Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1913-04-25
StalistiCssOf RoCkcastIe County
from 1912 to 1878.
By JAMES MARET.


The first Senator from the county
was Genl William Smith from
1884 to 1898 followed by John
A Moore IS4I; James S. Hender.
son as to '4S; Milton J. Cook
'63 81, Gather of Jarvis J. Cook
and Mrs. 6. M. Ballard). House
of Representatives. John Dysart
was the first representative from
the county 1914; William Carson
1916, 20; Gen'l William Smith,
great grand father Of Alvah Maret
and great grand father of w. j.
Newcomb and great great great
prand parent of Will H. Fish,
Junior member of the clothing
house at the "sign of the Fish"
in Masonic building. this place,
served more terms in the legisla
ture than any other person from
our county, beginning as a repre-
sentative in i8I7 continuing until
and including 1929, then in the
Senate from 1884 and 50. Uriah
Gresham, house representatives,
1924, 80 John H. Slaughter 1926
Chas. Collyer, 1890, SO 40; Elisha
Smith 1881, ga, AZ, 40, As; his
father Gen'l Smith was in Senate
during two of his sons, Elisha s
terms of service. John A. Moor e
1884, the lawyer who prosecuted
Jonathan Davidson, the first
man legal y executed in Rock
castle county on charge of the
murder of Henry Langford whom
he killed by stabbing to the heart
on street, between what is now
the business houses of J. Fish
& Son aud U. 9. Baker, Main
and Second streets, Mt. Vernon.
IL, Joplin, now of Harrodsburg
was a witness in the case. The
execution took place just West
Of town at point about where
the houJe of Emmett Sowder
stands. In a speech made by the
doomed man, just before the fata
hour, he uttered a curse against
Moore and his family saying the
prosecutor had bounded justified
man iuto the grave and stating
further You caused this killing
by your dirty work before the
murder and afterward prosecuting
and prosecuting me. You no.
any of your family will ever b.
success at anything. You nav,
brought me to the gallOws. You
aud yours shall suffer aud before
many years disappear from the
face of the earth. 1t is said thu
prophesy was fulfilled. Henry
OwSley, of Lincoln county fOl
Laurel, Lincoln aud Rockcastle
1929, 81. Henry S. Langford
from Rockcastle, 1886, 81
William H. Kirtlev. IS4I, father
OF Nm. Poynter and Mrs. d. G.
Poynter and brother of Charles
Kirtley a we'll known lawyer II
his day. William B Moore Ie47
Jonathan S. LangfOrd IS49
Milton ]. Cook, 1855. fthe yeal
the ritter was born) 81, SO, 81
Jonathan Nerc6inb, a brother Of
the late Milton P. Newcomb and
the father of Mrs. DR. S. w.
Brown now living at Houston
Tex ard Mrs. Capt G. w. Roberts
of Louisville, 1857, SO; F. B.
Batcheller, 1861, 63; From
Laurel and Rockcastle, John j
Haley 1851 s., an uncle of c. G,
Williams and Mrs. Cleo Brown.
From Rockcastle, VIM. A. Brooks
1868, 1868 65, was the father OF
w. 7. Joe, James and Mcclellan
Brooks, and lived in the house a,
South & Second street, now
owned and occupied by w. "A.
B. Davis who has been elected
twice in late years as repre-.
sentative from Rockcastle Laurel
the SEVENTEEN legislative district;
John K. McClary, 1867 90. vel
known practising lawyer an6
farmer the father of Will and
Majorie McClary. K. d. Cook
1871 g, lived near Conway and
died some twenty years ago
From Lincoln and Rockcastle
counties, John Withers 1912
From Rockcastle, I. P. Gresham
1873 IL lived at Livingston and
conducted the Gresham hote
across the river in Laurel county
until that county voted prohibitan
Gresham to continue his tavern