THE BIG SANDY NEWS
Abstracted by Cora Meek Newman
Published By:
Eastern Kentucky Genealogical Society, Inc.
P. O. Box 1544
Ashland, Kentucky 41101-1544
2000
The Big Sandy News was literally the "newspaper of record" for many years in Eastern Kentucky. It's coverage was extensive and thereby gave us a source for all the news of note that was happening. [James Powers]
299 pp., soft bound, indexed. The book covers August 27, 1885 through June 26 1903. $31.55
Sample abstracts:
April 15, 1886...Shooting affair on Wednesday of last week at Levi Kitchen's on Dry Fork of Little Sandy. George Arrington shot and killed General Perkins....
December 30, 1892...Death has invaded the home of David Garred...
January 27, 1893...warrant wsa issued last week for arrest of Doc, Lafe and George Reed Diamond of charge of stealing...
April 13, 1894...Armstead Burchett was born May 20, 1816. He died April 8, 1894. Then began and then ended the mortality of him whose name is written above...
July 23, 1898...Miss Rebecca Meek, daughter of R. H. Meek, was married to Sydney Goddard of Wayne, West Virginia....
December 13, 1901...41st Wedding Anniversary - On November 28, 1860 F.R. Moore and Belle O'Brien were married...the groom chartered the steamer of Captain Archibald Borders...