November 12, 1885:
Em Prater,colored, died in Louisa, Tuesday.
November 19, 1885:
Dr. Banfield, administrator of Greenville Kinner, deceased.
Miss Carrie Snead, youngest daughter of S.H. Snead, died last Tuesday afternoon.
August 18, 1887:
On August 4th, 1887, Judge John Jordan departed this life. His death is lamented by his multitude of acquaintances. The deceased has served as clerk Lawrence County and Circuit Courts, once faithfully represented this county in the Legislature, was twice elected County Judge and has served as a Justice of the Peace; and in all these capacities he has acquitted himself with satisfaction to his constituents and honor to himself. At the time of his death he was Treasurer of Lawrence county. His many friends deeply deplore his loss to the county. He leaves 10 living children -four sons and six daughters- of whom eight are married. He was a member of the Christian church and his last words were a profession of faith in the Saviour. The sympathy of the community is with the family.
February 16, 1888:
James F. Estep, son-in-law of D. J. Casey,Esq., killed in coalmines in Caperton, W.VA. on the 5th instant. His body was brought here and interred at the Casey cemetery on the 8th.
May 17, 1888:
James Asberry Boldman, little son of F. M. Boldman, departed this life May 4, 1888. He was nearly 14 months old.
July 18, 1889:
Death of an Ancient Odd Fellow. Died, on last Sunday, at his home in Louisa, Mr Matthew Drake, aged 69. He had been in an almost helpless condition for several months and death was no doubt a welcome relief for him. The burial took place on Tuesday under the auspices of the Louisa Lodge, of the I.O.O.F., of which the deceased was a faithful member of longstanding. He leaves seven motherless children, his wife having died four years ago. Mr. Drake was born in Pennsylvania and leaving home when a boy he became a sailor, which occupation he followed for thirty years, traversing nearly all the seas of the world. He drew a pension for service in the Mexican war. He came to Louisa to visit a sister twenty-five years ago, and resided here ever since. He married here and was engaged in the merchandising business for some time.From the best information we can obtain it seems that he was probably one of the oldest Odd Fellows in the country, as he joined the "Ancient Order" a great many years ago in Baltimore.
October 27, 1893:
Peter I. Skaggs, one of our oldest citizens, died at his home in this place yesterday evening, after an illness of several days. Had he lived until December he would have been 79 years old. He leaves two daughters - Mrs.A.P. Ferguson and Mrs. David Wellman. His wife died several years ago.
September 21, 1894:
Bertha, daughter of John M. and Grace Diamond, departed this life August 2, 1894, aged one year and four days.
Death notices abstracted from the Big Sandy News by Marlitta H. Perkins, 1996
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The Peach Orchard Coal Field
A Split in the Coal Seams Making Two Distinct Veins 60 Feet Apart
The Peach Orchard coal field in Kentucky is thus described by a writer in Black Diamond: The Chatteroi railroad runs almost due south from Ashland, Ky., through a country rich in coal and iron ores. The route is rather picturesque: on one side is the sluggish Big Sandy, and on the other high hills covered with timber. At Louisa, the county seat of Lawrence County, the river separates into the Tug and Levisa Forks, and the railroad enters the coal region between them. All along the route, on the west side from Ashland to Louisa, one saw small openings where the farmers have penetrated the hills for their winter's supply of coal, but not until Peach Orchard is reached is there any regular attempt at mining. Peach Orchard is an old village, built some time in 1850 or 1851. Before the Chatteroi Railroad was built the coal was sent down to the Ohio river in barges. The bargemen counted it a lucky voyage if they saved two out of three of the boats. So much coal was lost in this way that some future geologist may imagine that he has discovered a new vein of coal in the bottom of the Big Sandy river.
The works at Peach Orchard are operated by the Great Western Mining & Manufacturing Co., and are under the care of L. S. Johnson. The mines are 100 feet up in the hills, the coal being lowered on inclined planes. Their capacity is 400 tons a day. The coal is a dry-burning splint coal, remarkably free from sulphur and other impurities, hard and firm, and well adapted for transportation. The seam is six feet in height, but several inches have to be sorted out and thrown aside as bone-coal and shale. Peach Orchard is three miles east from the Louisa Fork of the Big Sandy. The coal in the front or river hill is thin. The first operators before the war tunneled through these hills in this thin coal to reach the vein in its full growth. The old tunnels and tramroads are still there, but the mine owners, and miners of those antebellum days have been gathered to their fathers.
The Chatteroi road, before reaching Peach Orchard, is tunneled through one of the hills three-quarters of a mile long, in the coal level. The vein splits in two in this tunnel, the intercolated material being fire-clay and afterward shale. In fifty yards, the foreign intrusive matter increases to eight feet, the upper member of the seam rising and the lower maintaining its position. The fire-clay under the upper member soon becomes from two to three feet thick. The upper coal gradually loses thickness and finally disappears as a feather edge. At the northern end of the tunnel the upper member reappears and is seen descending toward its normal place, and as the coal leaves the tunnel the two members are less than six feet apart
This splitting of the seam has played havoc with the state geologists of Kentucky, who recognize in two veins sixty feet apart a few miles north of the tunnel the upper and lower members of the tunnel coal. There is no instance in the history of mining operations in the United States of a seam of coal splitting indefinitely. Instances are numerous of coals splitting in two, but the upper member either thins out or disappears entirely or returns to its normal position.
The coal of the Peach Orchard region belongs to the upper series of the lower coal measures. They have no equivalents in the Ohio coal field, their place being represented by the barren measures of the State Geological Reports. In the Peach Orchard field the coal seems to improve to the southeast, and on the Middle Fork of Rock Castle creek, sixteen miles southeast of Peach Orchard, the coals are represented by six veins in the same hill, said to aggregate forty feet. On the Buffenmeyer tract, about midway between Rock Castle and Peach Orchard, one of these seams of coal measures twelve feet in thickness, including three bands of shale.
[Courier, Connellsville, PA, August 2, 1889]
The Peach Orchard coal field in Kentucky is thus described by a writer in Black Diamond: The Chatteroi railroad runs almost due south from Ashland, Ky., through a country rich in coal and iron ores. The route is rather picturesque: on one side is the sluggish Big Sandy, and on the other high hills covered with timber. At Louisa, the county seat of Lawrence County, the river separates into the Tug and Levisa Forks, and the railroad enters the coal region between them. All along the route, on the west side from Ashland to Louisa, one saw small openings where the farmers have penetrated the hills for their winter's supply of coal, but not until Peach Orchard is reached is there any regular attempt at mining. Peach Orchard is an old village, built some time in 1850 or 1851. Before the Chatteroi Railroad was built the coal was sent down to the Ohio river in barges. The bargemen counted it a lucky voyage if they saved two out of three of the boats. So much coal was lost in this way that some future geologist may imagine that he has discovered a new vein of coal in the bottom of the Big Sandy river.
The works at Peach Orchard are operated by the Great Western Mining & Manufacturing Co., and are under the care of L. S. Johnson. The mines are 100 feet up in the hills, the coal being lowered on inclined planes. Their capacity is 400 tons a day. The coal is a dry-burning splint coal, remarkably free from sulphur and other impurities, hard and firm, and well adapted for transportation. The seam is six feet in height, but several inches have to be sorted out and thrown aside as bone-coal and shale. Peach Orchard is three miles east from the Louisa Fork of the Big Sandy. The coal in the front or river hill is thin. The first operators before the war tunneled through these hills in this thin coal to reach the vein in its full growth. The old tunnels and tramroads are still there, but the mine owners, and miners of those antebellum days have been gathered to their fathers.
The Chatteroi road, before reaching Peach Orchard, is tunneled through one of the hills three-quarters of a mile long, in the coal level. The vein splits in two in this tunnel, the intercolated material being fire-clay and afterward shale. In fifty yards, the foreign intrusive matter increases to eight feet, the upper member of the seam rising and the lower maintaining its position. The fire-clay under the upper member soon becomes from two to three feet thick. The upper coal gradually loses thickness and finally disappears as a feather edge. At the northern end of the tunnel the upper member reappears and is seen descending toward its normal place, and as the coal leaves the tunnel the two members are less than six feet apart
This splitting of the seam has played havoc with the state geologists of Kentucky, who recognize in two veins sixty feet apart a few miles north of the tunnel the upper and lower members of the tunnel coal. There is no instance in the history of mining operations in the United States of a seam of coal splitting indefinitely. Instances are numerous of coals splitting in two, but the upper member either thins out or disappears entirely or returns to its normal position.
The coal of the Peach Orchard region belongs to the upper series of the lower coal measures. They have no equivalents in the Ohio coal field, their place being represented by the barren measures of the State Geological Reports. In the Peach Orchard field the coal seems to improve to the southeast, and on the Middle Fork of Rock Castle creek, sixteen miles southeast of Peach Orchard, the coals are represented by six veins in the same hill, said to aggregate forty feet. On the Buffenmeyer tract, about midway between Rock Castle and Peach Orchard, one of these seams of coal measures twelve feet in thickness, including three bands of shale.
[Courier, Connellsville, PA, August 2, 1889]
They Celebrated The Victory - A Kentucky Postmaster Complains That the Democrats Demolished His Office
Washington, Nov. 8. - The following telegram has been received by the Postmaster-General:
[Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 9, 1889]
"Louisa, Ky., Nov. 7. - Hon. John Wanamaker, P. M. General, Washington, D.C.: I claim protection and redress at the hands of the government. I am the postmaster at this place and had the handsomest, fourth-class office in Northeast Kentucky, surpassing many Presidential offices. My office is this morning completely demolished, being the work of a few persons wanting to let the postmaster here know how Ohio had gone politically. They used high explosives, dynamite and other combustibles. Caved in the front door, broke every window in front of the building, threw open the shutters, and this morning I find my office little or no protection to United States mails, pouches or money order deposits. This being a distributing office the finding of guilty parties will be an easy task for the detective force.The Postmaster-General has instituted an investigation of the matters contained in this telegram.
R. C. McClure, P.M.
[Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 9, 1889]
Pigg's Pig - A Kentucky Indictment
The following is a true copy of an indictment found by the grand jury of Lawrence county, Ky., at its October term of the Criminal Court (leaving off the name of the defendant and date)
Lawrence Criminal Court.
Commonwealth of Kentucky
against Indictment.
_____, Defendant.
The grand jury of Lawrence county, in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse ____ of the offence of malicious mischief, committed as follows :
The said ____ , on the 10th day of September, A. D., 18__, in the county and circuit aforesaid, did unlawfully, willfully, and maliciously kill and destroy one pig, the personal property of George Pigg, without the consent of said Pigg, the said pig being of value to the aforesaid George Pigg. The pig thus killed weighed about twenty-five pounds, and was a mate to some other pigs that were owned by said George Pigg, which left George Pigg a pig less than he (said Pigg) had of pigs, and thus ruthlessly tore said pig from the society of George Pigg's other pigs, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
A. S. Auxier, Commonwealth's Attorney.
A true bill: O. D. Botner, Foreman.
Filed Nov. . A.D., 18__. G. F. Johnson, Clerk.
[The Washington Law Reporter, 1889, p. 94]
Lawrence Criminal Court.
Commonwealth of Kentucky
against Indictment.
_____, Defendant.
The grand jury of Lawrence county, in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse ____ of the offence of malicious mischief, committed as follows :
The said ____ , on the 10th day of September, A. D., 18__, in the county and circuit aforesaid, did unlawfully, willfully, and maliciously kill and destroy one pig, the personal property of George Pigg, without the consent of said Pigg, the said pig being of value to the aforesaid George Pigg. The pig thus killed weighed about twenty-five pounds, and was a mate to some other pigs that were owned by said George Pigg, which left George Pigg a pig less than he (said Pigg) had of pigs, and thus ruthlessly tore said pig from the society of George Pigg's other pigs, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
A. S. Auxier, Commonwealth's Attorney.
A true bill: O. D. Botner, Foreman.
Filed Nov. . A.D., 18__. G. F. Johnson, Clerk.
[The Washington Law Reporter, 1889, p. 94]
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