The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1910-08-19
Judge m. c. Sauaey.

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emily been in better health than US
ual and was able to preside over the
Court in his district with less fatigue
than during his term of Circuit Judge
six years previous. However we learn
from those who were Intimately asSO-
ciated with him that he was constant.
ly depressed on account Of the death
of his son, the late Hon. George B.
Saufley, who died some months ago.
He was pasaiOnately devoted to his son
George, who was the pride of the
fathers heart.
Judge Saufiey, at the request of his
wife went out in the chicken yard
about $50 O'Clock to feed the chickens
and few minutes later his body was
found still warm, he having died of
heart disease.
He was sixty eight years of age, was
born in Wayne County, entered the
Confederate army when but nineteen
years of age, and served as FIRST Lieu
tenant Under Gen. John H. Morgan,
being captured and imprisoned at
JOhnS0n'S Island.
| The war over, he came to Lincoln
county, and soon afterward married
Miss Salis Rowan, of McMinnville,
Tenn, whom he had met during the
war. She was the daughter of dis
tinguished lawyer OF that State. S. D..
Rowan, and great granddaughter of
GOV. Caswell, the first Governor of
North Carolina.
Judge Saufley prepared for the bar,
his life work, at the Louisville Law
School, and quickly forged to the front
of his profession. He was an uncOm-
promising Democrat of the old school.
He was elected County Judge of Lin
coin county in 1870, and served till
1874. In 1880 he was member of the
electoral college from the Eighth dis
trict. and supported Gen. Hancock.
In 1888 he was appointed bv President
Grover Cleveland Associate Justice of
Supreme Court Of Wyoming, and re-
manned there until that Territory be-
came State. His experiences in the
West were somewhat peculiar and
often extremely interesting and excit-
ing, andcalled in to play his resource
full ability as well as splendid legal 1T
tainmentS.
At one time, with revolver in hanC
he held in check a mob which had de-
termined to take the law into its own
hands and secure prisoner accused Of
crime; but Judge Saufiey, firm and
fearless in defense of justice and right
succeeded in averting what would
have been criminal proceeding on
the part of the mob.
Returning to bis home here in Ken
lucky. he was soon after elevated to
the circuit bench in 1892. He was
considered one of the most gifted
orators in Kentucky, and his opinions
were always lucid and scholarly, and
were rarely reversed by the higher
courts.
In 1885 Judge Saufley was defeated
for Judge of the old Superior Court
under the old Constitution. after an
exciting convention, by Judge Bar
bOur. He was reelected to the bench
here, however, but was defeated for
denomination for third term by the
late Judge w. Con Bell, of Mercer,
who was recently killed in a
wreck at Seattle. Judge Saufiey then
made the race for Judge of the Court
of Appeals in the Fifth Appellate dis
trict, but Judge James E. Cantrill
won. Judge Bells term expiring,
Judge SaufleY again stood for the cir
cult judgeship, won the Democratic
nomination, carrying all the counties
of the district over his opponent, and
then won in the general election by
the largest majority ever given a Dem
Ocrat in this district. His third term
had just begun, and he seemed in fine
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ther honors. In fact, Judge Saufley
was frequently mentioned as cardi-
date for the Democratic nomination
for Governor of the State during the
e rly days of this year. He gave up
all l1ea of entering the race. however.
when his son, George SaufleY, died in
March
Besides his wife, Judge SaufleY is
survived by six children, out of eight
whom he raised. Those living are
Mrs. T. S Webb. Jr.. OF Knoxville,
Tenn; Mrs. George L Penny. of STAN
ford, and Mrs. S. M. Logan. of VIII
more; Fl. Rowan Saufley. of Stanford;
James N. Saufley, of Graysville, Tenn;
and Midshlpman Richard Caswell
Saufley, Of the United States battle
ship Kansas.
! People from all over the State and