Emma Roberts Gaines

Mrs. Emma Roberts Gaines, wife of W. T. Gaines, departed this life, August 22, 1927 about 3:00 p.m. at the family home at New Castle. She was the daughter of John and Amanda Roberts, youngest of eleven children. She was born September 13, 1862.. On October 5, 1886 she was united in marriage to W. T. Gaines, preceded her 22 months ago. To this union were born two daughters: Mrs. Robert Massie and Mrs. Joe Perry who still survive. She is also survived by two granddaughters and two sisters: Mrs. D. D. Smith and Mrs. Shelby Martin.

In early life she joined the Campbellsburg Baptist Church, moving her membership to the New Castle Baptist Church after marriage, where she remained a faithful member until the end.

Her funeral service was conducted by her former pastor, Dr. H. W. Tribble, at her home in the presence of many loving sympathizing relatives and friends. The remains were consigned to their resting place in the New Castle Cemetery.

Henry County Local August 26, 1927

Harry Charles Gaines, Jr.

Harry Charles Gaines, Jr., 63, of Sulphur, died Friday, June 20, 2008 at Baptist Northeast Hospice Unit. He was a native of Van Buren, the son of the late Charles and Anna Elizabeth Goodlett Gaines, a Vietnam Veteran, employed at Fischer Packing and the State Reformatory as a correctional officer.

He is survived by his wife: Gerald Lynn Robinson Gaines, Sulphur; four children: Melissa Smith and Shauna Sparkman, both of Bedford; Tabbie Stewart and Jerry Dowden, both of Sulphur; brothers and sisters: Rosa Lee Nation, Shelbyville, Glenna Orene Shuck, Bagdad, John E, Gaines, Longmont, Colorado, Elmer Ray Gaines and Betty Marlene McKinley, both of Taylorsville and Part A. Ellegood, Bedford; and eight grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at 1:00 p.m. Sunday, June 22^nd, at Ransdell Funeral Home, Campbellsburg. Brother Nick Coleman officiated. Interment was in the Sulphur Cemetery.

Henry County Local June 25, 2008

Stewart McIntyre �Mac� Gaunce

Stewart McIntyre �Mac� Gaunce, 91 (July 31, 1916 - May 12, 2008) of New Castle died May 12, 2008. Son of the late Grover Cleveland and Watson Caswell Gaunce, he was a teacher for the Henry County Public Schools. He was also an active member of the New Castle United Methodist Church.

He is survived by his wife: Margaret Long Gaunce, New Castle; one son: William M. �Billy Mac� Gaunce and wife, Donna Jeffries Gaunce, Pittsburg, PA; three grandchildrenand four great-grandchildren and nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by one daughter: Betty Gaunce Fullenwider, one grandson, two great-grandsons and two sisters: Tempa Endicott and Vera Greene.

Funeral services were held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, May 16^th at the New Castle United Methodist Church. They were officiated by Dr. Barclay Brown, former pastor of New Castle United Methodist Church, assisted by Rev. Gary Polston, Pastor of the New Castle United Methodist Church. Interment was in the New Castle Cemetery.

Henry County Local May 21, 2008

Lola Dean Lynch Gilbert

Lola dean Lynch Gilbert, 64, of Pleasureville, died Monday, April 14, 2008 at the Baptist Northeast Hospice Unit, LaGrange. Lola was a member of the Pleasureville Baptist Church. She was the daughter of the late Nolan and Louise Martin Lynch and preceded in death by a sister, Joyce Johnson.

She is survived by her husband: Gerald M. Gilbert, Pleasureville; two sons: Dwayne Gilbert of Pleasureville and Dean Gilbert Louisville; two sisters: Nola Roberts, Eminence and Sandy Wilkins, Ridgeland, MS; a granddaughter, Casey N. Gilbert, New Castle, and several nieces and nephews.

The funeral service was held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, April 17^th at the Pleasureville Baptist Church, officiated by Rev. Jerry Anderson, Pastor of the Pleasureville Baptist Church and assisted by Rev. Michael Duncan, Pastor of the Eminence Baptist Church.

Henry County Local April 16, 2008

Ben Gill

Ben Gill, (35, (February 17, 1900 � September 24, 1935), a former Pleasureville boy, who died at a Lexington hospital of blood poisoning at 10:00 Monday, was buried at Pleasureville Thursday afternoon.

Funeral services were conducted at the Baptist Church at Elmburg at 2:00 p.m.

He is survived by his wife: Mrs. Edith Hall Gill and two children; his parents: Mr. and Mrs. Earl Gill, and several brothers and sisters.

Henry County Local September 27, 1935

Fannie Arnold Gipson

Mrs. Fannie Arnold Gipson, 89, who died Sunday morning at the home of her son, William Gipson, at

O�Bannon, was buried at Pleasureville on Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. Mrs. Gipson lived at Pleasureville a number of years before moving to Crestwood.

She is survived by two sons: William Gipson, O�Bannon and George Gipson, Louisville; three daughters: Miss Lillie Gipson, Mrs. Daisy Sweney and Mrs. Mollie Runyan, all of Crestwood; one brother: Robert Arnold and a sister: Mrs. Lucy Moore, New Castle.

Henry Castle Local June 3, 1932

Deborah Gividen

Deborah Rankin Gividen, 52, of Sulphur, died Sunday, May 18, 2008, at Baptist Hospital Northeast. She was a correctional officer for the Kentucky State Reformatory and a Baptist by faith.

She is survived by her husband: Harold T. Gividen, Sulphur; three daughters: Pam Raisor, Renae Holloway and husband, Joe, and Amanda Current and husband, D. J.; five brothers: Benny, Jimmy, Richard �Dip�, Jerry and Andy Rankin; three sisters: Betty Murphy, Barbara Simpson and Rita Rankin; and six grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, May 22^nd at Heady Radcliffe Funeral Home, LaGrange. Rev. Nick Coleman officiated. Interment was in the Mt. Tabor Cemetery.

Henry County Local May 21, 2008

Raymond Goins

Raymond �Red� Goins, 88, of Bagdad, died Saturday, March 15, 2008, at the Masonic Home of Shelbyville. He was a retired school bus driver for Shelby County Schools, a U.S. Army veteran of WWII participating in the invasion of D-Day and a member of the Bagdad Baptist Church. He was the son of the late William Elmer and Minnie Samples Goins.

He is survived by his wife: Mamie Goins, Bagdad; one son: Michael Goins and wife, Linda, Bethlehem; four daughters: Mary Hughes and husband, Phil, Frankfort, Brenda Burkhead and husband, Ralph and Janet Oedewaldt and husband, Adlai, all of Waddy, Connie Miller and husband, Richard, Bagdad; one brother: James Paul Goins, Charlestown, IN; eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by one granddaughter, Christian Danielle Perry.

Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 18^th at Hall-Taylor Funeral Home, Shelbyville. Dr. Mark Potts and Rev. Don Waterfill officiated. Interment was in the Bagdad Cemetery.

Henry County Local March 19, 2008

Grace Graham Good

Mrs. Grace Graham Good died on Wednesday morning August 15, 1934 at 4:30 a.m. at her home near Vance. She had suffered for some time with cancer.

Funeral services were conducted on Friday afternoon at 1 p.m. at the residence with Rev. Lee, of Owen County, officiating. Burial was at Owenton by the side of her first husband, Frank Graham.

She is survived by her husband and by Troy Graham, Carrollton; one sister: Mrs. Anna Burford, Owen County and several nieces and nephews.

Henry County Local August 17, 1934

Ebb Gordon

Ebb Gordon, 44, died at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, February 12, 1936, at his home at Pleasant View in Franklin County.

Funeral services were conducted at 2:00 p.m. Thursday at the Pleasant View Church with burial in the Pleasant View Cemetery.

The deceased is survived by his wife: Mrs. Elizabeth Nash Gordon; one daughter: Miss Rosemary Gordon; three sons: Cecil Gordon, Landon Gordon and William Gordon; his mother: Mrs. Mary Jane Gordon; two sisters: Miss Ede Gordon and Mrs. W. R. Wade, Eminence; five brothers: Dennis Gordon, Bagdad, Make Gordon, Pleasureville,Luke Gordon, Eminence, Harrod Gordon, Shelby County and Roud Gordon, Franklin County.

Henry County Local February 14, 1936

Hillis Griffin

Hillis Griffin, 22, a Smithfield youth, drowned in the Kentucky River at Lockport Sunday afternoon when he plunged into the water at Dam No. 2. Griffin was swimming in mid-stream when it was seen he was hardly able to keep his head above the water. It is supposed he became cramped.

He had gone to Lockport with a party of Smithfield boys who had souight relief from the weather by going to the beach at that point on the river. Griffin started walking on the dam and the current ripped him up.

The body was recovered at 8:30 p.m. Sunday when a fisherman dragging the bottom with a large hook located it fifty yards from the dam in the center of the river. Coroner D. L. Ricketts, Eminence, was called and pronounced death due to accidental drowning.

David Garrett Tyler plunged to the drowning man�s rescue, but was unable to save his companion and narrowly escaped after he and Griffin had gone down under the water twice. Hundreds of people on the beach 200 yards below saw the tragedy, but were unable to get to the scene in time to act.

Griffin, an orphan boy, had been reared since he was 2 by his grandmother, Mrs. Lucretia Griffin, Smithfield. He is survived by a brother: Oliver Griffin, Sparta. He had been in the employ of the Smithfield Milling Company as an extra working as he was needed and is said to have been a good worker in this capacity. He had been, of late, in the employ of S. B. Wills.

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the residence in Smithfield with Rev. T. W. Watts, Pastor of the New Castle Methodist Church, officiating. Burial was in Cropper.

Henry County Local July 3, 1931

Wade Griffin

A coroner�s inquest, held Saturday in the courthouse in New Castle, in an effort to learn something about the death of Wade Griffin, New Castle, Negro, who was in his cabin when it burned Monday night a week ago.

County Attorney James Thomas summoned practically every Negro in New Castle in an effort to learn something about the affair. There had been a great deal of talk going the rounds on the streets relative to Griffin being killed and then the house burned to hide the crime.

Coroner D. L. Ricketts had made a thorough investigation of the bnody and the evidence to be had. He had received assistance from New Castle physicians in examining the body, but it was too badly burned to determine anything definite.

So Griffin is dead, and that�s all any of us know now.

Henry County Local June 24, 1932

Margaret Grigsby

Margaret Frances Perry Grigsby, 84, of Pleasureville, died Tuesday, March 18, 2008, at Jewish Hospital Shelbyville. She was the daughter of the late Sam and Bertha Beckley Perry, a member of the Pleasureville Baptist Church and a homemaker.

She is survived by three sons: Bobby Grigsby and wife, Doris, Eminence, Ronnie Grigsby and wife Charlotte and Gary Grigsby and wife, Betty, all of Pleasureville; two daughters: Pam Whitaker and husband, Ray, and Teresa Banta and husband, Mac, all of Pleasureville; one brother: Sammy Perry, Pleasureville; one sister: Hester Carter, Pleasureville; twelve grandchildren; twenty-seven great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, James Elmer Grigsby; four sisters: Mary Lee Adams, Ruth Rucker, Anna Stivers and Willena Rucker; and one brother: Charlie Perry.

Funeral services were held at 1 :00 p.m. Friday, March 21^st at Pleasureville Baptist Church. Rev. Jerry Anderson officiated, assisted by Rev. Jim Lowe. Interment was in the Pleasureville Cemetery.

Henry County Local March 26, 2008

Atha H. Gullion

Mrs. Atha H. Gullion, 88 (1844-1932) died Wednesday at 4:45 p.m. at her home in New Castle. Mrs. Gullion had been ill for several months although she had been active all her life until the latter oart of 1931.

For many years Mrs. Gullion was associated with her husband, the late E. A. Gullion, in editing and publishing the Henry County Local. Mrs. Gullion had complete charge of the paper�s destiny during periods of political activity on the part of Mr. Gullion, which took him to every section of the state.

The deceased is survived by three sons: Allen Gullion and Walter Gullion, both associated with the U. S. Army and Carroll H. Gullion Chicago. Funeral services were conducted Friday at 3:00 p.m. at the New Castle Christian Church. Dr. Delcamp officiated. Interment was in the New Castle Cemetery.

Henry County Local June 3, 1932

Mike Guse

Mike Guse, 50, of Pendleton, formerly of Beabody, Canada, died Thursday, June 5, 2008, at the University of Louisville Hospital.

He is survived by his wife: Rebecca Barsottini Guse, Pendleton; one daughter: Jennifer Guse, Hanover, Ontario; one son: James Guse and fianc�, Rebecca Rowe, Barrie, Ontario; one step-daughter: Theresa Judahy and husband, Dave, Bolingbrook, IL; one step-son: Justin Coffini and wife, Sharon, Phoenix, AZ;

his mother: Betty Leeder, Hanover, Ontario; his father: Ralph Guse, Peabody, Ontario; one brother: Gary Guse, Hanover, Ontario and three granddaugfhters. He was preceded in death by one brother: Paul Guse.

Memorial services were held at 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, June 10^th at Prewitt New Castle Funeral Home.

Henry County Local June 11, 2008

Lucy Rucker Hall

Mrs. Lucy Rucker Hall, 74 (1865-1935), who died of apoplexy at her home in Defoe at 3:00 p.m. Friday, July 12, 1935, was buried at Pleasureville on Sunday afternoon, July 14^th. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Dever at the Christian Church in Defoe, of which she was a faithful member.

The deceased is survived by her husband: Wesley Hall; two sisters: Mrs. Eliz Harlow, Defoe, and Mrs. Sallie Flexner, Georgetown, IN; and one brother: Hardin Rucker, Harrison, Tennessee.

Henry County Local July 19, 1935

Dorothy Hamilton

Dorothy Hamilton, 82, of Greenfield, IN, died Saturday, January 12, 2008. She was a homemaker and the daughter of the late Raymond Wainscott and Maude M. Tindall.

She is survived by two daughters: Dr. Susan Hamilton and husband, Dr. Joseph Treadway, Houston, TX and Linda Smith and husband, Lee, Marietta, IN; two sons: Rodney Hamilton and wife, Dawn, Greenfield, IN and Ed Hamilton and wife, Betty, Bloomington, IN; three brothers: Raymond Wainscott, Jr., Campbellsburg, Donald Wainscott, Turners Station and Larry Wainscott, Eminence; four sisters: Emma Lipman, Shelbyville, Anna Kisner, New Castle, Ruth Dodge, Mountain Home, ID, and Lula Rogers, Dixon, IL; ten grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; and two step-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by one brother: Joseph Wainscott and one sister: Ruby McAllister.

Henry County Local January 16, 2008

Joseph Hamilton

Joseph L. Hamilton, 90, of Pleasureville, died Thursday, May 1, 2008, at Homestead Nursing Center, New Castle. He was the son of the late Henry and Cordie Robertson Hamilton. He was a WWII veteran of the U. S. Army where he served within the European-African-Middle Eastern Theater. He was a member of the Gest Methodist Church and was a farmer.

He is survived by his wife: Fannie Belle Craigmyle Hamilton, Pleasureville; two sons: Chester Hamilton, Smithfield and Vernon Hamilton, Eminence; two daughters: Bonnie Dalser Rutherford, Frankfort and Glenda Lucas, Eminence; nine grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by one son: Steve Hamilton; three sisters: Viola Browning, Lillie Eddins and Ethel Dale; and one brother: Edward Hamilton.

Funeral services were held at 2:00 Sunday, May 4^th at Sholar Funeral Home, Pleasureville. Rev. Michael Duncan officiated. Interment was in the Pleasureville Cemetery.

Henry County Local May 7, 2008