Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1897-08-05

| ty to the 18th judicial district, appro
we'd % February 1912, circuit court
was begun and held for said county at
The residence OF Samuel Ashley, on
Monday the % day of May, 1912,
being the time and place prescribed
by law. w. P.,Fowler, Judge"
| David G. Flonrnoy and Harvey W
Bigham made application for appoint
ment as clerk of the court. Bigham
secured the appointment and executed
bond with Joseph Watts, Presley
Gray. John 8. Gillian, Joel E Grace
VIM B. Hickman, Peter Clinton and
Daniel Travis as his sureties.
Following are the members of the
grand jury Of that court:
Alexander Dean, foreman, Edward
Ashley, VIM Ashley, Matthew Parm
ley, Martin Hammond, VIM Hoggard
John M. Wilson. Isaac Lloyd, Jacob
Gill, George Uselton, John E Wilson
Urn G. Witherspoon, Andrew Hill,
james w. Hill, Thomas Akers, and
Angus McAlister.
Col. George W. Barbour, Francis
II. Dallam, Robert II. Mari, Patter
son 9. Lander, and Sumner Marble
presented license, took the prescribed
oath, and were admitted as attorneys
and counselors at law for Crittenden
county.
Presley Gray, William Kenneday,
and James Cruce we're appointed jury
commissioners to select grand and pc.
tit jurors for the next term.
1t will be noted that this court was
held fifty five years ago. The present
site Of Marion was then an unbroken
forest, the nearest residence being the
place where Mrs Joe Elder now lives,
on one side, and Mrs. Rochester's
place on the other.
There was post Office called Cross
Keys, at the place where the court
was held
OF all the men that are mention ed
in the records of that court so far as
known, not one is now living Such
is the brevity, the evaniscence of hu
man life. In contemplating it our
minds turn inevitably t. the closing
stanzas of Bryant's "Thanatopsis":
$50 live that when thy summons
comes to join
The innumerable caravan that moves
TO the pale realms OF shade, where
each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls OF
death,
Thou 90 not, like the quarry slave at
night,
Scourged TO his dungeon, but sustaind
anu SOOUuCu
BY an unfdltering trust, approach thy
grave
Like one who wraps the drapery of his
couch
About him and lies down to pleasant
dreams"
The first house ever built in Marion
Was the double lop house that stood
opposite the conrt house, and known
in recent years as the Hoover proper
TT. 1t was burned few years ego.
IL was built about the time the coun
,y was established. Col. Hill was at
the raising and carried up a corner"
After an hour pleasantly spent with
this noble specimen of generation
that is rapidly passing away, we shook
hands with him and took our leave,
sincerely hoping that his sun, which
is so clearly setting, may not be dim.
med by a single cloud; that the re
mainder Of his well spent, busy and
useful life may be an evening of rest,
spent amid the bsnedictions of neigh
bors, friends and relatives, that he
may yet live to round out the five
score years now 80 nearly accomplish
ed. He belonged to generation to
whom we owe debt of gratitude that
will never be repaid.
At this day, surrounded by every
conceivable comfort and luxury, we
can not fully appreciate the Difficult.
ties that the early settlers of this coun