There is no extent information about Ernest Dewley’s birth place, birth date, parents, education level, or type of work. Ernest Dewley was visiting a saloon on April 29th, 1902 in Brandenburg. He was kicked out by Frank Pickerel, the owner of a saloon for known reasons. Later that day, Dewley tried to shoot Pickerel at […]
Mayes, James
James Mayes was a black man born to David and Frances Mayes in North, Washington County, Kentucky. This county is located in Central Kentucky, just one county over from Fayette County where Lexington is located. The 1880 census listed him as being born “about 1878” but the 1900 census listed him as born in 1877. […]
Campbell, John and Sam
Sam and John Campbell were born to Lavina Campbell and an unidentified father in Campbellsville, Kentucky in the early 1860s. Lavina was a housekeeper for a local farmer. Both Sam and John attended school, and were known to be literate. In the late 1870s, both brothers moved to Hart County, Kentucky. Sam, the older of […]
Baker, Ernest
Ernest Baker was an African American man born in October of 1879 to Pryn and Josephine Baker. He lived his life entirely in North Cadiz, Trigg County, Kentucky. Census records show that Baker could read and write and that he worked as a porter at Sam Smith’s Saloon. According to the information on findagrave.com, Baker […]
Brame, Benjamin “Booker”
Benjamin “Booker” Brame was born in 1891. There is no extent census or biographical information about his birthplace, his family, or his education. On April 9, 1909, Brame, who was 18-years-old, was accused of insulting, attempting to assault, or assaulting of a white woman. The exact accusation differs according to the source. Ruth Gee appears […]
Bell, Arthur
Born in March 1896, Arthur Bell was the fourth of four children of William and Francis Bell. Arthur had a younger brother, John, and two older step-siblings, Robert Brown and Cora Brown. According to the 1900 census records, the Bell family lived in Cheatham, Tennessee. William Bell worked as a farm laborer and Francis Bell took […]
Brown, Thomas “Tom”
Thomas Brown was a 19-year-old young man. He was born in Kentucky in February 1883. His parents were John Brown and Bell Brown, who in 1902 were 37 years old and had been married for seventeen years. Thomas Brown also had one sibling, George Brown, who was 17 at the time of Thomas’s death. Thomas’s […]
Smith, Grant
Grant Smith was born in 1878 in Kentucky. His mother was born in Nova Scotia, and his father was born in the United States. Grant Smith was married to Addie Smith in 1905 in Mason County, Kentucky, and they resided together in Johnson, Fleming County, Kentucky. Fleming County, Kentucky is located in northeastern Kentucky, close […]
Drake, Elijah; Smith, Henry; and , James Stewart
Elijah Drake, Henry Smith, and James Stewart were three young men who resided in Madrid Bend, Fulton County, Kentucky. Fulton County is located in western Kentucky, next to the Mississippi River and on the borders of Mississippi and Tennessee. James Stewart was born in February 1875 in Tennessee and was 27 years old at the […]
Warfield, Henry “Fratus”
Documented by Gracie Henderson Henry “Fratus” Warfield was born in Kentucky in 1879. When he was a boy, he resided in Hadensville, Todd County, Kentucky with his mother, Mary Warfield, who was born in Kentucky, and his father Squire Warfield, who was also born in Kentucky. Todd County, Kentucky is located in southwest Kentucky along […]