Robert is the 5th Great Grandson of Robert Sheffield Haviland, the founder of Havilandsville, KY. Robert began researching his family tree in 1994.
Robert Haviland
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Feb 04 2024
HAVE LONG SERVED CYNTHIANA AREA
J. R. Poindexter & Son Aid Prospective Home Builders Throughout the Cynthiana trading district the firm of J. R. Poindexter and Son has won repute. Through quality products and superior service backed by fair business dealings, that firm has shown steady growth. Its dealings are as substantial as the materials it. sells. It knows that …
Feb 22 2022
Bank of Cloverport
Kentucky Advocate Danville, Kentucky, Monday, December 29, 1902 New Bank For Cloverport. Cloverport, Ky., Dec. 27. — Capitalists of this city and Owensboro are organizing the bank of Cloverport. The articles of incorporation are drawn up and the bank will begin business in March. Stock is being liberally subscribed. The Twice-A-Week Messenger Owensboro, Kentucky, Friday, …
Feb 20 2022
Cloverport Fire of 1910
The Breckenridge News Cloverport, Kentucky | Wednesday, March 16, 1910 Disastrous Fire Again Visits Old Cloverport Beautiful Homes and Comfortable Residences Eaten Up By Flames On The East Side of Town — March Winds Blew a Terrific Gale Bucket Brigade was People’s Only Protection Occurred Monday morning. Losers: Lee Modes, John Carter, Henry Morton’s family, …
Jan 30 2022
Oddville High School Principal Resigns
Students Whip Oddville High School Teacher Two Placed Under Arrest and School Is Closed for An Investigation CYNTHIANA, Ky., April 4-(AP)- With one student under arrest and juvenile warrants out for two others, quiet reigned today at the Oddville high school in this county, where a man teacher was the victim of an attack by …
Jan 30 2022
New Oddville School Ready
Dr. H. L. Donovan to Deliver Main Address At Dedication. FAMED FOR BASKETBALL Special to The Courier-Journal, Cynthiana, Ky., Nov. 3.-The new addition to the Oddville High School, costing approximately $22,000, will be dedicated at 7:30 o’clock Wednesday night, the main address to be delivered by Dr. H. L. Donovan, president of Eastern State Teachers’ …
Aug 29 2021
Unknown Man Found Dead
The school teacher in District No. —, in Pendleton county, near Havilandsville, on going to the school-house, on Monday morning, the 22d ultimo, to prepare the house for the reception of his pupils, discovered that several benches had been misplaced, and, on a close examination, found a DEAD MAN, in a sitting posture, near a …
Aug 15 2021
Robert Sheffield Haviland Obituary
R.S. HAVILAND departed this life. at his residence on the 8th of August 1858, in the 62nd year of his age. No citizen of this county was ever more highly esteemed by all who knew him – death could have cut down no one more loved and revered by his family, or more deeply regretted …
Jul 29 2021
The 1901 Fire in Cloverport, KY
United States Of America | East North Central | Wisconsin | Racine | Racine Daily Journal, The | 1901-03-14 BAD BLAZE IN KENTUCKY Disastrous Early Morning Conflagration Visits Cloverport All Business Houses Gone and Half the Residences — Tobacco Warehouses Burn—Relief Trains Sent Out. CLOVERPORT, Ky., March 14.—In the biting air of the early morning …
Jun 23 2021
The Railroad in Cloverport
Back Row, Left to Right: David Mattingly, H.D. Pate, Ben Miller, E.F. Pate, Joseph Lawson, Joseph Younger, Lee Wood, O.O. Lewis Middle Row, Left to Right: L.J. Behen, Warfield Collins, Charles Wagner, Al Purcell, ? Duncan, F. Whitehouse, C.O. Berry Front Row, Left to Right: Harry Weatherholt, Charles Jackson, John Lawson, Ira Behen Brothers Total …
Jun 17 2021
Will of William Stewart Haviland
W. S. Haviland, WILL. KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That I, Williams S. Haviland, of Harrison County, Kentucky, have made and do hereby make, publish and declare my last Will and Testament, in manner and form following. FIRST: I direct the payment of my lawful debts and funeral expenses as soon as practical after …