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Source: American almanac and repository of useful knowledge - 1860 by Jared Sparks and Frances Bowen [Submitted by Linda Blue Dietz; May 2010]

Sept. 27, 1854 — At Mammoth Cave, Ky., Hon. Presbrey Ewing. He was a son of Judge Kwing of the Court of Appeal, and a Representative in Congress from the Third District of Kentucky, lie was one of the most brilliant and promising young men in the State.

Source: Vernon Courier (Lamar County, AL), September 4, 1890  [Submitted by Veneta McKinney]
 
KILLED HIS DAUGHTER – A Kentucky Man Murders His Sixteen-Year Old Child

New York, August 28 – A special to the Sun from Louisville, Ky says: Ace Madison, living near Brownsville, Edmonston county, shot and killed his 16-year old daughter last Saturday.  He had previously attempted her life.  No cause for the deed is known except a settled hatred of the girl.  Madison fled, but is being pursued and will probably be lynched when caught. 

 

     

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