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Sunday, May 9, 2010

Dycusburg Ferry

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Brenda Underdown shared this photo with Larry Bragdon who e-mailed it to share on this site. It is from the Crittenden County Pictorical History Book. Brenda wrote: "Marian Hina Stuart submitted the picture when we did the book. She lived somewhere in Tennessee then. She was from the Hina family that lived at Lafayette Heights during the Lafayette Mines era."

Behind the tree is the Dycusburg ferry. Year unknown.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Neighbors Helping Neighbors

Jerry Marshall (L) and Danny Sharp await their next passenger on a flooded section of KY 295/Dycusburg Road just south of the Dycusburg community in southern Crittenden County.

Cumberland River floodwaters have turned an area along the Crittenden-Lyon County line into an island. The two ways in and out are covered by water. Marshall and Sharp are using a Jon boat to help their neighbors get in and out to go to and from work.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Genealogy Query: Lyon

"Looking for info/documentation about Thompson A Lyon b. 1833or 1835 in Eddyville d. 1899 m. Julia Frost. I believe he was a child of Chittenden Lyon and his second wife.

"Also info/documentation for the son of Thompson A Lyon a Wallace Chittenden Lyon born in Paducah KY-9 March 1893. Married Emma then moved to Hyattsville MD/Family did stained glass windows.. I have other Lyon information and would appreciate any assistance. My email has changed so please respond to ac@solucian.com."

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Dycusburg News: April 15, 2010

By Matthew T. Patton

Our sympathies are extended to the family of Helen Brasher Ramage, 87, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., formerly of Dycusburg, who died March 22. She was the wife of J.B. Ramage, who died just a month before on Feb. 22.

We also extend our sympathies to the family of Jamie K. "Pug" LaRue, 38, of Dycusburg who died on March 17. Both were buried at the Dycusburg Cemetery.

Happy birthday to Mike Tosh (4/3); Brandee Bowman (4/3), Jody Beth Selph (4/8); Justin Noffinger (4/17); Regina Matthews (4/18); Justin Sutton (4/21); Jeannie Griffin (4/22), Amanda Oliver and Dylan Strilko (4/23); Bobbie Davenport (4/25); and Dennie Davenport (5/2). Share your birthdays and anniversaries by e-mailing matthewtpatton@yahoo.com.

As part of a community grant, the Dycusburg Community Group will be building a youth park in town within the next 1-2 months. For starters, the group desperately needs volunteers for labor to help construct and place playground equipment. Please consider investing your time in the youth of the area by helping. If you're interested, please call the DCG at 988-2758.

If you haven't checked out the Dycusburg Facebook fan page, you're missing out. Scores of historic photos have recently been added. Find the link for the page at www.dycusburg.com.