Mabel Adair

Sunday Journal Lincoln NE. September 10, 1933, Page 1, col. 2.

Young Woman Killed Nine Others Injured

Mabel Adair Meets Death in Journey to "Surprise" Her Mother.

North Platte (AP) Planning a surprise visit to her mother in Detroit, Miss Mabel Adair about 30 years old of Colton, California, was killed in a collision Saturday. Nine other persons were injured, one seriously, but the physicians expected them to recover.

After the accident near Herdhey, Neb. spectators pulled a large nail from a tire on Miss Adair's automobile and supposed that a blowout had caused it to crash into a car occupied by Lee Geddart and his companions went to a Sutherland hospital. Miss Anna McSweeney was the most seriously injured.

With Miss Adair were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Harris of Los Angeles who said she was planning the surprise visit to her mother. They suffered bruises and cuts and were brought to a hospital here. Authorities were trying tp locate her mother, whose name and addresses the Harris's did not recall.

By Mary Bishop

Mabel Adair is the daughter of Charles T. Adair & Eunice McClure Hendy and the Granddaughter of Dr. John Jackson Adair & Sallie Ewalt Adair

Charles Kirtley Bailey

Submitted by Alan Dorschug

With the compliments of the CYNTHIANA DEMOCRAT, Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky.

Page 4, 4 June 1942

Charles Kirtley BAILEY, 68 years old, well known farmer of te Millersburg road, and known to his friends as "Kirt" or "The Mayor of Coleville," died Thursday afternoon, May 28, after an illness of some duration which had become serious in the past month. The body was removed to the Whaley Funeral Home where it remained for funeral services held Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock with the Rev. J. R. JONES and the Rev. O. E. TURNER officiating. Burial in the Battle Grove Cemetery. Pallbearers, J. Arch BAILEY Jr., Charles LUCKY Thos.HICKMAN, Aubrey WAITS, Ira MONSON, and W. W. PHILLIPS. Honorary pallbearers, John F. McDANIEL Jr., B. F. BEDFORD, Frazier RAVENSCRAFT, Charles WIGLESWORTH, John L. CUMMINS, Virgil FLORENCE, Simon COBB, and S. J. McCLINTOCK. Mr BAILEY was born May 7, 1874, in the home where he died, a son of the late Henry and Nancy TALBOTT BAILEY, both members of prominate families of that section, and his entire life was spent in the Colville community. He was a member of Indian Creek Baptist Church, joining in boyhood and belongs to the Cynthiana Chapter of St. Andrews Lodge, No. 18, F.& A. M. He was active in political circles, being an ardent Republican. Mr. BAILEY had never married and his only survivors are two brothers, R. T. BAILEY of San Franciso, and J. Arch BAILEY, of Colville.

James Allen Perkins

Tenant Dies Suddenly

James Allen Perkins, a tenant farmer on the farm of William B. Ardery, on the Lexington Road near Paris, dies suddenly this afternoon while hauling corn on the place. Mr. Perkins was riding back on a load and his young son was driving the team. The youth missed his father and looking around, discovered his prostrate form in the wagon bed. Neighbors were called, but the stricken man had expired, his death being attributed to heart disease.

Mr. Perkins, who was about 50 years old, moved here from Nicholas County several years ago. He is survived by his widow and ten children.

Funeral arrangements will be announced later.

(James Allen Perkins is the son of George Denton Perkins & Mary Jane Jones, formerly of Bath County. His wife was Rebecca J. Frederick. He was born March 23, 1875, Bath Co., Ky., died November 18, 1926. Buried Paris Ky.,

Children were Katherine Perkins Lynam, Albert Reynolds Perkins, Matilda Perkins Hurst, Mrs. Ida Arnold, Mrs. Evelyn Thurman, Mrs. Helen (Estill) Myers, Blanche Turner, Mrs. Madeline Perkins, Harlan Douglas Perkins, Calvert Perkins, Leonard Perkins.

Mrs. Mary “Janie” Perkins

Mrs. Mary “Janie” Perkins, aged sixty one, widow of George Perkins of Shawhan, this county, Tuesday morning after an illness of ten years, due to paralysis.

Mrs. Perkins was a native of Bath County, where she was born August 2, 1857. died July 2, 1918. She was the daughter of the late Stanfield Jones & Eveline Harmon Jones of Sharpsburg. Her husband preceded her to the grave eleven years ago. The following children survive, Mrs. Rhoda Lynam, James Perkins, Mrs Ida Alice Frederick and William Foster Perkins (Note the obituary listed a Virginia Perkins but one was never known of.)

The funeral and burial was held at Carlisle Wednesday afternoon.

Robert Lee Whaley

Submitted by Alan Dorschug

KENTUCKIAN CITIZEN, Wednesday, 23 February 1939

Robert Lee WHALEY, member of a pioneer Kentucky family, passed away at the family home on Cypress street, this city, Friday afternoon, Feb. 17, at 4:30 o'clock after an illness of several months. Mr. WHALEY, who held a clerical position with the L.& N. Railroad in Lexington for twenty years, had been in declining health for several years and in January, 1938 was retired.

He was born near Clintonville, Bourbon county, and was the son of Henry Clay and Matilda WHALEY. On the paternal side he was descended from Wyamarus WHALEY of England, standard bearer at the Battle of Hastings when William the Conqueror invaded the South of England in 1066. He was also descended from several Revolutionary soldiers, two of whom, Henry TALBOTT of England, who came to Kentucky from Virginia about 1792, and James JONES of Virginia, who came to Kentucky on 1789, are buried in Bourbon county.

John WHALEY, also a Revolutionary soldier, was the great-great-grandfather of the deceased . John WHALEY came to Mason county after the Revolution, or during the latter part of the war from Loudoun county, Virginia, and built Whaley's Station, his daughter, Jane having been born in the fort.

On the maternal side he was the descendant of Nancy WILSON and Curtis PENDLETON, early Kentucky settlers who came from Virginia about 1783, Curtis PENDLETON being the great-nephew of Edmund PENDLETON for whom Pendleton county was named. On this side he was also descended from Major John ANDERSON of Connecticut, a soldier of the Revolution.

Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Mattie DAVIS of Detroit, Mich.; one son William WHALEY of Louisville, and five sisters, Mrs. W. Hoffman WOOD, of Mt. Sterling, Mrs.W. S. TALBOTT, Mrs. Princess DUVALL, Miss Sally WHALEY, and Miss Nell WHALEY, all of Paris,and one nephew, J. W. DUVALL of Paris, student at the University of Kentucky.

Funeral services were held at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the residence, with the Rev. Rhodes THOMPSON and Rev. W.E. SWEENEY officiating. Internment followed in the Paris Cemetery.

Casket bearers were:: Dr. S. M. RICKMAN, J. G. DENTON, E. L. IRWIN, John CLARK, Dr .A. O. SISK, John MA-DERS, M. BAXTER, Elmer WALLACE and L. V. HAGAN, Sr.

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