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Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Historic Monarch Mill-Mt. Sterling, Ky.
Built in the 1880s, the Monarch Mill building continues to
be a reminder of Mt. Sterling’s rich history.
Photo below from wiki media.org, taken May 2014.
An ad from an old newspaper clipping from 1884 indicates the
owners of the Badger, Henry and Company also owned the roller mill that was
located on Montgomery Street in Sharpsburg.
Milling around the past
During its heyday, the Monarch Mill in Mt. Sterling was
the center of flourishing activity as local farmers brought their wheat, corn
and other grains to be processed and sold.
Located on the corner of South Maysville and East Locust,
the historic building that housed the mill still stands as a reminder of the
towns rich history and is currently owned by the Montgomery County Extension
Service.
The mill was constructed in the late 1880s in the Classic
Revival style and was owned by Badger, Henry and Company.
C. H. Petry and William S. Lloyd owned the business in
1892 and changed the name to Monarch Milling Company where they made such
products as the Monarch, Crown and Anchor flours.
Just a few years later, the mill claimed to have the
largest gasoline engines in the state to operate the grinding.
In 1918 Robert Collier purchased William S. Lloyds interest
in the mill according to the American Miller Magazine.
Collier lived on Richmond Avenue with his wife Mary,
their children, Mary Elizabeth and Robert Jr. and in 1940 he still owned and
managed the mill and his daughter was his bookkeeper.
Originally the site consisted of the flour mill with the
grain elevator and storage building being added around 1916 and the hay and
feed building between 1914 and 1929.
According to the National Registry of Historical Places,
the flour mill was the first structure built by the milling company on the site
and is a three-story, brick, flat-roofed building.
Prior to 1940 the brick walls on the south and west sides
were stucco with unpainted cement.
The main block of the building has three bays separated
by brick pilasters.
The entrance to the flour mill contains a double leaf
door with a segmentally arched transom.
Attached to the flour mill on the south side is a
one-story, two-bay building with a flat roof which was labeled
"office" on the 1886 Sanborn map.
This part of the building became the engine room in 1908
after a new office was added to the Locust Street frontage.
East of the original office is a three-bay, one-story
brick building which is also shown on the 1886 Sanborn map and houses the 60-horsepower
coal-fired engine which ran the mill.
A wood platform which is no longer standing connected the
flour mill with the office.
The first floor on the East Locust Street frontage has a projection
on the east side which covers two bays of the main block of the building and
has 2/2 windows capped by stone lintels. It was added between 1895 and 1901 and
is labeled as the office on the1901 Sanborn map. The former office on the south
side of the building became an oil room and storage.
South of the flour mill building is a metal clad building
composed of a shed-roofed three-story section and two-story gable roofed
section. The three-story section is labeled as grain elevator and the two-story
section as warehouse on the 1890 Sanborn map.
In 1895, a metal covering was added to the north wall of
the elevator and in 1914 the metal covering is shown on all the walls of the
elevator/ warehouse building.
South of this building and unconnected to the mill, was a
frame flour, salt, and sugar warehouse owned by the Trimble Brothers Wholesale
Grocery.
The Trimble Brothers warehouse was removed by 1914.
In 1886, the property between the flour mill and the
corner of Maysville and Locust was occupied by one-story frame buildings housing
a cobbler, blacksmith, and wood shop.
These buildings remained on the corner until 1908 when
the McDonald Brothers Coal and Feed Company built a frame complex on the
corner.
The coal and feed company was gone by 1914.
The Monarch Milling Company is significant as the only
extant example of the processing industries established in Mt. Sterling in the
late nineteenth century.
It is an example of the historic context Industry and
Transportation in Mt. Sterling, 1870-1940. Processing industries rose in
importance for Mt. Sterling after the town became the railhead of the
Elizabethtown, Lexington, and Big Sandy Railroad in 1872.
The complex is composed of three buildings and demonstrates
how the industrial facility grew over a fifty-year period while remaining a
vital local business.
The flour mill first appears on the Sanborn Insurance
Maps in 1886 and the hay and feed building was in place by 1929.
The site is an example of the mill property type in the
historical context Industry and Transportation in Mt. Sterling 1780-1940. It
meets the property type's registration requirements because it possesses
integrity of location through its relationship to the railroad. For integrity
of design, the porch additions and changes to windows have not obscured the
forms of the buildings and their relationship to one another.
The change in exterior fabric through the addition of
pressed metal, is an historic alteration
and was made on many mills during the period.
Most of the changes to the building have occurred around
the window and doorway.
Part of the transom has been filled in on the entry at
the corner of South Maysville and Locust and the glazing in the doubled windows
on the S. Maysville side have been replaced with multiple panes.
Although the shed roof of what was an open breezeway
joining the hay and feed building to the flour mill has been in place since
1929, the brick walls enclosing it have been added since 1940.
During those rolling years of prosperity, the Monarch
Milling Company was reported to have shipped about 15, 000 pounds of four per
week.
A notation in the early 1900s edition of the “American
Miller” magazine, reported that Crown and Monarch was the celebrated flour
brands of housewives all over Central and North Eastern Kentucky.
As the Montgomery County Farmers Market gets underway
near the old C.& O. train depot, and with plans for the Extension Service
to utilize the Historic Monarch Mill, an area that played such an important
role in the history of the town will be alive with vibrant activity just as it
was all those years ago.
Dulin Hill School- Fleming County Ky.
Students at the Washington School on Dulin Hill, Maysville
Road, Fleming County, Kentucky during the mid to late 1920s. Among the students
are Orville Carpenter, Frances Carpenter Blair and Jeune Carpenter Bake. For
those who recall Miss Bess Ross, this was one of her early schools to teach.
The one-room school was located on the boundary of Campbell farm (former Arthur
Gorman farm). Photo courtesy of Evelyn Pearl Carpenter
A walk to remember
Fleming County’s Dulin Hill School
While working on her family tree, Evelyn Pearl Carpenter
Anderson has pieced together information that helps document the people and
places of Fleming County’s past.
One interesting piece of local history is that of the
Dulin Hill School, where Evelyn Pearls father, Orville Jones Carpenter, and his
siblings obtained their early education.
The late Jeune Carpenter Baker, a sister to Evelyn’s
father, attended the Dulin Hill school from 1931 to 1940 and sent the following
memory to Evelyn to add to their family’s genealogy.
“I walked to Dulin Hill school with my brother D.R. It
was several miles over fields and fields and we had to climb fences to go from
one field to the next.
Spring and fall seasons were not bad, but winter was no
fun. Often, when we reached the building, our fingers and toes were just short
of frost bite.
There was a pot-bellied stove where we were instructed to
sit until we warmed up and the teacher had a basin of very cold water, and even
snow if there was any, into which we put our fingers until they gradually began
to feel normal.
The school sat on a hillside, surrounded by a huge
pasture which served as a playground for recess and grazing areas for any
horses that brought students and teacher to school.
Our teacher arrived early. I believe someone from
Flemingsburg brought her or maybe she roomed in the home of one of her students,
which was very typical.
It was her responsibility to keep the classroom clean,
the fire going in the stove and water in the bucket for drinking and brought up
from the well on the property.
Our teacher solicited the older boys to help her with
these tasks.
She was hired by a trustee system which was led by my
dad.
Her name was Kate Breen and we called her Ms. Kate.
The school had one large room which you entered through a
small closet-like room we called the cloakroom.
There were hangers for coats, etc., and shelves where we
stored our lunch bags.
The water bucket with one dipper for all, had a shelf of
its own.
A wall to wall blackboard in the large classroom was
opposite the cloakroom.
There was an American flag in a corner and pictures of
Washington and Lincoln above the board.
Desks were arranged in rows and two students occupied the
double desks which were bolted to the floor.
There were recitation benches at the front of the room
and the teacher’s desk was centered near the chalkboard.
Ms. Kate sat at her desk and called students to the front
when it was their time for lessons, grade one or Primer, went first.
There were not many students per class.
I remember when I was done reciting, I would listen to
the others and consequently I became a very good speller.
I was extremely bored and often practiced reading with
words upside down and backwards.
We had no science or social studies instruction and our
music consisted of songs we knew and shared.
We delighted in doing Christmas plays and learned our parts,
so we could perform for our parents.
At recess times, we played “Andy Over” with a ball we
threw over the school, Tag, Kick the Can, Red Rover, just to name a few.
Sometimes some of the older boys got in tussles and Ms.
Kate had to intervene. I don’t remember that she ever flogged anyone, but she
gave writing exercises for the guilty and misbehaving students were made to
stand with their noses pointed into the chalked circle on the chalkboard. I
don’t remember having a dunce cap.
The outhouse was a two-holer and we were instructed to
use it one at a time and always at recess.
If there was an emergency, we held up one finger or two.
I stayed at Dulin Hill through my seventh grade, then all
the county schools were consolidated into the main Fleming County School system
and we were bused to Flemingsburg.
Because I had been involved in our own school’s spelling
bees for 7 years, and could spell all the words given, I represented Fleming
County in the statewide spelling bee in Louisville, Kentucky.
The editor of the Flemingsburg Times Democrat, John Kelly
Ryan and his wife took me.
What a treat for a country bumpkin.
Needless to say, I didn’t compete well with the other
more progressive schools.
My experience at Dulin Hill was certainly unlike any I
would have had in the Fleming County schools.
I was superior in reading and language skills but very
deficient in social studies, science and art. If I had not had teachers who
believed in my potential, I would have failed. Instead I excelled in all except
geography. Later my husband Jack taught me how to read a map”.
Noted in the Prater family book complied by Evelyn Pearls
cousin, Mary Blair Hamm “The Carpenter children either walked to the Dulin Hill
School or rode their horse “Old Nell”, the distance of about two miles.
It is through first-hand stories such as these that helps
paint a picture of what life was like for our ancestors and adds an extra touch
to the history of our hometown communities.
The Arrasmith Family
The log cabin in Bethel, built by William around 1790, was home sweet home to four generations of Arrasmiths
Mrs. Evelyn, Anna Ware and Ewell Arrasmith
Ewell and his dad housing tobacco on their farm in Bethel
From Virginia to Bethel-the story of the Arrasmith family
The
family of Ewell Arrasmith has a long and rich history as residents in the town
of Bethel.
Many
of our readers will remember Ewell’s wife, Evelyn, as a music teacher at the
Bethel and Sharpsburg schools and his sister Anna Ware who taught at Bethel for
nearly 50 years.
A
little more than a dozen years ago, Evelyn penned a series of articles that
appeared in The Community Voice, a newspaper that is no longer in print, in
which she told how the Arrasmith family came to live at Bethel 229 years ago.
In her story Evelyn revealed that William Arrasmith built a log cabin around 1790 on property he acquired through a land grant from Benedict Swope, a time when Kentucky was still a part of Virginia.
In her story Evelyn revealed that William Arrasmith built a log cabin around 1790 on property he acquired through a land grant from Benedict Swope, a time when Kentucky was still a part of Virginia.
She
described the structure as “instead of being built as one log dwelling, it was
built as two, one larger than the other with a passage called a “dog-walk
between them. There was an attic above the larger one with a little stairway in
the middle of the room. A large fire place was on the west wall with a door on
the south side. The windows were glass. One pane even had a butterfly imprint
in it. The cabin had a shingle roof, the fireplace chimneys were made of rock
from bottom to top and the dwelling faced south, and the ground had a gentle
slope downward where there was a good spring with another spring close by”.
William,
born in 1762, who was the son of Thomas Arrasmith, married Susannah McBee in
Fauquier, Virginia.
Susannah
and William’s son John was born in the winter of 1802 in Bath County and is
described in Evelyn’s article as being a large man that weighed about 300 pounds,
a hard worker, kind and was very sociable.
The
story revealed that John was a bachelor and according to family history, one
day he saw a young lady hoeing corn in a nearby field, he watched her for a bit
and decided she was a good worker and would make an excellent wife. Her name
was Sarah Jones and was called “Sally”.
Sally
and John married and started a life together in the cabin and were the parents
of 12 children, but as was common in those days, many of them died at an early
age.
Their
daughter Roberta died the same day their youngest child, Daniel Day was born.
The
oldest child was Miranda, born 1833, she married Dawson Williams, Nancy, 1834,
married Coleman Crouch, William was born next in 1837 and died in 1850, Susanna
born in 1838, married Harvey Satterfield, Thomas, died the same year he was
born in 1841, next came John Wes, 1842, he died when he was 30, Richard, 1844,
died in 1906 and Mary Emily,1846 died in 1866, Edmond Valentine, 1848-1897, Elizabeth
1851-1885, Roberta was born in 1852 and died when she was two years old, and Daniel
Duty-1854-1916.
In
the 1870 census John is listed with the following household members, his wife Sarah,
their children John W. Richard, Edward, Elizabeth, and Daniel, along with their
domestic help, Charity Williams age 29, and possibly her children, Larkin,
Jenny, Eliza and Susan.
Charity,
was affectionately referred to as “Aunt Charity” and one of her children was
born beneath the little cabins kitchen window.
Evelyn’s
articles went on to reveal more of the Arrasmith family history in the
following manner.
“While
John was busy with his farming, Sarah was busy with her household chores which
included spinning and weaving.
Her
spinning wheel has the date 1845 carved on it. She had a cherry cupboard which
stood in the south-west corner of the big room where she kept her jams and
jellies.
John
wasn’t a hunter as such, but he did own a rifle which one of his descendants
has today.
Beneath
the stairs there was a small cupboard where molasses, flour, mill, sugar and
whiskey were kept.
Sometime
in the early 1800s the cabins logs were covered with weather boarding.
In
1881 Daniel Duty married Sudie Wilson, the daughter of George Wilson.
John
had passed away in 1885 and Dan and Sudie continued to live with Sarah until
her death in 1890.
Sudie
was more accustomed to living in a more modern home, so after Sarah’s death she
began to make some changes.
First,
she had workmen take out the log wall of the big room that ran along the
dog-walk, then she had a door cut out of the kitchen wall.
She
had each end of the dog-walk boxed in and portioned in half at the stairway to
make two rooms, and the porch roof was lowered from beneath the attic
windows.
Sudie
could now go from the front of the house to the kitchen without having to go
outside.
Sudie
and Daniels first child, Ina D, was born in 1887, Robert Ware came along two
years later and George Bruce in 1895 and sometime after his birth the family
moved to a home on Bethel Avenue.
From
1898 to 1907 there were other families that had lived in the little cabin which
included Bill Dwelly, Bill Day, Major Clark, Tom Lloyd, Pat and Jim Hickey and
Willy Peters.
After
Robert married Alta Robinson Vice in the spring of 1913 they started their
married life in the cabin, but before they married he and his sister Ina D.
painted the front room a soft green and the middle room a French grey. Ina D
hung a little pony shoe she had tied with a pink ribbon over the door in the
middle room.
Over
the years the couple made additional improvements to the home.
With
the help of Bill Clark, an African American friend and neighbor, whom the
family referred to as Uncle Bill, the fireplace in the front room was closed
just enough to add a grate, a process known as “setting the grate” so coal
could be used to burn for heat instead of logs.
A
flu was built in the kitchen with an opening not only on the kitchen side but
also through the middle room, so a parlor furnace could be used in the middle
room.
Rob
closed in the little room off the kitchen to make a dining room with a pantry.
He also had a cistern built at the back door.
Robert
and Alta were the parents of two children, Anna Ware born in 1914 and Ewell
Roberts in 1918.
Anna
Ware was a great favorite of Dan’s and he could be found carrying her across
the hill to his home on the avenue, where she enjoyed the attention of her
grandmother Sudie, aunt Ina D. and uncle Bruce.
Dan
died in 1916 so he never knew his grandson Ewell.
Both
children attended college, Anna Ware became a teacher and taught school at
Bethel for nearly 50 years and never married.
Ewell
also taught school for a short time before entering the military in 1941. He
was in the Air Force and stationed in Alaska during WWII.
In
August of 1945 he married a girl he met in college and when he was discharged
from service the last of October, Rob brought his bride to live at Bethel.
Evelyn
grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and the Arrasmith family wondered how she would take
to country life.
When
Ewell discovered she loved antiques and old things, he offered her Sarah’s
spinning wheel, reel and clock for a wedding gift.
Since
the clock and spinning wheel had been stored in the attic of the cabin, Evelyn
wanted to clean them up which was fine with Rob, but he did ask that one detail
on the clock remain.
He
told her that George Pringles mother had purchased the clock at Sarah’s estate
sale and years later George had brought the clock back saying it belonged in
the family.
Someone
had pasted an image of their race on the glass door and he asked Evelyn to
leave the image in place.
After
Rob and Alta moved into their home on land that adjoined the Arrasmith property
in 1948, Ewell and Evelyn became the 4th generation to live in the
family cabin.
Ewell
enjoyed woodworking and built their eating table and chairs and new kitchen
cabinets that were fashioned after the ones in Evelyn’s grandmother’s kitchen.
In
1959 the couple began to make more repairs to the home, the porch got new
floorboards and a railing was added.
They
painted the house grey with white trim, Rob gave them some shudders that had
been painted white and the roof was painted a barn red”.
The
little cabin is no longer standing, Ewell, Evelyn and Anna Ware have each
passed away, but their history still remains in the hearts of many of the
Bethel citizens.
Railroad Relics
Renovations of a Railroad Relic
The C.& O. Train Depot as it looks today, still has the potential to deliver additional charm and character to Mt. Sterling’s downtown area.
This 1879 map shows the Elizabethtown, Lexington &
Big Sandy RR to Mt. Sterling, as well as the Mt. Sterling Coal Road to
Rothwell. It was drawn before the Elizabethtown; Lexington & Big Sandy RR
was extended from Mt. Sterling to Ashland.
A relic of Mt. Sterling’s
by-gone days still stands as a monument to the town’s historic past; an iconic
symbol that foretells the importance of what railroads meant to small town
life.
Built in 1910, the
Chesapeake and Ohio train depot was the hub of the community and was built on the C & O line that ran
between Lexington and Ashland, Ky.
According to the
information on file for the National Registry for Historic Places, the
Chiles-Thompson Grocery Company sold a lot on the east side of South Maysville
St. to the C & O Railroad for the construction of a Passenger Station. The
railroad acquired another lot from H. Clay McKee with the stipulation that the
Passenger Depot be midway between Bank and S. Maysville St.
A “passenger shed” or
covered-way extended from the Passenger Depot to Bank Street and a baggage
depot was built west of the Passenger Station.
An article written by Kenn
Johnson in 2008 told of how Katie Bowles, a Montgomery County high school
student, had taken notice of the dilapidated depot and thought it needed to be
renovated.
Johnson’s article stated
that Katie, along with two of her friends, Brittany Hackworth and Suzie Bellot,
stepped up to the challenge and spearheaded a project that soon became a
schoolwide mission and became a hands-on learning experience for both students
and teachers.
Johnsons article went on
to say, “math students at MCHS were given geometry assignments dealing with the
enterprise, social studies students researched the history of the station, and
the English Department began work on a coffee-table book about the depot while
accounting students kept track of expenditures.
But the main help came
from the carpentry and Skills USA students who did the actual day-to-day work
under the guidance of instructor Jeff McCarty.
The Walker Construction
Co. provided heavy equipment to haul away concrete and other debris. Rumpke of
Kentucky provided a dumpster and the Mount Sterling city and street departments
have also provided equipment and support.
He said that the students discovered”
a boatload of information when they got inside the building and were fascinated
with the old receipts, train schedules and newspapers they found.
The Montgomery County
Historical Society replaced the roof several years ago. Memorabilia from the
station can be seen at the MCHS Museum.
The Chesapeake and Ohio
line was a mainstay for Mount Sterling passengers, but the Lexington and Big
Sandy was its earliest antecedent, established in 1852.
At first, trains went only
to Lexington, Louisville and Cincinnati, but after the 1880s, the local line
was linked to the east coast.
Mount Sterling's depot was
built around 1910, and it became a major market center for goods from the East
and Southeast.
Some older residents can
remember nostalgic school trips, visits to doctors in larger cities, returning
home for the holidays from college and watching the George Washington puff to a
stop at the depot in the afternoon.
The last passenger train
left the station on May 1, 1971, although a steam engine pulled an excursion
passenger train for one last trip on July 4, 1979.
Freight service ceased on
June 30, 1985, ending 115 years of rail service to Mount Sterling.
The most historic moment
at the train station, Johnson’s story related, occurred in 1948, when 5,000
people gathered by the rails to hear President Harry Truman as he campaigned on
his famous whistle-stop tour”.
The C & O Passenger
Train Depot still stands as a reminder of Mt. Sterling’s rich history and has
the potential to deliver additional character and charm to the community’s
downtown district.
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Thursday, March 31, 2016
Prudence Ann Gulley
While there are women like Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, and Sojourner Truth who have rightfully earned their place in history, there are others who have become heroes in their own right.
In homes across America, there are many females who have quietly made historical contributions to the family’s and communities they served.
One of Bath County’s guiding lights was Prudence Ann Wilson, born September 8, 1925, to Edgar and Mamie Taylor Wilson. She married her sweetheart, Owens Gulley in the early 1950s.
Mrs. Ann Gulley was a leader, a mover and a shaker. She not only taught her children to be self sufficient, well respected adults, she also greatly influenced many of the neighborhood kids as well.
Mrs. Ann’s wisdom, humor and down-to-earth personality continues to live on in the memories of all those who knew and loved her.
Sharpsburg native Mary Beth Lane said there are three things that come to mind when she thinks of Mrs. Ann; she loved the Lord, her church, her family,friends, a good joke, and she was always the first to arrive with a plate of food during times of sorrow or joy.
Nephews, Bruce and Ben Taylor said she was a strong willed , down-to-earth woman who was always in your corner and many a problem was solved on the front porch swing.
Even after her death in 1998, her three children, Lynn Ray, Lu Ann and Nancy utilize the lessons of life learned from their mother.
Her son Lynn Ray Gulley grew up to be a pediatrician and lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
“No one incident jumps out when I think of my mother's influence on my life but there are four things I learned from her through verbal communication and often by example that continue to be an integral part of my life to this day.
1)- You can be anything you want in life but you have to be willing to work hard. Dreams come true with hard work!
2)- Don't buy anything you can't afford.
3)- All people deserve your respect. I was raised in the late 50's and the 60's in an environment that didn't always respect people who were different.Whether you were black, white, poor, of a different religion or handicapped she taught me to respect everyone and their beliefs. Imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same.
4) It is okay to disagree with someone if you felt you were right.
These four things have served me well for 63 years. They were instilled in my life with love, a lot of patience, and when necessary (which was probably more often than I was willing to admit) the wrath of God and Prudence Ann Gulley,” Lynn said.
Daughters Nancy, w ho works at the Sharpsburg Citizen’s Bank and Lu Ann, Deputy Clerk at the Bath County Circuit Clerk’s Office, both live in the community where they grew up and each said they continued their mother’s wisdom when it came to rearing their own children.
Mrs. Ann believed whole heartily that family, friends and community were the staples of a great life and she lived by that rule.
“Mom was a great teacher when it came to treating people right”, Nancy said. “She was a firm believer that everyone deserved our respect. She loved to laugh and have fun. One thing I remember that was awesome; she was the best scary story teller in Sharpsburg! When I was around 9 or ten years old, all the neighbor kids would gather at nights on our front porch and wait for the supper dishes to be done and for mommy to come out and sit on the porch swing to tell them elaborate stories about fire witches and footprints leading up to houses in the snow and things that the kids would soak up in their minds and we're scared to walk home.One day she got a call from one of the parents asking her not to tell such scary stories because both her boys wouldn't sleep in their beds.Mom was always happy to help out with fun community events. She coordinated the Tom Thumb wedding they had at Bethel one year. She taught Sunday school at the Christian church for years. She along with others did many a float for May Day and was part of the planning crew for the big Sharpsburg high school reunion back in the early 90's.One year we made a Jolly Green Giant float, Bruce Taylor was the giant and I was a big red tomato. She loved helping out at school parties and was always there to help out at chili suppers and PTA fundraisers”, Nancy recalled.
Learning to cook and to watch over your neighbors were a couple of things that come to mind when LuAnn remembers her mother teaching her.
“She was a wonderful cook who was one of the first to take food and lend an ear to a family that had lost a loved one. She made sure Nancy and Lynn and I, knew how to cook. We had to learn to make biscuits from scratch, cut up a chicken and make a pie. She wanted us to be self sufficient, take care of ourselves and not be dependent on anyone else”, LuAnn remembered. “She left us a letter for after she passed and in it she said, "Don't argue over material things. Things wear out, love never wears out." .
She loved people and never met a stranger. She was a girl scout leader with Ms. Elizabeth Reed back in the 1970s. We had a day camp on Marvin Calvert’s farm with a sleepover on the last night.
She drove an old truck out of there and Ms. Elizabeth was sitting on the bed and bounced right out on the ground.
She taught us how to cook over a campfire and we earned lots of badges at that camp.
She was a Sunday school teacher at Sharpsburg Christian church and had so much fun at vacation bible schools. Anywhere she went she had fun. When my son Daniel was in grade school she danced on the stage to the Macarena and all the kids loved it. She and Mary Bruce Wilson went to a fashion show in Lexington and Mary Bruce won a trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Mommy took her to the show so Mary B took her to Mexico. I drove them to Lexington to meet the group and they kept thinking it was all a big hoax. It ended up being one of the best memories of her life. Mommy was the “Tater town” doctor. She pulled many a tooth, cleaned wounds and was ready to whip a kid into shape if they needed it” LuAnn said.
In addition to being a full time parent, Ann also helped keep the books and answer phone calls for her husband’s business. She also worked as a teller at the Citizen’s Bank of Sharpsburg, and Green Thumb.
Through the memories of her children and grandchildren, the legacy of one of Sharpsburg’s most beloved citizens will live on. Even though Ann Wilson Gulley’s name may not be written in the history books, her contributions continue to serve as a reminder that hard work, self reliance, and the concern for family, and friends will always make for a better society.
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