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      49. Jesse Pitt5 Kevil (Drury Mitchusson4, Thomas S.3, Benjamin Kevil2 2, Benjamin Kevil1 1) was born February 22, 1847 in Kentucky, and died December 1938. He married Sallie J. David August 26, 1884 in Caldwell County, Kentucky.

Notes for Jesse Pitt Kevil:
The 1880 U.S. Federal Census for Texas has Jesse Pitt Kevil living in District 103, Milan, Texas, and has the following information:
Name: Jesse P. Kevil; Birth Year: About 1847; Birthplace: Kentucky; Age: 33; Occupation: Farmer; Marital Status: Single; Race: White; Head of Household: Lucretia K. Kevil; Relation: Son; Father's Birthplace: Kentucky; Mother's Birthplace: Ireland.

More About Jesse Kevil and Sallie David:
Marriage: August 26, 1884, Caldwell County, Kentucky
     
Child of Jesse Kevil and Sallie David is:
  125 i.   Laurena6 Kevil, born 1893 in Texas. She married Lawson L. Bradley in Rockdale, Texas.
  More About Lawson Bradley and Laurena Kevil:
Marriage: Rockdale, Texas



      50. Mildred5 Kevil (Drury Mitchusson4, Thomas S.3, Benjamin Kevil2 2, Benjamin Kevil1 1) was born 1856 in Texas, and died 1919. She married Edwin Smith Tandy. He was born 1830, and died 1919.
     
Children of Mildred Kevil and Edwin Tandy are:
  126 i.   James6 Tandy, born Unknown in Caldwell County, Kentucky.
  127 ii.   Mary J. Tandy, born Unknown in Caldwell County, Kentucky.
+ 128 iii.   Ambie Tandy, born October 18, 1885 in Caldwell County, Kentucky; died 1974 in Kentucky.


      51. Molly5 Kevil (Drury Mitchusson4, Thomas S.3, Benjamin Kevil2 2, Benjamin Kevil1 1) was born Unknown in Caldwell County, Kentucky, and died in Texas. She married James J. George February 11, 1869 in Caldwell County, Kentucky. He was born in Kentucky, and died in Texas.

More About James George and Molly Kevil:
Marriage: February 11, 1869, Caldwell County, Kentucky
     
Children of Molly Kevil and James George are:
  129 i.   Eva6 George, born Unknown in Texas; died in Texas. She married William Howell in Texas; born in Texas; died in Texas.
  More About William Howell and Eva George:
Marriage: Texas
  130 ii.   Ivey George, born Unknown in Texas; died in Texas. She married ? Walsh; born in Texas; died in Texas.
  131 iii.   Alice George, born Unknown in Texas. She married Marvin Arundel in Texas; born in Texas.
  More About Marvin Arundel and Alice George:
Marriage: Texas



      52. Joseph Bell5 Kevil (James Early4, Thomas S.3, Benjamin Kevil2 2, Benjamin Kevil1 1) was born January 23, 1844 in Caldwell County, Kentucky, and died March 10, 1917. He married Sarah F. Montgomery 1870, daughter of Samuel Montgomery and Rebecca Givens. She was born March 27, 1845, and died July 14, 1911 in Crittendon County, Kentucky.

Notes for Joseph Bell Kevil:
THE KENTUCKY LAND GRANTS
Volume 1, Part 2
CHAPTER X, GRANTS IN THE COUNTY COURT ORDERS (1836-1924)
THE COUNTIES OF KENTUCKY
page 1419
Grantee: Kevil, J. Bell
Acres: 13 1/2
Book: 112
Page: 519
Date of Survey: 12-3-1889
County: Crittenden
Watercourse: Crooked & Hurricane Cr.

The 1900 Kentucky Census, page 287, shows Joseph Kevil residing in Lyon County, Kentucky.

More About Joseph Bell Kevil:
Fact #2: 1900, On page 287 of the 1900 Kentucky Census, Joseph Kevil is shown living in Lyon County, Kentucky.

More About Joseph Kevil and Sarah Montgomery:
Marriage: 1870
     
Children of Joseph Kevil and Sarah Montgomery are:
  132 i.   David B.6 Kevil, born March 26, 1871; died October 14, 1954 in St. Louis, Missouri.
  Notes for David B. Kevil:
The 1900 Kentucky Census, page 286, shows David Kevil residing in Lyon County, Kentucky.


OBITUARY - Name and date of Kentucky newspaper unknown (possibly the Princeton Ledger).

DAVID B. KEVIL
David B. Kevil died in St. Louis, Missouri Thursday, October 14 at the age of 83. He was a native of this county, but lived in Marion, Ky., for a number of years before going to Silkeston, Missouri Forty-seven years ago. He spent a few years in Shreveport, La.

Mr. Kevil was the son of the late J. Bell Kevil and Sara F. Montgomery Kevil and was not married. He is survived by two sisters and two brothers.

Burial occurred at Maple View Cemetery, Marion, Kentucky.

  More About David B. Kevil:
Burial: Maple View Cemetery, Marion, Kentucky
Fact #1: 1900, On page 286 of the 1900 Kentucky Census, David Kevil is shown living in Lyon County, Kentucky.
Fact #2: Never married.
+ 133 ii.   Martha D. Kevil, born Abt. 1873.
+ 134 iii.   Della Dale Kevil, born January 9, 1876 in Cerulean Springs, Trigg County, Kentucky; died 1949 in Florida.
  135 iv.   Mable Kevil, born October 22, 1878; died April 27, 1917.
  More About Mable Kevil:
Fact #2: Never marriede.
  136 v.   James S. Kevil, born Unknown. He married Gladys Sikes.
+ 137 vi.   Rose Rhee Kevil, born July 27, 1881 in Caledonia, Trigg County, Kentucky; died June 1967.


      53. Robert Urey5 Kevil (James Early4, Thomas S.3, Benjamin Kevil2 2, Benjamin Kevil1 1) was born August 28, 1845 in Caldwell County, Kentucky, and died May 27, 1925 in Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky. He married Laura Ann Holloway July 9, 1865 in Lyon County, Kentucky, daughter of Robert Holloway and Catherine Boyd. She was born April 15, 1848 in Lyon County, Kentucky, and died April 18, 1915 in Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky.

Notes for Robert Urey Kevil:
A book about Kentucky history in the Princeton Library has the following biography about R. U. Kevil in the Western Kentucky section. The book was written and publised about 1895.


WESTERN KENTUCKY

R. U. KEVIL

R. U. Kevil, one of the native sons of Caldwell County, Kentucky, has been a prominent citizen, farmer, and business man of the same for a number of years, and few enjoy a better reputation for ability and general popularity than he. He was born on a farm on August 28, 1845, and represents one of the oldest families in the county. His great-grandfather, of Scotch decent, came from North Carolina to Kentucky as a pioneer, when all the country was wild and abounding with Indians and wild animals. His son Thomas was born in North Carolina and was but a child when he was brought to Caldwell County. He was a farmer by occupation, and died on the farm which he had been reared.

James E. Kevil, the father of R. U. Kevil, was born in Caldwell County about 1822, and passed all his life there, living to the age of seventy-six years. He married Nancy Bell, who was born in Ireland and came to America with her mother when sixteen years old. She is still living at the age of seventy-eight years, and has been the mother of ten children, eight sons and two daughters, all of whom reached their majority and seven are still living.

R. U. Kevil, the second child and son, was reared on the farm, where he was taught the value of independent and honest toil, and received a common school education. He remained at home until his marriage on July 19, 1865, when Miss Laura Holloway became his bride. She was born in Lyon County, Kentucky, a daughter of Robert and Catherine (Boyd) Holloway, and was reared in her native county. Mr. and Mrs. Kevil have six children: J. R.; Alva, wife of W. H. Patrick, of Evansville, Indiana; Laban; Catherine, wife of Charles S. Thomas, a prominent business man of Chicago; Birdie, wife of George Pettit, Jr., of Princeton; and J. U., of Franklin, Indiana.

After his marriage, Mr. Kevil located on a farm in Caldwell County, and afterward bought the old homestead, where he was engaged in farming and stock-raising. At the same time, he was interested in milling, having built a mill in Trigg County in 1871 and owning a share in it. He sold this in 1875, and bought an interest in the Banner Mill in Princeton. He disposed of this in 1883, and then purchased the Princeton Roller Mills, which he has successfully conducting ever since. He tore down the old mill in 1885 and rebuilt an entirely new and modern plant, equipped with all the up-to-date contrivances and machinery, and to show how progressive he is, he again remodeled and rebuilt it in 1895, having a mill of two hundred barrels' daily capacity and perfect in all its departments. It is the largest mill in the county, and has a large trade in all directions. Mr. Kevil has a farm in Ballard County, Kentucky, on which a town has been established and named Kevil in his honor. It is located on the Illinois Central Railroad, and is a growing place. He also owns a plantation of seven hundred acres on the Illinois Central in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, and in Caldwell County has a fine farm of two hundred and sixty-eight acres, one of the finest in the county. All this indicates hoe successful he has been in his business operations, and it is the more creditable because he has won it all by his own efforts, studious attention to business, and good and dilligant management.

Mr. Kevil has been a life-long Democrat, and was a private soldier under General Forrest during the war of the Rebellion. He is a prominent Royal Arch Mason, and in every relation that he has with society in general is influential and progressive and held in universal estem. The Kevil's have resided in this part of Kentucky for over a hundred years, and they are well known all over western Kentucky.

Excerpts from the Paducah Sun-Democrat in 1949:

48-Year Old Kevil Is Progressive Farm Center
Caldwell Man Starts Town On Way In Wake Of Railroad Plan

Kevil, Ky., Jan. 15 - The bearded giant of a man drew a square on the ground with a stick, and then he scraped a heavy line through the center of the box. He studied the pattern for a long time before turning slowly to study the land around him.
He was standing in a field covered with tall grass and bushes. A house or two could be seen through the trees and a country road, splitting the fields nearby, disappeared over a hill to the west.
The well-dressed man nodded his head in approval of an idea he had, then walked briskly to his buggy and drove away.
It was the spring of 1901. The big man, nearly six and a half feet tall, was R. U. Kevil, an enterprising business man from Princeton. The heavy line in the box was an imaginary railroad that turned to steel less than two years later, and the box was a miniature outline of what is now Kevil, Ballard County town that grew up quickly as a shipping point along the new railroad line.

R. U. Kevil Awake
Mr. Kevil was following his usual practice of keeping wide awake in all business matters. He had made it a point to find out about the railroad survey, made in 1901, and by the time he visited the field the following spring he was familiar with what was going to happen. So in the summer of 1901, when the railroad was under construction and a public improvement company had platted the town and was holding a lot of auction, Mr. Kevil's towering frame was pushed to the auction platform. His voice thundered offer after offer, and over and over again the auctioneer chanted: "Sold to R. U. Kevil."
The people of new Kevil must have been grateful to Mr. Kevil for the part he played in getting the town on its way, for they named the town after him.

Train Rolls
The first train ran over the railroad August 16, 1903, and Kevil mushroomed almost overnight, as other people followed Mr. Kevil's lead. Charles Burnley built the first house. Mr. Burnley also built the first business place - a somewhat drab establishment where coffins were built. In 1904, the Post Office opened with Bob Russell as Postmaster, and his office supplied all other offices in Ballard County with postal supplies.

Town Takes Shape
Four brick buildings were constructed in 1903 and 1904. They were occupied by the Kevil Improvement Company, the Kevil Bank, Nuckols Drug Store and the Kevil School. The hotel did a prosperous business under management of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Stewart.

School Founded In 1903
The school was organized in 1903. The Kevil Improvement Company, promoted by Mr. Kevil and leading citizens, donated the land. A man named Copeland and Mrs. Carrie Stephens were the first teachers. Trustees levied the school tax and hired a man to collect revenue.

1880 U. S. Federal Census Index forKentucky shows R. U. Kevil, age 34, living in Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky with his wife Laura, age 32; son James R. Kevil, age 14; daughter Alva Kevil, age 11; son Laban Kevil, age 8; daughter Ivy Kevil, age 5; daughter Birdy Kevil, age 1; Joseph a black laborer, age 25; and Tilda a black servant, age 23. The Census containes the following information about R. U. Kevil:
Name: R. U. Kevil; Relation: Self; Marital Status: Married; Gender: Male; Race: White; Age: 34; Birthplace: Kentucky; Occupation: Farmer; Father's Birthplace: Kentucky; Mother's Birthplace: Ireland.

The 1910 U. S. Federal Census Index for Kentucky shows R. U. Kevil living in Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky with his wife Laure. The Census lists the following:
Name: Robert W Kevil (should be Robert U. Kevil); Enumeration District: 0012; Color: White; Age: 64; Birth Place: Kentucky; Visit: 0424; County: Caldwell, Princeton; Relation: Husband; Relatives: Wife: Laura; Age: 61; Birthplace: Kentucky.


More About Robert Urey Kevil:
Burial: Abt. May 29, 1925, Cedar Hill Cemetery in Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky
Fact #1: When R. U. Kevil's three sons attained manhood, they were made business partners with their father. The business was named "R. U. Kevil & Sons."
Fact #2: September 1861, Served with his first cousin, Thomas Bond, at Fort Donnelson, TN during Civil War. At the fall of the fort, R. U. Kevil escaped but Thomas Bond was captured and starved to death.
Fact #3: R. U. Kevil was a "bearded giant of a man," nearly six and a half feet tall. He was affectionately known as "Old Man Kevil" in the miller's trade.
Fact #4: Served in Civil War, Company G, First Kentucky Calvary C.S.A.

Notes for Laura Ann Holloway:
The 1880 U. S. Federal Census for Kentucky shows Laura Kevil living in Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky.with her husband, R. R. Kevil, age 34; son James R. Kevil, age 14; daughter Alva Kevil, age 11; son Laban Kevil, age 8; daughter Ivy Kevil, age 5; daughter Birdy Kevil, age 1; black laborer Joseph Kevil, age 25; and black servant Tilda, age 23. Census information about Laura Holloway Kevil is as follows:
Name: Laura Kevil; Gender: Female; Birth Year: about 1848; Birthplace: Kentucky; Age: 32; Occupation: Keeping House; Marital Status: Married; Race: White; Head of Household: R. U. Kevil; Relation: Wife; Father's Birthplace: Kentucky; Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky.

EXCERPTS FROM OBITUARY in Princeton Ledger

Mrs. Kevil, whose sudden death on Sunday evening cast a pall of gloom over the entire community, had left a written statement giving the manner in which she wanted the last sad rights over her body conducted.
The remains were laid to rest in the City Cemetery. Truly a good women is gone, and the bereaved ones have the sympathy of a host of friends in their bereavement.

More About Laura Ann Holloway:
Burial: Abt. April 21, 1915, Cedar Hill Cemetery in Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky

More About Robert Kevil and Laura Holloway:
Marriage: July 9, 1865, Lyon County, Kentucky
     
Children of Robert Kevil and Laura Holloway are:
+ 138 i.   James Robert6 Kevil, born March 27, 1866 in Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky; died November 14, 1927 in Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky.
  139 ii.   James W. Kevil, born 1868 in Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky; died May 27, 1868 in Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky - died in infancy..
+ 140 iii.   Alva Kevil, born September 2, 1870 in Caldwell County, Kentucky; died November 1943 in Clinton, Kentucky.
+ 141 iv.   Laban Kevil, born December 10, 1871 in Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky; died April 11, 1919 in Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky.
+ 142 v.   Katherine Love Kevil, born June 19, 1874 in Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky; died April 20, 1919 in Chicago, Illinois.
  143 vi.   Robert Urey Kevil, Jr., born March 20, 1877 in Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky; died 1877 in Died in infancy.
  More About Robert Urey Kevil, Jr.:
Burial: 1877, Kevil Cemetary off Cadiz Road in Princeton, Kentucky
  144 vii.   Birdie Kevil, born July 14, 1878 in Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky; died 1945. She married (1) George W. Pettit, Jr. January 24, 1898 in Caldwell County, Kentucky. She married (2) Adolphus A. Eastland May 31, 1925; born 1872.
  Notes for Birdie Kevil:
The 1880 U. S. Federal Census for Kentucky lists Birdy Kevil living in Princeton, Kentucky with her father R. U. Kevil, age 34; mother Laura Kevil, age 32; older brother James R. Kevil, age 14; older sister Alva Kevil, age 11; Laban Kevil, age 8; older sister Ivy Kevil (Katherine Love Kevil), age 5; black laberor Joseph Kevil, age 25; and black servant Tilda Kevil, age 23.
Census information about Birdy Kevil is as follows:
Name: Birdy Kevil; Gender: Female; Birth Year: 1879; Birthplace: Kentucky; Age: 1; Occupation: N/A; Marital Status: Single; Race: White; Head of Household: R. U. Kevil; Relation: Daughter; Father's Birthplace: Kentucky; Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky.

Birdie called "Bird" was know as the pretty one.

She married George W. Pettit, Jr. on January 24, 1898 by the Rev. Joseph Laurens. The witnesses were E. D. Barnett and Claire W ?. Bird was 19 and George was 22. The marriage ended in divorce - there were no children.

On 11 May 1925, A. A. Eastland (Uncle Top) and Bird Kevil Pettit (Aunt Birdie)
applied for a marriage license. The wedding did not take place until
31 May 1925. They were married in the Methodist-Episcopal Church by Rev.
Will Price Gordon. Bird was 47 and Adolphus was 53 years old. They had no children.

  More About George Pettit and Birdie Kevil:
Marriage: January 24, 1898, Caldwell County, Kentucky

  More About Adolphus Eastland and Birdie Kevil:
Marriage: May 31, 1925
  145 viii.   James Urey Kevil, born April 18, 1882 in Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky; died May 1941 in Mayfield, Graves County, Kentucky. He married Jennie Wire; born in Mayfield, Graves County, Kentucky; died December 19, 1962 in Her home at Mayfield, Graves County, Kentucky.
  Notes for James Urey Kevil:
James Urey worked in the mill business with his father, Robert Urey. Later he started his own mills in Clinton and Mayfield, Kentucky.

Mr. Kevil had no issue, and his estate established the Mental Health Retardation Center in Mayfield, Kentucky.

EXCERPTS FROM OBITUARY:
J. Urey Kevil, prominent western Kentucky tobacconist and business executive, died at his home on Chapel Court, Mayfield, Kentucky, following a second heart attack. Mr. Kevil, a native of Princeton, had resided in Mayfield for the past thirty-five years. He was a staunch member of the First Presbyterian Church, and was affiliated with several national lodge fraternities. Mr. Kevil was a cousin of Gov. Keen Johnson of Kentucky, and was closely associated with the State administration.

FROM THE PADUCAH SUN-DEMOCRAT: April 20, 1966
Trust funds set-up by J. U. Kevil, who died in 1941, provided a windfall of more than $750,000 for charitable and church organizations of Mayfield and Graves County. Mr. Kevil was a miller and tobacconist. His will provided that his widow receive the proceeds from the two trust funds during her lifetime. Mrs. Kevil died in 1962. After that, the funds were to be distributed to a variety of charitable and religious organizations.
The largest bequest, $300,000, will be used by the J. U. Kevil Memorial Foundation to establish a center for helping the mentally ill and retarded of Mayfield and Graves County. The four downtown churches of downtown Mayfield - First Presbyterian, First Methodist, First Baptist, and First Christian - received $75,000 each. Five bequests of $10,000 each went to orphanages. Another $40,000 went to establish a scholarship loan fund at Murry State College. Gifts of $3,576.83 each went to 25 churches. The only one outside Graves County went to the Ogden Memorial Methodist Church in Princeton, where Mr. Kevil was born.

OBITUARY

J. Urey Kevil Died Friday Night At Mayfield, Ky.

J. Urey Kevil, prominent Western Kentucky tobacconist and business executive, died at his home at Chapel Court, Mayfield, Ky., near ten o'clock Friday night following a second heart attack, the first of which occurred one week previous.

Funeral services were held at 3:00 P.M. Sunday from the home of Rev. Dr. David M. Ausmus, former pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, that city, in charge. Interment was in Highland Park Cemetery.

Mr. Kevil, a native Princetonian, was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. R. U. Kevil, a brother of the late J. R. Kevil and Laban Kevil. He had resided in Mayfield for the past thirty-five years, at which time he purchased the mills on North Ninth Street there, now known as the Mayfield Milling Co., the same he sold some fifteen years ago and had since that time devoted his chief interests to his tobacco business under the firm name Kevil & Wilson. He was former director of First National Bank of that city, past president of the Mayfield Loose Leaf Floors and the Tobacco Board of Trade, a staunch member of the First Presbyterian Church, and affiliated with several National Lodge fraternities.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Jennie Wire Kevil; two sisters, Mrs. A. A, Eastland, this city, Mrs. Alva Patrick, Clinton, Ky., a nephew, Urey Patrick of Clinton, also several nieces and nephews of this place who share in the bereavement.

Mr. Kevil was a cousin of Gov. Keen Johnson of Kentucky, and was closely associated with the state administration. His business activities were widespread in Western Kentucky, and he was well known for his acts of charity and kindness.

Relatives and friends attending the last rites from here were: Mrs. J. R. Kevil, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Lowry, Rev, and Mrs. Leroy Baker, A. A. Eastland, Robert and Ralph Kevil, and Frank K. Wylle.

  More About James Urey Kevil:
Burial: Highland Park Cemetery in Mayfield, Kentucky.
Cause of Death: Second heart attack
Residence: Chapel Court, Mayfield, Kentucky.

  Notes for Jennie Wire:
OBITUARY in Princeton Ledger

Mrs. Jennie Kevil Dies In Mayfield

Mrs. Jennie Kevil, 83, widow of the late J. U. Kevil died at 2:27 A.M., December 19th, at her home in Mayfield after several months illness.

Mrs. Kevil, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wire, was a member of one of Mayfield's oldest and most respected families. Her husband, a prominent Mayfield business man, died in 1941.

Mrs. Kevil, a social, civic, and church leader, was a lifelong member of the Presbyterian Church, and was widely known for her charitable acts.

She leaves a nephew, Charles Kevil Malone, Mayfield, and R. U. Kevil, Princeton.

Funeral services were held in Mayfield at 2 P.M., December 20, and Mr. and Mrs. R. U. Kevil, Princeton, attended.

  More About Jennie Wire:
Burial: Abt. December 22, 1962, Mayfield, Graves County, Kentucky
Religion: Presbyterian

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