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From: "Evelyn E. Watson" <>
Subject: Re: [KYWHITLE] I know who Biddie Lawson --DOC ROSE
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 03:23:33 -0500
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You are right and I was wrong. Dr. Lee Rose is buried in Highland Cemetery
#2, Williamsburg, and died as you said 1 July 1947. I guess I got the
investigation and the trial mixed up with when the death occurred. Thanks
for straightening me out.

Evelyn
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Subject: Re: [KYWHITLE] I know who Biddie Lawson --DOC ROSE


> Evelyn
>
> Thought it's 2 a.m. I figure I'd just as well do this now as go to bed and
> think about it.
>
> This is not from a newspaper but from the "History and Families if Whitley
> Co., KY" book. This book was copyighted in 1994 by the Whiley Co., KY
> Historical Society. The information I'm quoting was submitted by Dr Rose
> grandaughter, Libbie Rose Dodd.
>
> "Dr. Rose had a mailing address at Rains, KY which was on Poplar Creek,
while
> building his home on HWY 92, between Carpenter and Silar, KY. (The house
is
> still standing). A monument was placed at his home, near where he was
killed
> by cattle thieves on July 1, 1947. A father and his two sons
> of Monticello, KY, were arrested and tried for the murder of
> Dr. Rose. The two sons were sentenced to prison."
>
> This is all the proof I can send you. Anything further you'd
> most likely find in the newspaper archieves and in the court
> records........Lois
>
> > Do you have a newspaper account or a death certificate for Dr. Rose for
> > 1947. 1947 seems all wrong to me. I graduated from college in 1949 and
> > went to work for the Whitley Co. School System in 1950. Dr. Lee Rose's
> > daughter was a Whitley County teacher and my remembrance is that her
father
> > died sometime after I went to work there, either before or after I
married.
> > I know that is a long time ago, but in 1947 I was ill in the Marymount
> > Hospital in London and I don't think that Dr. Rose's death would have
been
> > of particular interest to me then.
> >
> > As for the other information, I had it from Bonnie Mills Herrar in an
email
> > Jan. 22, 2000. She had that Henry Rose was married to Josephine Norris,
> > that they had a daughter Olly who was born 1 Aug 1834 and married on 7
Dec
> > 1856 William Rose who was born 11 Dec 1827. William and Rose had
> > Samantha, Minor, George, Demarius, Elizabeth, and Milford. No doubt you
> > are
> > right about the additional generation and the Olly Rose's got mixed up.
> >
> > But I would like a verification of Dr. Rose's death. Maybe that will
> > straighten out my memory which believe me is a bit faulty in 50 years.
> >
> > Evelyn
> >
> >
>
>
>
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> remembering how to fly."
>
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