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Hamock put the preserved body of Atkins on occasional display at the funeral home; he mostly stored it in a closet. [2] He did not charge a fee for viewers. Washed away by waters of the Ohio River during the Paducah flood of 1937 , Speedy's body was recognized and returned to Hamock at his funeral home.
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.
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 ...
The Lloyd Tilghman Memorial is a statue located in Paducah Kentucky, of Lloyd Tilghman, a brigadier general for the Confederate States of America who died at the Battle of Champion Hill in May 1863. Lloyd Tilghman was a native of Maryland who lived in Paducah from 1852 to 1861. He joined the Confederate army on July 5, 1861, as a colonel, but ...
The Confederate Monument in Paducah, located northwest of downtown Paducah, Kentucky is a historic monument located in Paducah's Oak Grove Cemetery. It was built in 1907 on behalf of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It is a 20-foot-tall (6.1 m) granite obelisk. [2] Six Confederate war dead are buried by the monument. [3]
Charles Frederick Hughes (March 2, 1943 – October 24, 1971) was an American football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL) from 1967 to 1971 with the Philadelphia Eagles and the Detroit Lions.
In the weeks before the shooting, Carneal stole several firearms from both his own home and a neighbor's home. On the afternoon of Thanksgiving Day , Carneal went to his neighbor's home and broke into the garage, taking four .22 rifles , a 30-30 rifle, .22 and 12 gauge ammunition and earplugs.
When in 1928, Emile de Lissa was made vice-president of the Barbarians, Hughes was elected as Treasurer, and when Jack Haigh-Smith died suddenly in 1955, Hughes was made President of the club. [16] Hughes remained President until his death in 1973, and held the post when the Barbarians famously beat the 1973 touring " All Blacks " at the ...