The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1921-03-02
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grounds fronting s. @. Meats resi-
dence, and that there are yet signs
there of the vats. After operating 1t
there for some years he removed the
business to the lot to the right of the
residence where e L Sinclair now
lives. Later he sold the business to
Mr.. Oscar Pile, who continued it un
til the civil war broke out.
That the first man killed in Colum.
bia, according to tradition, in a pri-
vate difficulty, was George Wagley, a
merchant of this place, his slayer be-
ing Frank Ewing? 1t occurred dur
ing the Mexican war. Ewing was ar
rested, but he forfeited his bond and
went South. He was pardoned by
Thos. E. Bramlette, who was the war
Governor of Kentucky, and he came
home to see his mother who was very
old. He returned South, but later re-
moved with his wife and children to
Campbellsville where he died, his re-
mains being conveyed to Columbia
for interment.
That the first Mexican to come to
Adair county to live, was 10 Frank.
lin, who was brought to Columbia
from the City OF Mexico, when lad,
by Jim Sexton, after peace had been
declared? 10 married in the county
and to. day there are twenty or thirty
of his descendants, children and
grandchildren, in and near Columbia
At the same time returned soldier
brought to this place John Carr, an
Indian. He vas given home by Mr..
Josiah Harris, and about the time the
Harris family removed to Louisville
the Indian went to the city For a
time he was mentioredlin the police
proceedings, being very hard drink
er.
That w. II. Walker was the only
citizen of Columbia who left the anvil
and became merchant in this Iplace?
He was very successful, making a
great deal of money which he gave,
at intervals, to his children. Notwith-
standing he distributed the bulk of
his money during his lifetime, he left
a very good estate. Mrs. Bette But.
Ter, Mrs. P. W. Dohoney, Mrs Rena
PAUL and Mrs. Ella Dixon, Glasgow,
are his daughters. His son Mr.. Scott
! Walker, lives in HiIlsboro, Texas, w.
L Walker, another son, died here
some years ago.
That the Valley: running from Miss
Katie Murrell's residence to E. H.
Hughes spring was once canebrake,
and that the boys of town cut from
the brake their fishing poles.
That In what is known as the Miller
Old Fields, and the territory sur.
rounding them, in the upper end Of
this county, more than a hundred
deer have been killed. Mr.!John w.
Butler, who lived and died in this
town, killed twenty-one of that mum
Der.
That Mr.. Ben S. Coffey, who was &
prominent citizen of this town, Z
brother of the late Mr. 10 Coffey, wa.
a constant smoker of cigars, and upor
one occasion he left here early ont
morning a horseback on a bushes.
trip to Glasgow. He was smoking
and carried good supply of cigars il
his case. He rode up to the hotel il
Glasgow about dark, smoking, anC
that he did not lose fire during TIT
forty miles journey.
That Daniel Monaghan and Greco
Hood are the only surviving Confeder
ate soldiers living in Adair county?
That Mrs Fetna Eubank is the onl,
person drawing a Mexicap war pension
/. in Adair county, her husband haVinl
r served In that war?
That Edmund Trabqe, a dolores
man who lived in this place, dyini
many years ago. carpenter by trade
was considered the strongest man il
the county? It is known that b.
, could lift full barrel of whiskeyjwitl
his naked hands to his mouth ant
take drink out the bunghole. Lik
to see some man, white or black, d.
? that stunt now.