Chauncey Drury
photos, letters, clippings

This material belonged to Chauncey Drury who died in 2002.
I copied this while it was briefly on loan to me in early November 2002.

CONTENTS

Bewleyville, Breckenridge Co., Kentucky

o Bewleyville School 1897, Oct 11, 1897, Bewleyville, Breckenridge County, Kentucky.  Names from Hattie McCoy Drury, 1948.  Mr. and Mrs. Sam Patt, teachers.
Back Row, 1 Harun Triplett, 2 Murry Blanford, 3 Joe Jackson, 4 June Payne, 5 Bob Jordan, 6 Roy Payne, 7 Junius Foote, 8 Ray Keith, 9 James Morton, 10 Ina McCoy, 11 Ollie Payne, 12 Ethel Hardaway, 13 Annie Payne
Next to back, 1 Eugene Jordan, 2 Lonnie McCoy, 3 Emmett McCoy, 4 Will Payne, 5 Henry Beavin, 6 Mary Payne, 7 Mattie Hardaway, 8 Bessie Cox, 9 Mary Keith, 10 Bevis Cain, 11 Minnie Walker, 12 Willa Drury
Next to front row, 1 Ada Stith, 2 Hattie Dowell, 3 Maude Johnson, 4 Kittie Meador, 5 Bessie Foote, 6 Maggie Blanch Jolly, 7 Julia Albright, 8 Lillie McCoy, 9 Marian Lee Cain, 10 Beulah Payne, 11 Nellie Drury, 12 Letitia Triplitt, 13 Mary Hardaway, 14 Minnie D. Stith, 15 Charles McCoy, 16 Floyd Dowell, 17 Bob Triplitt
Front row, 1 George Cox, 2 ... Blanford, 3 ... Blanford, 4 Ken Drury, 5 Hugh Albright, 6 Grover Keith, 7 Genie Triplitt, 8 Emmett Hardaway, 9 Shelton Hardaway, 10 Preston Foote, 11 Edwin Foote, 12 Everett Foote, 13 Ernest Dowell, 14 unidentified, 15 unidentified

o Notes from back of School 1897 photo
o Individual portraits taken from School 1897 photo
o Log Team ... 4 Oxen Team pulling log near Bewleyville around 1900
Will Snyder, Will Claycomb, Fint Claycomb

o Portraits from log team photo
o Sawmill near Bewleyville, Breckenridge County, Kentucky around 1900
(E. L. Smith, eng., Mr. Epperson, Roscoe Johnson, Horace Rigsby) on engine; (Finis "Fint" Claycomb, Gib Dowell) on Wagon; (Chas. McCoy, Sherd Daily, Joe Rigsby, Jess Dowell) in front
o Portraits from Sawmill photo
page 1  page 2 page 3 page 4  Letter from John Kasy, Jr. to his brother Singleton Kasy, Oct. 25, 1833.  Address was from "Bedford" to "Breckenridge Co., Kentucky."
page 5 Letter from Laura Mell, Feb. 2, 1973
page 6 page 7 page 8 Note on Drury Family by Dr. L. A. Foote, Nov. 14, 1898  also available in 300 dpi BW
page 9 page 10 page 11 page 12 page 13 page 14 page 15  Exerpt from Breckinridge Co. census of 1860 pp 56, 61, 68, 137, ??, ??
page 16  Obituary of Sue Richardson d. 5 June 1940
page 17 page 18 Vine Grove School report Card, Chauny Drury, Age 12, Grade 8
page 19  page 20 A very thoughtful letter from Gerard Foote to Chauny Drury.  11 April 1972
page 21 page 22  page 27  Letter from Mattie F. Smith (wife of Dr. F. M. Smith?) of Cloverport, Ky. to Mrs. R. B. McGlothan of Irvington, Ky.  Feb. 15, 1897.  The next four items were also in the envelope.
page 23 Chauncy Drury of Vine Grove, Ky. on pony "Polly", 1920-1923 or so
page 24 Back of page 23
page 25 Photo of grave stone of Nancy A. Richardson b. 1849
page 26 Back of photo says Nancy Bramlett Richardson
page 28 Oct. 6, 1983 newspaper clipping citing Oct. 6, 1933 notice of wedding of Gerard Moore Foote and Mary Fontaine Scott
page 29  Some birth and death dates going back to 1848, Drury, McCoy and others
page 30  Names of some more recent Drury children
page 31 page 32  Letter from Chauncy R. Drury, May 5, 1969 telling some Kasey and Drury family history.
page 33 Handwritten note.  Some Drury birth dates going back to 1833
page 34 page 35 page 36 page 37 page 38 page 39 page 40 page 41 Drury, McCoy, and Kasey birth dates and marriage dates
page 42 Portrait of George Drury 1909
page 43 Stith Valley standard portrait from page 42
page 44 Newspaper clipping about the graduation of Doris Bandy Priest
page 45 Clipping from Elizabethtown, Ky. Herald News about the 50th anniversary of the wedding of Gerard Moore Foote and Mary Fontaine Scott, Sept, 30, 1933.
page 46 page 47 Card/photo of George Lewis Stith in the Holy Land.  Back of card explains his relationship to Chauncy Drury.
page 48 un-named photograph
page 49  un-named photograph Audrey Stith?
page 50 Mayme Snyder and children, Mrs. George Snyder, maybe 1920?
page 51 back of photo page 50
page 52 January 1979 newspaper article citing January 1879 marriage of Miss Fannie Nichols and Mr. J. Walker Jourdan at the residence of Mrs. James Drury, Sr. near Bewleyville.  Mrs. James Drury, Sr. was Chauncy Drury's great grandmother.
page 53 page 54 page 55 page 56 Letter from Bettie Drury McGlothham to her cousin Laura Mell of Mr. Pisgah farm.  Letter gives a lot of dates for descendents of Thomas Stith and Rhoda Jones.
page 57 Hand written page of Drury birth dates and death dates going back to 1833
page 58 Old Christmas card from Irvington Gas Company
page 59 page 60 Letter from Mt. Pisgah Farm 26 November 1940 to Jimmie and Endo B.
page 61 page 62 Unidentified photo of man ... Chauncy Drury?
page 63 Basin Spring Farm, Sept 1966, Gerard and Mary Scott Foote; Gerard, Charles, Phil, C.H. and James Stuart
page 64 page 65 High School photo (Irvington) maybe 1930?  Pat Lyddan, P. V. Wilson, Earney Bennett, Jim Jones, George Ashcraft, C. M., Mollie Chism, Margaret Brashear, Mamie Lyddan, Ramona Allen, Helen Smith, Grace Miles, Riley, Ruth Davis
page 66 Old newspaper clipping, some Irvington children
page 67 1962 newspaper clipping of wedding of Shirley Claycomb and Kenneth D. Thornhill
page 68 1962 newspaper clipping of wedding of Beverly Payne and Darold D. Carman
page 69  Photo of Shirley Ann Claycomb from engagement announcement, newspaper clipping
page 70  Photos of Johnny Keller, Eddie Kasey, and Jeanette Kasey from Irvington High School senior feature in newspaper
page 71 Old photo of Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Bennett, maybe 1880?
page 72 page 73 Drury coat of arms and description
page 74 page 75 page 76 September, 30, 1840 letter Capt, John Kasey, Breckenridge, County, Kentucky, "Fauoured by Mr. Francis Johnson".  From John Cumpton, looking for land to purchase.
page 77 page 78 page 79 page 80  January 29, 1841 letter to Capt. John Kasey, Big Spring, Kentucky.  From William B. Jones, Rhonoke County Virginia. 

This CD contains pages through 155.  However pages 81 through 155 are not indexed and require use of Paperport software.

Continue with Stith Valley family album.

page 81 page 82 page 83 page 84 page 85 page 86 page 87 page 88 page 89 
page 90 page 91 page 92 page 93 page 94 page 95 page 96 page 97 page 98 page 99 
pge 100 pge 101 pge 102 pge 103 pge 104 pge 105 pge 106 pge 107 pge 108 pge 109
pge 110 pge 111 pge 112 pge 113 pge 114 pge 115 pge 116 pge 117 pge 118 pge 119
pge 120 pge 121 pge 122 pge 123 pge 124 pge 125 pge 126  pge 127 pge 128 pge 129
pge 130 pge 131 pge 132 pge 133 pge 134 pge 135 pge 136 pge 137 pge 138 pge 139  
pge 140 pge 141 pge 142 pge 143 pge 144 pge 145 pge 146 pge 147 pge 148 pge 149
pge 150 pge 151 pge 152 pge 153 pge 154 pge 155