Interview with Maggie Conley Patton (1913-1987)
Patton discusses being a young woman during the Great Depression, including her chores, games she liked to play, her first job, making clothes, and cooking. She describes men walking to the mines, seeing a car for the first time, having the first television in her neighborhood, learning to play the organ, attending church, and shopping.
June 6, 1979
Submitted by Richard and Susan Salisbury.
Kathryn Stumbo Frazier (1915-1998)
Picture 1: Kathryn as a young girl on her pony on the Stumbo Farm at McDowell. Circa 1920.
Picture 2: Kathyrn playing the organ at First United Methodist Church of Prestonsburg, something she did for more than fifty years, as well as teach music at the elementary level. She was the leader of David's Patsy Teenagers, and was married to Chalmer Frazier. Picture was taken in late 1980s.
Item 3: A brief biography of Kathryn Stumbo Frazier written by Floyd D. Davis.
Submitted by Floyd D. Davis/First United Methodist Church of Prestonsburg Archives
<a title="Patsy Teenagers" href="http://history.fclib.org/items/show/20" target="_blank">Patsy Teenagers<br /></a> <a title="First United Methodist Church of Prestonsburg" href="http://history.fclib.org/items/show/18" target="_blank">First Methodist Church of Prestonsburg<br /></a> <a title="Prestonsburg Elementary Christmas Pageant Programs" href="http://history.fclib.org/items/show/64" target="_blank">Prestonsburg Elementary Christmas Pageant Programs</a>
Arrena Hicks Davis (1888-1971)
Picture 1: Arrena Hicks Davis as a young mother in 1916. Floyd Davis is the baby in her lap. The picture was taken by Joseph Hicks at Hippo, Kentucky.
Picture 2: Taken at Davis' funeral in March of 1971. Pictured are her husband Alka and eight surviving children as of that date. Back: Annie Shepherd, Sarah Reffett, Hattie Hughes, Rady Davis, and Joseph Davis. Front: Clara Hughes, Floyd Davis, Alka Davis, William (Jug) Davis. The picture was taken at Pyramid, Kentucky.
Davis lost only one child, Jimmy, to disease. He died of dysentery when he was ten despite all efforts. All her other children lived to adulthood.
Davis always churned her milk with a silver dime to stave off witches, wolves, and disease.
Submitted by Floyd D. Davis
<a title="Floyd Davis, WWII" href="http://history.fclib.org/items/show/55" target="_blank">Floyd Davis, WWII<br /></a> <a title="Letter written by Floyd Davis while serving in WWII, 1945" href="http://history.fclib.org/items/show/57" target="_blank">Letter written by Floyd Davis while serving in WWII, 1945</a>
Garrett Post Office Women
Unknown, Unknown, Virgie Spencer (Postmaster), Unknown
ca 1930s
Randy Bentley / Garrett Historical
Brenda O'Quinn, 1966
Brenda O'Quinn, Garrett High School Homecoming Queen 1966
1966
Randy Bentley / Julia Pratt Jones / Garrett Historical
Girls on Basketball Court
Top, L to R: Flossie Moore (teacher), Dora (Brown) Rector, Maudie Gayheart, Alma Amburgey.
Bottom, L to R: Annis (Conley) Clark, Ethel Neil
Randy Bentley / Garrett Historical
1939 Garrett Home Economics Club
L to R: Virginia Alice Hornsby, Inez Delores Shelton, Edna Mae Ratliff, Miss Alpha Morgan, Dorothy Staley, Opal Shepherd, Helen Marie Coburn, Harriet Elizabeth Messer
1939
Randy Bentley / Garrett Historical