The Advocate-Messenger from Danville, Kentucky • 22

Q2 THE KENTUCKY ADVOCATE Sunday August 81993 Looking back rom our files 1 AA I name not known) (first name not known) Weddle Bartholmew 51 ii XRSWkrg Casey County lured the Weddles back was the first white man in Pu 1 ning that week If interest was shown in the course the shop would be open every Tuesday night during the next 10 months Cocanougher said The Parksville farm shop would continue to be open ev ery Thursday night for ma chinery repair as it had been for the past two years The Boyle County Board of Education SDonsored the nro The George Mayer Company located at the inter sections of US 127 and 150 in Stanford was dedicated The company manufactured metal name plates and decorative trim which was used for prod uct identification by manufac turers for products like auto mobiles and radios The plant which was employing 100 workers and would increase to 250 employees said Robert Ishmael the Stanford plant manager Limited production began in May laski County in 1811 In 1841 he laid out the village of Hamilton which had 300 houses Over the years the houses have vanished He and his wife Polly had 11 children: Daniel Soloman Galen Lizzie Spence George James Jackson Wil liam Peggy and Polly Christopher Columbus Wed i Cecil was 16 old This picture probably was taken around the turn of the century beside an old log house in Pulaski County rom left are: Weddle Clara Sharp Weddle (first Roy Aaron Roy and Mary Weddle Roy The Weddles are children of David and Anne Rainwater Weddle said Dry Ridge was the best place this side of heaven9 Cffpstian gentleman as well Adams had been offered the principal position at six schools and was still deciding which offer to accept Harmon the board of educa tion and the people of the com munity hope that he will re consider and withdraw his res the article stated 'Reports of pro German sentiments circulated in Dan ville Almost daily there was a report that someone charged a soldier exorbitant prices for a piece of pie cake or a sand wich The paper stated such reports are starting to stir up trouble in this country and should never be repeated by a patriotic citizen as they are absolutely Moonlight schools began in Boyle county with Miss Ethel Rupley teaching The state was divided into two dis tricts the Western Normal District and the Eastern Nor mal District A contest ensued between the two and the East ern district was in the lead All counties participated and received points for pledges taken pledges taken schools orga nized and for each person taught to read and write The contest ran until November 1 50 years ago 1943 Miss Vinetta Oelrich of Danville a Centre College stu dent supervised a Day of flowers which raised a total of $13567 for blind and shut in residents ifteen local young people participated in the event volunteer salesmen irst cash prize of $2 went to Miss Irene loyd who sold $3252 worth of flowers Miss Patty Wilkin son Miss Juanita Campbell and Miss Wanel loyd also re ceived prize money Boyle County School Su perintendent HA Co canougher announced that the Perryville High School farm shop would be open to farmers for machinery repair begin At left this 1911 photo graph shows Rosa and Co lumbus Wed die and their son 1 year old Rosa about years when the pic ture was tak en Above at right Anne Rainwater Weddle a Cherokee In dian was the wife of Daniel Weddle She was born in 1826 in North Carolina Above at left the Weddle children had a family reunion in 1954 the only time the children were together after they were grown Seated from left Rvmn HQ15H ranil QI n1 04201 ni pher Columbus Weddle (1889 1962) and Rosa Lee Pitman Weddle (1894 1965) Back row from left Mae (1917) Mabel (1920) Martha (1934 1970) Mary (1930) and Milton Bar tholmew (1936 1955) At left the Weddle children in this 1920 photograph from left are: Cecil Byron Mae and Mabel This was the first picture taken of Mabel Weddle LaLonde of Danville Mae Hetzel lives in Mason Ohio and Byron lives in Cincin nati By David Gambrel Staff Writer After two centuries one of the unsung women of the Ken tucky frontier has been ap proved as a Revolutionary War patriot during the Ameri can Revolution The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution approved earlier this year that Esther Whitley will join others who fought to gain American independence Esther wife of Revolution ary patriot and Indian scout Col William Whitley was lm in Virginia on May 10 1755 Recent research has re vealed that Esther was a Gill before her marriage to a ul ler first husband died about a year after their mar riage She later married Wil liam Whitley The Whitleys came to Ken tucky in November of 1775 Their third child Levisa vfould be bom at Harrodsburg apd is said to be the second white girl bom in Kentucky the spring of 1777 the fdrt of Boonesborough was un djer savage Indian attack Other forts in the nearby area were also in grave danger Es ther and others like herself rallied to the aid of their coun ty during the attacks on the fort I On May 20 1777 about a 100 Indians descended on the St or Logan's ort (Stanford) to destroy the dreams and lives of the set tlers At the time only 15 men ahd five women defended this optpost The siege lasted 56 days iThe heroic women in the By Brenda Edwards Staff Writer Many of the Weddles in Ca sey County are descendants of Daniel Weddle and his wife Annie Rainwater Weddle a Cherokee Indian born in North Carolina Annie was one of 10 children bom to Bartholomew Rainwa ter a school teacher and Nancy McLaughlin The North Carolina Rainwaters de scended from John Rainwater bom about 1695 and Mary ussell according to Mabel LaLonde of Danville a descen dant Annie came to Pulaski County where she married Daniel They lived there and raised seven children: rancis I Marion Joseph Mitton Sarah Elen John Perry James Mad ison Willard ilmore and Bar tholomew ranklin All were born between 1845 1857 Daniel also had three children by a former wife: William Daniel and Nancy Jane bom between 1840 1844 Annie and Daniel are buried in the Weddle Cemetery near aubush in Pulaski County Mrs LaLonde said her great great grandfather John lumbus Weddle and his wife Milton Weddle bom Septem Rosa Pittman Weddle (1894 ber 1776 in Wytheville Va 1965) moved to the Dry Ridge was the first white man in Pu community in Casey County in 4 7 fl ort were Esther Mrs George Rogers Clark sister) Mrs Ben Pettit Mrs William Menifee and Mrs Benjamin Logan These women of the frontier did many of the same tasks as their male count erparts even the loading of and firing guns melting the platters into new bullets car ing for the injured and at one point even leaving the protec tion of the fort to get water and to milk the cows while under attack Other records show others who were outside the walls of the fort when many of the hos tile Indians attacked the indi vidual homesteads Again the women often killed the enemy and assisted the men with the protection of the family Esther died in Woodford County at the home of her daughter Ann Lewis Whitley Harper on Nov 20 1833 and is buried in the Old Harper graveyard near Midway Her husband died in service of his country during the War of 1812 on Oct 13 1813 at the Battle of the Thames' note: Information for this article was obtained from "Collins History of Ken "Early History of Lin coln by MH Dunn the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolutionary "Esther Whitley by Carole Arnold The Logan Whitley Chapter of the DAR (Lynda Closson re gent) "The Draper (the Kentucky Historical Society) and Kentucky by John Kle berj niii Esther Whitley was unsung frontier hero 75 years ago 1918Professor Clarence Ad ams who had been principal ofijhe Perryville High School file five years handed in his resignation to district trustee Harmon 'Under Adams the Perryville schools had shown marked progress He was described as of foremost educators and a toned grams jn cooperation with the department of vocational edu cation William Bevins agri culture teacher supervised the project Governor Keen Johnson ordered that the sum of $22000 be allotted to the Ken tucky School for the Deaf from the special treasury surplus fund The money was used for new printing equipment and supplies Money also was used to repair old equipment used in the vocational training pro gram at KSD 25 years ago 1968 The Danville Chapter of the American ield Service brought a West German stu dent here to live with Mr And Mrs Don Rawlings 507 Boone Trail Rainer Schurmann 16 came from West Berlin to stay with the Rawlings for a year Last year a 17 year old Nor wegian boy Gunnar Knobel stayed with Dr and Mrs Rob ert Bateman 319 Maple Ave Knobel attended Danville High School and graduated from there our new instructors were appointed to the Centre College faculty Miss Jean Ramm of Hasbrouck NJ was hired to teach physical educa tion Ned Ethan Edgington of Dayton Ohio English John Calvert of Williston ND government and John Som ville of Chico Calif art and rench the early 1900s They had four 7 children Cecil who died in 1969 Byron of Cincinnati Mae Hetzel of Mason Ohio 1 and Mabel LaLonde Mrs LaLonde said her par ents moved to Indiana about three times but her father al ways became dissatisfied andL came back to Casey County said Dry Ridge was the best place this side of Li Mrs LaLonde said The little three room house where the Weddles lived is die (1889 1962) was the son of still standing After the older Bartholomew Christopher Co Weddles died the farm was owned by Mrs LaLonde then sold to her sister Mae for a while It currently is owned by Harold Gosser 1 I 1 4 1 1 J1 MiiKwnin yT 11 A JI 4 zx 7 it jonmMiorT'' I i I wvW I XV? xy T6 j' fctWWjfc? 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