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34 January 2002 La Posta
suggested the office be named for him. (Elton A. Perkey, extending past Brinkley.
26
Perkey’s Nebraska Place Names, Lincoln: Publications Until recently, maps showed this stream as Runnels
of the Nebraska State Historical Society, Vol. 28, 1982, Fork, but I believe Reynolds Branch was its earliest and
P. 53.) Could he have done the same for the Knott proper name.
27
County, Kentucky office? The larger Yellow Creek in Bell County, Kentucky
13
At both its establishment and its re-establishment, had the same name origin.
28
Hollybush replaced the first name preferences Elishai Delores Jean Olsen of Rochester, Washington, in
and Carlton, respectively. Neither of these intended Kentucky Ancestors, Vol. 23 (3), 1988, P. 228.
29
names have been accounted for. Hollybush Creek was, Robert C. Young, Hindman, Ky, interviewed by the
of course, named for the holly trees at its mouth. author on March 25, 2000.
14 30
The Head of Hollybush was described by an Alice Designed for flood control and ultimately recreation,
Lloyd College history professor Charles Martin in his the Carr Fork Dam is just above the mouth of Sassafras
Hollybush: Folk Building and Social Change in an Creek, 8.8 miles above Carr’s confluence with the North
Appalachian Community, Knoxville: University of Fork at Jeff.
31
Tennessee Press, 1984. On early twentieth century published maps, Little
15
Mrs. Geddes succeeded Mr. Sloane as postmaster in Smith Branch (named for another son of William and
1922. Millie) is shown as Little Branch.
16 32
Over the years the town’s name, also unique in this Simeon Combs’ first name preference Mingo was
country, has come to symbolize the community and already in use in Johnson County.
33
future generations of students the great influence they The Nealys also spelled their name Neely.
34
would have over the lives of the people they would Cricket was the name of a short-lived (1883-1884)
serve. post office in Boyd County. The Amburgeys, who were
17
This Right Beaver tributary was popularly known as the dominant family in the Little Carr valley, may for a
Tater Branch, though in the 1913 Sellier map of the time have applied their name to the Fork. (According to
Upper Big Sandy valley, it’s given as the George Cook an 1886 Kentucky Geologicl Survey map.)
35
Branch. Maddin’s first name choice was Irishman. In his
18
According to her Site Location Report, Ms. Hopkins application and Site Location Reports for his two post
had actually first proposed calling her office Tater for offices Jeptha spelled his family’s name with an “i”.
the creek. However, Census and family records usually spelled it
19
Or maybe not. According to Kentucky bird with an “e”, wherein he is listed as son of John and
authorities, neither variety of kites, the Swallowtail or Ruth (Bentley) Madden. Other members of his extended
the Mississippi, were ever found this far east in the family, to the present time, have also spelled the name
state. with an “e”.
20 36
In the Crandall and Hodge Sketch Map of “the Mrs. Amburgey’s first name preference Ida was in
Region North of Pine Mountain” (1884), Laurel Fork is use in Clinton County.
37
shown as an extension of Quicksand Creek and Middle According to an August 23, 2000 interview with
Fork is shown as a branch. James Still, a long-time resident of Dead Mare Branch,
21
Newton Watkins seemingly could not agree on the who used to live in Amburgey’s log home, that stream
spelling of his name. In his Baker post office Site had earlier been called Surilda’s Branch for Wiley’s
Location Report, he spelled it Wadkins, as did his father second wife.
38
James, but in his Tester petitions, he spelled it Watkins. Emily Jones Hudson, “The Black American Family
22
Lionel Duff, now of Lexington, Kentucky, in Southeastern Kentucky: Red Fox, Kodak, and Town
interviewed at his Decoy home on December 21, 1960. Mountain” in Reshaping the Image of Appalachia,
23
Clementina Combs, the daughter of Jehu and Matilda edited by Loyal Jones, Berea, Kentucky: Berea College
Cody, was born on Lotts Creek and married John W. in Appalachian Center, 1984, Pp. 136-45.
1876.
24
Fisty, the word, has been used throughout American
the sense of quarrelsome, cantankerous, or even pushy.
References
For brief notes on its usage, see Harold B. Allen in
American Speech, Vol. 3 (3), February 1928, P. 217, and
Boling, Gladys of Lackey, Ky., letters to the author,
Ibid., Vol. 17 (4), December 1942, Pp. 245-49.
May 21 and June 12, 1969.
25
Brinkley, Arkansas, incorporated in 1873, was
Bradley, Hiram of Vest, Ky., interviewed by the au-
named for Hugh Brinkley, who helped bring the railroad
thor on June 18, 1979.
through that area; and Brinkleyville was a community
Caudill, Harry M. “Oral Traditions Behind Some
in Halifax County, North Carolina that was settled by
Kentucky Mountain Place Names” Register of
and named for Joseph Brinkley in the 1760s.
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