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Service Station when gas 17 cents a gallon
Crossroads at Rt. 70 and 837, Located in the southeastern portion of
Casey Co.
Fred and Mae Cain Owners
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Post Office and General Store, early 1900's Bethelridge, Kentucky.
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Argyle, Ky. residents are waiting for Typhoid Fever Vaccination at
Valley Oak School ground. Maxine McAninch is sterilizing Christine
Roy's arm for inoculation.
L to R but not in order: Alice Watson, Florence Rigney, Barbary J.
Godbey, Estella Ware, Mary Elsie Haggard, Alene Martin, Emily Watson,
Mary Roy, Eva Watson, Orella Wall Lawson, Casey Co, Health Dr.,
Bessie Henson, Christine Roy, Maxine McAnich, Edgar D. Wall, Marcella
Wesley, Leora Godbey, Delmer Roy, Thelmer Cravens, Bob Godbey, Hiran
Wall, Gabe Wall, Basil Roy, Gilbert, Cravens, Ray Hines, Earl Taylor.
Others unknown,
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In the early nineteen hundreds through the fortys, tobacco was the
main cash crop in eastern Casey County. Photo was made about 1936.
Left to Right: Thelmer Cravens, Clinton Gadberry, Albert Cravens,
Ezza Walls, (unknown).
Family Gathering
Back row on left without hat Jesse Franklin Vaught son of James
Killies Vaught. Back row 3rd from left is Charles Waddle. 2nd row the
2nd person on left is Eldora Dick-Waddle. Lady holding two babys
Cordellia (Waddle) Vaught wife of Jesse Franklin Vaught. Front row on
right sitting Ida Florence (Adams) Waddle. Ida is Grandmother of Gene
Pitman. She died 1918 at age 23.
Information provided by Gene Pitman.
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Stearns, Ky. Coal and Lumber Co.
Justin Stearns, owner and founder of Stearns Coal and Lumber Co.
consisted of as many as 15 mines in an area of 25 to 30 thousand
acres. When the pictures were made, page 54 and 55, the K and T
(Kentucky and Tennessee) train was also company owned. The little
donkeys (page 55) in the foreground were used in the mines to pull
the coal around and bunch it up, so a motor could pull it out to the
coal tipple, were the K and T train took it to Stearns for
distribution by the Southern Railroad Co.
Many of the homes and some stores were owned by the Company. Dock
Martin owned his own business on Stearns near the coal chutes. His
business consisting of a restaurant, barber shop, general
merchandise, and shoe shop.
Today the Blue Diamond Coal Company owns the coal industry. The U. S.
Government purchased the land known in the early 1900's as
"Devil's Jump" better known today as "Wild River".
Pictured below: Wolford and Dock Martin
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Stearns Coal and Lumber Co., K and T train and Dock Martin's Place.
About 1939- Story Page 53.
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Coal Mines at Stearns, Ky.
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