“Marshall Schmitt received a letter today from Robert Kress, of Buena Vista, stating that he brought a man to this city Tuesday night whom he has every reason to believe was the man who threw muriatic acid in the face of Captain Hoobler, near Vanceburg, Tuesday evening.” “It was about two o’clock Wednesday morning when …
“Two deaths in rural Lewis County Thursday were blamed on the last week’s bitter weather and road-clogging snow, which prevented doctors from reaching the patients.” “Joseph King, 65, died of pneumonia at his home on Oak Ridge about 2 PM Thursday as his family struggled home with medicine through roads described as ‘bad at best.’” …
“Oliver Piatt is in jail, charged with cutting Ulysses Grant Chapman with a knife. The trouble occurred April 26th, at a dance on Rocky Fork.” “Piatt skipped to Kentucky immediately after the cutting and has been living near Vanceburg. A warrant was issued from Squire Hall’s court and Constable Shields has been trailing Piatt. Tuesday …
“Vanceburg, September 21- A posse headed by Deputy Sheriff CF Ferguson is searching in the vicinity of Vanceburg for Jesse Carrington, who is wanted by authorities in connection with the shooting Saturday night of Frank Ginn, 49, at the Ginn home at Charters.” “Carrington, who lived with Ginn, came home at 7 after he had …
A photo of a one-room schoolhouse on Kentucky Route 377, locally known as Indian, in Lewis County, Kentucky. Teacher, Janie Miracle (far right) stands with her class in front of the school. The photograph was developed by Fowler’s of Portsmouth, Ohio, on May 12, 1953.
“Mrs. Sarah Johnson said to be the oldest woman in Lewis county, Kentucky, died several days ago at her home near Vanceburg. Mrs. Johnson was 101 years old, according to relatives. She leaves three daughters and five sons. Her husband, Joseph Johnson, died 15 years ago. Mrs. Johnson, despite her remarkable age, enjoyed splendid health …
“For persons, a father, son, daughter and son-in-law, the latter of bride and bridegroom married Christmas eve, are missing and relatives say they perished in the Ohio river in a Christmas Day tragedy Wednesday afternoon, 25 miles west of Portsmouth. A game warden was the last to see them alive, enveloped in a blizzard, their …
Mrs. Elsie Emma Simpler Tolle Tomblin Petty Obituary “Vanceburg, February 22 – Mrs. Elsie Emma Petty, 56, widow of Clarence Petty, died of complications at her home in East Vanceburg at 2 PM Wednesday. She had been bedfast eight months.” “Born August 11, 1894, she was a daughter of the late Charles and Mary Evans …
A virtual cemetery of Evans Cemetery in Lewis County, Kentucky, on February 24, 2021.
An undated Valentine’s Day card from a collection of letters between Miss Audrey Bruce, of Vanceburg, Kentucky, and Earl Franklin Kenyon of Sandy Springs, Ohio. Mr. Kenyon, a former employee of US Shoe, for many years, operated the ferry line between Sandy Springs and Vanceburg.