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African American's of
Bourbon County
Submitted by Kellie
Scott
Mary Florence Allen
lived near Little Rock and was a representative of the
prosperous African American middle class in Bourbon Co
between the two world wars.
Samuel Buckner excelled in public speaking and
was trained to preach and teach other slaves before the
Civil War. He established Little Rock Christian Church
in 1861. His grandson E. B. Towles was also a minister
at Little Rock as well as the principal at Western High
School.
Brother Stafford Campbell was the pastor of the
Seventh Street Christian Church in Paris from 1842-1899.
Charles M. Mason
successful grocer owned a successful grocery store near
the post office on Fifth St in Millersburg KY in 1905.
Brentsville 4 H Community Improvement Project
1939-1940: Teacher Thomas Jacobs, William Jackson,
Lockhart Bredley, Wesley Johnson
Little Rock
Christian Church Church Elders and Minister in early
1900's: David January, Rev. R.E. Hathaway, Sing
Hall, Jim Duncan, Cershaw Anderson, Clay Johnson, Green
Cunningham, Charlie Duncan and Benny Freeman
Paris Western School 1926 Teachers: Martha
Bishop, Della M. Garner, Pauline Fisher, Professor E. B.
Toles-principal
Paris Western 1928 Music Teacher and students:
teacher Christine Mebane Hamblin, students Miss Hamblin,
Charles Buckner, Lewis Livas, Vernon Mack, James Ross
Wilson
Paris Western Class of 1929: Houston Hutchinson,
Ella Brooks Scott, Kitty Sparks, Gertrude Ranson Hutsell,
Ora Del Jacobs, Mary Scroggins Hunter, Edna Patterson
Wright, Lewis Livas, Vernon Mack, Charles Patterson,
Charles Buckner, James Ross Wilson and John Frank Wilson
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