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- From Green County Births:
Thompson, No Name, F, A, 8 Dec 1858, W. C. Thompson & Mary Ann Purkins, W
(F-female, A- alive, W- white) This could be Cela A. Perkins in 1870 census.
In the 1870 LaRue County Census, Buffalo district, There is the following entries:
Margaret Perkins 40 F
Henry 24 M
Cela A. 11 F
Simon 9 M
(from the above I would say Simon and Celia were the children of Margaret.)
(From info gathered in 1998, it also seems that Henry was a child of Margaret)
They were apparently living next door to William and Luisa(Louisa)
Perkins, who had a daughter, Diane (Damie Johnson)
In the 1880 LaRue County Census, Otter Creek area, There is the following entry:
Fam. No. 170 William Huston 24
Bettie Huston 21 wife
Emmett Huston 1 son
Mary A. Perkins 42 KY SC(Father) VA (mother)
Simon Perkins 18 son
(from this I would deduce that Simon was the son of Mary A. Perkins)
I believe this is the same Simon as listed in the 1870 census as son of
Margaret Perkins. So there is confusion as to name of Simon's mother,
Margaret or Mary A. Perkins.
Could William Huston be a younger brother of Joel F. Houston? (speculation)
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THE COURIER JOURNAL
LOUISVILLE, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 25, 1888
MANY WOUNDED
And Two Killed In An Accident On the L. and N.
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The "Cannon Ball" Telescopes a Mail Train At Bardstown Junction.
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Mrs. Mary Perkins and Willie Houston Dead Under the Debris
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Miss Mary Kinnaird, Mr. C. S. Miller, of This City, and Others Badly Hurt.
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An Engine Divides One Coach and Plows Half Way Through Another.
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A Fireman's Leap For Life and An Engineer's Wonderful Escape.
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SCALDED BY THE STEAM
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Splinters, and scrap-iron, remaining of what yesterday morning were two completely equipped passenger coaches on the Knoxville branch of the Louisville and Nashville railway, two corpses and an indefinite number of injured persons, still living, left from the crowd of holiday travelers on the train, are the results of a horrible smash-up on that road yesterday morning at Bardstown Junction, twenty miles south of this
city.
The accident occurred about 9 a.m. while the morning mail train was standing at the junction, delayed by an unusually heavy express business, and while people from the neighborhood and others traveling thronged the station platform.
There was not the slightest indication of danger---the train hands busily engaged at their customary duties, passengers walking beside the train, stretching and resting their cramped and tired limbs, and the usual crowd of loungers gazing idly on, making the scene an exact duplicate of what it is every day of the year, except for its increasied liveliness due to the season--when suddenly there appeared from behind the curve, on the Louisville side of the station, another train, moving at frightful speed, straight down on the motionless mail. Those who witnessed the catastrophe had not even time to reckon the full meaning of the situation, or to think of what was to come, when the on-coming engine, too close on the other to be stopped or slowed up, and backed by a heavy train of cars, crashed full speed into the other, the locomotive of which was even then puffing and blowing, ready in the next few seconds to crowd on steam and be off and out of the way.
An instant later the destructive work was done. The moving engine, going at the extreme limit of its speed, had struck with irresistible force against the last car of the motionless train, and had plowed its way through solid wood and iron the complete length of the coach and half way through the next, completely wrecking them, and jamming the forward cars together in telescopic fashion, while the mass of machinery which gave force to the blow was buried beneath the fragments it made of the two coaches, the whole scene being obscured by a pall of dust and steam and smoke.
The crash was deafening to those close by, and the shrieking and sobbing of the steam and the cracking of timbers which followed added to the horror of the calamity, but still more appalling was the fate of those who were in the wreck.
The victims, fortunately, were fewer in numbers than even the most hopeful could have expected, and when the damage done to life and limb was summarized the list of victims was found to be as follows:
KILLED
Mrs. MARY PERKINS, Hodgenville, KY.
WILLIAM HOUSTON, Hodgenville, KY.
SERIOUSLY INJURED
Engineer MILTON M'FERRAN, Louisville
Fireman CHARLES KING, Louisville
C. S. MILLER, Louisville, KY.
Miss MARY KINNAIRD, Louisville
JOHNNY MOUNT, Lagrange, KY.
PHIL B. THOMPSON, Shepherdsville, KY.
SEVERELY INJURED
Miss Bertha Robner, E. Bernstadt, KY
SLIGHTLY INJURED
S. K. ADAMS, Louisville
Miss ELLA ADAMS, Louisville
Mrs. Dr. T. E. JENNINGS, Louisville
Mrs. J. R. MOUNT, Lagrange, KY.
E. R. DICKERSON, Bardstown, KY.
Miss BERTHA FLOWNBACKER, Shepherdsville, KY.
J. P. HECKELMAN, Louisville
From Russell Perkins, December 2005:
I'm working on a report of " Mary Ann Perkins, an Unlikely Benefactor of Ball Hollow and Otter Creek families"
Best I can determine the family got at least $3,000 from the railroad after she and her grandson, Willie Houston, were killed. At least two employees of the railroad were grossly negligent and the railroad was in a big rush to settle as soon as possible. It they had had lawyers like we have today, we would be rich people.
Shortly after the wreck (same year) there was a flurry of activity in (West Fork of) Otter Creek and Ball Hollow.
J. F. Houston bought a cow
William Buckman Perkins bought a horse
William Buckman Perkins bought a tract of land from James Shipp
Simon Perkins bought 71 acres
L. C. (Preacher Paddy) Warren bought 56 acres
Joel Houston bought a 150 acre tract of land from J. T. Skaggs
They bought hogs and all sorts of good stuff with their new-found wealth.
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