It was two years after the death of William McKay, that a sad tragedy took place which shocked the family and the entire community of Bloomfield. A Negro lad who believed himself to have received injury from some member of the family took revenge by setting the house of Mrs. William McKay on fire and killed her before she could escape.
The daughter Lydia Ann, was seriously injured. Her death occured two years later. The story of this bloody deed has come to be a community tradition on Plum Run. Two pear trees standing on the Hill where the house stood are pointed out as being the site of the house which was burned.(The Fanily of Richard McKay by Oscar Reed McKay 1934) The Adocote edited by Ben Webb, Sept. 3, 1842, and Ben Johnson in the Kentucky Standard March 21, 1935, confirm the above. Mr Webb gives the information of the murder, also that the farm overseer and one of the slaves was missing and assumed to be burned up in the house.
Mother: Nancy Hebb
The daughter Lydia Ann, was seriously injured. Her death occured two years later. The story of this bloody deed has come to be a community tradition on Plum Run. Two pear trees standing on the Hill where the house stood are pointed out as being the site of the house which was burned.(The Fanily of Richard McKay by Oscar Reed McKay 1934) The Adocote edited by Ben Webb, Sept. 3, 1842, and Ben Johnson in the Kentucky Standard March 21, 1935, confirm the above. Mr Webb gives the information of the murder, also that the farm overseer and one of the slaves was missing and assumed to be burned up in the house.
Mother: Nancy Hebb
It was two years after the death of William McKay, that a sad tragedy took place which shocked the family and the entire community of Bloomfield. A Negro lad who believed himself to have received injury from some member of the family took revenge by setting the house of Mrs. William McKay on fire and killed her before she could escape.
The daughter Lydia Ann, was seriously injured. Her death occured two years later. The story of this bloody deed has come to be a community tradition on Plum Run. Two pear trees standing on the Hill where the house stood are pointed out as being the site of the house which was burned.(The Fanily of Richard McKay by Oscar Reed McKay 1934) The Adocote edited by Ben Webb, Sept. 3, 1842, and Ben Johnson in the Kentucky Standard March 21, 1935, confirm the above. Mr Webb gives the information of the murder, also that the farm overseer and one of the slaves was missing and assumed to be burned up in the house.
Mother: Nancy Hebb
The daughter Lydia Ann, was seriously injured. Her death occured two years later. The story of this bloody deed has come to be a community tradition on Plum Run. Two pear trees standing on the Hill where the house stood are pointed out as being the site of the house which was burned.(The Fanily of Richard McKay by Oscar Reed McKay 1934) The Adocote edited by Ben Webb, Sept. 3, 1842, and Ben Johnson in the Kentucky Standard March 21, 1935, confirm the above. Mr Webb gives the information of the murder, also that the farm overseer and one of the slaves was missing and assumed to be burned up in the house.
Mother: Nancy Hebb
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