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To: ky-footsteps@sirius.dsenter.com
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From: WRFC71A@prodigy.com (MRS BEULAH A FRANKS)
Date: Tue,  4 Mar 1997 13:20:57, -0500
Subject: KY-F: DAVIS: KY-NY

Newspaper Unknown, 1944.

                  Eugene Davis Dies Suddenly In New York

Versailles (Woodford County) Ky., Feb 1 (Special) -- Eugene Allen Davis,
57, president of the Woodford Bank and Trust Company since 1934, died
unexpectedly about 9:30 o'clock this morning in the Central Hanover Bank
and Trust Company at New York, according to word received here.  Mr. Davis
and his wife left Versailles Sunday for a business trip to New York, and
later were to visit their daughter, Mrs. Wolford Ewalt (Betty Davis), at
Niagara Falls.
     According to information received here, Mr. Davis had gone into the
New York bank to visit one of the officials and dropped dead while seated
in the office.  Mr. Davis, an extensive landowner, has been prominent in
local business, civic and fraternal activities for many years.  He had
served as chairman of the Red Cross chapter here for more than 20 years;
was past worshipful master of Landmark No. 41, F. and A.M.; past high
priest of Webb chapter No 6, Royal Arch Masons; past eminent commander
of Versailles Commandery No. 3, Knights Templar, and was a member of Oleika
Temple and was a deacon in the Christian Church.
     He was born Jan. 21, 1887, a son of the late John Allen Davis and
Rose Lillard Davis of Woodford County.  Besides Mrs. Davis and their
daughter, survivors include his stepmother, Mrs. John Allen Davis, of
Lexington; a son, Allen Davis, a student at the University of Kentucky,
and a brother, Steve Davis, of Winchester.

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From: Nancy Trice <trice@usroots.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 19:16:56 -0500
Subject: KY-F: FOULKE: Ky-Oh-In

The Daily Messenger, Madisonville, Ky., Thursday, May 31, 1935

Richmond, Ind., May 31.-- (AP)--  William Dudley Foulke, ardent civil
service advocate, will be buried in Cincinnati tomorrow after services here
conducted by his grandson, the Rev. Dudley Foulke Hughes, New York.




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From: Nancy Trice <trice@usroots.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 19:16:59 -0500
Subject: KY-F: Mrs Sally Hart Hobgood

The Messenger, Madisonville, Ky, 20 May 1957.

              Mrs. Sally Hart Hobgood, 74, Dies

        Mrs. Sally Hart Hobgood, 74, Nebo, died in a Hopkinsville hospital
at 9 a.m. today.
        Mrs. Hobgood was born in Hopkins county Dec. 7, 1882, and was a
member of the Nebo Christian church. Her husband, Bert Hobgood, died in 
1923.
        Surviving are three sons , Marlin Hobgood and Walter Hobgood, both
of Nebo, and Rayburn Hobgood, Morganfield, five grandchildren, two sisters, 
Mrs. Sam Crow, Nebo, and Mrs. J. B. Waltrip, of South Carolina, and a brother, Garland
Hart, Nebo Route 1.
        Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday in the Nebo
Christian Church, with the Rev. Clay Hobgood officiating. Burial will be in
the Union cemetery.
        The body was taken from Harris Funeral Home to the home of Marlin
Hobgood at Nebo to await the last rites.

Contributed by:  Dick Pollock,  <DICKPOLL@aol.com>


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From: Nancy Trice <trice@usroots.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 19:16:57 -0500
Subject: KY-F: KESTNER: IN-IL-KY-MI-FL

1937, paper unknown

 
                       James Monroe Kestner

        James Monroe Kestner, 86, formerly of Evansville, died Friday in the
home of a daughter, Mrs. Everett Brown, Harrisburg, Illinois.
        Mr Kestner moved to Orlando, Fla, from Evansville 14 years ago.
        He operated a general store several years in Madisonville, Ky., and was
city constable in Hopkinsville, Ky., for several years.
        Surviving besides Mrs. Brown are: daughters, Mrs. Lee Peyton,
Harrisburg,
Mrs. Cora Walker,Hopkinsville, Mrs. Nettie Calkin, Detroit, Mich., Mrs
Luther Ray, Winter Park, Fla., and Mrs Isa Craig, Evansville; sons, Neal and
Jesse Kestner, Evansville, and several grandchildren.
        Funeral services will be Sunday morning in Harrisburg.  Burial will
be in Madisonville.

Name and date of paper unknown, however he was born 25 Sept 1851 and died 26
Nov 1937

Researcher: Ken Kistner, <ken1@ebicom.net>




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