Tombstone Tuesday

JOHN T. LIGON, FORMER NEBO RESIDENT DIES  

  Funeral services for John Thomas Ligon, 89, former Nebo merchant, tobacconist and farmer, who died at 11:50 am. Saturday in his home in Detroit of infirmities incident to age, will be conducted at 2 pm Tuesday at the Nebo Christian Church.  The Rev. H. B. Self, Henshaw will officiate.  Burial will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Madisonville.

   Before Mr. Ligon moved to Detroit twenty two years ago he had operated a general store at Nebo for thirty years.

   The body arrived in Madisonville at 9:25 pm. Sunday and will be at Harris Funeral Home, 134 North Main, until the funeral.

   Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Georgia Eudaley Ligon; a daughter, Miss Ruby Ligon, 433 East Arch, who was the only child born of Mr. Ligon's first marriage, his first wife being Miss Minnie Osburn; six children by Mr. Ligon's second marriage, James D., Thomas D., Robert G., and Kenneth M. Ligon, all of Detroit; Mrs. John Mahan, Washington, D.C., and Mrs. William F. O'Bryan, Detroit; fourteen grandchildren, two great grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. John Bosquitt, Madisonville, rfd. 2.
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DEATH NOTICES (Detroit Free Press) LIGON - John T., June 2, at residence, 167 W. Hollywood; husband of Georgia; father of Ruby, James, Thomas, Robert and Kenneth Ligon, Mrs. John Mahan and Mrs. William F. O'Brien.v Funeral from Harris Funeral Home, Madisonville, Ky., Tuesday, 2 p.m.  For further information call TO 8-4798.

Tombstone Tuesday - John G. & Roxa Salmon

 John G. Salmon, Former Hopkins Clerk, Dies Here
     John G. Salmon, Sr., 253 East Center Street, well known retired Madisonville business man and former clerk of Hopkins County, died in his home at 8:30 pm Thursday after suffering a heart attack.
  Mr. Salmon, 79 years old, had been in decling health for several years.
   Mr. Salmon was born Sept 30, 1871, in Christian County, near Empire, the son of the late Lee and Fannie Salmon. He had been a resident of Hopkins County for practically his entire life.
  A democrat, Mr. Salmon served two consecutive terms as Hopkins County court clerk during the years 1913-1921.  Prior to that he was associated with the McCleod Store on South Main for several years and in later years was interested in mining properties at Crabtree of the Norton Coal Mining Company.
  Mr. Salmon had been a member of Madisonville First Christian Church for many years and was a member of the Masonic Lodge of Madisonville.
  Funeral services will be conducted at 2 pm Saturday in William L. Barnett Funeral Service, East Center Street, with the Rev. J. Edward Cayce, pastor of First Christian Church officiating.  Interment will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery.
   Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Roxa Salmon; two sons, Dr. David L. Salmon, St. Petersburg, Florida, and John G. Salmon Jr. 306 East Center Street, Madisonville; a daughter, Mrs. Henry Thorring, Hudson, Mass.; a sister, Mrs. Carrie Wright, Masonic Home, Kentucky; seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
  The body is at the funeral home.
**Madisonville Messenger, Tuesday, 08 DEC 1950

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Mrs. Roxa Salmon, 83, Dies Here
  Mrs. Roxa Helen Salmon, 253 East Center Street, died in Kentucky Convalescent Home here at 5:30 pm Thursday.  She was 83.
  Mrs. Salmon was the widow of the late John G. Salmon Jr., prominent Hopkins County democratic leader and former county Court clerk. Mr. Salmon died December 20, 1950.
  Mrs. Salmon had been in declining health for a number of years and had been critically ill since being struck by a truck as she was crossing the street near her home on April 7 of this year.
  Born on June 9, 1871 at Nebo, she was the daughter of the late George and Mary Winstead Eudaley, members of prominent Hopkins County families.  She had been a resident of Hopkins County all her life.

  S-S Teacher 50 years  
  Mrs. Salmon was a member of Madisonville First Christian Church and had been a Sunday School Teacher for more than fifty years.  She was a former member of the Madisonville Eastern Star chapter.
   Surviving are a son, John G. Salmon, 312 East Center Street, a daughter, Mrs. Henry Thorring, Hudson, Mass.; seven grandchildren and four great grandchildren; four sisters, Mrs. Fannie Currie and Mrs. Georgia Ligon, Detroit; Mrs. Floy Payne, Nebo; and Miss Maja Eudaley, Louisville; and a brother, Glenn Eudaley, Galveston, Texas.   Another son, Dr. David L. Salmon, died in August 1954 in Florida.
  Funeral services will be conducted at 2 pm Saturday at Harris Funeral Home, North Main Street, with the Rev. Oscar T. Nichols, pastor of the First Methodist Church, officiating.  Interment will be in Odd Fellows cemetery.
  The body is at the funeral home.
**Madisonville Messenger, 27 MAY 1955

Tombstone Tuesday - Leander (Lee) Salmon

  Mr. Lee SALMON, a well known citizen of Crabtree Mines, died at his home last Thursday, after a prolonged illness of many months, of stomach trouble. He was sixty-five years of age, and leaves a wife and two children with a host of friends and relatives to mourn his death. Interment the following day at the Odd Fellow cemetery under the auspices of the United Workmen, of which order he was a prominent member. He was well known throughout the county and his death is widely mourned.

(Source: Earlington Bee, Thur., Oct. 20, 1898)

Tombstone Tuesday - J. T. Ligon (1951)

JOHN T. LIGON, FORMER NEBO RESIDENT DIES

   Funeral services for John Thomas Ligon, 89, former Nebo merchant, tobacconist and farmer, who died at 11:50 am. Saturday im his home in Detroit of infirmities incident to age, will be conducted at 2 pm Tuesday at the Nebo Christian Church.  The Rev. H. B. Self, Henshaw will officiate.  Burial will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Madisonville.

   Before Mr. Ligon moved to Detroit twenty two years ago he had operated a general store at Nebo for thirty years.

   The body arrived in Madisonville at 9:25 pm. Sunday and will be at Harris Funeral Home, 134 North Main, until the funeral.

   Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Georgia Eudaley Ligon; a daughter, Miss Ruby Ligon, 433 East Arch, who was the only child born of Mr. Ligon's first marriage, his first wife being Miss Minnie Osburn; six children by Mr. Ligon's second marriage, James D., Thomas D., Robert G., and Kenneth M. Ligon, all of Detroit; Mrs. John Mahan, Washington, D.C., and Mrs. William F. O'Bryan, Detroit; fourteen grandchildren, two great grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. John Bosquitt, Madisonville, rfd. 2.

**Madisonville Messenger,  date unknown

Tombstone Tuesday - Lottie Hoffman

Lottie Hoffman was born 10 JUL 1881 and died 10 MAY 1892, probably born and died in Hopkins County, Kentucky.

Lottie was the daughter of Dr. William Hoffman D.D.S. and his wife, Florence A. Winstead. She rests in Odd Fellows Cemetery in Madisonville, Hopkins County, Kentucky.

Lottie's ancestors, the Winstead's, trace back to a Samuel Winstead who was in Northumberland County, Virginia as early as the 1720's. 

I do have much more on the Winstead family if anyone is interested in exchanging information.  You can leave a comment on the blog or email me at researcher AT miprofgenie DOT com.

Photo taken by Mark Krugman, July 2011