Susan B. had only one child, Susannah, who married Abell W. Brown. On October 8, 1841, Susan B. Davis bought from Lawrence Young, son-in-law of Wil­ liam White, eighty-five acres of land on which was located the house that later became known as Davis Tavern. This house had previously belonged to William White who pre­ sumably built it for his home. The tavern as it is today was not completed for many years and grass grew in the basement excavation. Abell W. Brown finished the origi­ nal plan with some additions. He died in 1862, and his wife, Susannah, lived until 1887. They had only one child, Hattie, who married Dr. Luther Paris Wetherby of New York. Abell adopted a likely lad who chanced in the tavern one day and gave him his own name. This new Abell W. Brown married Elizabeth Keneaster, daughter of Henry Keneaster. Lib Brown, as she was familiarly known, was the ticket agent at the Middletown station for many years. Commuters of those years will remember with a smile her insistence on exact fare. Lib was un­ fortunate in losing early in life all of those persons she held most dear. One evening in 1892, after painting a ham 64 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS roof at Ormsby Station, her husband was killed when he tried to board a moving train. The shock of his death was a terrific blow to Libby. The Davises, Browns, and W etherbys all lived at the Davis Tavern which was operated by the Davis sisters when they were in their prime. They had no hesitancy in doing the cooking and other work connected with its opera­ tion. The tavern ceased to serve the -public before 1880. Susan B. Davis died in 1864. She willed her property to her daughter, her sisters, and other members of the family to whom she was devoted. She stipulated that the bequests to her sisters were made on condition that they never marry, and they didn't. The Davises, Browns and Wether­ bys are buried in the family plot on the L. P. Wetherby farm.

DORSEY The American progenitors of the Dorseys, who were Puritans, emigrated from Darcy, England, to Virginia in 1635, and thence to Maryland in 1649 where they were prominent in public affairs. Two Dorsey women presided over the mansion at Annapolis as wives of Maryland gov­ ernors. Edward, the ancestor of the Jefferson County Dor­ seys, married Susannah Lawrence, daughter of Benjamin Lawrence, and moved in 1802 to Kentucky together with his family and the family of Benjamin Lawrence. Edward Dorsey settled on a tract of land at what is now O'Bannon, Kentucky, where he built a substantial stone house. Al­ though weatherbeaten and in need of minor repairs, the house is still structurally sound and is occupied today by the present owner of the farm. The Dorsey scions claim that it was the first stone house built in Kentucky. There are locust trees on the lawn four feet in diameter. When FOUNDERS, SETILERS, OLD FAMILIES 65 one of them fell recently in a storm the owner cut a cross­ section and counted two hundred fifty rings. Edward Dorsey died on August 5, 1804, at the age of forty-two, just two years after his arrival in Kentucky. His wife, Susannah, who later married John WiJl iamson, died on January 21, 1818, at the age of forty-nine. They are now buried in the Hobbs family graveyard at Anchorage to which they were removed when their grandson, Edward Dorsey Hobbs, bought the property. Basil Nichol~ Hobbs, father of Edward Dorsey Hobbs, married Mary Ann better known as Polly, the daughter of Edward and Susannah Dorsey. After the death of Edward Dorsey his estate, which in­ cluded lots in Middletown and several thousand acres on

1 '\\ hich he lived, was divided among his heirs: Susannah, v., idow and relict, and five children, Polly Hobbs, Leaven Lawrence, Elias L., Urith, and Matilda. Samuel N. Luckett, husband of Edward's daughter Patience, then de­ ceased, received her share, and brothers-in-law," Leaven and Samuel Lawrence were also made beneficiaries. Am~ng the Middletown lots which Edward bought from Charles Quirey and Catherine, his wife, on April 23, 1802, were Nos. 51 and 52 on which were located a store, a tavern, and a dwelling house, all joined by partitions. The dwell­ ing was occupied by Leaven Lawrence; the store was op­ erated by Samuel, and the tavern was kept by John Ba1Iard. In the settlement of the estate which was made by the Jeff­ erson County Court in 1807, Leaven Lawrence was allotted his kitchen and the room he was then living in and the ground on which it stood. _Samuel hecame the owner of the store room, the chamber above it, and the cellar and the ground it occupied. This odd practice of dividing the rooms of a house among several persons was not unusual one hundred fifty years ago. 66 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

It is interesting to note that in 1803 Edward Dorsey gave bond to Leaven Lawrence in the sum of 1,500 Spanish milled dollars to sell to him one-third of all houses and lots which Edward owned in Middletown. Elias and Leaven Lawrence Dorsey I were born in Maryland in 1797 and 1799 respectively and came with their parents to Jefferson County. Leaven Lawrence I mar­ ried Susan O'Bannon, daughter of Isham O'Bannon, and had several children, including: Eveline, Mary, and Bush­ rod. He owned a tract of six hundred acres which he named 0 Kitchen Garden Farm." It was located at what is now Ormsby Station and was a part of uEden." Here he erected a large and elegant residen~e. Elias Dorsey married Sallie Booker and had a large family. He owned 0 Eden" the valuable stock farm of 1,200 ·acres inherited from his grandfather. His son, Leaven Lawrence II, was born in the Middletown precinct on February 17, 1818, and was educated in the private schools of Middletown under the tutelage of Lawrence Young. He married Lydia Phillips and had the following children: Rosa, Nannie, Clark, Mattie, Robert, and Lydia. He inherited his father's estate on which he raised high­ bred trotting horses. "Eden,, was owned by the Dorsey family from 1814 until about 1880. Dorsey Way is a lane on the western connnes of Mid­ dletown leading to the home of the late Leaven Lawrence Dorsey ill, a · grandson of Leaven Lawrence Dorsey I. His daughter, Louise, lives in the paternal home. Other Dorsey scions include Sally Dorsey of Louisville, who is the granddaughter of Bushrod Dorsey. She married Oiarles G. Fust and has two 4aughters, Marie Louise and Elizabeth Herndon. FOUNDERS, SETILERS, OLD F.AMILIES 67

DoUGLASS Colonel James J. Douglass, one of the most prosperous and colorful of .Middletown's personalities, came here in 1896. He bought the Womack place, a 300-acre farm, from Agnes E. Finzer, widow of Nicholas Finzer. Here he lived in elegant style until his death in 1917. He was an ardent patron of the races. Douglass Par~ a race course in Louisville, was named in his honor. Many fine horses graced his beautiful, undulating estate. He had four sisters: Tillie, Ella, Belle, who married a man named Ash­ burn, and Hermia, who married William Broadhurst. The Colonel had no children. His mother, Sarah Jane Doug­ lass,- and his two maiden sisters, Ella and Tillie, came to Middletown to live with him after his wife's death. His mother was a loyal and devoted member of the Christian Church, to which a liveried coachman brought her each Sunday in a handsome carriage drawn by a pair of fine, well-groomed horses in gleaming harness. When Hermia, the sister, died in 1935, she bequeathed to the Christian Church a thousand dollars in her mother's memory. It was used for the interior decoration of the auditorium. After the death of Colonel Douglass his estate was sold to W. W. Lewis, who lived there two years. Mr. Lewis sold Douglass Place to his brother, John B. Lewis, a mine operator from Harlan, Kentucky, who made it his home for twenty-five years. He sold the place to George Buechel in 1944. Among the children of John B. Lewis in this vicinity are Golden, who operates the Standard Oil Service Station in Middletown, and Anna Mae, who married Daniel Hallenberg and lives at Anchorage. 68 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

DoWNEY John Downey was born in Jefferson County, Virginia, in 1810. He settled on Harrods Creek in 1834 and moved to Middletown in 1853 when he bought the B. F. Morse farm. Here he prospered on his 315 acres of fine land. He married Ruth Owens, of this county, in 1834 and among their twelve children were: Lizzie, Charles, John, Edward Hobbs, and Mary Louisa. Mr. Downey and family were members of the Methodist Church. He was a Mason for many years. His son, John, married Emma Jordan and lived at home with his father, where all four of their children were born. Their children were: Ella, who married William Schindler and has three daughters, Mary, Emma Louise, and Ruth; Charles, who married Mamie Gates and built the large two-story frame house on lot No. 52, the former site of the old Ballard Tavern and Lawrence store; Lee, who married Blanche Blackwell; and Ruth, who is unmarried. She is the only member of her family in Middletown now bearing the Downey name. The Downeys lived on the farm until 1890, when they sold it to Jake Spicher and moved to Louisville. The Schindler family came from Crestwood to Middle­ town in March, 1913. Among the children of Jacob and his wife, Mary, are Louise,· John, William, and Edward. Louise married Clarence Neff and has a daughter, Villa, the wife of Louis Brown. John operated a blacksmith shop at the comer of Main Street. and Kratz Lane until the advent of the automobile. His children are Roselle, who married and lives in Florida; and Herbert, who married Stella Jones and has two children, Robert and Helen. Wil­ liam owned and operated a hotel in the old Middletown Inn. Edward married Lucille Pearcy and was engaged in the mercantile business for many years. He has been the postmaster of Middletown since 1929. The Schindlers are members of the Methodist and Christian churches. FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 69

DUGAN The founder of the Dugan family of Middletown was James W. Dugan who was born in New Castle, Kentucky. He married Mary Jane Gray of Hardin County and came to Jefferson County, on January 12, 1869, from Carrollton where he had been a merchant for many years. He settled on a farm about two miles east of Middletown on the Shelbyville Road and lived there during the active years of his life. When he retired from farming, he and his family moved into Middletown. Mr. Dugan was a stew­ ard in the Methodist Church for many years. He lived to the great age of ninety-seven years and died October 16, 1924. His children were: Alphonso G., who married Helen Gates of Middletown; James G., who married Har­ riet Spencer of Chicago; Thomas S., who married Bessie Loomis of Louisville; Joseph U., and William M., who died in youth; Viola, who married James Urton of Middle­ town; Annie, and Sallie, who are unmarried.

ELDER John Scott Elder was born December 2, 1802, at Lex­ ington, Kentucky, the third child in a family of seven. Other children were: Thomas, Washington, William, Elizabeth, and Sarah. His father, William Elder, and mother, Ann Scott, a re4tive of General Winfield Scott of Mexican War fame, were natives of Dinwiddie County, Virginia. William Elder, a real pioneer, was always seek­ ing new frontiers. He and his family lived at various times in Lexington, Kentucky; Flemingsburg, Kentucky; Cincin­ nati, Ohio; Cynthiana, Kentucky; Shippingport (Louis­ ville) ; and in Natchez, Mississippi. The many exciting experiences in their travels through the then new and wild country are related by John Scott Elder in his memoirs. In li18 William died and John Scott, a lad of sixteen, went 70 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS aboard the steamboat, Washington, which was then the newest and finest boat on the Mississippi River. He even­ tually became the captain of the Washington which plied between Louisville and New Orleans. On August 25, 1830, John Scott Elder married Mar­ garet Goolsby, the daughter of Tarleton and Mildred Walker Goolsby of Jefferson C:Ounty. Tarleton was the grandson of Captain Thomas Goolsby who patented twelve hundred acres of land in Albemarle County, Virginia, in 1732. Mildred Walker was the granddaughter of Dr. Thomas Walker, explorer of Kentucky in 1750. John Scott Elder and his wife lived in Shippingport until about 1835, when he built a home on the banks of Floyd's Fork, Jefferson County. The entrance to the Elder place, a beautiful, rolling plantation of the days of slavery, is through Gilliland Lane, leading from U. S. Highway 60 two miles east of Middletown. Traveling this road for about two miles you see to your right three pretty hills rising above the general level. The middle hill is the site of the Elder home. It slopes gracefully on all sides except at the rear where there is a narrow ridge connecting it with the hill to the left. · The crest of this hill, reached by a winding road, has a broader expanse than one might imagine from below, where Floyd's Fork flows peacefully. The view from the summit is superb. It is not difficult to understand why it was chosen as a home site. The John Scott Elder house, located on the northwest comer of this level expanse, was a frame building consisting of about five rooms on the first floor and several above. It must have resembled a boat, for Margaret, his wife, made this remark: 1t•1 knew Scott would build a house like a boat." The remains of the cistern and the old well at the back porch are still there, reminiscent of the days when the old hill teemed with life. These, with the cellar, which was under only a part of the house, and a heap of foundation FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 71 stones, are all that remain of a home that used to shelter many a kindred soul. Scattered over the hilltop are many piles of rock which formed the foundations for the five slave cabins. John Scott Elder owned nineteen slaves at the time of the Civil War. When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued; these slaves departed one by one. Susan Elder, who never combed her hair or dressed herself without the aid of a maid until after the Civil War, used to enjoy telling this amusing story: Lucy, a little Negro girl, was at the Elder house one morning when the family questioned her, think­ ing they would learn something of the plans of their slaves. "What do they talk about down at the cabins?" "They talk and talk and talk and directly they say some­ thing." Evidently she had been well prompted or else was not acquainted with their plans. John Scott Elder broke his hip in a fall at his home while attempting to draw a bucket of water from the cis­ tern, and spent many years of his life as an invalid. He occupied himself by writing, playing the violin, and enter­ taining his many friends who would sit for hours listening to his interesting tales of life on the river. ·He died on April 23, 1887, at the age of eighty-four, and is buried in the family graveyard located across the road to the left on the banks of Floyd's Fork. Beside him lies his wife, Marga­ ret, who died March 23, 1876, at the age of sixty-six. John Scott Elder and Margaret had eight children: Walker Thornton, Alonzo, Hortense, Eugene, Thomas Scott, Susan Dorsey, Ruth, and Adah. Eugene Elder mar­ ried Catherine Conn and their three children were: Albert, Roberta, Audley. Eugene was a prosperous farmer for many years and was also engaged in carpentry. When he moved from his farm to Middletown, he built a home on 72 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS the Middletown-Anchorage Road where he lived to the great age of ninety-eight. He often said that he was living on borrowed time. "The first hundred years are the most difficult, after that the second hundred are easy," he would say. He was always hale and hearty, and at the age of eighty, he put a new roof on his house. He enjoyed telling stories of his father who wore gold earrings during his pilotage on "Ole Man River." Albert Elder married Lula Reel and lived in Louisville and Arkansas. Their three children were: Byron, Ken­ neth, and Anita. Roberta Elder married James Frazer Hobbs and had two children: Catherine and Noah Chester. The latter is the manager of Carrell-Rogers Company and lives in Louisville. Audley Elder married Louise Hertel of Louisville and lives on his father's place, which he owns. He has three children: Meta, Audley, and Virginia. Meta and Virginia are graduates of Anchorage High School and Western State Teachers College. Meta has been an efficient and popular teacher in the Middletown Graded School for several years. Audley is a major in the Armed Forces serving in the Pacific Theater. Virginia, formerly a teacher, married A. E. Stauderman and lives at Anchorage. She is active in Red Cross work. Susan Dorsey Elder was married to Andrew Jackson Sturgeon, prominent Democrat and popular sportsman, on January 25, 1866, in the Long Run Baptist Outtch, the Reverend W. E. Powers officiating. UUnde Jack," as he was called by his many friends, served for twelve years as County Assessor and nine years as Deputy Sheriff.

ULet me live in a house by the side of the road And be a friend to man," was the creed to which he subscribed. For many years he was a member of the National Fox Hunters Association. FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 73

He_ owned a good pack of hounds and prided himself on never having sold a dog. He died at his home near Floyd's Fork bridge, east of Middletown, February 18, 1907. It is a remarkable coincidence that his funeral service was conducted in the same church and by the same minister who had performed the marriage rites for him and his bride forty years earlier. Susan died June 30, 1936, aged eighty­ nine, in Middletown at the home of her daughter, Nellie, who married William Harlan Wood. Her funeral was held in the church of her wedding, but unfortunately the Reverend Mr. Powers was not living to officiate. She and her husband are buried in the Long Run graveyard where Abraham Lincoln, grandfather of the President, was killed by the Indians and laid to rest.

ExcERPTS FROM THE MEMoms OF JOHN Scorr ELDER "We were living at Natchez in 1812, and there was much rumor about the British coming up the river; my father was under the impression that Natchez would be taken and fall into the hands of the British and he con­ cluded that he would move back to the 'states,' as the upper country was called at that time. So he put his family in his stage coach-the same that he had been running out to the barracks where General Jackson's troops were quartered and we weighed anchor and left for the upper country. We had to travel through two nations of Indians-first the Choctaw nation, then the Chickasaw nation, lx>th friendly Indians. When we had got about one hundred and fifty miles into the Indian nation, one evening as we were about to camp for the night, we met a gentleman on his way down to Natchez. He asked my father if he had a pass­ port. My father said he had not. He then told my father that he could not get past Dinsmore' s about three miles 74 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS ahead of us, as we had a Negro boy with us. The gentle­ man said he had been required to leave his three Negroes at Dinsmore' s plantation and return to Natchez for a pass­ port. This man Dinsmore had been placed on the only trail through the Indian nation by a late act of the state of Mississippi to stop all men traveling through the nation with Negroes and without a pass as slaves had been stolen of late and run off to the north on that trail. CCThis gentleman said he would go on and if father chose he could overtake him in the morning. Father said he would be glad of his company and would do so. But when father and mother counselled together, mother would not agree that my father· should go back to Natchez. The journey would require ten or twelve days, besides the ex­ pense, and the family left without protection in the wild woods of the Indian nation, though they were friendly tribes. ctFinally mother laid the plan. They called my oldest brother, 14 years old, and the black boy, Daniel, a little older, and told them what they had to do. They had to start about 12 o'clock that night and keep the road until they came in sight of Dinsmore' s plantation; there was no other house and they could easily know when they reached it. They were to turn out, go through the dark woods behind the plantation and come into the road on the other side, keep along for two or three miles and hide them­ seives until we came up to them. The two boys said they could do it, so at 12 that night they left us.

0 lt The next morning we made an early start, all very apprehensive of some danger to the boys from beasts, Indians or losing their way. We reached Dinsmore's very early in the morning; the gentleman came down the lane to the road before his house and saluted my father and mother very politely. He said there were some very bad FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 75 mudholes on the road and that he would show us how to go. My father thanked him and told him he thought we could manage to get along; nevertheless, he went with us to the end of his plantation, wished us a safe journey and turned back. We felt relieved and continued on for some distance but the boys did not make their appearance. My mother was very uneasy about them, but after we had traveled five miles they came into the road out of the pine woods, all safe and sound. ''After this we rattled along in our stage-coach on our journey without accident. Finally we began to hear ru­ mours about the Creek Indians, that they had been passing along with white prisoners near the Tennessee River. When we got within two or three days of the Tennessee River we had to cross a small stream, Bear creek. The Indians kept a ferry there and a boat to carry people over. The water was low and father concluded to ford it. The Indians did not seem to like it -very well. We had ·a very valuable dog that a soldier gave us when the troops broke camp at Natchez. This dog would frequently lag behind us to run after game in the woods. After we forded the creek all right there was an Indian boy who followed along behind us with a bow and arrows but we paid no attention to him. However, after a mile or two our dog came up to us with the foreleg broken just below the shoulder. The Indian boy- had shot him with an arrow. We carried the poor dog along in the coach for a while, but his leg was so badly shattered that he had to be put out of his misery.u

FLOYD Colonel John Floyd was one of the great men of early Kentucky. He was foremost in all that was planned and executed for the protection of the settlers and the develop­ ment of the country. Middletown owes a debt of gratitude 76 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS to him for his activities in early Jefferson County. J-{is grandfather came from Wales to Virginia where John Floyd was born about 1750. John Floyd married Jane Buchanan; his children who survived him were: Mourning, wife of General Charles Stuart of Georgia; George R. C. (colonel in- the War of 1812); and John, born near Louis­ ville on April 2-3, 1783, who removed to Virginia where he became prominent in political life serving as governor of that state for five years. Colonel John Floyd came to Kentucky, for the second time, in April, 1775, on a surveying expedition. He was with General George Rogers Clark in several of his mili­ tary exploits and became well known to the Indians and 1nuch feared by them. On September 17, 1781, after hear­ ing of the Long Run Massacre, Colonel Floyd and thirty­ four men hurried to relieve the whites, bury the dead, and chastise the Indians. But in spite of great precaution he was defeated by a body of two hundred Indians. Two years later, on April 12, 1783, Colonel Floyd and his brother Charles, not expecting danger from the Indians who, they supposed, had retreated after having had serious trouble with the settlers, were riding together several miles from Floyd's Station, when they were fired upon and Colonel Floyd was mortally wounded. He was wearing his scarlet wedding coat which made him a prominent mark. His brother supported him on his horse and he lived to reach home, where he died in a few hours. He had a remarkable horse named Pompey who always warned him of the presence of Indians. Before his death he remarked, UCbades, if I had been riding Pompey today, this would not have happened."' Colonel Floyd was over six feet tall, military in bear­ ing, handsome in appearance, and exceedingly agreeable. His manner was calm, restrained, and impressive. Floyd's FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 77

Fork, Floyd County, Floydsburg in Oldham County, and Floyd Street in Louisville were named for John Floyd.

FRANK Henry Frank, a self-reliant youth of great promise, came to Middletown about 1890 and served his apprentice­ ship under William Benjamin Wood, building contractor. After Mr. Wood's death in 1906, Henry Frank formed his own company and entered upon a notably successful career, achieving prosperity through the force of his personality and mental endowments. He passed suddenly from the scene of his activity at the zenith of his achievement. He met with an accident on a hunting trip October 1, 1932, and was killed instantly by the discharge of his gun. Nu­ merous buildings, public and private, stand today as monu­ ments to his mastery of the art of construction. His last home, "Colonel Acres" on Tucker Station Road, is an im­ posing edifice situated on a rise of undulating land. The choice of the site and the architecture of the building are a tribute to Mr. Frank's fine taste and appreciation of beauty. Mr. Frank, a trustee and benefactor of the Christian Church, gave his services in the remodeling of the church building in 1912. He was prominent in financial, social, and political circles, and many worthy enterprises owe their inception to his initiative. He was one of the founders of the Bank of Middletown and served as a director until his untimely death. Fraternally he was connected with the Kosair Temple and the Masonic Lodge No. 732 .. Mr. Frank was a staunch Republican in his political affiliation. He served on the staff of Governor Flem D. Sampson with the rank of colonel. Henry Frank was united in marriage to Letitia Jones, daughter of William J. and Lue Burch Jones. The Franks 78 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS were the parents of two children: Henry, who died in youth; and Catherine, whose first marriage was to Charles B. Compton. Later she married George Knoeller, an air pilot who met his death in a plane crash. To them were born two children: Letitia Ann and George Henry; Mrs. Knoeller is a graduate of the Anchorage High School which was built by her father. She is a member of the Middletown Woman's Club and is active in Red Cross and hospital service. The following article appeared in the Louisville Times, October 1, 1932:

ctCOUNfY MAN KILLED IN HUNTING MISHAP

"HENRY FRANK STUMBLES OVER LOG, CAUSING WEAPON TO FIRE

"Deputy Coroner Joseph P. Beck Saturday afternoon listed as accidental the death at 11 o'clock in the morning of Henry Frank, 59 years old, Middletown contractor, who stumbled over a log and accidentally discharged a shotgun load into his head. He was killed instantly. The accident occurred on the farm of Charles White, English Station and Floyd's Fork. UMr. Frank and two others had been hunting squirrels since 6 o'dock in the morning, and were returning to their automobile when he stumbled. The charge entered at the left eye, and blew off the top of Mr. Frank's head. UMr. Frank was born in Louisville, but moved to Mid­ dletown when a young man, and became associated with the contracting firm of the late W. B. Wood. He later continued this work in his own organization, formed at Mr. Woo

FRY Abraham Fry came from Maryland about 1795, and settled at Fry's Hill on Goose Creek. His wife, Susannah Whipps, bore him a large family, three of whom were John, Nancy, and William_ According to tradition one of Abraham Fry's daughters danced with General Lafayette when he visited Middle­ town in 1824. During the evening's festivities she lost an exquisite brooch that was sought and found by the ga11aot Lafayette who graciously returned it to her. Thereafter it became the most treasured possession of the family and has been handed down from generation to generation. Dr.. William Fry, bom in 1819, was educated at the -Transylvania University, graduating from the literary course and medicine in 1834.. For two years he was resi- 80 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS dent physician at the City Hospital in Louisville. He came to Middletown in 1840 and practiced medicine here for sixteen years._ In 1856 he moved to Louisiana where he practiced for eleven years. He then returned to Middle­ town where he spent the remainder of his life. In 1842 Dr. Fry married Margaret Brengman, daughter of John Brengman, through whom he came into possession of the celebrated Brengman estate, now known as uBrook­ side," the property of R. C. Day. This was the Fry home for about fifty years. Here he reared his four daughters: Mary Chew, Fannie, Susie, and Louise. Mary Chew Fry, better known as Mollie, had the distinction of being a member of the first class at Bellewood Seminary which was founded about 1860 by Dr. W. W. Hill. There were seven pupils in this first class, namely: Molly Fry, Hattie Brown, Lizzie Pope, all of Middletown, and Sallie Tom­ linson, Nannie Geiger, and Nannie O'Bannon. Mollie Fry, the only daughter who married, became the wife of James Milton Robison and to them were born three daughters, Margaret, Louisa, and Fannie. Margaret married a Mr. Fellows and lives in Louisville. Louisa married Emmett G. Durr and has two daughters, Evelyn and Margaret. They lived in Middletown for many years, but now make Louisville their home. Fannie married Mark A. Maddox and has three sons, Lieutenant Andrew Lee Maddox, Robert Mason Maddox and -Harry Noble Maddox. They moved from Middletown to St. Matthews several years ago. Mrs. Maddox boasts the distinction of having eight generations of her family with Middletown connections. The representative of the eighth generation, Robert Mason Maddox II, infant son of Robert Mason I, is buried in the Middletown Cemetery with his forebearers, Dr. William Fry and wife, Margaret, who died in 1872. FOUNDERS, SETI'LERS, OLD FAMILIES 81 FUNIC The Funk brothers, John, Peter, and Joseph, migrated from Maryland to Kentucky at an early date. John was one of the first trustees of Middletown, in 1797. He and Peter owned a mill near Seatonville, probably the first in the county. Peter _was born at Boonsboro, Maryland, August 14, 1782. He married Harriet Hite and was the only brother to leave progeny. Peter and Harriet were the parents of seven girls and five boys. Peter and Joseph Funk fought in the battle of Tippecanoe, War of 1812.

GATES Guerdon Gates, pioneer settler in Calhoun, Kentucky, was the grandfather of the present Lloyd W. Gates of Mid­ dletown. At one time he was the minister of the Baptist Church at Fourth and Walnut streets in Louisville. Later he was converted to the faith of the Disciples of Christ, through the preaching of Alexander Campbell. He was a Past Grand Master of the Kentucky Lodge of Masons. The Gates family ~e to Middletown from Calhoun in the fall of 1882. Lloyd W. Gates I, father of the pres­ ent Lloyd W. Gates, had an adventurous life. As a youth of eighteen he rode horseback along with a covered wagon train to California. One day on the way out, as he was rounding up some of their stray cattle he heard nearby cries of someone in excruciating pain. On investigating he found an Indian lying in the bushes, swollen twice his normal size from the bite of a rattlesnake. The tribesmen, believing the Indian to be ~ of evil spirits, had driven him away to die alone. Mr. Gates and some of his party cared for the suffering Indian, mitigating some of his pain, and carried him along with them. In time he recovered from the poison and, in gratitude, served his white friends as a guide for the remainder of the trip. He 82 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS returned to Kentucky with Mr. Gates and lived with him until his death. Adventure did not cease upon arrival in California. Romance followed. One day as Mr. Gates was again rounding up cattle that had strayed into a garden, a lovely girl promptly ceased digging potatoes and helped return the animals to the road by shaking her apron. In apprecia­ tion of the favor, and no doubt, in admiration of her beauty, he stopped and dug the potatoes for her. This chance meeting ended in courtship and marriage. After two years in California he and his bride returned to Calhoun, Kentucky, where he practiced law for thirty-five years. He married a second time, Irene Hawes, mother of the present Lloyd W. Gates. Her father founded Hawes­ ville, Kentucky, located on the Ohio River in Hancock County. Lloyd W. Gates was born on November 22, 1877, in Calhoun which was founded by his grandfather, John Calhoun, member of Congress. The brothers and sisters of Mr. Gates were Guerdon, Hugh W., Forrest L., John C., Richard Collins, Helen Gates Dugan, Maggie C. Gates Rust, Mary C. Gates Downey, and another Helen who died in infancy. Lloyd W. Gates married Pearl Stubblefield, daughter of the Reverend Mr. Stubblefield, Methodist minister at Middletown, 1901-1902. They had one child, Mildred, who married John Howell. The Howells had one child, Mary Lloyd, who married Jack Stamer in August, 1943. He is the son of the Reverend J. P. Stamer, present minister of the Methodist Church. Mr. Gates has practiced law in Louisville for about forty years. Pearl Gates wrote in the Jeffersonian, March 24, 1938: "I arrived with my father and mother in Middle­ town in October, 1901. I found a sleepy old village made picturesque by the beautiful coloring of autumn These were the days of carriages, horses and buggies. FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 83

Especially do I remember Colonel J. J. Douglas driving through town with his span of spirited horses and handsome carriage driven by a liveried coachman.,,

GEIGER Colonel Frederick Geiger, one of Middletown's first trustees and ancestor of the Louisville and Anchorage Geigers, came to Jefferson County from Maryland about 1796. He was a veteran of the Revolutionary War and a colonel in the War of 1812. Colonel Geiger fought in the battle of Tippecanoe with a regiment composed of Louis­ ville men. He owned about four hundred acres of land in this vicinity and lot No. S3 in Middletown. In 1 797 he applied to the Jefferson County Court for permission to build a water grist mill and saw mill o~ his own land on the Sinking Fork of Beargrass Creek near his house. In the same year the court ordered Colonel Geiger along with Martin Brengman, Thomas Daniel, and Nicholas Buckner, to view the nearest and most convenient way for a road from the mouth of Goose Creek to Middletown and thence to Floyd's Fork at the mouth of Pope Lick. Robert Hite Geiger and his brother, Goslee F. Geiger, who lives at Anchorage and is the head of the well known jewelry furn of Geiger and Ament, are prominent business men of Louisville. The Geiger brothers are the sons of William Mackrum Geiger who married Ellen Hite. The grandchildren of Goslee F. Geiger are: Betty and Ann Geiger, daughters of the late Thomas Geiger and Emily Graham Farleigh; Mildred Julian and Wi11iam Goslee Geiger, children of Albert J. Geiger who lives at Anchor­ age. 84 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

GOSLEE James Winder Goslee, a retired steamboat captain, gave Anchorage its name. He came here in 1853 from Henry County where he was born in 18_15. He was married on December 28, 1839, to Catherine White, who was born here on February 10, 1821. She was the maternal grand­ daughter of Middletown's Martin Brengman and the pa­ ternal granddaughter of William White, who presided at the court session when Middletown was officially organ­ ized and by whom Middletown was surveyed and laid out in lots for business and residence. The Goslees had only one child, Emma, who died at the age of twenty-one. Captain Goslee was on the river from the time he was a lad of eighteen until 1860. He served as pilot and com­ mander of several different steamboats. When only nine­ teen he was captain of the Matamo,a. The beautiful estate which the Captain selected, a few years before the Civil War, for his "Anchorage for Life"' was first owned by Middletown's Martin Brengman. Cap­ tain Goslee bought it at a cost of $16,000 in 1857 from Frederick G. Brengman who inherited it from his father, Martin. Here he established a hospitable home in which, unfortunately, he was not permitted to live in peace and quiet until a ripe old age for on the night of April 2, 1875, the Captain was killed by a train as he was attempting to cross the tracks. Shortly thereafter the family sold the estate to Atwood Martin, whose wife, UGeorge Madden Martin, 0 wrote Emmy Lou and other well known books. The property later belonged to E. M. Drummond, and at present it is owned by John G. Hager IL

GWATIDIEY Owen Gwatbmey, emigrant from Wales, came to America early in the seventeenth century and settled in FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES ·g5

Gloucester County, Virginia. He married a Mrs. Cleveri­ ous, widow of a German physician, and they had two sons, Richard and Owen. Richard married Diana Moore. Among their children was a son, Owen, who married Hannah Temple, daughter of Sir John Temple and his wife, Hannah Moore, Maid of Honor to Queen Elizabeth, who gave Hannah her wedding trousseau. Their son Owen was born November 25, 1753, and died December 1, 1830. He married Ann Clark, daughter of John and Ann Rogers Clark, and sister of General George Rogers Clark. The other son, Richard, married Charlotte Spratt, a second wife, by whom he had four sons and four daugh­ ters. Joseph, one of the four sons, was married February 14, 1820, to Lucy Ann Able, daughter of Joseph Able, wealthy farmer who built the old red brick house at the east end of Middletown. Their daughter, Margaret, was married on January 22, 1846, to Hiram Benjamin Wood, son of Benjamin Wood and grandfather of William Harlan Wood. One branch of the Gwathmey family lived in the last house on the north side of Main Street at the east end of town. It consisted of Richard Gwathmey and his three daughters, Josephine, Lucille, and Mae. In later yea.rs J. M. Howey bought the house and opened it as "Green Shut­ ter Inn." lt was partly consumed by fire in 1943 and is now a cottage rented by the H. E. Bernard family. Mem­ bers of another branch of the Gwathmey family living at Anchorage were: Richard, his wife Laura Lee Lewis, and their son, Richard Lee Gwatbmey. The Louisville Gwath­ meys, John, Owen, Samuel, and Temple, were men of great prominence and affluence. They owned extensive and val­ uable property in the city and county. They were buried in the old west-end graveyard which is no longer in use. The bodies were exhumed in the spring of 1945 and re­ buried on the Bullitt lot in Cave Hill Cemetery. 86 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

John Gwathmey was the architect for the Jefferson County Court House that was built in 18 i 1, then the most elegant structure of its kind in the West. It was a brick building with two wings. The maio structure was or­ namented with a portico supported by four_ Ionic columns. A cupola with a spire surro~ded it. In _1832 Samuel Gwathmey was instrumental in securing the construction of a permanent bridge across the Ohio River at the Falls. liARRisON Cuthbert Harrison, owner of one half of Middletown before its establishment, was a statesman as well as a land speculator. He was one of the members representing Nel­ son County on the committee which met at Danville to make the final draft of the first Kentucky State Constitution. Isaac Shelby, Kentucky's first governor ( 1792-1796) and later the fifth governor (1812-1816), was another member of the committee. Colonel Isaac Cox was a representative from Nelson County at the Danville Constitutional Con­ vention.

HARVEY Dr. C. W. Harvey was born in Scottsville, Kentucky, on June 6, 1844, and was reared in Louisville. He at­ tended the Louisville University and was graduated from the Medical Department in 1866. He practiced medicine in the Louisville Dispensary for two years, in Maury County, Tennessee, for four years, and in Middletown for ten years. He moved to Anchorage in 1879, where he be­ came the leading physiciaoJ He was a member of the Methodist Church, Master of Masonic Lodge No. 193, and chief officer of the Foresters. FqUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 87

HEAD Benjamin Head I was the early ancestor of the Head family of Middletown. He built the old stone house now owned by the heirs of Dr. Silas Witherbee. The con­ struction of the house was begun in 1813 and completed two years late,r. _ Benjamin Head was a partner of the firm of Head, Hobbs, and Lawrence which operated a general store in a building on the corner of lot No. 1 where the Head stone house stands. He rode on horseback to Phila­ delphia and Baltimore to buy the stock for the store. He married Nora Brengman, and their children were: Martin, Amelia, and Benjamin II. Amelia was the mother of Robert Chester Tway, owner of Plainview Farms, origi­ nally the Head farm, and also owner of a large coal business in Louisville. Mr. Tway is prominent in Louisville busi­ ness circles and has long been a benefactor of the Middle­ town Methodist Church, of which he is a member and with which his ancestors were affiliated. He is also generous in gifts to the town that his ancestor was prominent in founding. Mr. Tway is the father of three children: Helen, William, and Robert Chester. Benjamin Head II was the father of Minnie and Margaret Head. Margaret married a man by the name of Simpson and has two granddaughters living in Middle­ town: Margaret Simpson, who works at the Kentucky Central Life Insurance Company in Anchorage, and Ethel Simpson, who taught in the Middletown Graded School. Ethel later married John E. Nicklies and has a daughter, Margaret Joann. The two sisters live on the old Tarbell farm adjacent to the Middletown Cemetery.

HITE The Hites were one of the first families to settle in Jefferson County. In the early minute books of the Jeffer- 88 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS son County Court, the name Ab.rabam Hite, the earliest Hite settler here, occurs many times. Interesting and re­ markable as it may seem the Hites carried out Biblical his~ory in the choice of their family names. The first of the Jefferson County Hites, as has been said, was Abrabam­ Abrabam had a · son named Isaac and Isaac had a son named Jacob. Surely Jacob must have had a son naµied Joseph. In 1857, James Isaac Hite, descendant of pioneer Abra­ ham Hite, married Eliza Jane Marders Franee. They lived in what is now the nurses home of the Central Kentucky State Hospital at Lakeland. Their children were: William M., Albert, and Hallie. William Hite married first, Elizabeth Van Dyke. They had one son, Edward, now living in California. William Hite's second wife was Viola Browning by whom he had one child, Clara, the wife of Luther Wetherby, son of Henry Wetherby. Clara and Luther Wetherby have a daughter, Ivor Lois, a talented student at Kentucky Wesleyan College ( 1943). Albert Hite married Carrie Thunn Beynroth at the Fourth A venue Presbyterian Church, Louisville, on De­ cember 15, 1886. They had three children: Andrew, Anita, and Jane Glass Hite, all of whom were born at Anchorage. Andrew married Isabelle Jackman of Jeffersontown, Ken­ tucky,- and has one child, William, aged seventeen in 1943. Anita married Alfred E. Standing, a Quaker of Earlham, Iowa. They have one daughter, Jean. Jane Glass, who is unmarried, resides with her mother in a home built on a part of the old Jefferson Marders property. For the past several years she has been a beloved teacher at Middle­ town. She formerly taught at Jeffersontown and Worth­ ington.. Jane received her education at the Bellewood Seminary, Presbyterian State Normal &hool, F.astem and Western Kentucky State Teachers Colleges, and the Uni­ versity of Louisville. FOUNDERS, SETILERS, OLD FAMILIES 89

Hallie Hite married Dr. Francis Burgevin. They had one son, Leslie Gale, who teaches English _at Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts. He married Margaret Makay from Scotland.

HOBBS Basil Nicholas Hobbs, born April 24, 1786, came to Jefferson County at a very early date. On April 18, 1808, he married Polly Dorsey, the daughter of Edward and Susannah Dorsey of Jefferson County. He was a prominent and worthy citizen of Middletown, and served as one of its trustees in 1817. He owned considerable property, in­ cluding: lots Nos. 15, 16, 39, 49, 56, 57, and 115 acres of land that is now in Anchorage. He was one of the founders and the bookkeeper of the merchandising firm of Head, Hobbs, and Lawrence, a general store. Some of his ledgers are now filed at The Filson Club in Louisville. In his first will, dated December 25, 1833, he mentions his mother, Elizabeth Campbell, who died March 29, 1836, his two children, and his two grandchildren. A glimpse of the character of the man is gained from this notation in his will: "It is my wish to make my exit from this earth with but little bustle. Therefore it is my wish that there sha1 I not be any funeral sermon delivered on the occasion but that I ·shall be placed in a neat, plain coffin and interred at least six feet under ground."

After purchasing additional, extensive property he wrote a codicil to his will. He died July 21, 1837, and is now buried on the Hobbs family plot at Anchorage where his remains were removed after his illustrious son, Edward Dorsey Hobbs, bought the beautiful acreage and built the elegant old brick house that is standmg today 90 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS surrounded by magnificent evergreens of all varieties. The love of trees was a family trait; Edward Dorsey's son, Tarleton Craig, was honored by the town of Anchorage for the planting of many beautiful shade trees. Susan E., daughter of Basil Nicholas Hobbs, married Alfred Luckett, who was bom in Loudon County, Virginia, May 12, 1801. Among their children were: Basil Nicholas, Eveline, and Ludwell Dangerfield Luckett who fell at the battle of Chaplin Hills, Kentucky, October 8, 1862, within cannonading sound of his home. Ludwell joined Company C of the Fifteenth Regiment of Kentucky Volunteers when the Civil War began and was only twenty years old at the time of his death. Edward Dorsey Hobbs, engineer, legislator, railroad president, farmer, and horticulturist, was born November 16, 1810, and was educated in Middletown at the private school conducted by Lawrence Young. One day the apt young engineer was surveying some land near Middle­ town when he saw a boy in a field plowing a crop. He needed a rod.man and asked the boy if he could help him: The boy replied that he could as soon as he finished his plowing. When they had worked together for several hours, the boy's Kentucky hospitality led to an invitation to dinner and Hobbs readily accepted. The home proved to be that of Samuel L. Henning, the boy's father. Here Edward Dorsey was introduced to Susan, the lovely daugh­ ter, and there was love at first sight. This infatuation grew and soon they were married, December 4, 1832. Un­ fortunately Susan lived only three years thereafter and left no children. Edward Dorsey Hobbs' second wife, Mary Craig, whom he married October 8, 1839, was the daughter of John Dyer and Ann Tarleton Craig of Georgetown, Kentucky. FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 91

Among their children were: Basil Nicholas II, Sidney Johnson, Edward Dorsey Il, and Tarleton Craig. Basil Nicholas II, a young man of great promise and a captain in the Civil War in Company F of the Fifteenth Regiment, Kentudq Volunteer Cavalry, died April 30, 1864, at the age of twenty-one, in a camp near Chattanooga. For many years Tarleton Craig operated a general store in Anchorage on the site of the present post office. All of the sons were honored citizens of Anchorage where descendants are still living, including the family of John R. McConnell whose wife, Isabelle, is the daughter of Edward Dorsey Hobbs II. Anr.horage, offspring of Middletown, was first known as Hobbs Station. The flag stop on the Louisville and Frankfort Railway Company of which Edward Dorsey Hobbs 'I was president from 1855 to 1867 was named in his honor. CCHobbs" appears on a map as late as 1865 in the Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, showing Sher­ man's marches through Kentucky and Georgia. In spite of the fact that the Hennings, the Hughes, the Williamsons, and others were there a half century before his entrance upon the scene, Edward Dorsey Hobbs I, may be considered the founder of Anchorage. His forceful personality, moral integrity, and business sagacity won for him a place of esteem in public life. He was associated with the Metho­ dist Episcopal Church and was influential in the organi:za­ tion of that denomination in Anchorage. He erected on his own property a beautiful church building of Gothic architecture. He set the precedent for the preservation of the natural beauty of the- undulating acreage which is Anchorage. He enhanced Nature's gift of vegetative glory wherever possible by plantings and by cultivation. His homeplace is a heavenly retreat for the appreciative guest or dweller. Here he died on September 6, 1888. He is buried on the family plot amidst the trees he loved so well. 92 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

HORD Edward T. Hord married Mary Ellen Jackson by whom he had three daughters: Mildred, who died in youth, Jane, and Frances, who was married to Robert S. Mitchell on December "24, 1871. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Hord married Lucy Ann Perkins by whom he had a son, William L. Hord. Edward T. Hord and later, his son, William, operated the Hord Hotel on the comer of Main Street and the Middletown-Anchorage Road. (See account of old hostelries.)

}ONES I William J. Jones, the fust of the Jones family of Mid- dletown, came here from Indianapolis with his wife, Lue Burch who was reared in Henry County, Kentucky. ·Mr. Jones, who was the village blacksmith, plied his trade in a shop which stood on the site of the Henry Frank garage building. Here each week day, from sunrise to sunset, he swung his heavy sledge before the flaming forge. On Sunday he attended religious se.rvices with his family who were members of the Christian Oiurch. Longfellow's .poem, "The Village Blacksmith," is an excellent delinea­ tion of his personality. It describes well his physical ap- pearance and his spi#tual inclinations.

Iturbe smith a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands;

uHis hair is crisp, and black, and long; His face is like the tan;

UHe goes on Sanday to the church, And sits among his boys."' FOUNDERS, SETILERS, OLD FAMILIES 93

Mr. Jones bought the Brengman property; he razed the tavern and built a two-story frame dwelling on the site. He was the father of nine children: Leonard, Enos, Omer, Walter, WilJiam J., Margaret, Nancy, Minnie, and Letitia. Leonard married Nellie Wood and has four living children: Wood Hiram, Margaret, Elizabeth, and WilJiaro Marion. Wood Hiram Jones married Eunice Russell, daughter of the Reverend Mr. Russell, who was pastor of the Middletown Methodist Church, 1910-1913. During the early years of his business career mercantile activities engaged Mr. Jones' attention; later he became an employee in the Railway Mail Service which has occupied his interest for about twenty years. Religiously he is affiliated with the Christian Church, where he has long served in official capacity. For several years he has been honored with the office of elder. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have established a living memorial through their cultivation of beautiful flowers which they present to their friends and town's folk on occasions of rejoicing and in sorrow or illness. The Joneses are deeply interested in all matters of civic pride and have given their time and talent through the years to the accomplishment of many worthy enterprises. Margaret, daughter of Leonard Jones, married Lewis Clark McDonald, who was associated with Henry Frank in the construction business. The McDonalds are interested in matters of public moment and have fraternal connections with the Masonic Order and Eastern Star. Elizabeth Jones married C.R. Mathias, who had busi­ ness connections with the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company. William Marion Jones married Jean Roth and is the sole member of the Leonard Jones family with progeny. His children are: Jean Eleanor, wife of Robert Keeling; William Marion II, Matthew Joseph, Leonard Francis, and Barbara F10rence. William Jones is engaged in construction work. 94 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Enos Jones married Lucy Dalton and to them were born three children: Douglass and Wallace, both of whom are engaged in business in the South, and Clara, who became the wife of Fulton Wheeler. The Wheelers have seven children: Martha Dalton, Forrest Alvin, Franklin Jones, Dorothy Lee, Jo Een, Betty Jean, and Wallace Fulton. Omer Jones was united in· marriage to Nancy Miller, the daughter of James Breckinridge Miller of Anderson County and Sally Wilhoit of Woodford County. To this union were boi:n two sons: Wilhoit, who married Catherine Hassler, and has a daughter, Judith; Thomas Howell, who married Ruth Schindler. Two generations of Jones carpenters have left enduring evidence of their handiwork. The three brothers, Leonard, Enos, and Omer, were members of the Henry Frank con­ struction crew. Since Mr. Frank's passing they have worked independently, and now sons of these Jones brothers are continuing the family tradition. Margaret, daughter of William J. Jones, married Robert Blumer of Shelby County and to this union were born four sons, John, William, Charles, and Robert. Nancy Jones was united in marriage with Thomas Hoke of Jefferson­ town. Her daughter, Mary, was the wife of. Claud Tatchell, son of John Tatchell. Minnie Jones married Lawrence Cox. Their children are Ethel and Edgar. Letitia Jones was united in marriage with Henry Frank, a great construction engineer and a prominent and esteemed citizen of Middletown. They were the parents of two children: Henry, and Catherine who married George Knoeller. To the Knoellers were born a daughter, Letitia Ann, and a son, George Henry. FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 95

JORDAN Thomas Lee Jordan and wife, Mary Waring, came from Ceredo, West Virginia, to Middletown in 1865 and bought the Joseph Able farm, which consisted of 350 acres im­ proved by a brick house. Captain Early owned the place at that time. The house was built after 1803, and is still well preserved. Thomas Lee Jordan was born in Green­ brier County, Virginia. His first wife was Matilda Kilgore of Ceredo, now a part of Huntington, West Virginia. Thomas Lee Jordan and Matilda Jordan had two children, Emma and Robert Jordan. Emma married John Downey of Middletown and they had four children, Ruth, Ella, Charles, and Lee. Robert remained a bachelor. Thomas Lee Jordan's second wife was Mary Waring of Greenup, Kentucky. There were four children from this marriage: Edward, Sallie, Mary, and James.· Sallie married James R. Bullock of Louisville and Mary married Tal Pearce of Todd's Point, Kentucky. The Pearces were the parents of one son, Robert, who married Evelyn West of Crestwood, Kentucky. Edward remained a bachelor. James Jordan married Ada Miller of Louisville. They are the parents of one child, Mary Waring, who married Lewis B. Herrington of Louisville. James Basil Jordan was born at Middletown where he has spent the most of his life. He attended private schools here and at Anchor­ age and was a student at the University of Kentucky. He was graduated from the Louisville College of Dentistry in 1900, and taught there for fifteen years. He was a practicing dentist in Louisville for twenty-two years. In 1912 he and his family moved to the Bull home which was built in 1859, and is located on the south side of Main Street in the east end of Middletown. Here Dr. Jordan practiced dentistry for nearly twenty-two years; he retired 96 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

August 1, 1944. ·The Jordans are members of the Presby- terian 0iurch. · Ada Miller Jordan was bom in Louisville and educated L.'l the public schools there and at the Bellewood Seminary at Anchorage. She was married to Dr. Jordan on April 28, 1904. Their daughter, Mary Waring, attended the Anchorage High School and the University of Kentucky and is active in club work in Louisville, including the Younger Woman's Club and the John Marshall Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Dr. Jordan is a highly respected and dearly loved man with a nne sense of humor and a ready story from a rich repertory. He is every inch a gentleman, with a kind and gracious manner. He has an avid intellectual interest in many subjects and is an inveterate reader. He kept him­ self informed on the latest developments in his profession and regularly attended all of the dental association meet­ ings. ~e has always had interesting and pr~fitable hobbies such as raising bees, cultivating peach, apple, and cherry orchards, and gardening.

KEEN Henry Keen, born August 28, 1818, a descendant of an early Middletown family, was the father of six sons who were born and reared in Middletown: Robert, James, Jeff­ erson Davis, John, Oiarles, and Luther who died in earl:f manhood. Unusual as it may appear, all of the sons had connections with the Louisville and Nashville Railway Company. They married and lived in Louisville where desceadaots now reside. Robert, James, and Jefferson Davis were conductors, a coveted position in railroading. Captain Jefferson Davis Keen I, bom in 1867, a remarkable roan who rapidly attained a position of trust and confi­ dence, was first a brakeman and served only eleven months FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 97 before being named conductor. With no assets save un­ abating energy~ unflagging determination, and intelligence he made his way in the world. With an avid interest in self-improvement Captain Keen studied law and was ad­ mitted to the bar, but his fondness for trains and railroad­ ing held ~ to that post until his death in 1934. He is buried in the Middletown Cemetery. The Keens were members of the Christian Church. John and Charles Keen rose from positions of minor importance to the responsible office of engineer. Charles Keen was the father of Ruth, Emmett, and Jefferson Davis. Jefferson D. Keen II has held an important position with the Kentucky Central Life and Accident Insurance Com• pany for more than a quarter- of a century. He married first _Mary Frye, now deceased. They had a daughter, Mary O'Neal. His second wife is Elizabeth Jane De­ Mumbrum. The Keens live in Louisville.

LAWRENCE Ties of blood and love have bound the Lawrence and Dorsey families to each other for more than three hundred years. Together they emigrated &om England to Virginia in 1635 and together they moved to Maryland in 1649 and together one branch of each family caqie to Kentucky in 1802. Lieutenant Benjamin Lawrence, born in 1741 and· veteran of the American Revolution, was the ancestor of the Middletown Lawrences. He married Urith Randall Owings and they had eight children, including the two sons, Samuel and Leaven, and a daughter, Susannah who married Edward Dorsey and journeyed with her familie.s to Jefferson County. Travel one hundred fifty years ago through the wilderness was not so safe and comfortable as it is in our day with air-conditioned cars, overstuffed seats, and smooth, hard-surfaced roads. But our pioneer ances- 98 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS tors were made of stem stuff and endured the trials without quailing. Benjamin, a man of wealth and prominence, could afford the best that the times offered. For the peril­ ous journey from Maryland to Kentucky, a distance of about eight hundred miles, Benjamin selected Simon, one of his most reliable and trusted Negro servants, to drive the carriage in which his wife and children rode. Al­ though only a lad of fourteen at that time, Simon had al­ ready passed the six-foot mark in stature and was mature for his age. He was fully capable of caring for and guard­ ing the family. After experiencing many exciting ad­ ventures along the way the long and arduous journey was finally ended and Simon arrived safely in Jefferson C.Ounty with his precious passengers. Here Benjamin Lawrence settled on a tract of 1,800 acres and built a comfortable house embosomed in a grove of trees. The new home proved to be such a happy and beautiful haven that the family named it "Eden.n Ben­ jamin died here in 1814 at the age of seventy-three and was laid to rest in the midst of the sublimity of his vast estate. "Eden" was located on the La Grange Road about six miles east of Louisville. Samuel Lawrence, who was born in 1765, married Sarah Hobbs and lived on the beautiful estate now called the Sherman Klein place which is approached by a stone bridge and a tree-lined driveway. They had three children: Urith, who married James Brown, the father of Theodore and Arthur Brown; Benjamin II and Elias Dorsey Lawrence, who became esteemed citizens and prosperous merchants of Louisville. In 1817 Samuel was appointed commissioner by the Lexington and Louisville Turnpike C.Ompany to sell stock in Middletown for the construction of the proposed new road. He died on September 17, 1822, at his home in Middletown and was buried in the FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 99 family plot on what is now called Douglass Hill. His wife and son, Elias Dorsey, both of whom died in 1828, were buried beside him. The bodies were exhumed in 1934 and reburied on the James Brown family plot on Brown's Lane at St. Matthews. Samuel's estate of 479 acres was divided into two parts in 1829 by commissioners, Lee White, WiHiam C. Bullitt, Jacob Frederick, John Whips, and John Peay. Urith Brown and Benjamin Lawrence were allotted 258 acres and Joshua Fry Lawrence, infant son of Elias Dorsey, received 220 acres including the homestead at Middletown. Fry Lawrence, as the Middle­ town folk called him, was the last of the Lawrences to live here. He was a scion of Joshua Fry and of Dr. Thomas Walker, who was an intimate friend of George Washing­ ton and the guardian of Thomas Jefferson. The Lawrences owned extensive property in Middle­ town, in Jefferson County, ~d in Louisville and were prominent in all worthy civic enterprises. Leaven Lawrence was one of the Trustees of Middletown in 1805, and his nephew, Benjamin II, was a trustee of Hope Seminary in 1819. There are descendants of Benjamin Lawrence I living in Louisville, Bullitt County, St. Matthews, and elsewhere. Among them is Letitia Lawrence (Mrs. F. Arnold Grever), the granddaughter of Joshua Fry Lawrence of Middletown. It is remarkable and beautiful that the Lawrence-Dorsey bonds should endure for more than three centuries. Today Letitia Lawrence and Sally Dorsey (Mrs. Oiarles G. Fust) are neighbors, living on the same street in Louisville. Letitia·s two sons, Jerome Lawrence and Francis Arnold are companions of Sally's two daughters, Marie Louise and Elizabeth Herndon Fust. Simon, the Negro coachman, faithfully served three generations of Lawrences. He lived to the remarkable age of 110 years and throughout his life was an extraordinary ioo MmoLEToWN;s DAYs AND DEEDS figure. Always striking in appearance with his giant physique, Simon was unique in old age with long snow­ white hair reaching to his shoulders. He liked fine clothes and jewelry which the Lawrences fondly provided. Though he served several masters he must have been partial to Samuel for he was buried at the feet of "Marse Samuel" and ccMissus Sarah" in the old graveyard atop Douglass Hill. As time passed the elder Lawrences died and the younger ones moved away. Nature unmolested ran riot over the neglected burial plot. A seed fell one day on Simon's grave and the warm moist earth joyfully embraced it. The days and the nights came and went and there was a mysterious quickening with leaves shooting upward and roots probing downward. Again the years rolled by until on another day a majestic tree waved its arched branches gracefully over the head of Simon's grave. When Simon's body was exhumed in 1934 the tree was felled and his mammoth skull lay clutched possessively by the grasping tree roots. His long leg bones, some bits of satin lining from his elegant burial coat, and pieces of his imperishable jewelry were the only remaining fragments and final tokens of Simon's span of life on this earth.

MARl>ERS Nathan Marders, an early emigrant from Virginia, was born in 1772 and died in 1862. His son, Jefferson Marders, was born in Jefferson County, June 12, 1803. Jefferson was a farmer early in life but eventually entered the mer­ cantile business in Middletown where he operated a store in a stone building on the lawn of the Head place. He selected for the location of his home a superb site on a rounded ridge where he built the interesting old log house with pristine charm that is now the home of Cyrus Herbert FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 101

Bliss. The gorgeous old evergreen trees on the grounds are of his planting. He moved to Anchorage in later life and his beautiful estate, which is one of the show,..places of Middletown, has since known many· occupants, including: Josepp. Pearson, grandfather of Irma Ryan; Dr. E. T. Polk, father of Mrs. Sadie Polk Wilson; Elliott Pennybaker; and C. H. Bliss. Jefferson Marders married Ruth A. Glass, a relative of Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. Ruth was born in Mid­ dletown, July 30, 1814, and was the daughter of Joseph Glass who was born in 1779 and died in 1826. Ruth and Jefferson Marders had only one child, Eliza Jane, born September 23, 1837. Ruth Glass Marders ~ied June 29, 1859, and her husband, Jefferson, died October 11, 1876. Eliza Jane married Dr. E. A. France in 1849. Dr. France was born in Roanoke County, Virginia, in 1825, and died in 1855. They had one child, Mary A., the wife of E. C. Jones of Louisville. In a second marriage, Mrs. France (Eliza Jane Marders) became the wife of James Isaac Hite in 18 57. They lived in a red brick house which is now the nurses home of the Central Kentucky State Hospital at Lakeland. Here their three children were born: William M., Albert, and Hallie.

MAsoN Dr. L. D. Mason came to Middletown in September, 1898, from Shelby County, Kentucky. He received his ed­ ucation at the Shelbyville Military Academy, Washington and Lee University, and the College of Medicine of the University of Louisville. For five years he taught school in Oldham County during which time he also served as teachers· examiner. He began practicing medicine in Mid­ dletown in 1902. During World War I he served as heart examiner at Camp Taylor. Dr. Mason is a member of the 102 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Christian Church and of the Masonic Lodge No. 732, of which he has been treasurer for over thirty years. He holds the Thirty-second Degree of the· Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and is a highly respected and prosperous physician. His office is in his home which is a two-story frame dwelling situated on a commanding rise of ground just off Main Street. Here hundreds of people £rom near and far have received counsel and relief from the sufferings of mind and body. He has a fine sense of humor and a ready story £or his friends and patients. On September 7, 1898, Dr. Mason was married to Ruth Cox of Middletown, who came here in 1876 from Mason County, Kentucky. Her parents, Willis G. and Anna Worthington Cox, lived on "Tenbrook Farm," the Pope place, for six years and then moved to the present home of Dr. L. D. Mason, where Ruth Cox Mason lived for more than fifty years. She attended school at Judy's Hall, formerly the Jefferson Female Academy. At the age of eleven she joined the Middletown Christian Church and was a faithful member until her death in 1938. She taught a class of girls in the Bible school for more than thirty years, continµing the work of her mother who had taught for twenty years. The Masons were the parents of two children, Anna Love and Dudley. Anna Love married first Dr. A.. D. Wetherby of Middletown. To them were born two children, David and Dudley. Her second mar­ riage was to Lawrence Slattery. Following tradition, Anna is the third generation of her family to teach in the Oiris­ tian Church Bible school She has contributed to its success­ ful growth as well as to that of the ·church. She is an active member of the Middletown Civic Club and the F.astem Star. FOUNDERS, SETILERS, OLD FAMILIES 103

Dudley Mason married Violet Kilby of Louisville and to them were born three children: Ruth, Dudley, and Violet. Dudley, the son of Dr. L. D. Mason, was engaged in the mercantile business until the war came. He joined the Navy and served in the Pacific Theater. Dr. L. D. Mason was married to Mrs. Julia Orr, daugh­ ter of Mrs. Laura Spicher, July 23, 1942, at the home of Dr. Carl Crouch, Louisville, the Reverend William H. Tharp officiating.

MITCHELL Alexander H. Mitchell was born in Baltimore, Mary­ land, in 1811. He married Elizabeth McIntire in 1830 and brought his bride to Middletown. They had six children: Elizabeth, Joseph, Jenny, Susanah, Robert S., and Mary. The two sons, Joseph and Robert, fought in the Civil War. Alexander and his family lived on what is now the John Waters property, across the street from the Baptist Church. He was a building contractor by trade. His wife, Elizabeth, died about 1851, and sometime later he married a Miss Bliss. They had one daughter, Fanny. Mr. Mitchell died in 1900. Joseph Mitchell, son of Alexander Mitchell, was born in 1833 and died in 1906. He married Irene Sidner, who was born April 18, 1846, at Paris, Kentucky. They became the parents of six children: Ida, Irene, Bessie, Barbour, I.i11ian, and Elizabeth. Joseph, a carpenter, built and oc­ cupied the house now owned by Lewis Oark McDonald. Irene Mitchell, daughter of Joseph, married Eugene Her­ bert Sturgeon, son of Andrew Jackson Sturgeon. To them were born six daughters all of whom married and live in Kentucky and other states: Gladys, Vivian, Rudell, Eliza­ beth, Ida, and Eugenia.. Gladys Sturgeon married Fmmett E. Durgee and lives in Anderson, Indiana, where Mr. Dur- 104 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS gee has official business connections with General Motors Corporation. They have three daughters: Margie, Maxine, and Naomi. Robert S. Mitchell was born on July 17, 1844. When he was eighteen years .of age he ran away from home to join the Confederate Army and remained in service until the war was over. He fought under the command of Captain Love Garrett and General Simon Bolivar Buckner. On December 24, 1871, he was married to Frances Hord, who was born on August 2, 1855. They had four children: Edward Thomas, Gertrude, Julia, and Lucy Ellen. Robert S. Mitchell was employed by the Louisville and Nashville Railway Company until he met with an accident in which he lost his leg; after his recovery he became a well driller. He died on January 8, 1899. About 1904 his widow moved to Shawnee, Oklahoma, where she died on Novem­ ber 23, 1940. Gertrude Mitchell married J. E. Williams and her sister, Lucy, married J. C. Walker; both are living at Ada, Oklahoma. Edward T. Mitchell married Fanny Roman and they had two children: James Robert and Max, both of whom married and live ·in Oklahoma. They are active members of the Christian Oiurch, following the faith of their mother who was a loyal worker in the Middletown Oiristian Oiurch. In 1943 they made a memorial gift to her church in the form of a church register. Edward Mitchell was employed by the Jefferson County Road De­ partment for many years. His second wife was the former Mrs. Matilda Malcolm. He died suddenly on August 25, 1945, at his home in Middletown.

MORSE Benjamin Franklin Morse was born in Berkshire Coun­ ty, Massachusetts, in 1809, and was reared in Ashtabula FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 105

County, Ohio, where his father, the Reverend Elias Morse, was a Methodist minister, founding that faith there. Ben­ jamin Franklin Morse came to Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1836. He married Elizabeth House, daughter of Simeon House, a strict Kentuclgr Methodist. For several years he was in the mercantile business and later engaged in farm­ ing on seven hundred acres of good land. There were two thousand trees in his orchard. His original home was located on the south side of u.·s. Highway 60 within a few yards of the town limits. In 18 53 he sold the log house and 315 acres of ground to John Downey, who had the house weatherboarded and enlarged. Mr. Morse built a new home for his family on the site of the present home of Mrs. Demint English. The house burned shortly after being built.and valuable silver, mirrors, and furniture were destroyed. Mr. Morse built, on the same site, the present ten-room house which is located on the north side of U. S. Highway 60 about one mile east of Middletown. Here the Morses lived for about fifty years. They died in this house and were buried in the family plot near the original Morse home. The only living child of Benjamin Franklin and Eliza­ beth Morse is Mary Elizabeth Morse English now ( 1945) eighty-seven years of age. She married Demint English, son of Colonel Samuel English, a noted lawyer and mem­ ber of the Kentucky Legislature for about thirty years. Demint and Mary had only one child, Morse English who married first, Grace Miller. Their daughter, Anita, married and lives in Pittsburgh. Morse,s second wife was Sally Orr; to them were born two children, Thieman and Nellie. Sally English died in 1945 and Mr. English lives in Louis­ ville with his daughter, Nellie. Mary Elizabeth Morse English is the great-niece of the famous inventor Samuel Finley Breese Morse ( 1791-1872), whose picture, hanging on her parlor wall, shows him wear- 106 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS ing eight of the medals he received at home and abroad iii honor of his invention of the magnetic telegraph. An in- _ temational gift of $80,000 was presented to the inventor in 1858 at the instance of Napoleon ID, and in 1871 a bronze statue was erected in his honor in New York City. The American progenitor of the English family-of Ken­ tucky was .Sir Thomas English who emigrated from Eng­ land about 1650 and settled in Virginia. He married Kirura O'Loch, daughter of an Irish family of nobility. His great grandson, Elisha English, married Sally Wharton, who was the great-great-granddaughter of King Philip of Spain, and a descendant of Louis XIV of France. Elisha and Sally migrated to Kentucky where they lived for many years and later moved to Illinois. Elisha English died in Louisville in 1856 at the home of one of his sons. Samuel English, one of Elisha's eleven sons, married Nancy· De­ mint. Their son, Demint English, was the father of Morse English.

MYERS Jacob Myers, owner of half of Middletown before its establishment, was a great land speculator. He patented many thousands of acres in Jefferson County and in other parts of Kentucky. He came tc Kentucky region in 1782, patented a large tract of land on Slate Creek, a branch of _ I.ickiog River, in what is now Bath County, and nine years later began the construction of a small furnace. The next year operations were begun and continued for fifty years. This valuable industry in the western wilderness supplied the settlers with pots and pans and began supplying the U. S. Navy in 1810 with cannon balls and grape shot. It contributed to the defeat of the British at New Orleans in 1815! FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 107

Jacob Myers' obituary in the Kentucky Gazette mentions a store which he operated in Lexington at the time of his death and states that- at one time he was held captive by the Indians. In Littell! s Laws, December 20, 1802, we find:

"An act authorizing the appointment of commis­ sioners to settle the claims of the creditors -of Jacob Myers, deceased. His executors having refused to undertake the ex~torship, this act authorizing the county courts in which his creditors reside, to appoint three commissioners to state and certify to the clerk of quarter session court, the accounts which might be brought before them."

PEARCY Henry Pascal Pearcy, prominent citizen and merchant of Middletown for about forty years, was born at Fisherville, Kentucky, on June 16, 1876. He was the son of Nicholas and Sarah Jane Ross Pearcy, who came to Fisherville in 1873 from Seymour, Indiana, where Nicholas Pearcy owned and operated a flour mill. He bought another mill at Fisherville which he operated until 1886 when he moved to a mill at Eastwood, Kentucky. Here he remained until his death. The children of Nicholas and Sarah Jane Ross Pearcy were: John, who married Kate Reubelt; Edward, who married Hattie Winstanley; Frank, who married Anna Brengmao; Henry, who ~ Eli:iabeth Wood; Jennie, who married Edward Tucker; America, who married James Driskell; and Carrie, who married Nicholas Kincaid. All of the children were pedagogues at one time or another. Henry taught at Pope T,.idc and Edward taught at East­ wood. John was the headmaster of a· private school in 108 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Campbellsburg, Kentucky, and was assisted by one of his sisters. Henry Pearcy has been a devoted Christian since early youth. He united with the Fisherville Christian Church in 1890 and the Middletown Christian Church in 1900. He served as superintendent of the Christian Sunday school for twelve years, beginning in 1918. He was chosen elder of the church in 1920 ·and has been a faithful servant and benefactor. With his happy, friendly approach, he has welcomed many people into the church and is influential i11 its forward movement. On August 5, 1896, he married Elizabeth Wood, daughter of William Benjamin and Laura Waters Wood. Elizabeth was educated in the private schools of Middletown and at Bellewood Seminary. They had seven children: Lucille, who married Edward Schind­ ler; Laura; Louise, who married Wesley Gilbert Brooks; Henry, who died in 1925 at the age of seventeen; Angeline, v.rho married Melville King. Angeline was killed in an automobile accident near the Methodist parsonage in Mid­ dletown on May 2, 1943; William and John died in early childhood.

POULTER James Poulter, an early member of the Poulter family, died in 1829 leaving two slaves to William D. Poulter, and one slave each to John Poulter, Harvey Gregory, and infant heirs. The Poulter brothers, Squire and Allen, were kinsmen of the pioneer James. _ In the late 1850~s Squire Poulter operated a hack be­ tween Middletown and Hobbs Station, Anchorage, to meet the trains of the Louisville and Frankfort Railway. An amusing story is told of the mare that helped pull the back.

She had foaled a colt, and the little fellow was « running his legs off~ keeping up with the back on its trips. One FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 109 day a gentleman at Hobbs Station looked at the tired little animal, then turned to the Squire and said; «Squire, that colt is about to run itself to death. What will you take for him?" "Ten dollars," promptly replied the Squire. UAll right, I'll take him." Edward D. Hobbs was the buyer of the colt, which was appropriately named "Ten Dollars." Allen Poulter was the father of ten children: Davis, Henry, William, James, Edward, Alice, Ida, Carrie, Mollie, and Lelia. The three members of this family still living in Middletown are: Lloyd, the son of William Poulter; Edward Poulter, and his son, Edward; and Ida Poulter Yeager. Two generations of Poulters have been successful painting contractors. The family is affiliated with the Christian Church.

ROMAN John S. Roman, the first of the Romans in Middletown, was the father of James M. Roman. James married Eliza­ beth McClain. Among their children were: John, who married Annie Swan; Walter, who married Mary Powell; Nannie, who married L. Perry Arterburn; James, who was unmarried; Edward, who married I.illie Buchannan and had one son, Hubert; and Fannie, who married Edward Mitchell. Walter married Mary Powell and lived in the house that is now the property of the Middletown Fire Depart­ ment. His wife was gifted with a fine singing voice which was inherited by the daughters, Elizabeth and Doris, who sing in the Ouistian Oiurch choir and whose talent is often requested for a variety of programs and special religious services. The children of Walter and Mary Roman were: Mary, who died in 1929; Elizabeth, who married Roger S. 110 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Waters, -son of John and Nannie Waters and has a son, Kenneth; Lucille, who married B. S. Lyvers and lives at St. Matthews with their two children, Marilyn and Robert Berkley Lyvers; Walter, who married Hazel Rose and has two children, Lois Page and Mary Lou Roman; Austin, who married Bessy Stivers and has no children; Doris, who married Oiarles Phelps, barber in Middletown, and has ,a son, Warren, now serving in the Navy; Leslie, who died at the age of seventeen as a result of a hunting trip. He had scarcely left his house when his gun discharged as he was climbing a fence within sight of the house. The family searched vainly for him all day. He was discovered by William B. Wood who was on his way to the barn to do the evening milking. Forrest, son of Leslie, died in infancy.

SPICHER Schweinfurth, a celebrated German family dating back to 791, gave its name to the town which became famous for its manufactures of steel balls and dies. The Schwein­ furth factory, engaged in supplying vital war materials, was the first industrial plant of Germany to be bombed in World War IL Laura Spicher, daughter of Catherine Schweinfurth, is a descendant of this renowned German family. Her mother was born in Weingarten, Baden, and married Frederick Moser, a native of Switzerland. They h:Yed in that country until 1873 when the family emigrated to America where La.~a later met and married Jacob Spicher, a fellow Swiss. The Spichers lived in Louisville until 1890 when Jacob bought the old Morse farm from Major John Downey and moved with his family to Middle­ town. In 1925 they took up their residence in their newly built red brick home on Main Street. Jacob and Laura FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 111

Spicher had six children: Lillie, Irene, Frederick, Ju1ia, Frances, and Catherine. Lillie married C. 0. Collard and lived in Illinois. They had two children. Frederick and F ranees die4 in youth. Irene, who is unmarried, conducts an exclusive tourist court on U. S. Highway 60, east of Middletown. · Julia married first Edward Orr, who was the railway dispatcher at H-K tower in Anchorage for about thirty-five years. He built a substantial home in the east end of town v.'here they lived until his death in 1940. Julia's second marriage was to Dr. L. D. Mason in 1942. Catherine mar­ ried Forrest M. Raley and has two children, Martha and Forrest Porter, who is a captain in the Army serving in Europe. The Spichers and Raleys are active members of the Christian Church. Mrs. Spicher, handsome at eighty, has long been a faithful member of the Ladies Aid Society. She has charge of the quilting which is a source of income for the society. Besides being an important officer of the church for many years, Forrest Raley is a member of the Masonic Lodge No. 732 and of the Gvic Chib. He lives on Main Street in the Spicher home which he recently bought.

SPROWL Dr. R. V. Sprowl was bom at O,arleston, Indiana, on January 8, 1820. He received a liberal education and was graduated from the Louisville Medical University. When quite young he moved to Middletown, where he practiced medicine until 1869. On March 30, 1845~ he married Mary R. Vance who was bom in Jefferson County. She was the daughter of Dr. Robert G. Vance, another early doctor of Middletown. Dr. Sprowl lived at the Old Inn which he bought in 18(,(). He had two sons, Edward and Clarence. 112 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

TARBELL Ruth Whittier was born in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1810. She was the daughter of Obadiah and Sarah Whittier, and a double cousin to the poet, John Greenleaf Whittier; their mothers were sisters and their fathers were brothers. Ruth Whittier married Dr. Shoot and had a daughter, Addie Mae. By a second marriage Ruth became the wife of Alpha Tarbell, a schoolteacher, who in later life was extensively engaged in stock buying. He lived on the farm adjacent to the Middletown Cemetery. He died in 1868 at the age of sixty-four years. Two of his children were: Maria, and Ruth who married Allen Blankenbaker. Mrs. Tarbell was a talented artist and musician, and a portrait painter of considerable note. Many of the people of Middletown were her subjects, including two of her friends, Mrs. Margaret Kane and Mrs. Ann Bull. Among her pictures which are still in Middletown are the portraits of her daughter, Mrs. Allen Blankenbaker, and her grand­ daughter, Mrs. L. P. Wetherby, and a painting of the Battle of Bull Run. THARP The ancestor of the Tharps in Middletown was the Reverend William Tharp I, who was born April 9, 1817, about six miles from New Castle in Henry County, Ken­ tucky. He began preaching at the age of twenty-three, pro­ claiming the doctrine of the Disciples of Quist. In 1841 he met Alexander Campbell at New Castle and formed a friendship with him which lasted until Campbell's death in 1866. He retired &om active ministry at the age of eighty­ nine after having spent sixty-six years in continuous service, establishing churches in Kentucky and Indiana and doing evangelistic work. He preached a sermon in the Middle­ town Oiristian Church at the age of nin~-five, the last FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 113 year of his life. He delivered the message sitting in a chair, for he had grown weak in body although he was still alert in mind. He died June 11, 19i2, enjoying the distinction of being the oldest Christian Minister in the world. He first married Eliza Batts, who died in 1855. Their son, Chris­ topher, married Jennie Harris. Christopher and Jennie had four children: Daisy, Bertie, Blanch, and Elizabeth. Eliza­ beth married Oscar Swan and had five sons. Bertie mar­ ried William Fairfax of Tucker Station and had two children, Camilla and Marvin. Cami1la married Marvin King and had a son, James. She and her mother are faith­ ful members of the Middletown Christian Church, where Camilla has taught in the Sunday school for many years. Marvin Fairfax married and lives with his family in Louis­ ville. In 1857 the Reverend William Tharp married Martha Cox of Shelby County and came to Middletown . to live. He had three sons by this marriage: Wallace, John, and William. Two of his sons, Wallace and William, were ministers of the Disciples of Christ. The Reverend Wal­ lace Tharp was pastor of the First Christian Church of Pittsburgh for many years. His last pastorate was a church in Birmingham, Alabama. Here he died in De­ cember, 1929; his remains were returned to his native state for interment in the Middletown Cemetery. As a tribute to his glorious years of service in their parish, the church of Pittsburgh erected a monument at his grave. It bears the inscription, ~unie angel touched his lips with a coal from the altar.,. He was a master of oratory, an eloquent speaker. John, the second son of the Reverend William Tharp I, married Annie Blankenbaker of Middletown. They had four children, two of whom live in Middletown: John Whittier I, who married Pauline Hinkle and has one son, John Whittier II; Martha, who married Roy Clark and has 114 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

a son, John WilJiam, serving in the Army_ Air Corps; May Bert, who married Charles Schoppenhorst, and has a daugh­ ter, Dorothy Bert; WiJJiaro, who married and lives in Louis­ ville. Reverend WiJliam Tharp II is an able speaker with a pleasing voice. He was the pastor of the Beargrass Chris­ tian Church of St. Matthews for many years and is now re­ tired. He married Lillian Mayo and they have three chil­ dren: Ralph, Catherine, and Gilbert. Ralph married and has a family in Louisville. He is a major in the Army serving in the Pacific area. Catherine married Ronald Hawley of New ·York and lives in Georgia. They have one daughter, Judith. Gilbert was a musician in the East until the war claimed him; he is now serving in the Navy.

VANCE The V ances were prominent in the civic and social life of Middletown. Joseph Vance was one of Middletown's trustees in 1799. The Reverend Jatnes Vance, Presbyterian minister, officiated at many of the weddings and marriages in Middletown. His name appears frequently in the Jeff­ erson County marriage records. His son, Dr. Robert C. Vance, married Harriet Hobbs, daughter of Mary Hobbs of Middletown. Harriet was born in 1809 and died in 1868; Dr. Vance was born May 21, 1800, and died January 18, 1859. The Vances are buried in the Middletown Cemetery.

WATERS Major Waters, veteran of the War of 1812, was born February 7, 1777, and came to Kentucky from Baltimore about 1800. His father, an Irish immigrant owned valu­ able property in New York City from which he amassed a FOUNDERS, SETILERS, OLD FAMILIES 115 fortune. Major Waters first lived in the Eight-Mile House, the old stone house on the north side of U. S. Highway 60, eight miles from Louisville. He kept store in the stone house and lived in a frame annex at the rear. On Novem­ ber 18, 1809, he married Patsy Wells, daughter of Samuel Wells, a pioneer. In a second marriage December 16, 1819, he was united with Rachel Sullivan, daughter of Jeremiah Sullivan, one of the first settlers of Jefferson County. Their children were: William, Robert Sullivan, Fu.rdman, George, Minor, Wineford, Catherine, and Emeline. Major Waters owned several lots in Middletown. He moved here from the Eight-Mile House and built a home on the site of H. P. Pearcy's store. The large two-story log house had a long double two-story front porch that reached to the street. Here ccGrannie,,, as Mrs. Waters was called, used to sit, wearing a lace cap on her head, smoking a clay pipe, and feeding the birds. She could remember when the settlers of Louisville fought Indians and bears, and came to Middletown to buy salt and provisions. She died on August 1, 1888, at the great age of ninety-four, having survived her husband thirty-four years, during which time she received a pension first of eight dollars a month and later of twelve ~ollars. Major Waters, who had lived in the Eight-Mile House, fell dead in the door­ way of the Twelve-Mile House, June 9, 1854, after visiting with his daughter, Catherine Able. Major and his wife are buried in the Middletown Cemetery. Robert Sullivan Waters, son of Major Waters, was born in Jefferson County in 1827. He married Elizabeth Hudson, daughter of John Hudson and Mary Bohannon. Elizabeth was born on May 28, 1832, in Henry County, three miles from Smithfield. One of her grandfathers, who was French born, was a Baptist minister. Robert Sullivan Waters was a merchant; his first store was lo- 116 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS cated on the site of the Phelps barber shop in the little log building that had housed the post office. Captain Moses Dear was the postmaster whom Robert shortly succeeded. His second store was another log building located on the comer where Hunfs Market now operates. Here Robert had the fust local telephone and for several years it was the only one in Middletown. · The first home of Robert Sullivan and Elizabeth Waters was the weatherboarded log house now owned by the Ar­ ringtons. The front room of this house was at one time a cigar factory. Robert added four rooms, all in a row; also he built a log house on the present garden spot. He had three children: Laura Virginia, Arthur, and Lela. When the children reached maturity and began to think of marriage, Robert and his wife moved to the log house now owned by the Long family, where they remained until death. Robert Sullivan Waters died March 16, 1909, and his wife, Elizabeth Hudson, died November 16, 1920. They are buried in the Middletown Cemetery. "Uncle Bob,". as he was affectionately called by his many friends, was an amicable soul who loved people and sought their companiqnship. He was one of five men who organized Masonic Lodge No. 732. He attended many social functions, usually_ as the musician. His talent was sought for the dances at Davis Tavern and throughout the countryside. When Uncle Bob was a boy learning to play the violin his father sent him to the barn to practice. He became a fine musician; his prized Stradivarius lulled its listeners with sweetest melody or tickled the toes with infinite merriment. He was a delight not only to his family and friends but to the public as welL Laura Waters was born May 30, 1851, in Louisville, where her parents resided for six weeks. She married William Benjamin Wood and had five children. The two still living are William Harlan Wood and Elizabeth Wood FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 117

Pearcy. Wi1 liam Harlan was born at his grandfather· s home in the front room which was once a cigar factory. Arthur Waters married Rose Zimmerman and took her as a bride to his father's first home and here Arthur lived until his death. He and Rose had one child, Irvin, who married Ruby Holman in 1932. They have a daughter, Barbara Jean. Lela Waters was born in the front room of the cottage next to H. P. Pearcy' s store. She married Murry S. Kline and lived on the beautiful farm west of O. S. Kline's fuie place. They had one child, Sherman, who married Hilde­ garde Stoesser. Sherman Kline died in the summer of 1943 from an attack of appendicitis. He is survived by four sons. George Waters, son of Major Waters, lived in a frame house on the site of the William Benjamin Wood home. William Waters, merchant son of Major Waters, lived in his father, s house and kept store in one of the front rooms. Minor Waters, son of Major Waters, married Margaret Wells, scion of one of the first families in Kentucky. As early as 1781, Samuel Wells was active in civil affairs in Jefferson County. He served as one of the first trustees of Middletown in 1797. Minor and Margaret Waters, nine children were: George ( 1848-1922), Sarah ( 1849-1913), Lawrence {1851-1930), Rachel (1852-1922), Edward (1854-1921), Alice {1856--), Minor (1860-1940), John (1864-1945), and Thomas (1867-1943). Rachel Waters married Matthew Peter Forster who was bom in England in 1845. He was chief mechanical engi­ neer for the Monon Railway Company and was stationed in Louisville for several years where his sons, Robert Minor and Lawrence Herbert, were bom. Robert Minor, who now lives in Florida, married Mable Morrison of Atlanta and has three children: Bruce, Faith, and Glenn. The Forster family lived in .Atlanta for many yea.rs, where 118 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Lawrence Herbert was united in marriage to Mable Knox. They have two daughters, Elizabeth .and Dorothy. Mr. Forster is the head of the firm, L. H. Forster and Associates, Incorporated, a printing concern of Dayton, Ohio. Edward Waters, son of Minor Waters, married Theresa Wood. He built and occupied the home now owned by Richard Poulter. Among his children who are still living are William, Finley, Dewey, and Mamie. William, the only child now living in Middletown, married Maud Swann and had one child, Theresa. Their home is on Tucker Station Road near that of Ed Swann. William is a success­ ful painting contractor. John Waters, son of Minor, was always a colorful figure. As a dashing youth he wooed his bride in a hand­ some buggy drawn by a prancing steed. The buggy whip was always bedecked with a satin ribbon and John wore a tall silk hat and fine clothes in keeping. He married Nancy Eliza Cox, daughter of Dr. Henry Clay Cox, and carried her across the threshold of the little house now oc­ cupied by Mrs. Viola Caldwell; it was their love nest for several years. She is a lady, genteel and cultured, devoted to the Christian Church and still active in its work,· even though she is eighty-one years of age. She is a member of the Ladies Aid and the Missionary Society. UMiss Nan," as she is fondly called, will long be remembered for her goodness, her jolly, vivacious disposition, and her culinary art, especially the baking of delicious cakes. John and Nancy had two sons, Newland and Roger. Newland mar­ ried a girl in the :East where he established himself in business. He has always been very prosperous and pos­ sesses great business acumen.. Roger holds an important position with the Belknap Hardware c:ompany, with which he has been connected since youth. He married Elli.abeth, the daughter of Walter and Mary Roman. They have one son, Kenneth, who is in the Air Corps, World War II. FOUNDERS) SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 119

John was another member of this dynasty of Waters merchants which reigned for four generations. He con­ ducted business in the store which his father had previously operated; the building is now occupied by the Self Hard­ ware Company. He, as well as his father before him, lived in a log and frame house on the site of the present home of T. D. Self. Later in life, John Waters bought the old dwelling of Alexander Mitchell in which house he con­ tinued to live until his death in 1945. It is across the street from the Baptist Church. In more recent years John Waters was engaged in the real estate business. He was affiliated with the Christian Church and a lifelong Democrat.

WATTS Squire A. G. Watts, son of Peter Watts, a Revolution­ ary hero who came into Kentucky in 1779, was born in Boyle County, Kentucky, December 16, 1802. The Squire was educated in the common schools and at Transylvania College. He engaged in farming in various parts of Woodford and Shelby counties, managed hotels in Louis­ ville, and at one time he was active in business and trade io· Cincinnati. The Squire served as Deputy United States Marshal under Blackbum and Lane for a six-year term. In 1849 he moved to Middletown, where he was the post­ master and the proprietor of the Brengman Tavern for six years. He also taught a private school in the building of the old Brush School.

WETHERBY One languid summer's day in 1860 the dusty old stage­ coach rattled up to the long stone steps in front of Davis Tavern and a dashing youth alighted. He asked for lodg- 120 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS ing and it was readily arranged. Negroes strolled lazily along the street and occasionally some impulsive youth raced by on his prancing steed followed by great clouds of rising dust, while bearded men in beaver top-hats and long­ tailed coats loitered on the tavern porch and speculated as to the identity of the newly arrived uforeigner." The . "foreigner" found the first day so interesting that he stayed a second, then a third, and on and on, for he had fallen in love with the innkeeper's daughter. He was none other than Dr. Luther Paris Wetherby of New York, and the object of his affection was Hattie Brown. They married and lived at the tavern, where all of their children were born. Dr. Wetherby was bom in 1838 in Moira, New York. He was graduated from the Castleton Medical College in Vermont on November 27, 1857, and from the Louisville School of Medicine in 1858. He served as a surgeon in the Fifteenth Kentucky Volunteers of the Union Army and was honorably discharged on July 23, 1862. After his resignation from the army he practiced medicine in Middle­ town until his death.. The children of Dr. Wetherby and his wife, Hattie, were: Henry, Samuel David, Luther Paris, Susie, and La­ Moille. Henry married Irene Blake and had five children: Sherman, Luther, Vernon, Hattie, and Irene. Sherman married Mary Gamble and lives on Kratz Lane. They have three children: Sherman, Catherine, and C.Omelia Ruth. Luther married Clara Hite and they live on Ever­ green Avenue and have a daughter, Ivor Lois. Samuel David Wetherby followed the profession of his father and practiced medicine in Middletown until his untimely death in 1926. He was killed by a Oiesapeake and Ohio Railway train at Ayoca while attempting to cross the track. He married Fannie Y enowine and they bad four children: Alfred David, Margaret, George Schenk, FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 121 and Lawrence Winchester. Alfred David married Anna Mason, daughter of Dr. L. D. Mason and they had two children, David and Dudley. Alfred David followed the family tradition by becoming a physician. The W etherbys are truly a dynasty of doctors. Alfred David was the third generation physician and there is the prospect of a fourth in one of his sons. Dr. Alfred David Wetherby was fatally injured December 11, 1934, when his auto­ mobile was struck by a La Grange interurban car at Ever­ green Station, fourteen miles from Louisville. He is buried in the Middletown Cemetery. His death was a great loss to the town and surrounding country, for he had endeared himself to the people through his professional skill and his genial disposition. The following article appeared in the Louisville Times December 11, 1934:

''THREE FATALLY HURT WHEN CAR STRUCK BY TRAM

0 DR. A. D. WETHERBY, MIDDLETOWN, AND A MR. AND MRs. HARRIS ARE VICTIMS

0 Hit on Way to Hospital

HMen Were Bringing Woman to City for Treatment for :Earlier Mishap Injury · UA couple identified as Mr. and Mrs. Harris, who live east of Anchorage, were killed and Dr. A. D. Wetherby, Middletown, who was driving them to the Kentucky Baptist Hospital, was fatally injured at 11:45 o'clock Tuesday morning when their automobile was struck by a La Grange interurban car at Evergreen s~ fourteen miles from Louisville. 122 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

UMrs. Harris was killed outright. Mr. Harris died several minutes later as neighbors labored to ad­ minister fust aid. Dr. Wetherby was brought to the Baptist Hospital by Mrs. Wetherby, who was called by telephone. Unconscious, he was taken to the operat­ ing room at once. He died at 1 o'clock. ((Mrs. Harris suffered a broken collarbone Monday in an automobile mishap and Dr. Wetherby was bring­ ing her to Louisville to have the fracture reduced. He stopped en route at the estate of Frank J. Navin, owner of the Detroit Tigers, to treat Louise O'Donnell, daughter of Leo O'Donnell, caretaker. While in the house he mentioned to .Mr. O'Donnell that Mr. and Mrs. Harris were out in his car. ccAs Dr. Wetherby drove out of the Navin drive­ way across the interurban tracks, the interurban, at top speed, struck his car. All tlu:ee occupants of .the car were thrown out along the tracks and the automobile was dragged over 400 feet before the car could be brought to a stop. · ttJ. W. Mercer, 1118 Lexington Road, motorman, said that he did not see the automobile until he was four feet from it and had no opportunity to avert the collision. A charge of involuntary manslaughter was placed against him. UThe bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Harris lay along the roadside for some time awaiting positive identification. Mr. O'Donnell"s recollection of the information Dr. Wetherby gave him was the lone dew to their identity. Both suffered fractured skulls. Dr. Wetherby's skull was fractured at its base and he died while being pre­ pared for the operating table. UWhy Dr. Wetherby failed to realize the approach of the car could not be explained unless he had all windows closed because of cold weather, or his at- FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 12~

tention may have been distracted by conversation with the couple in the car. Evergreen Station was a point well known to him in his travels about that section and all interurban cars were required to blow their whistles on approaching. ''WETHERBY-Suddenly, Tuesday, December 11, 1934, at 12: 50 p. m., at the Kentucky Baptist Hos­ pital. Dr. Alfred D. Wetherby, in his 36th year, be­ loved husband of Anna Mason Wetherby of Middle­ town, Kentucky. Funeral Thursday, December 13, at the residence at 2 o'clock. Interment in Middletown Cemetery." Margaret Wetherby is active in civic and religious cir­ cles. She has been employed by the Louisville Gas and Elec­ tric Company for many years. The brothers, George and Lawrenc_e Wetherby, studied law and practiced in Louis­ ville. Lawrence, a graduate of the College of Law of the University of Louisville, is now serving as the first Judge of the Juvenile Court of Jefferson County. He married Helen Dwyer, daughter of Dr. W. M. Dwyer of Louis­ ville; they have three children: Lawrence Winchester ll, Sui.aooe, and Barbara Jewel Luther Paris Wetherby married Addie Mae Blanken­ baker. They are the parents of two daughters: Ruth, who married Oiester &hrader and has a daughter, Mae; and Nellie, who married Clifford Pearce and died in 1932 leav­ ing a son, Luther. Luther Paris Wetherby is a prosperous farmer and landholder of Middletown. Besides the farm on which he lives, he owns the old Davis Tavern and several tracts of land. He is the president of the Bank of Middletown and a member of the Methodist Oiurch, with which all of the W etherbys are affiliated. He has held 124 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS various church offices, and his wife, Addie Mae, formerly played the church organ and piano. Susie Wetherby married Lawrence Winchester. They had two children: Leaven Lawrence, and La Moille, who married James Floyd. The F1oyds have two children, La Moille and James. La Moille Wetherby, daughter of Dr. Luther Paris Wetherby, died in 1926 unmarried.

WHITE William White, who played such a prominent part in the founding of Middletown, came from Westmoreland County, Virginia. The earliest record that we have of this family is the will of John White, probated in October, 1763, in which he bequeathed his estate to his ten children, one of whom, James' White, born about 1712, married Sarah -- in 173 7. Their son, Daniel White, married Mary ~arders, . daughter of Samuel and Ann Rowley Marders, niece and one of the heirs of Colonel William Rowley of King George County, Virginia. Daniel and Mary White lived and died on a plantation in Westmore­ land County leaving one son, William White. He was bom March 14, 1763, and married Sarah Kitchen, January 7, 1787, the daughter and only child of Anthony and Sarah Monroe Kitchen. Sarah Monroe was a first cousin of President James Monroe, and fourth in descent from Cap­ tain Andrew Monroe of Maryland, the first settler of that name in America. William White received a l.iperal education and.in early life taught school A £~ years after his marriage he emi­ grated to Kentucky, bringing with him his wife, three children, their servants and household goods. He bought a large tract of land in Jefferson C.Ounty; later, in 1797, he laid out the town of Middletown, where he built a large and substantial residence and reared a family of ten d1il- FOUNDERS, SETILERS, OLD FAMILIES 125 dren. Having received a good education himself, he was ambitious that his children should have equal advantages and was a pioneer in the opinion that his daughters must rank with his sons in that respect. With Transylvania University at Lexington, the boys were readily provided for, but with the girls, it was a different story, since there were only the local academies, or private schools, or private governesses. Various plans were arranged for the elder daughters, but when Eliza White was ready £or higher learning she was sent to the Moravian Seminary at Beth­ lehem, Pennsylvania, which was then the only school for the higher education of women. It was the period before railroads and steamboats; so in the late summer of 1818, she started out on horseback, accompanied by her elder brother, Lee White. About three weeks wei;-e required for the trip, and once there, she remained for two years before returning home in the sum­ mer of 1820.

CHILDREN OF WILLIAM AND SARAH KITCHEN WHITE Ann Rowley b. Oct. 28, 1787, in Westmoreland Co., Va.; m. Elisha Athy, Jeff. Co. 1811; d. May 12, 1859. Jane Monroe b. Oct. 11, 1789, Westmoreland, Co., Va.; m. Dr. Joseph Glass, Nov. 24, 1808; d. July 25, 1835. Lee b. July 31, 1792, Westmoreland Ca., Va.; m. Mrs. Susan Ann Law­ rence, Jan. 10, 1833; d. June 29, 1833. Minor b. Feb. 3, 1795 in Jeff. C.0., Ky.; m. Katherine Brengrnan 1818; d. Feb. 5, 1828. 126 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Lucinda b. Feb. 18, 1797; m. Wm. Doun­ tain, Nov. 3, 1818; d. July 28, 1829. Sarah Kitchen b. March 3, 1799; m. Abram Ram­ sey, June 18, 1818; d. June 1, 1840. George Washington b. June 12, 1801; d. July 12, 1856. Eliza Johnson b. April 27, 1803; m. Lawrence Young, March 27, 1823; d. Apr. 9, 1891. Mary Marders b. Nov. 24, 1805; m. Dr. Robert Glass Vance, Mar. 18, 1824; d. Mar. 5, 1827. Elmira b. March 12, 1809; m. Thomas Suydenham.

WILLIAMSON John Williamson I came from Virginia and settled at Lynn Station in 1781. During the massacre of that year the Indians attacked the fort, killed him and his son James, a lad of thirteen, and made captive his son John II, a lad of ten. The captive son was taken that night to Middletown where he saw the scalps of his father and oldest brother stretched over a hoop to dry, and knew for the first time of their murder. The Indians made leggings of deer skins and tied them on his lacerated legs and feet with hickory bark. He remained with the Indians for four years before he made his escape. John II was adopted into the Te­ cumseh family and was taken to Oilllicothe. Once when a fair chance was given him to win his freedom by n1nning the gauntlet he failed because of a log placed at the end of the race and he was struck down by a war dub. Two Indians then plunged rum in the river for the singular pur­ pose of washing all of the white blood out of him. The FOUNDERS, SETILERS, OLD FAMILIES 127

Indians alternately dipped and ducked him until breath was gone. Then he was pronounced Indian and trained in their hunting grounds around their camp fires. He at­ tempted many times to make his escape. John II was finally purchased from the Indians for twenty-four gallons of whisky. After his return to Louis­ ville, he fought the Indians for seven years. -He was in Wayne's army and was captured in the battle of the River Raisin, taken to Detroit and burned at the stake. His daugh­ ter Elizabeth married Major Bland Ballard. His son, John III, who was born in 1796, was twice married. His second wife was Susannah Lawrence Dorsey, the widow of Edward Dorsey. John III owned two thousand acres of land which included the Chenoweth place. He operated a distillery on Floyd's Fork. He was a generous and clever man and lived to an advanced age, retaining mind and memory crystal clear. His daughter by his first wife married Bush­ rod O'Bannon.

WITHERBEE Dr. Silas 0. Witherbee came from New York to Mid­ dletown-in 1867. He bought the Benjamin Head house to which he took his bride, Marion Beynroth, and in which his three children were born. Dr. Witherbee was a friend, counselor, and physician to hundreds of people during his long practice. More than a hundred are living today who were delivered into this world by his hands. The children of Silas and Marion Witherbee are: Lucy, Etta, and Charles Luther. Lucy, who is single, lives in the interesting old stone house, one of Middletown's land­ marks, which she inherited from her father. Etta married Frank Fisher (his second wife) and has a daughter Marion, who is a graduate of Anchorage High School, and 128 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS attended Miami University. Mr. Fisher's children by his first wife are: Norwood, who married and lives in Chicago; Thomas, who married and lives iri Louisville where he practices law, and Isabelle, who married Rufus Collie King I, son of the Reverend Preston Lee King, a retired Meth­ odist minister making his home in Middletown. Isabelle and Rufus have a son, Rufus Collie King II. Charles Luther Witherbee married Nettie Linney, daughter of James W. and Viola Dugan Urton. During the early years of their marriage the-Witherbees lived on a farm on Ward Avenue where Mr. Witherbee tilled his fertile acreage. In later years he sold his land and moved to Middletown, where he built a large two-story frame dwelling. He has since engaged in small-scale farming and in house construction. The Witherbees have been lifelong members of the Methodist Church, where Mr. Witherbee has always served in official capacity. He is a public-spirited man who par­ ticipates in every worthy civic enterprise. He was partiru­ larly interested in the restoration of the Middletown Cemetety. The Witherbees have two children, Viola, who mar­ ried Dr. Sidney Dunbar, and Linney, who married Elmer Secrest The Dunbar and Secrest families live in Camp­ bellsville, Kentucky. The following is an article which appeared in the felfersonian at the time of Dr. Witherbee's d~th (1938). It was written by May Schrader, great-granddaughter of Dr. L. P. Wetherby, who was a cousin of Dr. S. 0. Wither- bee, the subject of the article: · FOUNDERS, SETILERS, OLD FAMILIES 129

UMIDDLETOWN LOSES OLD FAMILy DOCTOR

CCDR. WITHERBEE A LEADER IN His AooPTED STATE FOR MANY YEARS

"Dr. Silas 0. Witherbee, retired physician, church­ man and public benefactor passed away at his home in Middletown Monday night at the age of 91 years. "Dr. Witherbee, a gentleman truly exemplifying the· culture and refinement of his generation, a person who in his professional capacity served humanity with a sympathetic and sacrificing heart, for he was your family's and my family's country doctor many years ago, might certainly and rightfully have been known as the 'grand old man' of the Middletown community. " 'Dr. Silas,' as he was affectionately referred to by his friends and relatives, came to Middletown on March 12, 1867. He was a native of New York and was born on November 23, 1846, and received all of his elementary education in the state of his birth. Later he entered Columbia University, where he ob­ tained his degree in medicine, and he also attended Syracuse University for legal knowledge. UDr. Witherbee had had his eye on Kentucky as a new and permanent home probably due to the in­ fluence of his cousin, L. P. Wetherby, also a physician, who had come to Middletown some years previous. And so at the age of twenty-one, Dr. Silas cast his lot with the members of this little old town. In a few years his cousin retired from medical practice, and Dr. Silas hecaroe the general practitioner for this and sur­ rounding communities. Dr. Silas was a true country doctor; he weathered winter rain and snow on a faith­ ful steed over half-made trails, and so from his own experience there is no doubt that he was a great pro- 130 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

moter and advocator of good roads which he lived to see built. "Dr. Silas was a great exponent of public service in any and every line. For years, until ill health pre­ vented, he was a member of the Board of Commi~ sioners of the County Farm, serving in a secretarial capacity. He held an official position for a long time in the Middletown Methodist Church, and was a charter member of the Middletown Masonic Lodge. He was one of the organizers of the Bank of Middle­ town in 1910 and served as its first president. He has ever been held in the highest esteem and admiration by everyone who was fortunate enough to have known him. "Dr. Witherbee's children, Miss Lucy Witherbee, Mrs. Etta Fisher, and Mr. Charles Luther Witherbee are indicative of his influence as a father. ''The funeral was conducted at 10: 30 A. M. Wednesday from the Methodist Church by its pastor, Rev. B. M. Currie, assisted by a former pastor, Rev. P. L. King. Pallbearers were: Messrs. C. H. Bliss, Sherman Wetherby, Preston Schrader, Austin Roman, L. P. Wetherby and Lloyd Gates. Interment was in Middletown Cemetery."'

WOMACK John Womack, early settler and prominent citiren of Middletown, made an enduring contribution to the re­ ligious life of the community through the organization of the Middletown Christian Church in 1836. John was a free and independent thinker who had the courage to re­ nounce the established churches of his day for the new faith of Alexander umpbell and Barton W. Stone. He was the leading spirit in the establishment of the Middle- FOUNDERS, SETILERS, OLD FAMILIES 131 town church and had the distinction of serving as its first elder. He was one of a group who purchased lot No. 57 and planned the construction of a red brick church building. John Womack, born in 1781, married Sarah Boone Bryan in 1813 and built for her the elegant old brick house .at the west end of town, _now known as Douglass Place, where he lived until his death in 1859. His son, George, was the childhood sweetheart of their neighbor, Mary Chamberlain, daughter of Jason Chamberlain who came from New England. Jason built a large square house, typical of that section; it is now the home of Lloyd Gates. George owned a large sugar plantation in Louisiana from which he shipped barrels of sugar each year to Mid­ dletown. Leonard Jones remembers visitjng the W omacks with his father and being permitted td" eat sugar from the hogshead. George was a captain in t\t_ ~ivil War. His daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, married William 0. Armstrong. The Armstrong's daughter, Mrs. Eugene H. Ray of Louis­ ville, was present at the exhumation of the Womack grave­ yard in 1934. The Womack property has been owned by the follow­ ing people: John Womack, Solomon Willett, Nicholas. Finzer, James J. Douglass, W. W. and John Lewis, and George Buechel.

Woon Thomas Wood, his wife Susannah, and their nine children emigrated from Virginia. to Kentucky early in the 1800's and settled in Campbell County, where Thomas bought 1,100 acres of land on Bank Lick. His children were: Mildred, the wife of David Rush; Rebecca, the wife of William Scott; Patsy, the wife of Nelson Ellis; Mary, Hiram, Joseph, Benjamin, Samuel, and William. Hiram Wood emigrated to Harrison County where his father, 132 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS who lived with him in his declining years, died in 1834. Hiram later removed to Scott County which he represented in the Kentucky Legislature from 1855 to 1857. On Jan­ uary 31, 1817, Benjamin, who had emigrated to land on the waters of Clear Creek and Hammonds Branch in Wood­ ford County, married Martha Elizabeth Harris, the daugh­ ter of Nathaniel Harris of that county. They had two children, Mary Ann and Hiram Benjamin. In 1840 Ben­ jamin Wood moved from Woodford County to Jefferson County and bought a farm on the confines of Middletown. Hiram Benjamin Wood (born October 8, 1822), was married in Jefferson County on January 22, 1846, to Mar­ garet C. Gwathmey (born in 1829), the daughter of Lucy Ann and Joseph Gwathmey. Hiram Benjamin was a cabinetmaker and carpenter. In spite of a frail constitu­ tion, he had reached the great age of eighty-nine, when he died March 25, 1911. His wife lived to be eighty-six. She died December 3i, 1915. They are l:iuried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville. The children of Hiram Benjamin and Margaret Gwathmey Wood were: Alice, Mary, and Lucy, all of whom left Middletown after marriage; Nellie, who married Leonard Jones; Theresa, who married Edward Waters; Anne, who married first a Frenchman by the name of DeGarmo. Her second marriage was to Dr. W. F. Boggess. Her grandson, V ertner DeGarmo Smith, is prom­ inent in Louisville business and social life. Wi11 iam Ben­ jamin Wood, the only-son of Hiram Benjamin, was born October 3, 1848. He was married November 23, 1870, to Laura Virginia Waters, daughter of Robert Sullivan and Elizabeth Hudson Waters. William Benjamin Wood was an architect and building contractor, excelling his father with whom he served his apprenticeship. Today many fine homes stand as memo­ rials of his art, paragons of beauty and excellence. He had a crew of ten men working for him and he demanded FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 133 perfection of them as nearly as could be achieved. They hauled their lumber, tools, and other materials in two­ horse wagons, the commonly used conveyance of the time. Truly at the end of each day he might well have said:

((Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.''

This verse from c«The Builders" describes the type of work that he did:

((Build today, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base And ascending and secure Shall tomorrow find its place."

Some conception of the quality and quantity of work that he did is gained from the following incomplete list of his buildings. Public buildings in Anchorage include: the present Louisville and Nashville Railway Station, the Anchorage Pharmacy, Hausgen and Fulton Store (demolished), and the first Anchorage Club House (demolished). Private homes at Anchorage include: on Ridge Road, Shallcross, Easton, Dr. Winston, Harbison, Walbeck (remodeled), Smith (remodeled) , and Strater (bumed) ; on Osage Road, Glover (burned), Sewell, Sidney Hobbs, and Creel Brown; on Stone Gate Road, Lawrence Jones (burned), John Shirley (remodeled); on Evergreen Avenue, Bowser and Russell; on Walnut Lane, Hausgen and Thompson; on Owl Creek Lane, Hogan; on Middletown-Anchorage Road, Robinson; on Elm Road, Gwatbmey; and on Parle Road, Hays. In Middletown, William Benjamin Wood erected the Methodist Church and two stores which were destroyed by 134 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS fire, and the dwellings of Sallie Woodsman, Benjamin Cox, and Edward Waters. He built his own home which is now the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Henry P. Pearcy. He also erected the dwellings of Attilla Cox in Mocking Bird Valley, the Johnson home on Springdale Road, and the Dick Collins home at O'Bannon. The Bowser home was the last house built by Wil]iam Benjamin Wood. He died after a protracted illness on July 31, 1906, and his wife, Laura Virginia, died April 18, 1921. They are buried in the Middletown Cemetery. They were the parents of five children: Rosa, Pearcy McKinley and Irvin Hobart ( twin sons), all of whom died in in~ fancy; William Harlan, born January 28, 1875; and Eliza­ beth Mary, born October 17, 1877, who married Henry Pascal Pearcy, August 5, 1896. The Pearcys built the large two-story frame dwelling similar in architecture to the William Harlan Wood home and adjacent to it on the east. They lived here until the death of Laura Waters Wood when they moved to the paternal home. (See Pearcy sketch.) William Harlan Wood married Nellie Brengman Sturgeon, the daughter of Andrew Jackson and Susan Elder Sturgeon and a descendant of Dr. Thomas Walker, ex­ plorer, soldier, statesman, and surveyor. In 1750 as agent and surveyor for the Loyal Land Company of London, Dr. Walker made the first exploration of Kentucky uto discover a proper place for a settlement." During the French and Indian Wars, he was made Commissary, with the rank of Major, to the Virginia troops. He and George Washing­ ton were with Braddock in his disastrous campaign and oa rrowly escaped death.. Dr. Walker was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, a member of the Revolution­ ary Convention, and a member of the C.Ommittee of Public Safety. He was appointed by the Virginia LegisJatare to FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 13S extend the line 36° 30', the boundary between North Caro­ lina and Virginia, westward to Tennessee. During his youth William Harlan Wood worked as a painter with his father's construction crew. He designed and executed the interior decoration of the Methodist Church which his father built. In 1894 his father erected a store-building and established him in the mercantile busi­ ness. In 1902 he removed his stock of merchandise to Anchorage where his father had erected another store­ building ( the present Anchorage Pharmacy) . He was a contemporary of Tarleton Hobbs who operated a general store in Anchorage on the site of the present postoffice. After ten years of prosperous business he returned to Mid­ dletown and bought a tract of land which was formerly a part of the plantation of Joseph Abell, his great-great­ grandfather. On this treeless acreage, then an oats field, he built a two-story frame dwelling and surrounded it with beautiful maple trees of his own planting. The geometric landscaping is so attractive that during the years several travelers and prospective home-builders have asked per­ mission to sketch the tree arrangement. Before his retirement in 1934 William Harlan Wood had business associations with the Phoenix Mutual Life In­ surance Company and held public office. Four daughters were born to him and his wife, Nellie Sturgeon: Ethel Mae, Virginia Dorsey, Adah Evelyn, and Edith Louise. The older daughters were educated at Bellewood Seminary. Ethel Wood married Charles Henry Blumer, who died October 22, 1945, leaving a son, Cliarles Henry. Virginia Wood married Edward Sheppard Hawley of Floydsburg. She died October 26, 1940. Evelyn Wood married Wil­ liam Jason Arms of Louisville. Edith, the author of this volume, was graduated from Anchorage High School and Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and did graduate work at the University of Louisville and the University of Ken- 136 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS tucky. She and Theron Turner Knight were the co­ £ounders of the Okolona High School, where Edith Wood taught for several years. With the advent of war she trans­ £erred to the Anchorage High School, where she now teaches mathematics. Five generations of Woods have been affiliated with the Middletown Christian Church. Lot No. 4 of the orig­ inal plat of Middletown has been owned by the Wood­ allied families since 1832.

WOODSMALL Stephen Woodsmall was born in Jefferson County in 1826. His father, Captain John Woodsmall, came here from Spencer County in 1816. Captain John had seven children. His son Stephen married Cynthia A. Baird, of Spencer County, in 1848. They had five children: Sally M., James W., Molly A., Sabina, and Mattie. Sally lived in Middletown in the house now owned by Mrs. Elizabeth Mathias. The Woodsmall farm was located on the Jeffer­ sontown Road about one mile from Middletown. It was originally the Miller place; both fami1 ies are buried on the grounds. The old log house probably dates back a century and a half as it was presumably built by John Miller, one of Middletown's first trustees. It is in a fine state of repair after being remodeled recently by the present owners, Frank B. and Margaret Harlan McAuliffe.

YENOWINE Among the first settlers of Jefferson County were the Y enowines, a family of Ge.rman extraction who emigrated from Pennsylvania to Kentucky and located in the vicinity of Jeffersontown. Here Frederick Yenowine bought a large tract of land on the Taylorsville Road, built his home FOUNDERS, SETILERS, OLD FAMILIES 13 7 and reared a family. His son, George Bence Y enowine who was born in 1814, married Elizabeth Seabolt from Illinois and settled on a tract of his father's land on the Jeffersontown Road about two miles from Middletown. On a salubrious site he built a large frame farmhouse which stands today at the end of a long avenue bordered by trees. He was a prosperous farmer and a hospitable host to the many visitors who frequented his homestead. His wife, Elizabeth, died in 1871, and he passed away in 1889. They are interred in Cave Hill Cemetery. George and Elizabeth had seven children: Thomas Morris, Alice Catherine, John Amos, George Hardin, Margaret Hardin, Fannie Jones, and Hattie Vance. Dr. Thomas Morris Y enowine practiced medicine at Mount Eden, Kentucky. John Amos bought and cultivated the nearby Miller farm. He married Alodia Singleton and their several children were: Thomas, Nelson, Melissa, and Viola. George Hardin married and lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he was the editor of the Y enowine News for many years. He eventually returned to his father·s farm and was the Sunday editor of the Louisville Courier­ ]ournal until his death. He had a son, Pank, who is men­ tioned in the letters of Eugene Field. Margaret Hardin married George Schenk, manager of the Henry Watterson Hotel in Louisville. Fannie married Dr. S. D. Wetherby and had four children: Alfred David, Margaret, George, and Lawrence. Hattie Vance and Alice Catherine did not marry. The Y enowines were members of the Methodist Oiurch, where Hattie has taught for many years in the primary department of the Sunday school Her home is the cottage adjacent to the Ouistian Oiurch on the east. In 1894 the famous Eugene Field made a long and en­ joyable visit in Middletown at the home of the four Y eno­ wine sisters, Alice, Margaret, Fanny, and Hattie. He be­ came acquainted with them through their brother, George 138 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

S. Y enowine, Milwaukee publisher, who was his friend. Three of Field's children had preceded him on numerous visits to «Adam1ess Eden" which was his nickname for the Y enowine farm. He was delighted with the fertile fields, the comcrib, the livestock, and everything about the place, which was the inspiration for three of his well known poems written during his visit: Peter Bird, At Play, and Seein' Things at Night. Following his memorable visit in Middletown Eugene Field wrote many letters to "Aunt Alice" in which he re­ ferred often to the pleasant hours spent in playing euchre with the Y enowine sisters. The clocks mentioned in the two letters quoted below were collected by Field from the Middletown community which he scouted. He had a genuine affection for them and endowed each one with a nickname and personal idiosyncrasies.

1. "A GREAT BIG Kiss FOR You'' ''Dear Aunt Alice! You shock me by threatening to send the docks by express. Do you want to bank­ rupt me at one fell stroke? Otherwise those clocks must come by freight; and be sure to address them Buena Park, Ill.-Do not have Oiicago appear in the address at all, or I shall have to pay for hauling them from the city. Do you understand, you stupid old left-bower? "How are you all-you and the other dear girls? We think and speak of you all so often, and always affectionately. If my wife stays away much longer, I'll sue for a divorce for desertion and hie to Middle­ town and court the whole lot of you! So, beware! CCI had a charming visit with George and Nellie last week. I think they are expecting Pank: home soon. «Love to Miss Maggie, my big girl, and the pro- FOUNDERS, SETTLERS, OLD FAMILIES 139 spective bride of Cap'n B. Gumm~ As £or myself, here goes a great big kiss for you. ''Ever affectionately, "Eugene Field HBuena Park, Ill., June 21, 1894"

2. CCGREET THE CHICK.ENS KINDLY FOR ME" "Dear Aunt Alice: I've been just too busy to be decent. But I must take time to tell you that the clock is lovely and keeps excellent time, and I am very grateful to you and to Mr. B,--- for your combined and successful labor in my behalf. I'll get even with you; see if I don't! rm ready for the other clock any time you'll send it. Don't forget the pendulum, weights, etc., that are inside the case. And you may send by express-just as you did the other-and direct to Beuna Park, Ill. There is a United States express office here.. · "I am going to run up to Milwaukee for Sunday. Heard from George today; all well. Mrs. Field may go with me. "Awfully hot; the strikes have paralyzed all busi­ ness, but I think the worst is over now. Ctl pine for you girls-for your com cakes, your com.bread, and biscuit, and euchre games! I love you all, and~ one more than the rest! Pray kiss one another for me. Tell Miss Maggie I sha11 not have my bald head shampooed until she does it. Greet the chickens kindly for me, speak gently to poor old Don and say 'co-nanny' to those idiotic sheep and 'poo­ ey, poo-ey' to those ravenous hogs for me. Goodby. Ever your affectionate nephew, "Eugene Field 'nuchre O,ampion CCBueoa Parle, ill., July 11, 1894° 140 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

YOUNG Lawrence Young was born in Caroline County, Vir­ ginia, in 1793. He came with his father, James Young, to Jefferson County about 1800 and settled here on a large tract of land. He studied law at Transylvania. College but due to the condition of his health he abandoned the legal profession for the schoolroom and farm. He was a noted teacher at Middletown. Among his pupils were Edward Dorsey Hobbs and Leaven Lawrence Dorsey. In 1823 he married Eliza White, the daughter of William White from whom they inherited the large and famous brick house which later became known as Davis Tavern. It is likely that he conducted his school in this building. He was a famous horticulturist and agriculturist. He founded the Kentucky Horticultural Society_ and was the leading spirit in the Pomological and Agricultural societies. Mr. Young cultivated trees, shrubs, fruits, and flowers on his Springdale estate where every species indigenous to the State could be found. His place was famous as a seat of scientific investigation and culture and was visited by people from far and wide who were eager to study his methods. He may be considered to be the Father of the Weather Bureau of Kentucky since he was the first to record d imatic observations at the request of the Smithsonian In­ stitute in i842. He died in 1872 in which year the national meteorological organization was formed. Among his children were Benjamin L. and Fsquire William W. Young. William was born at Middletown on June 24, 1828. He married Ann Amelia O,amherlain on November 23, 1853. He followed his father"s occupation and lived on the ancestral estate, Springdale, which was so named because of a wonderful spring that had never failed in one hundred years of service. His granddaughter, Amelia Porter, married Wible F .. Mapother who was the president of the Louisville and Nashville Railway.. UIAPTER IV

MIDDLETOWN IN THE CIVIL WAR

Kentucky's allegiance remained divided throughout the Civil War. Thousands of her sons were in uniform, some in blue, others in gray. Oftentimes brother fought against brother. Simon Cameron, the Secretary of War, tele­ graphed Governor Beriah Magoffin April 15, 1861: CCCall is made on you by tonight's mail for four regiments of militia for immediate service.'' Kentucky's Governor sent the following immediate reply:

"Your dispatch is reviewed. In answer, I say, emphatically, Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States."

Daily petitions poured into the State Legislature from the mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters of Kentucky men, praying that they be spared the dire calamity of war, and beseeching that Kentucky be held inviolate in armed neutrality. On May 24, 1861, Governor Magoffin appointed Simon Bolivar Buckner, a relative of Middletown's founder, the Inspector-General to preserve the neutrality of the state. On July 3, 1861, Middletown was startled by an as­ tronomical phenomenon interpreted by some as a warning of impending danger and bloodshed. There appeared in the sky visible from sundown until ten o,dock, a bnlliant: comet which to the superstitious meant trouble. But super­ titution or not, a month later the tragedy of war had reached Kentucky. 142 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

By June 6, 1862, in less than nine months of war, 930 soldiers had died in the military hospitals of Louisville. On September 22, 1862, General William Nelson ordered the women and children evacuated from Louisville, preparatory to a battle with the Confederates. A week later he was fatally shot at the Galt House in a personal difficulty with Brigadier-General Jefferson C. Davis of In­ diana and died within fifteen minutes. On September 25, 1862, General Buell' s Federal army reached Louisville and remained there until October 1, when it left in pursuit of Confederate pickets within six miles of Louisville. Mor­ gan's Confederate cavalry captured and destroyed a train of fifty-one loaded wagons and thirty-one empty ones near Bardstown. General Buell with 25,000 men met Con­ £ederate General Bragg on October 8, 1862, at Perryville where Kentucky's greatest battle was fought. It lasted from noon till dark, with a Federal loss of 4,346 men and a Confederate loss of about 2,500. The people of Middle­ town could hear the roar of Perryville cannons twenty-five miles distant. Although Middletown was not at any time the actual scene of a battle or even of a skirmish, war was on its threshold, and it suffered the shock, the horrors, and the deprivations. Aged citizens claim that General William T. Sherman and General John H. Morgan visited the town, or at least passed through it. For several weeks during the war, Negro cavalrymen camped in the Christian Church where they did much damage, including the breakage of the kerosene lamps, the two stoves, and the windowpanes. Other detachments and guerrillas were here at various times pillaging the countryside and robbing meat houses, cellars, pantries, and gardens. They generally took what they wanted except the whisky at the Davis Tavern. It was stored in the well in the front yard and when some Union soldiers who had been lodging at the Tavern tried THECMLWAR 143 to steal the whisky, the citizens of_ the town came to the tavemkeeper' s aid and the soldiers were forced to retreat. On one of their regular raids the Union soldiers visited the home of Minor Waters, merchant, who was known to have money from his merchandising business hidden in the house. While the soldiers were pounding on the front door demanding entrance, his wife Margaret rushed up­ stairs, put the money in a pillowcase and threw it out a back window to her daughter, Rachel, who ran to the poultry yard and thrust it under a sitting hen, thus saving the family treasury. Lawrence Waters, son of Minor, had several fine horses, one of which had been taught to perform tricks such as imitating lameness. When the Union soldiers took all of the good horses they could find they left Lawrence his finest one because they thought it was lame. Mary Elizabeth Morse English, now eighty-seven, was a small child during the Civil War. She vividly remem­ bers the war stories related by her parents. Soldiers of both armies visited the home frequently. At one time a Confederate army was stationed in Middletown awaiting a clash with the Federals. The Grays planned to mount their cannon on the highest point in Middletown and there take their stand against the enemy which was expected to arrive via the Lexington-Louisville Turnpike_ en route to Louisville. The site selected was the crest of the hill on which the English home is now located. At that time a tavern, operated by Simeon House, stood there. The ancient stone wall and steps are all that remain to remind one of those stirring days. Many a soldier in gray must have dashed up those stone steps with his sword rattling in its scabbard. Benjamin Franklin Morse moved his wife and small children to safer quarters, but he and his older son rem a ioed in the home to defend it in the expected battle. The offensive and defensive plans were well laid 144 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS for an engagement, but the Federals followed another route and Middletown was spared the destruction of battle. Nevertheless fears and threats were ever present. The capture of Captain George Womack is illustrative of the constant dangers that threatened Middletown citizens. The Daily Democrat, July 30, 1864, describes the incident:

"On Wednesday the city was full of rumors touch­ ing the arrest and probable killing of Captain George W. Womack, Provost Marshal of this the fifth district. The facts of the case, as we learn from Captain W o­ mack, are as follows: On Tuesday night Captain Womack went to his home in the country, about eleven miles £rom Louisville on the Shelbyville pike, ac­ companied by Captain Will H. Hervey of this city. Having reasons to believe that there were guerrillas in the neighborhood on the lookout for him he left the house that night but returned about daylight the next morning believing that the guerrillas were gone. Soon after breakfast however it was discovered that they were in a dense wood about a half mile from Captain Womack" s house near the place where the stage was robbed some weeks ago. They were discovered in chasing and firing upon a man who had attempted to pass them. • ~urhus thwarted in their intention of waylaying the Captain on his way to the city they at once went to his house and demanded his surrender. Upon assurance of safety to his person and in view of the entreaties of Mrs. W oroack who by this time was almost frantic, Captain Womack listened to their demands. They finally proposed that he should give bond in the pen­ alty of $5,000 to protect Southern sympathizers as far as was in his power. He signed the pledge July 27, 1864, and Will H..Hervey went his security.'" THE CIVIL WAR 145 Dr. Luther Paris Wetherby, a surgeon in the Fifteenth Kentucky Volunteers of the Union Army, was honorably discharged July 23, 1862. His letters to his uncle in New York reveal interesting details of life in Middletown dur­ ing those tragic war years. He tells of the robbers who hid in the woods between Middletown and Louisville and grabbed travelers as they passed through, robbing and kill­ ing them frequently. The first of _the two letters which follow mentions an order that he had placed for boots and had not yet received. The boots came a year later! The daughter mentioned in the second letter was Susan W ether­ by. 0 Middletown, Jeff. Co., Ky. Oct. 14th, 1864. ccMy Dear Uncle: ''Your letter of the 10th came to hand this morn­ ing. I have not as yet rec'd the boots, but expect they will arrive soon. ''I am glad to hear that you rec'd the whiskey in good order-how do you like it? I am sorry to hear of father's suffering. Still, I c.annot under the cir­ cumstances anticipate or expect otherwise. I don· t think it possible for him to linger and suffer beyond the extreme cold weather. uln reference to the renting of my farm, you will oblige me by acting as my agent, and I will hereby authorize you as such and any contract that you may make for the term of one year I will hold myself amenable thereto. At present I don·t wish to lease it for more than one year. First of all don·t lease it to any man unless you are perfectly satisfied that he is an honorable man. I would rather it would be idle than to rent it to any rascal or some one who would slay the timber and fences. Bind the tenant 146 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

not to cut a stick of timber except what he needs for his own consumption on the place. Relative to the taxes-exercise your own judgment-in fine, trade as you would for yourself except this, I don't want to improve the place and have it deducted from rent as I don't think I could sell the place for much more or enough more to realize the same in return. (

t 'Three came here a few nights since with the in­ tention of robbing me, but they found me at home with my battery in position. I keep five guns loaded with buck shot. They ordered me to open my door and said that they were my friends. I had some spar­ ring in words with them while they were outside and I inside the door, they concluded to depart and I have not been visited since but don't know how soon they may call on me. The woods are alive with guerrillas . at this time while Abe's men are at home voting for him. UI had my best nigger drafted. Working hands get $3 per day and mechanics $5. Nearly all the able bodied niggers are gone-and a large pro- THECML WAR 147 portion of the whites. Many have gone to the South­ ern Army. Give my love to father and mother, to your family and Uncle Luther's, tell them that I and my family are well. UI am your affectionate nephew, ''Luther P. Wetherby

CCMiddletown, Jeff. Co., Kentucky July 16th, 1865. ''Dear Uncle: ''Your letter of the 10th inst. is rec'd. I rec'd the boots this last week, they having taken a circulatory route. They please me very well except the hunting boots. You did not make them longer as I directed, in consequence of which I will always have to suffer with my big toe if I wear them. "I will be obliged to you to advance the hundred dollars to Powell and when my tenant pays in Septem­ ber keep the money and whatever the money is worth till then I will pay you. I would send the money but if I do would be obliged to lose a day in going to Louisville to buy an exchange draft. At present I am very busy in practice as we have more than our usual amount of sickness. "My wife presented me with a daughter last week. Have a pair now. Not going to stop. "Your affectionate nephew, ULuther P~ Wetherby "P. S.-Last week I sent the pears from one tree to Louisville-six and one-half bushels and rec.' d in return for them sixty-two and a half dollars-ten dollars a bushel, didn" t quite hold out in measure. I then sent a man ten miles above and he returned with twelve bushels which cost me twelve dollars for which 148 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

I will receive tomorrow one hundred and twenty What do you think of such prices? Peaches are sell­ ing at twenty dollars per bushel in Louisville. Soldiers are paying for them.

There was no Office of Price Administration in those days, as the reader of Dr. Wetherby's letters may note. Not only had market prices skyrocketed but there was a drastic change in the labor situation. Negro farm hands, following the Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863, demanded from $200 to $240 a year, and Negro cooks re­ received from $25 to $125 per year. These were ex­ orbitant wages to be paid by Middletonians accustomed as they had been to free slave labor! There were no price and wage controls during the Civil War, but there was rationing. One may read in the Louis­ ville Democrat 0£ November 7, 1864, that the only pork packing permitted that fall was for the Government. Gov­ ernment contractors offered from nine and a half to ten cents per gross pound for hogs. On April 14, 1865, grief spread over the nation when the news of President Lincoln's assassination was an­ nounced. Three days later Governor Bramlette called upon all the people of Kentucky to pay homage to the late Chief Magistrate and ordered that at the hour of the funeral, twelve noon on Wednesday the 19th-ulet every church bell throughout the Commonwealth be tolled; on that day let all business be suspended, all business houses be dosed, and public offices dosed and draped in mourning.'' Middle­ tooiaos had the opportunity of seeing John Wilkes Booth when he played so magnificently to crowded houses fot twelve nights in Louisville in November, 1862, less than two and a half years before the young tragedian assassi­ nated the President. CHAPTER V

CHURCHES

The early churches of Middletown were organized about the time of the Great Revival in Kentucky, from 1799 to 1805. Although the Baptists had the largest and strongest of the organizations in the state, and built the fust church in Kentucky, they did not establish a church in Middletown for about 150 years. Daniel Boone's brother, Squire Boone, who came to Kentucky in 1775, was a Bap­ tist preacher, but he did little to further the cause of re­ ligion on the new frontier. The Presbyterians, who were the second denomination to organize in Kentucky, founded the first of Middletown's churches. The Methodists, who labored side by side with the Presbyterians during the Great Revival, established Middletown's second church. De­ nominational differences were ignored in the effort to save souls and a glorious work was accomplished. In Middle­ town the evangelists found some very excellent people who had brought with them a rich heritage from the older States-a considerable degree of culture and refinement. The Oiristians or Disciples of Christ, a much younger so­ ciety, founded Middletown's third church and the Baptists founded the fourth.

THE MIDDLETOWN PREsBYTERIAN CHUROI The Middletown Presbyterian Cliurch was established before the First Presbyterian Oiurch of Louisville. The exact date of organization is not known, but it was prob­ ably as early as the founding of the town since the mem­ bership was large enough and sufficiently devout to call a minister in 1799. The Reverend James Vance was in- 150 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS stalled as the :first pastor on November 6. At the same time he also served the Pennsylvania Run Church and was appointed to preach to the Louisville congregation October 7, 1800. It is remarkable that he could shepherd such a scattered flock in the then new and wild country and at the same time teach a classical school in Middletown. He died in 1829 and is buried in a vault in the Middletown Ceme­ tery. The elders in 1802 were George Pomeroy, Sam Ireland, and Alexander Woodrow, and the pastor was M. Andrew Fullerton. In that year William Chambers conveyed to the elders one acre of land, being outlot No. 64, for a church site, on which they erected a log ''meeting house." The church was connected with the associate Synod of Philadelphia and the congregation was known as the Pres­ byterian Church of Jefferson County .. The members of the church in 1830 were: The Rev­ erend William M. King, pastor; James Porter, James Tull, and William Mills, elders; Mrs. James Tull, Mrs. Jane Glass, Mrs. Mary Mills, Mrs. Ann Hardin, Mrs. Tabitha Talmage and her three daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Walker, Joshua M. Brengman, Mrs. Susan Brengman, Nora and Susan Pennybaker, Hiram Cassell, Mrs. Sarah Marders, Mrs. Elizabeth Abernathy, Sam Vance, Mrs. Mary Vance, Mrs. Ruth Vance, Mrs. Mary White, Mrs. Elizabeth Hite, Mrs. Eliza Hite, Mrs. Olivia Veach, Mrs. Elizabeth Mun­ son, Mrs. Roach, Miss Roach, Jane Swann, Mary Lyon, Mrs. Catherine White, Mrs. Elizabeth Bradberry, James King, and Isabelle King. The last home of the Middletown Presbyterian Church was located on the lot now occupied by the George Schenk home. After serving the spiritual needs of the community for more than three-quarters of a century the church was discontinued in 1876 when the congregation united with the Presbyterian Church at Anchorage. CHURCHES 151

THE MIDDLETOWN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH The Methodists now hold the distinction of being the oldest religious society in Middletown. Their first church building of which there is a record was located on the- hill where Dudley Mason now lives. About 1875 this frame church was sold to Wi11iam Benjamin Wood who built a schoolhouse out of the salvaged lumber. In 1918 Tom Singer bought the schoolhouse and had it remodeled as a dwelling. In 1876 when the congregation sold the old church it bought the building which was then the home of the Presbyterian Church, a large square frame structure painted gray. The congregation remained here until it moved into the present church home, located on lot No. 44, which was dedicated on the fourth Sunday in May, 1900, when the Reverend W. E. Lyon was pastor. This was a centennial celebration of the founding in 1800 as well as a dedicatory service. The celebration was a glorious event for the members of the church and the citizens of the town in general. An immense gathering assembled for the services. Tables for the basket dinner were set on the lawn of the old Milli~en place (Jefferson Female Acad­ emy) and brought to mind the lines of Goldsmith: uAt a dinner so various, at such a repast, Who~ d not be a glutton, and stick to the last?'' The present church, the cornerstone of which was laid in 1899, was erected by William Benjamin Wood, building contractor. It is constructed of red brick and has a tall spire rising from a tower that recalls Shenstone's lines: uln every village mark'd with spire, Embow' r'd in trees, and hardly known to fame," for the Methodist Oiurch spire is surrounded by a wreath 152 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS of trees and can be seen at a considerable distance from many directions. It is the only spire in Middletown. On January 12, 1843, Charles B. Parsons, Methodist minister on the Jefferson Circuit, wrote from Middletown: "A revival is in progress in this village, which promises great good to the cause of religion. Fifty-six have been added to the church, many of whom have been happily converted." The Reverend Parsons was one of the most eloquent preachers in the Methodist Church. He entered the ministry from a tragedian's place on the stage. His son, the Honorable Edward Young Parsons, was born in Middletown on December 12, 1842, and became a lawyer. George W. Brush was born in Rockbridge County, Vir­ ginia, on October 28, 1805, of Scotch-Irish parents who were Presbyterians. He came to Kentucli1 in 1806 and taught school in Bullitt County in 1824. He became a Methodist minister in 1828 and founded the Jefferson Fe­ male Academy of Middletown. He died in 1880 and is buried at Anchorage. The Methodist Missionary Society was organized in 1880; a ladies aid society existed for sometime and then merged, in 1913, with the missionary society. The present parsonage was built in 1909-1910. There had been an old parsonage on the same grounds before this present build­ ing was erected. The Garrs, Walkers, and Hobbs were members of this church before the Methodist Oiurch was built in Anchor­ age. Other families which have been members of this church for perhaps fifty years or more are as follows: Dugan, Beynroth, Keneaster, Downey, Y enowine, Eder, Head, Gwathmey, and Wetherby. A list of all of the pastors from 1869 to the present is as follows: METHODIST EPISCOPAL OfUROI OF MIDDLETOWN Established 1800 154 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Henderson -----~---- - Stubblefield ______1901-1902 Morrison, H. c______- Humphrey ______1902-1906 Mell ______1906-1907 McG-ee ------Lambuth, William._____ - Orr ______1907-1909 Miller ______1909-1910 Cox------Overton, George______- Russel ______1910-1913 Lyon, G. W ______- Lyon, Granville Alexander ______1880-1883 1913-1915 Lewis, J------1883-1884 Johnson ______1915-1919 Randolph ______l 884-1887 Dickey ______1919-1922 Collie ______l 887-1890 King ______1922-1925 King, GabrieL ___ l890-1891 McAfee ______1925-1930 Edrington ______1891-1893 Goodson ______1930-193 5 Bigham ------1893-1894 Curry ______193 5-1939 Litchfield ------1894-1898 Stamer ------1939- Lyon W. E. ______1898-1901

In 1933 the officers and teachers of the Sunday school were: Preston Schrader, superintendent; Chester Schrader, secretary; Mr. Calhoun, teacher of the women's class; the Reverend Goodson, teacher of the men's class; Charles Witherbee, teacher of a boys' class; Elmer Secrest, teacher of a boys' class; Jane Jones, teacher of a girls' class; Margaret Wetherby, teacher of a boys' class; and Hattie Y enowine, teacher of the cradle roll.

THE MIDDLETOWN CHRISTIAN CHURCH The Middletown Christian Church was organized on the first day of June in the year 1836, when Main Street was a dusty road lined with log cabins, brick and stone taverns, stage-coach landings, blacksmith shops, slave quarters, factory buildings, and modest dwellings. John Womack, gentleman farmer, was the first elder and one of CHURCHES the three trustees. The other trustees were John Urton, gentleman farmer, and Dr. Robert Miller, country phy­ sician. The Reverend WilJ iam M. Brown, an evangelist of the Disciples of Christ under the leadership of Alex­ ander Campbell, may be considered to be the founder of the church, since it was he who visited Middletown several times during the spring of 1836, preaching and baptizing converts. Eighteen charter members agreed to take the Bible and the Bible alone as the only infallible and perfect rule of Christian faith and practice. Several members were re­ ceived soon after the organization and the membership steadily grew. In 1842 the trustees, John Womack, John Urton, and Dr. Robert Miller, bought lot No. 57 from Charles Beynroth for $120. A rectangular red brick build­ ing, thirty-six feet by forty-two feet with a fourteen-foot ceiling, was erected. The members of the church made the brick on the church lot and furnished much of the material and the labor for the construction. Space permits the mention of only a few of the many interesting incidents connected with the growth of the church through the years. Between 1860 and 1870 the church bell was cracked while being rung for a fire. William J. Jones, a deacon and faithful member for many years, hauled it to Louisville to the Kaye Bell Foundry where it was recast. During the Civil War, Negro cavalry camped in the church for several weeks and greatly dam­ aged the building and the furnishings. In 1901 the Ladies Aid Society was organized with Mrs. J. W. Waters, presi­ dent, Mrs. Minnie Cox, vice-president; Miss Mamie Oore, secretary; and Mrs. Nan Arterburn, treasurer. The pur­ chase of the first organ in 1903 caused great dissension, and several opposing members withdrew. Elder William Tharp, who came to Middletown in 1857 from Henry County, Kentucky, served the church in- 156 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS termittently until his death in 1912. His wife, Martha Cox Tharp, organized the :first Sunday school and taught the children directly from her Bible, as there was then no supplementary religious literature. She devoutly lead the singing in the church and rang the bell every Sun~y morning. Her death in 1895 was a great loss to the church. Hiram B. Wood became active in the church in 1846 and served as a deacon for about thirty-five years. His wife, Margaret Gwathmey Wood, made. the unleavened bread for the Lord's Supper and cared for the communion service during the same period. Mrs. W. T. Clore assumed the duties when Mrs. Wood became aged. The Clore family_ contributed richly to the church in many ways. Miss Mamie Clore will be remembered for her patient loving care in the training of the children. Another family that has been very faithful in the service of the church is ·that of Allen Poulter. His daughter, Mrs. Mark Crask, was especially zealous and her daughter, Mrs. Robert Martin, has taught in the primary department for many years. The baptistry was built about 1875. Before that time new members were baptized in the pond on the Polk place, now the Bliss place. About 1895 William B. Wood and Leonard Jones built the dressing rooms on each side of the rostrum and put the wainscoat around the walls of the church auditorium. Mr. Wood gave the pulpit that is still in use. In 1912 the stone front was added to the church by Henry Frank, trustee and prominent building contractor who gave his services in its erection. Edgar and Lawrence Cox donated all the stone. At the same time the original building was stuccoed and refurnished. Art glass windows displaced the dear glass panes and electric lights took the place of kerosene lamps. Opera chairs were substituted for the crude benches, and pulpit chairs for the horsehair sofa. The two coal stoves were discarded and a furnace was in­ stalled. A new brown and tan carpet was laid, replacing CHURCHES 157 the green woolen carpet donated earlier by William B. Wood. In the same year the Ladies Aid Society began the operation of a church dining-room on the Kentucky State Fair Grounds in Louisville. The growth of the Sunday school and the desire to render a more effective educational service necessitated the erection of the Sunday ~ool building in 1926. There are ten classrooms, an assembly room, a minister's study, a dining-room, and a kitchen. John Tatchell was the con­ tractor and builder of this addition. Mrs. Hermia Broadhurst, daughter of Mrs. Sarah Jane Douglass who was a member of the church, bequeathed $1,000 in loving memory of her mother. The gift was used in 1935 for the purpose of redecorating the interior of the church auditorium. Another improvement made in 193 5 was the screening of the windows and doors of church and Suriday school building. William Highfield and Harry McFarland gave their services in making and installing the screens. During the ministry of the Rev­ erend Willard Guy a new baptistry was installed behind the wall separating the auditorium from the Sunday sch<>(?l department. It replaces the old one under the rostrum. The rostrum was carpeted and new furniture was added. A communion table was given as a memorial to Mrs. Ruth Mason by her family; a set of three chairs was given as a memorial to Mrs. Elii.abeth Milliken by her daughters; and a new pulpit was given by Harry McFarland as a memorial to his mother. The organ was .purchased in 1945, and the dressing rooms were removed from the rostrum furnishing space for two choirs. This church has sent out three ministers from its mem­ bership: Wallace Tharp and William Tharp, sons of Elder William Tharp, and Mason Gregg. The following minis­ ters have served the church: William M. Brown, founder, Brother Short in 1836, Elder Wi11iam Tharp, W. H. 158 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Bartholomew, Brother Reubelt, Benjamin Cox, Willis Cox, G. G. Bersot, George Taylor, Cliff Allen, Brother Farley, W. S. Gambo, Brother Wolf, W. R. Grinstead, Brother Offutt, Gifford Gordon, Joe Conkling, E. R. Clarkson, Brother Daniels, J. J. Cole, Oscar Gilbert, John Allen, C. A. Annes, Glen Murdock, James Barbee, 0. T. Sparrow, Albert Nichols, Wilbur L. Davis, Perry L. Stone, Willard Guy, and Elmore Ryle who came to the church in May, 1944. The Reverend Wilbur Davis, who was pastor of the church from 1928 until 1938, is a graduate of Yale Divinity School, Transylvania College, and The College of the Bible. He was a faithful shepherd to his flock watching over them in sickness and in health. The young people were especially blessed by his interest in them. The Rev­ erend Willard Guy was the first minister of the church known to serve as a chaplain in a war. On March 12, 1944, he preached his last sermon at Middletown, appear­ ing in the pulpit in military uniform. The seven members who have been affiliated with the church for sixty years or more are: Mrs. L. P. Arterburn, Mark Crask, Leonard Jones, Mrs. Charles Swan, William Tharp, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Waters. The six families of the same surname that have been associated with the church for four generations are: Coleman, Jones, Poulter, Tharp, Waters, and Wood. By a change of surname the Coleman, Pearcy, and Wood families can boast five gen­ erations of church members. Other families closely as­ sociated with the church in early times were: Womack, Urton, Miller, Woodsman, Shirley, Terry, Seston, Hart, Douglass, Clore, and Mil liken. There were only two Sunday school superintendents over a period of forty-five years. Benjamin Tyler Coleman served two terms totaling thirty-three years, and Henry Pas.cal Pearcy served for twelve years. MIDDLETOWN CHRISTIAN CHURCH Established 1836

MIDDLETOWN BAPTIST CHUROI Established 1920 160 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

THE MIDDLETOWN BAPTIST CHURCH A meeting was held July 22, 1920, in the home of Owen Ellis to discuss the organization of a Baptist Church in Middletown. W. P. Hall acted as moderator and H. D. Berryman as clerk. The vote was unanimous to organize the church on the first Sunday in August and to call a council of churches. On the appointed Sunday, which fell on August 1, 1920, the meeting was called to order in the Masonic Hall in Middletown with the Reverend J. P. Jenkins, Superin­ tendent of Missions of the Long Run Association, pre­ siding. The Reverend W. M. Stallings, pastor of the Crestwood Baptist Church, conducted the devotional ex­ ercises and the Reverend George D. Billeisen, pastor of Ormsby Avenue Church, led in prayer, after which the council went into the business session. The following churches and messengers formed the council: Crestwood, Eastwood, Pleasant Grove, Fisherville, La Grange, Jeffer­ sontown, Clifton, Victory Memorial, Highland, Broadway, Walnut Street, Deer Park, Third Avenue, Ormsby Avenue, Beechmont, Cedar Creek, and Long Run. The Reverend J.P. Jenkins was elected moderator of the council and W. P. Hall was elected clerk. The moderator appointed a committee of five to examine the articles of faith, church covenant and church letters of those requesting member-­ ship. The following brethren were appointed on this com-­ mittee: the Reverend W. M. Stallings, the Reverend George D. Billeisen, the Reverend J. R. Pirkey, R. C. Bowden, and S. G. Sturgeon. An offering of $58.28 was taken. The following officers were elected: the Reverend Dr. W. S. Smith, moderator and deacon; Dr. H. D. Ber:ryo,ao, clerk; G. T. Moore, deacon; and Owen Ellis, treasurer. The charter members of the Middletown Baptist Oiurch were: Mr. G. T. Moore, Mrs. G. T. Moore, Roy CHURCHES 161

Moore, Mrs. Julia Grunwald, Mrs. M. K. Cowherd, Mrs. Alice Wood, Dr. W. S. Smith, the Reverend M. F. Ham, Mrs. Howard Webb, Dr. H. D. Berryman, Mrs. H. D. Berryman, Miss Carroll Jackson, Mrs. R. T. Hays, Mr. Owen Ellis, Mrs. Owen Ellis, Mrs. o·. C. Wyatt, Mrs. Ollie Hom, Mrs. D. H. Collins, Mr. J. E. Newton, Mrs. J.E. Newton, Mr. C. C. Sanford, Mr. Henry Sanford, and Mr. W. Summers. In the first meeting September 1, 1920, which convened it1 the home of the Reverend Dr. W. S. Smith in Anchor­ age, the members discussed the calling of a pastor and the selection of a location £or the church building. On January 9, 1921, a committee was appointed to secure .as a temporary place of worship the store building belonging to Dr. L. D. Mason which at present is the Self Hardware Store. On January 13, the committee reported that it had bought, as a church site, the W. M. Reed prop­ erty for $4,500. Meetings were held in the Masonic Lodge building from the time of organization until January 20, 1921, then in the store of Dr. L. D. Mason until the new church was completed. Henry Frank was the building contractor. The ecclesiastical architecture of Middletown reflects change in taste, and its churches tell a story. The Method­ ist Church, the oldest, has a spire. The Christian Church, which is next in age, has a tower, and the Baptist Oiurch, which is the most recently built of all, tends toward modem design. The opening program of the new church lasted from Sunday, April 26, 1925, to Sunday, May 10, 1925, the official opening day being May 10, 1925. A music festival was held on the afternoon and evening of May 10. In 1933 the membership of the church was 287. The officers and teachers were as follows: the Reverend Bush, pastor; F. T .. Beckley, J. M. Howey, Baker, C.Ole, Tinnell, 162 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Scales, and Tapp, deacons; Howey, PoW:ter, and Wade, trustees; H. B. Duncan, clerk; Richard Poulter, treasurer; Otho Tapp, superintendent of Sunday school; M. A. Hatton, assistant superintendent; A. D. Roe, secretary of Sunday school; the Reverend Bush, Messrs. Twyman, Chinn, Cole, Tapp, Bush, Hatton, Aynes, Tinnell, Mrs. Duncan, and Miss Lizzie Sweeney, teachers. The following is a list of pastors from the beginning to the present, in order of their service: L. W. Benedict, J. H. Williams, J. A. McCaleb, W. H. Moody, V. L. Wyatt, B. H. Bush, Waterhouse, J. A. McCaleb ( second pastor­ ate). The Reverend James A. McCaleb, a great figure in the civic and religious life of Middletown, passed suddenly from the scene of his activity, Sunday, September 23, 1945. He had conducted the morning worship service and was about to enter his automobile which was parked at the rear of the Baptist church when he suffered a heart attack and fell to the ground. His demise was a tragic loss to his church and community. The Reverend McCaleb was grad­ uated from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1923 and served as pastor of the Middletown Baptist Church from 1933 to 1945. UI.APTE1t VI

SCHOOLS

Kentucky's early schoolhouses were built of logs chinked with clay. There was only one room and it had no floor save the earth. A chimney built of sticks coated with clay stood in the center of it, supported by posts. The fue burned on the open square beneath the chimney. Little heat radiated from it; most of it went up the chimney and occasionally smoke floated in the room, choking the half­ baked, half-frozen pupils. Puncheon floors, an outside chimney, and a fireplace at one end of the room were im­ provements that came later. The desks were slabs laid on pins driven into the wall under each window. The backless benches were the split halves of logs with the flat sides up-adzed to make them more or less smooth. They were supported on heavy billet legs. The pupils, whose ages ranged from about five to twenty-five, sat on these crude benches from seven in the morning until late in the after­ noon ·with recess and noon to break the monotony and rest tired backs. The small children whose feet did not reach the floor dangled their legs in space as they conned their lessons. The curriculum consisted of the three R"s-reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic. Spelling was considered of prime importance. Errors in it marked the person as ignorant in pioneer opinion. Writing was done with a handmade goose-quill pen dipped into a rather anemic ink usually made of pokeberry juice or oak galls. However, not a great deal of writing was done at school because of the paper shortage and the scarcity of slates; there were no blackboards. The early books were Pike's Reader, Kirk- 164 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS ham's Grammar, Noah Webster's Elementary Spelling Book, commonly known as "the blue-backed speller,,. and Pike's Arithmetic or any arithmetic book that could be found, for they were scarce. The old and new Testaments were used by the advanced pupils and the life of Washing­ ton was probably used for reading and history. There were strict rules of courtesy observed by both pupil and teacher. The boys removed their hats before en­ tering and every pupil paused in the doorway to bow to his teacher. This ceremony was performed at all hours of the day whenever a pupil left the room and re-entered. Politeness in addressing the teacher was also scrupulously practiced. But formality was abandoned on the play­ ground where the young schoolmaster usually joined in the sports with the boys. The favorite games were Bull Pen and Anty-over; both were played with a ball made of yam, usually a pair of old socks or a raveled stocking rolled tightly about a hard core. During school hours it was a treat for the older boys to go to the spring "to fetch a pail of water." On their return, which was never too soon, hands were eagerly uplifted for permission to get a drink. At recess the pupils gathered around the old oaken bucket and each in tum dipped the gourd into it and drank of its dear, cool contents. Pasteur was yet to be born! Boy and girl relationships were restrained and whole­ some. Girls were shy and modest and boys respected them. There was no public lovemaking. The only evidences of Cupid's activity were the :fleeting glances shot across the room from moon-struck faces and the surreptitious passing of notes. Even on the school grounds there was no min­ gling of the sexes. Occasionally after leaving the premises there might be a couple ubrazen" enough to walk home to­ gether. In such cases the boy always carried the girl's books-a sure sign of romance. ScHooLS 165

The early methods of discipline were severe. It was generally conceded that what was not learned by dose ap­ plication could be ct strapped on the back." Punishments were inflicted for failure to study and for such misdemean­ ors as whispering, giggling, lying, swearing, and fighting. The less appal] ing offenses were punished by requiring the offender to stand in the corner with his face to the wall or by having him to face the class on the teacher's ros­ tnun-if there was ont--with a dunce cap on. He was also kept after school on occasions. For graver miscon­ duct there was corporal punishment; several agonizing whacks with a ferrule on the outstretched palm or maybe a few stripes on the back with a hickory limb, or even the brutal lash of a cat-o' -nine tails. Some few teachers frowned upon these medieval chastisements, but the ma­ jority employed them to maintain order and the parents approved. There was no school law. Kentucky's first Superin­ tendent of Public Instruction was not appointed until Feb­ ruary 28, 1838, and district schools were not established until about 1841. The parents paid voluntary subscriptions to the teachers amounting to about $30 a year for the three-month term. It was sometimes as high as $50 if there were as many as twenty pupils and if everybody paid up-they usually did, which is a credit to the honesty of the times. Families were large and parents could not afford to send all of the children to school at one time. They took turns or else the brighter ones were sent and the dull ones- kept at home. Money was scarce; the teacher did not receive his entire pay in cash but accepted commod­ ities and labor for most of it. And he had to wait until the school term was over to get that. He hauled his salary home in a wagon! There were potatoes, com, smoked meat, rag rugs, and other products of the home. Un­ married teachers ltooarded around" with the patrons which 166 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

was another method they had of easing the financial re­ sponsibility. In the conventional one-room cabin of the day the schoolmaster found lodging and accepted the commonplace accommodations. At night he slept on a pallet on the floor -with the entire family, men and women, young and old, all arranged in the most decorous manner. In the faint glow of the dying embers the :Boor was a weird sight spread with recumbent human frames covered with quilts. If the home were one of affluence there would be a bed or even two! They were boxlike structures filled with dry leaves or hay, and sometimes a feather mattress. Four people usually occupied one bed. When the schoolmaster or other guests were in the home the men stepped out the door, regardless of the weather, while the women un• dressed. On a given signal they would return to find the candles out and the women abed with their heads covered by the quilts. In spite of the crudity of the times there was a degree of culture and refinement; a rigid moral code governed the behavior of the people. In such environment Middletown, s schools had .their beginning. The founding fathers of Middletown were men of cul­ ture, moral integrity, and religious zeal. Their next aim, after achieving security for their families, was the provision for worship and for education. Middle­ town's fust preacher and teacher was the Reverend James Vance, a Presbyterian from Virginia, who opened a clas­ sical school in Middletown before 1799. What a glorious beginning it was for the town! The trustees of the Mid­ dletown school in 1805 were: William White, Martin Breogmao, and William Clwnbers. Progress was assured under such leadership. Just where the first school session was held may never be known, but on July 19, 1805, the trustees leased, for ninety-nine years, the un,eeting house'' of the Presbyterian Oiurch 0 for the purpose of advancing THE JEFFERSON FEMALE ACADEMY "The Twelve-Mile House" 168 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Literature and promoting the interests of society by the dif­ fusion of knowledge and for the desire which they have and entertain for themselves and their Fraternity that the education of youth be encouraged." The agreement between the school trustees and the elders, George Pomeroy, Sam Ireland, and Alexander Woodrow, required the payment of five shi11ings, and ce~­ tain building improvements that included laying a floor with planks; cutting windows and fitting them with suit­ able casings and shutters and putting in (Clights of glass," and chinking the "vacancies between the logs with stone and lime." The contract also stipulated that school activi­ ties were not to inter£ere with church meetings, and that the teachers and pupils were to care for the building and grounds in a proper manner and were to prevent the willful destruction of property. Religion and education went hand in hand in those days, molding young men and women of extraordinary quality. At least two of Middletown's schools were institutions of higher learning, Hope Seminary and Jefferson Female Academy, which were famous beyond the confines of the town. Hope Seminary was organized in 1819 by Richard Oiew, Dr. Joseph Glass, Benjamin Lawrence, and Lawrence Young as trustees. Wil1iam White and his wife, Sally, sold them lot No. 14, containing two and a half acres, for $120. The proposed two-story school building was to be paid for by the issuance of sixty shares of stock that totaled a thousand dollars. The upper chambers of the building were to be occupied by USaint Paurs Lodge No. 32.,. There are records of a number of early schools. Before 1830 a school held its sessions on the second floor of the Head, Hobbs, and Lawrence General Store building and another early school was conducted on the site of the old Methodist Church. From about 1860 to 1870, Miss Fannie Fry and Miss Sallie Beynroth taught school in a ScHOOLS 169 stone building on the Benjamin Head property, located be­ tween his house and Henry Pearcy'"s store. This building was demolished many years ago. Some of the pupils of this school were Mattie Jones Blumer, Ida Mitchell, Lela Waters, Anna Powell Tatchell, Mary Powell Roman, and Jenny Gwathmey. For fifty years a private school was con­ ducted in the old Harry Hudson Lodge building. The first floor was used £or the school and the second floor for the lodge meetings. At one time or another Wallace Tharp, H. C. Morrison, and Mariah Langsdale taught there. Miss Langsdale had ten pupils, eight of whom were Ollie Han­ cock, William Tharp, Bertie Long, La Moille Wetherby, Ruth Cox, Maude Blake, Mamie Gates, and Lloyd Gates. About 1880 Mr. Brickley taught a writing school in a one-room building across the road £rom the Middletown Cemetery. Nannie West, Amelia Head Tway, Warren Watkins, Wallace Tharp, and Mr. West also taught tl)e school. About 1855 the Reverend George Bush, a Methodist minister, founded the Jefferson Female Academy, a board­ ing school for girls. The academy was housed in the two­ story brick building that previously had been a woolen mill, located on the present site of the Baptist Church. When the brick building no l

Some of the former teachers in the frame building on the hill and in the present red brick building were: Katie Durr, C. W. Caldwell, Viola Caldwell, Laura Manski, Eunice Russell, Maud Hagan, Mrs. Cockerham, Cather­ ine Bailey, Jane Barrickman, Anna Remmert, Julia Reubelt, Mavis Welker, Mrs. Belle Evans, Mrs. V easy, Mrs. Joseph­ ine Grunwald, Elizabeth Quisenberry, Martha Shelboume, Mrs. Ida Chilton, Gladys Friend, Mrs. Bell, Mr. Averitt, and C. K. Dickey. The teachers in 1938 were: M. J. Schultz, principal; Meta Elder, Jane Hite, Maud Hagan, Ethel Simpson, Mrs. L. L. Winchester, Mrs. Ollie Crouch, and Mrs. Tom Grunwald. There were more than three hundred pupils enrolled in the eight grades. From 1916 to 1920 Middletown had a one-teacher high school. Classes were held in the auditorium of the Masonic Lodge for two years until a high school building could be erected. Elderly Professor Woodson, the first teacher, was succeeded in turn by Ralph S. Trosper, and the Reverend C. K. Dickey. When the high school was discontinued, the pupils of Middletown were enrolled in the Anchorage High School. They were required to pay an annual tuition of $40 for the first two or three years; then the Jefferson County Board of Education assumed the obligation. Some of the pupils attending Middletown High School were: Anna Mason, Martha Bert Mi11iken, May Bert Tharp, Edith Wood, Margaret Wetherby, Otie Staton, Charlotte Poulter, Tyler Coleman, Frisbee Coleman, Wilhoit Jones, Tabitha Slaughter, Martha Tharp. Luetta Tatchell, Jane Jones, Margaret Wetherby, Anna Mason, and Edith Wood were among the first high school graduates of Middletown. Today nearly every child in Middletown completes high school, and many are grad­ uating from college. . The pendulum has swung to the left Freedom, the keynote of today, is expressed in the dress and behavior of ScHOOLS 173 students. Boys' shirts are no longer ''stuffed in" but hang loosely about the hips. In design-usually plaid-and color they speak for themselves. Boys' trousers have plaits at the waist and are full in the legs. Girls wear skirts topped by slipovers or cardigans which are loose sweaters with no waistline. They wear their wavy hair, either natural or npermanent," hanging freely about the shou1- ders. Bobby socks and moccasins are wom on the feet. Slacks, ccpants adopted by females," are worn at home and on the street and occasionally at school. Shorts are sum­ mer garb. Few students walk to school. Some own a "jallopy" or use the family car, while the majority ride the school bus which is furnished by Jefferson County or the public bus in case of Anchorage High School. The school day begins at 8: 30 in the morning and closes about three o'clock in the afternoon, with a half hour or more at noon and no recess for high school students. Gasses are forty minutes to an hour in length. In addition to the three R's the curriculum. in the upper grades now includes about twenty-five different subjects covering the fields of history, geography, higher mathematics, physical and social sciences, journa1 ism, home economics, foreign languages, guidance, commerce, art, music, physical education and club activities. The behavior of the students is excellent considering the tension produced by the speed of this mechanized age and the strains imposed by war. Physical education that includes health care, and interesting activities conducted by the students themselves help to minimize the number of discipline problems. The Kentucky school law prohibits the whipping of a child except by the principal in the pres­ ence of the teacher or parent. The punishments today in­ clude rep.rirnands by the teacher or principal, retention after school hours, suspension, and expu1sion. Boys and 174 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS girls mingle together during school hours and out of school. Basketball, football, and softball engage the in­ terest of the boys as players and the girls ·as spectators. Dancing is a common diversion for both. The cold home-prepared lunch with the large soda biscuits and jam has been succeeded by a wholesome hot meal now served in the school cafeteria for about fifteen or twenty cents. The old maid schoolteacher disappeared with slates and buttoned shoes. Today many women teachers are married and young misses are often mistaken for high school students. Their shorn locks are curled and their lips and cheeks are flushed, not with embarrassment but with tricks of the alchemisf s trade. Skirts have traveled from the ankle to the knee. In behavior the teachers are as modem as their patrons and pupils, but of course there are still a few old-fashioned ones. Teachers are much better prepared for their work than were their predecessors of a hundred years ago whose sole qualifica­ tion, sometimes, was their ability to keep order. In ad­ dition to that, which is still important, a teacher must have a college degree and must hold a teacher's certificate or license. Salaries range from $140 to $250 a month de­ pending on tenure and education. A teacher is no longer necessarily a resident of the town. Often she lives in Louisville or some other community and drives twelve or more miles to school each day. UIAPTER VII

TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION

The earliest means of transportation in Middletown was by boat down Beargrass Creek and by horseback and pack­ train along Indian and wild animal trails. Today Bear­ grass Creek is a shallow stream with only a fraction of its former volume, but before the forest was cut away from its banks the current was sufficiently heavy and swift to carry small boats and tum mill wheels. Overland routes were needed and the settlers in their remote new homes opened roadways as soon as there was relative freedom from Indian attack. A road was cut through the wilderness be£ ore 1797 con­ necting Lexington and Louisville, and it incidentally formed the Main Street of Middletown. The old Harrods Creek Road was surveyed in March, 1797, and two months later, at the time of the establishment of Middletown, the Court ordered Sam Blankenbaker and others "to select the nearest and most convenient way for a road from Middle­ town to Jeffersontown. 0 Another road nwas viewed,, by Martin Brengman and others in 1801. This road ran from Henry County through Middletown to Man's Lick. With the opening of roads the stage-coach became the most im­ portant means of travel In 1810 two and a half days were required to make the trip from Lexington to Middle­ town. It was a tiresome and perilous journey beset by robbers, wild animals, and the severities of the weather; with rough dusty roads in summer, and mud, snow, and ice in winter. · The stage-coach was a heavy, enclosed, four-wheeled carriage. Before the use of springs, the body of the coach 176 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

,vas suspended from iron standards by leather straps. A flat roof accommodated the baggage and also provided extra seats. The box and driving seat were at the front of the coach and four horses were usually used to draw it. Two coaches ran through Middletown daily. A large stone stable on the brow of the hill east of Davis Tavern served as a suitable place to change the tired horses for fresh ones. Leonard Jones, a venerable citizen, remembers a stage-coach station just west ot H. P. Pearcy' s store. When the old wilderness road was improved it became known as the Lexington and Louisville Turnpike. It was Middletown's first road with a rock bed and is said to be the oldest turnpike in Kentucky. An Act was passed Feb­ ruary 4, 1817, authorizing a company to build ''an artificial road" from Lexington by way of Frankfort to Louisville. Some of the books for the sale of stock at one hundred dollars per share were opened in Middletown under the direction of Samuel Lawrence and Benjamin Head. The 0 artificial road" was built in 1820. Tollgates provided one source of funds for its maintenance. In 1886 Mr. and Mrs. John Orr were the tollgate keepers at the Eight-Mile House. There was another tollgate at English Station east of Middletown. The toll was fifteen cents one way or twenty-five cents for the round trip. The tollgates were removed from the road in 1901. It was over the old turnpike that the well-to-do took pleasure trips or made shopping tours to Louisville either on horseback or in a private carriage drawn by a pair of fine horses, sleek and shiny in ornate harness. Those of moderate means used a horse and buggy. The merchants of Middletown drove to Louisville in wagons to do their buying and while they were transacting their business, they left the horses and wagons at a livery stable on Main Street. The practice continued until the Louisville and Interurban Railway provided freight service. TRANSPORTATION AND CoMMUNICATION 177

Before transportation was motorized droves of live­ stock were a common sight along the old road and even down Middletown's Main Street! The animals driven to the Louisville markets included cattle, horses, sheep, hogs, and turkeys. Several herders accompanied them to direct and control their movements. Before the practice of oiling the road began-which was about 1914-great clouds of dust rose in dry weather whenever a vehicle or horse passed over the road and motorists donned linen dusters and goggles to protect their clothing and their eyes. The old turnpike with repairs, and finally a hard sur­ f acing, served Middletown and Jefferson County until 1934 when the new concrete road, U. S. Highway 60, was built. On July 13, 1934, a mass meeting was held at the Middle­ town Schoolhouse to discuss the proposed new route of the highway-a link which would leave Main Street and pass around the town to the north. The meeting ended in a near-riot with the advocates of the two routes still in bitter opposition to each other. The controversy raged until the Federal Bureau of Roads approved the new route July 14, 1934. Middletown made the headlines, one and a fourth inches high, in the Louisville Times, July 14, 1934. The Times carried the following article:

0 U. S. OKEHS No. 60 ROUTE AROUND MIDDLETOWN

uApproval of the route north of Middletown as a new link in U. S. Highway 60 by the Federal Bureau of Roads was announced Saturday by W. 0. Snyder, chief engineer of the State Highway Commission. ccnus action of the bureau was expected to permit work on this section to begin sometime next week. 178 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Mr. Snyder said the contractor, who has already reached the disputed link, was ready to tackle the drainage job as soon as the Jefferson County Fiscal Board arranges the rights-of-way, and these contracts are almost ready. · "The decision of the bureau settles a controversy between the Fiscal Court and citizens of Middletown of several months! standing. "The court, guided· by Federal, State and county engineers, picked the route that goes around Middle­ town. The majority of residents of the community wanted to keep U. S. 60 as it is, the town's main street. When residents could not agree, the court asked the bureau to designate the approved route so that immediate work orders could be issued. "Unknown to the court, Federal approval of its route reached Mr. Snyder at Frankfort late Friday. He notified. F. A. Shobe, engineer of the Louisville district, who informed members of the court Saturday. The court notified Mr. Shobe to delay the construction no longer, guaranteeing to have all the land deeds in his hands promptly. UCounty Commissioner Isaac Hilliard, who has been active in pushing the project, said that the court had options on all of the rights-of-way needed except two that will require condemnation proceedings. One suit, he said, will be formality, but the other represents a fight for a price, the owner having been in favor of . the through-Middletown route. uMr. Hi11iard said the bureau's decision was wise from the public standpoint, inasmuch as the route is safer and cheaper than the present road. The court plans to resurface th~ present road through Middle­ town next year with asphalt or concrete, thus giving TRANSPORTATION AND CoMMUNICATION 179

it a high-type thoroughfare for its main street, as well as the high-speed road to the north. UUnaware that Federal sanction of its route had already been given, the court Friday adopted a reso­ lution requesting Washington to hasten working orders so that construction could be undertaken. The road is expected to be finished before the :first frost ''A mass meeting of residents at the schoolhouse at Middletown Friday night broke up in a near-riot as scuffiing and attempted fisticuffs broke out almost simultaneously in three parts of the room. Thomas C. Fisher, advocate of the new route, called the meet­ ing. Attendants seemed to be about equally divided. "Mr. Fisher's qualifications to explain blueprints of the road were questioned. Somebody told Lloyd W. Gates, supporter of the old route, to shut up. Scuffi.es broke out in the front and the rear of •the room, but were stopped before any blows were struck. A near-fight in the corridor was also quelled without blows."

The new link connecting the west end of Middletown with the Shelbyville County line was opened October 27, 1934, and the new road through the ma in street of Middle­ town was built in 193 5. The last link of U. S. Highway 60 connecting Middletown with Louisville was built during the fall of 193 7 and the spring of 1938. It is a two-way concrete road with a grass strip through the center. A pompous dedicatory celebration was held in St. Matthews and Middletown July 16, 1938, with Governor A. B. Chandler the principal speaker. In 1851 when the Louisville and Frankfort Railway was built, the stage-coach route was discontinued and a back was used to carry people from Middletown to Anchor­ age where they boarded the trains. 180 -MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

On August 20, 1910, the first electric car of the Louis­ ville and Eastern Railway ( which became the Louisville and Interurban Railway in 1912) was run between Louis­ ville and Shelbyville. This was a great day in the history of Middletown for it meant rapid and convenient trans­ portation. Pearcy Moore was the president of the railway company and Richard Meriwether, the manager. The trip to Louisville required forty-five minutes and cost twenty­ seven cents. The cars were safe and comfortable and they operated on a very exact schedule-so exact, in fact, that the residents of Middletown could set their clocks by them. The cars were made first of wood and later of steel. There were two rows of rattan seats with an aisle between; lug­ gage racks were above each seat, and the windows along both sides were of plate glass. The compartment for the colored people was at the front of the car. The total capacity was about sixty passengers. The car had two doors in front and two at the rear and it was operated by a motorman who sat on a stool in the front of the car and by a conductor who helped the passengers into it and collected the tickets and fares. These electrically driven cars were at first painted a dull red. In later years, the company. painted them yellow to make them more con- sp1cuous. The coming of motorized transportation put the electric line out of business. The railroad property was sold through the Federal Court for a million dollars. It was a sad occasion when the last car blew its whistle in Middle­ town, May 16, 1934. On June 11 the tracks through Middletown were removed. They ran parallel to U. S. Highway 60, along the south side, from Crescent Hill to Middletown. At the west end of the town the tracks crossed the highway at Brookside and took a course to the north of the new U. S. Highway 60 as far as English Station, about a mile east of Middletown. Here they again TRANSPORTATION AND CoMMUNICATION 181 crossed the highway and resumed a parallel course along the south side. The Middletown Station, a large frame building located at the intersection of the tracks with the Middletown-Anchorage Road, is now. occupied by the Twyman Feed Store. Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, daughter of Henry Keneaster, was the station agent during the last twenty years of its operation. The bus service was gladly accepted by the people of Middletown when they lost the interurban railway. On August 16, 1923, the first bus was run from Louisville to Lexington. It was called the "Blue Goose," but today it is called the Greyhound. The busses of today are light blue in color with white streamed lines along the sides. They have leather-cushioned seats and carry thirty-five passengers. There is an hourly schedule both ways until midnight. The round-trip fare is fifty-five cents from Middletown to Louisville. The fust private automobile in Middletown was owned by Henry Frank in 1908. It was a Hercules, a make long discontinued. Almost every family in Middletown now owns an automobile. Gasoline sells at eighteen to twenty­ two cents a gallon, according to the grade. Many residents of Middletown are employed in Louisville and drive their own cars on the daily trip which requires about twenty-five minutes each way. During the years before the automobile became com­ mon, children and sport-loving adults enjoyed weeks of sleighing down the very center of Middletown:> s Main Street. The sleds were started in front of Lib Brown·s house, and with a good shove-off or running jump, the rider would speed down the big hill, up the next rise, turn the comer at Dr. Witherbee's house, .and descend the CCGraveyard Road"' hill Mason Gregg, who enjoyed the fun himself and liked to share it with others, built a large bob-sled which accommodated about ten people. With 182 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Mr. Gregg at the controls and a group of eager, rosy­ cheeked youngsters and oldsters seated behind him, ~e sled would race through the night air fill iog it witli screams and shouts of delight. Continental airplane service is available at Bowman Field, about eight miles from Middletown. The lines operating out of Bowman Field are the American Airlines, Incorporated, and the Eastern Air Lines, ~corporated.

CoMMUNICATION The postal service is the town's oldest means of com­ mup.ication. The Middletown Post Office was established January 1, 1804. Previous to that time the town was likely served by the Louisville Post Office "'·hich was established in 1794. Middletown is said to have one of the oldest post offices in Kentucky. In the early days the mail was carried by stage-coach, and later by rail when the trains began to run through Anchorage. For many years James Poulter carried the mail on horseback from Anchorage to Middletown. Later Ed Singer carried it from Anchorage to Middletown and thence to Eastwood in a specially con­ structed dosed-in sort of wagon, a rectangular parallele­ piped in shape that was drawn by one horse. Mr. Singer retired after thirty years of service. Jim Orr and Jim Davis had other routes during this same period. Will Grant now delivers the mail from Anchorage to the Middletown Post Office in a Plymouth automobile, around ten o'clock every morning. The post office was in the rear of H. P. Pearcy' s store until the present two-story concrete structure was completed June 4, 1945. Edward Schindler, owner of the new building, has been the post­ master since 1929. The following is a complete list of Middletown's post­ masters: TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION 183

POSTMASTERS DATE OF APPOINTMENT Martin Brengman ______January 1, 1804 William White______July 1, 1809 Lawrence Young ______May 19, 1826 Abijah C. Abemathy ______February 4, 1829 William R. Vance ______May 2, 1831 Robert W. Glass ______June 30, 1833 Robert G. Vance ______February 13, 1835 Eli jab I. Y oung______March 8, 1838 David Lukenbill ______September 16, 1840 Abram G. Watts______June 14, 18 51 Benjamin P. Johnson ______February 11, 1854 William Waters ______September 12, 1855 Peyton L. Simpson ______September 23, 1856 Minor W aters ______May 31, 18 59 Benjamin J. Johnson ______August 27, 1861 William Waters ______November 5, 1861 L. P. Wetherby______February 25, 1863 Benjamin G. Johnson. ______March 17, 1863 William Waters ______July 3, 1863 . Moses A. Dear ______November 4, 1865 John D. PowelL ______February 5, 1880 Robert S. Waters_____ March 25, 1881 Henry A. Keneaster ______January 4, 1886 Robert S. Waters______May 21, 1889 Minor Waters_____ May 19, 1893 Robert S. Waters. ____July 10, 1897 Henry P. Pearcy _____May 1, 1907 Laura V. Wood____ June 16, 1912 Wood H. Jones. ____August 9, 1912 Wade H. Gans February 4, 1920 Frank H. Hedden October 8, 1920 Henry P. Pearcy (Acting)-June 3, 1922 (Regular) ___November 8, 1922 184 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

George Schenck ( Acting) December 21, 1928 Edward Schindler______-----July 23, 1929 -NOTE. The office was discontinued August 31, 1865, and re-established Novem­ ber 4, 1865. This was during the Civil War. Communication in Middletown with the outside world was greatly advanced with the installation of the first tele­ phone in the store of R. S. Waters in the 1880's. Runners delivered the messages to the townspeople. The line was run directly from Louisville, as there was then no exchange at Anchorage. Very gradually telephones were installed in other business houses, and finally in private homes. A private line in a residence cost about $3 per morith. Instantaneous and world-wide communication came to Middletown through the radio about 1926. First there were crystal sets with earphones. Next came the loud­ speaker which was separate from the metal box containing the tubes, and today we enjoy the wooden cabinet which contains all of the parts. Wires are strung on the roof of the house or on poles in the yard, to serve as antennae. Almost every family owns a radio, and many have several. CHAPTER VIII

BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENTS AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Since its beginning Middletown has been a commercial center. The spread of the industrial revolution and the greater growth of Louisville doomed Middletown's early manufacturing concerns but its commerce has continued to flourish for 150 years. With changes in the economic and social life of the people a variety of new business establish­ ments has developed during the years, particularly in 1933, but the general store was here from the start. Excellent professional services have been rendered in Middletown since the beginning. The Reverend James Vance and several physicians were here to minister to the soul and body of the first settlers, and the founding fathers prompt­ ly provided legal advice and educational opportunities. The business establishments of Middletown now in­ clude: Three general stores, two barber shops, one hard­ ware store, one drug store, one ice house, two feed stores, one tin shop, one bank, one dry goods store,· two garages, three gas stations, one hotel, two whisky houses, one inn, one ice cream factory, one eat shop, one beauty parlor, a number of tourist camps, two electric and radio shops, one funeral parlor, and one metal stamp factory. Robert Sullivan Waters operated a general store about 1850 in a small log building on the site of Phelps Barber Shop, and later moved to another log building on the comer where Hunt's Market is located. In time this old store house proved inadequate and he built a frame struc­ ture on the site. There have been ten proprietors of general m>res on this comer: Nine of these conducted business 186 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS in the present concrete block building which was erected about 1907 by Henry Pearcy who bought the frame build­ ing and had it moved to the back of the lot for a ware­ room. It was destroyed by :fire some years later. The ten proprietors, in the order of their service, are as follows: R. S. Waters; Pearcy and Coleman (Henry Pearcy, Ben­ jamin T. Coleman) ; Middletown Mercantile (Edgar Cox, Lawrence Cox, Dr. L. D. Mason, Frank Pearcy, Wood Jones, T. C. Gaines) ; Cox-Pearcy (Edgar Cox, Franklin Pearcy); Wade Gans, Hedden and Summers (1921- 1927); Hedden and Sons; C. W. Brawner and Sons; Mason Grocery Company, incorporated February 5, 1929; and C.R. Hunt. About 1880 Henry Keneaster had a general store in what was formerly the millinery factory, a large frame structure east of the Methodist Church. Before 1894 William Waters, son of Major Waters, operated a store in one of the front rooms of his father's house which was located on the site of the H. P. Pearcy store. After ~s death his widow kept the store for several years. In 1894 William Benjamin Wood erected a store building on this lot and set up his son in business. The store went under the name of Wood and Son. The :first building burned and a second one was erected. In 1902 William Harlan Wood moved to Anchorage where his father had built another store for him; here he conducted business until 1912. H. P. Pearcy took over the Wood and Son store in 1902 and has engaged in mercantile transactions in this building to the present time. Minor Waters, son of Major Waters, erected the build­ ing where the Self Hardware Store is located and managed a general store there for many years. At his death his son, John W. Waters, became the proprietor and con­ ducted the business for about twenty-five years. In 1924 Martin Long and Sam Long came to Middletown from BUSINESS AND THE PROFESSIONS 187

Okolona. They operated a general store in the old Minor Waters building and later purchased the R. S.. Waters home and built a store on the comer of the lot. This is their present location. In the early days the general stores, taverns, and hotels sold whisky from barrels. Elderly citizens recall a barroom located between the home of Dr. _S. 0. Witherbee and H. P. Pearcy' s store and another at the comer inn where Joe Thormahlen operated a lunchroom. About 1890 there were three saloons in Middletown. The Reverend William Tharp I and Dr. E. T. Polk joined in a crusade against them and, at their own expense, procured an election at which the saloons were voted out of existence. Prior to the election the Reverend Tharp said, ccThe town isn,t worth a cent to live in." He later declared, ccSince the saloons have been driven out it has developed into an ideal home community.'' There were no saloons in Middletown from that time until the repeal of the Eighteenth Amend­ ment. Today there are three places where liquor may be procured. For several years J. M. Howey and Fred .Wilhelmi con­ ducted business in the east end of Middletown; Howey in the Gwathmey home, under the name of Green Shutter Inn, and Wilhelmi at the comer of Evergreen Avenue and U. S. Highway 60, under the name of Evergreen Inn. The Bank of Middletown was organized in 1910 with Dr. S. 0. Witherbee as the president; T. C. Gaines, the vice-president; and C. H. Schrader, the cashier. L. P. Wetherby, now serving as president succeeded Dr. Wither­ bee when he retired. H. 0. Hausgen and W. W. Melone, two of the first directors, are still serving. Henry Frank, another organirer, served as director from 1910 until his death in 1932. The bank withstood the trying days of the depression of the early 1930" s and now has a capital stock of $25,000. It is a member of the Federal Reserve 188 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and has co-operated with the Government in the sale of United States War Bonds. It has modem service with a night de­ pository and tear gas equipment for protection against robbery. In 1912 Fred Myers, mortician of Jeffersontown since February 7, 1907, opened business in Middletown in what is now the Self Hardware Store. Here he provided the town with its first street light, which sent forth its rays £or the convenience of neighbors and other townsfolk who passed that way after dark. He removed his business to Hord's Hotel, then to the cottage next door, and in 1938 to his present location in the Elder William Tharp home, across the street £rom the Christian Church. He bought his first motor hearse in 1918. The Springdale Dairy Farm, located on the old James W. Urton place on Tucker Station Road, furnished Mid­ dletown with milk when the private ownership of cows became rare. J. M. Howey owned and operated the farm from 1941 to 1943 when he sold the stock to R. C. Tway of Plainview Farms Dairy. About 1922 Charles Phelps came to Middletown and opened a barber shop in the Henry Frank building. Later he built his own shop on the lot where he now lives, op­ posite to the H. P. Pearcy Store. G. L. Herrick and son started an electrical business in 1923, using an old meat house on the homestead for the first shop. They devoted several years to repair jobs and have now developed a business of large proportions. The first garage in Midclletown, built by Emmett Brooks and operated by Herman Knauer, was located on the hill across from the Lloyd Gates place near the intersection of U. S. Highway 60. Joe Zinn of Louisville was the pro­ prietor from 1929 until the building was razed in 1934 when the new highway was constructed. Mr. Zinn moved BUSINESS AND THE PROFESSIONS 189 to the Henry Frank garage building after it was vacated by the Middletown Garage. He remained there a year and then moved to a new location on Main Street at Evergreen Avenue. On the advent of war, he sold his business to N. P. Neisius and took up his residence in St. Matthews. In 1931 the Middletown Garage, with proprietors G. H. Hancock and L. E. Slattery, conducted business in the Henry Frank building. When the new highway was con­ structed, Henry P. Pearcy erected a garage building at its intersection with the Middletown-Anchorage Road and the Middletown Garage moved into it in 1935 where it still serves the public. Hancock and Slattery had the agency for the Ford automobile. The three gas stations are located, within a few yards of each other, at the west end of town where the old highway joins the new. The first one, in order of location, was built by Lloyd Gates in 1938 and is operated by his son-in-law, John Howell. Shell Refining Products are sold here. The next station sells Standard Oil Products and is operated by Golden Lewis. The third is an Aetna station operated by I. W. Quesenberry, who is also a coal dealer. There are other gas pumps within -the town limits. Gulf Refining Products are sold at H. P. Pearcy' s store and the Middle­ town Garage, Texaco and Sinclair products at the east end of town. The year 1933 witnessed a boom in Middletown's busi­ ness life. The Middletown Apothecary, with Oliver E. Mayer as the proprietor, began to serve the public on May 22, 1933. In addition to the prescription department, which is his specialty, Mr. Mayer has for the public·s con­ venience: a lending library, current magazines, films and developing, fountain service, and a gas and electric pay station. The Self Hardware Store introduced its new merchan­ dise on August 30, 1933, with a complete line of plumbing 190 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS and electrical supplies, hardware, paints, glass, oils, lime, fencing, cement, fertilizer, roofing, etc. I. L. Hancock and Son opened their feed store in 1933 in the old Maddox place (now demolished) on Main Street near the Method­ ist parsonage. In 1935 the business was moved to what was formerly the Louisville and Interurban Railway Station. The ice storage house, operated by Marvin Pearce, was opened in 1933. In the same year a tin and plumbing shop was opened by Ed White. The two establishments are lo­ cated on the Middletown-Anchorage Road near its inter­ section with the new highway. On May 11, 1935, the Manning Beauty Parlor was opened in the Charles Downey home. After a few months it was succeeded by the Old Inn Beauty Shop, under the ownership of Mrs. Joe Thormahlen. This shop serves Middletown, Anchorage, and the surrounding communities, offering permanent waves and shampoos as its specialties. The Thormahlens have been in business since 1933 in the old brick house built prior to 1800. Joe Thormahlen op­ erated a restaurant there until ill health forced him to re­ tire. In addition to housing the beauty shop the inn also accommodates the Greyhound Bus Station. In 1937 the Arrington Dry Goods Store had its humble beginning in a room in the Middletown Inn. As business expanded, it was removed to the Rose Waters house which was remodeled. The front room was extended and plate glass show windows were added. This store was pre• ceded by the Midget Shop which was opened in 1932 by Goldie Bohannon. The Midget Shop ocropied the room now used by the Middletown Apothecary and later was movecl to the Frank building where the shoe repair shop, opened in 1938 by George C. Forwood, was located. The location of Middletown on the important U. S.. Highway (,() provides a profitable business for tourist homes and cabins. These tourist places arc the successors BUSINESS AND THE PROFESSIONS 191 to the taverns of the early days. Smith Lodge, owned and operated by Mrs. Spencer Smith, is a modem home located on the new highway at the rear of the Baptist Church. Several cabins have been built on the lawn for those who may prefer them. The charge is one dollar per person for the night. Miss Irene Spicher opened a tourist court, CCColonial Cottages," in July, 1938. Four cottages are very attractively and rather expensively furnished in maple suites with matching accessories. Each cottage has a private bath and shower and rents at from three to five dollars per night. Miss Spicher is located on U. S. Highway 60 about one mile east of Middletown. Robert Jones has a tourist court of several cabins on the lawn of his dwelling and there are a few private homes open to tourists. In 1940 Mrs. Melvin E. Humphrey and Mrs. George H. Sidebottom bougnt the Maple Lawn Eat Shop and ice cream factory from W. A. Gunther. They have added tourist cabins and have made various other improvements as their business has grown. Chester H. Schrader is general supervisor for the twenty-three strawberry growers in the Middletown area who load their berries at the L. P. Wetherby farm. In 1938, 6,500 crates were shipped averaging $2.25 per crate and totaling $14,000. The berries were shipped to Grand Rapids and Flint, Michigan; Columbus, Ohio, . and Mil­ waukee, Wisconsin. Local growers who ship from this center are: L. P. Wetherby, J. W. Swan, C. H. Swan, 0. V. Reel, F. D. Durr, Preston Deamer, J. W. Simpson, Mrs. C. A. Burdon, B. E. Brinley, H. Knauer, Sam Mangrum, B. Tohen, Ray Downing, lc?uis Downing, Herman Wibbles, Mrs. T. P. McCabe, F. T. Beckley, C. D. Wi~an, Ernest Cohens, C. P. Howard, H. L. Walker, and Wade Pearce. The trucks are loaded in the yard of the old Davis Tavem. · 192 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

In June, 1944, Charles D. Kipp of Louisville organized the Middletown Manufacturing Company in the old Henry Frank garage building. The machinery -was set up and thirty local people were engaged in the production of Army metal stampings. The company is under subcontract to the Louisville Tool and Die Company and the J. B. Pilcher Manufacturing Company, both of Louisville. The quiet peace of the town, which hitherto had known only the shouts of children at play and the songs of birds, is now broken by the thud and clank of industry.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Excellent professional services are rendered in Middle­ town by physicians, dentists, pharmacists, attorneys, minis­ ters, and educators. The medical profession has long been well represented. Previous to 1805, Dr. Peter Wood, Dr. Collins, and Dr. John Nicholas were here. Dr. Nicholas died about 1809. He bequeathed his library of medical and historical books to his brother, William C. Nicholas, ctwho now shows no disposition to study." They were followed by Dr. Oiew and Dr. Glass in 1830-1832; Dr. Young and Dr. Vance in 1832-1840; and Dr. Bemis and Dr. Fry in 1840- 1852. Dr. L. P. Wetherby, Dr. Goldsmith, Dr. Henry Clay Cox, and Dr. R. V. Sprowl were the next in service and then followed Dr. S. 0. Witherbee and Dr. Fry. Doctors Early, Garvey, and Polle were other early phy­ sicians. Dr. E. T. Polle bore a marked resemblance to his kinsman, President James K. Polk. Dr. Sam Wetherby and Dr. L. D. Mason were contemporaries until Dr. Wetherby was killed by a train at the Avoca railroad cross­ ing in 1926. A son, Dr. A. D. Wetherby, practiced in Mid­ dletown until he met a similar death. Dr. Mason has practiced in Middletown since 1898. His office is in his BusiNESS AND nm PROFESSIONS 193 home. Dr. H. D. Berryman practiced in Middletown for about fifteen years. Dr. B. 'B. Sleadd and Dr. Joe Burnett have practiced here since about 1936. Dr. Sleadd has his office in his home, formerly the Baptist parsonage. Dr. Burnett began practice in the office of the late Dr. A. D. Wetherby and later built his own office and clinic near the comer of the Middletown-Anchorage Road and U. S. High­ way 60. Dr. J. B. Jordan, dentist, had an office in his home from 1922 to 1944. Dr. J. K. Keyes, dentist, came to Middle­ town in 1936. His first office was in the Henry Frank Building; later he moved to his new home near the Dr. Jordan residence. Pharmacist Oliver Mayer came here in 193 3. His drugstore is housed in an addition built to the front of Edward Mitchell's house. In 1938 there were four lawyers, six ministers, and five teachers living in Middletown. Lloyd Gates has repre­ sented the legal profession for more than forty years. The younger lawyers of Middletown were George and Lawrence Wetherby and Frisbee Coleman. The six ministers were the Reverends E. F. Goodson, B. M. Currie, and P. L. King, who represented the Methodist Church; the Rev­ erends William Tharp and Perry L. Stone, who served the Disciples· of Omst; and the Reverend James A. McCaleb, who served the Baptists. The five native teachers were: Ethel Simpson, Meta Elder, and Jane Hite, who taught in the Middletown Graded School; Wayne Jones, who taught at the Ballard &hool; and Edith Wood, who taught at the Okolona High School. CHAPTER IX

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS

Middletown enjoys and profits from the programs of its fraternal, recreational, and civic orgaoimtions. The oldest and most outstanding of these is the Masonic Order. Its sister organization, the Eastern Star, was chartered in Middletown more th~ a hundred years later. Perhaps the most unusual organization is the Croquet Club which was formed to promote social intercourse among its members and to furnish enjoyment through the pursuit of a health­ ful sport. For the younger Middletonians there are a Boy Scout Troop and a Boys and Girls Club. Following the great flood of 193 7 the business men of Middletown formed an organization for the purpose of arousing the people to concerted action in the general interest, and the women formed a social and cultural society.

THE MAsoNIC LODGE Af?raham Lodge No. 8, which was formed in Middle­ town, was granted a dispensation by James Morrison, first Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky, Decem­ ber 21, 1801. It was chartered April 6, 1802. James Taylor was its first Master; Philip Barbour, Senior Warden, and Samuel N. Luckett, Junior Warden. Abraham Lodge No. 8 is the third in rank among the lodges west of West Virginia, notwithstanding the tact that younger lodges have been given numbers ahead of it. In April, 1803, the Grand Lodge authorized it to move to Louisville where it is now located. The Middletown Lodge No. 732 sent an embossed apron as a birthday gift on its 120th aooiver- CoMMUN11Y ORGANlzAnoNS 195 sary. The Harry Hudson Lodge, another early organization, met for fifty years in a large log building on the site of the Charles Downey home, across the street from the Ben­ jamin Head house. The present Middletown Lodge was organized under dispensation granted January 12, 1901, by the Grand Master of Kentucky. His action was approved by the Grand Lodge at its annual meeting the following October, whereupon a charter was issued to the lodge October 17, 1901, and it was given the numerical designation of 732. E. D. Ragland, representing the Grand Master, installed the £ollowing officers: Silas O. Witherbee, Master; Sher­ man Kline, Senior Warden; John B. Guthrie, Junior Ward­ en; Robert S. Waters, Senior Deacon; John A Yenowine, Junior Deacon; William A. Oursler, Secretary and Treas­ urer; Henry A. Wetherby, Tyler. The first lodge hall was in the old Davis Tavern. The present lodge hall was built in 1905 on ground given by William J. Jones. It was dedicated August 7, 1905. J. H. Cowles of the Louisville Lodge No. 400 was designated Master of Ceremonies as proxy of the Grand Master, R H. C. Rhea. He was assisted by the following officers: C. K. Summerville, Past Master of the Abraham Lodge No. 8, Deputy Grand Master; J. T. Funk, Past Master of the Day­ light Lodge No. 7(,0, Grand Senior Warden; J. J. Douglass, Past Master of the Compass Lodge No. 233, Grand Junior Warden; I. E. Seibert, Past Master of the Robinson Lodge No. 266, Grand Junior Deacon; C. D. Gipes, Past Master of the Robinson Lodge No. 266, Grand Junior Deacon; H. B. Gans, Past Master of the Louisville Lodge No. 400, Grand Marshal; W. H. Bartholomew, Past Master of the Preston Lodge No. 281, Grand Ola.plain; W. A. Oursler, Grand Secretary; Henry Frank, Architect. Stated communications are held the first and third Mon­ days in each month. Dr. L. D. Mason, who holds the 32nd 196 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, has been the treasurer of the Middle­ town Lodge for more than thirty yea.rs. The membership in 1942 was 112, with Joe F. Moore, as Master. Masters in the order of their service: Dr. S. 0. Wither­ bee (1900-1901), John B. Guthrie, Henry Frank {1903- 1907), James H. Rudy, William L. Hord, Edward T. Mitchell, John P. Schindler, Thomas H. Demaree {1912- 1914), Philip Lewis Fried, Andrew Jackson Davidson, WilJiaro Haebe ( 1917-1918), Lewis Benjamin, Lewis Clark McDonald, George B~ Herr, Fred Spicher, Roy Gross, John A. Etheridge, Jr., Forest M. Raley, Everett H. Correll, John A. Moser, Buford Lancaster, Willett Nay, Herbert G. Cochran, Lawrence E. Slattery, J. M. Correll, Jr., Edgar Painter, Jr., James I. Grunwald, Robert P. Drummond, Millard C. Rudy, Edgar Cox, Edward Hord, John Howell, Rocke John Fanelli, Helm Wallas, Joseph T. Moore, George C. Cates, Jr., Fred W. Jackman, Herbert E. Brenner ( 1945) . All of the Masters served one year each except where indicated.

THE EAsTERN STAR The Middletown Chapter of the Eastern Star, No. 319, was organized by the Harmony Chapter No. 273. The meeting was called to order October 16, 1920, at the Mid­ dletown Masonic Hall, by the Worthy Grand Patron, Brother William A. Keller. Sister Lora Lee Bates, Worthy Grand Matron, served as Grand Chaplain; Sister Josephine Keller, Grand Warden, served as Grand Marshal; Sister Evalyn Seebolt, Past Matron of Harmony Chapter No. 273, served as Grand Secretary. The Worthy Grand Patron appointed the following officers: Minnie Cox, Worthy Matron; Louis Benjamin, Worthy Patron; Laura Spicher, Assistant Matron; and in tum the Worthy Matron, Mrs. COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS 197

Cox, appointed Eva Hord, Secretary; Fred Spicher, Treas­ urer; Maggie McDonald, Conductress; Frances Etheridge, Assistant Conductress; Fanny Bennett, Chaplain, Mattie Blumer, Marshal. The first meeting was held November 8, 1920. The chapter was under dispensation until No­ vember 28, 1921, when it was granted a charter and given the number 319. The charter members were: Rose Benjamin, Mary E. Pearce, Irene Spicher, Mayme Reel, Minnie Cox, Eva Hord, Yirginia Herr, Mayme Haebe, Laura Spich~r, Frances Etheridge, Mattie Blumer, Maggie McDonald, Maud Cox, Lissie Yenowine, Fannie Bennett, Ivy Casey, Louis Ben­ jamin, William Haebe, Robert T. Pearce, William Hord, George B. Herr, Fred Spicher, John A. Etheridge, Marion Reel, L. C. McDonald, and Norvin Orr. The Worthy Matrons in order of their service are: Minnie Cox (1920-1922), Laura Spicher, Margaret Leist, Cora Correll, Ruth Mason, Marjorie Mixon, Mary B. Hord, Maud Cox, Ann Moser, Anna Wetherby, Lena Nay, Sue Painter, Elsie Grunwald, Vertna Pearce, Mrs. Paul Kolb, Mary Tatchell, Violet Mason, Irmadean Correll, ( 1938-1940) , Vertna Pearce, Violette Johnson, Violet Mason (1942-1944), Bertha Jolin (1944-1945). All of the Worthy Matrons served one year each, exceptions in- dicated.. ·

BoY Scours The Middletown Boy Scout Troop No. 125, sponsored by a group of citizens, was organized in May, 1927, with Thomas C. Fisher, scoutmaster, and Lawrence W. W ether­ by, assistant scoutmaster; Dr. L. D. Mason, chairman, and Alfred D. Wetherby, S. W. Mayberry, and V. H. Wallace troop committeemen. 198 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

The troop was suspended in 1929 and was re-registered in 1933 with Whit P. Haynes as the scouhDaster. The Middletown community sponsored the troop until the following year when the men's Bible classes of the Chris­ tian, Baptist, and Methodist Churches -took over the re­ sponsibility. The troop was again suspended, and again re-registered in 1937 when the Middletown Civic Club sponsored it with Dr. J. K. Keyes as the scoutmaster. Other scoutmasters who have served Troop No. 125 are: W. L. Davis, 1938; W. A. Gunther, 1938; F. B. Williams, 1939-1941; Williard A. Guy, 1942; Austin Taber, 1943 to the present.

BoYs AND GIRLS CLUB The Boys and Girls Club was organized in August, 1942, at the Community House under the sponsorship of the Woman's Oub. The members included: Mary Arring­ ton, Barbara Jacobson, Ellen Jacobson, Edith Morgan, Yvonne Yunker, Betty Yunker, Billy Cochran, Jimmie Gunther, Edwin Lowery, Carl Meyer, Jimmie Mariarty, Daniel Stamer, Jack Stevens, Dick Stevens, Ralph Stevens, Edward Walker, Paul Young, Charlie Yunker, and Sylvester Yunker. Mrs. John Mathies, and Mrs. C. A. Yunker were the sponsors. Their permanent committees included: program, art, athletics, sewing, weaving, and entertainment The regular meetings were held at the Community House every Wednesday evening. This dub disbanded after a time and was succeeded by the Teen-Age Oub organized in the fall of 1945. This club meets every Saturday evening at the Community House, under the direction of Ray Baer and Mrs. Anna Slattery. The present officets are: Alma Jackman, president; Lee Frank Tinsley, vice-president; Susie Crask, secretary; and David Wetherby, treasurer. There are about fifty members. COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS 199

THE CROQUET CLUB The unique organization of Middletown is the Croquet Chili. A group of croquet enthusiasts have played the game off and on for twenty-five years or more. The :first court was on the lawn of Lloyd Gates, who was one of the most ardent of the players. Each man provided himself with a ball and mallet fashioned to his own taste. In 1939 a croquet chili was organized and a fine sand-clay court with concrete moulding and electric lights was built at the rear of Edward T. Mitchell's home. The 1944 mem­ bers included: Edward T. Mitchell, president; A. B. Young, treasurer; James Jones, William Tharp, Archibald Brinley, Whittier Tharp, Jack Proctor, Robert Calhoun, James Rothenberger, M. H. Hatton, Samuel Long, and Omer Jones.

THE FLOOD OF 1937 Occasionally some good emerges from devastating dis­ asters-such was the case following the 1937 flood. During the wintry days of emergency in January, citizens and organizations of Middletown joined hands in meeting the needs of flood refugees. It was soon realized that much could be achieved through combining efforts. The Civic Ou.b and the Woman's Club were organized as the result of the citizens' experience in co-operation. The great flood of 193 7 was preceded by unprece­ dent~ torrential rains throughout the Ohio River valley. The river reached flood stage at 28 feet on Friday, Jan­ uary 15. It continued to rise until it reached its crest· at 57.1 feet on January 27, after which it began to fall, reach­ ing a normal stage at 19 feet on February 8.. Thousands of people were made homeless; the refugees were scattered throughout Kentucky. 200 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

On the fateful Sunday, January 17, 1937, a public meet­ ing was called at the Middletown School to plan for flood relief work; the Reverend James A. McCaleb was named chairman of the Middletown Relief Commission. All beds, bedding, and clothing available in the community were collected and sent to the Masonic Lodge, the Christian Church, and the ·schoolhouse where the refugees were housed. An emergency hospital was provided in one of the school rooms where Dr. Joe Burnett and Dr. H. D. Berryman were in charge. The assisting nurses were: Mrs. Anna Wetherby, Mrs. Mary Wetherby, Mrs. Joe Thormahlen, and Miss Ott. The police of Louisville were notified of Middletown's preparation and refugees were sent to Buechel and Anchorage by train and thence to Middletown by automobiles and trucks. Mrs. Anna Wetherby, to whom the Louisville Chapter of the American Red Cross had sent credentials and a pass, accompanied by the Reverend McCaleb and Buford Lan­ chester, made a trip to Louisville to appeal to the Red Cross for aid. They were transported by boat from the pontoon bridge to the Brown Hotel where they submitted their report. In response to their appeal the Red Cross sent great quantities of necessary supplies which were stored in the Masonic Lodge for distribution. All meals for the refugees were prepared and served at the school­ house under the supervision of Mrs. Byland Brinley, who was assisted by a corps of women. Mrs. Brinley also had charge of providing recreation and entertainment for children and adults. The response of the community was magnificent, many people participated in the gigantic undertaking of ministering to the needs of the refugees but space permits the mentioning of only a few. During the entire flood period about two thousand people, white and colored, were housed in Middletown and in adjacent Griffithtown. Some were received in private homes. CoMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS 201

All roads leading to Louisville were guarded by the county and city police and the National Guard to prevent sightseers and looters from entering the city. The Middle­ town School and all the other Jefferson County schools were closed from January 22 to February 22. Radio Station WHAS rendered a great service in directing the relief work and in saving lives. Its operators were heroic in their devotion to duty. Listeners heard the almost con­ stant appeal of, "send a boat, send a boat!" Finally the radio went off the air at midnight on the fateful Sunday. The river rose to such a height that the hydroelectric power plant became inoperative, leaving Louisville and Jefferson County silent and dark, except for a few crystal radio sets and the flickering rays of kerosene lamps, flashlights, and candles. In this respect Middletown and her neighbors regressed a hundred years in one night. Gasoline and food were rationed. Only relief workers could obtain gasoline and the people of Middletown had to obtain orders from the local relief commission to buy groceries. Rationing-then an uncommon experience-­ was necessitated because the frightened people made a run on the stores, and the customary replenishment of supplies could not be obtained from Louisville.

THECMCCLUB The Middletown Civic Oub was organized March 8, 1937, for the purpose of upholding and promoting the civic, cultural, educational, and recreational welfare of the oommunicy. . The first officers of the Club were: A. B. Young, presi­ dent; T. D. Self, first vice-president; E. F. Goodson, second vice-president; L. E. Slattery, secretary; Meta Elder, assist­ ant secretary; Roy Clark, treasurer; and Mrs. Edna Witt, 202 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS assistant treasurer. Following Mr. Young, who served for three years, there have been two other presidents of the· Civic Club since its incorporation in 1937: T. D. Self, and B. N. Sublette who has served since 1942. The chili holds monthly meetings at the schoolhouse. Although still in its infancy, it has completed many worthy projects. The club's first project was to raise funds for cleaning and beautifying the historic, but badly neglected, Middle­ town Cemetery. The second major project was to secure city water. This was an enterprise which for some years had been spoken of as a dream or a dim hope of the future, but through the co-operation of the members of the Civic Club it became a reality. A Federal labor grant was secured and a water district was formed. Water bonds were sold to a brokerage company to obtain the money with which to buy the necessary materials. The work was completed on scheduled time and an ample, healthful, and depend­ able supply of water was obtained at a reasonable rate. The third major project of the club was to procure and install a fire department. The citizens contracted to donate the savings that would accrue from lowered insurance rates with the department installed. The town now has a fine, well equipped, and well manned fire control service.

WoMAN's CLUB The Middletown Woman's Oub was organized on April 9, 1937, with thirty-four charter members. In September, 1937, it became a member of the Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs and the General Federation of Women·s Oubs. It was incorporated in May, 1938, and becaroP. an independent orgaoiz.atioa Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Wetherby gave the ground for the dub house. It is located on U. S. Highway (i(), between Evergreen Avenue and the Middletown-Anchorage Road. The ladies em- MIDDLETOWN COMMUNITY HOUSE 204 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS ployed various means, including an annual carnival an_d suppers to raise the building fund. The dedication of the Middletown Community House took place on Friday, May 26, 1939, with Mrs. Byland Brinley presiding. Mrs. L. P. Wetherby read a tribute to Mrs. Brinley as the first president and unveiled a picture of her which hangs above the fireplace in the club room. Others taking part in the ceremony were: Mrs. Joe Thormahlen, Mrs. M. A. Ross, Mrs. Joe Burnett, Mrs. Ralph Sams, Mrs. Myrtle Applegate, Mrs. Caldwell, Mrs. C. A. Yunker, Mrs. Frank McAuliffe, Mrs. Will Tharp, Mrs. William Jones, and Mrs. Minnie Cox. The guests were County Judge Mark Beauchamp, Matt Henchey, P. M. Brooks, and McKay King, all of whom were instru­ mental in the successful launching of the center. The presidents, in order of service, are: First president, Mrs. Byland Brinley, 1937-1939; Mrs. Ralph Sams, 1939-1940; Miss Lilla Breed, 1940-1943.

AMERICAN REn CRoss The Middletown Chapter of the American Red Cross was organized in July, 1940, in response to the need for civilian defense. It sponsored the following classes: standard first aid, advanced fust aid, home nursing, and nutrition. The organi?.ation completed 3,087 garments of sewing and 941 knitted articles in 1940-1942. It meets at the Community House every Thursday from ten a. m. to four p. m. and every Monday evening. Mrs. Byland Brinley was the first general chairman; Mrs. Herbert Bliss, sewing chairman; Mrs. Norman Jolin, secretary. During the month of August, 1944, twenty thousand surgical dressings were prepared by the organization. On July 3, 1944, the Red Cross exhibited photographs of the Middletown boys serving in World War II. CHAPTERX

CIVIC IMPROVEMENTS

A new era in Middletown's civic life was ushered in by the twentieth century. Evidence of the transition from a country village into a suburban town began to appear thereafter. Electricity, man's versatile servant, reached Middletown soon after the turn of the century. It was responsible for the amelioration of the economic life of all social strata. Enigmatical as it may appear, the great flood of 193 7 was another factor in the progress. Middle­ town's flood relief work aroused a consciousness of the power of a united people. Out of disaster came improve­ ment. The town's leaders formed two clubs that were re­ sponsible £or furthering its transition through the restora­ tion of its historic cemetery, the installation of water serv­ ice and the organization of a fire department. In June, 1911, the Louisville Gas and Electric Company ran lines to Middletown. The more prosperous residents installed bathroom fixtures and electric pumps, dug cisterns for a water supply, and presto! the homes had running water. Agitation in 1933 to procure Louisville city water failed due to Middletown's high elevation. With the coming of bottled gas in 1938 Middletown added another municipal convenience. The American Gas Service Company of Milford, Ohio, installed gas tanks on the lots of many homes here, furnishing a six-month supply for cooking purposes.

CEMETERY REsrORATION The Middletown Cemetery had been badly neglected for many years and in 1937 it was a veritable wilderness 206 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS of tall wild grass, tree sprouts, honeysuckle, myrtle, and large patches of yucca or Cl/bear grass... Great holes where graves were sunk had to be filled, and the needed truckloads of dirt were furnished by the Jefferson County Road Depart­ ment. The deaning and landscaping of the old graveyard was sponsored by the Middletown Civic Chib with the assistance of the Woman's Club. The work was begun in October, 1937, under the supervision of W. H. Wood who gave his services to the fulfillment of a desire to see the burial place of five generations of his own family and of other families a fit haven of rest. The total cost of the restoration project approximated a thousand dollars. Those who served on the committee to collect funds were: Mrs. Byland Brinley, Mrs. M. W. Ross, Mrs. Whittier Tharp, Clark McDonald, Charles L. Witherbee, and William Harlan Wood, treasurer. They made house-to-house solicitations; the public responded graciously. Mr. Robert Chester Tway made a generous gift which was used to build the shelter house and tool room. Among the florists in the surrounding communities who made donations were: Nick's Nursery, Minish and Potts, and Klein's. Mrs. Fanny Wetherby gave a strip of ground for part of the road through the cemetery. The Woman's Club assumed responsibility for the rock walk through the center of the grounds. It was planned by Mrs. Ralph Sams. Other contributions made by the Woman's Club included the bird bath and concrete bench, flower beds, and funds for tools and labor. The following is the program of the dedication of the restored Middletown Cemetery on Memorial Sunday, June 5, 1938, at three p. m.: Chairman of the program commit­ tee, the Reverend James R. McCaleb; invocation, the Rev­ erend B. M. Currie; song, Griffithtown colored choir; brief historical sketch, Thomas Fisher; song and musical pro­ gram, the Reverend Wilson and associates; dedicatory ad- CMC IMPROVEMENTS 207 dress, the Reverend E. F. Goodson; presentation of Wom­ an's Chili memorial by Mrs. Byland Brinley; presentation of gift of appreciation, Mrs. Ralph Sams; statement of need for perpetual care, A. B. Young, president of the Middle­ town Civic Club; benediction, the Reverend P. L. Stone; taps, buglers of Boy Scouts.

WATER WORKS SYSTEM Early in the 1930's a meeting of the citizens of Middle­ town was held in the Masonic Hall to organize a civic club, their first objective _being to get city water £or the town. Middletown's altitude, 722 feet above sea level, prohibited water being pumped from Louisville, hence it was pro­ posed to repwnp it £rom Anchorage. Dudley Mason had a survey made by Neil Knight, engineer, which included a complete layout of water mains, house connections, and fire plugs. This survey was submitted in 1938, to the Middletown Civic Club, under whose sponsorship the water service was obtained. The ·line is an extension from Anchorage supplying about eight hundred connections in the Middletown Water District. The Works Progress Administration furnished $28,000 of the estimated $60,000 cost. Work began in the spring of 1939 and was com­ pleted in December, 1939. The Jefferson County Judge appoints the Middletown water commissioners. The first three to serve were M. W. Ross, Lloyd Gates, and McKay King. C. H. Bliss has re­ cently succeeded McKay King.

FIRE DEPARTMENT The Middletown Fire Department was organized in 1941 with the following men as firemen: Oiief, G. H. Hancock, assistants, Raymond Herrick. Melville King, 208 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Lewis Brown, Lewis Snyder, Walter Roman, Fulton Tyler, G. E. Deats, James M. Crask, Stuart Brown, Frank Marshall, Vance Walker, Golden Lewis, Eugene Morgan, Richard Gregory, J. L. DeLime, Billy Jones, L. E. Slattery, Marvin Jones, James F. Crosby. Fire police: Raymond Lotze and Henry Lippert. Their service is free; they meet every two weeks for instruction and since 1941 representa­ tives have been sent to the Firemen's College in Lexington for special training. Chief Hancock and Golden Lewis have attended two years, Melville King in 1941, and J. L. DeLime in 1942. This college gives four days and nights of intensive training and actual drill. The entire depart­ ment has been trained in first aid; and, since the date of organization up to August 1, 1942, the engine had made fifty-one runs. The ninety-five horse-power Ford V-8 engine, Boyer equipment, with its two hundred-gallon capacity water tank, cost $4,500 and was paid for in two years. The equipment includes a Johnson hand-operated, five-gallon pump, smoke masks for men, tarpaulins for salvage work, a first aid kit, eight hundred feet of four-inch hose, four hundred feet of two-inch hose, ladders, fog nozzles, and couplings. For emergency runs there is an auxiliary five hundred-gallon capacity pump, mounted on a trailer, with hose and ladders and other equipment, all of which was furnished by the Federal Government through Civilian Defense. The fire engine and equipment were housed temporarily in a frame shed located near the intersection of U. S. Highway 60 and the Middletown-Anchorage Road. In 1943 the Middletown Gvic Chm purchased the old Walter Roman property, consisting of a 66-foot by 290- foot lot and a five-room frame dwelling, from Richard Poulter at a cost of $3,250.. The house serves as a home for the receiver of the fire calls, twenty-four hour duty. Walter Roman and family accepted the first appointment CMC IMPROVEMENTS 209

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In the spring of 1941, Chief G. H. Hancock, his little son, Gus, Assistant Chief Raymond Herrick, Secretary Lawrence Slattery, his wife Arina, and her two children, David and Dudley Wetherby, drove to the Boyer Factory in Logansport, Indiana, to purchase the fire engine. They returned the next day with the new engine and made a triumphant. tour of the town, with· bells ringing and siren screaming. CHAPTER. XI

WORLD WAR II

On the afternoon of December 7, 1941, there were no cars parked along Middletown's Main Street, for it was Sunday and many of the inhabitants were at home sitting in their furnace-heated living-rooms listening to the radio. Suddenly it was announced: ''The Japs have bombed Pearl Harbor." Yes, that is what they heard. The Pacific Island possession of the United States had been violated by Japan. On the following day the school children assembled in their classrooms, where portable radios had been installed, to hear Congress declare war on Japan. Four days later we were at war with Germany. Shortly after Pearl Harbor a new organization entered the scene at Middletown. In response to a call by the Louisville Defense Council for volunteers for the Civilian Defense Forces, an overwhelming number signed up from this community. Selected from these volunteers, the local Air Wardens Group became an organi~tion of nearly fifty air wardens and fire wardens. The wardens were charged with leading the neighborhood effort to minimize damage to property and human lives. Many of the local wardens attended schools for civilian defense and all were trained in first aid and damage prevention. A survey of this area was conducted in order to :find the best means of caring for the community. Middletown also had its quota of auxiliary police. They were trained in police duty as well as first aid. The seven sector wardens in charge of the seven sectors into which Middletown was divided were: Oiief Warden, John Stork; sector wardens, Oiester Schrader, James Crosby, 212 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS the Reverend James McCa.leb, Mrs. Lawrence Slattery, M. W. Ross, Rufus King, and Wesley White, Negro. They received six weeks of training at the Columbia Auditorium in Louisville. The first blackout occurred in April, 1942. All lights were turned off at the sound of the siren and all traffic through the town was stopped. Boy Scouts acted as messengers. A tour of inspection was made of all houses to see that no one violated the blackout. Air­ planes zoomed overhead to ascertain its effectiveness. War, of necessity, brings changes in the living habits of the people affected by it. It means a reign of economy in all phases of life, even to the scarcity of soap for the bath. This latest and greatest of all wars, this global conflict, has effected more innovations than one would believe the imagination capable of conjuring up. Ration­ ing, a word with a meaning long to be remembered, is one of the most far-reaching of all Governmental controls. Sugar was the first article to go on the ration list. Early in the war food ration books were issued. These were obtained at the Middletown School. The teachers dis­ tributed them, as well as the earlier sugar cou_pons, and gas and oil books. The food books contained about 384 numbered stamps, each worth ten points. The stamps were of different colors, red for meats-cheese-fats, and blue for processed foods. The merchants of Middletown were driven to distraction collecting and sorting the stamps received from their customers. Articles on the ration list were marked in two ways, according to point value and money value. The merchants demanded points first, money second. Customers spoke of all purchases in terms of their upoint cost.n Point values fluctuated during the year. At one time pineapple cost forty-three points a can and con­ densed milk one point. After the fourth ration book was issued tokens were ~ They were red and blue pressed paper coins ( about the size of pennies) that made buying WORLD WAR II 213 a little easier since they could be used in making point change, but the books were still necessary. A ceiling price was placed on all consumers goods but exorbitant prices were often paid in black markets for rare commodities, such. as meat and nylon stockings. Every­ thing was expensive, and many articles were scarce. Early in July, 1944, tomatoes were selling for fourteen dollars a bushel. Beef was not obtainable for weeks at a time and then only in small amounts· and of poor cut and quality. The scarcity of meat was so acute that narrow strips of bacon skins, no wider than a man's shoe lace, were tied in bundles and sold at all groceries for the seasoning of vege­ tables, soups, and stews, and housewives often used them for two or three cookings. Ice cream and candy were very rare. Busath' s Candy Shop in Louisville was closed for days at a time and, when open, its glass show-cases were almost bare-

V-E Day (victory in Europe) stripped of all excitement and blare by the long expectancy of its arrival, dawned quietly in Middletown on Tuesday, May 8, 1945. Scream­ ing headlines in the Louisville Times had announced pre­ maturely the end of the war in Europe on May 7, but it was not made official until May 8. There were no gay parades, no bells rung, no cannon fired, or boisterous cele• bration of any sort. Work went on as usual; everybody performed his daily routine. At 7: 45 p. m. the people assembled at the three churches of Middletown where prayer services were held simultaneously with churches throughout Jefferson County and Louisville. It was a beautiful thanksgiving £or the partial peace which had been gained at great cost. The greatest war in history ended in Europe with the unconditional surrender of Germany after :five years, eight months, and six days of bloodshed and destruction. The surrender of the Reich to the W estem Allies and Russia was made at General Eisenhower's head· quarters, a little red schoolhouse, at Reims, France, by Colonel General Gustaf Jode, chief of staff for the German army. A war of nerves prefaced V-J Day. Many people of Middletown, along with millions of other Americans, dung to their radios for four days awaiting the announcement of the capitulation of Japan and the end of World War II, while tired radio news reporters smoked thousands of cigarettes, drank gallons of coffee, and metaphorically speaking plucked petals from daisies: UThey will, they won't'' (Would Japan accept the Potsdam declaration?). At six o'clock p. m. (Central War Time) on August 14, 1945, the great news came. ""The Japanese have accepted unconditionally the Allied surrender terms! 0 Bill Henry, news reporter in Washington, his voice trembling with emotion, read the Presidenf s message over the Columbia Broadcasting System. World War II was over three years, WORLD wAR. II 217

eight months, and six day_s after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. The boys would no longer fight their· way from island to island but would return home to pick up their lives where the detours lay. The new atomic bomb and the entrance of Russia on the Allied side, six days before the Japanese surrender, hastened the end. A spontaneous outburst of rejoicing spread over the country. About thirty minutes after the announcement of capitulation an extemporaneous victory parade was launched in Middletown. The fire engine, with siren screaming, followed by a procession of about twenty family-packed automobiles, with horns blowing, made a tour of the town, after which, minus the engine, they went to Louisville to see the celebration there. Boys with tin cans tied to their bicycles rode through Main Street. Women, and children with flags and horns, stood in the street or on their £ront lawns. The two whisky houses and Evergreen Inn were closed and deserted. The war factory was still running, but workers looked nervously and longingly out the large front door. Long's store porch was crowded with the town's sages and Pearcy's porch was draped with girls. In the east end of town a woman was placidly hoeing com in her garden. At seven-thirty p. m. Roger Waters came home from Louisville with three cow bells tied to the back of his car, sparks flying on each con­ tact with the street. By eight o'dock all excitement had subsided in Middletown, and the people were ready for the prayer services of thanksgiving which were held at the churches. In the six o'clock message of Au.gust 14 President Harry S. Truman declared a two-day holiday with pay for all Federal employees,, August 15 and August 16. At seven p. m. Governor Simeon Willis issued a proclamation declaring a two-day holiday in Kentucky and urging all people to go to church and give thanks to Goel The Presi- 218 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS .AND DEEDS dent declared Sunday, August 19, a day of prayer and thanksgiving. Although the end of the war was celebrated on August 14 when the fighting officially ceased, V-J Day was not proclaimed until Sunday, September 2, 1945, after the sign­ ing of. the treaty of peace. Japan surrendered formally and unconditionally to the Allies aboard the U. S. S. Missouri in Tokio Bay. The solemn ceremony which in­ volved the affixing of twelve signatures to the articles of surrender lasted only twenty minutes with General Douglas MacArthur presiding. The capitulation marked the first defeat of Japan in the 2,600 years of her history. At the conclusion of the rites the sun burst through low-hanging clouds as a shining symbol of a ravaged world done with war. On August 15 the Office of Price Administration an­ nounced the termination of the rationing of the following commodities: gasoline, which began December 1, 1942; canned fruits and vegetables; and fuel oil, which began in March, 1943. On Memorial Sunday, 1944, a special service was held at the cemetery for the dead and missing. The list in­ cluded: Clarence Yunt, William Verburg, and Marshall Schrader. Later the following names were added: Paul S. Young, Wesley Gilbert Brooks II, Dallas Scales, and Fred Kruetler. The Middletown Civic Chili is planning the erection of a memorial to the boys who served in World War II. It is hoped that it will also be a memorial to the men who will serve for enduring peace. A bronze plaque forty­ eight inches by sixty-seven inches, with 191 names embossed on it will be set in a section of stone-masonry about eight feet wide and nine and one half feet high. The memorial is to stand in the public park, a triangular plot of ground at the intersection of U. S. Highway 60 and the Middle- WORLD w AR II 219 town-Anchorage Road. A tree will be planted in the park in the memory of each boy who made the supreme sacrifice.

IN MEMORIAM First Lieutenant Clarence B. Yunt, son of Everett E. and Ann Herndon Yunt, was the first of Middletown's boys to give his life in the service of his country. Clarence was an apt and popular student of the Anchorage High School. He joined the Army Air Corps early in the war and became a navigator on a B-17. He was killed May 7, 1943, in England, and is buried in the Brookwood Ceme­ tery, London. He had three brothers in the service: George H. and Edward E. Yunt both of whom served in Europe, and Noble Yunt. Besides his parents and brothers he is survived by three sisters, Anna Lee, Edith and Franees. Sergeant William R. Verburg, better known as "Jeff," a remarkable and popular young man who in youth had made an enviable reputation which many a man of sixty might well clierish, was killed in action on May 1, 1944, in the South Pacific. Jeff's passing was a great loss to Middletown; he taught a boy's class at the Christian Church Bible school, was assistant scoutmaster, and was active in other worthy civic enterprises. Jeff's commanding officer expressed his admiration and appreciation of the young man's worth in a letter to his father which follows:

ulIEADQUARTERS 34th INFANTRY "OFFICE OF THE REGIMENTAL CoMMANDER UAPO 24, 1 May 1944 uMr. Nick Verburg, uRR 2, Anchorage, Kentucky. "My dear Mr. Verburg: UPlease let me write a short note to express the 220 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

deep sympathy which we all feel for you in the loss of your son, William. "As you know he belonged to the medical detach­ ment of the regiment. Both the Regimental Surgeon, Major Diekan, and his immediate commanding officer, Captain Hagan, have spoken extremely highly of William. He was a splendid soldier and very neat and careful in everything he did. His work had been such that he would doubtless have received a pro­ motion in the near future. He was deeply religious and had a real faith in God. Both Chaplain Loidolt and Chaplain Dandignac speak most highly of him. He attended our religious services every Sunday morn­ ing as well as vespers in the evening. Not only did he attend church regularly himself, but he encouraged the other men to go as well. "We shall not see William again, but we can de­ rive comfort from the belief that God, in His Wisdom, had decided that the time had come for William to take his place in God's great plan for the universe. Believing that, we can know that William is not dead, but has merely passed on to an infinitely finer life with God. 0 May God bless and comfort you. uMost sincerely yours, 'W. W. Jenna UColonel, 34th Infantry UCommanding."

(Received May 22, 1944) WORLD WAR II 221

First Lieutenant John Marshall Schrader, aged twenty­ six, son of Preston Scott and Grace Russell Schrader, was a graduate of the Anchorage High School and an employee of a Louisville bank before enlistment. He entered the service in January, 1941, and received his wings at Mather Field, California, in November, 1942. He went overseas as a navigator on a bomber and was reported missing in the Asiatic Theater in May,-1944. He is survived by his parents and two brothers, Sergeant Russell Scott Schrader and Preston Henry Schrader. Second Lieutenant Paul S. Young, aged twenty, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Young, was killed over Germany June 21, 1944. He was commissioned a bombardier-navigator from Childress Field, Childress, Texas, and he completed his B-17 training at Drew Field, Tampa, Florida. He arrived in England May 13, and took part in the D-Day bombings. He had completed twelve missions. Before enlisting as a cadet -in December,- 1942, Lieu­ tenant Young was a student at the University of Kentucky where he was a member of the Alpha Gamma Rho Frater­ nity. Besides his parents, he is survived by a brother, William Kenneth Young, Fire Controlman, Second Oass. Private First Class Wesley Gilbert Brooks II, aged twenty, son of Wesley Gilbert Brooks I and Louise Pearcy Brooks, was a student of the Anchorage High School and an employee in H.P. Pearcy"s store before enlistment He joined the Marine Corps in December, 1941, and was stationed in the South Pacific for eighteen months, where he died September 18, 1944, as a result of wounds received in the invasion of Peleliu Island. He is survived by his wife, Bonnie, and daughter, Carole Ann, his parents, and brothers, Ray Pearcy, who joined the Navy, Lindsey, and Gene Paul. 222 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Lieutenant Philip Lepanto, son of Philip H. Lepanto, was killed in France on November 11, 1944. He is sur­ vived by his wife, Lettie Bliss Lepanto, and an infant son. Staff Sergeant Dallas S. Scales, aged twenty-seven, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Scales, was killed in action in the South Pacific January 1, 1945. Memorial services were held in his honor at the Baptist Church. Frederick Albert Kruetler II, son of Frederick Albert Kruetler I and Aline Nietert Kruetler, elisted in the Navy September 15, 1943, and served in the Pacific Theater, where he was killed aboard the U. S. S. Saratoga February 21, 1945. He is survived by his parents, two brothers, Elmer and Roy Edwin, and a sister, Elizabeth, wife of William Williams. The Kruetlers are members of the Methodist Church where memorial services were held .in Frederick's honor.

MIDDLETOWN ARTIST Middletown's noted artist, Sergeant Jefferson Davis Cochran, won acclaim during World War II for his graphic portrayal of combat scenes covering campaigns from Guad­ alcanal to Peleliu. He joine<;l the Marines January 5, 1942. "J. D./' as he is affectionately called by friends at home, was a student of Anchorage High School, where he studied art and first gained recognition for his talent. He later studied at the Louisville Art Academy under Paul Plaschke. J. D. has done m3:ny sketches and oil portraits of Middletown people and boys in service. Sergeant Cochran is the son of Milton Cochran and Mary A. Hoke. CHAPTER XII

LOOKING FORWARD

Middletown is right in the middle of things! It is only about a hundred miles southeast of the ''dead center'' of population and half of the people of the United States are within five hundred miles of it! Middletown's salu­ brious site on its "seven hills," its location on the modem four-lane concrete highway, the chief artery to -the Me­ tropolis and the ccMain Street of Kentucky," and its prox­ imity to the airport, Bowman Field, are inducements to growth in commerce and population. An increase in pop­ ulation is inevitable and desirable, but not to the point of producing anonymity among the citizenry. For one of the most treasured rewards of living in Middletown, as in any small town, is the individual recognition. Each citizen is a human being to his grocer, his druggist, his milk­ man, and even to his neighbor! New people with vision and enterprise have revivified the community and others yet to come will make further contributions. New citizens without prejudices recognize and release latent potentialities. All roads eventually lead to Middletown and its latchstring still hangs on the outside for newcomers! Besides the two bus lines passing through the town and the two railway lines through Anchorage, there are the nine railroad systems and three bus lines operating out of Louisville. Middletown can retain its status quo as a residential suburb with pleasant neighliorly living and at the same time enjoy the opportunities offered by its location near the metropolitan area of Louisville where many of its citizens find employment in the city's industries, business, 224 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS and professions. · Louisville is a great industrial center. Among its many factories are nineteen plants that are the largest or oldest of their kind in the world. Rare educational opportunities are open to Middle­ tooiaos. The University of Louisville, famous as the oldest municipal university in· America, oHers celebrated courses leading to degrees in medicine, den.tistry, science, law, music, and arts. There are also two excellent seminaries for ministerial training, the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the Southern Baptist Theologi­ cal Seminary. The libraries of these schools, the Louis­ ville Free Public Library, and The Filson Club library with its fine collection of rare books on Kentucky history, afford opportunity for entertainment and enjoyment during leisure hours and furnish source material for independent study and research. The J. B. Speed Memorial Museum and the Louisville Art center appeal to connoisseurs. Other cul­ tural advantages are offered in drama, art, and music. Middletonians hear and see some of the country's leading artists who perform in Louisville theaters every season. Middletonians enjoy sports and recreation in Louis­ ville' s parks, famous for their natural beauty. Hither they go for golf, horseback riding, hiking, picnics, and vesper services. Louisville's beautiful race course, Oiurchill Downs, attracts thousands of people from all over the country, some of whom find lodging in Middletown while attending the races. Nationally famous Cave Hill Ceme­ tery, noted for its botanical garden-like scope in landscap­ ing, is a source of interest to the naturalist and historian. Here may be found the grave of Louisville's founder, George Rogers Oark, and the graves of many of its first settlers and some of Middletown> s too. Besides the Louisville attractions and its own charm, Middletown is surrounded by places of interest which are visited by tourists. For those who love books there is the LooKING FoRWARD 225 famous storybook house, uLocust," at nearby Pewee Valley; the house with pristine charm which supplied the setting for the Little Colonel series by Annie Fellows Johnston. At Anchorage there is the Goslee place which was once the home of George Madden Martin, author of Emmy Lou. The beautiful estate of Henry Watterson is located at nearby Jeffersontown. Fo.r those who appreciate history there is the Colonel John Floyd monument at Eastwood, the grave of Abraham Lincoln at Long Run, and the old Chenoweth fort on the Avoca Road. A great national shrine, the grave of the twelfth President of the United States, Zachary Taylor, is located on the Brownsboro Road about seven miles from Middletown. Middletown citizens pass the old Eight-Mile House every day en route to Louis­ ville. A revival of the days when Middletown rivaled Louis­ ville in commerce seems imminent. Two new business houses have already been erected and others are planned for the future. New homes are beginning to dot the hori-­ zon, homes which will be equipped with all of the modem appliances known today and those to come. After having its own way for many centuries, Beargrass Creek has been forced to change its course for the progress of man. A new channel has been cut ( for a portion of its bed) swing­ ing the creek a few yards to the north which affords more space for the new buildings to be locatea on the old Breng­ rnan Tavern property, facing U .. S. Highway 60. A flood wall has been built along its bank to protect the property from rising waters. Science is .remaking our world. Many inventions, dis­ coveries, and devices that will alter our lives are already in use, and others hitherto undreamed of ar~ in store for the future. Atomic power, which keeps our ritµverse running and causes the sun and stars to shine, has~ now been re- 226 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS leased and may replace coal, oil, and gas for heating pur­ poses in Middletown's homes of the future. The Middletown merchants will offer for sale frozen foods prepared by local concerns and rare dishes shipped from all over the world. The busy housewife can buy a whole meal ready to serve. On special occasions she will serve her guests with delicacies from F ranee or perhaps India. She may cook enough food in one day to take care of the needs of a whole week and store it in her own deep freeze or in a locker which she rents from the town's re­ frigerating storage concern. Her children will be taught in public schools by radio and by television which will bring scenes from all over the world to the classroom and home. Plastics will modify fashions in buildings, modes of travel, and clothes. Wearing apparel will be more glamorous, more comfortable, and more durable. There will be many new and unusual materials, and styles will change. Many of Middletown's future citizens will be world travelers. They will be able to fly around the globe in about thirty-five hours in their own private planes or by commercial lines. In time Middletown will have its own airport. Citizens who prefer trains will travel in the suc­ cessor to the present Pullman, a car which will have duplex­ roomettes. They will send their mail by rocket, a service that has already been employed in Euro~. The electronic tube and electric eye will be made to count, f~l, hear, and see for them. - But this miraculous material progress will not advance Middletown or the rest of civifuation unless it is accom­ panied by spiritual progress, a change in thinking that will result in freedom from want and fear, and freedom of re­ ligion, speech, and press. With hope and a new Jaith Middletown faces a glorious future. APPENDIX TO MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

APPENDIX

ESTABLISHMENT OF KENTUCKY TOWNS

The following act of the General Assembly of the State of Kentucky is the legal authority for the establishment of Middle­ town and other towns in the state. Littell's Laws of Kentucky, Vol. 1, pages 512-514 An Act concerning the establishment of towns, approved De­ cember 19, 1796. Section 1: "Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That the county courts in this commonwealth, shall be, and the same are hereby vested with full power and authority, in all cases within the bounds of their counties, where they may seem necessary and advantageous for the same and the public at large, by an order of court, to establish a town, and vest any particular tract or parcel of land in trustees for that purpose, on the application of the proprie­ tor of the land; and the court shall in such order ascertain by metes and bounds the quantities of land that they may deem necessary for such a town, appoint the trustees, and fix the name by which it may be called; which order of court shall as effectually vest the land so allotted for a town in such trustees as if done by an act of the legislature: Provided, however, that no application shall be made to any county court for an order as aforesaid, unless notice of such application shall have been given to the public by advertisement at the door of the court house of the county in which the land shall lie, for at least two months, and twice a month for three months successively in the Kentucky Gazette or Herald, previous thereto; and provided also, that no town shall be es­ tablished on any land under this act, or any land laid oft in ad­ dition to any town already established, to which any person or persons sets up a dairo either in law or equity, without the consent of the adverse daimant or claimants. The land vested in trustees as aforesaid shall be by them or a majority of them, laid off into convenient streets and lots, and the lots shall be disposed of by them at public auction, for the best price that can be had eit:hcr in money or prop¢y, and giving credit as the proprietor of said town may direct, having previously advertised such sale at the door 230 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS of the courthouse for two months. The said trustees shall take bond with security or securities to be approved by the proprietor, for the payment of the purchase money to the proprietor, and de­ liver such bond to him." Section 2: ... Section 3: ·"When the holders of lots in any town established agreeably to this act, and actually residing therein, shall amount to 15, they shall elect trustees of the said town on the court day in the month of August in every second year; and the trustees so elected shall have the same power as those appointed by the court.'' In compliance with the act of the General Assembly concern­ ing the establishment of towns in the State of Kentucky, Philip Buckner and William Chambers advertised in the Kentucky Ga­ zette for the establishment of a town which the Jefferson County Court named Middletown. The following notice was published in the Kentucky Gazette on :April 8, 1797, on March 8, 1797, and on May 3, 1797.

PuBUC NOTICE ..That we shall on the first day of May court next, for the County of Jefferson, move the said court for leave to establish a town on a tract of land of the subscribers' lying in the said county, on the sinking fork of Beargrass, where the main road from the seat of government to Louisville crosses the same. ttWilliam Chambers 0 Philip Buckner"

ESTABLISHMENT OF MIDDLETOWN The following is the Jefferson County Court record of the es­ tablishment of Middletown: May Term-1797. UPreseot William White, Esq.

0 • 0n the application of Philip Buckner and satisfactory proof made to the court of the publication of notice as required by an act of the legislature of Kentucky, vesting the power of establish­ ing towns in the county courts of this commonwealth. It is ordered that 250 acres of land lying on the sinking fork of Bear­ grass, surveyed for and in the name of Jacob Myers and the further APPENDIX 231 quantity of 250 acres being part of a survey made in the name of Cuthbert Harrison for 600 acres, which last mentioned 250 acres join the former 2 50 acres on the south, making in all 500 acres be vested in Frederick Geiger, Martin Brengman, Charles Querey, Samuel Wells, John Miller, John Pawley, John Funk, Thomas Pomeroy, and George Pomeroy, Gentlemen Trustees, fot the pur­ pose of establishing a town thereon by the name of Middetown; to be laid off by the said Trustees or a majority of them, ~ In and Out lotts with convenient streets and allies, and to dispose of the said lots at public auction for the best price that can he had in money or property, with such credit as will best accomodate the proprietor." At the same session: ccsam Blankenbaker, James Miller, George Pomeroy, and Thomas Daniel are ordered to select the nearest and most con­ venient way for a road. from Middletown to Jeffersontown." (Jeffersontown was established at the same court session as Middle• town, May, 1797.)

TRUSTEE ELECTIONS The following extract from Littell's Laws of KenJ11cky tells of the failure of the residents of Middletown to conform to the Ken­ tucky law in their selection of trustees: "Whereas the holders of lots in Middletown, in the county of Jefferson, failed to elect trustees agreeable to the third section of the act entitled, "An act concerning the establishment of towns.' "Therefore, be it enacted by the General Assembly, That the holders of lots in Middletown, in the county of Jefferson shall be, and they. are hereby authorized to elect nine trustees for said town, to continue in appointment until the next election of trustees; and that the said election be held on the first Saturday in February next, at the house of Martin Brenginao, in the said town; and the said trustees shall possess the same power as if they had been elected at the time prescribed by law."' (Approved December 12, 1799.) Littell's Laws of Kentucky, Vol 2, p. 275. · The residents of Middletown were authorfaed to elect trustees every second year during the month of Angnst. Their first trustees were appointed by the Jeffets0n Coonty Court in 1797. 232 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

The first election for trustees fell due in August, 1799. The lot­ holders of Middletown held an election, but failed to conform to the state law and in December, 1799 the General Assembly authorized them to elect nine trustees in the month of February, 1800. When the second regular election day came due it appears that the residents again failed duly to elect their trustees and the General Assembly had to take action. 0 And whereas it is represented that in virtue and pursuance of an act of the General Assembly, entitled, •An Act concerning the establishment of towns,' passed the 19th day of December, 1796, an election of trustees was on the 17th of August, 1801, holden in Middletown, in the county of Jefferson, at which sundry per­ sons who were not tenants in fee of lots therein, but who were actually holders thereof and residing thereon, did vote, and the said trustees so elected, have acted as such; and it is doubted whether they were duly and properly elected, and whether their acts are valid; for removing which doubts, be it enacted, that the election of trustees as aforesaid, shall be, and the same is hereby legalized and confirmed." Littell's Law.r of Kentucky, Vol. 2, p. 458.

TRUSTEES OF MIDDLETOWN The following men were trustees of Middletown in 1799: Samuel Wells, John Miller, John Funk, Charles Querey, Thomas Pomeroy, George Pomeroy, John Pawley, Martin Brengman. Frederick Geiger, and Joseph Vance. This is the same group of men that was selected to be the first trustees of Middletown, with the addition of Joseph Vance. In 1805 the trustees were Leaven Lawrence, George Rudy, James Bohannon, and Joseph Logan. In 1815 the trustees were John Brengman, president; James John, John Geiger, Benjamin Head, and Abell Covington. In 1817 the trustees were John Price, James Tull, William Querey, Jacob Fme, and Basil Hobbs.

ELECITON PREONCTS Election Precincts, approved January 31, 1816: •13e it further enacted, That all that part of Jefferson County which lies within the following boW1daries, Viz. Beginning at the mouth of Harrod's Creek; thence on a straight line to C.01. Richard APPENDIX 233

Oough Anderson's; thence along the line of the sou.them precinct of said county until it strikes the Shelby Co. line; thence with the Shelby and Jefferson County lines until it intersects the Henry County line; thence with the Jefferson and Henry County lines to the Ohio River; thence down the Ohio to the beginning; shall be, and the same is hereby established an election precinct; and the quaUfied voters of said precinct may vote at the house now oc­ cupied by Thomas Lawes, in Middletown, at all elections at which they are authorized by law to vote. , They may also vote at the courthouse:' Littell's Laws of Kentucky, Vol. 5, p. 334.

RECORD OF OLD ROADS Jefferson County Court Record, March, 1797: "Ordered that Fred Geiger, Martin Brengman, Thomas Daniel, and Nicholas Buckner, or any three of them being first sworn in, to view the nearest and most convenient way for a road from the mouth of Goose Creek to Middleton [ note spelling] and from thence to Floyds Fork at the mouth of Polk Lick run and report to the next court." Note that this order was made before Middletown was es­ tablished. Jefferson County Court Record, January, 1801: ''Martin Brengman, Harman Nash, Moses Kendall, George Pomeroy viewed a road from Henry County to Man's Lick which road is to intersect the main street of Middletown at or near the house built by William Hodge.,,

THE T,HxJNGTON AND LOUISVILLE WRNPIKE February 4, 1817 ''Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the C.Ommonwealth of Kentucky, That a company shall be formed under the name, style and title of the Lexington and Louisville Turnpike Road C.Ompany, for the purpose of forming an artificial road from Lex­ ington by way of Frankfort to Louisville. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of the said company shall be $350,000 divided into 3,500 shares of $100 each Be it further enacted, That books for subscriptions in the stock of said company, sbal1 be 234 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS opened on the first Monday in April next, at the following places, under direction of the commissioners hereinafter named . . . at Middletown, under the directions of Samuel Lawrence and Ben­ jamin Head." Littelrs Laws of Kentucky, Vol. 5, page 519.

KENTIJCKY GAZETTE The Kentucky Gazette, medium through which the people were informed of the establishment of the new town, was founded in August, 1787 by John Bradford, owner and printer. The first issue was printed on August 11, 1787, in Lexington, Kentucky. No known copy of this number is in existence, but the Lexington Public Library has copies of the second issue of August 18, 1787. The only advertisement in it is that of Jacob Myers, who owned half of Middletown before its establishment. He advertised a paper mill "on Dix River above the grist mill." The Gazette, one of Kentucky's first newspapers, was at first a weekly paper, but by 1797 it had become a semi-weekly, printed on Wednesday and Saturday. The old Gazette was discontinued in 1848, after having had several changes in ownership and editorship. The present Kentucky Gazette began on June 23, 1866, Lexington, Kentucky. At the time of the announcement of Middletown's establishment, the Gazette ran this notice, printed at the top of the front page: "21 shillings per annum. Advertisements, articles of intelligence, and essays are thankfully received and printing in general is ex- ecuted in a neat and correct manner." · TRUSTEES' FIRST LAND The fust tracts of land owned by the first Trustees of Middle­ town, as recorded by the Jefferson County Court, were:

GRANTEE GRANTOR. DESCRIPTION 1. Bren.groan, Martin Trustees of Middletown Lots Nos. 16, 17, 18 in Middletown. 2. Funlc, John Trustees of Middletown Lots Nos. 62, 69, 72 in Middletown. 3. Geiger, Fred William Jol;oston 200 acres in Jeffer­ son County. 4. Miller, John James Patton 208 acres in Jeffer­ son County. 5. Pauley, John Trustees of Middletown In-lot 55, Out-lot 38 in Middletown. APPENDIX 235

6. Pomeroy, George James Patton 2 acres on Floyd's and Thomas Fork. 7. Querey, Charles James Meriwether 49 acres on Cane Run. 8. Wells, Samuel Nicholas Meriwether 50 acres on Sinking Fork of Beargrass Creek.

ORIGINAL MIDDLETOWN LOTS This is a list of the first land-holders who bought lots from the Trustees of Middletown, 1797 to 1838:

GRANTEE LOT NUMBERS Ashly, Catherine -¼ acre of lot No. 59. Brengman, Martin -Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5, 31, 54, 16, 17, 18, In-lot No. 25. Brengman, George -Nos. 14, 63. Branhan, Ambrose -No. 44. Brown, Robert -No. 34. Buchanan, Jam.es -Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5, 31. Buckner, Nicholas -Nos. 48, 49. Brentlinger, Andrew -No. 1 (66 x 264 ft). Carter, John -Nos. 13, 30. Chambers, John -Out-lots 8, 9. Chambers, William -Nos. 27, 33, 3 7, 45, 102, 104, 105, 106, 107, 114, 115, 117. In-lots 84, 90, 91, 94, 95, 97, 100, 122, 129, 132, 139. Out-lots 68, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 48, 50, 59, 60, 61, 62, 69, 75, 77. Fine, Jacob -Nos. 5, 6 .. Funk, John -Nos. 62, 69, 72. Geiger, Fred -No. 53. Glass, Joseph -No. 136. Hawthorn, Robert -No. 89. Hobbs, Basil -No. 49. Holt, John -No. 73. Hord, Willis -Out-lot 18. Ireland, William -Nos. 4, 46. Johnston, Gabriel -No. 48. 236 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS .AND DEEDS

Luckett, Sam -Nos. 54, 110, 111, Out-lot 29. Marsh, Cyrus -Nos. 4, 46. Miller, John and William-Nos. 6, 7, 21, 22, 126, 135. Newland, William -No. 5. Nickson, Sam -In-lot 33, Out-lot 36. Pauley, John -In-lot 55, Out-lot 38. Pearce, George -Nos. 116, 137. Pennybaker, Fred -Nos. 19, 120. Pope, Worden -No. 20. Pumroy, Joseph -Nos. 57, 81. Quirey, Charles -Nos. 52, 49. Reaugh, Sam -No. 68. Rudy, George -Nos. 22, 24, 26, 66, 133, 138. Scothero, Nathan -No. 51. Shrader, Jacob -No. 38. Snellenberger, John · -No. 89. Speer, James -Nos. 9, 10. Toomes, William -Nos. 83, 88, 93, 98. Vance, James -Nos. 20, 65. Washburn, Delancy -No. 78. White, William -In-lots 8, 15, 42, 74, 77. Out-lots 14, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. Woodrow, Alexander -No. 43. Young, John -No. 56.

HEAD, HOBBS, AND LAWRENCE GENERAL STORE MIDDLETOWN,KENTUCKY Customers who were in account with this store as listed in Basil Hobbs' ledger for 1822-1828: Aesop, Walker Brown, James, Esq. Albert, Sam Buckner, Thos. Anderson, James Bullitt, Alfred N . .Asbbucst, Richard Bullitt, Amanthis Barbour, Thos. T. Bullitt, Mrs. Ann Bate, Jas. V. Bullitt, Caroline Brainbridge, E. T. Bullitt, Neville Brengman, Joshua M. Bullitt, Wm. C. Brown, Abr. C. Cairey, Hugh APPENDIX 237

Campbell, Elizabeth Lawrence, Mrs. Sarah Chambers, Capt. William Lawrence, Leavon Cocke, Mrs. Tabitha Locke, John D. Crapster, Peter Lounge, Anthony Crutchfield, Albert Luckett, Alfred Daniel, Colman Luckett, Mrs. John Dorsey, Ben L. Luckett, Noland M. Dorsey, Cal~b Lutton, Col. John Dorsey, Corbin N. McAfee, Michael Dorsey, Henry _C. Maupin, Matilda Dorsey, Nimrod Meriweather, G. W. Dorsey, Permelia Miller, Robert, Esq. Everly, .A.dam Moore, Mrs. Catherine Fine, Jacob Owings, Isaac Forwood, Sam Parson, Richard Frazer, F. P. Payne, Capt. W. D. Fry, Joshua W. Perkins, Major B. H. Fry, Thomas W. Phillips, Richard Galt, Dr. William C. Pope, Alexander, Esq. Geiger, Jacob Pope, Worden Griffith, Thomas Redd, John Grimes, Rachael Richardson, Mrs. Margaret Gwathmey, George C. Rockhill, Thomas C. Gwathmey, Temple Schwing, Sam Hall, John Seymour, Felix Hall, Richard Smal I; Richard Hardin, James C. Smith, R. N. Henning, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, Richard E. Herr, John Snowden, Francis Hite, Robert Speed, John, Esq. Hopkins, P. I. Steelman, Jonathan Hundley, John B. Taylor, Donald Hynes, William R. Taylor, James P. Jones, Mrs. Fanny Taylor, Robert M. Kastaobine, Forsythe Thompson, P. R. Kockhil1, T. C. Tillay, F. B. Lampton, William Tyler, Isaac H. La~ William W. Tyler, Leri Lawrence, Ben White, lee Lawrence, Edward Dorsey Williams, Joseph Lawrence, Elias D. WiJliaroson, John Lawrence, Samuel Wood, Doctor Peter 238 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

MIDDLETOWN IN THE NATIONS WARS Interesting as it would ·be to have the names of all Middle­ tooiaos participating in ·our nation's wars, it is impossible to com­ pile an accurate list. Of course, the American Revolution was over before Middle­ town was established, but many of our fust settlers were its veterans and the town was founded by a Revolutionary soldier, Captain Philip Buckner, a Commissary. The following is a partial list of those serving in the American Revolution who had Middletown connections:

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (1775-1783) Richard Oough Anderson-lived about two miles from Middle- town. Philip Buckner-founder of Middletown. Richard Chenoweth-lived two miles from Middletown. John Floyd-Indian fighter who helped to make Middletown a safe settlement. Jacob Funk-kinsman of one of Middletown,s first trustees. Frederick Geiger-one of Middletown·s first trustees. Owen Gwathmey-ancestor of the Middletown Gwathmeys. Abraham Hite-ancestor of Middletown Hites. Isaac Hite-ancestor of Middletown Hites. Benjamin Lawrence-ancestor of Middletown Lawrences. John Miller-one of Middletown·s first trustees. William Pope-his family owned Middletown property. James Sullivan-kinsman of Waters-Wood families. James Urton-kinsman of Middletown Urtons. Peter W ~father of an early Middletown teacher. Samuel W ells---one of Middletown• s first trustees. David White--son of William White. William White-laid out and surveyed Middletown.

THE WAR OF 1812 During Thomas Jefferson•s administration, British captains on the high seas were offensively active in the search and seizure of United States merchantmen, and in the impressment of sailors daimed as British subjects. When Madison became President, APPENDIX 239 there was a short-lived improvement, but the seemingly inevitable war against Great Britain was declared by Congress on June 18, 1812. Several of Middletown's sons fought under General WiIHam H. Harrison in the battle of Tippecanoe, against the Indians in the Indiana Territory. The following Middletown men served in the War of 1812: Major Peter Funk-at Tippecanoe. Colonel Joe Funk-at Tippecanoe. Colonel Fred Geiger-at Tippecanoe. Colonel John Woodsmall. Major Waters. Colonel George T. Wilcox.

THE MEXICAN w AR The annexation of Texas, in 1845, was regarded as an un­ friendly aq: by Mexico. War was declared on April 24, 1846, with General Winfield Scott ( relative of John Scott Elder, pa­ ternal ancestor of the Middletown Elders) in command of the United States Army, and General Zachary Taylor (a neighbor of Middletown) its most popular hero. Surely there must have been records of Middletonians serving in this war but unfortunately the author has not succeeded in lo­ cating them. However, Colonel Stephen Ormsby, who lived in the Middletown precinct served in this war.

0vn. WAR VETERANS It is regrettable that so few names of Middletown's sons par­ ticipating in the Civil War are known. Only the following records have been located: Captain Wi11iam H. Able-grandson of Joseph Able. Robert S. Mitchell-served under General Simon Bolivar Buckner. Joseph Mitchell (brother of Robert S. Mitchell). Major Simpson Seaton Reynolds-born and reared in Middle­ town, served from Missouri.

THE SPANISH-AKEluCAN WAR Diffiatlties with Spain over conditions in Giba provoked the war. While negotiations between Washington and Madrid were in progress, the American battleship Maine was blown up in the 240 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS harbor of Havana on February 15, 1898. "Remember the Maine," became the popular slogan as did, ~~emember Pearl Harbor;' in World War II. Cyrus Herbert Bliss and William Davis Browning served in the Spanish-American War. Mr. Bliss belonged to Company C of the first Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. He was stationed for several months on the island of Porto Rico where he acquired the title of M. D. ( mule driver). Mr. Bliss and his wife, Meta Quast Bliss, were reared in Louisville, but they have lived in Middletown since about 1914. William Davis Browning lived in the east end of town and died about 1922.

WORLD WAR I The war began in Europe on July 28, 1914. The unrestricted submarine warfare carried on by the Germans caused the United States to enter the conflict in opposition to them on April 6, 1917. Soon mobilization began on the home front as well as on the mili­ tary front. Prices soared and some commodities were scarce. Liberty bonds were sold; socks, sweaters, and scrap books were made by the children and adults. Some of the women of Middle­ town made Army shirts, the materials for which were distributed from the Armory in Louisville. Several of these seamstresses averaged more than £.ve hundred shirts each. One of the most exciting events for the school children of Middletown was the visit, at Anchorage, of the Liberty Bell on its tour of the country. The children were allowed to climb aboard the train and touch the historic bell. The following list of Middletown men who served in World War I is incomplete: Blanford, Joe William Ernspiker, Ernest B. Blumer, John Friebert, William Brinley, Byland E. Grunwald, James Ivan Carson, William Oldham Hardin, Clarence Cochran, Herbert Hardy, Henry C. Cox, Edgar Lippert, Henry J. Davis, Edwin W. McAuliffe, Frank B. Demaree, Daley Mason, Dr. L. D. Elshant, Manuel Mathias, C. L APPENDIX 241

Miles, Simon &hindler, Edward Phelps, Charles Stigall, James T.

Phillips, Floyd Thomas7 Benjamin Poulter, Charles (killed in Tinsley, Lee France) Waters, John Newland Quast, John H. Waters, Roger H. (served in Rayner, Charles (father) France) Rayner, Charles ( son, killed in Weatherby, Sherman France-aviator) Weatherby, A. D. Rayner, Rupert (son) Weatherby, Dr. S. D. (father of Rayner, Herbert ($On) A. D. Weatherby) Rayner, Edgar (son) Weatherby, Vernon H. Ross, Carl F. Weatherby, Luther S. Sams, Ralph Henry J. Lippert served ten months in France as an embalmer attached to the Medical Department. He made sixteen trips across the Atlantic Ocean with bodies. He was not a resident of Middletown at the time of his service. Charles Rayner and his four sons were not living in Middle­ town at the time of the war but all of the boys were born here.

WORLD WAR II Middletown men and women who served in World War II: Adams, Robert E. Oark, John Wi1Iiam Baker, Thomas A. Cochran, J~erson Davis Ballou, Dexter Conn, Nimrod (II) Blankenbaker, William G. Craft, Leslie Blankenship, Paul Craft, 0. Clair Bright, Harry R. Craft, Wmfred 0. Brooks, Fulton . Crum, Leroy A. Brooks, Ray Pearcy Davenport, Everett C. *Brooks, Wesley Gilbert Elder, Audley M. Burgin, Oarence Fanelli, Vmceot Burgin, Oyde S. Fessenden, Lewis Burnett, J. R. (M. D.) Frederick, W. G. Caldwell, Donald Giles, Douglas.$ L Carpenter, Charles Giles, Huber ·L C.arpenter, George Gordon, Robert L *Killed in action or missing. 242 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Grunwald, James I. Meyer, Carl ,q_ Gunther, Wesley Miller, Frank Y. Guy, Chaplain Willard A. Moran, John Guyn, Lewis C. Moran, Ray Hale, Homer C. Morgan, J. P. Hardy, Henry C. Newton, J. E. Hatton, Claxton Orr, Lawrence Hay, Clarence E. Painter, William E. Hay, H. E. Pearce, Phillip Hay, James E. Perrelli, John Hedden, Harold Perrelli, Joseph Hedges, William Phelps, Charles Warren Hockersmith, Morris Pitts, Morris C. Hoke, Houstin B. Preston, Euel Hoke, William Bruce Price, Virgil Hundley, Meredith Boyd Prindle, Franklin Jenkins, Robert Proctor, Lawrence M. Jesse, James Proctor, Robert Jones, Samuel P. (II) Raley, Porter Jones, Lee Spencer Reid, Harley M. Jones, Lovall A. Riggle, Harry Jones, Virgil Riggle, Robert Jones, William M. Riggle, Roscoe Keys, Dr. J. K. Roman, Austin *Kreutler, Fred A. Rowe, Warren E. Langford, Ed *Scales, Dallas S. Langford, Louis Y. Schoeppe, John T. lee, Delphus Revell Schoeppe, Noble E. *Lepanto, Philip *Schrader, John Marshall Lindsay, Wallace . Schrader, Russell S. McAuliffe, Frank B. Simpson, William H. McBride, O:iarles Frederick Smith, Carl . McFarland, James R. Stamer,. Daniel C. McFarlan

Tapp, 0. F. Wheeler, Franklin Tharp, Gilbert R. Yates, Roy Tharp, Ralph P. Yates, Fred Twyman, Harold S. Young, William Kenneth V eech, William A. *Young, Paul S. *Verburg, William R. *Yunt, Clarence B. WaL1<:er, James P. Yunt, Edward E. Walker, T. Earl Yunt, George Walker, W. N. Waters, Kenneth WAC Wetherby, George S. Baker, ~.finnie Clay Wetherby, Sherman H. (II) Twyman, Norma W eyenberg, Herbert REGISTERED NURSE Wheatley, John B. (II) Wheeler, Forrest Wetherby, Katherine *Ki11cd in action or missing.

WORLD WAR II BOND DRIVES The results of the fourth and fifth war loan drives in Jefferson County are tabulated below:

4TH WAR LOAN DRIVE 5TH WAR LOAN DRIVE SALES AMOUNT COMMUNITY SALES AMOUNT 78 $395,480 Anchorage 116 $1,918,410 451 92,070 Buechel 140 40,900 800 996,105 Dixie Highway 574 1,713,875 312 53,740 Fairdale 41 19,975 162 31,960 Fem Creek 156 76,675 336 259,445 Harrod' s Creek 400 820,050 212 69,005 Jeffersontown 127 137,575 36 39,060 Lyndon 124 35,300 377 80,202 Middletown 209 51,550 19 11,135 O'Bannon 37 15,900 171 28,375 Okolona 20 5,500 906 163,720 Prestonia 409 59,075 560 165,738 St. Matthews 761 735,175 153 40,371 Worthington 115 28,225 28 32,775 County Highlands 234 129,150

4,601 $2,459,181 3,463 $5,787,335 244 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

MIDDLETOWN CHRISTIAN CHURCH CENTENNIAL In the fall of 193 5 the Middletown Christian Church cele­ brated the one hundredth anniversary of its founding with a week of pageantry, exhibits, and fellowship. The casts of the historical pageants included the largest number of players ever known to have performed at one time in Middletown and the audience overflowed the church; many stood on the outside and viewed the performance through the windows. In addition to the players the following people contributed to the success of the centennial celebration: Program Committee: Miss Edith Wood, Reverend W. L. Davis, Mr. B. T. Coleman, Mr. Wood Jones. Costume Committee: Mrs. E. L. Rothenburger, Mrs. Wood Jones, Miss Edith Wood. Period Costumes lent by: Mrs. J. W. Waters, Miss Martha Bor­ land, Mrs. Walter Swan, Mrs. M. Suhre, Mrs. Robert Calhoun, Mrs. Louis Brown, Mrs. M. _Cassidy, Mrs. W. H. Wood, Mrs. John Perelli, Mrs. Susie Winchester, Miss Ida Fried, Goodwill Industries, Inc., Mrs. Anne Toner. Period Furniture lent by: Mrs. E. L. Rothenburger, eight small chairs and rugs; Mrs. J. C. Rothenburger, two small chairs and a sofa; Mrs. Annie Hardy, tall chair; Mrs. Omer Jones, two tables; Mrs. Nan Arterburn, dock and curtains; Mrs. Ed Schindler, candelabra; Mrs. H. P. Pearcy, candelabra; Mrs. Chas. Blumer, sofa; Mrs. W. H. Wood, pictures; Miss Lucy Witherbee, sofa. Stage Manager: Mr. Harry MacFarland. Stage Scenery and Platform: Mr. Wm. Highfield and Mr. Harry MacFarland. Stage Curtain: La.dies Aid Society. Stage Decoration: Mrs. E. L Rothenburger.

Elocutionist: Mrs. Wood Jones; Director, Mrs. Durwood Franklin. Music: Miss Margaret Leist, Jefferson County Music Super­ visor. Picture Display: Miss Edith Wood. Historian, Director, and Author of the Pageants: Miss Edith Wood.

OFFICERS AND LEADERS IN 1935 Pastor...... Wilbur L. Davis Chairman of the Board...... F. M. Raley Church Treasurer...... A. B. Young Church Clerk...... ; ...... G. L. Herrick

ELDERS AND TRUSTEES M. P. Crask Wood H. Jones H. P. Pearcy W. H. Carlisle B. T. Coleman

DEACONS R. A. Powell J. Whittier Tharp E. L. Rothenburger R. P. Gregory Whit P. Haynes C. W. Hardin H. MacFarland G. L. Herrick A. M. Feland Wm. Highfield A. B. Young F. M. Raley

MlsslONAR.Y SoCIETY President______··-·-················-···-·-···--·-·----······-----·····.Mrs. R. S. Carson Vice-President.·---···-···-······-···-··-·-·-·······-·-···-·-····-····-~- Irene Long Secretary·-···-··--····-·---·-··--·------·-·----··-----·--·--·----.Mrs- Thomas Tucker T reasurer·--·-·-----··-·------·----·-·--··------·---·_Mrs· A. B. Young World Call Secretary ------·-·---·--·------.Mrs- A. M. Feland LADIES Am SoaEiY PresidenL. Mrs. Pink T atchell Vice-PresidenL______.... _.Mrs_ Nan Waters Secretary and Treasurer______Mrs_ Nellie Wood

SUNDAY ScHooL Superintend-en..... t ______. __ _B_ T. Coleman Treasurer ______Robert Martin Secretary _ Harry Ellingsworth 246 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Martha Tharp Class: President, Mrs. B. T. Coleman; Teacher, Mrs. I. G. Meade. Men's Class: President, A. B. Young; Teachers, C. P. Howard, A. M. Feland. 0. T. S. Class: President, Mrs. Elizabeth Herrick; Teacher, W. L. Davis. Young Men's Class: President, Wetherby Hoke; Teacher, C. w. Hardin. I. 0. U. Class: President, Hilda Howard; Teacher, Mrs. A. M. Feland. Intermediate Department: Teachers, Mrs. A. B. Young, Miss Edith Wood. Elementary Division: Superintendent, Mrs. W. L. Davis; As­ sistant Superintendent, Mrs. R. S. Carson; Treasurer, Mrs. Robert Martin; Secretary, Mrs. R. P. Gregory. Junior Department: Teachers, Mrs. R. S. Carson, Mrs. Whit P. Haynes, Mrs. R. P. Gregory. Primary Department: Teachers, Margaret Russell, Martha Love Rothenburger. Beginners' Department: Teachers, Mrs. Robert Martin, Mrs. Leander Parrott.

A BUILDING CENSUS OF MAIN STREET Main Street still savors of the past; seventeen of the eighty-one buildings on it are over one hundred years in age. A description of the buildings today and those of about a hundred years ago which occupied the same site is outlined below. The numbering of the buildings begins with the first house on the north side of Main Street at the east end of town and continues consecutively, No. 43 being the last building at the west end of town. No. 44 is the first building on the south side of Main Street at the west end of town and No. 82 is the last building on the south side at the east end of town. 1-43: north side of Main Street. 44-82: south side of Main Street.

Now THEN I. J. M. Howey Joseph Abell plantation. (frame cottage). 2. Cad W. Meyer Joseph Abell plantation. (frame cottage). APPENDIX 247

3. Lee Jones Joseph Abell plantation. (frame cottage) . 4. B. T. Coleman Joseph Abell plantation. (two-story frame dwell- ing). 5. Harry McFarland Joseph Abell plantation. (two-story frame dwell- ing). 6. Neisius' Garage Joseph Abell plantation. ( red tile building). 7. N. P. Neisius Joseph Abell plantation. (frame cottage) . 8. Robert Jones Joseph Abell plantation. ( story and half stucco - dwelling) . 9. Marvin Jones Joseph Abell plantation. (story and half frame cot- tage). 10. Sallie Dugan Joseph Abell plantation. (two-story frame dwell- ing). 11. L. W. Rouch Joseph Abell plantation. (two-story frame dwell- ing). 12. Dr. J. K. Keyes Joseph Abell plantation. ( two-story frame dwell- ing). 13. Clifford Pearce Joseph Abell plantation. (two-story frame dwell- ing). 14. James Sutherland Joseph Abell plantation. (two-story red brick dwell- ing). 15. L. P. Wetherby Apartment Old Davis Tavern. House (large two-story brick, stuccoed). 16. Baptist Oiurch Woolen Mill. (red brick building) . 248 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

17. Dr. B. B. Sleadd Woolen Mill. (two-story red brick dwell­ ing). 18. Edward Mitchell and Mid­ Frame Cottage. dletown Apothecary ( frame cottage with small store built on the front of it). 19. Self Hardware Store Minor Waters' grocery store. ( frame building). 20. T. D. Self Minor Waters' home - two­ ( frame cottage). story log and frame house, de­ stroyed by fire. 21. T. D. Self Same house-owned by Minor ( weatherboarded log cot­ Waters. tage, rented) . 22. Will Hord Andrew Buchannon (1808), (frame cottage, rented). frame building. 23. Middletown I n n - J o e Elisha Athy-same building. Thormahlen ( two-story brick). 24. Hunt's Market Flem Keene's home-two-room (built of concrete blocks). log house with an open f oun­ dation. 25. Bank of Middletown A house owned by R. S. Waters ( concrete block building). -two rooms, one above the other. 26. L. P. Arterburn Same house remodeled-Brent­ ( two-story log-frame) . linger home. 27. H. P. Pearcy Long log house that extended ( two-story frame). to the street. 28. H. P. Pearcy Same house remodd~ -Wil­ ( frame cottage). liam Waters owned it. 29. H. P. Groceqr Store Major Waters' home, it had a (frame). large upstairs porch which overhung the pavement of the street. 30. Post Office Beargrass Creek-the post (two-story concrete build­ office is built over the creek. ing). APPENDIX 249

31. Dr. S. 0. Witherbee Built by Benjamin Head I, ( two-story stone) . 1813-1815. 32. Dr. L. D. Mason· Brengman Tavern-red brick (two-story frame dwell­ building. ing, rented). 3 3. Middletown Factory William Jones' blacksmith ( red brick, brown front). shop. 34. Masonic Lodge Cabinet shop and Seston wagon (large two-story frame) . shop. 35. Myers Funeral Home­ Jefferson Marders--same house Dr. L. D. Mason owner of remodeled. house (large two-story frame). 36. John Gray One-room log school house­ (frame cottage). Marian Beynroth taught here. 37. Frank Fisher The same log house owned by ( large two-story log and John C. Marshall. frame dwelling). 38. A vacant lot Perine' s cabinet shop. 39. Methodist Parsonage Old Parsonage. ( hvo-story frame dwell­ ing). 40. Lloyd Poulter Vacant lot. (frame cottage). 41. Will Poulter Jeremiah Diller' s home-the (frame cottage). same house. 42. Aurelia Wisehart Joseph Seston' s home - the ( weatherboarded log cot­ same log house. tage). 43. Standard Oil Company An old house on this lot ( a frame cottage, rented). burned. 44. Lloyd Gates Jason Chamberlin' s home. ( two-story frame). 45. Reverend Will Tharp II One-room log cabin.. ( two-story frame). 46. Will Grunwald First blacksmith shop of W. J. ( frame cottage). Jones. 47. Fannie Wetherby Vacant lot. ( frame cottage)- 48. Fannie Wetherby Shoe shop. ( frame cottage; rented). 250 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

49. Christian Church Red brick church-same build­ ( stucco over brick with a ing without annex. stone front) . 50. Hattie Yenowine Keene home. (frame cottage) . 51. George Schenk Presbyterian Church, later oc­ (two-story frame dwell­ cupied by Methodist Church. ing). 52. Herbert Cochran Johnson_ home. (frame cottage). 53. L. D. Mason Able home, wagon shop on (frame cottage, rented). corner of this lot - Seston moved here. 54. Charles Downey Harry Hudson Lodge, large log ( two-story frame house). building. 5 5. Edward Cox Powell home. (frame cottage) . 56. Phelps Barber Shop Vacant. ( small one-room frame building). . 57. Charles Phelps Captain Deer's store-log (frame cottage) . building. 58. C. L. Mathais Brinley home-two-story frame (two-story frame). house. 59. Leonard Jones Squire Poulter' s home-two­ (frame cottage) . story log. 60. Oark McDonald McGarvey- large two-story (frame cottage) . frame dwelling. 61. Fulton Wheeler Story-and-half brick, Wi11iam (frame cottage) . Jones• home. 62. Methodist Church Large two-story frame building (red brick building). used as a hat factory. 63. T. D. Self Store 2.n.d dwelling. (two-story frame; rented). 64. Sam Long Russell's home - same I o g ( frame cottage) . house later Robert S. Waters· home. 6 5. Long• s Store Vacant lot. ( small frame building). APPENDIX 251

66. Carl Arrington · Robert S. Waters' home. (long log-frame cottage and store, rented) . 67. Tom Waters Same house. (small frame cottage). 68. John Waters Mitchell's home-same house. ( two-story frame). 69. Roger Waters Davis farm. (frame cottage). 70. Dick Poulter Davis farm. (two-story frame). 71. L. P. Wetherby Davis farm. ( two-story frame). 72. B. E. Brindley Davis farm. (two-story frame). 73. B. E. Brindley Davis farm. (frame cottage, rented) . 74. Dr. J. B. Jordan Joseph Abell plantation. ( one-story frame dwell- ing). 75. W. H. Wood Joseph Abell plantation. ( two-story frame dwell- ing). 76. J. Perelli Joseph Abell plantation. (two-story frame dwell- ing). 77. Frank Orr Joseph Abell plantation. ( two-story frame). 78. Forrest Raley Joseph Abell plantation. (frame cottage, rented). 79. Edward Orr Joseph Abell plantation. (two-story frame). 80. Forrest Raley Joseph Abell plantation. (two-story red brick). 81. Omer Jones Joseph Abell plantation. (two-story s t o n e a n d frame). 82. R.H. Van Zmt Joseph Abell·s home. ( two-story red brick). 252 . MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

CENSUSES

0FFIOAL CENSUSES The first United States census was taken in 1790. The Ken.­ tacky schedules for 1790 and 1800 were burned by the British in Washington during the War of 1812. A statement of the pop­ ulation of Middletown as returned by the enumerators at the official censuses specified is given below:

CENSUS POPULATION 1810 241 1860 270 1870 244 1890 302 1930 832 In 1810 the population of Jefferson County consisted of 4,347 slaves, 113 Indians, and one free Negro. In that year Bruners­ town (Jeffersontown) had a population of 92.

AN UNOFFICIAL CENSUS OF MIDDLETOWN, 1943-1944 This unofficial census of Middletown was taken during the summer and fall of 1943 and the summer of 1944 by residents of the eleven sections into which Middletown was divided. Those taking the census were: Mrs. Minnie C.Ox, Miss Jane Hite, Mrs. Viola Hite, Mrs. Carl Meyer, Mrs. Morris Morgan, Mrs. Nettie Pounds, Miss Martha Raley, Mrs. Elizabeth Waters, Miss Comella Ruth Wetherby, Mrs. Aurelia WJ.Sebart, and Miss Annabelle Young. The maiden name of a married woman is given whenever known. The members of a family group of the same surname are arranged together, disregarding the alphabetical order of given names. Since the census was taken during the War there are, unavoidably, some transients included. There are 1,067 names listed. Key to abbreviations: A~dult, over 18 years. W wife. C=ebild, under 18 years. Unroack~ge not known. H=husband. APPENDIX 253

Abbott, W. M. (H) Brinley, Arch (A) Abbott, Virgie Lee Brinley, Thomas (A) Perkinson (W) Brisco, George W allacc ( C) Abbott, Doris Louise ( C) Brooks, Wesley I (H) Agee, Rose Weigleb (A) Brooks, Louise Pearcy (W) Andrews, Joseph (H) Brooks, Wesley II (A) Andrews, Leota (W) ·Brooks, Ray (A) Andrews, Dorothy (C) Brooks, Lindsey ( C) Arbegust, Wiliiam C. (H) Brooks, Gene Paul (C) Arbegust, Sue Sweeney (W) Brown, Louis (H) Arrington, James (H) Brown, Villa Neff (W) Arrington, Leona Carter (W) Brown, David Elrye (H) Arterburn, Nannie Roman (A) Brown, Mary Phyllis Baker, J. F. (H) Snavely (W) Baker, .Annie Smither (W) Brown, Ruby Maxine (C) Bailey, Thomas D. (A) Brown, Mary Ruth (C) Ballou, Leonard Dexter (H) Brown, Kenneth Nash (C) Ballou, Evaline Oatts (W) Brown, Ray Thomas (C) Ballou, Marian Dexter ( C) Brown, David Elyre, Jr. (A) Ballou, Shelby Henry ( C) Brown, William (H) Baxter, Arvin E. (H) Brown, Etta C. Eades (W) Baxter, Mrs. (W) Brown, Tennie Williams (A) Baxter, Arvin Lee (C) Brown, Nicholas (H) Becker, Vernon William (H) Brown, .Annie Hardy (W) Becker, Margaret Louise (W) Browning, Joseph Lewis (A) Becker, V ema Lee (C) Browning, Louis Depper (A) Becker,BertieMarie (C). Bryant, Victor (H) Becker, V emon William ( C) Bryant, Della Victoria Beehler, Lucille Miller (W) Gwathmey (A) Bryant, Hazzard (A) Berty, Mrs. (A) Buechel, George (A) _ Beynroth, William (A) Buechel, Minnie (A) Blair, Frances Swan (A) Burnett, Dr. Joe (H) Blair, Rebecca Janet (C) Burnett, Martha Jenkins (W) Blanton, Mi$ (A) Burnett, Bobby (C) Bliss, Cyrus (H) Burnett, William J. (A) Bliss, Meta Quast (W) Caldwell, Viola Walker (A) Bohannon, Hattie Beckley (A) Caldwell, Henry Donald (A) Breed, Lilla (A) Calhoun, Kate Roberts (A) Brinley, B. E. (H) Callaway, Mabel Virginia (A) Brinley, Cara Bishop (W) Ganao, Willard (H) 254 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Carman, Lora Potts (W) Craft, Walter Chester (A) Carman, Peggy Carrol ( C) Crask, James M. I (H) Carpenter, Lister (H) Crask, F ranees Anlcins (W) Carpenter, Hattie Rucker (W) Crask, James M. II (C) Carpenter, Sara (A) Crask, Carol Jean (C) Carpenter, Helen (A) Crask, Carl Lenvel ( H) Case, Lee (H) Crask, Stella Turner (W) Case, Mary (W) Crask, Susie Bell (C) Case, Patsy ( C) Crask, Marcella Ruth ( C) Case, Jean Carol (C) Crask, Mark (A) Casey, Bennie (A) Crawford, Hazel Evans (A) Chandler, Sarah Dickey (A) Crouch, Ernest (H) Chandler, Dave (H) Crouch, Rose Mary (W) Chandler, Mildred Duerr (W) Crouch, Ernest Lee ( C) Chandler, Barbara Ann (C) Crouch, Lillie (A) Clark, Roy (H) Crum, William (H) Clark, Martha Tharp (W) Crum, Hester Turner (W) Clark, John William (A) Crum, Howard (A) Clubb, Hazel Marie (A) Crum, LeRoy (A) Clubb, Marlene Marie Culver, Chester (H) Clubb, Carol Ruth Culver, Catherine (W) Cochran, Herbert Culver, Donald ( C) Cochran, Dewey Ointon (H) Culver, Lenada (C) Cochran, Lucille Roberts (W) Cunningham, Elijah W. ( H) Cochran, Margaret Ann (C) Cunningham, Mary (W) Cochran, Bobbie ( C) Currie, John Will (H) Coleman, Ben Tyler (H) Currie, Desta Derickson (W) Coleman, Ella Frisbee (W) Curry, William H. I (H) Colyer, Virgil L. Curry, Hortense (W) Cornelius, Kelly T. (H) Curry, William H II ( C) Cornelius, Sarah Tucker (W) Curry, Betty (C) Cornelius, Dr. Kelly B. (H) Day, Rupard (H) Cornelius, Ethel Salyer (W) Day,_ Elizabeth Harris (W) Cornelius, Kelly David (C) Deats, George Ernest (H) Cornelius, Fontaine Kray ( C) Deats, Alice Carolyn Cornish, William Jasper I (H) Thierman (W) Comish, Ollie Taylor (W) De Laney, Frankie Pearl Cornish, William Davidson Jasper II (C) Donaldson, Mike (H) Cox, Minnie Jones (A) Donaldson, Verna Craft, Mattie Webb (A) Summitt (W) APPENDIX 255

Donaldson, Glenn (C) Fisher, Marylou ( C) Donaldson, Edwin ( C) Floyd, Julius Ray I (H) Donaldson, David Lee ( C) Floyd, Elsie Scales (W) Donaldson, James Robert (C) Floyd:, Julius Ray II (C) Donaldson, Winthrop {C) Floyd, Dallas Lee ( C) Dopking, Charles Arthur (H) Floyd, John Randolph (C) Dopking, Edith Estelle Fr~ Letitia Jones (A) Bryan (W) Frazee, Frank Dopking, Sfiirley Ann ( C) Frazee, Oara Downey, Ruth Owings (A) Frost, Ray (H) Dugan, Sally (A) Frost, Frances Yunt (W) Dugan, Annie (A) Frost, Billy Ray (C) Dugan, James (A) Fryrear, Elbert Louis (H) . ~ . Duncan, John Hampton (H) Fryrear, Mable Irene Duncan, Mary Childers (W) Dugan (W) Durr, Louise Robinson : (A) Fryrear, Mary F ranees (A) Eads, Harry Hendricks (H) Fryrear, Marion Irene (A) Eads, Elizabeth Maddox (W) Fryrear, Bennie Louis (C) Eads, Ann Lanier ( C) Fryrear, Joyce Faye (C) Eads, Jane Maddox ( C) Fuchs, Fred I (H) Eads, Carrie (A) Fuchs, Cleo Roth (W) Elder, Audley I (H) Fuchs, Fred II (C) Elder, Louise Hertel (W) Fuchs, Janice ( C) Elder, Meta (A) Gaddie, Lucy Catherine (W) Elder, Audley II (A) Gaddie, Herbert Franklin (H) Elder, Virginia Gaddie, Mary ( C) McCullough (A) Gaddie, Marion ( C) Engle, Allen (H) Gallion, Rella Warren (A) Engle, Mildred (W) Gates, Lloyd W. (H) Engle, Barbara (C) Gates, Pearl Stubblefield (W) Fergerson, Georgie Mae Gehm, Katherine Ernst- Crask (A) berger (A) Fergerson, Janice Marie (C) Giles, B. F. (A) Figg, Jennie G1nningham Giles, Douglas (A) Fisher, Marion ( C) ( orphan Giles, Huber (A) boy) Giles, Martha (C) Fisher, Etta Witherbee (A) Goloday, T. Aaron (H) Fisher, Marion (A) ( daughter Goloday, Marie of Etta Witherbee Fisher) McGovern (W) Fisher, Wilbur Thomas (H) Goloday, Allen (C) Fisher, Norma C. (W) Goloday, Peggy Jean (C) 256 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Gorbandt, Charles F. (H) Hancock, Gus Herndon II (C) Gorbandt, Ethel B. (W) Hardin, Percy (H) Gorbandt, William F. Hardin, Oeo Johnson (W) Gover, Edward· (H) Hardy, Henry Thomas (H) Gover, Ada Hienes (W) Hardy, Marie Minogrie (W) Gover, Russel ( C) Harman, Margaret Carol Gover, Sue Carol ( C) Vaughn (A) Gover, Sam ( C) Harman, Pauline Vaughn (A) Gray, John Louis (H) Harmon, Forest (H) Gray, Emma Dickey (W) Harmon, Kathryn (W) Gregory, Richard Parker I (H) Harmon, Donald (C) Gregory, Mary Alice (W) Harrod, Coleman (H) Gregory, Joe Beard (A) Harrod, Lula Stivers (W) Gregory, Jane Laurance (A) Harrod, Juanita (C) Gregory, R. P. II (H) Hatton, M. A. (H) Gregory, Mary Suther- Hatton, Vergie Craft (W) land (W) Hatton, Loetta (A) Gregory, Mary Linn ( C) Hatton, Claxton (A) Grey, Eleanor Duncan Hedden, Alice (A) Griffith, Ethel Cox (A) Hedden, Oifton (A) Grunwald, Julia (A) Hedges, Billy Milton (H) Grunwald, William (A) Hedges, Naomi Long (W) Grunwald, Lamard (A) Hedges, Billie Jo (C) Gunther, Louis Albert (H) Hedges, Napoleon (H) Gunther, Anna Mary Hedges, Dapone Knoles (W) Wunderlich (W) Hedges, Marjorie ( C) Guy, Willard (H) Hedland, Ada Henson Guy, Helen Williams (W) Hedland, Jackie Guy, Zelma Lee (C) Hedland, Dixiana Gu~ Lewis B. I (H) Henry, Emma (A) Guyn, Ruth Jane Brinley (W) Henson, John Wm. (A) Guyn, Lewis B. II ( C) Henson, Eliza Frost (A) Gwatbmey, Jo~hine (A) Herrick, George Lowry (H) Haas, Otto (H) Herrick, Elizabeth Cooke (W) Haas, Florence Gray (W) Herrick, Cliades Raymond (H) Haas, Jack Lee ( C) Herrick, Grace Adams (W) Hale, Virgil Wayne (C) Herrick, Gene Raymond (C) Hale, Wanda W alisha ( C) Herrick, John Adams (C) Haley, Alice Maud Keller (A) Herrington, Louis B. (H) Hancock, Gus Herndon I (H) Herrington, Mary Waring Hancock, Daisy Balbrey (W) Jordan (W) APPENDIX 251

Hicks, Joseph Hilliary (H) Huettig, Annene Bodner (W) Hicks, Laura Tatum (W) · Huettig, Michael ( C) Hilderbrand, Katie Holman Hume, Lee (A) Hill, Leo Thomas (H) Hume, P. (A) · _ Hill, Lydia Elizabeth (W) Humphrey, Collins Hill, William Alfred (C) Humphrey, Estelle Hinkle, Kurb ( A) Humphrey, James Barnett Hite, Viola Browning (A) Humphrey, Charlotte Louise _ Hite, Carrie Beynroth (A) Humphrey, Melvin Earl (H) Hite, Jane Glass (A) Humphrey, Bertha Ellen Hoke, Mary Almeda (A) Shane (W) Hoke, Ruth Elizabeth (A) Humphrey, Thelma Lee . ( C) Hoke, Houstin (A) Humphrey, Ernest (H) Hoke, Lenora Marie (A) Humphrey, Lillian Hoke, William Bruce ( C) Rowland (W) Hoke, Kenneth Grey (C) Humphrey, Jack (C) Hoke, Gilbert Lee ( C) Hunt, Oay (H) Hoke, Robert Keith ( C) Hunt, Buelah Simcox (W) Holeman, Joseph (H) Hunt, Jo Ann (C) Holeman, Frieda Jackman, Fred (H) Frankenstein (W) Jackman, Florence Little (W) Holloway, Decker (H) Jackman, Alma ( C) Holloway, Elizabeth Jackman, Jane (C) Rooksby (W) Jackson, Everet (H) Holloway, Tandy (C) Jackson, Louise Bryant (W) Holloway, Martha (C) Jackson, Everet Roy (C) Holloway, Earl (H) Jacobson, Joseph (H) Holloway, Catherine Jacobson, Mrs. (W) Humphrey (W) Jacobson, Barbara (C) Holloway, Bobby Earl ( C) Jacobson, Ellen ( C) Holloway, Oyde Layne (C) Jones, John (A) Holloway, Harvey Jones~ Marvin (H) Herman (A) Jones, Sue (W) Holmes, Jerry (C) Jones, Richard ( C) Howard, Sarah Jones, Barbara (C) Howard, Jesse Jones, William ( C) Howell, John (H) Jones, Marvin (C) Howell, Mildred. Gates (W) Jones, Wood Hiram (H) Hubbard, Mrs. (A) Jones, Eunice Russell (W) Hubbard, Oliver (A) (son) Jones, Lovell (H) Huettig, Conrad (H) Jones, Katherine (W) 258 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Jones, James (A) King, Carol Ann (C) Jones, Lee (H) King, Kay Lynn (C) Jones, Ione Simcoe (W) King, Rufus Collie I (H) Jones, Robert (H) King, Isabelle Fisher (W) Jones, Virginia Lee King, Rufus Collie II ( C) Melone (A) King, Melville Eskridge I (A) Jones, Betty Carroll (C) King, Melville Eskridge Jones, Mrs. (W) II (C) Jones, Thomas Howell (H) Knoeller, Letitia Ann ( C) Jones, Ruth Schindler (W) Knoel1er, Kathryn Frank (A) Jones, William Miriam I (H) Knoeller, George Henry (C) Jones, Jean Roth (W) Knoles, Mollie (A) Jones, William Mariam II (C) Kruetler, Fred I (H) Jones, Matthew Joseph (C) Kruetler, Mrs. (W) Jones, Leonard Francis ( C) Kruetler, Roy Edwards ( C) Jones, Barbara Florence (C) Kruetler Elmer (C) Jones, Omer (H) Kruetler, Fred II (A) Jones, Nan Miller (W) Kruse, Irvin George (H) Jordan, Amy Reed (A) Kruse, Bessie Bailey (W) Jordan, Dr. James Basil (H) Kurtsinger, Lizzie Jane Jordan, Adah Miller (W) Moore (A) Kaelin, Adolph (H) Kurtsinger, Frieda Rose (A) Kaelin, Blanche Norris (W) Kyser, James I (H) Kaelin, James (C) Kyser, Jessie (W) Keeling, Robert (H) Kyser, James II (C) Keeling, Jean Eleanor (W) Kyser, Ora Lee (A) Keeling, Donna ( C) Kyser, - (C) Keller, Ruth Elizabeth (A) Kyser, Marvin (-C) Kennedy, Floyd Leslie (H) Langford, Edward (H) Kennedy, Lula Caldwell (W) l.angford, Catherine Orr (W) Kent, Rose Skiles (A) Langford, Louis (H) Kent, Mary Elizabeth ( C) Langford, Hazel Martin (W) Kincannon, Holden I (H) I.angford, Robert Louis {C) Kincannon, Sara (W) Lanier, Mattie West (A) Kincannon, Katherine (C) Lawson, William Kincannon, Holden II ( C) Lawson, Mary King, Reverend P. L (H) Lawson, Russell King, Ora C.Ollie (W) Lawson, Willard King, Preston Lee (H) Lawson, Jo Ann King, Cluistine Simpson (W) Lawson, Susie King, Caroll Morris ( C) Lee, Horace Arthur (H) APPENDIX 259

Lee, Coydia Jewel Owens (W) McCaleb, Edna Donaldson Lee, Delphus Revell (A) Witt (W) Lewis, Goldie (A) McCaleb, Marilee ( C) Liechty, Ora McDonald, Oark (H) Liechty, Catherine Shock McDonald, Maggie Jones (W) Lindsey, Regina Willie McFarlan, Harry (H) Tanner (A) McFarlan, Orie (W) Lippert, Henry (H) McFarlan, Dorothy (A) Lippert, Emma (W) McFarlan, James (A) Long, Martin Van Buren (A) McFarlan, Howard (A) Long, John Samuel (H) Macy, William David Long, Irene Long (W) Mann, William Alford Long, Juanita Ruth (A) Mann, Anna Hardy Lotze, Raymond Robert (H) Marshall, Frank (H) Lotze, Vivian Raley (W) Marshall, Mrs. (W) Lotze, Dorothy Louise ( C) Martin, Robert (H) Lotze, Margie Ray (C) Martin, Ida Mae Crask (W) Lotze, Lawrence Raymond ( C) Martin, Robert Lee (A) Lowry, Elmer Joseph (H) Mason, Dr. L. D. (H) Lowry, Grace Blair (W) Mason, Julia Spicher (W) Lowry, Ruth Ann Mason, Dudley I (H) Lowry, Harold Anthony Mason, Violet Kilby (W) Lowry, Daniel Thomas Mason, Ruth (C) Lowry, Edwin Joseph Mason, Dudley II (C) Mason, Violet ( C) Lyne, Leland (H) Mathes, Newton Willoughby Lyne, Elizabeth Robinson (W) Mathes, William Brown Lyne, Thomas (C) Mathes, Harriet Brown Lyvers, Berkley S. (H) Mayer, Oliver Edgar (H) Lyvers, Lucille Roman (W) Mayer, I.aura Helen (W) Lyvers, Robert Berkley (C) Mayer, Lois Ann (C) Lyvers, Marilyn (C) Mayer, Nancy Lee (C) McAuliffe, Frank B. Mellinger, Mary F. (A) McAuliffe, Margaret .Harlan Melone, James Y. I (H) McBride, Oiarles Frederick Melone, Cora Seeders (W) I (H) Melone, Iva Mae (C) McBride, Sara Griffith (W) Melone, James Y~ II (C) McBride, Oiarles Frederick Melone, Harold Lloyd (C) II (C) _ Meyer, Carl William I (H) McCaleb, James Meyer, Gladys T aura Archibald (H) Straub (W) 260 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Meyer, Carl William II (H) Morgan, Minnie (W) Meyer, Mary Arrington (W) Morgan, Edith ( C) Miller, Frank Y. (H) Morgan, Minnie Joe (C) Miller, Martha Brinley (W) Morgan, Ella (A) Miller, Frank E. ( C) Morgan, Richard B. (H) Miller, Nettie Maddox (A) Morgan, Amelia Ann (W) Miller, Margaret (A) Moriarty, Edward James (H) Mitchell, Elizabeth (A) Moriarty, Elizabeth M. {W) Mitchell, Edward Thomas (H) Moriarty, James Thomas (C) Mitchell, Matilda Oemens Moriarty, Edward James (C) Malcolm (W) Moriarty, George Hurley (C) Moore, Emma Louise Neff, Louise Schindler (A) Schindler (A) Newton, James E. (H) · Moore, Charles Orel (H) Newton, Edythe Cowherd (W) Moore, Pearl Simpson (W) Newton, James E. (A) Moore, Dorothy Lenora Nicklies, John E. (H) Moore, Charles Kenneth Nicklies, Ethel Simpson (W) Moore, Patsy Ann Nicklies, Margaret Joann (C) Moore, Joseph Thomas (H) Niesius, N. P. (H) Moore, Margaret Agen (W) Niesius, Nancy (W) Moore, Berdie Eads (A) Niesius, Jimmie ( C) Morris, Pompie Mansfield (H) Niesius, Patty Ann ( C) Morris, Kitty Ann Stucker Ochsner, Ethel Wellman (W) Ochsner, Kathryn Anna Moran, Minnie Lawes (A) Ochsner, John Jacob (A) Moran, Margaret Shaw {A) Orr, Edna Lee Price Moran, John Patrick (A) Oursler, Mary (A) Morgan, R. B. (H) Painter, Louis Edgar I (H) Morgan, Mrs. (W) Painter, Elnora Julia Morgan, J.P. (A) Becker (W) Morgan, Cecil (A) Painter, Louis Edgar II (H) Morgan, lewis Wallace (H) Painter, Susie Mae Hill (W) Morgan, Maggie Poulter (W) Painter, William Edgar (A) Morgan, Mary Elizabeth (C) Painter, Robert Hill ( C) Morgan, Wilber Wallace (C) Pate, Lucy Lesley (A) Morgan, Morris (H) Pate, McMurtry (C) Morgan, Ruby c.atlierine Payton, S. G. (H) Holloway (W) Payton, Laa (W) Morgan, Peggy Louise (C) Pearce, Gifford F. (H) Morgan, Judith Faye (C) Pearce, Julia Robinson (W) Morgan, Eugene (H) Pearce, Luther Wetherby (C) APPENDDC 261

Pearce, Mattie Harris Phillips, Frances (C) Lanier (A) Phillips, Virginia Dale ( C) Pearce, Philip L.ee Pierce, Renford Caretn Pearce, Martha Jean Pierce, Mabel Elizabeth Macy Pearcy, Henry P. (H) Pierce, Mary Jane Pearcy, Elizabeth Wood (W) Pierce, Anna Sharon Pearcy, Laura Mae (A) Pierce, Oara Nell Perrelli, John (H) Pierce, John Renford Perrelli, Mrs. (W) Pitts, Samuel Walter I (H) Perrelli, Louis (H) Pitts, Ursa Della (W) Perrelli, Mrs. (W) Pitts, Morris Coolidge (C) Perrelli, Christina. (A) Pitts, Samuel Walter II ( C) Perrelli, Josephine (A) Poulter, Richard Henry (H) Perrelli, Philaroena (A) Poulter, Emma Chandler (W) Perrelli, Joseph (A) Poulter, Edward (H) Perrelli, John (A) Poulter, Cora Turner (W) Petitt, William Sherman (A) Pound, Nettie Louise Petitt, Susan Margaret Rothenburger (A) Boren (A) Powell, Robert Archie (A) Petitt, William Elize (A) Powell, Bernadine (A) Petitt, Eva Bryant (A) Powell, Yelvalynn (A) Petitt, Elizabeth Eva (C) Price, J. C. (A) Petitt, Dora Irene ( C) Price, Mae Cook (A) Petitt, Charles Robert ( C) Price, Ruth Nadine ( C) Petitt, Elsie Mae ( C) Price, Norma Jean (C) Pfeffer, Frank William (H) Price, Ella Thompson (A) Pfeffer, Dorothy Keating (W) Price, William Thompson (A) Pfeffer, Madeline, T. (A) Price, Virgil (A) Pfeffer, Mary Bertha (A) Proctor, E. L. (H) Pfeffer, Henrietta F. (A) Proctor, Nellie Phelps, O,arles (H) Schowalter (W) Phelps, Doris Roman (W) Proctor, Lawrence ( A) Phelps, Warren (A) Proctor, Robert (A) Phelps, Leonard Proctor, Joe Douglass ( C) Phelps, Kathleen. Pulliam, Myra Carter Phillips, O,ristioe (A) Smiley (A) Phillips, Ray Pulliam, William Emmett (A) Phillips, Herman Roscoe (H) Rafferty, Lawrence (H) Phillips, Mallie (W) Rafferty, May (W) Phillips, Sne (C) Rafferty, Jean (C) Phillips, Ruby ( C) Rafferty, Jimmy 262 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Rafferty, Larry Roush, L. W. (H) Rafferty, Ray Roush, Mrs. (W) Raley, Gertrude May (A) Royalty, Willie (H) Raley, F. M. (H) Royalty, Dora Driskell (W) Raley, Katherine Spicker (W) Royalty, Raymond (H) Raley, F. Porter (A) Royalty, Dorothy (W) Raley, Martha Louise (~) Ryan, Lillie Nay Pearson (A) Rankin, Bessie Linney (A) Ryan, Irma (A) Rawlinson, Arthur (H) Sainsbury, Albert U. (H) Rawlinson, Dorothy (W) Sainsbury, Mabel Reis, Billie ( C) Campbell (W) Reneer, Finley (A) Sainsbury, Phyllis Dean ( C) Reneer, Betty ~in (A) Sainsbury, Betty May ( C::) Reneer, Evelyn Scott (C) Sainsbury, Marilyn Reneer, Helen Vettito (A) Eleanor (C) Rice, Juanita Bell Henson (A) Sams, Ralph G. (H) Riddle, Henry O. (A) Sams, Jean Short (W) Riddle Glenrose Robbins (A) Sams, Jeanette (A) Riddle, Anna Darlene ( C) Sanford, Lula Long (A) Riggle, Mary Ellen ~anford, Charles Henry (A) Childers (A) Sapp, Gordon Smith (A) Riggle, Nellie 0. (A) Sapp, Ella V. Jones (A) Riggle, Martha Elizabeth (A) Sa:pp, Gordon Kenneth ( C) Riggle, Robert A. (A) Sapp, Margaret Ann ( C) Riggle, Harry (A) Schenck, George Riggle, Rosco (A) Schindler, John (A) Roberts, William Schindler, Herbert Robert (H) Robinson, George Schindler, Stella Jones (W) Roman, Austin (H) Schindler, Helen Marie ( C) Roman, Bessie Stivers (W) Schindler, John Robert (C) Roman, Walter Monroe (H) Schindler, Edward (H) Roman, Hazel Rose (W) Schindler, Lucille Pearcy (W) Roman, Lois Page (C) Schindler, Ella Downey (A) Roman, Mary Lou (C) Schrader, Cliester Henry (H) Rooksby, Clarence Lee (H) Schrader, Ruth Wetherby (W) Rooksby, Ada Stivers Schrader, Preston Scott (H) Holloway (W) Schrader, Grace Russell (W) Ross, Marvin Wythe (H) Schrader, Preston Henry (A) Ross, Frances Moore (W) Schrader, John Marshall (A) Roth, Mitchell T. Schrader, Russell Scott (A) Rothenburger, Fannie (A) Schwab, Gara Emstberger (A) APPENDIX 263

Scott, Kirby (H) Snyder, Katie Elizabeth Scott, Ruth Henson (W) Walker (A) Scott, Nancy Oaxon (C) Sowder, Fred (H) Self, Theodore Davis (H) Sowder, Eliza Ellen Self, Oara Gunther (W) Bussie (W) Sidebottom., George Sowder, Fred (C) Henry (H) Spicher, Laura (A) Sidebottom., Minnie Mae Spicher, Irene (A) Shane (W) Stamer, Reverend John Sidebottom, Delois Jean (C) Paul (H) Simpson, Margaret Stamer, Emma (W) Simpson, Thomas W. Stamer, Jack (A) Simpson, Pauline Hardy Stamer, Daniel (A) Simpson, Gerald David Stamer, Paula (A) Singer, Tom (A) Stamer, Mary Lloyd Singer, Harriett (A) . Howell (A) Skiles, David Franklin (H) Stang, W. M. (H) Skiles, Ethel Evelyn Stang, Mrs. (W) Morris (W) Stang, Doris Raye ( C) Skiles, David Lorin ( C) Star, Harrison I (H) Skiles, Morris Dean (C) Star, Harrison II (C) Slattery, Lawrence E. (H) Star, Barbara Ann Slattery, Anna Mason (W) Star, Louise Sleadd, Dr. Bernard Star, John Bland (H) Staton, Sarah Reffet (A) Sleadd, Annabelle Steele, Roy Lee (H) Gladwell (W) Steele, Helen Hall (W) Sleadd, Franklin Bland (C) Steele, Anna Louis ( C) Sleadd, Helen Douglas (C) Steele, Carol Lee ( C) Sleadd, Bernard Allen (C) Steinbach, Bertram Benjamin Sleadd, Mary Lou (C) Steinbach, Evelyn Newland Sleadd, William Carroll (C) Steinbach, Harold Benjamin Sleadd, Nancye Ann (C) Steinbach, Joseph Anthony I Sleadd, James Thompson (C) Steinbach, Wylene Luckett Smith, Oarence (A) Steinbach, Joseph Anthony II Smith, Hallie Yager (A) Steinbach, Robert Eugene Smith, Leona Stiver, Willie (H) Smith, Roy L Stivers, Camille Brewer (W) Smith, Agnes Stivers, Barbara Sue ( C) Smith, Gene Storch, Martin Albert (H) Snyder, Stanley Roy (A) Storch, Lena Marie (W) 264 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Streil;,le, William Matthew Tapp, Will iaro .(A) Strode; Winifred B. (A) - Tatchell, Mary Hoke (A) Stucker, Paul Norman (H) T atchell, Pinkie Hall (A) Stucker, Mary Virginia Howey Taylor, Kermuth (H) (W) Taylor, Dorothy Kaelin (W) Sublette, Bert Nathan {A) Taylor, Darrell Lee ( C) Sublette, Lillie Baker (A) Taylor, Dennis Ray (C) Sublette, Garland (A) Tharp, John Whittier I (H) Sublette, Montague (A) Tharp, Pauline Hinkle (W) Sublette, Theodore ( C) Tharp, John Whittier II (C) Summers, Jake (H) Tharp, Reverend William C. Summers, Mrs. (W) (H) Summers, Raymond (A) Tharp, Li11ian Mayo (W) Sutherland, James Searcy (H) Tharp, Kathryn (A) Sutherland, Goldie Bohannon Tharp, Ralph (A) (W) Tharp, Gilbert (A) Sutherland, James Boone ( C) Thomas, Benjamin (H) Sutherland, Thomas Thomas, Annie Elizabeth Brumby (C) Gaunt (W) Sutherland, John Lewis I (H) Thomas, Frank Philip (C) Sutherland, Dora Mae Thormahlen, Johannes (H) Williams (W) Thormahlen, Frances Hymer Sutherland, John Lewis ( C) (W) Sutherland, Martha Jean Tichenor, Martha Bodine (A) Il (C) Tichenor, Mary Josephine (C) Swan, Edward (H) Tichenor, Bettye Kathryn (C) Swan, Aldie Reel (W) Tichenor, Ray Bodine (C) Swan, Tabitha Slaughter (A) Tichenor, C. L. ( C) Swan, Cm.des Evan (C) Tinsley, Lee Frank I (H) Swan, Alma Cllarlotte ( C) Tinsley, Edith Burnett (W) Swan, Margaret Louise Tinsley, Lee Frank Il (C) Taber, Austin Il (H) Tmsley, Sarah Ann (C) Taber, Thelma (W) Tinsley, Jackie Sue (C) Taber, Austin ID _(-C) Trunnell, Henry Morgan (A) Tanner, William A. (A) Trunnell, Mary Bergin (A) Tanner, Mattie Lee (A) Tucker, Americas Netherton Tapp, Sylvia Swan (A) (A) Tapp, Otho (H) Tucker, Samuel Calvin (H) Tapp, Martha Reel (W) Tucker, Nancy Slaughter (W) Tapp, Fulton (A) Tucker, Gades Samuel (C) Tapp, Noonan (A) Twyman, Richard Lewis (H) APPENDIX 265

Twyman, Winnie Spratt (W) Waters, William (H) Twyman, Norma (A) Waters, Maud Swan (W) Twyman, Henrida (A) Welker, Harry Owen (A) Twyman, Harold Spratt ( A) Welker, Mavis Janette (A) Van Norte, Leroy Arthur (H) Wetherby, Fannie Y enowine Van Norte, Geneva Highfield (A) (W) Wetherby, Margaret (A) Van Norte, Wi11iarn Arthur Wetherby, George (A) (C) Wetherby, Lawrence (A) Van Norte, Betty Lou Wetherby, David (C) Van Norte, Jerry Dennis (C) Wetherby, Alfred Dudley (C) Van Winkle, Mrs. Charles Wil- Wetherby, Sherman Henry I liam (A) (H) Van Winkle, Mary Wetherby, Mary Gamble (W) Van Winkle, Sally Wetherby, Sherman Henry Van Zant, Russell (H) (H) Van Zant, Edna (W) Wetherby, Evelyn Frances Wade, Howard Ketchum (H) Durbin (W) Wade, Mary Anna Summitt Wetherby, Terry Lynn ( C) (W) Wetherby, Cornelia Ruth (C) Wade, John Tinsley Wetherby, Kathryn Elizabeth Waldridge, Mrs. (A) (A) Waldridge, J. C. (A) Wetherby, Luther Paris (H) Walker, Thomas (H) Wetherby, Addie May Blank- Walker, Susie (W) enbaker (W) Walker, Carolyn (C) Wetherby, Luther Silas (H) Walker, Edward ( C) Wetherby, Oara Hite (W) Walker, Charles ( C) Wetherby, Ivor Lois (A) Walker, Vance (H) Wheatley, John B. (H) Walker, Helen (W) Wheatley, Mrs. (W) Walker,. Gayle Brooks ( C) Wheatley, Jack (A) Walker, Virginia Mac (C) Wheeler, Fulton (H) Walker, Ronald (C) Wheeler, Gara Jones (W) Walker, Donald (C) Wheeler, Martha Dalton (A) Warner, Lloyd Michel Wheeler, Forrest Alvin {A) Warner, Leota Hen.son Wheeler, Franklin Jones (A) Waters, John Williamson (H) Wheeler, Dorothy Lee (C) Waters, Nannie C.Ox (W) Wheeler, Jo Een (C) Waters, Roger Hanson (H) Wheeler, Betty Jean (C) Waters, Eli7.abeth Roman (W) Wheeler, Wallace Fulton (C) Waters, Roger Kenneth (A) White, Shirley (A) 266 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

White, Gladys Hale (A) Wilson, Beverly Joyce (C). White, Charles Warren ( C) Winchester, Susie Wetherby Whitlock, William Allen (A) (A) Whitlock, Elizabeth Under- Wisehart, Aurelia Boswell (A) wood Allen (A) Witherbee, Charles Luther (A) Wibbels, Thomas Gilmore (H) Witherbee, Nettie Linney (A) Wibbels, Mary Ella Boston Witherbee, Lucy, (A) (W) Witherspoon, Lane (H) Wibbels, Billie Jean (C) Witherspoon, Dorothy Rogers Wibbels, Mary Frances (C) (W) Wilder, Ralph Edward (A) Wood, William Harlan (H) Wilder, Ruby Donovan (A) Wood, Nellie Sturgeon (W) ~vilder, Geraldine Bowen Wood, Edith Louise (A) ~/ilhelmi, Fred (H) Yates, Guy (H) Wilhelmi, Mrs. (W) Yates, Stella Mae Streible (W) Williams, Earl (H) Yates, Willie James Williams, Anna Catherine Car- Yates, Robert Cantril! penter (W) ~ ates, Edith Virginia Williams, Betty Jane Yates, Charles Morrison Williams, Edward Lee (A) Yates, Flora Bell Williams, Leona Irene Martin Yeager, Ida Poulter (A) (A) Y enowine, Hattie (A) \Villiams, Virginia Katherine Y enowine, Alodia Francis (A) Singleton (A) Williams, Robert Lee (C) Y enowine, Thomas Williams, Elizabeth Kruetler Young, Florence Bohannon (A) (A) Williams, Shirley Ann ( C) Young, Annabelle Louise (A) Williams, Thomas (C) Young, Oarabert (C) Williams, Finley (H) Young, A. Bernard (H) Williams, Ruth (W) Young, Effie Sweezy (W) Williams, Daisy (A) Young, Paul S. (A) Williams, Daniel (C) Young, William Kenneth (A) Williams, Thomas (C) Yunt, Everett E. (HJ Wilson, Ernest Laurence (A) Yunt, Ann Herndon (W) Wilson, Dora Tatum (A) Yunt, Anna Lee Wilson, Charles Anderson (H) Yunt, Oarence (A) Wilson, Grace Deaton (W) Yunt, George (A) Wilson, Charles Kenneth ( C) Yunt, Edward (A) Wilson, Glenda Joe (C) Yunt, Noble (C) Wilson, Wallace (C) Yunt, Edith (C) APPENDIX 267

Yunt, F ranees Zaring, James (H) Zachari, Louis (H) Zaring, Catherine Browning Zachari; Mrs. (W) (W) Zachari, Elizabeth (A) Zaring, Vanda Kay ( C)

TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS, MIDDLETOWN CE:METERY MIDDLETOWN, KENTUCKY

There are 282 names listed. The verses which are to be found on many of the old stones have been omitted. Many graves are without stones and several stones are so worn that the inscriptions are obliterated. There are four vaults, one of which is practically destroyed. Six doctors and seven ministers of the gospel are buried here. The earliest date of birth of an adult is 1 731 and the earliest date of death of an adult is 1812. The stones which are defaced are probably of an earlier date. The "L" following a date means that the person is living at the time of this writing, ( 1945), or that the date of death has not been added.

Abernathy, Alijah C.-Died in 1842, 44 years of age. Able, Catherine-Died July 21, 1822, age of 51 years; wife of Joseph Able. Able, Catherine Ann-July 8, 1813-Dec. 8, 1834; wife of William Able. Able, Joseph-Died May 22, 1846, age 94 years. Arterburn, James H.-1826-1860. Arterburn, L. P.-1862-1924. Arterburn, Sarah J.-1829-1890; wife of Jas. H. Arterburn. Arterburn, Wm. H.-June 12, 1858-Feb. 28, 1892; son of Jas. H. and Sarah J. Arterburn. Baumgartner, Anna-1869-L. Baumgartner, Henry-1858-1939. Baumgartner, John--:-1893-1943. Beamer, Roberta:-1920-1941. Beynroth, Glas E.-Died Dec. 1, 1853; age 57 years. Beynroth, Sarah J.-Sept. 1, 1837-Ang. 27, 1924. Blankenbaker, H. A.-1840-1910. Blankenbaker, W. N.-August 5, 1844-0ct. 25, 1901. Bradbury, John-English botanist and historian ( stone in ruin). 268 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Brengmao, America E.-Feb. 14, 1811-Mar. 5, 1881; wife of Samuel Brengman. Brengman, Frances Maria C.-Died July 18, 1838, age 19 years (vault). Brengmao, F. G.-April 16, 1797-Dec. 6. 1874. Brengmao, James-Feb. 1, 1847-Sept. 10, 1920. Brengmao, John-Feb. 9, 1788-Aug. 19, 1856. Brengmao, John Samuel-July 17, 1845-June 30, 1916. Brengmao, Lizzie O.-July 17, 1852-Feb. 11,1917. Brengman, Margaret-Died July 7, 1848, age 84 years; wife of Martin Brengmao. Brenginao, Martin-Died July 31, 1813, age 57 years. Brengmao, ~ F.-Died Dec. 31, 1854, age 9 years~ Brengman, Martin H.-Died June 4, 1841, age 28 years. Brengman, Sarah 1.-Died April 15, 1815, age 29 years; consort of F. Brengman. Brinley, Arch W.-1875-L. Brinley, John B.-June 11, 185~Dec. 5, 1862; son of E. and P. S. Brinley. Brinley, Mary F.-1893-L. Brinley, Thomas W.-1873-1944. Browne, A. W.-Oct. 21, 1847-June 15, 1892. Browne, David P.-1905-1930. Calloway, Coleman-July 4, 1831-May 23, 1883. Cardwell, Brenda Sue---1941-1943. Cardwell, Ellen K.-1853-1941. Cardwell, Julius Iria-May 7, 1868-June 17, 1870; son of T. V. and 0. G. Cardwell. urlisle, Anna L-1871-L urHsle, William lL-1862-1943. Cole, George Lee--1872-1936. Cole, Lettie-1880-L. Collins, David H.-1883-1927. Collins, John N.-1881-1938. Cmmor, Andrew-No dates on stone. Connor, James-No dates on stone. Connor, Mary-No dates on stone. Connor, (?)-No dates on stone. C.Orby, Ricbard-185 3-1932. Cornwell, Joseph-May 7, 1832-Jnne 20, 1836; son of Rebekah Cornwell APPENDIX 269

Cox, Anna Worthington-1847, 1898; wife of Willis Cox. Cox, B. H.-1841-1922, Christian Preacher. Cox, Edgar-1857-1929. Cox, Eliza B.-May 13, 1807-Sept. 7, 1891; wife of John C. Cox. Cox, Henrietta-1869-L; wife of Edgar Cox. Cox, J. Lawrence-1861-1929. Cox, John C.-Nov. 29, 1801-Dec. 13, 1878. Cox, Minnie J.-1871-L; wife of J. L. Cox. Cox, Wallace-Nov. 29, 1837-Jan. 14, 1866; Christian Preacher. Cox, William T.-1866-1928. Cox, Willis G.-1836-1914. Crapster, Albert-1831-1831; infant. Crapster, Elizabeth-Died March 1834; age 44 years. Crapster, John N.-Dec. 20, 1814-Sept. 13, 1838. Cummins, Ann U.-Aug. 27, 1809-April 6, 1834; consort of John D. Cummins and daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Crapster, was born in Maryland and died in Kentucky. Cummins, Edward P.-Sept. 12, 1833-June 25, 1834; infant. Downey, Charles-1885-1935. Downey, Emma-1849-1926. Downey, John-1850-1923. Durr, Emmett G.-1884-1918. Ellingsworth, Mary E.-1880-1919. Faulkner, Eve-Died Sept. 15, 1818, age 80 years; consort of John Faulkner. Faulkner, Jol$-Died Aug. 1, 1812, age 81 years. Fisher, Rilla:-1'002-1943. Fockler, Eve--Bom in 1738, died Sept. 15, 1818; consort of John Fockler and mother of Margaret Brengman, was born in Pennsylvania and died in Middletown, Jefferson County, Kentucky. Fockler, John-Jan. 14, 1731-Aug. 1, 1812; consort of Eve Fock­ ler, was bom in Germany and died in Middletown, Jefferson C.Ounty, Kentucky. NoTE: The Fodders and the Fau)kners are the same people. The Fockler inscriptions are on very old stones. The Faulkner inscriptions are on the large Breogroan monu- ment. Fox:, Rev. A. D.-Died Nov 9, 1838, 45 years of age. Garr, Henry L.-May 4, 1815-(date gone). Glass, Sarah-Died Oct. 29, 1821, age 40 years. 270 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Gwatbmey, Emma-Died July 26, 1855, age 18 days; daughter of G. B. and L. Gwatbmey. Gwathmey, Joseph-May 23, 1793-Dec. 7, 1844; consort of Lucy Ann Gwatbroey. Gwatbmey, Lucy Ann-Dec. 8, 1805-Dec. 30, 1879; consort of Joseph Gwatbmey. · Gwatbroey, William A.-Nov. 8, 1827-June, 20, 1869. Hall, Howard W.-1868-1927. Hall, Susanna R.-1838-1927; wife of Wm. J. Hall. Hall, Wm. J.-1837-1919. Hancock, Sallie P.-Oct. 27, 1839-Aug. 20, 1874; daughter of John and Eliza CoL Hardy, George Cattle-1862-1935. Head, Benjamin-Jan. 19, 1782-May 31, 1837. Head, Benjamin A.-April 19, 1829-March 12, 1882. Head, Chas. W.-1857-1921. Head, Mary Elizabeth-1855-1941. Head, Nannie J.-1837-1896. Hess, Minnie A.-1860-1925. Hill, Arthur J.-1861-1938. Hill,. Ollie M.-1866-1937. Hite, Eliza Jaoe--1837-1915. Hite, Wm. H.-1857-1917. Hord, Edw. T.-March 6, 1826-Nov. 25, 1880; consort of Lucy A. Hord. Humphrey, Arthur B.-1881-1944. Humphrey, Frank-1867-1942. Humphrey,. John-1837-1901. Humphrey, Mary A.-1849-1917. Johnston, B. G.-Oct. 4, 1803-Jan. 2, 1864; born in Vincennes, Indiana. Johnston, Nancy R.-July 21, 1806-April 23, 1886. Jones, Andrew-Jan. 17, 1816-Dec. 23, 1891. Jones, Belle-1878-L Jones, Grace-1905-1921. Jones, Harry-1878-L. Jones, Rachel-Jan. 15, 1812-Mar. 17, 1883; wife of Andrew Jones. Jones, Ruby Yager--1886-1929. Jones, Thomas-Jan. 20, 1859-Mar. 7, 1883. Jones, Wm. IL-1876-L APPENDIX 271

Jones, Wm. J.-·Aug. 20, 1863-July 2, 188~; son of Wm. J. and Lue Jones. Jones, (Infant)-No dates. Jordan, Edw. Waring-1860-1925. Jordan, Mary W.-1834-1879. Jordan, Robert C.-1846-1916. Jordan, Thomas L.-1820-1878. Kalfus, Edw. H., (Infant)-1836-1836. Kalfus, Susan L.-Died Feb. 14, 1836, age 24 years. Keen, Ellen Engleman-1881-L. Keen, Harry-May 5, 1871-Aug~ 30, 1872. Keen, Henry-Aug. 28, 1818-July 1, 1886. Keen, Jefferson D.-1867-1934. Kelley, John L.-1864-L. Kelley, Mattie Woodsmall-1863-1938. Kent, James-1873-1942. King, Angeline Pearcy-1913-1943. Lavon, George-1877-1941. Lavon, Katherine-1882-L. Lawson, William Leslie-1888-1937. Leonard., James W.-1860-1929. Logan, Mary E.-1836-1838. Long, Annie Tharp-1870-1933. Lukenbill, J~J:n Aug. 28, 1832-Nov. 15, 1840. MacDaniel, or-Died July 14, 1853, age 68 years. She -~ was a faithful member of the M. E. Church for 50 -years and of the Middletown class ( whose remaining members erected this stone to her memory) since its or­ gaoi1.ation. MacDonald, Lou Bert-Jan. 19, 1866-Sept. 10, 1873; daughter of J. and M. E. MacDonald. Maddox, A K.-April 1, 1822-0ct. 27, 1906. Maddox, Eliz. M.-1862-1907. Maddox, Frances L.-1830-1915. Maddox, John H.-1860-1898. Maddox, L L.-1874-1917. Maddox, Lucy Hord-1844-1917. Maddox, Mary E.-1851-1918. Maddox, Provie-Nov. 24, 1846-Dec. 2, 1869; wife of Wm. Maddox. Maddox, Robert S.-1844-1917. 272 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Maddox, Wm. W.-March 27, 1868-April 17, 1893. Marders, Jefferson-June 12, 1803-0ct. 11, 1876. Marders, Nathan Nov. 9, 1772-M.ay 17, 1862. Marders, Ruth A.-July 30, 1814-June 29, 1859; wife of J. Marders. Martin, Ada-1868-1925. Martin, Evelin-1864-1941. Martin, Peter-1854-1925. Mitchell, Edward T.-1873-1945. Mitchell, Fannie J.-1879-1918. Mitchell, Ray-1903-1914. Mitchell, Robert S.-July 17, 1844-Jan. 8, 1899. Moore, James A.-1863-L. Moore, Leila Poulter-1878-1928. Muster, Theresa Gwathmey-Aug. 9, 1833-Jan. 15, 1887; wife of Wm. Muster. Muster, Wm. A.-Nt>v. 27, 1864-Dec. 29, 1866; son of W. and T. Muster. Orr, Emma-March 11, 1889-Nov. 18, 1893; daughter of W. and M. A. Orr. Orr, J. W.-May 16, 1850-March 4, 1929. Orr, Mary Alice-Feb. 11, 1858-June 18, 1911; wife of J. W. Orr. Orr, Mary J.-Sept. 20, 1854-0ct. 9, 1925; wife of John Orr. Oursler, Annie R.-1855-1928. Oursler, William A.-1851-1931. Owens, Willie-Died 1907, age 14 years; an orpha.a Palmer, Leven D.-Died in 1872; infant son of Wm. and S. Palmer. Palmer, Sabinah-Died Dec. 1, 1872, age 3 7 years; wife of Wil­ liam Palmer. Palmer, Taylor P.-June 3, 1866--Jan. 7, 1871; son of Wm. and S. Palmer. Palmer, Wallace G.-June 2, 1874-July 23, 1874; son of Wm. and S. Palmer. Palmer, (Infant)-Bom and died on Oct. 4, 1883; son of D. L. and L. B. Palmer_ Pearce, Nellie W etherby-1895-1932. Pearcy, Henry Wood-1908-1925. Poulter, James A..-1871-1920. Poulter, Elsie-1893-1932; wife of Richard Poulter. APPENDIX 273

Poulter, Mary Humphrey-1842-1915. Poulter, Richard-Died in 1921; infant son of R. and E. Poulter. Poulter, Robert-1836-1881; consort of Mary H. P. Poulter, Wm. E.-Infant-1838. Pulliam, B. K.-1849-1923. Pulliam, Kate-1853-L; wife of B. K. Pulliam. Ramsey, Chas. M.-Jan. 8, 1873-0ct. 14, 1876; son of R. and S. Ramsey. Ramsey, John M.-Jan. 22, 1878-Feb. 3, 1884. Richards, Luly A.-Sept. 3, 1860-May 28, 1864; daughter of J. W. and M. E. Richards. Rogers, Thurinan G.-1920-1941. Roman, James M.-April 20, 1869-Dec. 25, 1895. Roman, Leslie G.-Sept. 24, 1887-Dec. 17, 1904; son of G. W. and Mary Roman. Roman, Mary-1897-1929. Russell, Corbin L.-1840-1927. Russell, Ella B.-1854-1935. Schenk, George-1850-L. Schenk, Margaret-1862-1932; wife of George Schenk. Simcoe, Fannie-May 20, 1866-March 30, 1885; wife of J. E. Simcoe. Simpson, Herbert Lee-1889-1944. Simpson, Margaret Head-1860-1934. Smith, Oarence G.-1885-L. Smith, Hallie B.-1887-1944. Stith, Charles-Nov. 20, 1859-March 7, 1900. Stith, Susie Miles-Jan. 11, 1866--Aug. 15, 1895; wife of Charles Stith. Stitzer, Bessie-Aug. 27, 1880-July 2, 1881; daughter of D. and M. Stitzer. Streible, Alvin Thomas-1941-1941 (infant) . Swann, Oiarles C.-1845-1919. Swann, Lizzie ~-1862-L. Swan, Marvin R.-1899-1944. Swan, Tabitba-1901-L. Tanner, Anthony-July 21,1818-March 11, 1903. Tanner, Catherine-March 19, 1824-Feb. 25, 1891. Tarl:>eR Addie M.-Died April 19, 1881, daughter of Ruth W. Tarbell Tarl:>eR Alpha-Died Oct. 23, 1868, age 64 years. 274 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Tarbell, Ruth Whittier-Died Sept. 26, 1882; wife of Alpha Tarbell. T atchell, Anna-1864-1928. Tatchell, John-1861-1934. Tennill, Gladys Crask-1909-1935. Tharp, Bennie H.-Jan. 26, 1866-Dec. 31, 1882; son of Wm. and Martha Tharp. He died a true Christian and was pre­ paring for the ministry. Tharp, Christopher C.-.1851-1934. Tharp, Daisy-1879-1920. Tharp, Jennie H.-1854-1937. Tharp, John S.-1860-1920. Tharp, Martha A.-Oct. 16, 1833-Feb. 25, 189S; wife of Elder Wm. Tharp. Tharp, Mary E.-Nov. 23, 1868-Jan. 11, 1870; daughter of W. and M. Tharp. Tharp, Thomas J.-March 12,. 1863-Dec. 5, 1866; son of W. and M. Tha..1'. Tharp, Wallace-Sept. 1859-Dec. ·1929; son of Wm. and Martha Tharp, minister of the Gospel. Tharp, Wallace-"The angel touched his lips with a coal from the altar." Erected in loving memory by his friends of Pittsburgh, Pa. Tharp, Elder William-April 9, 1817-June 11, 1912; Christian minister. - Thomas, Benjamin-1851-1939. Tuley, Wm. Floyd (vault)-Died June 2, 1818, age 45 years. This tomb is erected to his memory and that of his daughter and son who lie near, by his six surviving sons. Uitz, Isabella-Died Aug. 10, 1851, age 2 years; daughter of James and Elizabeth Ann Uitz. Urton, A. Katie-1852-1926; daughter of Nelson and Sarah Vance Urton. Urton, Elizabeth-Dec. 14, 1782-Sept. 19, 1858; wife of John Urton. Urton, James F.-May 24, 1827-March 27, 1863. Urton, John-Feb.. 12, 1785-March 25, 1876.. Urton, John S.-1844-L; son of Nelson and Sarah Vance Urton. Urton, Joseph F ..-Apr. 24, 1842-March 28, 1866; son of ~- ~4 S. V. Urton. . . APPENDIX 275

Urton, Lizzie-Sept. 26; 1849-Feb. 5, 1868; daughter of N. and S. V. Urton. Urton, Nelson-1808-1893. Urton, Sarah Vance-1823-1907; wife of Nelson Urton. Urton, Sallie A.-Dec. 2, 1854-Jan. 15, 1860; daughter of N. . and S. V. Urton. Urton, William-Aug. 8, 1818-Nov. 13, 1855. Vance, Albert H.-Nov. 3, 1838-Aug. 5, 1839; son of Dr. R. C. and H. L. Vance. Vance, Harriet Hobbs--1809-1868; wife of Dr. R. C. Vance. Vance, Rev. James-Born in 17( ?)-died in 1829; Presbyterian Minister (vault). Vance, James B.-June 20, 1846-May 17, 1847; son of Dr. R. C. and H. L. Vance. Vance, May L.-July 14, 1842-June 23, 1843; daughter of Dr. R. C. and H. L. Vance. Vance, Leaven L.-July 31, 1844-June 30, 1845; son of Dr. R. C. and H. L. Vance. Vance, Dr. Robert C.-May 21, 1800-Jan. 18, 1859. Vance, Samuel Davies-March 10, 1802-Dec. 20, 18?0. - Walker, Edward D.-1866-1936. Walker, K. F.-1869-1934. Waters, Edward D.-1854-1921. Waters, Elizabeth H.-1832-1920; wife of Robert Sullivan Waters. Waters, Robert Sullivan-1827-1909; son of Major Waters. Waters, Theresa-1857-1931; wife of Edward D. Waters. Waters, William-April 26, 1822-July 26, 1882; husband of L. H. Waters and son of Major Waters. Wetherby, Alfred D. (M. D.)-1899-1934. Wetberby, Anna Mason-1903-L. · Wetherby, LaMoille-1873-1926. Wetherby, Dr. Samuel-1869-1926. Witherbee, c.aroline Marion-Nov. 27, 1842-Sept. 5, 1914. Witherbee, Dr. Silas Offen-Nov. 23, 1846-Jan. 3, 1939. Womack, Daniel B.-Died Jan. 31, 1832, age 15 years. Womack,_ John H.-Died Aug. 19, 1846, age 24 years. Womack, Martha S.-Died Jan. 25, 1837, age 6 years. Womack, Phebe-Died Feb. 14, 1830, age 1 year, 10 mos. Womack, Sarah Eliz.-Died Nov. 14, 1837, age 23 years. Womack, Wm. L-Died Feb. 5, 1837, age 2 years. WOO

Wood, Oark-1850-1918. Wood, Laura V.-May 30, 1851-April 18, 1921; wife of Wm. Benj. Wood. Wood, Lizzie-Feb. 27, 1860-April 17, 1866; daughter of H. B. and M. K. Wood. Wood, Rosey-Dec. 8, 1871-Aug. 1, 1873; daughter of W. B. ·and L. W. Wood. Wood, William Benj.-Oct. 3, 1848-July 31, 1906; son of Hiram Benj. Wood. Yager, Andrew M.-1876-L. Yager, Be~ C.-1881-1944. Yager, Elijah-1843-1918. Yager, Malisa-1844-1930; wife of Elij. Yager. Yates, Dr. M. V.-Sept. 18, 1840-Feb. 1, 1868. Young, H. T.-Oct. 8, 1897-July 13, 1899. NOTE: All of the Womacks listed here were moved from a family graveyard on Douglass Hill, Middletown, June 12, 1934, to make way for the new road U. S. 60. ANDERSON FAMILY GRAVEYARD This very old graveyard is located on the A. T. Hert farm on Hurstbourne Lane. Frances Marshall Anderson-Oct. 29, 1800-Dec. 2, 1802. Hugh Roy Anderson-Aug. 20, 1811-Feb. 7, 1812. Lucelia Poindexter Anderson-Sept. 19, 1817-Aug. 20, 1820. Matthew Anderson-April 3, 1819-0ct. 29, 1820. All of the above named were children of Richard Cough and Sarah Marshall Anderson. ~les Anderson-Died in 1824; son of Robert Anderson and grandson of Robert Anderson of Goldmine, Virginia. Richard Oough Anderson-Born Jan. 12, 1750, at Gold Mines, Hanover County, Virginia; died October 16, 1826, at Soldiers Retreat, Jefferson County, Kentucky. He served throughout the War of Independence; entered as a captain and retired as a lieutenant colonel. Sarah Marshall Anderson-Nov. 20, 1779-Aug. 25, 1854; daugh­ ter of William Marshall of Caroline County, Virginia, and Ann Oark McLeod. She was married at Fair Hope, Jefferson County Kentucky, on September 17, 1797, to LiettL Col Richard Gough Anderson. APPENDIX 2n

DAVIS FAMILY GRAVEYARD This graveyard is located on the L. P. Wetherby farm at Mid­ dletown. Mrs. Hannah Davis-Died Nov. 20, 18- (broken stone). Mrs. Elizabeth B. Field-Died Sept. 20, 185 5, aged 54 years. Susan Davis-Died July 25, 1864, aged 69 years (broken stone). Charley Wetherby-Oct. 5, 1866-Nov. 11, 1866; son of Dr. L. P. and Hattie L. Wetherby. Abell Brown-Died Nov. 23, 1862 (broken stone). -- Glass-Died July 25, 1835; aged 45 years (broken stone). Dr. L. P. Wetherby and wife, Hattie Brown-(no stones) ..

MORSE FAMILY GRAVEYARD This graveyard is located on the old Morse farm, east of Mid­ dletown. Elizabeth Morse-May 7, 1815-Jan. 20, 1893; wife of B. F. Morse. B. F. Morse-Sept. 18, 1809-Aug. 8, 1891. Simeon Morse-Jan. 4, 1841-Aug. 12, 1886. James W. Morse and Meritt E. Morse-June 14, 1853-Nov. 7, 1853; twin sons of B. F. and E. Morse. W. 0. Taylor Morse-March 18, 1847-May 22, 1869; son of B. F. and E. Morse. Simeon House-Died in 1838; aged 50 years. Benjamine Morse-Sept. 5, 1844-Sept. 8, 1847; son of B. F. and E. Morse. Elias F. Morse-Oct. 31, 1842-Apr. 6, 1843; son of B. F. and E. Morse. Francis House-Dec. 23, 1840-Sept. 6, 1847; son of J. W. and N. Honse ..

MIT.I.ER-WOODSMALL FAMILY GRAVEYARD This graveyard is located on the old Miller-Woodsmall farm, between Middletown and Jeffersontown. Thomas Miller--1795-1838. Pamella Miller-1825-1842; daughter of Robert Miller. Ruth Maria Miller-1806-1844; consort of Dr.. Robert Miller. 278 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Dr. Robert Miller-Sept 16, 1792, died July 17, 1857; bom in King William County, Virginia. Wil1iaro R. Miller-1804-1864. WiJliam T. H. Winlock-1812-1851; M. D., son of Henry and Mary Winlock, born in Kentucky, was graduated at Gn­ ciooati Medical College in 1837; began practice of medicine in Louisville. Anthony Miller-1776-1818; native of Virginia. Edwards Miller-Died in 1816. Stephen M. Woodsmall-1826-1886. Cynthia A. Baird-1826-1886. Sallie M. Woodsmall-1850-1922. James W. Woodsmall-1852-1892. Mary A. Woodsmall-1854-1883. Sabina A. Woodsmall-1857-1884. There is one lone grave on the old Tarbell farm. Jane Womack-Died Aug. 24, 1855; wife of W. G. Womack.

HOBBS FAMILY GRAVEYARD, ANCHORAGE Baldwin, Martha Frazier-1886-1890; daughter of Stuart and · Martha Baldwin. Bashaw, George W.-1845-1887. Bashaw, Mary E.-1852-1898. Bashaw, Eveline 0.-1821-1895. Bashaw, Dr. G. W.-1813-1887. Bashaw, E. P.-Died May 22, 1856, aged 80. Bashaw, Ann-Died Sept. 15, 1851; aged 74; wife of E. P. Bashaw. Beckwith, Oiarles M.-1827-1888. Brush, Rev. George W.--Oct. 28, 1805-Nov. 13, 1880. For 52 years an effective itinerant Methodist preacher. Brush, Penelope Fenley-Jan. 10, 1812-Dec. 15, 1868; married to Rev. George W. Brush, June 23, 1831. Campbell, Elizabeth-Died March 29, 1836; age 84; mother of Basil N. Hobbs. Cooper, John C:-1833-1905- Cooper, Pauline Karr-1837-1905; John C. Cooperlts wife. Cox, Sarah L.-Died Feb. 1, 1827; aged 20; daughter of Sam L. and Ann L. Hm,niog. APPENDIX 279

Craig, John Dyer--.1791-1823; Ann Tarlton Craig, his wife; Jeremiah Craig, their son. Craig, Annie-Died 1938. Dorsey, Edward-Died Aug. 5, 1804; aged 42. Dorsey, Frank S.-Aug. 12, 1846-March 8, 1872. Downey, John-Aug. 25, 1810-May 15, 1886. Downey, Ruth Owings-Oct. 11, 1816-Aug. 8, 1885; wife of John Downey. Gibson, Lamden-1846-1928. Grandmother Jane (Slave)-1822-1898. Hall, Oara-No dates given. Hart, Lottie-Died 1873; aged 17; daughter of William and Patsy Hart. Henning, Sam 1.-Died May 10, 1824; aged 54. Henning, Ann Lewis-Died in 1810; wife of Sam L. Henning. Henning, Elizabeth Williamson-June 2, 1782-Aug. 8, 1861; wife of Sam L. Henning. Henning, Evelina-Dec. 16, 1814-June 8, 1828; daughter of Sam L. and E. W. Henning. Hite, Jacob B.-Nov. 23, 1792-June 22, 1872. Hite, Elizabeth W. Sneed-Jan. 27, 1795-August 7, 1831; wife of Jacob Hite. Hite, Jacob, Jr.-April 2, 1831-Jan. 4, 1862; son of Jacob and Elizabeth Hite. Hite, Robert O.-March 16, 1818-June 20, 1839; son of Jacob and Elizabeth Hite. Hite, Harriet J.-May 14, 1829-0ct. 7, 1856; wife of J. I. Hite. Hite, Sarah E.-Sept. 7, 1850-Feb. 15, 1852; daughter of J. I. and _ H. ]. Hite. Hobbs, Basil N.-April 24, 1786-July 21, 1837. Hobbs, Dolly Dorsey-1791-Sept. 25, 1833; married April 19, 1808. Hobbs, Edward D.-Nov. 16, 1810-Sept. 6, 1888. Hobbs, Susan Henning-Sept. 21, 1816-0ct. 8, 1835; wife of E. D. Hobbs. Hobbs, Mary Craig-Jan. 21, 1820-Jan. 14, 1888; wife of E. D. Hobbs. Hobbs, Sidney Johnson-1840-1918; son of E. D. and M. A.. Hobbs. ~obbs, Mary Bayless-1846-192~; wif~ of Sidney J. Hobbs_. , • .. I' 280 MIDDLETOWN'S DAYS AND DEEDS

Hobbs, Virginia Bayless-1871-1910; daughter of Sidney J. Hobbs. Hobbs, Basil Nicholas-1869-1901; son of Sidney J. Hobbs. Hobbs, Basil N.-Died April 30, 1864, in camp near Oiattanooga; age 21; son of E. D. and M. A. Hobbs; ·Captain of Company F, _4th Regiment Kentucky Volunteers Cavalry. Hobbs, Edward D., Jr.-April 28, 1848-July 7, 1859. NOTE: This child had a brother who was also named Edward Dorsey Hobbs. He lived to manhood and was the father of Isabelle Hobbs McConnell. He is buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville. There were also two Tarleton Craig Hobbs and two Mary Craig Hobbs. Hobbs, Tarleton Craig-May 7, 1851-June 16, 1851. Hobbs, Mary C.-Aug. 11, 1853-June 24, 1859. Hobbs, Tarleton Craig-1858-1934. Hobbs, Lucy Gilmer-1864-1940; wife of Tarleton C. Hobbs. Irvin, Theodore-1858-1933. Irvin, Mary C. Hobbs-1860-1931._ Kaye, Jane-Died 1932. Kinkade, Evaline-Born Feb. 8, 1816; daughter of Lander and Rachel Grimes. Lamping, Lucy K. Brush-Wife of Thomas E. Lamping. Luckett, Alfred-May 12, 1801-Sept. 3, 1853; born in Loudon County, Virginia. Luckett, S. E.-No dates given; wife of Alfred Luckett. Luckett, Evelina Hobbs-May 7, 1829-Sept. 18, 1875; daughter of Alfred Luckett. Luckett, Lud~ell Dangerfield-Feb. 13, 1842-0ct. 8, 1862. He fell at Battle of Clia.plin Hill, Ky. He was of Co. C, 15th Regiment, Ky. Volunteers; son of Alfred Luckett. McGowan, Rev. B. H.-Oct. 29, 1806-Aug. 29, 1881. Maddox, Noah--1812-Dec. 23, 1879. Maddox, Elin A.-1808-Feb. 20, 1871; wife of Noah Maddox. Maddox, Margaret E.-April 4, 1832-Aug.10, 1886; dangbter of Noah and Elin Maddox. Maddox, James E.-Sept. 5, 1M£>--.Jan. 9, 1870. Merritt, Rev.. G. W.-1810-1886. Merritt, Harriet Anderson-1813-1891; wife of Rev. G. W. Merritt. Morlan, J.. W.-Died Nov .. 2?, 189~. APPENDIX 281

Morlan, Amelia A. Williams-Feb. 11, 1829-May 13, 1862; married to J. W. Morlan June 22, 1844. Morlan, Katie V.-Died Feb. 5, 1916 ( no date birth). Morrison, Sarah-1848-1854; daughter of Rev. W. H. and M. Morrison. Morris, Gabriel-Died March 27, 1872; age 80. Morris, Irene-Died March 23, 1872; age 72. Newton, Rev. S.-1836-1907. Newton, S. Kate Brush-1837-1885; wife of Rev. S. Newton. Newton, Virginia Brush-Died 1871 (infant); daughter of Rev. S. and Kate Newton. Nock, Jane L. B.-.1802-1898. Nock, Sam L. L.-1804-1867; born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. O'Bannon, Elizabeth A. Head-Died Jan. 3, 1861; age 51; wife of A. O'Bannon. O'Bannon, Elizabeth-Died May 8, 1847; wife of A. O'Bannon. O'Bannon, Mary Ann-Died 1847; infant daughter of A. and E. O'Bannon. O'Bannon, Ambrose--Infant. Oglesby, Harriet M.-June 20, 1822-Sept. 5, 1850; daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Hite. , Oglesby, Harriet C.-Aug. 7, 1850-Nov., 1850; daughter of B. A. and H. M. Oglesby. Parker, Rebecca S. Collier-July 5, 1828-Jan. 15, 1881; married B. E. Parker, April, 1850. Smith, Rachel-Jan. 11, 1792-April 30, 1876; consort of Jasper Smith. Van Oeave, Hiram-Aug. 5, 1874-April 2, 1875. Walker, Annie E. Brush--1832-1908. Walker, James Wilson-1823-1903. Williamson, Susanah--Died Jan. 21, 1818; age 49; consort of John Williamson.· She first married Edward Dorsey. Wilson, J. W.-1861-1893. Wilson, William B.-1832-1900. Yager, John W.-Nov. 12, 1773-April 17, 1851. Yager, Margaret-Died Jan. 25, 1849; age 76; wife of John W. Yager.