Body, Recovered Today, Reveals Fire Swept To Cockpit “Richard T. Doyle, 34, son of the late Billy Doyle, famous major league baseball scout, lost his life about 6 p.m. Wednesday when the plane he was piloting caught fire and plunged into the Ohio River.” “An unidentified witness reported he saw Mr. Doyle in the water …
“Death Sunday claimed Mrs. June Royal at the General hospital at the age of 34 following an operation Saturday. She resides at 822 Murray street but has lived in South Portsmouth, Kentucky, virtually all her life. She is survived by her husband, John Royal, and five children, Carl, Opal, Lorain, Leroy and George. Her mother, …
On February 20, 2023 we made a trip to English-Thomson Cemetery in Greenup County, Kentucky. The area has been known as Beattyville and South Portsmouth and was reached by traveling west on Kentucky Route 8 from the Carl Perkins Bridge to Sandy’s Lane which is less than a mile from the bridge. The lane terminates …
“Word was received at South Portsmouth Wednesday afternoon of the death of William Davis, a former grocer of that place, at Haline, Washington. The message stated no particulars but was forwarded to the young man’s parents and at St. Paul, Kentucky.” “Davis who was familiarly known as Poker, mysteriously disappeared from South Portsmouth four years …
George Dever, from the eastern part of the county, met a shocking death at South Portsmouth Tuesday afternoon. He boarded the FFV at Ashland and came to South Portsmouth, and for some reason left the vestibule train at that station, intending to continue his journey on a freight train. The freight was pulling out of …
Last Sunday noon, Alfred Lybrook, a youth fifteen years of age, and son of Henry Lybrook, of Springville, Kentucky, shot himself through the head with a shotgun. The particulars are as follows. His brothers, William and Charles, had just returned from hunting, and they told him to take the guns up stairs. He took the …