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17. On pre-Civil War maps it’s labeled Pitmans Creek 28. Norwood, Ohio, with a 2003 population of some
. 20,800, is a Cincinnati suburb aptly named for its
18. Ruth Ashurst later married R.A. Peyton and was,
being north of the North Woods. It was incorporated
for years, a teacher in the Louisville, Ky. city schools.
as a city in 1903. (According to Larry L. Miller, Ohio
This and other information on the Ruth post office
Place Names, Bloomington, Ind: University of Indi-
and the hamlet it served were furnished by Mrs. Pearl
ana Press, 1996, P. 177
Allen, Rufus’ niece, through her son Eugene Allen, a 29. Ferguson drafted the enabling act passed by the
lifelong resident of Ruth, in letters to the author, Ohio legislature on May 4, 1869 to allow the city of
March 20, 1969 and February 9, 1970. Cincinnati to build its own railroad south to Chatta-
19. According to a January 30, 1980 letter from
nooga.
Charles A. Conrard of Holmes Beach, Florida, his 30. Luretha Wynn later became Mrs. John Cross.
father was a Highland County, Ohio native who ar-
rived in Somerset in 1893 to work in its Southern
31. Robert F. Collins “Daniel Boone National Forest
Railway office. In 1895 he moved to
Historic Sites” Filson Club Historical Quarterly, Vol.
Washington to
work in the U.S. Patent Office before transferring to
42, 1968, Pp. 26-48 (43-45)
the Post Office Department.
32. Vern Wright, a descendant of one of the namers,
20. The main channel of Faubush Creek heads one
through Mary Weaver, interviewed by the author on
mile south of the most recent Faubush post office site
March 23, 1979
and flows through a rather steep valley for 2 3/4 miles
33. Mrs. W.B. Jones, DAR manuscript on Pulaski
until it empties in a Lake Cumberland embayment,
County place names, 1941, P. 2
some 1.9 miles north of the Wayne County line. It
34. James L. Tarter, “Name Places” in Local Histori-
then proceeds sse, then southeast, then southwest for
cal Research, issued
about five miles till it empties into the river between
Panhandle and Cumberland Point.
by Somerset Community College (University of Ken-
tucky), 1966, n.p. 35. Willard Rouse Jillson, Pioneer
21. Wyatt Norfleet was a descendant of John Norfleet
Kentucky, Frankfort: State Journal, 1934, P. 132
who had acquired land on White Oak and Faubush
Creeks in the 1840s and 50s.
36. Ford’s first proposed name may have been
Barnsford for the locality. 37. Vol. 2, P. 683.
22. Our Storehouse of Missouri Place Names, Co-
lumbia: University of Missouri, 1952, Pp. 138, 111
38. James C. McDowell, Jr. of Burnside, Ky., in a
February 11, 1981 letter to the author, thought that
23. The first name proposed for Uma was Anderson
Blue John may have honored someone called John
for the nearby school.
Ballou. T.W. Reynolds, the North Carolina writer, in
24. Paul A. Tenkotte and Charles B. Castner entries
his Born of the Mountains (1964, P. 163), refers to a
in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, Lexington: Univer
Blue John Creek in his state that’s said to have been
-
sity Press of Kentucky, 1992, Pp. 191, 835-36
named for the color of locally consumed skimmed
25. The Pulaski County Adamses were descendants
milk, or for the color of a local clay.
of Irish-born (1751) Robert Adams who had arrived
References
in the upper Fishing Creek valley following service
1. Allen, Eugene of Ruth, Ky., letters to the author,
in the Revolutionary War.
March 20, 1969 and February 9, 1970
26. This locality above the head of the Buncombe
2. DeBerry, J.H. on Somerset, Ky. in The Kentucky
Branch of Fishing, along with the local school and
Encyclopedia, Lexington: University Press of
church, had been named by its residents for their ear
Kentucky, 1992, P. 833
-
lier Buncombe County, North Carolina home.
3. Estep, Bill, “Visitors Create Headaches for
Burnside” Lexington Herald-Leader, July 13,
27. The Science Hill name was applied sometime
1986, Pp. B1,12
before the short-lived teacher-training academy
4. Jones, Mrs. W.B. DAR Manuscript: Place Names
opened there and thus the school could not have been
of Pulaski County, Kentucky, 1941
the community-post office’
5. Keeler, William, “Pulaski County” Louisville Cou-
s name source.
rier-Journal Magazine, May 11, 1986, Pp. 6-14
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