Carlisle County is located in the northwest portion of the Jackson Purchase, bounded by Ballard, Graves, and Hickman counties, and the Mississippi River, having an area of 1910 square miles. It was the 119th in order of formation and the last formed in the Jackson Purchase and second youngest in the state. Its county seat is Bardwell, incorporated in 1879. Carlisle County was created out of Ballard County on May 3, 1886. However, the Ballard County citizens south of Mayfield Creek had wanted a separate county at the time Ballard was created but were denied. Beginning with the very first…
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One hundred thirty-three years ago, Willie Alben Barkley was born in Wheel, Graves County, Kentucky, in a log cabin. When old enough, he reversed his name to Alben William because “just imagine the tribulations I would have had, a robust, active boy, going through a Kentucky childhood with the name of “Willie” and later trying to get into politics!” he explained in later years. Always a Democrat, his political ambitions took him from the House to the Senate to the position, at age 70, of Vice President of the United States (1949-1953, under President Harry S. Truman). And a grandson…