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NEW! From Hope to Hilltop: The Establishment of the Lindsey Wilson Training School late 1899 - early 1904 (and glimpses through 1910)

8.5x11 format, softbound, 80 pages + full name index. Compiled and edited by Jim Garner.

The text consists of four parts:

1) articles from the Adair County News from late 1899 (when the idea of a Methodist training school in south-central Kentucky was first proposed) through early January, 1904, when "the Lindsey-Wilson" opened;

2) selected articles from the News from early 1904 through 1910 highlighting Columbia and changes on the campus;

3) a series of vignettes, mostly about campus life and activities and those who worked there in the 1904-1910 era; and

4) an addenda, with information located after the original version of the volume was printed.

I have Breeding Community Books Vol I ($6.00) and Vol II ($7.00) for sale if anyone is interested.  I am working on Vol III and will have available at the Breeding Reunion on Oct 13, 2007 at the Breeding Fire Dept. Not sure of the price until they go to print.  Anyone that has photos known or unknown that would like to be added to the book please forward them to me through mail or electronically.  Stories of the Breeding community are also needed.  Contact Info: Roberta J Dooley, 8530 Sandy Branch Rd SE, Elizabeth, IN  47117
(812) 969-3740, (812) 989-8909 (cell) rjdooley23@aol.com
 

Available January, 2007 from Watson Publications:
"Adair County, Kentucky, 1918: Births, marriages, & deaths; removals, returns, & visits; news from soldier boys & from far off places; & sundry other items, as reported in the pages of the Adair County News from January 2 through December 25, 1918." Transcribed & edited by Cyrus; 114 pages, including two indices & list of death certificates (nearly 300) issued in Adair County in 1918. Format: 8.5x11, soft. For ordering information, email watson.kentucky@gmail.com

Available February, 2007 (projected) from Watson Publications:
"Editor, News: Adair County Doughboy Letters of the Great War." Transcribed & edited by Cyrus; 96 pages, including index, a brief glossary of terms used, a list of military bases mentioned, etc.. Format: 8.5x11, soft. For ordering information, email watson.kentucky@gmail.com

Vol I and Vol II Breeding Community Books for sale.  Vol I is $6.00 and Vol II is $7.00.  You can email me with your request ( rjdooley23@aol.com ) or write me at Roberta J Dooley, 8530 Sandy Branch Rd SE, Elizabeth, IN  47117 home (812) 969-3740 or cell (812) 989-8909.  I will need to know how many books you want,  of which volume and the address to mail the books to.  Thanks so much!

Available soon:

Judge Herschel Clay Baker's Historical and Biographical Sketches of Adair County, Kentucky, transcribed from the Adair County News of January 23 - November 6, 1918.

In addition to over 40 sketches penned by Judge Baker, there is a great deal of supplemental material, including brief entries for all the (known) Adair County soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who died or were killed during both World Wars as well as the Adair County POWs of World War Two.

Judge Baker's topics include the settlement & early settlers of Adair Co.; churches & education; well-known Adair families and personages, including Jane Lampton Clemens (mother of Mark Twain); Adair County & Adair countians in the various wars; the murderous Harpe brothers; the Columbia Skirmish of '63; the Great Bank Robbery; Colonel Frank Lane Wolford; the mysterious band known as the Whang-Doodles; and many others.

Transcribed and edited by Cyrus, 2006. Approx 140 pages.

Please contact Watson Publications (Mike Watson) at watson.kentucky@gmail.com  for availability and ordering information.

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The Adair County Courthouse

An Art Print for Sale by Heneritta Scott for the Renaissance Columbia. All proceeds go toward the renovation of the downtown area. Lovely print signed and numbered.

See the Print and Order it

Carol L. Sanders,  9679 Waxwing Drive, Blue Ash, OH 45241-3354. 

A new book has been published which is a current transcription of the gravestones of six Adair County cemeteries: Barnett's Creek UM Church, Hiter, Luttrell's Creek, Pellyton, Pleasant Hill and Tabernacle Cemeteries.  Soft cover 8-1/2 x 11, spiral bound, 56 pages plus a surname index.  Carol Sanders is the compiler of this book.

$15.50 postage paid.

 

Title	Price
Adair County, Kentucky Civil Court Cases, 1802-1826 much genealogical data	$18.00
Judge Rollin T. Hurt's History of Adair Co., KY	$18.00
Looking Back: A Collection of Columns of historical and genealogical interest, Volume 1	$11.00
Looking Back: A Collection of Columns of historical and genealogical interest, Volume 2	$11.00
Bibliography of Adair County, a collection of sources, historical and genealogical	$12.00
Death Records of Adair & Surrounding Areas, (Russell, Casey, Green, Cumberland, Taylor and Metcalfe Counties) Prior to 1900, Newspaper, church, court, military, and misc. death notices.	$15.00
Adair County, Kentucky Marriages, Jan. 1, 1840-Jan. 1, 1870	$13.50
The Lost Marriage Bonds of Adair County, Kentucky, 1840-1870, Discovered after the previous book went to press.	$10.00
Adair Co., KY Wills, Books "A" & "B", 1802-1818	$10.00
1860 Census of Adair Co., KY	$15.00
1870 & 1880 Census INDEX of Adair Co., KY, SURNAME ONLY	$9.00
Militia Rolls, 1862-1865	$12.00
Adair Co., KY Deed Abstracts, Books "A" & "B", 1802-1811	$16.00
1860 Russell County, KY Census, by Jim Garner	$12.50

As on all book orders $4.00 per book shipping charge.