Kentucky Death Records, 1852-1953
about Eliga Craft
Name: Eliga Craft
Death Date: 1 Dec 1914
Death Location: Menifee
Residence Location: Menifee
Age: 47
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Birth Date: 1867
Birth Location: Kentucky
Father’s Name: Daniel Crapt
Father’s Birth Location: Kentucky
Mother’s Name: Edres Risney
Mother’s Birth Location: Kentucky
- Mother: Idress “Ida” Risner
- Born: Craft Creek, Magoffin, Kentucky
- Married: Laura Hulda Phipps
- Born in Indiana according the the record he gave on Census
- Idress died Ides Lovely
Kentucky Death Records, 1852-1953
about Idies Lovely
Name: Idies Lovely
[Idies Risner]
Death Date: 24 Mar 1911
Death Location: Morgan
Residence Location: Morgan
Age: 77
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: White
Birth Date: 12 May 1833
Birth Location: Floyd
Father’s Name: James Risner
Father’s Birth Location: Kentucky
Mother’s Birth Location: Kentucky
Informant: Asa B Nickell from Ezel, Kentucky
Kentucky Death Records, 1852-1953
about Clauda Fugette
Name: Clauda Fugette
Death Date: 6 Jul 1913
Death Location: Menifee
Residence Location: Menifee
Age: 10
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Birth Date: 6 Jul 1903
Birth Location: Menifee
Father’s Name: Tee Fugette
Father’s Birth Location: Kentucky
Mother’s Name: Nevada Croft
Mother’s Birth Location: Menifee
- Death certificate shows wrong Surname Spelling.
- Parents: “Tee” was Ira Tee and Nevada Craft Fugate.
- Burial in Johnson Cemetery
- Death due to Typhoid Fever
- Dan, Menifee, Kentucky
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Bessie Jane Perry
Birth: 22 Nov 1900 in Van Buren, Newton, Arkansas
Death: 3 May 1965 in Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio
Bessie married Samuel Dalton Metcalf and had 8 known children. Her mother was Dora West she was listed as unknown since most of the family didn’t know that Richard E. Perry’s second wife Tilde wasn’t her mother. I need Richard E. Perry’s death information. He is believed to be buried in Miamisburg, Montgomery County, Ohio in Hill Grove Cemetery.
Tilde was born the d/o James Robert Davis and Elizabeth Cook Davis. They lived in Sneedville, Hancock, Tennessee where Richard Perry was born. After the death of his first wife (guessing in childbirth) Richard married Tilde and moved to Van Buren township, Newton, Arkansas where Bessie reported being born.
So I perceived that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works, for that is his heritage. ~ Ecclesiastes 3:22
HOLDING A WAKE
Back then, cups made of lead were
used to drink ale or whiskey, because
nobody knew that lead is a
pretty strong poison. The combination
of lead and liquor could even
knock the imbibers out for a couple
of days.
Quite often, a passer-by
would take them for dead and prepare
them for burial. The ‘corpse’
would then be laid out on the
kitchen table for a couple of days
and the family would gather
around, and eat and drink, and wait
and see if the person would wake
up… as some would do. And so the
custom began of holding a “wake”.
SAVED BY THE BELL
England is ancient, small, and has
always been well populated. In the
1500′s they started running out of
places to bury people. So, they
would dig up coffins and would
take the deceased’s bones back
home and re-use the grave.
On reopening these coffins,
one out of 25 coffins were found to
have scratch marks on the inside
and they realized that some didn’t
awaken at the wake and they had
been burying people alive (modern
medicine wasn’t that modern).
To prevent this reoccurring,
the undertaker would tie a string on
the body’s wrist and lead it through
the coffin and up through the
ground and tie it to a bell. Someone
would be employed to sit out in the
graveyard all night to listen for the
bell. Hence, being on the
“graveyard shift” where occasionally
someone would be “saved by
the bell” and who would become
known as a “dead ringer”.
JUNE WEDDINGS
Back then, most people got married
in June, for two reasons. Firstly, it
is the most clement and warmest
month in England and, secondly,
because it was customary for people
to take their yearly bath in May
(whether they needed it or not!).
While most people still
smelled comparatively okay, brides
began the tradition of carrying a
bouquet of flowers, to hide any
body odor.
DON’T THROW THE BABY OUT
WITH THE BATH WATER
Yes, baths in the 1500s were rare
but when they were taken it was in
a big tub filled with hot water.
There was, naturally, a pecking order.
The man of the house had the
privilege of the nice clean water
(and he was probably the dirtiest),
and then came all the other sons
and men, then the women and finally
the children. Last of all were
the babies.
By then the water was so
dirty you could actually lose someone
in it. Hence the saying “Don’t
throw the baby out with the bath
water”.
RAINING CATS AND DOGS
Those lucky enough to have
houses, had houses with thatched
roofs made from thick straw, piled
high, with no wood underneath.
This was the only place for animals
to get warm, so all the pets… dogs,
cats and other small animals like
mice and rats, lived in the roof.
When it rained it became slippery
and sometimes the animals would
slip and fall from the roof. Hence
“It’s raining cats and dogs.”
DON’T LET THE BEDBUGS BITE
Despite the skills of the best
thatcher there was really nothing to
stop things from falling into the
house. This posed a real problem in
the bedroom where bugs and other
droppings could really mess up
your nice clean bed (relatively
speaking). So, they found if they
made beds with big posts and hung
a sheet over the top, it addressed
the problem. Hence those beautiful
big 4 poster beds with canopies.
“Good night and don’t let the bed
bugs bite”…
PEAS PORRIDGE HOT
In the kitchen they cooked in a big
kettle that always hung over the
fire. Every day they lit the fire and
added things to the pot. They
mostly ate vegetables and didn’t get
much meat. They would eat the
stew for dinner leaving leftovers in
the pot to get cold overnight and
then start over the next day. Sometimes
the stew had food in it that
had been in there for a month.
Hence the rhyme: “peas porridge
hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge
in the pot nine days old.”
UPPER CRUST
Bread was divided according to
status. Workers got the burnt bottom
of the loaf, the family got the
middle, and guests got the top, or the upper crust.
Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips. ~ Maxine
1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
2. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
3. People do not get sick from cold weather; it’s from being indoors a lot more.
4. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop even your heart!
5. Only seven ( 7 ) per cent of the population are lefties.
6. 40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
7. Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until they are 2-6 years old.
8. The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
9. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
10. The average housefly lives for one month.
11. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
12. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
13. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
14. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
15. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
16. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
17. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it’s head are the rabbit and the parrot.
18. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in “An Officer and a Gentleman” and “Tootsie”.
19. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
20. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
21. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
22. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
23. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
24. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.
25. If coloring weren’t added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
The less you laugh, the less you live. ~ Tote Yamada
