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From: "Pat W. Ball" <>
Subject: Re: Naming cemeteries
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 18:08:46 -0500


Dear Jess,
Thank you for your kind words about how smart I am. Of course, I would like to think I am. I am a Wilson after all. My dad used to say, there are no smarter people in Kentucky than the Wilson's - and he meant every word of it! Alas, it was my husband's idea to use the G.P.S. but at least I was smart enough to marry a "right smart" man, huh?
Enjoyed the stories on running the lines through Estill County. Who was Willie Allen? My great grandma was Sarah Allen, a sister to Bob Allen, a former sheriff in Lee County. He was murdered, put in a burlap sack, weighted down with rocks, and thrown in the Kentucky river. Know any Allen stories?
Pat

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From: Jess Wilson <>
To: <>
Date: Thursday, September 10, 1998 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: Naming cemeteries

Pat W. Ball, You are a smart person. Why didn't I think of the idea of
using a Global Positioning System when i began staking electric lines in Estill county some 50 years ago when half the time we did not know where we were.
I remember one time we were trying to stake a line from the end of the
electric line on Barnes Mountain to Gran Richardson Springs. The timber was so thick and the terrain was down into a small ravine and up followed by another. It was hot and humid in the woods. Finally I drove the distance a couple of times, Then flagged some stakes in the woods by guess.Then made a sketch of what I thought the layout was. That night I drove from my hotel out to see an old friend, Willlie Allen that was directing a crew cutting right of way. I asked him to clear the site and then I went back and made my final work order.

What a great help a GPS would have been if its invention had been fifty years earlier. There are those regrets that we did not have word processors when I was writing articles with a #2 soft pencil, a yellow pad, a pair of scizzors and a secretary that I had to sweet talk to get her to retype an article when I changed my mind. I would have trader her and the biggest steer in Texas for a word processor then, if I had known what a word processor was.
JESS WILSON
>POSSUM TROT ROAD
>MANCHESTER KY 40962
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>> From: Pat W. Ball <>
>> To:
>> Subject: Naming cemeteries
>> Date: Wednesday, September 09, 1998 9:27 PM
>>
>> Tim,
>>
>> My husband just had a great idea! He suggested that anyone locating any
>of the old cemeteries might want to use a G.P.S. to mark the location of
>the cemetery. A G.P.S. stands for Global Positioning System and is a
>small device available at sporting goods shops, K-mart, etc. that will give
>an exact longitude and latitude of the spot where you are at (for people
>who fish, it is something similar to a fish finder.) For some of the
>remote cemeteries, it would be a valuable tool for someone searching for
>the old places in the future. I believe the cost varies from $100 to $500
>upwards. Expensive but perhaps worth it in the long run. Just a thought.
>>
>> Pat
>>
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