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Each month, The Kentucky
Explorer magazine receives literally scores of letters from
our faithful readers. Whenever possible, we try to publish as
many of them as possible in the 12 pages we have set aside for
"Letters to the Editor."
Here are actual
letters from our April 2002 issue:
More About March 2002
Photo
Dear Editor:
The identity of the elderly
woman pictured on page 68 of the March 2002 issue of The Kentucky
Explorer is actually Lottie Finnell Williams, not Catherine Hall.
Lottie Finnell Williams
was my great-great-great-grandmother, the daughter of John A.
and Catherine Surry Finnell. She was born ca. 1805 and married
John Williams, Sr., in 1830. Lottie lived to the ripe old age
of 102 years and ten months.
The above information is
documented by the Estill County Historical and Genealogical Society,
Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), the Boonesborough
Society, and elderly descendants of her family.
The original photo, which
is believed to have been taken at or near the Fort Boonesborough
site in the late 1800s, is now displayed in the museum at Fort
Boonesborough State Park, donated by Lottie's grandson, Vernon
Jackson. An entire collection of her dishes was also part of
the donation, but all but one have since been stolen.
Elmer N. Wall
21 Sylvania Avenue
Winchester, KY 40391
Civil War Veteran Gets
New Headstone
Dear Editor:
William W. Mosier enlisted
as a Tennessee volunteer at the beginning of the Civil War and
rose through the ranks to become captain of a calvary unit prior
to the end of the war. He came to Kentucky, after the war was
over, with his second wife and their children and settled in
Carter County in the Rattlesnake Ridge area outside of Grayson.
In June 2001 two descendants
of William Wesley Mosier; Earnest E. Mosier and his eldest son,
Earnest E. Mosier II; placed a new tombstone at his grave in
the Stevens Cemetery.
Betty E. Mosier
1010 Averill Avenue
Mansfield, OH 44906-3904
More About Job Iron
& Steel Company
Dear Editor:
I am a retired steel plant engineer. Concerning
the photo of the Job Iron and Steel Company, shown on page 33
of the February 2002 issue, this mill was located about where
27th Street was, between the C&O Railroad and the Ohio River.
It was built in 1901 by the McCullough Brothers and was leased
to the B. J. Job Steel Company. It operated from 1908 to 1912.
Its raw materials probably came from Norton
Iron Works, just to the west, or Ashland Steel Company, a little
further west. All of these properties were purchased by the American
Rolling Mill Company (Armco Steel) in the 1920s.
Of these three companies, nothing is left,
except the Norton Foundry Building. The Mansbach Metal Company
of Ashland now owns all three tracts.
Keep up the good work with your magazine.
I enjoy it very much.
Lewis W. Dunn
3761 Tanglewood Drive
Ashland, KY 41102
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