Felix Holt, author It was indeed Felix Holt who wrote and told our story.  He was born in Murray, Calloway County, Kentucky in 1898.  From his father he learned to appreciate great literature, but was destined to complete his formal education with high school.  It was perhaps experience rather than education which proved to be the most valuable asset to Felix Holt. He was a cartoonist for Stars and Stripes, the Army newspaper in Paris, during WW I.  This led him to serve as a cartoonist and later as a reporter for the newspapers in Chicago following the War.  He…

From the Mayfield Monitor, Saturday, April 23, 1881:  “Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, the 19th wife of Brigham Young, will lecture in Mayfield about the 12th of May.” What would the wife of Brigham Young be doing on the lecture circuit and why come to Mayfield? Ann Eliza went on the lecture circuit speaking out against polygamy, Mormonism, and Brigham Young after her divorce from Young and excommunication from the Latter Day Saints Church.  The divorce and excommunication make her an instant celebrity. Born September 12, 1844 in Nauvoo, Illinois, Ann Eliza, at 4 years of age, went to Salt Lake…