Jackson Purchase Historical Society will meet Oct. 30, 2021, at 10:30 AM Central Time via Zoom, viewing is available at the Graves County Public Library. We will be hosting Bernadette Rule who will talk about her book Dark Fire. Dark Fire is a historical novel. Bernadette Rule grew up in Graves County and heard the family story of the night the Drew and Lawrence families were killed by night riders in the summer of 1921. She is related to some of those killed. The night riders were part of a violent episode in Kentucky history known as the Black Patch…
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Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from October 21, 1871 • A cabin on the farm of Henry Campbell, near Hickman, caught fire and was completely destroyed. A child of the black family that resided in the cabin died. • Henry Ahlert, a worker at the Oswald Steam Furniture Shop, lost two fingers while feeding wood into a circular saw. • Dr. Benjamin, former Chief Medical Inspector of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederate States Army, settled in Hickman and began a medical practice. • The Catholic Bishop of the Louisville Diocese, Reverend William G. McClusky, lectured at the…