Hardin County Kentucky Death Index Page

Date: 08/28/1916
Paper: The Lexington Herald
ELIZABETHTOWN HAS BIG SHEEP AND SWINE SHOW
Prof. Smith Well Pleased With Trip To Hardin County
Professor M. J. Smith, who judged sheep and swine at the Hardin County fair at Elizabethtown, last week, was very high in praise of both the fair and the farming country. He stated that some of the best breeders of the State could be found there and that the sheep show at the Blue Grass fair could not compare with the one there. The swine show was as good and the general fair was a big success. The farmers support this fair and large numbers attended every day. Professor Smith said that he had not easy job placing the animals. There were some animals shown which are good enough to win at the State Fair. There are splendid opportunities for men in Hardin County and the farmers are making good profits on their investments. This would be a splendid place to go when looking for a farm because the land is not valued so high and money could be made from the investment. This fair did not have much of a horse show, but the general live stock was good. Much stress is laid upon getting good exhibits of agricultural products.
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Date: 04/21/1914
Paper: The Lexington Herald
HARDIN TO RAISE ROCKY FORDS
FRANKFORT, KY- April 20- Rocky Ford Cantaloupes will be raised in Hardin County by the Hardin County Cantaloupe Association which has just been organized with one hundred members, many of whom are members of the Hardin County Fruit Association. Genuine Rocky Ford Cantaloupe seed have been furnished the members by the Department of Agriculture.
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Date: 11/29/1909
Paper: The Lexington Herald
HARDIN COUNTY GREAT FOR APPLES
Has sold Twenty or Thirty Thousand Dollars Worth This Season. One Orchard Yields $1,400 Worth.
Hardin county is the banner county in the State of Kentucky for apples. Hardin sold twenty or thirty thousand dollars worth of apples this season and Rineyville claims the credit of growing and shipping forty-eight car loads of 169 barrels, each worth $1.50 per barrel, for $11,520. W. H. Osborne leads the list for receiving the most for any one orchard- $1,400. If all the orchards had been sprayed, the apple crop of this county, it is said, would have brought $50,000. The Rineyville Milling Company made and sold eighteen thousand produce barrels this season, selling 1,000 barrels in one day.
Institute Was A Success
The Hardin County institute was a success so far as good lectures goes, but the attendance was not as large as it should have been. The officers for the next year were elected and an effort will be made to offer some premiums to the boys and girls to see who will grow the largest number of bushels of corn to the acre, the largest pumpkin and some other things, grown on the farm.
Tobacco Is Mostly Sold
The most of this years crop of tobacco has been sold and delivered, that was not pooled bringing on an average of $10. The hog crop for this year is about exhausted.
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Date: 03/03/1922
Paper: The Lexington Herald
NELSON'S SPEECH WINS
Hardin County Representative Saves Bathing Suit Bill
FRANKFORT, KY- March 2
Representative Charles A Nelson, of Hardin County, made a speech in the state senate this afternoon in behalf of his bill, House Bill 66, which prohibits the custom of persons parading the streets of towns without protection, (sixth-class towns) in bathing suits. He explained that the people of White Mills, his home, object to this habit, and promised that, if necessary, if the senate would not pass his bill, he would resign from the legislature and take the post of deputy sheriff of Hardin County to enforce the provisions of the law. By a vote of 20 to 16, the senate pass(ed) his bill, which now goes to Governor Edwin P. Morrow. There is no doubt that Mr. Nelson's speech turned the tide and saved his bill, which otherwise probably would have been defeated.
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Date: 10/31/1920
Paper: The Lexington Herald
BLIND MAN KILLED FOR $10
Tramp Believed Guilty of Hardin County Farmer's Death
LEITCHFIELD, KY, October 30
Robbery is thought to have ben the motive for the murder of Joseph Hart, 45 years old, who was found dead with his skull crushed with an ax under teh bed at his home in Eastview, Hardin County. Hart lived with his mother and sister and they had gone to Elizabethtown to shop and remained over night. Arrangements had been made for neighbors to provide Hart, who is almost blind, with his breakfast, and it was due to this cause that his body was found, evidently a short time after the murder had been committed. The ax with which teh death blow had been dealt was found in the yard outside the home.
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Date: 12/13/1914
Paper: The Lexington Herald
MOB VIOLENCE AVERTED BY JUDGES IN HARDIN
Layman and Rider Persuade Crowd to Let Man Who Shot Sheriff Alone
ALREADY A MURDERER
Coroners Jury Accuses Him of Killing Mail carrier Acting as Deputy
ELIZABETHTOWN KY- December 12
Mob violence was averted here tonight when Circuit Judge J.R. Layman and County Judge D.W. Rider, persuaded a crowd of more than 200 armed men who had gathered from all parts of Hardin County with the avowed intention of lynching Turner Graham, Jr., to allow him to be legally tried. Graham was arrested late today on a murder charge, after he had shot and probably fatally wounded Sheriff T.R. McMurtry. A coroner's jury had charged him with shooting James Woods, a rural mail carrier, who was killed Thursday while acting as deputy marshal in an attempt to arrest Grover Chism, charged with robbery. Posses had been searching for Graham and Chism two days and when they were found today in the home of Graham's father, near here, Graham opened fire on Sheriff McMurtry and H.B. Fise, a deputy sheriff. Chism escaped. He is said to be one of the best marksmen in the State and is heavily armed. Posses are searching for him. Judge Layman tonight issued a call for a special grand jury to convene Tuesday and hear evidence in Turner Graham's case. Graham, Sr, his wife and grandson were arrested and are held as accessories to the shooting. When the prisoners arrived at Elizabethtown a crowd of several hundred gathered at the jail and numerous cries of "Get a rope" were heard, but the officers prevented mob violence. The first attempt to lynch the assailants of McMurtry, was by a hand of men gathered at McMurtry's home, which was enroute from teh scene of the shooting to the jail. it was necessary for the marshal accompanying the prisoners to draw a gun to disperse the crowd and get through with the men. Four persons were brought to the Hardin County jail. There are Mr and Mrs Turner Graham, Sr, Turner Graham, Jr, and Roy leak, a youth. Sheriff McMurtry was led to believe by Mrs. Graham that no one was upstairs in the house. Sheriff McMurtry, it is said, was led upstairs by Mrs. Graham, and Turner Graham Jr, opened fire on him.
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