Mrs. Nancy Wellman, who died at her home near Louisa, Ky., at the age of 95 years, was the mother of 16 children, 11 of whom were married. She had 88 grandchildren, 192 great-grandchildren and 31 great-great-grandchildren. She also raised nine orphan children.
[Freeborn County Standard, Albert Lea, Minnesota, August 31, 1898]
Friday, April 13, 2012
Death of Nellie McClure
Miss Belle Cummings, who has been making her home with her sister, Mrs. James Adams, of Gallia street, was called to Louisa, Ky., Saturday, by a telegram announcing the serious illness of her niece.
Mrs. James Adams, of Gallia street, left this morning for Ashland, Ky., to attend the funeral of her little niece, Miss Nellie McClure, who died at Louisa, Ky., recently, of brain fever.
[Portsmouth Times, May 26, 1894]
Mrs. James Adams, of Gallia street, left this morning for Ashland, Ky., to attend the funeral of her little niece, Miss Nellie McClure, who died at Louisa, Ky., recently, of brain fever.
[Portsmouth Times, May 26, 1894]
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]
Aged Farmer Killed by Vicious Jack at Louisa
Louisa, Ky., Jan. 26 - John Sammons, aged 76, met a horrible death at his house, six miles south of this place. He owned a vicious jack, and went to the stable to give it a bucket of water. The animal is kept tied, but had broken the halter and when the old man went in he was immediately attacked, The jack caught him by the shoulder with its teeth and struck him to the ground with its fore feet, and then jumped upon him with its knees, crushing his breast-bone. The beast kept up the attack until the old man's wife reached the scene and thrust a pitchfork into it. Several bones were broken in Sammon's body, and he was severely bitten in many places. The calf of the leg was almost torn off by the animal's teeth. The old man died within a few hours.
[Lexington Morning Herald, Jan. 27, 1898]
[Lexington Morning Herald, Jan. 27, 1898]
The Kentucky State Register (1847) - Lawrence County
LAWRENCE COUNTY.
Formed, 1821.
County seat, LOUISA.
Terms of County Court, Fourth Monday in each month, except May and November.
Justices of the Peace, George E. Chadwick, John Crabtree, David Curnett, George Justice, Emmanuel Brammer, Zalter Cushing, Peter Fulkerson, Wm. M'Clure, Isaac Bolt, Archibald Borders, James Pritchard, John J. Sweatman, James Marcum, George R. Burgis, Thomas Prince.
Sheriff, Walter Osborn, commissioned January 17, 1845.
Deputy Sheriff, J. W. Hands.
Clerk, George F. Hatcher, Louisa. .
County Attorney, James Fulkerson, do.
Jailer, Garrett See, do.
Coroner, U. Garrett, do.
Constables, J. L. Barns and J. M. Edin, do.
Notaries Public, none.
Surveyor, William M. Fulkerson.
Commissioner of Tax, Allen Prichard.
Attorneys at Law, J. M. Rice, G. V. Goble, Jacob Rice, jr, James Fulkerson, W. M. Fulkerson, Louisa.
Physicians, P. Randall, Z. Cushing, S. F. Yates, Louisa.
Principal Merchants, W. T. Nicholl, & Co., Jones & Callahan, Moore & Miltler, M. Canterberry & Co., F. Moore, B. Burke, Louisa.
[The Kentucky State Register, by Taliaferro Preston Shaffner; Published by Morton & Griswold, 1847; pp. 117/118]
Formed, 1821.
County seat, LOUISA.
Terms of County Court, Fourth Monday in each month, except May and November.
Justices of the Peace, George E. Chadwick, John Crabtree, David Curnett, George Justice, Emmanuel Brammer, Zalter Cushing, Peter Fulkerson, Wm. M'Clure, Isaac Bolt, Archibald Borders, James Pritchard, John J. Sweatman, James Marcum, George R. Burgis, Thomas Prince.
Sheriff, Walter Osborn, commissioned January 17, 1845.
Deputy Sheriff, J. W. Hands.
Clerk, George F. Hatcher, Louisa. .
County Attorney, James Fulkerson, do.
Jailer, Garrett See, do.
Coroner, U. Garrett, do.
Constables, J. L. Barns and J. M. Edin, do.
Notaries Public, none.
Surveyor, William M. Fulkerson.
Commissioner of Tax, Allen Prichard.
Attorneys at Law, J. M. Rice, G. V. Goble, Jacob Rice, jr, James Fulkerson, W. M. Fulkerson, Louisa.
Physicians, P. Randall, Z. Cushing, S. F. Yates, Louisa.
Principal Merchants, W. T. Nicholl, & Co., Jones & Callahan, Moore & Miltler, M. Canterberry & Co., F. Moore, B. Burke, Louisa.
[The Kentucky State Register, by Taliaferro Preston Shaffner; Published by Morton & Griswold, 1847; pp. 117/118]
Location of Deep Oilwells in Lawrence County in 1909
Mouth of Blaine Creek, Lawrence County.
Horseford Creek, Lawrence County.
New Domain Oil and Gas Company, Jason Boggs farm, Canes (Cains) Creek, 6 miles northwest of Blaine, Lawrence County.
New Domain Oil and Gas Company, John Boggs farm, Canes (Cains) Creek, 4 miles northwest of Blaine, Lawrence County.
New Domain Oil and Gas Company, J. P. Cooper farm, Lick Fork of Cherokee Creek, 5 miles northwest of Blaine, Lawrence County.
New Domain Oil and Gas Company, J. A. Young farm, Cherokee Creek, Lawrence County.
Laurel or Broas well, Lower Laurel Creek, Lawrence County.
New Domain Oil and Gas Company, H. H. Gambrill (Gambill) farm, Big Blaine Creek, 1 mile west of Blaine, Lawrence County.
Berry well, mouth of Cane (Cains) Creek, Lawrence County.
New Domain Oil and Gas Company, A. M. Holbrook farm, one-fourth mile northeast of Blaine, Lawrence County.
Griffith Creek, 7 miles southeast of Louisa, Lawrence County.
Frank Crank, Yatesville.
George Carter, near Yatesville.
Hannah Lackey, near Yatesville.
Land & Carter, near Yatesville. (2 wells)
Keffer well, Upper Stinson Creek.
[Economic Geology of the Kenova Quadrangle, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia, by William Clifton Phalen; Published by Govt. Print. Off., 1909, p. 139]
Horseford Creek, Lawrence County.
New Domain Oil and Gas Company, Jason Boggs farm, Canes (Cains) Creek, 6 miles northwest of Blaine, Lawrence County.
New Domain Oil and Gas Company, John Boggs farm, Canes (Cains) Creek, 4 miles northwest of Blaine, Lawrence County.
New Domain Oil and Gas Company, J. P. Cooper farm, Lick Fork of Cherokee Creek, 5 miles northwest of Blaine, Lawrence County.
New Domain Oil and Gas Company, J. A. Young farm, Cherokee Creek, Lawrence County.
Laurel or Broas well, Lower Laurel Creek, Lawrence County.
New Domain Oil and Gas Company, H. H. Gambrill (Gambill) farm, Big Blaine Creek, 1 mile west of Blaine, Lawrence County.
Berry well, mouth of Cane (Cains) Creek, Lawrence County.
New Domain Oil and Gas Company, A. M. Holbrook farm, one-fourth mile northeast of Blaine, Lawrence County.
Griffith Creek, 7 miles southeast of Louisa, Lawrence County.
Frank Crank, Yatesville.
George Carter, near Yatesville.
Hannah Lackey, near Yatesville.
Land & Carter, near Yatesville. (2 wells)
Keffer well, Upper Stinson Creek.
[Economic Geology of the Kenova Quadrangle, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia, by William Clifton Phalen; Published by Govt. Print. Off., 1909, p. 139]
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]
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