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Obituary in Hopkinsville Kentuckian

Tuesday, May 28, 1901, p. 5:

RIPE IN YEARS.

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Esq. B. S. Campbell Passed

Away Saturday

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One of the County's Oldest and

Best Citizens__ Ninety

Years Old.

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Mr. Benjamin S. Campbell, one of the oldest citizens of Christian county, died at 2:30 a.m., Saturday, after a long illness.

Mr. Campbell was born in Christian county, September 15, 1810, and was reared on a farm near Beverly.

Upon reaching manhood he came to Hopkinsville and went into the drygoods business where the First National Bank now stands.

In 1850 he bought the farm where he died, on the Canton pike. His wife died four years ago. Three children survive, Capt. Ned Campbell, of Henderson; Mrs. Milton Gant, of Owensboro, and Mrs. Jas. C. Moore, of this county.

Mr. Campbell was a good business man and accumulated a comfortable estate. He was one of the original organizers of the Hopkinsville Christian Church and was an officer in the church for sixty years. He was also a trustee of South Kentucky College and a director in the First National Bank.

His long life was characterized by earnest piety and consistent Christianity. He brought his religion into his daily life and was noted for his generosity, his goodness of heart and his benevolence.

His funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Christian church. Eight of his grandsons acted as pall-bearers. Eld. H. D. Smith preached and appropriate discourse and the burial occurred in Hopewell Cemetery.

Obituary (findagrave.com):

Chicago Tribune (IL) - August 04, 1944

COL. E. W. STARLING DIES; GUARDED FIVE PRESIDENTS

Deceased Name: Col. Edmund W. Starling

New York, Aug. 3 (AP). -- Col. Edmund W. Starling, 69, retired head of the White House detail of the U. S. secret service, died today at St. Luke's hospital where he had been under treatment for pneumonia since July 14. Col. Starling retired last November.

Starling was charged with protecting the lives of five presidents -- Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt during upset and nervous periods of war, and Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover.

His protection work carried him more than a million miles with or on behalf of the chief executive. He traveled to Europe twice with President Wilson after World War I.

Starling's job was to investigate an average of 50 crank letters a day received at the White House.

Funeral services will be held here tomorrow with burial following cremation at Arlington national cemetery, Washington, D. C.

Subject of biography Starling of the White House, by Thomas Sugrue, copyright MCMXVI, Simon & Schuster, Inc.

In 1868, the William Starling Land Company, run by Lyne Starling (b. 1806) purchased Sunnyside Plantation in Chicot County, Arkansas from the estate of Robert P. Pepper (Lyne's son in-law) of Kentucky whose family was related by marriage to the Starlings. Lyne Starling sent his sons Lyne and Charles to run it when they graduated from Yale in 1871. His son William also ended up there.....not sure when he came but before Sunnyside was sold. In 1881, it was sold to John C. Calhoun, the grandson and namesake of the famous John C. Calhoun of South Carolina. The Starling sons then moved to Greenville. A handwritten account of the family was written by Maria Hensley Starling -- shown below. The Levee Board mentioned in her accounts is the levee for the Mississippi River.

Lake Village, Chicot County, Arkansas, is just across the Mississippi River from Greenville. The oxbow lake, Lake Chicot, has become a popular recreation lake. The Sunnyside name is still used today (2000).

Also......the Charles mentioned above ended up moving from Greenville to Canada. He had a son, William, who was accused of embezzling from a bank. William was married but had no children. He committed suicide -- apparently because of the accusation. He is buried in Greenville. His father, Charles, paid the bank the missing amount and subsequently moved his family to Canada. That's how a branch of the Starlings got to Canada.

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Notes written by Maria Hensley Starling

(daughter of Lyne Starling & Kate Crittenden Watson)

Maria Antoinette Hensley married Lyne Starling in Frankfort, Kentucky in 1834 and went to live in Columbus, Ohio, a kind of colony of his relatives. Their first six children were born there. They then moved to New York much against the wishes of Lyne's uncle, Lyne, one of the founders of Columbus, who had promised to make Lyne his heir if he would stay in Columbus. The seventh child, Lyne, was born in Kentucky on one of his mother's visits to her relatives in Frankfort. Charles and Laura were born in New York. A business crash in New York about 1858 caused them to move to the prairie in Illinois, near Kankakee and build a home on land owned by relatives until plans could be made for the future.

When the Civil War broke out in 1861 the family moved back to Kentucky and Lyne (the father) and his oldest son William joined the Federal Army. After the war was over he was interested in some pioneer work in West Virginia. Elizabeth, the oldest daughter, was married in 1865 to Robert Perry Pepper and moved to a beautiful home where all of her children were born, which is still occupied by some of her descendants. William went into business in New York, Charles and Lyne went to Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Mrs. Starling and Laura being the only ones left at home, she sold the big house on Main Street and bought a smaller one near the home of her daughter, Elizabeth that had more ground for gardening, etc.

In 1871 a bank in Frankfort having come into possession of a plantation, Sunnyside, Arkansas about ten miles south of Greenville, Mississippi of which they wished to dispose and Mr. Starling having had some experience in planting cotton, they offered it to him on what he thought were very favorable (liberal) terms. The family now divided its time between Sunnyside, Arkansas and Frankfort, Kentucky. In June, 1871 Lyne and Charles were graduated from Yale. Lyne was married on October 1st to Kate Crittenden Watson of Frankfort and took his bride to Sunnyside. In 1876, Mr. Starling died very suddenly, in New Orleans, where William had taken him to see the celebrated Dr. Chopin. He was buried in New Orleans, but in 1896 when his wife died in Greenville and her body was taken to Frankfort for burial, his body was moved to Frankfort and placed beside hers in Frankfort's beautiful cemetery.

In 1878 Charles was married to Annie Taylor Johnson who lived about four miles from Sunnyside at Lakeport. They were married rather hurriedly as Mrs. Johnson had to go to St. Louis to buy supplies for the plantation. There are many funny stories about Charles' trousseau. It was just at the end of the terrible yellow fever epidemic, Greenville was still in quarantine and of course no shopping could be done. He had the pick of the wardrobes of the family.

In 1882 a large land company in the East bought Sunnyside and several adjoining plantations and thus ended their plantation life. The family moved over to Greenville. William though having studied engineering at New York University had not had an opportunity to utilize his knowledge and feeling rather incapable applied for the job of rodman with the Levee Board. Soon after when his ability was realized he was made chief engineer for the Levee District. Lyne went into the mercantile business, the firm of Starling and Smith. Charles, already a young lawyer, went into the law office of Shields and Campbell. Later upon the death of Mr. Shields the firm became Campbell and Starling.

More can be found on the Starling side in the "Starling Genealogy and Family Memorial."

Obituary (via Findagrave.com):

Father, Lyne Starling; practiced law with Phineas B. Wilcox (B.A. 1821) in Columbus, Ohio; wholesale merchant in New York; owned a cotton plantation in Arkansas; Major and Assistant Adjutant General on the staff of Major General Crittenden in Civil War; son of William and Mary (McDowell) Starling, of Mercer County, Ky.

Mother, Maria Antoinette (Hensley) Starling; daughter of Benjamin and Prudence (Culbertson) Hensley, of Frankfort, Ky.

Brother, Lyne Starling, '71.

B B Sayre's School, Frankfort. Entered Yale as a Sophomore in 1869, honorary member Delta Kappa and belonged also to Delta Beta Xi (Alpha Sigma Phi), Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Scroll and Key. Studied law in Cincinnati with firm of King, Thomson & Longworth, but had to leave Cincinnati on account of his health, went to Sunnyside, Ark., and engaged in business as a cotton planter until 1883; then moved to Greenville, Miss., was admitted to the bar, and practiced law until 1908, at first as member of firm of Campbell & Starling and from 1902 independently, gave up the law in 1908 on account of deafness and moved to Alberta, where he was engaged in farming on his own property, "Old Glory," during the rest of his life; secretary of Greenville School Board 1883-1908; treasurer of Church of the Disciples (Campbellites), Greenville, 1905-08; member of Church of the Disciples at Erskine, Alberta, at time of death.

Married October 15, 1878, at Lake Port Plantation, Ark., Annie, daughter of Lycurgus Leonidas and Lydia (Taylor)Johnson.

Children: Lydia Taylor (died in childhood); William (died in 1921); Cave, who attended Johnson Bible College two years (1899-1901); Antoinette, who attended University of Missouri 1901-03 and married Lee E. Lakin (B.A. Transylvania 1905, M A. 1906); Mary Cable (died in 1904); Charles Hensley; Benjamin Taylor; Lyne (died in 1920); and Linn. Mrs. Starling died April 17, 1913.

Death followed an operation for removal of stone from the bladder and occurred at the hospital in Medicine Hat.

Survived by one daughter, four sons, ten grandchildren, and a sister, Miss Laura P. Starling, of Frankfort, Ky.

Obituary -- (Findagrave.com):

Robert was a breeder and racer of fine Kentucky trotting horses and a distiller of fine bourbon whiskey. When his distillery burned down, Pepper yielded to his wife's entreaties and the demands of the temperance movement - he did not rebuild, but went into the trotting horse business.

Exceptionally successful, Pepper's stable became famous for the sires Norval, Madrid, Acolyte and Onward. Mares were shipped from across the globe to breed with Pepper stallions.

The Pepper residence at 415 West Main was, before its demolition, a meeting place for the Frankfort gentry. Although a Union sympathizer who set out kettles of soup for Yankee soldiers garrisoning Frankfort during the Civil War, Mrs. Pepper carried on the traditions of old-style Southern hospitality in a grand manner.

***Information taken from the book "Frankfort Cemetery The Westminster Abbey of Kentucky"***.

THE PEPPERS' HOUSES (from Ned Boyajian)

Regarding the Pepper's house: They had two. Their primary home was a 21-room house with an old-fashioned iron fence and gate on an ample property graced with many trees. The home stood on Main Street in Frankfort, directly across from the First Presbyterian Church. As it turned out, the house actually had 22 rooms. Lyne Goedecke, climbing on the roof, found a trap door. He opened the door and discovered a small room. In it was little rocking chair and little old fashioned side-buttoned child's shoe. There was no door into the interior of the house. The family speculates that the room might have been used by the underground railroad. The town house on Main Street survived until relatively recently. The family had to sell -- but on the understanding that the new owners would preserve the house. But the new owners lied; they tore it down and put up an office building. The family was heartbroken.

The Peppers' summer home was named The Cliffs and it stood along Wilkerson Highway on a bluff overlooking Frankfort. I don't know when The Cliffs was razed. The Cliffs had a wide veranda that went around two sides. A stream went along the house on the outside of the dining room window. Over the front entrance was this quote: "This day forth and Evermore, Blessings on those who come to this door." One day the mother and sister of Charles D. Clay, Susan Jacob Clay and Lucretia Clay (known to the family as Teetee) made a formal visit to the Cliffs. Teetee was an elegant, very proper little woman and on this occasion she wore a fancy flower hat. Now the Pepper family had a little pet monkey named Mike. When the Clays arrived, Mike was chained in the kitchen, but somehow he got loose. He came running around onto the porch where they all were sitting and jumped up on Teetee and hopped on her head and stamped on her little flower hat.

Obituary -- Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Mississippi; Friday, 14 MAR 1958, p.6 (Newspapers.com):

Longtime Civic Leader To Be Buried On Friday

GREENVILLE -- Henry Watson Starling, longtime educational, civic and religious leader, who made the development of the Greenville School system his primary and almost lifelong concern, died in King's Daughters Hospital late Wednesday night after an illness of several months. He was 84.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at the First Presbyterian Church, conducted by the pastor, Dr. T. Russell Nunan. Burial will be in Greenville cemetery. Wells Funeral home is in charge.

Mr. Starling was born in Frankfort, Ky., and came to Greenville with his parents when he was a small boy. He was an outstanding member of the first graduating class in 1890 from Archer High School and graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1896 as a leader in college activities and captain of the Centre football team.

In 1898 he enlisted and served as a lieutenant with Company C., Second Mississippi Regiment, in the Spanish-American War.

He returned home to become identified as a leader in the civic affairs of Greenville. For 28 years he was president and member of the city school board during which time the city schools showed outstanding progress and eight schools were built under his direction.

The present million dollar Greenville High School was dedicated in his honor on October 31, 1954.

He was a member of the Washington County Highway Commission which built the Greenville-Leland road and pioneered other paved highways in the county.

At the time of his death he was president of the Greenville Production Credit Association and had been a member of the Board of Directors of the association since its organization in 1923.

For more than 50 years he was an officer in the First Presbyterian church. He served as a deacon and since 1921 as an elder. He was clerk of the session until 1955.

He was in the cotton business in Greenville for many years, serving as president of the Greenville Cotton Company. He also served as president of the Cotton Exchange.

He served as president of the Greenville Rotary cub and at the time of his death was the club treasurer. He served as president of the Elysian Club when that club was in operation here. He also served as commander when a Spanish American Service club was organized here.

On April 14, 1909, he married Marie Louise Cowan of Vicksburg. He leaves his wife, a daughter, Mrs. Sam Cousley of Greenville; as son, Henry W. Starling Jr., of Indianola; and a sister, Mrs. W. M. Reid of Greenville.

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NOTE: His daughter Katherine H. Starling was apparently inadvertently omitted from the list of survivors. DLB 2020.