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He settled in downtown Paducah as an hourly employee at a plant with ties to the tobacco industry. He gained the nickname "Speedy" at work because of his speed with handling tobacco. Single and without known relatives, he befriended A. Z. Hamock, an African American who owned the city's only funeral home for blacks in the segregated city.
Hopkins served as rector of Trinity Church in Plattsburgh, New York from 1872 to 1876 and of Christ Episcopal Church in Williamsport, Pennsylvania from 1876 to 1887. He delivered the eulogy at the funeral of President Ulysses S. Grant in 1885, and died in Hudson, New York . [ 1 ]
Mayor of Paducah, Kentucky: Bill Redmond: 1976 Political science and accounting United States House of Representatives [112] Steven Rudy: 2000 Agriculture education Kentucky House of Representatives [113] [114] Harry Lee Waterfield: 1932 Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky [115] [64] Gerald Watkins: 1981, 1984 Business administration, MBA
Velma Louise Gaines Hamock (May 25, 1910 – October 3, 2000) was an American funeral home owner in Paducah, Kentucky.In 1949 she inherited the business, at one time the only African-American owned funeral home in the city, after the death of her husband A. Z. Hamock.
Funeral After Hopkins died on January 9, 1868, there was as outflow of public sympathy. The story was carried by all the church papers, as well as the secular and sectarian press. Letters of consolation came from all kinds of persons, from the Archbishop of Canterbury down to the humble poor whom Hopkins had aided out of his own poverty.
Mount Kenton Cemetery is a small cemetery in the rural city of Paducah, Kentucky in the United States. It is located approximately four miles south of Paducah. The area of the cemetery was original deeded by Joseph Kenton to Charles A. Campbell, Hiram Hall, J.D. Brandberry, T.P. Reynolds, and a Church of the Old School Presbyterians for a church to be placed there.
The Paducah Sun is a daily newspaper in Paducah, Kentucky, owned by the family-run Paxton Media Group. The paper was formerly known as the Paducah Sun-Democrat. The publisher is Bill Evans. Matt Jones is the general manager. The Sun is the most-read newspaper in Kentucky's Jackson Purchase region. The newspaper's combined online and print ...
Ronald Edward Rector was born in Washington, D.C.; he adopted the name Liam in adulthood. [1] He was educated at various undergraduate programs but did not receive a bachelor's degree; he did, however, receive master's degrees in writing from Johns Hopkins University and in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. [1]