Lincoln County Living Spring 2024

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**NEW CONSTRUCTION** You won't find a new construction with the attention to detail that this one was given! At just over 1800 sq/ft this beautiful new construction boasts 3 large bedrooms, 2 full baths, a large 2 car garage, 3/4 acre lot, a large garden tub and stand up shower in the primary bathroom with a huge walk-in closet and seperate toilet room. It also features matching granite tops throughout with matching water proof laminate flooring and beautiful tile work in the bathrooms. The kitchen features a large island with overhang for counter height seating and an area for dining.

0 KY-2141 | Hustonville, KY | 40437 #24002574

$45,000

Just over 2.5 acres to build your dream home on! Located just minutes from Danville and Hustonville, you will be close to all amenities. Deed restrictions prohibit manufactured homes.

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Welcome to your dream farm! Nestled within this picturesque landscape lies a charming 3-bedroom home awaiting your personal touch. This working farm offers a detached garage/workshop, a 13 stall horse barn with loft and 2 side sheds, an 8 bent livestock barn with drive through shed and 2 Automatic Waterers and three ponds. This farm currently has 35 acres already utilized for crops and the potential for up to 50 acres. The boundaries are fenced, with paddock and some cross fencing for pasture. Wildlife flourishes here, with abundant deer and turkey. Don't miss the opportunity to own such a beautiful yet functional farm in the heart of Central Kentucky.

4555 KY Hwy 1194 | Stanford, KY 40484

3 beds 1 baths 1,964 SF • #24004085

66 Beth Lane | Hustonville, KY

beds 2 baths 1,803 SF • #24002135

Lincoln County LIving Magaine

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Stanford, KY 40484

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As warm weather starts to fill our days, and the joyous sight of daffodiles popping up along side the winding roads of Lincoln County, the signs of Spring are unmistakable Spring is like a fresh slate Like a blank canvas that is ready to be painted with whatever we choose Spring also marks the start of another year for the Lincoln County Living Magazine ™ Needless to say, we have been blessed to have thousands of loyal readers, ready and waiting to read each issue Our goal is to bring our Community to life by filling each issue full of local content, by adding intriguing stories that spark our imaginations and by adding Community Spotlights showcasing exceptional people in Lincoln County We also include local High School Sports updates, and so much more valuable information listed on the Events page The Lincoln County Living Magazine™ is as local as it gets! Thank you to everyone who has helped make LCL Magazine possible and Thank you to all of our local advertisers.

KarenMoses,Publisher

HEALTHY SPRINGSALADS

A nice, simple, not so boring salad is one of the best ways to showcase all your favorite greens. Just a little dressing on some kale or arugula and you’re all set for a perfect side dish to grilled chicken or a grilled steak. But, what about when you’re not planning cooking a big meal, and want your salad to be the main event? You’re going to want a salad with a little more going on, like LOTS of veggies, crunchy nuts, sweet fruit, and chewy grains that will excite your palate and fill you up.

One way to make a salad more substantial and keep it healthy is to add some protein. Some good exaples of protien are chicken, salmon or steak. And, it’s not all about meat nuts, grains and cheese can add filling protein too

If you’re still feeling a little hungry, you know what pairs great with salad? Soup! A hearty beef and barley soup would be a wonderful addition on a cool Spring evening

Beet, Arugula, Granny Smith Apple Salad

Ingredients:

3 large beets (or 6 small beets)

3 medium granny smith apples, peeled cored and chopped small

3/4 cup chopped raw pecans

3 1/2 packed cups of baby arugula, lightly chopped 1/2 medium orange, juiced and zested

2 Tbsp. olive oil plus more for baking beets

1 Tbsp. apple cider vinegar

1-2 Tbsp. raw honey, melted

Sea salt (to taste)

Ground black pepper (to taste)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400F. Wash and dry beets, and trim off the leaves and root tip (leaving the skin on). Drizzle a little olive oil over each beet and sprinkle each with a dash of sea salt. Wrap each beet individually in aluminum foil and place on a baking sheet. If using smaller beets bake for about 50 minutes, if using larger beets bake for about 90 minutes or until a fork can pierce the beet easily.

2. Remove the beets from the oven and allow them to rest for about 10 minutes. Unwrap each beet and drain the excess beet juice into a small bowl and set aside. Chop the beets into small bite sized pieces and place in a large mixing bowl.

3. Fill the bottom of a medium sized saucepan with water and place a steamer basket in it. Place over medium-high heat and bring the water to a bowl. Add the chopped apples, cover and steam for about 4-5 minutes or until apples are soft and tender. Drain and add the steamed apples to the bowl with the beets.

4. Place your chopped pecans in a medium sized skillet over medium-high heat and cook until lightly toasted, stirring frequently. Set the pecans aside.

5. To make the dressing, take the reserved beet juice and add the 2 Tbsp. of olive oil, apple cider vinegar, raw honey, orange juice and orange zest. Stir and add sea salt and black pepper to taste. Add additional orange juice or vinegar if you like. Pour the dressing over the beet mixture and toss to coat. Add the arugula and toasted pecans and toss again.

6. Serve immediately or place in fridge until ready to serve.

NOTE: For those that eat dairy, a bit of blue cheese crumbles on the top of the salad is delicious.

HEALTHY EATING

BUT ISN’T EVERY SALAD A WEIGHT-LOSS SALAD?

Pretty much any salad can be a part of a weight loss meal plan but, if you’re looking for a salad for lunch or dinner, it needs to have the right ingredients to keep you going.

According to studies, all weight loss salads should contain: at least 15 grams of protein whole grain carb sources (eg. brown rice, pasta, buckwheat, quinoa) starchy veggies (eg. sweet potatoes, potatoes) less than 600 calories at least 5g+ of fiber less than 25g of fat with less 8g of it being saturated

Lean protein and fiber rich ingredients make filling salads which means you don’t get hungry an hour after lunch. Naturally occurring healthy fats are also an important ingredient in keeping you feeling full, and carbohydrates are also important in keeping you feeling satisfied. That's why portions and the right ingredients are so important.

I box of Quinoa

1 English Cucumber

1 Red Onion

Grape tomatoes

Small Jar of Kalamata Olives

1 (15 ounce) can Garbanzo Beans

Crumbled Feta cheese

Fresh or Minced Garlic

Dried Oegano

2 Lemons

Red Wine Vinegar

FOR BOTH SALADS

Dijon Mustard

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Sea Salt

3 large bBeets

3 medium Granny Smith Apples

12 Ounce Pkg Raw Pecans

Baby Arugula

1 medium orange

Apple Cider Vinegar

Raw Honey

Black Pepper

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UpComingEvents

MARCH

March 23- Easter Egg Hunt at First Southern Veteran’s Park from 11:00-1:00. Churches are bringing desserts

March 27- Sixth Lenton Lunch: 12:00 at Stanford Christian Church

March 28 –Eddie Price will present a program “Battle of the Blue Licks” at 6:00 pm at the Lincoln County Public Library as part of the Countdown to the Siege Series

March 29-Good Friday –“Stations of the Cross” Program

APRIL

April 8- Solar Eclipse

April 9- Stanford-Lincoln County Tourism Meeting at 1:00 pm at the L & N Depot.

April 13-Bluegrass Greensource Mainstreet Cleansweep litter pick up event from 9:00 am-12:00 pm. Meet in front of the Chamber of Commerce Office across from the courthouse

April 19-Friday Night Car Cruise-In on Main Street 5:00-8:00 pm

April 20-Trail Pleasure Saddle Club Horseshow Event Rain date- April 27 | Sponsors needed

April 25th- Tentative opening day for tours of the William Whitley House and Gift Shop

April 27- Wilderness Trail Jeep Siege at Logan’s Fort Park

MAY

May 4 -Derby Brunch -William Whitley House Endowment Fundraiser to celebrate the 150th Kentucky Derby at the Ballroom from 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Tickets available soon

May 7- Chamber of Commerce Banquet will be held at Arcadia

May 14 - Stanford-Lincoln County Tourism Meeting at 1:00 pm at the L & N Depot

May 17- Friday Night Car Cruise-In on Main Street from 5:00-8:00 pm

May 17 -19- Siege of Logan’s Fort Event

May 18-Trail Pleasure Saddle Club Horseshow Event Rain date May 25 Sponsors needed

JUNE

June 1st- Community Shredding Event in front of Courthouse from 9:00 am-12:00 pm

June 1-Lincoln County Public Library Summer Reading Program Kick Off from 12:00-2:00 pm

June 11- Stanford-Lincoln County Tourism Meeting at 1:00 pm at the L & N Depot

June 15-Trail Pleasure Saddle Club Horse show Event. Rain date June 22. Sponsors needed

Lincoln County Fair 18th - 25th

June 21- Friday Night Car Cruise In on Main Street from 5:00-8:00 pm

JULY

July 4- Independence Day Celebration at 9:00 am in front of the courthouse.

July 9--Stanford-Lincoln County Tourism Meeting at 1:00 pm at the L & N Depot

July? – Off Road Vehicle Event at the Drive In

July 19-Friday Night Car Cruise In on Main Street from 5:00-8:00 pm

AUGUST

August 13--Stanford-Lincoln County Tourism Meeting at 1:00 pm at the L & N Depot

August 16-Friday Night Car Cruise In on Main Street from 5:00-8:00 pm

August 17-Trail Pleasure Saddle Club Horseshow Event Rain date- August 24 Sponsors needed

August 23rd - The PBK Bank WPBK-FM Death Valley Bowl Lincoln vs Garrard & Casey vs Green County

From the Rex Ramsey Files “The Grass Widow”

Editor’s Note: This series involves a fictitious reporter covering real-life news stores. Our made-up reporter is John Robert Ramsey, nicknamed “Rex”, because his first stories for the paper were train wrecks The details of the people and facts are real, as they were reported at the time The reporter’s conversations are fictitious but are based on true facts Any named person other than the reporter is an actual person who was involved in this matter

It was Sunday morning, the twenty-third of September 1894

Twenty-one-year-old George Pennington was full of whiskey and desire when he returned to Wilson Adams’ place in Bee Lick

He had a pistol and a shotgun and said, “I’m going to clean out the whole she-bang ”

Adams had earlier ordered him away He didn’t like the attention that Pennington was paying to his daughter Mattie

Married six years earlier, Mattie Adams Stamper was back home because she was a “grass widow,” a peculiar term for a woman who is separated, divorced, or whose husband is gone for periods of time.

Hearing Pennington’s threat, Wilson Adams started in the house for his own gun, but his daughter Celia’s husband, William Hale, stopped him and got the weapon himself

Adams told Pennington again to go away

Pennington was determined and defiant, his judgment clouded by the whiskey He replied, “I’d as well kill you anybody else ”

The facts of what happened next were in dispute with either Pennington firing first or being mortally wounded before he could get off a shot

You see, by this time William Hale had slipped away from the house and had flanked Pennington

From his new vantage point, he had a clear shot at young Pennington.

Bang. The shot echoed out. Pennington cried out and fell to the ground. He was still alive, but the shot through his breast would prove fatal a few hours later.

William Hale immediately went to Stanford and gave himself up to Sheriff Menefee The examining trail was set for Wednesday morning I got the preliminary details from Sheriff Menefee and from Hale himself, while in jail

At the hearing, county attorney J B Paxton put on three witnesses for the prosecution who contradicted much of what Hale and Adams stated in their testimony, which testimony was the same facts Hale told me at the jail

The three witnesses were Tom Manuel, Tom Napier, and Cyrennus Ware They were on the hill overlooking the scene and were attracted by the commotion taking place

Their testimony put Pennington’s distance from the house at 185 to 200 yards They also said that Hale fired the first shot, not Pennington.

This long distance from the house meant that the shotgun and pistol threat was not as imminent as the defense had stated, and Hale taking the shot meant that he had decreased the distance between them himself.

The resulting conclusion being that self-defense was not necessary without that action by Hale

Over the objection of defense attorney W H Miller, County Attorney Paxton also produced a number of the love letters that Mattie Stamper wrote to George Pennington

The letters were poetic and overflowing with terms of endearment

In fact, they showed Mattie to be a lady of abundance of heart and a super abundance of affection

It was at this point that Attorney Paxton made a motion, “Your Honor, a woman who can write so well might be able to throw a flood of light on the tragedy.”

The court agreed and the hearing was continued until the next day for her to be present.

She failed to show up, though. Her friends produced a doctor’s certificate that she was too ill to be present

Continued on page 21

NEW FARMERS IN TOWN

Broughtontown Community Center breaks ground on Farmers Market Pavilion

By Abigail Roberts

It was a labor of love and now all that hard work is coming to fruition as the Broughtontown Community Center has officially broken ground on a new Farmers Market pavilion. Project Manager Cathy Thompson said she began working on the grant proposal for the project in 2022 when the Kentucky Agriculture Development Board announced available funds for communities interested in growing agriculture

With support of the Broughtontown Community Center (BCC) Board of Directors, Thompson began the grant writing process to pursue the funds

Thompson said the process required submitting bids from potential builders, as well as a detailed plan of how the market would operate on a regular schedule

“Throughout the winter of 2023, I worked on the grant and every month I would fill our board in on where I was in the process,” she said “It takes a whole lot of work ”

In Spring of 2023, the grant was ready to be submitted. The grant was reviewed by the Lincoln County Fiscal Court and the Kentucky Agriculture Development Board.

The $20,000 project received financial support from both the fiscal court and the KADF. The grant was officially approved in Oct 2023 “The grant covers the building of a 24 x 32 foot covered pavilion,” Thompson said

A ribbon-cutting and ground-breaking ceremony was held on Saturday, Feb 17 to welcome the new project The ceremony was followed by soup, sandwiches and salad, along with live music by Alayna Bodner and a live auction “Our timeline gives them anywhere from ground breaking on Feb 17 up through April 26 to have complete build,” Thompson

Several local elected officials attended the ground-breaking, including Magistrate Dan Gutenson who made the BCC board aware of the available funds in 2022 and has been instrumental in the project, Thompson said.

“We anticipate having our market open at least by the first of May Our target opening date is May 1, if not sooner,” she said “Our market will run from May 1 through the end of September ”

The market will be open every Saturday, she said Be sure to follow the Broughtontown Community Center Facebook page to keep up with current and upcoming events In addition to events, BCC offers rental facilities and is continually adding free programs to the schedule

“We’ve got a lot going on,” Thompson said “We do nightly dinners two times a month on Friday night We’ve got the Extension Office coming to do extension classes and of course we rent our facilities for birthday parties and baby showers. We’ve got a lot of things going on, a little bit of everything.”

Thompson said the group is very excited to add the Farmers Market pavilion to the site.

WHAT'SHAPPENIN' INCRABORCHARD?

B Y A B I G A I L R O B E R T S

C O N T R I B U T I N G W R I T E R

Crab Orchard is open for business, says Mayor Jesse Harris. There are many projects in the works for the City of Crab Orchard these days, including a large annexation that will bring even more businesses into city limits.

The city has been working on an annexation proposal that will bring the William Whitley House, a bed and breakfast near Cedar Creek Lake and a bait shop into city limits, as well as an area on Ky. Hwy. 39 south. “It’s about eight miles,” Harris said. The plans have been sent to a surveyor and the Crab Orchard City Commission has met with the Lincoln County Fiscal Court, which gave its support for the annexation, Harris said.

Another major project the city has been working on is a storm water project.

The city received $300,000 in ARPA funds and has allocated that money to help alleviate some major drainage issues within the city.

“We’ve pretty much got all the easements done and everything done that we need to do for them to actually start doing the work on it,” Harris said.

The project should help with flooding on the east side of town.

“At times that water will get up in people’s houses down there on Maple Street,” Harris said. “This should really help that.”

A new gas pipeline is also currently being constructed and will make its way through Crab Orchard, Harris said.

Delta Natural Gas broke ground on the construction on Nov. 20, 2023 and the project should be completed by late this year or early 2025. The line will expand into Rockcastle County as well.

“We’re looking forward to it getting to our city,” Harris said. In Nov. 2023, the City of Crab Orchard ended prohibition and voted to allow the sale of alcohol within city limits.

Since then, City Clerk Nancy Baker said a package liquor store called “The Lifted Spirit” has applied to sell on Main Street.

Malt beverages will also be sold at the local D&M gas station and the Family Dollar Tree, as well, Baker said.

“We’re allowed one more liquor store, we’re allowed two as our quota,” she said. “There’s a lot going on on Main Street.”

Harris said the city is working hard to put businesses in all the store fronts in the city.

“We’re open for business,” Harris said. “We have high-speed internet, we have two water systems and land here in the city that’s available for projects. We’ve got a lot of stuff going here.”

Let’s meet in Crab Orchard, Well Armed!

By Jonathan L. Smith, Lincoln County Historian

For the Great Settlement Area of Kentucky in the late 1700s, Crab Orchard was the last outpost of civilization coming from or going to Cumberland Gap, and everything in between was “the wilderness ” It was common in early newspapers to give notice of trips through that wilderness like this announcement from the November 1, 1788, Kentucky Gazette:

Notice

A Large company will meet at the Crab-orchard the 19th of november in order to start early the next day through he Wilderness. As it is very dangerous on account of the Indians, it is hoped each person will go well armed.

In 1788, Kentucky was still a part of Virginia, and Kentucky’s delegates to the state convention in Virginia met the same way. The following was published on April 12, 1788 in the Kentucky Gazette:

Notice

It is hereby give, that a company will meet at the Crab-orchard on Sunday the 4th day of may to go through the Wilderness, and to set out on the 5th, at which time most of the Delegates to the state convention, will go

(both notices printed here as originally published, with grammar, punctuation, and spelling the same)

Later, “the” Crab Orchard would be known to more than just Kentucky’s settlers when its natural springs gave rise to a resort industry, and after 1866 a train ticket could be purchased for Crab Orchard in places like New York City

During this time that Crab Orchard was on the edge of the wilderness, William Whitley was known as “The Guardian of the Wilderness Road”, providing a safe haven for travelers and organizing parties to fight and defeat the savages He was also a Patriot, fighting the British when needed

Pictured is William Whitley’s, which was on display at Logan’s Fort a few years ago. He was carrying this when killed in Canada during the War of 1812 (in October 1813), as part of the Kentucky militia.

William Whitley was buried on the battlefield in Canada but his horse, with one eye shot out, his rifle, and powder horn were returned to his widow in Lincoln County. The inscription on the powder horn, pictured, reads:

William Whitley, I am your horn;

The truth I love, a lie I scorn.

Fill me with best of powder, Ile (I’ll) make your rifle crack the lowder.

See how the dread terrifick ball

Make Indians bleed and Torrey’s fall. You with powder Ile (I’ll) supply For to defend your Liberty.

William Whitley was 64 years old when he died in service to his country.

WHAT'SHAPPENIN' INSTANFORD?

The good news is that the City of Stanford finally received enough rainfall to lift the State of Emergency that was put in place over the winter amid a statewide drought.

Stanford Mayor Dalton Miller said he is relieved to lift the state of emergency but the city is still asking residents to voluntarily conserve water as much as possible.

Water conservation was a big push over the winter as the city faced major water shortages due to little to no rainfall in the fall of 2023.

Going into the new year, the city had to declare a state of emergency and ask residents to conserve as much water as possible until a significant amount of rainfall was received.

Miller said Stanford is excited to welcome some new businesses to town including Burger King which opened at the beginning of the year.

The Cumberland Family Medical Center near Walmart is expected to open this summer, Miller said.

Stanford is also expecting a new Tractor Supply on U.S. 150, where Bluegrass Mobile Homes used to be located. “They’re supposed to start on it in April,” Miller said.

The city appreciates the businesses that have chosen Stanford as their new home, he said.

“I just want to thank all the businesses that we have and ask everybody to shop local and do all we can for our local people.” he said.

A new peddler’s mall called Blackberry Hills Vendors Barn is also opening up in the Lincoln Plaza in the former Walmart building, he said.

The city is getting ready to start blacktopping season, the mayor said.

Several city streets are scheduled to be resurfaced including: Cut Off Street, Anderson Heights, Herndon Avenue, Spring Valley Drive, Harmon Heights, and Darst Street/Rosemont.

“We’re still waiting on the state to blacktop Main Street,” he said.

A road safety project is also underway on Ky. Hwy. 78 from Stanford to Hustonville.

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WHAT'SHAPPENIN' INHUSTONVILLE?

B Y A B I G A I L R O B E R T S

There are several exciting spring events coming up in Hustonville that you won’t want to miss!

On March 23 everyone of all ages is invited to grab their baskets and participate in the second annual Easter Egg Hunt. The Easter Egg Hunt, sponsored by the Hustonville Heritage Days Festival, will take place Saturday, March 23 at 11 a.m.

Mayor Timothy Smith said the City of Hustonville will also be hosting a city wide Clean Up from March 13 through March 24. Dumpsters will be placed in the City Hall parking lot and the mayor said the city plans to host a clean up day for everyone to volunteer.

On March 25 an informational meeting will be held at Hustonville City Hall for the first annual Heritage Days Pageant. At 6 p.m., information on the Little Miss pageant will be presented. Information about the Queen pageant will be at 7 p.m.

The pageant will take place during the annual Heritage Days Festival which will be held June 28-29.

The mayor said the festival currently has vendor openings and you can find more information about that on the Hustonville Heritage Days Festival Facebook page.

The city will also be hosting the second annual Blessing of the Bikes (motorcycles) on May 18 at 11 a.m. at Hustonville Baptist Church.

Smith said it was a fun event last year and they hope to have an even bigger turn out this year.

“There will be continued work going on at the City Park. This year we’re going to be putting the roof on our stage,” Smith said,” and also we’re trying to put some new playground equipment up this year.

The city is discussing expanding its city limits through annexation, Smith said, as well as several water projects.

Hustonville received a $300,000 Clean Water grant, which was used to purchase 800 new water meters and an upgraded radio system.

We had a planning meeting in February to put $3 million more in infrastructure into our water system,” Smith said.

Smith said $2 million of that would be grant money and the city would finance the remaining $1 million. The project would upgrade several outdated parts of the city’s water infrastructure.

We have stuff that was put in the ground in the 1940’s down Ky. Hwy. 2141, which is a main feeder line. It’s old and needs to be replaced,” Smith said. “It’s a good time because Ky. Hwy. 2141 is a developing area and with new houses going in, it would be difficult for the current infrastructure to supply.”

The city is getting close to the bid process, Smith said. A road safety project is underway on Ky. Hwy. 78 from Stanford to Hustonville.

“From Stanford to Hustonville they will be doing tree trimming, shoulder cleaning, shoulder expansion, and one to three curves will be reoriented so they’re not flat. They are also re-doing drain tile underneath the roads,” Smith said.

As always, the City of Hustonville is a busy place! To keep up with What’s Happenin’ in Hustonville, grab a copy of each edition of Lincoln County Living Magazine!

“There’s a lot of good things going on in Hustonville,” Smith said.

By Jonathan L Smith, Lincoln County Historian

George Dunlap Hopper, Jr. was born in Stanford, Kentucky on July 13, 1889. His father, George, Sr. operated a grocery and hardware business in Stanford and the family lived on East Main Street at the time George graduated from Stanford High School in 1907.

After working as a clerk in his father’s store, George graduated from Centre College as class valedictorian in 1913 He then studied law at the University of Louisville, with some time off to be the Principal of Munfordville High School, before becoming an attorney-at-law in 1916 After practicing law for a short while in Louisville, he relocated to Danville where he practiced law and was a district representative for Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company

As the United States was drawn into the Great War, now known as World War I, George failed a physical examination for service in the United States Army due to a defect in this eyesight. As a bachelor during this time, the young attorney must have been quite the lady’s man, as the Danville Messenger newspaper wrote, “Had they placed a pretty girl a mile or so away, George would have seen her distinctly, even catching the color of her eyes ”

In June 1917, George traveled to Washington, D C with the intention of taking the examination for the Navy Assistant Paymaster job There were so many test takers that he decided to sit for an examination with the Consul Service of the United States By August, he had received word that he passed the examination and by November 1917, he was in D C awaiting his initial post

On January 15, 1918, while the Great War was raging, George left the United States and on January 31, 1918, he arrived as his first assignment at the United States Consulate in Stockholm, Sweden. By 1920, he came back to Danville to marry Minnie Durham, and together they traveled the world in the course of his service Their daughter, Virginia, was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1922

Between 1917 and his retirement in 1950, George was a U S Diplomat in Stockholm, Sweden; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Hamburg, Germany; Dunkirk, France; Chile; Montreal, Canada; Casablanca, Morocco; Winnipeg, Canada; Newfoundland, Canada; and Hong Kong, China.

While he was the U.S. Consul to Morocco in 1937, his wife fell ill and died in a Paris hospital. He later married Sue Cushing Hayes of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. George undoubtedly shook hands and had conversations with many world leaders, but history records a conversation he had with King George and Queen Elizabeth when they visited Winnipeg during his tenure in 1939.

George Dunlap Hooper, Jr ’s diplomatic passport photo taken in December 1917 His descripti8on was 5 feet 11 inches, high forehead, blue eyes, straight nose, medium mouth, round chin, brown hair, and medium face

While all of his work, by its very nature, was important to the foreign relations of our country, his time in Hong Kong after World War II, from 1945 to 1949, was critical. He was sent there as Consul General to reestablish the consulate after Japan’s surrender After successfully doing that, he returned to Washington D C and finished out his thirty-three-year career He then moved to Ashville, North Carolina where he died in 1969 at the age of seventy-nine, followed by his wife Sue’s passing six month later

His daughter Virginia married Frederick Tupper in 1946, and the couple moved to London, England By 1954, they were divorced, and Tupper married a British film star, Barbara Gurnhill Virginia resumed the use of her maiden name and died unmarried in New York City in 1996, apparently without remarrying or having children of her own

George Hopper certainly had an interesting, globe-trotting life for a boy from Stanford, Kentucky

From the Rex Ramsey Files “The Grass Widow”

continued from page 10

The attorneys made their final arguments after the court was stymied by the doctor’s note, and Judge Varnon set bail at $1,000 and found there was sufficient evidence to send the matter to the Circuit Court.

Five weeks later, after a trial rehashing the facts from the examination hearing, there was a hung jury Four of the jurors wanted capital punishment, seven for a term of two to twentyone years, and one for acquittal

The new trial was held four months later in March 1895, but this time the very fair to look at Mattie Stamper was present, and she helped the prosecution decipher her handwriting in the multitude of love letters

After a couple of hours of deliberation, the jury came back with a verdict of two years in the penitentiary, the minimum sentence they could give for a guilty verdict

While two years can be a long time behind bars, William Hale and his attorneys accepted the verdict as being light enough that it was better to serve the time than appeal it. The verdict from another trial could be worse.

Two weeks after the trial, Deputy Sheriff Richard Newland transported William Hale to Frankfort where he served his two years in the state penitentiary

Postscript I- William Hale returned to Lincoln County and lived out the rest of his life as a law-abiding and productive member of the Halls Gap community He was a member of Fairview Baptist Church, but his funeral was held at Mt Moriah Church to hand the large crowd that attended when he died in 1932

Postscript II- At the trials, Hale’s lead attorney W H Miller was assisted by attorney Harvey Helm, a future Congressman from Lincoln County who was elected to seven terms in the United States House of Representatives

Postscript III- Mattie Adams Stamper remarried to James Cain and was a resident of Louisville when she died in 1955

LINCOLNCOUNTY HighSchool AthleticNews

BasketballRecap

Both the girls and boys teams at Lincoln County High School fell in the semifinals of the 45th District Tournament, failing to qualify for the 12th Region Tournament. It marked the first time in the past nineteen years that at least one of the two teams was in the regional tournament, but both teams showed great promise for next season and beyond

Despite the early post-season exit, each team’s season was relatively successful The girls, under first year head coach Caitlin Hall Parson, recorded the most wins by an LCHS girls team since 2018-19 with fourteen wins For the boys team, the Patriots overachieved with sixteen wins, which impressed his coaching peers to the point of Jeff Jackson being named the Kentucky Association of Basketball Coaches’ 12th Region Coach of the year

Levi Rogers, a 2008 graduate of Lincoln County High School, was named the head football coach on February 21, 2024 He replaces Josh Jaggers who resigned early that month

In addition to being a Lincoln County graduate, Levi was an assistant coach under Lincoln County head coaches Travis Leffew and Spencer Crutchfield. Levi has hit the ground running and all reports about his effort and interaction with the players have been positive.

Levi lives in Lincoln County with his wife Cheyenne, daughter Zoey, and son Luca, pictured avove

Jeff Jackson, head boys coach at Lincoln County High School, was named 12th Region Coach of the Year by the Kentucky Association of Basketball Coaches In twenty-one seasons at LCHS, Coach Jackson has won 416 games, and has won more than 600 games in his coaching career, including the 1992 State Championship while at University Heights (Graphic Courtesy of Lincoln County Public Schools’ Communications Department)