Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from October 28, 1871 • A number of citizens spoke of petitioning the State Legislature for the authority to submit a road tax to the voters of Fulton County. They argue that the existing system was “unequal and inefficient.” • Several “pleasure parties” from Hickman and St. Louis encamped on Reelfoot Lake to hunt and fish. The Hickman party consisted of a number of the city’s most estimable ladies and gentlemen. • Susan M. Atwood, a very respectable Christian lady of Hickman, died at the residence of her son-in-law N. P. Harness on…
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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…