Pendleton County, KY Genealogy and History

“Duty compels me to perform a disagreeable task; that is, to acquaint you with the cruel murder of Eskin Tibbs, and I may say of his wife and child. On Friday morning last, about 9 o’clock Mr. Boyd went to Tibbs’s house, and on entering the door discovered some blood. He stepped in, and the chid was sitting in the bed crying. Mrs. Tibbs, on finding he was in the house, said, uncle, Tibbs is dead; and informed him that it was a black that had done the murder. He was immediately taken and committed to jail. Tibbs’ throat was cut, jaw broke and abused in a most cruel manner. His wife’s throat was partly cut and face very much bruised, the child’s scull (skull) so broken that some bones were taken out, and it was expected that it would die last night. [Submitted by Nancy Piper]

A terrible hurricane was experienced at Falmouth, Pendleton, Ky. On the 26th ult. It came on with thunder and lightning and hail, late in the afternoon, increasing in violence until nothing was found able to resist its force. On six farms, not a building of stone or wood was left standing entire. The roads were blocked up and timber and live stock to a great amount destroyed, but only two human lives lost as then ascertained. The width of its course was about two miles. [Submitted by Nancy Piper]