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 | Obituary: Noble Corbin 1933
"Succumbs at St. Joseph's Hospital; Funeral Services to Be Held Tuesday. Noble Corbin, 45 years old, died yesterday morning at 3:10 o'clock at St. Joseph's hospital after a brief illness. Mr. Corbin, who was the son of the late Nannie Ward and E. T. Corbin, was born and reared in Woodford county. Mr. Corbin is survived by four sisters, Mrs. Thomas Lowery, Mrs. J. L. Page and Mrs. W. J. Page, all of Lexington, and Mrs. Bertha Beehler, of Los Angeles, Calif.; three brothers, Charles Corbin, of Wilmore; Arthur Corbin, and William Corbin, both of Lexington." |
 | Funeral services Nannie Price Corbin 1936
"Funeral services for Mrs. Nannie Price Corbin, 70, who died Friday night at her residence, 920 East Third street, will will be held at 10 o'clock this morning at Kerr Brothers funeral home, 465 East Main street. Burial will be in the Lexington cemetery. Pallbearers will be Eadie, Harold, Kaufman and Bert Ward and Woodrow and Rudolph Baker." |
 | Divorce sought William J. Page vs Stella May Page
"William J. Page against Stella May Page, divorce decree sought on the grounds of misconduct." If Stella's 1922 complaint of abandonment (see above) is accurate, William's suing Stella for "misconduct" is the pot calling the kettle black. |
 | Obituary: Mrs. Volly Ward 1917
"Mrs. Volley Ward, 47 years old, died Friday night at her residence at Great Crossings. She is survived by her husband, four sons and two daughters." |
 | Death Maggie Neal Darnell 1921
"VERSAILLES, Ky. Aug. 30. - Mrs. Maggie (should read Muggie) Neal Darnell, 43 years old, wife of Davis Darnell, died Monday night. Besides her husband she is survived by one daughter, 5 years old. The funeral will be conducted at Mt. Gllead Methodist church, 11 miles from Georgetown, Friday morning at 11 o'clock with burial in the church yard." |
 | Jerry Kaylor funeral 1950
"Funeral services for Jerry Kaylor, 87, who died at Bybee Thursday, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the residence. Burial will be in the Rhodes cemetery." |
 | Madison Co. strawberries 1926
"...Benton Fielder, gardener for Berea College also reports a good crop of berries on about an acre and three quarters in the southern part of the county. This crop is just beginning to yield fne quality berrles with orders booked for four days ahead, he said. Some of the most prominent berry growers in the Waco section are Pleas Conner, two acres; Jerry Kaylor, fve acres; Henty Adams, three acres, and Billie Caln, two acres." |
 | Obituary: Davis Darnell 1964
"Davis Darnell, 76, Mt. Vernon Pike, died at 7 a.m. Monday at the Harrison Memorial Hospitai. A native of Scott County, he was a retired farmer and a member of the Salem Church of Christ. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Ruth Thornberry Darnell; six daughters, Mrs. John Dunn, Lexington; Mrs. Lester Lincoln, St. Louis, Mo.; Mrs. Denzil Harris, Clark County, and Mrs. Lewis Teagarden, Mrs. Sanford Gillispie and Mrs. Robert Gillispie, Scott County; 11 sons, William Allen Darnell, Harrison County; Earl Darnell, San Diego, Calif.; James, Frank and Kenneth Darnell, Scott County, and Richard Clarence, John Gary, Donald and Michael Darnell, at home; three brothers, Clay Darnell, Georgetown; Llewelyn Darnell, Fayette County, and Edward Darnell, Scott County; two sisters, Mrs. Raymond Tate, Woodford County, and Mrs. Elizabeth Southward, Fayette County; 29 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren." |
 | Obituary: Herbert Kaylor 1961
"Herbert Kaylor, 71, died at 2:30 p.m. today at his home near Waco after suffering a heart attack. He was a native of Madison County and a farmer. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Bessie Webb Kaylor; four daughters, Mrs. Burley Evans and Mrs. Matt Richardson, both of Bybee, and Mrs. Lemuel Childers and Miss Juanita Kaylor, both of Waco; four sons, Johnny Kaylor. College Hill; Parker and Lloyd Kaylor, Waco, asd Ray Kaylor, Richmond, Route 4; five sisters, Mrs. Alma Young. Hamilton, Ohio; Mrs. Berry Sewell; Mrs. Isie Kaylor and Mrs. Bill Kaylor. all of Richmond Route 5, and Mrs. Alice Cain, Bybee; two brothers, John Kaylor, Berea, and Charles Kaylor, Clay City; and 20 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Bybee Methodist Church by the Rev. Frank Zink. Burial will be in the Flatwoods Cemetery. The body is at the Turpin Funeral Home." |
 | Burial John William Kaylor 1972
"John William Kaylor, 93, of Berea Route 3, husband of Mrs. Alma Kaylor, died Thursday. Services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Turpin Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Flatwoods Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. today." |
 | Hazard man near death after attack 1941
"Perry County Judge Billie Baker said today Earl Crawford, 32-year-old Negro, had been jailed on a charge of striking and wounding Sam Kayior, 25, a white man, who is near death in a hospital. Baker said the attack occurred about 12:30 a. m. in the Louisville & Nashville railroad yards when Kaylor was walking with Mrs. Mary Lee Pelfrey, 19, who is separated from her husband. The girl also was injured, Baker said, but was released from the hospital this morning. Kaylor, a dry cleaning company worker, received a skull fracture and brain concussion, a hospital physician reported. Baker said a warrant had been issued for a second Negro, and Hazard Police Chief Dave Wooton said he believed Kaylor's beating and the slaying last Saturday of William (Uncle Billy) Combs, 71-year-old merchant policeman, were connected." |
 | Prisoner moved for safety 1941
"Earl Crawford, 32-year-old Negro, was ordered transferred today to the Clark county jail at Winchester for safekeeping after Sam Kaylor, 25, a white man he was accused of beating, died in the Hazard hospital. Shortly after Kaylor's death, County Judge Billie Baker issued a warrant charging Crawford with murder, and at his examining trial he was held without bond for grand jury action. He was jailed last Thursday on a striking and wounding charge....Baker said Mrs. Pelfrey identified Crawford at the examining trial as one of two Negroes who attacked them. Kaylor, a dry cleaning company worker, never regained consciousness after receiving a skull fracture. Sheriff Justus Begley, whom Baker ordered to transfer Crawford, said the Negro seemed "nervous' but had not expressed fear of mob violence. |
 | Hazard posts rewards for arrest of killers 1941
"City commissioners voted today to offer two $50 rewards for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the persons responsible for the slaying of William (Uncle Billy) Combs, 71, night merchant policeman, and Sam Kaylor, 32, dry cleaning company employee, both of whom died last week of fractured skulls." |
 | Second suspect held 1941
"Police Chief D. Y. Wooton disclosed today the arrest of a second Negro in connection with the fatal beating March 5 of Sam Kaylor, dry cleaning company employee, near the Louisville and Nashville railroad yards. Wooton identified the prisoner as James L. Robertson, railroad section crew worker, and said the Negro was arrested last night at Chavies, 20 miles north of here. The officer said Mrs. Mary Lee Pelfrey, 19, who was with Kaylor the night he was beaten, would be asked if she could identify the man as the person - ho attacked them. Wooton said the prisoner admitted being in the railroad yards the night of March 5, but claimed he caught a ride on a freight train that left two hours before the beating." |
 | Woman identifies assailant 1941
"Police Chief D. Y. Wooton said today Mrs. Mary Lee Pelfrey, 20, had identified a Negro held in county jail as the person who on the night of March 5 attacked her and fatally beat her companion, Sam Kaylor, with an iron rod. Wooton identified the man as James L. Robertson, 35, railroad section crew worker who was arrested Monday night at Chavies. The officer said also that Miss Melda Sparkman, 19, told him the prisoner "looked like" a man who attacked her on the same night on a Hazard street. Kaylor, a dry cleaning company employee, died of a fractured skull in a Hazard hospital." |
 | Crawford held on murder charge 1941
"Earl Crawford, 35, Hazard Negro, was held to the grand jury by County Judge Billie Baker today on a charge of murder in the fatal bludgeoning of Sam Kaylor, local dry cleaning company employee, on March 5. Crawford was returned to jail in default of $5,000 bond." |
 | Perry Man sentenced to life 1941
"A circuit court jury today convicted James L. Robertson, Negro, 28, of a charge of fatally bludgeoning Sam Kaylor, laundry employee, last March 5 and sentenced him to life imprisonment. Kaylor was beaten over the head in the Hazard railroad yards with an iron bar which City Policeman Bert Feltner said weighed 50 pounds and was two and one-half feet long. Mary Lee Pelfrey, 19, testified that she and Kaylor were walking in the yards at night when the defendant jumped from the entrance of an abandoned mine, struck Kaylor and raped her. Robertson claimed innocence." Robertson was later awarded a new trail. Before being tried again for Kaylor's murder, he was convicted in 1942 of another rape and murder in Hazard, sentenced to death, and electrocuted. |
 | Acquitted and disappear 1942
In an article about a night of unrest in Hazard, an update on the murder of Samuel Kaylor: "Sheriff Cornett said Robertson denied orally that he killed Sam Kaylor here a year ago and placed the blame on Earl Crawford, Negro, who formerly lived here. Robertson was convicted of murdering Kaylor, but obtained a new trial and had been free on bond. Crawford disappeared after being acquitted in the same case." Robertson's second trial for the murder of Samuel Kaylor apparently never happened. Robertson was convicted of the murder of Bertha Lehman mentioned in this article and sentenced to death in Jun 1942. He was electrocuted in Aug 1942. |
 | Obituary: Sam Kaylor 1941
The first paragraph of Sam's obit is fantasy. Samuel was assaulted and murdered in a train yard per articles above and below. The rest presumably correct: "The body was taken to Ravenna at noon today and from there will be sent to the home of Kaylor's father, James Kaylor, at Bend. Berides his father, Kaylor is survived by two brothers, Ed and Jerry T. Kaylor, both of Madison county, and two sisters, Mrs. Carlos Todd of Hazard and Mrs. Chester Keeton of Richmond. Burial will be at 2:30 Thursday afternoon in the family cemetery near Waco, the Rev. J. W. Parrish, pastor of the College Hill Methodist church, officiating." The "family cemetery near Waco" is presumably Kaylor/Rhodus-Moores Cemetery in Bybee. |
 | Obituary: Zelma Webb Kaylor 1976
"RICHMOND - Mrs. Zelma Webb Kaylor, 77, Waco, wife of Matt Kaylor, died Thursday after a long illness. Services 2 p.m. Saturday at Turpin Funeral Home here. Burial in Flatwoods Cemetery. Visitation after 4 p.m. today at the funeral home." |
 | Suicide verdict Nagel Kaylor 1932
"Suicide was the verdict of a coroner's jury which Investigated the death of Nagal Kaylor, 25 years old, whose body was found in his room this morning at his home near near Bybee with a bullet wound in the region of his heart. A 41 calibre army rifle was found at his side. According to Kaylor's brother, who also resides at Bybee, he apparently in good spirits last night and had planned to come to Richmond this morning with a friend. Kaylor is survived by a sister and a brother with whom he resided at Bybee. Funeral services were conducted this afternoon at the home near Bybee, burial following in the family graveyard." |
 | Obituary: Mrs Sarah Newman 1944
"RICHMOND, Ky., Aug. 15 (Special)-Mrs. Sara Jane Rogers Newman, 76, died unexpectedly Monday afternoon at the home of a son, Walter C. Newman, in Franklin, Ind., where she was visiting. Mrs. Newman made her home with her sister, Mrs. Brutus Motley, in Richmond. Besides her son and sister she is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Mattie Kaylor, Martinsville, Ind.; Mrs. Zadie McMaine, Bybee; Mrs. Preston White, New Middletown, Ind., and Mrs. Forest Moore, Frankfort; a brother, S. J. Rogers, Martinsville, Ind., and several grand-children, seven of whom are in the armed forces. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Turpin funeral home here. Burial will be in the family cemetery at Winston in Estill county. |
 | Obituary: David D Fritts 1947
"David D. Fritts, 90, died at 8:30 a. m. today at his home on Race street after a lingering illness. He was a native of Madison county, a son of the late Manuel and Sallie (Sarah) Combs Fritts, and was a member of the Flatwoods Christian church. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Frances Azbill Fritts, of Richmond; a daughter, Mrs. Frank Stephens, of Route 1, Richmond; two grand-children, and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Friday at the Oldham, Rob-erts, Powell and Duncan funeral home. The Rev. A. C. Duncan will be in charge of the ceremony. Burial will be in the Richmond cemetery. Active pallbearers will be Flem Azbill, Nathan Azbill, Arthur Perkins, George O'Donnell, Homer Fritts and Hubert Fritts. |
 | Services arranged John Fritts 1938
"Funeral services were being arranged today for John Fritts, former Richmond carpenter who died at his home near Bybee, this county, Tuesday at the age of 77. He had been in ill health for some time. Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Lenora Adams Fritts; five sons, Hubert, Waco, Arthur, Clarence and Manuel, Springfield, Ohio, and Homer, Bybee; and three daughters, Mrs. Mary Stone, Bybee; Mrs. Florida Cornelison, Springfield, Ohio, and Miss Hazel Fritts, Bybee." |
 | Obituary: Edward Smith Ward 1997
"Edward Smith Ward, 90, Lex-ington, widower of Lula Ford Ward, died Saturday, March 22, 1997, at his home. A native of Scott County, he was a lay evangelist and a retired painter and farmer. Mr. Ward was a member and deacon of the Highlands Baptist Church. He is survived by a number of nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home by the Rev. John T. Thompson and the Son Funeral Home. Visitation 6 p.m. today." |
 | Obituary: Lula Ford Nichols 1981
"Mrs. Lula Ford Nichols Ward, 73, wife of Rev. Edward S. Ward, 2309 Southgate Drive, died Tuesday. She was born in Jessamine County (marriage certificate says Woodford Co., KY) the daughter of the late James R. and Patsy Jane Greer Nichols and was a member of Highlands Baptist Church. Other survivors are two brothers, William Nichols, Versailles, Howard Nichols, Lexington; three sisters, Mrs. Welby (Elizabeth) Toomey, and Mrs. Orval (Bessie) Crowe, both of Lexington, Mrs. Gene (Eva Mae) Hiten, Cynthiana; several nieces and nephews. Services 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Highlands Baptist Church with the Rev. Henry M. Downing and the Rev. John T. Thompson officiating. Burial in Bluegrass Memorial Gardens." |
 | Obituary: Harold W. Ward 1995
"Harold W. Ward, 90, 2309 Southgate dr., Lexington, died at his home on Saturday, January 14, 1995, after a long illness. A retired electrician from Central Baptist Hospital, he was preceded in death by his wife of 48 years, Lula Virginia Ward. Mr. Ward was a member of Highlands Baptist Church and a native of Scott County. He is survived by his brother, Edward S. Ward, two sons and daughters-in-law, Ronald E. and Barbara Ward, Aurora, CO, and Kenneth and Connie Ward, Georgetown, KY; five grandchildren, five great-grandchildren. Visitation will be 4 to 6 and 7 to 9 p.m. today at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at Highlands Baptist Church with Rev. John T. Thompson officiating. Burial will be at Bluegrass Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers will be Jimmy Ward, Christopher K. Ward, Brian Ward, Damon M. Ward, Winfred Frye and David Biddle." |
 | Marriage license issued Harold Ward and Lula Johnson 1930
"Harold Ward, carpenter, and Lula Johnson, both of Lexington." |
 | Obituary: Willie Turner Ward Cooper 1990
"Willie Turner Ward Cooper, 81, Lexington Manor Nursing Home, widow of Dudley Cooper, died Wed., Nov. 14, 1990, at the UK Medical Center. She was a member of Highlands Baptist Church. Survivors include a daughter, Betty Goldey, Vandalia, OH; a son, Chester Elwood Aldridge, Nicho-lasville; two brothers, Harold and Ed S. Ward, both of Lexington; 9 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a son, Warren Purcell; and a daughter, Elizabeth Biddle. Services will be 2 p.m. today at Betts & West Funeral Home with Bro. Ed S. Ward officiating. Burial will be in Hillcrest Memorial Park. Bearers will be David Biddle, Dennie Williams, Fred Faulconer, Richard Critz, Kenneth Ward, and Damon Ward. Visitation will be after 12:30 p.m. today." |
 | Obituary: Cornelius Dudley Cooper 1959.
"NICHOLASVILLE, June 11 - Cornelius Dudley Cooper, 61, died at 9:20 a.m. today at the St. Joseph's Hospital, Lexington, after an illness of three weeks. A native of Nicholasville, he was a member of the St. Luke Catholic Church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ann A. Cooper; a son, James Cooper, and a daughter, Mrs. Spencer Caywood, both of Lexington; two sisters, Mrs. D. W. Keefe, Ludlow, and Mrs. Eugene Sutherland, Nicholasville; brother, John Cooper, St. Louis, Mo., and four grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a.m. Saturday at the St. Luke Catholic Church by the Rev. Carl A. Fischer. Burial will be in Maple Grove Cemetery. Pallbearers will be W. F. House, H. C. Ward, C. F. Overstreet, F. B. Guyn, Cecil Johnson and Jay Collier. The body is at the Betts and West Funeral Home where Rosary will be said at 7:45 p.m. Friday by the Rosary Alter Society." |
 | Obituary: Henry C. Ward 1964
"Henry C. Ward Sr., 62, of 224 Preston Avenue, a general contractor, died at 7:50 p.m. yesterday at Camp Daniel Boone after suffering a heart attack. Mr. Ward, a native of Scott County, was a son of the late Vollie and Nannie C. Crampton Ward and was a member of Trinity Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Cleo Mathilda Ward; four daughters, Mrs. Charles Allender, Mrs. Raymond Sellers, Mrs. Charles Cochran and Mrs. Homer White; a son, Henry C. Ward Jr.; two brothers, Edward Ward and Harold Ward, all of Lexington; a sister, Mrs. Willie Cooper, Nicholasville: 13 grandchildren and four great grand-children. The body was taken to Kerr Brothers Funeral Home." |
 | Services for Henry C. Ward 1964
"Services for Henry C. Ward Sr., 62, of 224 Preston Avenue, will be conducted at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home by the Rev. W. D. Hundley and the Rev. Bob Brown. Friends may call after 2 p.m. today at the funeral home." |
 | Obituary: Lida Mae Ward 1978
"Mrs. Lida Mae Ward, 77, 924 Darley Drive, died Sunday. Born in Flemingsburg, the daughter of the late John Wesley and Rachel Sageser Williams, she was a member of Epworth Methodist Church. Survived by a daughter, Mrs. Richard E. Thompson, Lexington; two grandchildren, Mrs. James. L. Lockhart, Chamblee, Ga., Richard Douglas Thompson, Lexington. Services 3 p.m. Wednesday at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home with Rev. Robert E. Schaeffer officiating. Burial in Lexington Cemetery." |
 | Obituary: Frank Carew 1937.
"GEORGETOWN, Ky., Oct. 5. - Frank Carew, 68, farmer, died at 7 o'clock Monday night at his home on the Lemon's Mill pike after a two-years illness. The body was removed to Johnson's funeral home in Georgetown. Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, at the Cane Run Baptist church, of which he was a member. The Rev. J. R. White, of Louisville, will officiate. Burial will be in the Georgetown cemetery. Casketbearers will be Harold Ward, Eddie Ward, Vallie Price, Charles Price, George Price and Nova Simpson. Mr. Carew is survived by his wife, Mrs. Hattie Carew; five daughters, Mrs. Nannie Rutledge, Donerail; Mrs. Clyde Baston, Fayette county: Mrs. Orville Payne, Scott county, and Misses Mamie and Jessie Carew, Scott county, and four sons, Allen, Henry, Frank and Orie Carew, all of Georgetown." |
 | Obituary: Jesse Allen Baker 1951
"Jessie Allen Baker, 63, of 300 Sherman avenue, head miller at the Lexington Roller Mills, died yesterday morning while en route to Good Samaritan hospital after suffering a heart attack at the mill. Mr. Baker, an employee of the mill for 35 years, was stricken at about 11 a. m. A native of Jessamine county, he was a son of the late Nathan and Fannie Price Baker. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Bettie Ward Baker; five daughters, Mrs. Frank Price, Daytona Beach, Fla, Walter Darnell, Miss Altal Baker and Miss Geraldine Baker, all of Lexington: two half sisters, Mrs. A. T. Carter, St. Augustine, Fla., and Mrs. Charles Raymond, Jacksonville, Fla, and six grandchildren." |
 | Services for Jesse A. Baker 1951
"Funeral services for Jesse Allen Baker, 63, of 300 Sherman avenue, who died Tuesday, will be held at 11 a. m. Friday at Kerr Brothers funeral home. The Rev. A. B. Robertson will officiate, and burial will be in the Lexington cemetery." |
 | Obituary: Betty W. Baker 1962
"Mrs. Betty Ward Baker, 69, of 228 Sherman Avenue, widow.of Jesse Allen Baker, died at 5:20 a.m. yesterday at the Good Samaritan Hospital after a short illness. A native of Madison County, she was a daughter of the late Allen and Sarah Fritz Ward, and had lived in Lexington most of her life. Survivors are a son, Allen Warren Baker, Lexington; five daughters, Mrs. Frank Price, Louisville, and Mrs. George Kin-nard, Mrs. Walter Darnell, Mrs. Edward Lee Taylor and Mrs. Geraldine King, all of Lexington; a brother, Henry Ward, Lebanon, Ohio; a sister, Mrs. Alex Rennie, Hamilton, Ohio; 13 grandchildren, and a great-grandchild." |
 | Services for Betty Ward Baker 1962
"Services for Mrs. Betty Ward Baker, 69, of 228 Sherman Ave nue, the widow of Jesse Allen Baker, will be conducted at 10 a.m. Monday at Whitehall Funeral Chapel by the Rev. John Lambotte. Burial will be in the Lexington Cemetery. Bearers will be Tom Baker, H. C. Ward, Harold Ward, Vollie W. Price, Charles Price and Henry Carew." |
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