The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-06-05
CITIZEN
Has Passed to His Peace
full Reward.
DIED AT AGE OF N|NETy-0NE
Father of Our Fellow Towns
! man, Mr.. J. E. FOgle-
Short Life Sketch.

Mcdowell Fogle, probably the old
est. and one of the most honored cit
liens of Casey county, died at his
home on the Middlesburg and Lber-
ty pike on Wednesday, May 22 at
eleven o'clock. The funeral services
were conducted at the home by the
Rev. Joshua Taylor, of the Method
list church, who had been his person.
al and intimate friend for more than
so years. He was buried in Glenwood
cemetery at Liberty with the impress
siye services of the Masonic order, of
which he had long been a member.
. Although Mr.. Fogle had reached the
ripe old age of more than 81 years
he seemed to have every prospect
of several years more of life but for
a serious injury received by fall
last December from which he never
recovered.
His remarkable vigor and activity
and his intelligent interest in all cur
rent affairs, and his thorough enjoy
ment of life even at his extreme age
we're noted by everybody who knew
him and were a source of great
pleasure to all who were in his COM
pany. He had grown old gracefully
and lived in calm and peace which
were a foretaste of the peace which
pssseth all understanding into which
he has been called. He had an unu-
sual devotion to his home and family
and claimed that home was the best
place he knew and that he felt better
there than any other place else in the
world. He had given much time and
care to making his home what he
wished 1t, and he was happier there
when he could have his children and
grandchildren about him. He is sur
vived by a faithful wife and chill
dren: Hon. j. E. Fogle, an attorney
of Hartford, KY; Mrs. James Estes,
of Casey county, Mrs. Jas. Shannon,
Junction City, Jas. c. and Elizabeth
Fogle who were his daily attendants
during his months of affliction,
Robt. B. Fogle, Mrs. p. II. Taylor.
Danville, KY, Prof. d. E. Fogle.
Georgetown, KY, G. P. Fogle an at
torney of Vinita, ]. T. His wife and
z of his children were at his bedside
at the time of his death.
He professed conversion early In
mi "a
church of which he continued to be
a member until his death. While he
was not a man accustomed to giving
frequent expression to his religious
convictions and emotions, he was a
reyerent believer in Christ and In the
doctrines of christianity and of his
church. He was a good man, an af-
feetlonate husband and father, and an
honorable and useful citizen.
Gresham's Kentucky Biographies
page 296 says in part: Hon. Mellow
ell Fogle, one of the foremost law
yers of the State, was born in Leban-
on, KY, Dec. 80, 1916, and was the
second child born in that now flour
fishing city. He was educated In the
district and private schools and In
\ st. Marry College in Marion county.
He adopted the legal profession and
studied law privately and under one OF
the best lawyers of that locality. At
ter having been admitted to the bar
he began the practice of his profess
sion at Liberty, the county seat or
Casey county and continued there I'M
til about 1853 when he removed to
Greensboro where he practiced law for
a short time and then returned to
Liberty and resumed the practice
there and In adjoining counties until
1872 when he retired from active prac-
Ttice and removed to his farm In the
country where he had since lived.
For many years he was member OF
the firm of Fogle & Fox and was
later associated in practice with COL
Silas Adams under the firm name of
Fogle C Adams.
When war was declared against
Mexico Mr.. Fogle, then young law
yer in Liberty, lent his active aid in
organizing a company in his own
county and himself volunteered for
the service. but Kentucky's quota of
troops was already complete and the
company In which he would have
served was not mustered in.
= During his active political life he
was a Democrat in politics and his
party frequently honored him by elect
ing him to office. In 1914 he was