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COMMUNITY Super Sunday: Giants defeat Patriots; Eli earns MVP SPORTS B1 Life continues for Cadiz woman who lost son, sister PENNYRILE B4 WWW.KENTUCKYNEWERA.COM Monday-Tuesday, Feb. 6-7, 2012 | 75 cents, 51 cents average home delivery cost 20 pages, 2 sections | Volume 125, Number 58 | Hopkinsville, Ky. Est. 1869 Wife arrested in soldier’s murder firm the man killed was a soldier. Colorado man also charged He was also able to confirm that neither Jessie Goslyn nor Long are in the Army. in shooting on Fidelio Road However WSMV-TV of Nashville, Tenn., BY ELI PACE being held in the Christian County Jail reports Long was Long NEW ERA EDITOR with no bond on a murder charge. once stationed at Fort Another man, Jerred Tabor Long, Campbell. The wife of a man who was found 24, of Grand Junction, Colo., was ar- Miller also said that Jessie Goslyn shot to death Friday night on a rural rested late Saturday night or early and Long were “acquaintances,” but Christian County road has been Sunday morning in Colorado. He too the circumstances of their relation- charged with his murder. is charged with murder. ship are not entirely clear at this time. Vincent Goslyn Jr., 28, died around Miller confirmed that the two Authorities believe Long participated 8:25 p.m. Friday night after being shot Goslyns were married and Vincent in Vincent Goslyn’s murder and then multiple times while he was in the 400 Goslyn was a soldier at Fort Campbell. drove more than 1,300 miles to Grand block of Fidelio Road, according to Fort Campbell spokesman Rick Junction, Colo., where he was ar- Chris Miller, spokesman for the Chris- Rzepka said Sunday Vincent rested by the Colorado Fugitive Ap- JOHN GODSEY | KENTUCKY NEW ERA tian County Sheriff’s Department. Goslyn’s relatives had not been noti- prehension Team. Jessie Lucille Goslyn cries Friday on the side of Fidelio Road after police Jessie Lucille Goslyn, 25, is currently fied. Therefore, he could only con- SEE GOSLYN, PAGE A10 find her husband dead. She was later charged with his murder. BLACK HISTORY MONTH n AA legacylegacy ofof leadersleaders Black Phillip Brooks builds a new and legacy for the family name white BY MONICA K. SMITH NEW ERA COMMUNITY EDITOR Shared lessons in Kentucky genealogy He was 26 years old when he ran for, am Smith, a Chicago woman and won, a seat on the Hopkinsville who grew up in an activist Phome during the 1970s Black City Council. Today, 20 years later, Power movement and now works councilman and biology teacher in public relations for non-profit groups, has been researching her Phillip Brooks is one in a long line of genealogy for more than 20 years. Searching for clues of her en- black leaders who have come from slaved ancestors in Kentucky, Mis- souri and Virginia sometimes his family. leads Smith to white families whose ancestors were slaveholders. Family roots Their financial records, personal Brooks’ grandfather on his father’s documents and side attended Howard University and family Bibles con- tain names that became a doctor. His grandmother are otherwise diffi- was a founding member of Jack and cult to locate. U.S. census records did Jill of America, a prominent social not list African- JENNIFER P. club for upper class African-Ameri- Americans by name until 1870, BROWN n cans. After moving to Hopkinsville but the probate his grandfather built Brooks Memo- records of whites often gave the names of slaves they owned. rial Hospital, which opened in 1941 It is not uncommon, Smith said as a the only full-fledged hospital for in a telephone interview, for a black genealogist to begin a re- minorities. search project that results in a SEE HISTORY, PAGE A7 SEE BROOKS, PAGE A7 INDEX WHO WE ARE: Walter Greene, Hopkinsville MORE INSIDE OBITUARIES A2 Working for the Coca-Cola the prod- Cola as the first black man lo- Damage review www.facebook.com/ LOTTERY A3 Bottling Company in 1979, uct,” Greene cally to have the route sales- kentuckynewera LOCAL/STATE A4 Walter Greene was taught said. “Any- man job. Spectators view Eggner’s or follow us on Twitter: OPINION A8 how to operate the plant’s thing went Greene said he took some Ferry Bridge collapse. twitter.com/kentuckynewera bottling machine. While wrong, you abuse after taking the job. LOCAL/STATE A4 SCRAPBOOK A9 many black people worked in had to start Greene now works for a lo- WEATHER A10 the warehouse, Greene said all over cal manufacturer and has for MY ANSWER A10 he was the first trained on the again until the past 17 years. He has Renovations planned PENNYRILE B4 bottling machine. you got it been married the past 10 TV B5 “It was a machine that con- right. That’s like the main part years. Hopkinsville Community sisted of getting the right of the company right there.” COMICS B6 College park a legacy. combination, the right recipe, Greene went on to work for Is there someone you know who deserves LOCAL/STATE A4 CLASSIFIEDS B8 the right formula, it had to be Tom’s Vending. In 1989, he attention? We’d like to know. Contact us at HOROSCOPES B10 intact before you could make went back to work for Coca- 270-887-3238 or visit kentuckynewera.com. Returns...February 8th!! COMMUNITY Super Sunday: Giants defeat Patriots; Eli earns MVP SPORTS B1 Life continues for Cadiz woman who lost son, sister PENNYRILE B4 WWW.KENTUCKYNEWERA.COM Monday-Tuesday, Feb. 6-7, 2012 | 75 cents, 51 cents average home delivery cost 20 pages, 2 sections | Volume 125, Number 58 | Hopkinsville, Ky. Est. 1869 Wife arrested in soldier’s murder firm the man killed was a soldier. Colorado man also charged He was also able to confirm that neither Jessie Goslyn nor Long are in the Army. in shooting on Fidelio Road However WSMV-TV of Nashville, Tenn., BY ELI PACE being held in the Christian County Jail reports Long was Long NEW ERA EDITOR with no bond on a murder charge. once stationed at Fort Another man, Jerred Tabor Long, Campbell. The wife of a man who was found 24, of Grand Junction, Colo., was ar- Miller also said that Jessie Goslyn shot to death Friday night on a rural rested late Saturday night or early and Long were “acquaintances,” but Christian County road has been Sunday morning in Colorado. He too the circumstances of their relation- charged with his murder. is charged with murder. ship are not entirely clear at this time. Vincent Goslyn Jr., 28, died around Miller confirmed that the two Authorities believe Long participated 8:25 p.m. Friday night after being shot Goslyns were married and Vincent in Vincent Goslyn’s murder and then multiple times while he was in the 400 Goslyn was a soldier at Fort Campbell. drove more than 1,300 miles to Grand block of Fidelio Road, according to Fort Campbell spokesman Rick Junction, Colo., where he was ar- Chris Miller, spokesman for the Chris- Rzepka said Sunday Vincent rested by the Colorado Fugitive Ap- JOHN GODSEY | KENTUCKY NEW ERA tian County Sheriff’s Department. Goslyn’s relatives had not been noti- prehension Team. Jessie Lucille Goslyn cries Friday on the side of Fidelio Road after police Jessie Lucille Goslyn, 25, is currently fied. Therefore, he could only con- SEE GOSLYN, PAGE A10 find her husband dead. She was later charged with his murder. BLACK HISTORY MONTH n AA legacylegacy ofof leadersleaders Black Phillip Brooks builds a new and legacy for the family name white BY MONICA K. SMITH NEW ERA COMMUNITY EDITOR Shared lessons in Kentucky genealogy He was 26 years old when he ran for, am Smith, a Chicago woman and won, a seat on the Hopkinsville who grew up in an activist Phome during the 1970s Black City Council. Today, 20 years later, Power movement and now works councilman and biology teacher in public relations for non-profit groups, has been researching her Phillip Brooks is one in a long line of genealogy for more than 20 years. Searching for clues of her en- black leaders who have come from slaved ancestors in Kentucky, Mis- souri and Virginia sometimes his family. leads Smith to white families whose ancestors were slaveholders. Family roots Their financial records, personal Brooks’ grandfather on his father’s documents and side attended Howard University and family Bibles con- tain names that became a doctor. His grandmother are otherwise diffi- was a founding member of Jack and cult to locate. U.S. census records did Jill of America, a prominent social not list African- JENNIFER P. club for upper class African-Ameri- Americans by name until 1870, BROWN n cans. After moving to Hopkinsville but the probate his grandfather built Brooks Memo- records of whites often gave the names of slaves they owned. rial Hospital, which opened in 1941 It is not uncommon, Smith said as a the only full-fledged hospital for in a telephone interview, for a black genealogist to begin a re- minorities. search project that results in a SEE HISTORY, PAGE A7 SEE BROOKS, PAGE A7 INDEX WHO WE ARE: Walter Greene, Hopkinsville MORE INSIDE OBITUARIES A2 Working for the Coca-Cola the prod- Cola as the first black man lo- Damage review www.facebook.com/ LOTTERY A3 Bottling Company in 1979, uct,” Greene cally to have the route sales- kentuckynewera LOCAL/STATE A4 Walter Greene was taught said. “Any- man job. Spectators view Eggner’s or follow us on Twitter: OPINION A8 how to operate the plant’s thing went Greene said he took some Ferry Bridge collapse.