The Advocate-Messenger from Danville, Kentucky • 22

C2 THE KENTUCKY ADVOCATt SUNDAY NOVEMBl 3 1996 LOOKING BACK rom our files 100 years ago1896 The entire Democrat ic county ticket was elected by majorities in Boyle County Boyle turnpikes also will be fre' and will be pur chased by a bond issue World of Novel ties will be at the Danville Opera 1 louse Among he many features presented by this organization are a troupe of genuine Arabs Turks and Japanese The acts include acrobats sword fighters rope walkers jugglers magicians and rieda the beautiful Turkish dancer and her troupe of oriental dancers in a famous oriental ballet Trained dogs comedians and pretty girls are other attrac tions collections in this internal revenue district show an increase of $50000 liver those for October of last year They amounted to $213711 and were divided as follows: lists $1003 beer $1190 spir its $209179 cigars $80 bot tling stamps $534 tobacco $308 and specials $1355 75 years ago1921 JE Davis who sold his drug store business to MD Spoonainore about five years ago has leased the storeroom occupied by the Shop Perfect on the corner of Third and Main streets Davis will open up a first class drug store He will not operate a soda foun tain Many people regret that Shop" which has been the meeting place of many young people especially those from Kentucky College for Women and Centre College will be abandoned as an ice cream parlor Shop" has been the headquarters for every Centre man and they will miss their friendly meet ings Dr John Acheson for mer president of the Kentucky College for Women was unani mously endorsed as president of Centre College Acheson who lives in Pittsburgh will succeed Dr WA Ganfield who resigned to become president of Carroll College at Waukesha Wis The Danville Club has completed the pro gram for the Armistice Day cel ebration when the first tree will be planted in the Memorial Avenue that will honor Boyle men who lost their lives in the World War All the service men are asked to take part in the pro gram There will be a big parade led by the Danville band and all business houses are asked to close during the parade All the servicemen are invited to a dinner at the Christian church Several members of the Junction City football and bas ketball teams went to Danville to hear returns from the Centre Harvard game After the game they saw the big demonstrations by the boys celebrating with the city auto fire engine painting sidewalks and autos and the captured cow painted with the college colors and the score Centre 6 uhd Harvard 0 The court house bell was rung for 15 minutes and auto horns blown McMillan football star was scheduled to marry his sweetheart of eight years Miss Marie Miers of Port Worth Texas left Tulsa Okla for Danville allegedly to marry McMillin When (pies tinned about the possibility McMillin replied there has been no official announce ment to date but you can toll them that I am We wonder what Miss Miers would havo said Inst Saturday had she seen the front row of beauties of the Ziegfield ollies chorus shower old Nuge with kisses when he entered the Lennox Hotel after the game 50 years ago1946 John Young Brown Democratic Senatorial candi date of Lexington won by a majority of 430 in the general election held in Boyle County over his opponent John Sherman Cooper of Somerset Cooper however was victori ous out in the state WA Sandefur Socialist candidate for Senator received nine votes in Boyle County Earl watchmaker at a local jewelry shop will be the guest entertainer in the role of a magician for the dinner meeting of the Lions Club has a whole bag of tricks up his sleeve Law came to Danville earlier this year to assume his local position and is a resident of North ourth Street President red Turnbull will preside at abusiness session Glenn Hundley the 14 year old son of Mr and Mrs Cecil Hundley of Springfield Road and a student at Perryville High School had an Angus calf that was declared the champion in the 10th annual Boyle County 4 Baby Beef show at the Texaco lot His brother Maurice won first on their pair of calves 25 years ago1971 The most asked for fic tion book at the Danville Library during the past week was "Message from by Helen Maclnnes and the most requested non fiction was Boat on the Lower by Roger Pilkington according to Mrs Corinna Balden librarian Approximately 900 peo ple attended the annual Halloween Carnival sponsored by the Junction City Parent Teacher Association at the high school Winners of the King Queen Prince and Princess contest were Cecil Burger son of Mr and Mrs Robert Burger and a member of Mr sixth grade Michael Clem son of Mr and Mrs Ron Clem and a member of Mrs ern first and second grade and Sheila Henry daughter of Mr and Mrs Orville Henry and a mem ber of Mrs Janice second grade Members of the Danville Lions Club are contacting local businesses and profes sional men and women who provide goods and services to be sold via the 21st annual radio auction The auc tion is unique as a fund raising mechanism in that all who participate are reimbursed for goods and services provided by advertising received when the services are sold over the air Stflfl Photo By David Gambrel Grandchildren of Zacarlah Walls and Civil War re enactors were on hand for the dedication of a tombstone marking the Civil War sol dier's grave Shown from left to right are front row George Walls Jim Walls Amanda Gaddis and Bessie Williams back row Mark Henderson Nicky Hughes Sgt Greg Schuster and Mike West amily honors Civil War veteran Replacement grave marker obtained By David Gambrel Staff Writer GENEVA Civil War enthusiasts and descendants of Zacariah Walls gathered recently at the Eason Cemetery in Geneva to dedicate a marker to Walls who fought in the Union Army The event was the culmination of sever al months of work on the part of Margie Harris great granddaughter The Stanford woman read an article in The Lincoln Ledger last year that told how vet erans of the Civil War could have their graves marked with free government headstones Since stone was nearly illegible she applied to the federal govern ment for a new marker On Oct 20 the new marker was dedi cated complete with military honors by a group of Civil War buffs who portray the 15th Ky Infantry of the Union Army Prior to a volley fired by the re enac tors a tribute was read telling war record and his family history Walls was born Nov 1 1824 in Casey County the son of George Whitfield Walls and Mary Laura Martin Walls On Nov 18 1845 he married Malinda Mason The couple had 10 children: Jesse Martha Jane who married Andrew Rutherford Mary Margaret who married James Whitaker Eliza Ann who mar ried William Zack Hazlett Sr Lucy Catherine who married William Yocum Baker who married Mary Nikirk Sarah John who married Sarah Ellen Walls Malinda rances who married William Walls and George Whitfield who married Lucy Walls George Whitfield Walls Zacariah father was born in 1798 in what is today Garrard County His parents rancis and Sarah Grigsby Walls had moved to Kentucky in 1789 from Culpepper County Va and by 1807 were on Knob Lick Creek in Casey County rancis and Sarah were the progenitors of the Wall and Walls fam ilies of Casey and Lincoln counties father Jacob was a soldier in the rench and Indian War in the Culpepper County militia He served a brief while under George Washington His sergeant in the Culpepper County Militia Ma Zacariah Walls was a Union soldier during the Civil War A great granddaughter Margie Harris obtained a new marker for his grave from the federal government was Henry Gambrel the great great great great great great grandfather of the author Leaving his wife and eight children ages 15 to 3 at home Zacariah Walls enrolled in Co of the 9th Ky Volunteer Cavalry At Eminence on Aug 22 1862 he was mustered into service under Capt William Edwards of Springfield The 9th Ky Cavalry was commanded by Col Richard Jacob and Lt Col John Boyle The 12 companies of the 9th includ ed 1258 recruits Of that number five were killed 100 died 88 deserted three were reported as missing in action 85 were dis charged 26 transferred to other units and 951 were mustered out of service at Eminence on Sept 11 1863 The Adjutant report on the Civil War in Kentucky gives the following account of the 9th Ky the regiment was mustered in it inarched to Crab Orchard with two compa nies being detached as a bodyguard to Gen Nelson These two companies partici pated in the Battle of Richmond and after that the regiment marched from Lexington to Louisville covering the retreat of the ederal forces before Kirby Smith After two stay at Louisville the regiment marched in advance of army towards Perryville Taylorsville Col Jacob was ordered to take one half of the regiment and march to Shelbyville with instructions to report to Gen Sill Col Boyle with the remainder of the regiment still remained with Gen army and participated in the Battle of Perryville The portion of the regiment under command of Col Jacob was assigned to Gen brigade and marched from Shelbyville to rankfort At Clay Village the regiment came up with rebel brigade and after a severe engagement defeated them with a few killed and many prisoners On the following Monday this portion of the regiment in advance of Gen division drove Cavalry out of rankfort and took possession of the city and were skirmishing with the enemy all the following day rom rankfort they marched towards Harrodsburg and met the enemy in force at Lawrenceburg where in a desperate hand to hand fight the enemy was forced from the field In this engagement Col Jacob was severely wounded and was compelled to relinquish his command to Capt Harney days after this fight the regiment was again united and under command of Lt Col Boyle engaged in the pursuit of Bragg and after his retreat beyond the Kentucky line the regiment was stationed on the Tennessee border to protect the state against the frequent incursions of the rebels and were daily engaged with the enemy capturing many prisoners Jacob rejoined the regiment in December 1862 and they remained on the border until July 1863 when they were in the pursuit of Gen John Hunt Morgan through Kentucky Indiana and Ohio and participated in the fights at Buffington Island and St Creek Ohio where Major Rue with a portion of the 9th 11th and 12th Kentucky Cavalry captured Morgan on the 28th day of July 1863 The regiment then returned to The war claimed the lives of two of Walls brothers who were also Union sol diers Benjamin Walls was a member of Co of the 19th Ky Infantry and died of smallpox in Louisville while in military service John Mason Walls was a soldier in the Co A 1st Ky Cavalry and died in a Confederate prison camp Two other broth ers Ellis Green Walls and Peter Walls were also Union soldiers but survived the war Ellis Green Walls moved to Cooper Delta County Texas after the war and died there It is believed that Zacariah and Malinda Walls may have joined him in Texas for a brief period Zacariah and Malinda Walls eventually settled in McKinney Walls applied for and received a military pension of $6 per month which he drew until his death on May 14 1894 His 10 children gave him 54 grandchil dren five of which are still living They include Gladys McCammon Bessie Williams Amanda Gaddis Jim Elwood Walls and George William Walls Learning the three Ellis taught at Casey schools in the 1940s Ellisburg School was a two room school located in Ellisburg on Ky 78 Ruby Lee Bolin Ellis became the teacher 1944 45 after studying at Eastern Kentucky University and the University of Kentucky It was the first of four years she spent teaching in the Casey County schools Ellis taught grades 5 8 Ellis notes that one of her pupils Elwood Kilis later became her brother in law She married Lewis Ellis in 1944 Elwood drove her to school could just barely see his head out of the Ellis said noting that he was far too young to have a license Maryamanda Reid Reid later became one of her closest friends Just as her pupils became her friends she also was a friend to her favorite high school teacher Margaret Moore a graduate of Centre College who taught at Hustonville High School In later years when Moore became ill Ellis was able to take her to the doctor in Lexington One of duties as teacher then was to start a fire in the coal stove Everyone brought their lunch While teaching she boarded with people in the community She is a believer in stressing reading writing and arith metic really believe in the three the she said Cake walks and ice cream suppers were fund raisers Popular school events then included cake walks and ice cream suppers The money raised was used to buy items for the school After leaving Ellisburg she taught at Shoehammer Valley and Gap schools She moved to Boyle County A graduate of ugazzi Business College her other jobs included working for the Boyle County Board of Education insurance compa nies income tax and typing in her home jtoRk Mi WwHiOSA i WrafiM ffilWMs gurO 1 TH Mr This group of grades 5 8 and their teacher at Ellisburg School in Casey County was made in 1944 45 They are from left to right: front row teacher Ruby Lee Bolin Ellis (who owns the photo) Rita Juno Russell Jeanette Reid Maggie Crews Elizabeth Russell and Elwood Ellis and back row Maryamanda Reid Velma Jean Russell Roger Crews and Dorothy Hatley Some pupils were absent 100 years ago1896 0 50 years ago1946 75 years ago1921 25 years ago1971.