The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-01-13
Col. Forbes at Hartford.


day al ID O'Clock a m His busint
here wa, official and as he expected
to remain over night. bel re he LEFT
his home he sent a former notice tn
the Thomas Bros that he would al
dress the eli ms OF Hartford that
wished to hear him talk In their
counting room which Is on the site OF
his fathers woodshop IS years ago.
Col. Forbes expected to address the
people ut night but he was told that
a protrscted meeting WAS In prog ress
at the Baptist church and the most OF
the people would be at the night
meeting. and being a Baptist himself,
he attended the meeting. He went
to the church unattended. took back
seat where he could see and hear ell
that hauspired aud was much I'm
pressed with the religious awe OF the
people Of Hartford and the rich ser
mon delivs red to them. Three little
girls presented themselves for men,
bership One Of them was little
Nancy Ford. Oldest daughter OF DR..
+ w. Ford, age 9 yeas. another
was the daughter of DR.. Eugene Pen
dleton. age 10 y,ars, and the other
was a daughter Of A. j. Williams, age
10 years. The three little girls that
Joined the church that night he said
are mementoes OF hts Early day s a
Hartford. Co. Forbes said that
among those he first knew at Hart
ford 10 the year IS4o was Elisha NJ
Ford, his bother. Harvey 1 Ford.
their father John Ford. the Willismses
and later John Pendleton. who
came to Hartford to study medicine
under his uncle, DR.. William Berry.
He said the most singular co-incideut
OF taking these little girls into church
was that Of little Nancy Ford,
Mt. Pleasant Baptist church vas
crsan I'D at what Is now Ford vile
About the year 1910 By ea.ly settlers
from Virginia, North and South Car
oiiua, Msr, lind, ETC., and was the
Oldest daughter oil Beaver Dam Bap.
list chur,b.
Before Eiishs NJ. Ford moved to
Hartford he wa clerk Of Mt Pleas
ant church and his many relatives
living near II were about all members
OF this church. Years ago Coi. FORBES
was the moderator and member OF the
missionary b ard for this church and
during that time at one OF It's pro-
tracted meetings two small boys oil
Harvey 7. Ford offered themselves as
candidates for mem bership and their
applit alton was given due consider
alton by the church. Forbes was
told that the mother OF the boys
though hit them too young for mem
bership. Forbes sent their mother
word that II he had a hundred hands
he would hold them all up to tax
The little boys in. and two happier
little souls was never more uuani-
mously received. One OF these young
Christians soon sickened and died and
the other little boy Is now DR.. K. w.
Ford, father OF little Nancy Ford.
Col. Forbes thinks that experience
should teach us to be very lenieni
when contemplating the age oil young
converts for church membership.
He said that for nearly forty years
he had been at Hartford on business
pertaining to the county 'eat and
after |, avipg the town he had always
laid that Hartford for beautiful build
ings. educational facilities. refined
and we'll dressed people, was lar ahead
OF any town Of It's size he had evei
been In, and at present, with Its many
new and large enterprises snd indus
tries, he thinks 1t has no equal Ia
the State and his object was for the
present citizens Of the town who knew
so little OF the people OF Hartford In
the year IS4o and the early hfties t'
hear him tell OF the town aud IA
people at that time and to exhibi
some relics of his boyhood days al
Hsrtiord.
Col Forbes met some OF the bust
ness men at 10 a. m. on the 22ud, a
the law Office Of Attorney X. E. L
Simmerman aud addressed them TIL
called for by the stage driver to NEE