Item in the Mayfield Monitor, Wednesday, February 15, 1893: “Mittens Willett, well known young actress, died in New York of cancer.  Born in Columbus, Kentucky 30 years ago.  Appeared on the stage under name of Mary Anderson.  In 1884 she married Henry Aveling.  He was a suicide in 1891.  Left a five year old boy.  She was a niece of Col. Len G. Faxon of Paducah” (Graves Co. KY Newspaper Genealogical Abstracts, Volume 3, Mayfield Monitor). Her obituary in The New York Times, on February 10, 1893, states she made her debut on the stage with Mary Anderson’s company and…

“John Thomas Scopes, according to Berry Craig, landed a teaching job in Dayton, TN.  He told his sister, “I’m going there because it’s a small town with a small school where I won’t get in any deep water.”  The skinny, freckle-faced Paducahan made headlines worldwide in 1925 when he was convicted of teaching evolution.  “Brother didn’t think there was all that much to what he had done,” said sister Lela Scopes.   (Paducahans, Famous and Not So Famous, by Allan Rhodes, Sr. & John E. L. Robertson, Sr., pages 40-42) The famous Scopes Monkey Trial was held in Dayton, TN and…