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From: "Carolyn" <>
Subject: Fw: [KYCLAY-L] Dickey's Diary.
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 10:33:02 -0500
Several people have said they didn't receive the e-mail sent to the list by
Jess, and request a copy of the e-mail, so I'm forwarding it to the list
for those of you who missed it.
cg
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From: Jess Wilson <>
Date: Tuesday, March 24, 1998 4:48 PM
Rev Dickey must have kept his Diary in a series of note books.
The King Library at the University microfilmed a goodly portion of the
diary which began about 1883 at Jackson in Breathitt County. He was in
Jackson, publishing a county paper called The Tattler at the time of the
Hanging of Bad Tom Smith, about 1895. However a portion of his diary of
that time is not in the King Library reels. NOTE: I am writing this from
memory.
Soon after this his Diary takes up about the time he meets the
Bennet girls at a church conference. Next he is in London involved in the
establishing what became Sue Bennett Junior College. Some say he was sweet
on Sue.
Late in the year, 1897, at a conference of the Methodist Church, he was
read out as a supernumerary and transferred to Manchester, the county
seat of Clay County. Here he lodged in the Lucas Hotel, which was located
where the First National Bank is now, on the south side of the town square,
which isnt square.
From 1897 until 1900, he seems to have been a horse back preacher serving
churches from Wyatts Chapel in Laurel County to churches and school houses
in and in Owsley, Breathitt, Leslie and Harlan County.
It was during this time that he did the interviews that fill most of Reel
3, where in are interviews with a lot of our ancestors.
Rev. John J. Dickey also preached some interesting sermons during his time
in the mountains. He was one of six ministers that baptized Bad Tom Smith
before he was hanged. He preached the funeral of Baldy George Baker when
George was killed by James Howard. When Baldys son, Tom, killed Deputy
Will White, Dickey preached Whites funeral, and I think that Dickey
preached Tom Bakers funeral after Baker was Assassinated while being held
for trial for killing White..
I tend to ramble, I have the five reels of the King Library version and a
viewer. If anyone would like to bring their lunch and spend the day viewing
it here they would be welcome. Perhaps as many as four people could come as
a party and do research in the Battle Abbey. I would do no more than shoot
one of them if they tried to carry off some of my books or files. E-mail me
if interested.
JESS WILSON
POSSUM TROT ROAD
MANCHESTER, KY 4O962
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> From: Carolyn <>
> To: ; Pam Hatch <>
> Subject: Re: [KYCLAY-L] Shepherd
> Date: Tuesday, March 24, 1998 9:39 AM
>
> Pam,
> I only have a copy of reel #3 of the Dickey diary. Does anyone know if
> there is more info, on them in the other reels.
> Thanks, :-)
> Carol
>
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> > From: Pam Hatch <>
> > To:
>
> > You wrote:
> > >
> > >Malissa,
> > >I also have a Rebecca Shepherd in the line I'm working on.
> > She was b. abt. 1798 in VA, but
> > >her descendants ended up in Clay Co.. She married William T. Wells.
> > >This Rebecca was the daughter of William and Elvira Lewis Shepherd.
> > >William was born in the 1770's in NC, d. 1828.
> > >
> > >Can anyone help with a connection here?
>
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> > Hi Carolyn,
> >
> > Aren't these SHEPHERD people spoken of in the John Jay Dickey diary?
> There
> > are also SIZEMOREs, et.al.
> >
> > Pam
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