Liberty City Hall |
Casey County Kentucky Courthouse |
Liberty - Founded 1808 |
CASEY COUNTY NEWS 2, JULY 1941 VOL. 27, NUMBER 37. RECALLS FORMER CITIZENS OF LIBERTY Mr. J.C. Fogle, of Yosemite, writes this paper as follows: "I see in the Casey County News where Police Judge Adophus Wesley is having torn down one of the oldest houses in Liberty. Eighty-five years ago there lived in this house two of the oldest citizens in the town of Liberty at that time. They were Aunt Beckey and Uncle Sam Bailey. They owned the place and lived and died there. Uncle Sam was a carpenter and he built with his own hands a horse mill which was located just back of the residence. They raised four children, three girls, Mildred, Betty and Gay ( the latter was always called G.) and a son, Brack. The son left Liberty when a young man. Mildred became the second wife of Uncle George Sweeney, father of the late General Sweeney and grandfather of Dr. Wm J. Sweeney, of Liberty. Mr. Ed Sweeney, of Lexington, is a son of Uncle George and Aunt Mildred. There were several other children who later moved to Kansas. Betty about the close of the Civil War married Col. Frank Wolford. She was his second wife. Gay or "G," married John Riggins. An uncle of Billy Riggins. before Col. Wolford married Betty, he and his three children by his first wife, were living where Marion Humphrey now lives. When Col. Wolford married Betty, they moved in with the Baileys. Col. Wolford had a cellar dug under the Bailey house and walled it up with logs. After the death of Uncle Sam and Aunt Beckey, Col Wolford and family moved to Columbia, Adair County. Up to the time of her death, Aunt Beckey had officiated at the birth of every child born in Liberty and for ten miles or more around Liberty. The last time she was at our home was in 1873, when my youngest brother, Preston, was born. J.C. Fogle, Yosemite, KY" |
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I took picutres of the memorial statue in front of the Courthouse in Liberty. But
I have no further information on any of the men listed below. I would suggest
contacting the Casey County KY list at Rootsweb for help with any ot these names
if you have questions, or if it's possible the Library in Liberty. |
Baldock, Herbert D. Belton, Edgar B. Bennett, Jasper E. Bird, Sherman Coffman, Willie Douglas, Sherman Emerson, Paris Ford, Hershall Goforth, Cephus Griffin, William R. Hughes, Wess Lawhorn, John B. Murphy, Bernard Napier, Virgil E. Pelley, Jas. C. Riffe, Henry T. |
Ross, Walter Attis Roy, Leo Salyers, Virgil Sanders, Ollie Sandusky, Chas. C. Sharpe, George W. Shaw, Clyde Southerland, Samuel Taylor, Hugh Frank Thomas, William J. Ward, Irvin T. Wash, Louis Wethington, Crawford Wethington, Wilford Wickersham, Jesse I. Wilkinson, Matt. |
Coffman, Charles Miller, Lloyd K. Murphy, Kenneth Overstreet, James E. Roy, Orvis Smith, Marvin W. |
Lynch, John Mills, Donald Minton, Clarence Montgomery, Omer L. Morgan, William F. Norfleet, Hollis Pendleton, Merical Pettyjohn, Myer R. Porter, Willie T. Powers, Harrison Richardson, Dennie Richardson, Russell Rigney, Stanley O. Russell, James. R. Smiley, William W. Smith, William J. Smith, Zora Simpson, Jess Taylor, Walter Thomas, Vernon Toms, Roscoe Vaught, Elvin C. Wall, Elmer D. Ward, George Ward, Gilbert Wesley, Edwin T. Wethington, Francis J. Wethington, Gordon Whited, Stanley Withers, James D. Wilson, Albert R. Wilkinson, William G. Witt, Charles S. Wyatt, Orville B. Watts, James |
Absher, Fred Bastin, Russell D. Brown, Curtis V. Brown, Marcie A. Brown, Ralph D. Burchell, Johnnie F. Carter, Gene Cochran, Albert W. Coffman, Archie T. Coffman, Stanley Collins, Claude L. Cravens, Gilbert Davis, Don P. Dunagan, Thomas E. Edwards, Rollin Ellison, Jessie Fair, Buel G. Garrett, Paul Godbey, Oval Goode, Thomas E. Grider, Lewis Hafley, Elmer T. Hannah, William R. Hancock, Donald Hamm, Howard B. Holt, Robert F. Joines, William B. Jones, Kenneth King, Elzie O. Lane, Earl W. Langford, George M. Lanham, William P. Leathers, Joseph A. Long, Noah E. Luttrell, Otha Luttrell, Walter C. |
George E. Burchett Clifton Henson Ewell Lee Jr. Edgar Godbey George Rowland, Jr. Cecil W. Southerland Kearney M. Stephens Coffman, Charles Miller, Lloyd K. Murphy, Kenneth Overstreet, James E. Roy, Orvis Smith, Marvin W. |
SP-4 Rodney Helm PFC Jack Prichard SGT. Alford Lee Cook SFC. Wm E. Wethington BM3 Richard T. Herron T/SGT. Libby Monday MMFN Gary Herron, Jr. PFC. Eric Dean PFC. Wm T. Sandusky SGT. Joel Austin SP-4 Glenn E. Phillips, Jr. S/SGT Dwight Miller SP-4 Lewis E. Doss CPL. Tim Hines T/SGT. Michael R. Marple CPT. Bradford E. Dean SPC. Paul K. Dean AME-1 Homer L. Meeks |
BT3 Michael Gabehart L/CPL. Darren Helm SGT. Michael Reams SGT. Robert Gillespie L/CPL. Marty A. Moore Danny Smithers Aaron Marples James O. Wilson S/SGT. Robert A. Wethington SPC. E4 A. Hoyt Wolford SPC. Danny Wardrip, Jr. SSG. Wm. A. Johnson, Jr. SSG. Vernon D. Murphy SGT. James A. Evans SSG. Wm. V. Wethington PV2. Travis Denson SSG. Kim Clements Burnette AMS/AN John D. Shugars, Jr. |
CPL. Randy Jones Steve Jassman M/SGT. Kenneth J. Mills SGT. Kirby King SPC. Danny L. Hensley CPL. Terry Thompson SGT. Dwight Coomer YNSA. Billy R. Short SK-3 Joe L. Clements SGT. Bruce A. Meeks E-4 John D. Goode SFC. Donald Smither SGT. Johnny Hines Roy Dial ABH3 Jonathan A. Cravens T/SGT. Gervis C. Buis William R. Cooper |
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