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Ben Mitchell Williamson

Ben Mitchell Williamson (October 16, 1864 – June 23, 1941) was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Kentucky.

Born October 16, 1864 in Pike County, Kentucky, Williamson attended the rural schools of Kentucky and Bethany College in West Virginia. He engaged in the wholesale hardware business at Catlettsburg, Kentucky, from 1886 to 1924, and then at Ashland, Kentucky in 1924. He also engaged in banking and in coal mining. He was one of the founders of the Kentucky Crippled Children's Commission, serving as president from 1924 to 1941. He was also a member of the board of charities and correction for the State of Kentucky from 1929 to 1930, and the director of the International Society for Crippled Children.

Williamson was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate on November 4, 1930, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Frederic M. Sackett and his initial replacement by John M. Robsion. He served only from December 1, 1930, to March 3, 1931, and was not a candidate for election to a full term.

Afterwards Williamson resumed the wholesale hardware business at Ashland, with residence in Catlettsburg, Kentucky, and was interested financially in various other business enterprises. He died June 23, 1941 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was interred in the Ashland Cemetery.
Chuck Armstrong

Charles G. Armstrong is an American attorney and former officer of the United States Navy, best known for his 28-year tenure as president of the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball club, a position from which he stepped down on January 31, 2014.

Armstrong was born in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1964, he earned an engineering degree from Purdue University, followed by a law degree from Stanford University in 1967. Shortly after graduation, Armstrong began his three-year career in the navy.

Armstrong was employed as general counsel for George Argyros' California real estate business when the latter purchased the Mariners from the team's original ownership group, led by entertainer Danny Kaye, in 1981. Argyros immediately brought Armstrong to Seattle to serve as the team's president. During 1987 and 1988, Argyros was attempting to purchase the San Diego Padres and sell the Mariners to several possible out-of-state investors, one of whom intended to move the team to Miami. Armstrong attempted to organize a group of Seattle-based investors with the intention of keeping the team in Seattle; however, citing a conflict of interest, Argyros instructed him to "back away" from his efforts. The Mariners were eventually sold to Indiana businessman Jeff Smulyan in 1989, and Armstrong was let go.

Armstrong worked for several Seattle companies as a consultant from 1989 to 1992, and served as interim athletic director for the University of Washington Huskies, during 1991. In 1991, after Smulyan had put the team up for sale and rumors persisted that they would relocate to the Tampa Bay area, Armstrong was recruited by then-U.S. Senator Slade Gorton to aid in efforts keep the Mariners in Seattle. He served as a consultant to Seattle-area business leader John Ellis while The Baseball Club of Seattle (led by Nintendo chairman Hiroshi Yamauchi) was negotiating to purchase the team. Major League Baseball stipulated that, as a condition of allowing the team's sale to a group with foreign majority investors, "North American interests" were to run the club's day-to-day operations. The sale was approved in June 1992. Armstrong was brought back to serve as the team's president in 1993, with Ellis serving as CEO and representing the team's ownership group (a role filled by former Nintendo of America executive Howard Lincoln since Ellis' retirement in 2000).

On November 25, 2013, Armstrong announced that he would retire from his position as President and COO of the Mariners. January 31, 2014 marked his last day as the Mariners' president.
Cavemen Do Drive School Buses

Cavemen Do Drive School Buses is a novel written by Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones. It was first published in 2008.

## Description

The Bailey School Kids can't win a soccer game, no matter how hard Melody tries. Liza tries to get the team to work together, but she's worried about the new bus driver. Could he really be a caveman?
Bland Ballard (1819 - 1879)

Bland Ballard (September 4, 1819 – July 29, 1879) was a United States federal judge.

Ballard was the son of James and Susannah (Cox) Ballard and grandson of the Kentucky pioneer Bland Ballard. Ballard was born September 4, 1819 in Shelby County, Kentucky. He read law in the office of Judge James Turner Morehead in 1840 to enter the Kentucky Bar, and later was graduated from the law department of Transylvania University in 1846. He opened a private practice in Shelbyville, Kentucky, and then moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where he practiced law in partnership with the Henry Pirtle, later the distinguished Chancellor of the Louisville Chancery Court, until 1861. Ballard was connected with the business interests of Louisville and took an active interest in the city and its institutions. At one time he served as city councilor for the City of Louisville.

On October 16, 1861, Ballard received a recess appointment from President Abraham Lincoln to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Kentucky vacated by Thomas Bell Monroe, who had become a member of the Congress of the Confederate States. Ballard was formally nominated on December 9, 1861 and on January 22, 1862, he was confirmed by the United States Senate and received his commission. He quickly reorganized the court and insured that the federal court system in Kentucky would continue without disruption. "His district was responsible for more indictments for treason and conspiracy than perhaps any other" and he was "regarded as fair-minded and guided by the law, not prejudice. He was opposed to slavery and strongly supported the Union".

The years immediately following the Civil War saw a great increase in cases filed in the district court from questions growing out of the war, especially the internal revenue law and bankruptcy law. In addition to his duties as district judge, Ballard served as president of the Kentucky National Bank and the Cave Hill Cemetery Company and was active in various civic organizations. He continued to serve on the court until his death in Louisville, Kentucky.

Ballard oversaw the trial and conviction of two White men who slaughtered and mutilated a family of African Americans before it was appealed to the United States Supreme Court in *Bylew v. United States*.

On December 16, 1846, Judge Ballard married Miss Sarah McDowell. They had five children: Mary H., Austin, Fanny, Bland, Jr., and Susie. Ballard died in office on July 29, 1879, and was buried in the Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky.
Collected Poems: 1957-1982

Collected Poems: 1957-1982 is a collection of poetry written by Wendell Berry. It was first published in 1985.

## Description

A longtime spokesman for conservation, common sense, and sustainable agriculture, Wendell Berry writes eloquently in several styles and methods. Among other literary forms, he is a poet of great clarity and sureness. His love of language and his care for its music are matched only by his fidelity to the subjects he has written of during his first twenty-five years of work: land and nature, the family and community, tradition as the groundwork for life and culture. His graceful elegies sit easily alongside lyrics of humor and biting satire. Husbandman and husband, philosopher and Mad Farmer, he writes of values that endure, of earthy truths and universal imagery. His vision is one of hope and memory, of determination and faithfulness. For this far-reaching yet portable volume, Berry has chosen nearly two hundred poems from his previous eight collections.
Bluegrass Dawn

Bluegrass Dawn is a novel written by Kathleen Brooks. It was first published in 2014.

## Description

The dawning of the Davies family saga...

It's the late 1960's in Keeneston and life is very tense for everyone. War consumes the news and young men prepare themselves for the draft. Jake Davies is fresh out of high school and head-over-heels in love. He's known Marcy's the one since she hit him in the head with a cheese ball, but then his world crashes around him when his number is drawn in the draft.

Marcy Faulkner's home life has caused her a lot of grief. Her sheltered life is quickly turned upside down after a night in a jail cell with the very handsome Jake Davies. The spark is immediate and undeniable. Everything is perfect until one fateful night. With Jake's deployment looming and Marcy's parents moving, the young couple must find a way to be together. Will their love endure the trials of war or will it be too much for them to bear?
Bluegrass Undercover

Bluegrass Undercover is a novel written by Kathleen Brooks. It was first published in 2012.

## Description

This is the first book in the Bluegrass Brothers series, which includes USA Today Best-Selling Rising Storm. This is the follow-up series to the best-selling Bluegrass Series.

Cade Davies is an ex-Army Ranger and the new head coach of the high school football team in Keeneston. He barely has time to adjust to all of the changes in his life before he runs into the school's hot new guidance counselor and a new threat to the peaceful town of Keeneston.

DEA Agent Annie Blake was undercover to bust a drug ring preying on Keeneston's high school athletes. She had always kept to herself and was proud of her accomplishments in law enforcement. What Annie didn't count on was becoming the local gossip. Amid marriage bets being placed by the entire town, Annie looks to Cade for help in bringing down the drug ring before another kid is killed. But can she deal with the feelings that follow?
Charles W. Thompson

Charles W. Thompson (1844 - July 22, 1864) was born in Daviess County, Kentucky. He was a confederate soldier. He and Pierman Powell were separated from their troop and captured by the Union. They were executed under Order 59 issued by General Stephen Burbridge.

Order 59 was meant to discourage and suppress guerrilla warfare. For every attack on Union soldiers or Union sympathizers by Confederate guerrillas, Burbridge would order up to four Confederate prisoners to be executed at or near the spot of the guerrilla attack.

James E. Rankin was attacked and severely injured in Henderson, Kentucky by a raid. Burbridge, in retaliation, executed both Powell and Thompson. Rankin did not die until after the execution. Rankin attempted to spare the two men by writing a note to spare their lives, but they were executed anyway.

The two men were executed by firing squad July 22, 1864. Thompson was about 19 or 20. He was buried in Saint Alphonsus Cemetery in Henderson.
Benjamin Logan, Jr.

Dr. Benjamin Logan was born at Logan's Fort, in Lincoln County, Ky., on January 3, 1789. He was one of the early graduates of the noted Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. He was an eminent surgeon of the war of 1812, and participated with the Kentucky troops at the battle of the River Raisin, which brought sorrow to so many Kentucky homes.

He was a son of the celebrated Kentucky pioneer and soldier, Gen. Benjamin Logan, who was the companion of Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton. After assisting for years in conquering the wilderness, and driving the savage tribes from dark and bloody ground, Gen. Logan removed to Shelby County, then just being redeemed from its primeval forest, and entered a large body of land on the banks of Bullskin Creek, five miles west of Shelbyville, which, as a remarkable fact, has continued in possession of his family for more than a hundred years.

Here he devoted himself to the civil affairs of his country, which, succeeding war, had begun to assume an important aspect. Here, in the pursuits of peace, in the midst of his family, he ended his days in 1802 at the age of sixty, and lies buried in the family cemetery, on the banks of the creek near his old home.

Dr. Benjamin Logan purchased the homestead from the other heirs of his father. He married Elisabeth Winlock, and at the old home there were reared to them seven children. Of this family three daughters only married and settled in Shelby County. Eliza Logan was married to Dr. Robert Glass, who was a native of Fayette County, the son of David and Sallie Steele Glass. He graduated at the Transylvania University at Lexington, Ky. He began the practice of medicine at Shelbyville in 1839, and continued until his sudden death by cholera in 1854. At the time of his decease he was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church at Shelbyville. He was highly esteemed as a gentleman of high social culture, a skillful physician and a devoted member and office bearer of his church. His widow is still one of the family at the old homestead.

Logan died March 19, 1873 at the age on 84 in Shelby County. He was buried in the Logan Family Burial Grounds.
Bernard Hickman

Bernard "Peck" Hickman (October 5, 1911 – February 20, 2000) was born on October 5, 1911, in Central City, Kentucky. He was an American basketball player and coach. As head coach he led the Louisville Cardinals to the 1948 NAIB Championship (today's NAIA), the 1956 NIT Championship and the school's first NCAA Final Four in 1959. He never had a losing season in 23 years as head coach, finishing with a 443-183 overall record, a .708 winning percentage that ranks him among the top 45 NCAA Division I coaches of all time.

Hickman attended Central City High School where he played basketball for head coach George Taylor. Central City went 116-20 during Hickman's four years (1928–31) in high school. They won four region championships and went to four State Tournaments where he made the All-State Tournament team in 1929 and 1931. He was also an all-state basketball player two seasons in 1930-31.

He lettered three seasons at guard at Western Kentucky for head coach Ed Diddle. WKU went 83-25 during Hickman's four years in college. They won four KIAC Tournament Championships and one SIAA Tournament Championship. He made the Kentucky All-State team in 1933 and 1934, the ALL-KIAC Tournament team in 1935, and the ALL-SIAA Tournament team in 1934 and 1935. He graduated from WKU in 1935 with a bachelor's degree in physical education. He completed his master's degree in physical education at the University of Kentucky College of Education in 1944.

Hickman coached Hodgenville (KY) High School and Valley High School to a combined 216-49 record. He led Valley to the Kentucky Sweet 16 twice.

Hickman was hired as head coach in 1944 and guided his first team to a 16-4 record. Prior to his arrival the program only had winning seasons 11 times in 33 seasons. The Cardinals never had a losing season in Hickman's 23 seasons as head coach.

He led Louisville to their first championship on a national level by winning the NAIB Championship in 1948. In 1956, his team headed by All American Charlie Tyra won the NIT Championship. In 1956 his team was placed on two years probation, to include bans on postseason play, by the NCAA due to recruiting violations. In 1959 he led the Cardinals to their first NCAA Tournament Final Four.

From 1954 to 1967, Hickman doubled as head coach and athletic director, a position he would hold full-time until his retirement in 1973. One of Hickman's last acts as athletic director was to hire UCLA assistant coach Denny Crum, who would lead the program to two NCAA titles and six final fours en route to the College Basketball hall of fame.

In 24 years, Hickman compiled a record of 443-183 (.708).

Hickman graduated 82 percent of his players, and was the first basketball coach in Kentucky to break the color barrier in 1962, by recruiting Eddie Whitehead, and Wade Houston.

Hickman was inducted into the Helms Athletic Foundation Hall of Fame in 1967 and to the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Hall in 1981.

Hickman is buried in Louisville Memorial Gardens in Louisville, Kentucky.
Cale Young Rice Bibliography

## Plays

* 1898 – From Dusk to Dusk
* 1900 – With Omar
* 1900 – Song Surf
* 1903 – Charles di Tocca
* 1906 – Yolanda of Cypress
* 1907 – A Night in Avignon
* 1908 – Nirvana Days
* 1910 – Many Gods
* 1913 – Porzia
* 1914 – At the World's Heart
* 1916 – Earth and New Earth

## Collections

* 1915 – Collected Plays and Poems
* 1920 – Turn About Tales with Alice Hegan Rice
* 1925 – Winners and Losers with Alice Hegan Rice

## Short Stories

* 1920 – Lowry
* 1920 – Francella
* 1920 – Archie's Relapse
* 1920 – Under New Moons
* 1920 – Aaron Harwood

## Poetry

* 1898 – From Dusk to Dusk
* 1900 – With Omar
* 1900 – Song Surf
* 1908 – Nirvana Days
* 1910 – Many Gods
* 1914 – At the World's Heart
Charles Swain Lovell

Charles Swain Lovell (February 13, 1811 - January 3, 1871) was born in Hull, Plymouth County, Massachusetts on February 13, 1811.

He was a Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. A veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars, Lovell held various commands during the Civil War eventually becoming colonel of the 14th U.S. Infantry. Brevetted brigadier general March 13, 1865 for "gallant service at the Battle of Antietam." Lovell retired from the service in 1870.

Lovell died January 3, 1871 in Louisville, Kentucky. He was buried in Cave Hill National Cemetery, located in the northwest corner of Cave Hill Cemetery.
Colonel Andrew Cowan: Union Soldier, Louisville Citizen, Peacemaker

Colonel Andrew Cowan: Union Soldier, Louisville Citizen, Peacemaker is a book written by Bryan S. Bush. It was first published in 2015.

## Description

Native Scotsman Andrew Cowan immigrated with his family to New York in 1848 and was attending Madison University when the Civil War erupted upon the American landscape. At the young age of 20, he answered the call for volunteers from President Abraham Lincoln and joined the Union army. Over the next four years, he rose through the ranks of the artillery, becoming a colonel commanding his own brigade. During his military career he fought in some of the most bloody and costly battles of the Civil War, including the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and the Overland Campaign, as well as the battle of Gettysburg, where his battery literally faced Confederate General George Pickett s Charge. In 1865, Cowan was even present at the surrender of Appomattox, when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, which essentially ended the Civil War conflict. Following the War, he moved to Louisville, Kentucky and became a very successful businessman in the leather industry. With his success in business, he decided to follow in the footsteps of Andrew Carnegie and use his wealth towards philanthropic endeavors. He was on the board of directors for the Southern Exposition (1883-1887), helped raise funding for the base of the Statue of Liberty, and came up with the idea for a Louisville Park System. Once his idea of a Louisville Park system was approved by the philanthropic organizations in Louisville and the city, he helped raise funding for the Louisville park system and served as President for the board of Park Commissioners. Later in life, he tried to mend the wounds from the Civil War that tore the country apart. He was the father of the Blue and Gray Reunion at Gettysburg in 1887 and helped organize the Fiftieth Anniversary Reunion at Gettysburg, was entertainment director for the 1895 Grand Army of the Republic reunion in Louisville, helped with the organization of the 1905 and 1917 Confederate Veteran s reunion in Louisville, and helped raise funding and helped organize the festivities for the unveiling of the Abraham Lincoln Memorial in Hodgenville, Kentucky. Although he fought for the North during the War, he dedicated his life after the War towards fostering peace between the North and South. He served not only his city and his country, but also he served his fellow man.
Charles W. Anderson, Jr.

Charles W. Anderson, Jr. (May 26, 1907 - June 14, 1960) was a politician, best known for being the first African American lawmaker in the South.

Anderson was born May 26, 1907 in Louisville, Kentucky to Charles W. Anderson and Tabitha L. Murphy. He attended Kentucky State College, graduated from Wilberforce University in 1927, and received a law degree from Howard University in 1931. In 1933, he was admitted to the bar and started a law practice in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1935 he was elected as a Republican to the Kentucky House of Representatives, serving until 1958.

One of his most important legislative accomplishments was the Anderson-Mayer State Aid Act which provided $7,500 annually to African American students to attend out of state colleges because Kentucky’s segregated college system could not accommodate all the blacks at the one all-black state school, Kentucky State College, in Frankfort. He also passed bills improving public school facilities and legislated for a $100 education and travel fund for each black student who was forced to travel outside of his or her county to attend segregated schools. Combating lynching in Kentucky, Anderson was credited with the repeal of the state’s public hanging law.

Anderson, who was longtime president of the Louisville National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was awarded the Lincoln Institute Key in 1940 for his service to the black community He also served as president of the National Negro Bar Association chapter in Kentucky. In 1946, he was selected as the Assistant Commonwealth Attorney in Kentucky’s 30th Judicial District, Jefferson County, which was the highest judicial position, held by any African American in the South at the time. President Eisenhower also selected him in 1959 as the alternate delegate to the United Nations.

Anderson died June 14, 1960 in Shelbyville, Kentucky and was interred in Eastern Cemetery in Louisville.
Confederate Monument in Lawrenceburg

The Confederate Monument in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky is an 8-foot-tall figure which was built in 1894 by the Kentucky Women's Monumental Association, a predecessor of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, an organization founded in that year. Its governing body is the government of Lawrenceburg.

It shows a Confederate soldier dressed in a winter coat with a rifle held vertically before him. Around the pedestal of the monument may be found the names of the Confederate regiments raised in Anderson County and a list of those men wounded or killed during the war.

There were a few Civil War skirmishes at Lawrenceburg, The Battle of Lawrenceburg and the Battle of Dog Walk, just before the Battle of Perryville in October 1862. In particular, the Union Ninth Kentucky Cavalry fought the Confederate cavalry under Colonel Scott on October 6, 1862. Confederate troops that would control Frankfort had marched through the town. In later years, the local area saw guerrilla warfare, which force the creation of a Union Home Guard unit in the town.

On July 17, 1997, the Lawrenceburg Confederate Monument was one of sixty different monuments related to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. It is one of ten monuments of soldiers in the Multiple Property Submission on a courthouse lawn.

The Kentucky Women's Monumental Association was a predecessor of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, an organization founded in 1894. The Kentucky association was one of a number formed to honor "the dead of those who fought for the Southern cause", addressing "the specter of death hung over the South."

The United Daughters of the Confederacy, a unified association that was a successor, actually was named National Association of the Daughters of the Confederacy from 1894 to 1895. It is directly credited with 15 monuments now listed on the U.S. National Register.

In recent years the UDC has been in the news for winning a court case with Vanderbilt University over continued use of Confederate Memorial Hall as the name of a building financed by the UDC.
Captain James Patten

**Captain James Patten** (October 12, 1748 – December 29, 1815) was born in Augusta County, Virginia. He was a military figure, pioneer, and river pilot.

Patton arrived with George Rogers Clark's militia to what would eventually become Louisville in 1778. He was put in charge of building the first fort on shore after moving from the original fort on Corn Island.

In 1780 he participated with Colonel John Bowman and George Rogers Clark in strikes against the British allied Indians in Ohio.

He was the first licensed pilot authorized to navigate the Falls of Ohio.

His son-in-law Nathaniel Pryor was a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Patten died December 29, 1815 in Jefferson County and is buried in Western Cemetery in Louisville.
Bobby Nichols

Robert Herman Nichols (born April 14, 1936) is an American professional golfer, best known for winning the PGA Championship in 1964.

Born in April 1936 and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Nichols attended St. Xavier High School. While in high school, Nichols and several other youths were involved in an automobile accident resulting from a 100 mph joy ride. He suffered serious injuries including a broken pelvis, concussion, back and internal injuries, and was hospitalized 96 days. His legs were also paralyzed for about two weeks, but he was able to regain full use of his legs after intensive physical therapy. Nichols later played on the Aggies golf team at the Agricultural & Mechanical College of Texas (later renamed Texas A&M University) in the Southwest Conference.

Nichols began playing on the PGA Tour in 1960 and recorded 12 victories, one of which, the PGA National Team Championship, was not fully recognized until 2012. He was a member of the Ryder Cup team in 1967, and his best year on tour was 1974 when he won twice, earned $124,747 and finished 14th on the money list. Nichols, Jerry Heard, and Lee Trevino were struck by lightning at the Western Open on Friday, June 27, 1975. All three men came back to play professional golf. Nichols has had 12 holes-in-one in his professional career.

The 1964 PGA Championship was played at the Columbus Country Club in Columbus, Ohio. Nichols won with a 271 total, three shots ahead of runners-up Arnold Palmer and defending champion Jack Nicklaus, playing in his hometown. This was a record low score for the PGA Championship and it stood for 30 years, until broken by Nick Price's 269 in 1994. Nichols was the first wire-to-wire winner since the PGA Championship switched format from match play to stroke play in 1958. He came close to winning a second major at the Masters in 1967, finishing second to his lifelong friend, Gay Brewer.

After turning 50 in 1986, Nichols played on the Senior PGA Tour, now the Champions Tour. He had numerous top-10 finishes but only one victory – the Southwestern Bell Classic in 1989, when he defeated Orville Moody on the third hole of a playoff.

Bobby Nichols Golf Course is a 9-hole municipal course that is part of Waverly Park in Louisville, southwest of downtown. The back tees are set at 6,970 yards with a rating of 72.0 and a slope of 130.
But He Was Already Dead When I Got There

But He Was Already Dead When I Got There is a novel written by Barbara Paul. It was first published in 1986.

## Description

A belabored spoof on the genre, Paul's (Kill Fee latest mystery begins when miserly old Vincent Farwell announces he will not extend his $1.5 million loan to Ellandy Jewels. The six young people assembled, all with varied interests in Ellandy, leave to consider their options. Then one by one or in pairs, they return to Vincent's house, find he's been murdered, draw assorted conclusions about which of the others did it, and proceed to alter the scene according to their intentions.

All the characters are quirky. Simon and Dorrie, for example, wear color-coordinated outfits and use the same shade of blond rinse in their hair and their motives complex. While it is obvious she is mocking the conventions of traditional mysteries, Paul's satire requires a sharper edge to be effective. The tale unravels slowly, the question of who did Vincent in losing its punch well before the answer is revealed.
Confederate Monument, Murray, Kentucky

The Confederate Monument in Murray is a historic statue located in the northeast corner of the Calloway County Courthouse in Murray, Kentucky. It honors the 800 citizens of the county who served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, and is the only Confederate Monument in Kentucky featuring Robert E. Lee.

During the American Civil War, Calloway County saw 800 of its citizens serve in the Confederate Army. Only 200 served in the Union Army.

The monument was funded after a three-year fund raising drive by the J. N. Williams Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (U.D.C) in 1917, whose chairman died during that period; her name was added to the monument in tribute. The U.D.C. paid $2,500 to Marietta, Georgia's McNeel Monument Company for the structure.

The 16.5-foot-tall monument has three parts. The bottom is a porcelain drinking fountain; when it was a working fountain, a step pedal was used to obtain water. In its time, was the most elaborate and modern of the Civil War fountain monuments: the other three fountains are the Confederate Memorial in Mayfield, Confederate Memorial Fountain in Hopkinsville, and the Confederate Monument of Cadiz.

Four 6-foot-tall Doric columns support a granite canopy. Inside the canopy is an ornate iron light fixture with four incandescent bulbs to light the fountain. On top are four marble balls and a 5.5-foot-tall marble statue of Lee, making it the only monument in Kentucky that heavily features Robert E. Lee; the only other monument in Kentucky with a likeness of Lee is Bardstown, Kentucky's Confederate Monument of Bardstown which has only a small relief portrait of Lee below the large statue of a Confederate soldier.

On July 17, 1997, the Confederate Monument in Murray was one of sixty-one different monuments related to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission.
Charles Middleton

Charles B. Middleton (October 3, 1874 – April 22, 1949) was an American stage and film actor. During a film career that began at age 46 and lasted almost 30 years, Charles Middleton appeared in nearly 200 films as well as numerous plays. He is perhaps best remembered for his role as the villainous emperor Ming the Merciless in the three Flash Gordon serials made between 1936 and 1940.

Born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Charles Middleton worked in a traveling circus, in vaudeville, and acted in live theatre before he turned to motion pictures in 1920.

Middleton's career as a character actor came into full flower with the advent of sound movies. His ominous baritone voice proved ideal for villainous roles, and he became an excellent foil for comedy stars Harold Lloyd, Eddie Cantor, Wheeler & Woolsey, and Laurel and Hardy.

He was then cast in Warner Bros.' 1931 film Safe in Hell (directed by William Wellman), and in Warners' 1932 hit The Strange Love of Molly Louvain opposite Ann Dvorak and Richard Cromwell. In Pack Up Your Troubles, he portrays a villainous welfare association officer, the foil of Laurel & Hardy. He is also the district attorney in Cecil B. DeMille's 1933 film This Day and Age; and he appears opposite The Marx Brothers in Duck Soup (also 1933), performing as the stern prosecutor of Freedonia. In Universal Pictures' classic 1936 screen version of the musical Show Boat, he is Sheriff Ike Vallon, the official who tries to arrest Julie La Verne (Helen Morgan) and her husband for being illegally married.

Since Middleton's facial features generally resembled those of Abraham Lincoln, he was cast to portray Lincoln in the 1933 public-service short The Road Is Open Again. Four years later, in an uncredited role in the comedy Stand-In, he appears as an actor dressed as Lincoln who complains of being typecast as the former president. Middleton's association with Lincoln did not end there, although in the 1940 feature film Abe Lincoln in Illinois, he performs not as Abe but as Thomas, Lincoln's father.

Middleton also has prominent roles in many serials from 1935 to 1947. He is especially well known for his characterization of Ming the Merciless, the evil adversary of the heroic outer-space adventurer Flash Gordon. He appears as Ming in three related serials from the cited period: Flash Gordon (1936), Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938), and Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940). Some of the other serials in which Middleton can be seen include Dick Tracy Returns, Daredevils of the Red Circle, and Jack Armstrong. He also portrays the ranch foreman Buck Peters in the 1935 movie Hopalong Cassidy Enters, which is the first entry in that long-running Western series.

Middleton died of a heart attack in Los Angeles just two months after the 1949 release of The Last Bandit, the last film in which he appeared. His grave site is located in Hollywood Forever Cemetery and is situated next to the grave of his wife of many years, stage and film actress Leora Spellman.
Captain Dick

Captain Dick, a Cherokee Brave, is the namesake for the Dix River. He met legendary Long Hunter James Knox and led Knox to a river. He named it "Dick's River", though over time it changed to Dix River.

*So...Here, deep in the Powell Valley of extreme, southwestern Virginia; Andrew Knez very accurately portrays an as yet, inexperienced and relatively untried James Knox, busily engaged in the minutia of preparing a freshly killed deer when the friendly Cherokee, “Dick” cordially approaches him. The likeable and charismatic Knox actually remembers this particular warrior with his permanently injured hand, from a previous visit to the lead mines near Fort Chiswell. Thinking quickly, James quite tactfully hails him as “Captain” Dick — at that time, a hard won, backwoods appellation of highest esteem and respect. Of course the Cherokee brave is very much flattered. He instantaneously likes this affable, engaging (if not a trifle ignorant) frontiersman, taking the white man under his wing so to speak. A temporary backwoods partnership is formed between the two with Captain Dick eventually teaching the enterprising, ambitious hunter everything he needs to know about the physical geography of the unknown, enigmatic “Can-tu-kee”. Thus, at this precise moment —their initial meeting...the fate and the future of long hunting within the unexplored, unsettled wilds of the colonial southwest becomes virtually assured. In the years to follow, Knox would organize and lead an impressive series of the largest and best known long hunting adventures ever to take place; creating a name and a reputation for himself that would forever be synonymous with the term, “Long Hunter”.* - John Curry
Bob Buckley Bibliography

## Novels

* 1980 – World in the Clouds
* 2016 – Mars Awakened

## Short Stories

* 1970 – A Matter of Orientation
* 1972 – The Star Hole
* 1974 – Forced Change
* 1975 – The Hunters of Tharsis
* 1976 – Transfigurement
* 1976 – Chimera
* 1978 – The Runners
* 1979 – Time's Window
* 1981 – Where No Man Goes
* 1984 – Peace in the Valley
* 1985 – Ride a Dark Horse
* 1985 – World of Crystal, Sky of Fire
* 1985 – Runner
* 1986 – Red Wolf
* 1990 – The Man on the Spot
* 2004 – The Dragon Wore Trousers
* 2004 – Fool Efficient
Byron and Kit

Byron and Kit is a novel written by Shiloh Walker. It was first published in 2004.

## Description

"Kit will want what she wants... "

Truer words were never spoken. The sleek, sexy shapeshifter knows what she wants. She wants Byron, the Master vampire she swore to serve.

Too bad he doesn't want her... or does he?

Byron wants her, all right. But he made a promise to care for her. Caring for her doesn't involve doing all the dirty, delicious things he imagines doing.

Determined to keep his promise, he sends her away. But Kit will want what she wants... and what she wants is him...

This book has been previously published. It has been expanded and revised.
Blood Sacrifice

Blood Sacrifice is a novel written by Nic Brown. It was first published in 2011.

## Description

Michael Warren isn't your ordinary detective, he's a werewolf. With his partners, Tabitha and Sam Edwards (she’s a witch and he’s the I.T. guy), Michael takes on cases where the supernatural is the norm and it pays to be more than human.

When his partner's niece, a talented witch named Samara, is kidnapped, Michael must journey to England to try and save her. He discovers more than meets the eye as a fanatic tries to use Samara’s special magical abilities to bring an ancient goddess back into the world. Now it will take all of Michael’s human skills and his werewolf powers to stop what could be the beginning of the end for us all.

Blood Sacrifice is the second Werewolf for Hire novel
Beware of the Blabbermouth!

Beware of the Blabbermouth! is a novel written by Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones. It was first published in 2005.

## Description

The secret is out! Well, all of the third-graders' secrets are out. A tattletale is loose in the basement of Sleepy Hollow Elementary and suddenly rumors are spreading about everyone. Now the class is playing the blame game. Is Cassidy the blabbermouth? Is Jeff the Big Mouth? Or is someone — or something — else spying on the basement class?

Nina is ready to do whatever it takes to catch the snitch. But would she be willing to tell on her best friends?
Blue Ribbon Blues

Blue Ribbon Blues is a novel written by Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones. It was first published in 2002.

## Description

All the dogs' humans are invited to watch the Barkley's School blue ribbon competition. Jack is determined to make his human, Maggie, proud. But sneaky Sweetcakes has other plans for the winner.
Concord Cemetery

Concord Cemetery, also known as Concord United Methodist Church Cemetery, is located on Route 1159 at the junction of Route 1011 in Bladeston, Bracken County.

## Notable Interments

* Harry Graham Black
* Marvin T. Brown
* Martin Carl III
* Donald Eugene Case
* Joseph Case
* Robert Ferl Cummins
* Roy E. Cummins
* Clyde Ervin Dean
* Elvin Dale Dean
* Leland Wade Dean
* Orvel Earnest
* David Lee Fields
* James M. Fronk
* Don Galloway
* Gano Theron Hardin
* Teri Black Hoskins
* Harry R. Hutchinson
* Charles W. Johnson
* Harold L. Jones
* Mark Lucas, Jr.
* Kenneth L. Mains
* Clyde Thomas "Tommy" McClanahan
* Thomas Randolph "Tom" McClanahan
* George McElfresh
* Clocus McGeorge
* Ora Dalton "O.D." Perkins
* William E. Poe
* Leslie Howard Ruf
* Dalton Jesse Smith
* Robert C. Thompson
* Robert W. Trester
* John M. Wachter
* Adrian Dean West
* Orel West
* Robert L. West
* Helen L. Wilson
* Fred Franklin Wood
* James B. Wood
Critical Lives: Leonard Bernstein

Critical Lives: Leonard Bernstein is a book written by Paul Laird. It was first published in 2018.

## Description

Leonard Bernstein was one of twentieth-century music’s most successful and recognizable figures. In a career spanning five decades, he conducted many of the world’s leading orchestras and composed scores for landmark musicals such as West Side Story. With an iron self-belief, he negotiated risky and challenging musical situations that resulted in always passionate, if sometimes mixed, reviews. Published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of Bernstein’s birth, this engaging new biography provides a concise overview of the life and work of a prodigiously talented, endlessly enthralling and controversial musician.

Drawing on more than thirty years of study, leading Bernstein scholar Paul R. Laird describes Bernstein’s work as a conductor, composer, music educator and commentator, evaluating all of his major compositions. Laird also explores the impact of Bernstein’s complicated personal life on his professional work, including his homosexuality and his strong yet difficult marriage. Featuring original insights into Bernstein’s life and work, including information gleaned from a 1982 interview with Bernstein, Laird’s book is the ideal introduction to Bernstein’s eclectic musical style and complex character, showing how both fit within the larger world of twentieth-century music.
Bigfoot Doesn't Square Dance

Bigfoot Doesn't Square Dance is a novel written by Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones. It was first published in 1997.

## Description

Mrs. Jeeper's class is visiting Ruby Mountain to learn about nature, and along the way Eddie spots enormous tracks on the dirt trail. He's sure that the tracks belong to the square-dancing teacher--a large, hairy man resembling Bigfoot. Is he really the legendary beast?
February 28

**February 28th**

* 1828 – Eli Metcalfe Bruce born.
* 1835 – John Boyle died, aged 60.
* 1858 – Richard Pretlow Ernst born.
* 1870 – Lulu Vere Childers born.
* 1870 – Jacob Golladay left office as US House of Representatives from Kentucky, 3rd District.
* 1881 – Albert B. Blanton born.
* 1885 – Beriah Magoffin died, aged 69.
* 1889 – Victor Sutherland born.
* 1907 – Clarence R. Graham born.
* 1943 – Tommy Kron born.
* 1998 – Todd Duncan died, aged 95.
Crossing the River

Crossing the River is a novel written by Fenton Johnson. It was first published in 1991.

## Description

Carrying her Confederate heritage like a flag, Martha Bragg Pickett was as stubborn as her red hair. And hungry for life. On a date she crossed the river, leaving the safe, abstaining, Baptist, Southern side and venturing over to the dangerous, rowdy, Catholic Northern side. And when that proved less than thrilling, she marched her young self right into the (men only) Miracle Inn, which got a rise out of the owner Bernie Miracle, who thought he’d seen everything. But even Martha was shocked to find herself living on the wrong side of the river twenty years later, with a grown son, a tired marriage to Bernie, a handsome Yankee contractor newly arrived in town — and a well-remembered itch for a life that hadn’t been scratched since she made her first big, brave mistake.
Crab Orchard Cemetery

Crab Orchard Cemetery is located in Crab Orchard, Lincoln County.

## Notable Interments

* Joel Adams
* Joe M. Bowling
* James E. Brewer
* Wayne Thomas Champlin
* John B. Clay
* Louis Dishon
* Theodore Egbert
* Micajah Frost
* Raymond Garner
* James Tolbert "Jimmie" Gover
* Calmer Carter Hayes
* Bobby Hopkins
* Hubert Hoskins
* Carroll Cole Humber
* John Lewis Kidwell
* Harbert King
* William Henry King
* Jack Lasure
* Richard W. "Dick" Ledford
* Theodore Blaine Petrey
* Freddie L. Pettit
* Joseph David Pleasants
* William Thomas Poynter
* William Sylvester Robbins
* Harmon Shelton
* John Wilson "Wilse" Tisdale
* Ralph G. VanWinkle
* Tony VanWinkle
* James T. Welch
* Samuel Dewey "Frosty" Whitehead
* Porter H. Wilburn
* Cecil Eugene Wood
Bill Anderson

William "Bill" Anderson (January 19, 1865 – May 5, 1936) was an American professional baseball player who played in one game for the Louisville Colonels in 1889. In that game, he pitched a complete game, and surrendered nine earned runs in a loss to the Philadelphia Athletics.

As a hitter in that game, he collect a base hit in three at bats for a .333 batting average.

He was a brother-in-law to fellow Colonels player Scott Stratton. He died in 1936 at the age of 71, and is interred at Valley Cemetery in Taylorsville, Kentucky.
Big Vamp on Campus

Big Vamp on Campus is a novel written by Molly Harper. It was first published in 2016.

## Description

In Molly Harper's newest paranormal romantic comedy set in her beloved Half Moon Hollow, a vampire princess must learn how to navigate life as a college student - including living with her messy, annoying, frustrating new roommate.

Ophelia Lambert, 400-year-old vampire princess and college freshman, suddenly finds herself domesticated by humans and forced to suffer the indignities of dorm rooms, communal bathrooms, and a roommate with sticky fingers.

As one of the hundreds of undead venturing into postsecondary education, Ophelia has a lot more to learn than just "undead studies" - she has to learn to get along with her fellow vampire classmates and, worst of all, her human ones, along with getting back into the good graces of the World Council for the Equal Treatment of the Undead.

Can this once all-powerful vampire princess balance classes and campus life with romance, human and vampire relations, and not sinking her teeth into her annoying roommate?

With her "distinct, captivating style" (RT Book Reviews), Molly Harper demonstrates that she is one of the best voices in paranormal romance.
Blood Curse

Blood Curse is a novel written by Nic Brown. It was first published in 2008.

## Description

Michael Warren walks the line between the world we all know and the world of the supernatural. Specializing in handling problems that don't fit the normal mold, Michael deals with the things that go bump in the night. He's got his own edge in this game though... he's a werewolf.

When the hunt for a missing person leads him to the horse farms of Kentucky. Michael finds himself drawn into the web of a billionaire sheik with a secret of his own.

This time has Michael bitten off more than even a werewolf can chew?
Buckner Thruston

Buckner Thruston (February 9, 1763 – August 30, 1845) was a Democratic-Republican U.S. Senator from Kentucky, and later a long-serving United States federal judge.

Born in Gloucester County, Virginia, Thruston received an A.B. from the College of William & Mary at Williamsburg, Virginia. He read law and moved to Lexington, Kentucky (then a part of Virginia) in 1788. He was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law. He was a member of the Virginia assembly in 1789, resuming his private practice from 1791 to 1792.

After Kentucky was organized as a state, Thruston was elected clerk of the first Kentucky Senate in 1792. He was appointed one of Kentucky's three commissioners to settle the boundary dispute between the states of Kentucky and Virginia. He also served as a judge of the Kentucky State District Court in 1791, and as a judge of the Kentucky State Circuit Court from 1802 to 1803. He was also appointed the United States judge of the court of the Territory of Orleans in 1804, but declined the appointment. Instead, he maintained his private practice from 1803 to 1805.

Thruston was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1805, to December 18, 1809, when he resigned, having been appointed to a judicial position. He was nominated by President James Madison on December 12, 1809, to a seat on the United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia vacated by Allen Bowie Duckett, and was confirmed by his colleagues in the Senate the following day. He received his commission on December 14, 1809 and served on the bench for over thirty-five years, from January 1810 until his death, in Washington, D.C., in 1845. He was interred in the Congressional Cemetery.

His son, Charles Mynn Thruston, was a politician and Union Army general.
Bob Arnzen

Robert Louis "Bob" Arnzen (born November 3, 1947) is a retired American basketball and baseball player.

Born in Covington, Kentucky, Arnzen graduated from St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1965. He then played collegiately for the University of Notre Dame.

Arnzen was selected by the Detroit Pistons in the 8th round (93rd pick overall) of the 1969 NBA draft. He played for the New York Nets (1969–70) and Indiana Pacers (1972–74) in the ABA for 56 games (winning the 1972–73 ABA Championship) and for the Cincinnati Royals (1970–71) in the NBA for 55 games.

Arnzen additionally played Minor League Baseball for the Gulf Coast Expos (1969), West Palm Beach Expos (1969–71), Winnipeg Whips (1971), Québec Carnavals (1972), and Peninsula Whips (1972).