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Parrett, Everette

Youth Takes Own Life Wednesday
Everett Parrett, 17, Shoots Self With Shotgun, Near Nelson; Left Note to Loved Ones
Was Visiting His Sister
Everette Parrett, 17 years old, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Parrett, of McHenry, took his life by shooting himself with a shotgun about 11:30 o'clock Wednesday morning. He had been visiting his sister, Mrs. Corbett Woodruff, about a mile from Nelson, Muhlenberg county. He had been a bit melancholy lately, and had threatened to take his life, it was stated.

A note was found in the boy's pocket reading as follows: “To the ones I love. I am getting no pleasure out of living. It is no pleasure to me wherever I be, so I am ending it all. Everette.”

Mr. and Mrs. Parrett were notified and went to Nelson. They could give no cause for the boy's action. He is one of ten children, six boys and four girls, all living in Ohio county except for Mrs. Woodruff, of Nelson.

The body will be taken to McHenry for funeral services and burial.
Source: Greenville-Leader January 19, 1934

Patterson, Mrs. Alice Crumbaker

Mrs. Patterson, 85, Dies In Island.
Mrs. Alice Patterson, 85, widow of the late J.W. Patterson, died at the home of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. L.G. Patterson, Island, at 4:00 A.M. Monday, Sept. 23.

Born in Island April 9, 1861, she had lived most of her life there, except for a short time in Central City. Her husband was president of the Island Deposit Bank for many years. She was the daughter of the late Samuel and Nancy Gish [sic] Crumbaker, early settlers of McLean County.

Funeral services were held Wednesday at 9:00 A.M. at the St. Joseph Church in Central City with the Rev. F.R. Victor Boarman in charge. The Tucker Funeral Home made funeral arrangements. Interment was in Fairmount Cemetery.

Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Shelby Gish, Central City; one grandson, Edwin Patterson; two nieces, Mrs. C.E. Bibb, Island and Mrs. C.D. Almon, Owensboro.

Pallbearers were Tobe, Pat and Sam Gish, Jimmie Simpson, James Mulligan and Bill Hanghin.
Note: Alice Crumbaker and J.W. Patterson were married in McLean County Nov. 22, 1877 [McLean Co. Marriage Register A Page 124]. Alice's mother was Nancy Overhultz who married John Gish in Muhlenberg in 1839 and then married Samuel Crumbaker in Muhlenberg in 1853.
Source: The Messenger September 26, 1946

Patterson, Hayden

Miner Loses Life In An Accident At Pacific Mine
Hayden Patterson, 52, This City, Died at Greenville Hospital Saturday at 1:30 P.M.

Hayden Patterson, 52, this city [Central City], who was injured in an accident in the mine of the Pacific Coal Company died at the Greenville Hospital at 1:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon.

Mr. Patterson, a motor driver in the mine was injured by a falling timber. He had been a resident of Central City for many years and was well known.

The body was removed from the hospital to Anderson Funeral Home, where it was prepared for burial.

Funeral services were held at the residence at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon, conducted by the Rev. Ray Dean, pastor of the Central City Baptist Church.

Burial was in Rose Hill Memorial.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mary Nell Patterson; two sons, Samuel Patterson, radioman, third class, and Sgt. Randall Wallace Patterson; two brothers and four sisters.
Source: The Messenger Thursday August 9, 1945

Patterson, Mrs. Lucelia Wing

Wife of President Emeritus of State University is Dead
Mrs. Lucelia W. Patterson Passes Away at Age Of Eighty After Illness Since January
Funeral To Be Held Sunday at 3 O'Clock
Dr. Edwin Muller and Dr. Charles Lee Reynolds to Conduct Services
Mrs. Lucelia Wing Patterson, wife of Dr. James K. Patterson, president emeritus of the State University of Kentucky, died at her residence on the university campus yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Bronchitis contracted three weeks ago, was the direct cause of Mrs. Patterson's death. She was 80 years of age. Besides her husband she is survived by a sister, Mrs. Lucy R. Yost, of Greenville, Ky.

Funeral services will be conducted at the residence Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Rev. Edwin Muller, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, and Rev. Dr. Charles Lee Reynolds, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, will conduct the services. The body will be laid to its final rest in the Patterson mausoleum in the Lexington cemetery. The pallbearers will be announced this afternoon.

Mrs. Patterson was stricken ill last January and during the months of February and March her life was despaired of. She improved in April and May and began to mend rapidly in June. On June 29, however, she fell and broke her hip joint, but was getting along well until three weeks ago, when bronchitis set up.

Born in Greenville.

Mrs. Patterson was born in Greenville, Muhlenberg County, about 80 years ago, the daughter of Captain Charles F. Wing, who was born in New Bedford, Mass., the son of Barnabas Wing, a Quaker. Barnabas Wing was engaged in the seafaring transactions and lost heavily during the American Revolution. He came to Kentucky about 1790 and settled in the Blue Grass country. His son, Charles F. Wing, Mrs. Patterson's father, was brought up in Harrodsburg. Later he was an assistant clerk in the Kentucky Legislature.

Captain Wing went to Muhlenberg County about the beginning of the last century and served continuously as clerk of the Circuit Court for fifty years. That was before the office became an elective one.

Mrs. Patterson's mother was Ann Campbell, and she was born in Fayette County on the farm that subsequently became known as Dixiania, made famous by Major Barak C. Thomas. Her grandfather was Colonel William Campbell, who was at King's Mountain, and was a first cousin of the famous William Campbell, whom history brackets with Isaac Shelby as one of the heroes of that battle.

Sister, Wife of Congressman.

Mrs. Patterson's girlhood days were spent in Greenville, in which place she was educated. She also attended school in Owensboro for a short time. Her eldest sister became the wife of Edward Rumsey, who was a member of Congress from Western Kentucky during President Van Buren's administration. He obtained the first appropriation ever granted the Eastern Kentucky Hospital for the Insane, in this city. The appropriation was not large, $10,000, but it permitted the institution to open its doors.

Mrs. Patterson's nephew, Edward Rumsey Wing, served on General Jackson's staff during the Civil War, and was subsequently appointed by President Grant as Minister of Ecuador. He died at Quito in 1874. A luminous portrait of Minister Wing hangs in Dr. Patterson's library.

Miss Wing met the young James K. Patterson, a native of Scotland, when he was principal of the Presbyterian Academy in Greenville, but at the time of their marriage, 1859, he was professor of Latin and Greek in Stuart College (now Southwestern University), at Clarksville, Tenn.

At Clarksville Till War.

Prof. Patterson and his wife remained at Clarksville until the outbreak of the Civil War, in 1861, and then accepted the principalship of Transylvania University, in this city. Professor Patterson remained as head of Transylvania until the consolidation of it with the old Kentucky University of Harrodsburg, which was accomplished in 1865. Professor Patterson was an instructor in the new institution after the agricultural college was engrafted upon it. He became president of the Agricultural College in 1869 and upon the dissolution of the old A.& M. and Kentucky University he became president of the A.& M., which later became the State College and later still the State University of Kentucky.

Two children were born to Mrs. Patterson. A son, William Andrew Patterson, was born in 1868 and graduated from the State College in 1890. He became assistant in the English Department of the college and died as the result of an operation for appendicitis in 1895. A daughter was born in 1870, but died in infancy.

Mrs. Patterson was a well educated woman, wrote excellent English, was a good French scholar and in youth showed decided talent for painting and music. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church for more than sixty years.

Mrs. Patterson was diffident in her nature, avoided publicity, was of positive convictions on religion and life and duty and held to them with great tenacity.
Source: Lexington Herald September 11, 1915, front page & page 4

Paxton, Mrs. Willie A. Jackson

Mrs. Willie A. Paxton
A funeral service for Mrs. Willie A. Paxton, 72 years old, formerly of Muhlenberg county, who died of heart disease at her home in Paducah Monday, was held at Friendship church at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, conducted by the Rev. Fred Fox. A brother, James Jackson, and other relatives live in Muhlenberg county.
Source: The Greenville-Leader January 19, 1934

Pegg, Walter T.

Walter Pegg Dies In Dayton, Ohio
Word has been received here of the death March 12 of Walter T. Pegg, formerly of Owensboro and Central City, at his home in Dayton, Ohio.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Isabella Stewart Pegg; a son, William S. Pegg, and a daughter, Miss Mary Pegg, both of Dayton. The funeral and burial were Saturday in Dayton.
Source: The Messenger, Central City, Thursday March 20, 1958

Pendley, Rice Bailey

Rice B. Pendley, 56, Chicago, Dies Here
Drakesboro - Rice Bailey Pendley, 56, Chicago, formerly of Powderly, died in the Muhlenberg Community Hospital Monday, April 28 at 10:15 p.m. of a heart condition. He was an employee of a sheet metal company in Chicago, but was in Drakesboro visiting his daughter, Mrs. Odelle Ezell, when stricken ill. He was taken to the hospital at noon and died at 10:15. He was born in Muhlenberg County Aug. 23, 1901.

Funeral services are being conducted today (Thursday) at 2 p.m. in Central City with the Rev. Elmer Dennison of Evansville officiating. Burial will be in Dovey Cemetery.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Otha Pendley of Chicago, four daughters, Mrs. Ordelle Ezell of Drakesboro, Mrs. Margaret Stewart of Graham, Mrs. Freedia Vaught of Central City, Miss Carol Pendley of Chicago, Ill., two sons, R.C.L. and Ray Pendley of Chicago, Ill.; two sisters, Mrs. Hazel Rice of Powderly, Mrs. Ailine Moseley of Chicago, Ill.; five brothers, James Pendley of South Carrollton, Lorene and William Pendley of Powderly, Paul Pendley of Drakesboro, Owen Pendley of Central City; 17 grandchildren.
Source: The Messenger, Central City, Thursday May 1, 1958

Pendley, Robert Elijah

Robert Pendley, Drakesboro, Dies
Robert Elijah Pendley, 66, died at 2:40 p.m. Friday following a long illness. His home was in Drakesboro.

He is survived by two sons, Robert E. Pendley Jr., Drakesboro and Alfred Pendley, Dayton, Ohio; four daughters, Mrs. Jewell Trotskey of Battle Creek, Mich., Mrs. Mary D. Crawford of Belleview, Mich., Mrs. Willie Jean Knight of Ennis, and Mrs. Doris Lee Southard of Madisonville.

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Riverside Baptist Church by the Rev. J.S. Jennings. Burial was in the church cemetery.
Source: Greenville Leader January 22, 1953

Pittman, Rufus S.

Rufus S. Pittman, 82, Dies at Home Near Unity
Rufus S. Pittman, 82, died on Friday, January 25 at 4 p.m., at his home in the Unity community.

Funeral services were held Sunday at Unity Church with the Rev. Chester Moore, White Plains, pastor of the church, assisted by the Rev. Rufus Graham. Burial was in the church cemetery. Pallbearers were: Coy Lee Croft, Shelby Underwood, Lindel Oates, Homer Rose, Eldred Coleman, and Kenneth Robinson.

Mr. Pittman had been a member of Unity Baptist Church since 1894.

He is survived by one brother, Steve Pittman, Greenville R1; four nieces, Mrs. Kelly Bard, Greenville R1; Mrs. Rolley Hamby of Mayfield; Mrs. Fred Heflin of Mayfield; Mrs. Tom Gregory of Detroit; seven nephews, Eades Baird, Greenville; Ernest Pittman of R1, Greenville; Maurice Pittman, US Army in Korea; Earl Pittman of R1, Greenville; Irvin Pittman of Petersburg, VA; and Keifer and Fielding Pittman, both of Roanoke, VA.
Source: The Greenville Leader, Thursday, January 31, 1952.

Prine, Empson

Empson Prine, 64, carpenter, died in his home at Maywood, IL, at 5 a.m., Saturday [18 July 1953]. He left Central City 28 years ago and was a member of the First Methodist Church at Maywood. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Idell Smith Prine; one son, William Prine, both of Maywood; one daughter, Mrs. Alice Seemann, Pomona, CA; five grandchildren; two brothers, Gordon Prine, Alton, IL; A.E. Prine, Paducah [KY]; one sister Mrs. Elizabeth Hall, Tuscon, AZ.
Source: 19 July 1953, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, KY
Contributed by Dorann O'Neal Lam

Prine, Idell Smith

Mrs. Idell Smith Prine, 85, died at Manteno, IL, 2 a.m., Tuesday. She was born in Muhlenberg County and was a member of the Methodist Church. Surviving are one son, William Prine of Maywood, IL; one daughter Mrs. Alice Seeman of Claremont, CA; six grandchildren; one great grand child; one brother, Carlos Smith of Paradise; two sisters, Mrs. Fannie Tunstall and Mrs. Rosa Cavanaugh, both of Paradise. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m., Saturday at Tuckers Funeral Home by Rev. Robert Bozarth. Burial in Rose Hill [Muhlenberg].
Source: 26 June 1964, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, KY
Contributed by Dorann O'Neal Lam