| Prior to 1835 this sacred ground has
been dedicated to hold the wise and innocent, the elite
and the lowly, the accomplishments and failures as well
as the secrets of our pioneer fathers and mothers. Only a
few visits each year to maintain the grass by the City of
Scottsville is the activities of remembrance to the
sacred souls that rest from their labors and with the
great resurrection day. We gather as guests this evening
to take a small glimpse of those lives which walked
through times prior to our sophisticated and technical
world of today. Some are from far away lands while some
were born within sight of their final resting place. Some
are well known with grand obelisks dedicated to their
memory and some are forgotten with no remanant remaining
of their worldly path ending here. In reverence you are
invited to share a few minutes in the lives and time of
the selected heroes of our hometown. The Old
Scottsville City Cemetery was closed in 1914 by
order of the City Board. People who owned plots, and
their family members were allowed to be buried there, but
the City Board declared that no additional plots would be
sold. The City had purchased 19 acres for $1050.00 on the
Glasgow Pike. In 1995, Mrs. Letha Opal Hill
was the last person to be buried in the old cemetery.
Mrs. Hill, who lived into her 97th year often reminded
her neices that "they can't close the place until I
get there". Mrs. Hill joined many individuals who
were influential in the formation and development of
Scottsville and Allen County. David Walker,
our first County Clerk has one of the earliest birth
dates still legible, May 17th, 1781. He died on January
21st, 1838. Jane W. Mulligan died in
1834. Some of the earlier residents, George W.
Harris, another County Clerk served in the
1880's, James J. Barlow, John J. Gatewood,
Gilbert Mulligan, E. Scott Brown, teacher,
postmaster, merchant and lawyer, John Emery
Dalton, member of the 52nd Mounted Infantry,
State Representative and Sheriff, W.C. Wilson,
Circuit Court Clerk. Many more are buried there and many
in unmarked graves.
As you tour the cemetery via lantern, you will
encounter the following decedents portrayed by local
residents in period costume, along with gravediggers,
mourners, and other characters on this walk through the
ghostly historic past of Allen County, KY:
James J. Barlow 1819-1893
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| James J. Barlow, the last of
Robert T. Barlow's 14 children,
was a saddle-maker and had a shop in the downtown
area. In 1843 her married Permelia Follis
and moved into their new home which is still
standing on Barlow Hill on Historic 31E South. It
is told that soldiers occupying the hill during
the Civil War helped lay the floor in two of the
rooms. Since 1843 there has always been a Barlow
family living in the home. Three generations of
the Barlow family still reside in Allen County |
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E.
Scott Brown 1846-1898
Winston J. Brown 1874-1942
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| E. Scott Brown was
born in Allen County and married Lucy
Neale Mulligan. They were the parents of
2 daughters, Winston J. (Winnie)
and Fannie. E.Scott Brown was a
school teacher, postmaster and a merchant in
Scottsville until 1875. He was licensed to
practice Law in 1878, and was elected as Circuit
Court Clerk. Winnie Brown
operated the telephone company from their home
which was located where the City County Building
now stands. She had been a Deputy Clerk in her
father's office and decided to run for County
Court Clerk in 1923, but was defeated by Warren
Weaver. |
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John Emery Dalton
1844-1921
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| John Emery Dalton was a Pvt.
in Company B., 52nd Regimetn Kentucky Mounted
Volunteer Infantry. He married Ann
Elizabeth Mayhew. They were the parents
of 9 children. Mr. Dalton was elected Sheriff of
Allen County, later in 1904 elected as State
Representative. He was a successful Businessman
and donated the land on North 6th Street for the
Scottsville Graded and High School |
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Sallie Porter
Edmonds 1854-1935
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| Sallie Edmonds was born in
Allen County, the daughter of James
Alexander Edmonds, of Albemarle County,
Virginia who came here when he was 10 years old,
and Tiliatha Martin Brackin Edmonds
from Sumner County, Tennessee. She attended the
Presbyterian Church that stood where US Bank is
now located, and for many years was President of
the Women's Christian Temperance Union. In 1918
she established the first library in Allen County
with her own periodicals and about 100 books
donated by the townspeople. For 13 years Miss
Sallie served as the Registrar of Vital
Statistics. In 1928 she wrote a historical sketch
of Scottsville. It was sealed in a jar and placed
in the cornerstone of the new Masonic Hall to
remain for 100 years. The building burned in 1984
and after a search through the debris, the jar
was found. This priceless information was
reproduced in newspapers and the Pictorial
History of Allen County so that all may have
access to it. Sunday, August 11, 1935,
"Beloved Lady Passes to Great Beyond". |
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John Calvin
Garrison 1836-1886
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| John Calvin Garrison was
born on the 30th day of August, 1836 in Mason
County, KY. He was the son of Rev. Samuel
Young Garrison and Ann Eliza
Pogue Garrison. They moved to Bowling
Green, KY and John C. united with the
Presbyterian Church when he was twelve. He
graduated form marietta College in Marietta,
Ohio, and returned to Bowling Green, KY. He and
two brother were among the first to answer the
call when the Civil War began. John C. served two
years in the 10th Kentucky Infantery (USA) and
was then sent to Allen County as a recruiting
officer for the 52nd Kentucky mounted Infantry
and was promoted to Major in the 52nd Kentuck. He
married a distant cousin, Kenturah
Garrison, at the homs of the bride in
the Garrison Home on the corner of East Main and
Second Street. After the War, he spent much time
teaching and became a principal in the school
system. "As a Sabbath School Supt. he did
much work in both Warren and Allen counties, even
when in feeble health, organizing county
conventions, working to keep them alive, sending
out religious literature, trying to enlist
everybody in the all important work of Bible
study". He died on September 22nd, 1886,
leaving a wife, five children, his mother, a
sister and three brothers. |
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John J. Gatewood 1830-1907
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| John J. Gatewood was born in
Allen County. He married Frances K.
Burton and 6 of their children lived to
adulthood. He was appointed deputy Sheriff and
later elected as County Attorney. in 1862 was
elected to the KY House of Representative, in
1871 elected as a KY State Senator, and was
instrumental in passing the law abolishing the
whipping post in KY. He was a Royal Arch Mason,
and a Democrat. He and his familiy attended the
Methodist Church South. |
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John Crittenden
Green 1888-1934
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| Johnny Green was born in
Gallatin, Tennessee, May 7, 1888, the son of Bill
and Jennie Green. They moved to
Scottsville, KY, around 1900. Bill Green ws an
employee of the L&N Railroad, and is thought
to have served as a night watchman at the L&N
depot on East Main Street. His mother, Jennie
Green, will be remembered here as
"Granny" Green. Mrs. Green was quite an
artist and their home was filled with her
paintings. By 1908 Johnny was building his own
plane. By 1910 he was flying. He signed a
contract with a Chattanooga Medicine Company and
built his famous "Cardui Flyers", so
called because those words were painted in big
bold letters on the underside of the wings. In
May, 1913, one of the features for the closing
day of the Confederate reunion was the first
successful flight over Lookout Mountain. A the
outbreak of World War I he enlisted in the Navy
as a flight instructor, but after yet another
crash was assigned to Key West, FL., as a Signal
Corps inspector. After the War, Johnny opened an
airport in Florida, but the years of crashes and
excitement had taken a toll on his body and he
returned to Scottsville and died at the age of
46. He was survived by his mother, a son Johnny
Green, Jr., a daughter Virginia and two sisters |
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Richard Harris 1843-1896
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| Richard Harris enrolled in
Company F. of the 9th Ky Volunteer Infantry. He
was discharged in 1863 by reason of gunshot
wounds in both feet received at Stone River,
Murfreesboro, Tn. This injury left him barely
able to walk for the remainder of his life. he
married mary E. Bandy in 1865 and they had 5
children. |
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Jennie Mulligan
____ - 1908
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| Jennie Mulligan was born in
the townlands of Ballievary Parish, SeaPatrick
County Down, Ireland. She came to America and to
Scottsville with her mother Margretta Mulligan in
1856. Soon after arriving here, she taught school
and many a mother had their first lessong from
Miss Jennie and later those same mothers of the
county and surrounding counties brought their
daughters to be dressed by Miss Jennie. Indeed,
she was in her day a fashion plate for all the
county and her retirment from business was
regretted by many of her friends. She was a
devount member of the Presybterian Church and
never missed a service. If there was no service
at her church, she attended th eother churches.
She died from complications of pneumonia at her
home in West Scottsville on May 15th, 1908. She
would not tell her age, but according to censu
records she was born in 1840. |
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Etta Newman 1862-1951
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| Henri Etta Stovall Bryant Newman
was a much loved and respected lady of
Scottsville. She loved young people and taught
Sunday School for over 50 years at the
Scottsville Baptist Church. She had several
hobbies, one which was a quilt she embroidered
with the name of all the boys who served overseas
in World War I. She also made a button banner
that measured 32 by 72 inches with over 1700
buttons. They each had a story. Buttons from
every state, from pen pals in other countries,
from her Sunday School class, etc. |
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Andrew Jackson
Richey 1813-1896
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| Andrew Jackson Richey was
born near Walnut Creek whcih at that time was in
Barren County, KY. His parents were James
and Jenni (Levi) Richey. In
December 1833 he married Cary Ann
Fergueson. At their 60th wedding
anniversary, they had 3 living children. Mr.
Richey spend his life on the farm, but during
that time he held several positions of trust and
importance. In 1854 he was elected as Coroner of
his county and filled the position for four
years. in 1867 he was elected Constable of the
Scottsville district and served as such for 4
years. After that he was Deputy Sheriff under James
T. Stark and then held the office of
Sheriff himself for two years. Mr. Richey was a
Jackson Democrat, a master Mason for 24 years,
and a Deacon in the Baptist Church for 42 years. |
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Dr. Algernon Sydney
Walker 1811-1884
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| Dr. Algernon Sydney Walker
was born January 1811, in Jessamine County, KY,
and graduated in Medicing and Surgery from the
old Transylvania University in Lexington, KY. He
was the son of William Walker
and Sarah Holcomb Walker of
Virginia. In 1832 her married Melvina M.
McReynolds, daughter of Robert
and Sarah McDaniels McReynolds
who were residents of this county. They were the
parents of thirteen children, four girls and
seven boys survived. He was a man of great
influence and was zealous and active in
Temperance, Masonary and Methodism. The family
was a whole was one of the most intellectual in
the county and state. Dr. Walker was industrious
in his profession, and worked as long as he could
to relieve suffing humanity. He died at the
bedside of a patient, quietly falling asleep. |
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Sylvester H. Welch
1831-1915
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Sylvester H. Welch
was born in western Allen County. He was married
to Mary W. Burton, Josephine Garing and
Mary Virginia Garing with a
total of nine children from these marriages. He
was a saddler and later in the mercantile
business selling clothes and groceries. In 1876
he added a factory that manufactured spokes and
handles and employed 40 to 50 people. He and his
wife were members of the Methodist Church in
which he was a Steward.
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Matthew R. Williams
1839-1914
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| In October 1861, Matt Williams
joined the Confederate Army and was assigned to
Company F of the 6th Regiment of the Orphan
Brigade. He fought at Shiloh in Company F and was
transferred to Company I of the Mounted Infantry
in April, 1862. He was in the battles at
Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Stone River, Jackson,
Chickamauga, Rocky Face Ridge, etc., The Orphan
Brigade served across the South. At the end of
the War, he was paroled in May, 1865, in Georgia.
"Conception of duty with Matt Williams might
not have been the conception of others, but from
the hour he cast lot with the Confederates and
went to the front as a private under Captain
Richard Finn, until the hour when Lee
surrendered, he stood on the firing line in every
battle in which this daring command wa
engaged." Matt William and Lucy
Frances French were married in December
1869. They were the parents of four children,
three girls and one boy. |
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William S. Wilson 1864-1912
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| William S. Wilson was born
in Allen County and married Sally Frances.
They were the parents of one child. He was in a
farming accident and lost the use of both legs,
but was elected as Circuit Court Clerk and served
his term from a wheelchair. Later, he and Sally
operated a hotel on Main Street and employed six
people. Just two years later hed died. |
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Pvt. Robert S.
Young 1841-1862
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| Robert S. Young from
Palestine (Crawford County) Illinois enlisted on
August 9, 1862 and was musterd in on September
3rd, 1862 in Company D of the 98th Illinois
Infantry Regiment. He arrived here in early
November with Genearl Ebenezer Dumont's
40th Brigade. The weather was cold and rainy and
many of the men were sick when they marched here
from Lost River in Bowling Green, KY. In late
November, Dumont received ordert to move out
toward Gallatin, TN. Pvt. Young was left in the
Hospital here and died on December 12, 1862. We
do not know who or when, but someone erected this
monument to mark his burial place. Three other
soldier in Company B. and K of the 98th also died
while they were here, but Pvt. Young is the only
marker we found. |
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Narrative: Glen Conner
Biographies: Rosemary Harper
Videographer: Larry Gerald
Sources: Allen
County Historical Society Archives; City of Scottsville minutes; deeds; newspaper
articles; census; War Pension records.
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