CASEY COUNTY NEWS      2, JULY 1941,         VOL.  27,  NUMBER 37.

                         RECALLS  FORMER  CITIZENS  OF  LIBERTY

    Mr. J.C. Fogle, of Yosemite, writes this paper as follows:
    "I see in the Casey County News where Police Judge Adolphus Wesley is having torn down one of the oldest houses in Liberty.  Eighty-five years ago there lived in this house two of the oldest citizens in the town of Liberty at that time.  They were Aunt Beckey and Uncle Sam Bailey.  They owned the place and lived and died there.  Uncle Sam was a carpenter and he built with his own hands a horse mill which was located just back of the residence.  They raised four children, three girls, Mildred, Betty and Gay ( the latter was always called G.)  and a son, Brack.   The son left Liberty when a young man.  Mildred became the second wife of Uncle George Sweeney, father of the late General Sweeney and grandfather of Dr. Wm J. Sweeney, of Liberty.  Mr. Ed Sweeney, of Lexington, is a son of Uncle George and Aunt Mildred.  There were several other children who later moved to Kansas.  Betty about the close of the Civil War married Col. Frank Wolford.  She was his second wife.  Gay or  "G,"  married John Riggins, an uncle of Billy Riggins.  Before Col. Wolford married Betty, he and his three children by his first wife, were living where Marion Humphrey now lives.  When Col. Wolford married Betty, they moved in with the Baileys.  Col. Wolford had a cellar dug under the Bailey house and walled it up with logs.  After the death of Uncle Sam and Aunt Beckey, Col Wolford and family moved to Columbia,  Adair County.   Up to the time of her death, Aunt Beckey had officiated at the birth of every child born in Liberty and for ten miles or more around Liberty.   The last time she was at our home was in 1873, when my youngest brother, Preston, was born.
J.C. Fogle,  Yosemite, KY"
James Clay Fogle
James C. Fogle, Deceased------------------------

     My last will and testament, I will to wife H.C. Fogle all my personal property absolutely. I also will to my wife H.C. Fogle the use of all my real estate as long as she lives. At my wifes death I bequeathe to my daughter Ruby L. Fogle my home place, composed of the following deeds: The M M White deed, the McD. Fogle deed and the J. M McGraw deed.
     I bequeathe to my son McDowell Fogle the remainder of my lands composed of the following deeds: The W.T. Jasper deed, A deed from the Fogle Heirs; The Edward Ritche deed also my half interest in the Irvin Short land; and a seven acre tract patented in my name.
     My daughter Ruby shall have a free passway over any of my land to any land she may possess. I appoint as executors of this my will my son McDowell Fogle and my daughter Ruby L. Fogle without bond; written with my own hand this 4th day of January 1937.

Witness- R.B. Young                        Jas. C. Fogle
Witness- L.F. Young
State of Kentucky
            Sct.
Casey County
      I, John W. Weddle, Clerk of the Casey County Court, certify that the foregoing instrument of writing purporting to be the last will and testament of James C. Fogle deceased was filed in open court at a special term thereof on December 29, 1945 Casey County Court, for probation. Whereupon the same was probated and ordered to be recorded as the last will and testament of James C. Fogle, deceased.
And the same was duly recorded.
Given under my hand this 31 day of December 1945.
               John W. Weddle, Clerk
               By Agnes Baldock D.C.
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