The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-05-02
LADIES OF REDCROSS
Following foointeps Of Their Fore-Mott.
ers In Responding To War Needs.
Some Interesting History.

limited them SO beautifully, Tor sac
Allies that she has receive. .
royal letter of thanks from King
George Of England. In her yolaz
days sne turned off, a pair @
day for the gray-clad boys. L.
recalling her memories she declares
the knitters Of to-day know moth
ing Of the urgency of war as eX-
periencl by cur forc-mothers dur
ing cur late civil strife.
Tho our own State was, for o..
most part, merely a thorough-fs~
through which the armies passe
and repassei, yet the times were
Imperative, and the demands were
nobly fulfilled by those dear dea D
women, our ancestresses Of the
COS, themselves but generation
or so from pioneer days when the
alternative was to be staunch and
devoted, or perish. Our own good
town lay in the route Of travel from
the South to Camp Nelson. and be-
fore the very doors Of our citizens
in the passing troops might be seen
something Of the hardships Of
soldering. The compassion of our
citizens was touched. and our
women had full play for quick
thought or tender touch in their
reaction to the appeal of the hour
\ few instances are but typical
OF the general attitude Of helpful
ness.
At the establishment of Camp
Dick Robinson the government
found it impossible to fulfill its re-
quirements, and for lack of tents.
recruits lay in a grove of sugar
naples. From exposure and lack
of proper nourishment, so many
fell i'll that the hospital accommo-
!ations of the camp were mad
equate, and the neighboring dwell
ings were Communicated, morally
at least, for the service of the
stricken. At the Hoskins home.
Immediately across the road from
the camp, hospital ward was iAi-
.proyised in the salon parlor, and the
late Mrs. Eliza Farris, then 4 young
daughter of the house, devoted her
skill as a practical nurse 20 the sicF
attending daily, not only the ones
at her home, but those in the
neighboring houses, and in the
camp hospitals. Gratefully she
was called by the soldiers, the
CANCEL of Camp Dick.
DR.. Jennings Price, tho a
staunch Southern sympathizer,
was held in respect by the enemy
that more than one unfortunate
fellow-townsman menaced by a
prison term at Camp Nelson, owed
his averted fate to DR.. Prices in
tervcntion. DR.. Price opened his
home to a stricken Southern officer
who passed there successful con-
valescence, retaining health under
the ministrations of the Doctors
wife, the lateMrs. Susan A. Price.
At the arrival upon the town Of
a Southern army, the late William
II. Kinnaird, Esq, cashier of the
Federal Bank o fthe town, hurried
with bags of specie to the neighbor-
ing house of Mrs. Sarah Grove
Cook, hoping to secrete them there.
A Confederate officer being in the
house at the time, Mrs.Cook in
stantly dropped them into trunk
at hand. and by way of camouflage
tossed over it the frivolous, in
consequential carleton party gowns
Of her grand-daughters. These
young girls became Mrs. Ellen
Owsley and the late Mrs. Marie
Grainger) Camouflage was as
successful then as now, and the
banks status was saved by the aid
of a woman's quickness and cool
ness.
One householder received word
from Captain Dudley Denton,
father of Judge James Denton Of
Somersetl that he would arrive the
following day with a body of one
hundred men to be fed and quar-
tered for the night. There was
much ado in preparation. The
men came, and were duly. provision
ed with food and sleeping space.
Her active sympathy not exhausted
by the days task Of caring for so
large a body Of guests, as a parting
expression of gfaciousnes, the mis-
tress of the house sent a negro boy
among the soldiers to collect their
socks. She had her slave women
wash and dry them, and had them
returned to the soldiers before they
began their march at day-break
The woman whose quick sympathy
impelled this simple service was the
late Mrs. Eliza Jennings Lusk
(From childhood Mrs. Lusk's heart
nust have baan sansativa IN tho