GRAVE MARKERS - 4

 

Charles L. & Laura A. Field

Myra Flener Bell

Constance F. Foster

Philip Fulkerson

S. P. Fulkrson (sic)

Addie Griffin

Clinton Griffith

Clinton D. & Danile M. Griffith

Joshua Griffith

William R. Griffith

Josiah Hale

WKU OHIO COUNTY CLUB 1912

 WKU OHIO COUNTY CLUB 1912

Front row l to r: ? Shultz, I. J. Hoover, two unidentified women, James Duff, unidentified and Will Griffin.

Second row l to r: Unidentified, Sherman Taylor and unidentified

Third row Marhall Crowe at left

Fourth row l to r: unidentified, Leslie Greer, two unidentified and Thomas Hamilton

Fifth row l to r: unidentified, L.G. Shultz, three unidentified and Mayme Shown.

If you can identify any of the above, please let me know.

Source:  WKU Library

LOCAL OBITUARIES

Local obituaries

            Most of you know how to find older obituaries from the Hartford newspaper(s) using online searches and I suspect that many of you know that the Daviess County Library (DCPL) has an online database of obituaries starting with deaths in 1842.  You can do your own searches fairly easy on the DCPL site and I encourage you to do so. I’ll give you the link at the end of this post.

            Interestingly, their database is broken into three groupings: 1842-1919; 1920-1989; and 1990 to present.  The information available in each is slightly different and is described as: 1842-1919 Detailed abstracts; 1920-1989 Brief abstracts; and 1990-Present Detailed abstracts.  You will understand that better when you start digging.

            Of course the data is not just for Ohio County residents – it covers several counties in the Owensboro area. So keep that in mind when you are searching.

            I have done some digging for you in the first category (1842-1919) by limiting my search for all data from Ohio County (not using any surname) and I got about 30 hits.  I will post all of these for you.

          The following is an example of one of those hits and in the example below I have circled (1) the name of the deceased, (2) the date of death, (3) cause of death, and (4) date & source of the info – which happens to be the Hartford News.  So, although we would prefer more info, this is a lot here and it might help anyone searching the Cummins' line.  One way to read the actual obit would be to go to the Ohio County library and read the actual newspaper (probably on micro-film, but I’m not positive of that).  Note that some of these “abstracts” have less information than my example because some came from very brief mentions of a death instead of a more formal obit, and some have a bit more info – it’s just hit or miss, but if you haven’t searched this site you should. 

EXAMPLE:

Here is a portion of what I found (various names; only filtered by "Ohio County") – too many for one post:

And here is a link to the site:  http://obits.dcplibrary.org/

Geraldine Adelaide (Addie) Griffin

Geraldine Adelaide (Addie) Griffin

This posting began when I found this little tidbit in a book:

That information regarding Adelaide Griffin from above led me to begin a search of Ferdinand Martin Joplin (2 Feb 1847, Bedford, VA.- 7 Mar 1921, Louisiana). 

When Ferdinand Martin Joplin was born on February 2, 1847, in Bedford, Virginia, his father, James, was 39 and his mother, Emily, was 30. He was married three times and had five sons and three daughters. He died on March 27, 1921, in Louisiana at the age of 74, and was buried in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

Ferdinand married his first wife, Geraldine  Adelaide (Addie) Griffin, daughter of Francis Warren & Mary O. Griffin, on 30 Oct 1871, in Ohio County, KY, and they had five children: Frank William (1872-1956), Wayne Otho (1874-1924), Pearl (1876-unk), Paul Wilcox (1878-1923), and Mary Lou (1882-1952).  Addie was born 16 Oct 1843 in Ohio County and died 19 Feb 1890 at age 46 in Elizabethtown.  Addie is buried in the Elizabethtown City Cemetery.

Elizabethtown City Cemetery

Related information:  There was a Joplin Hotel in Elizabethtown which was located on Hwy 31-W (Dixie Highway) but I have not been able to find any connection to Ferdinand’s family.  Apparently Ferdinand was a civil engineer and was involved with building the Elizabethtown & Paducah Railroad. He later owned a lumber and hardware business and was described as a prosperous and enterprising businessman in Elizabethtown. At some point he moved to Louisiana. He had served in the Civil War with the Confederate Army. Ferdinand’s father, James W. Joplin, also lived in Elizabethtown.

From the Hartford Herald, Aug 1891:

Daviess County History - Frank Griffin