Southeast Laurel County Kentucky Cemeteries by the Laurel County Historical Society - Norville Cemetery
Norville Cemetery
Done by plots, not rows - located on 2388 one tenth of mile from junction of 1189. Date copied: August 8, 1988.
Mary E. Harbin
birth date - 10-6-1846
death date - 4-15-1878
Excerpts from the Mountian Echo Newspaper by the Laurel County Historical Society 1873 - 1887
March 3, 1882
In Memory of Mrs. M. E. Harbin
March 3, 1882
I wish to let my neighbors know
some of my trials and troubles;
My troubles have been very great,
listen awhile and I'll relate.
About the age of twenty-two
I married Mary Engle, true;
a daughter fair of Tennessee
and brought her down to Kentucky.
We lived together fourteen years,
Six children born as it appears.
She died and left me here alone,
The death of my dear wife to mourn.
She joined the Church in sixty-six
with pious Christians there to mix
the Methodist, it was her choice.
To them she gave her cheerful voice.
When death this monster death, came near,
This pious Christian knew no fear
But changed positions with a smile
and left this world of grief behind.
The first was a boy that came,
Richard Harbin was his name.
He sighed and groaned with broken heart
That with his mother he must part.
Levi, the second eight year old,
Who saw his mother pale and cold
Did weep and mourn; lament and cry
To see his mother faint and die.
Mary Malinda aged six
among the mourning crowd did mix
Alice, William and Sarah Jane
The other three they do remain.
Trying to do the math in this poem - does not match up with the actual dates in records
Milton G. harbin states his birth year as 1844 and says 'About the age of twenty-two", IF that isn't just poetic license to rhyme - that would be 1866 not 1864 as stated. Later in pension application records he states he married Mary J. Sutton on 1st Aug 1878 in what looks to be Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, but there is a record in the Laurel County, KY records of that date with Mary Jane Sutton as the bride. Plus it is after the death date of Mary Engle. But here we have a poem dated as published PRIOR to the ascribed death date of Mary Engle Harbin AND her tombstone is also Aoril 15, 1878. Dated 5 Years, 1 month and 12 days BEFORE the death date as listed on the tombstone????? Perhaps the 14 years married is how the death date came about?
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Here are some "receipts", recipes, that would have been in the local newspaper during her lifetime.
Mountain Echo newspaper, London, KY
Friday 20 August 1875;Front Page, Column 4
Lemon Pie With Raisins*
Take the juice and grated rind of one lemon, one egg well beaten, one cup of sugar; two tablespoonsful of corn starch dissolved in two thirds of a cup of sweet milk, one cup of raisins carefully washed, and butter one half the size of an egg. Mix and bake with an under crust.
*remember - there was no such thing as "seedless" grapes, hence - no "seedless" raisins. A housewife of this time would know to wash and sort carefully to pick out moldy raisins and to remove the seeds from each raisin before cooking with these!
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Mountain Echo newspaper, London, KY
Friday 15 February 1878;Page 4, Column 1
TEA CAKES - Five eggs, two cups sugar, one cup of butter, three pints of flour; flavor to taste. Roll thin, cut and bake in a quick oven.
Lemon puddings - Two eggs, one cup of white sugar, one tablespoonful of flour, one teacupful of water, juice one lemon. Grate the rind of the lemon into the sugar. Beat eggs separately. Add eggs just when ready to bake and bake in their crust. The above proportion for one pie.
Norville Cemetery
Done by plots, not rows - located on 2388 one tenth of mile from junction of 1189. Date copied: August 8, 1988.
Mary E. Harbin
birth date - 10-6-1846
death date - 4-15-1878
Excerpts from the Mountian Echo Newspaper by the Laurel County Historical Society 1873 - 1887
March 3, 1882
In Memory of Mrs. M. E. Harbin
March 3, 1882
I wish to let my neighbors know
some of my trials and troubles;
My troubles have been very great,
listen awhile and I'll relate.
About the age of twenty-two
I married Mary Engle, true;
a daughter fair of Tennessee
and brought her down to Kentucky.
We lived together fourteen years,
Six children born as it appears.
She died and left me here alone,
The death of my dear wife to mourn.
She joined the Church in sixty-six
with pious Christians there to mix
the Methodist, it was her choice.
To them she gave her cheerful voice.
When death this monster death, came near,
This pious Christian knew no fear
But changed positions with a smile
and left this world of grief behind.
The first was a boy that came,
Richard Harbin was his name.
He sighed and groaned with broken heart
That with his mother he must part.
Levi, the second eight year old,
Who saw his mother pale and cold
Did weep and mourn; lament and cry
To see his mother faint and die.
Mary Malinda aged six
among the mourning crowd did mix
Alice, William and Sarah Jane
The other three they do remain.
Trying to do the math in this poem - does not match up with the actual dates in records
Milton G. harbin states his birth year as 1844 and says 'About the age of twenty-two", IF that isn't just poetic license to rhyme - that would be 1866 not 1864 as stated. Later in pension application records he states he married Mary J. Sutton on 1st Aug 1878 in what looks to be Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, but there is a record in the Laurel County, KY records of that date with Mary Jane Sutton as the bride. Plus it is after the death date of Mary Engle. But here we have a poem dated as published PRIOR to the ascribed death date of Mary Engle Harbin AND her tombstone is also Aoril 15, 1878. Dated 5 Years, 1 month and 12 days BEFORE the death date as listed on the tombstone????? Perhaps the 14 years married is how the death date came about?
----------
Here are some "receipts", recipes, that would have been in the local newspaper during her lifetime.
Mountain Echo newspaper, London, KY
Friday 20 August 1875;Front Page, Column 4
Lemon Pie With Raisins*
Take the juice and grated rind of one lemon, one egg well beaten, one cup of sugar; two tablespoonsful of corn starch dissolved in two thirds of a cup of sweet milk, one cup of raisins carefully washed, and butter one half the size of an egg. Mix and bake with an under crust.
*remember - there was no such thing as "seedless" grapes, hence - no "seedless" raisins. A housewife of this time would know to wash and sort carefully to pick out moldy raisins and to remove the seeds from each raisin before cooking with these!
----------
Mountain Echo newspaper, London, KY
Friday 15 February 1878;Page 4, Column 1
TEA CAKES - Five eggs, two cups sugar, one cup of butter, three pints of flour; flavor to taste. Roll thin, cut and bake in a quick oven.
Lemon puddings - Two eggs, one cup of white sugar, one tablespoonful of flour, one teacupful of water, juice one lemon. Grate the rind of the lemon into the sugar. Beat eggs separately. Add eggs just when ready to bake and bake in their crust. The above proportion for one pie.
Southeast Laurel County Kentucky Cemeteries by the Laurel County Historical Society - Norville Cemetery
Norville Cemetery
Done by plots, not rows - located on 2388 one tenth of mile from junction of 1189. Date copied: August 8, 1988.
Mary E. Harbin
birth date - 10-6-1846
death date - 4-15-1878
Excerpts from the Mountian Echo Newspaper by the Laurel County Historical Society 1873 - 1887
March 3, 1882
In Memory of Mrs. M. E. Harbin
March 3, 1882
I wish to let my neighbors know
some of my trials and troubles;
My troubles have been very great,
listen awhile and I'll relate.
About the age of twenty-two
I married Mary Engle, true;
a daughter fair of Tennessee
and brought her down to Kentucky.
We lived together fourteen years,
Six children born as it appears.
She died and left me here alone,
The death of my dear wife to mourn.
She joined the Church in sixty-six
with pious Christians there to mix
the Methodist, it was her choice.
To them she gave her cheerful voice.
When death this monster death, came near,
This pious Christian knew no fear
But changed positions with a smile
and left this world of grief behind.
The first was a boy that came,
Richard Harbin was his name.
He sighed and groaned with broken heart
That with his mother he must part.
Levi, the second eight year old,
Who saw his mother pale and cold
Did weep and mourn; lament and cry
To see his mother faint and die.
Mary Malinda aged six
among the mourning crowd did mix
Alice, William and Sarah Jane
The other three they do remain.
Trying to do the math in this poem - does not match up with the actual dates in records
Milton G. harbin states his birth year as 1844 and says 'About the age of twenty-two", IF that isn't just poetic license to rhyme - that would be 1866 not 1864 as stated. Later in pension application records he states he married Mary J. Sutton on 1st Aug 1878 in what looks to be Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, but there is a record in the Laurel County, KY records of that date with Mary Jane Sutton as the bride. Plus it is after the death date of Mary Engle. But here we have a poem dated as published PRIOR to the ascribed death date of Mary Engle Harbin AND her tombstone is also Aoril 15, 1878. Dated 5 Years, 1 month and 12 days BEFORE the death date as listed on the tombstone????? Perhaps the 14 years married is how the death date came about?
----------
Here are some "receipts", recipes, that would have been in the local newspaper during her lifetime.
Mountain Echo newspaper, London, KY
Friday 20 August 1875;Front Page, Column 4
Lemon Pie With Raisins*
Take the juice and grated rind of one lemon, one egg well beaten, one cup of sugar; two tablespoonsful of corn starch dissolved in two thirds of a cup of sweet milk, one cup of raisins carefully washed, and butter one half the size of an egg. Mix and bake with an under crust.
*remember - there was no such thing as "seedless" grapes, hence - no "seedless" raisins. A housewife of this time would know to wash and sort carefully to pick out moldy raisins and to remove the seeds from each raisin before cooking with these!
----------
Mountain Echo newspaper, London, KY
Friday 15 February 1878;Page 4, Column 1
TEA CAKES - Five eggs, two cups sugar, one cup of butter, three pints of flour; flavor to taste. Roll thin, cut and bake in a quick oven.
Lemon puddings - Two eggs, one cup of white sugar, one tablespoonful of flour, one teacupful of water, juice one lemon. Grate the rind of the lemon into the sugar. Beat eggs separately. Add eggs just when ready to bake and bake in their crust. The above proportion for one pie.
Norville Cemetery
Done by plots, not rows - located on 2388 one tenth of mile from junction of 1189. Date copied: August 8, 1988.
Mary E. Harbin
birth date - 10-6-1846
death date - 4-15-1878
Excerpts from the Mountian Echo Newspaper by the Laurel County Historical Society 1873 - 1887
March 3, 1882
In Memory of Mrs. M. E. Harbin
March 3, 1882
I wish to let my neighbors know
some of my trials and troubles;
My troubles have been very great,
listen awhile and I'll relate.
About the age of twenty-two
I married Mary Engle, true;
a daughter fair of Tennessee
and brought her down to Kentucky.
We lived together fourteen years,
Six children born as it appears.
She died and left me here alone,
The death of my dear wife to mourn.
She joined the Church in sixty-six
with pious Christians there to mix
the Methodist, it was her choice.
To them she gave her cheerful voice.
When death this monster death, came near,
This pious Christian knew no fear
But changed positions with a smile
and left this world of grief behind.
The first was a boy that came,
Richard Harbin was his name.
He sighed and groaned with broken heart
That with his mother he must part.
Levi, the second eight year old,
Who saw his mother pale and cold
Did weep and mourn; lament and cry
To see his mother faint and die.
Mary Malinda aged six
among the mourning crowd did mix
Alice, William and Sarah Jane
The other three they do remain.
Trying to do the math in this poem - does not match up with the actual dates in records
Milton G. harbin states his birth year as 1844 and says 'About the age of twenty-two", IF that isn't just poetic license to rhyme - that would be 1866 not 1864 as stated. Later in pension application records he states he married Mary J. Sutton on 1st Aug 1878 in what looks to be Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, but there is a record in the Laurel County, KY records of that date with Mary Jane Sutton as the bride. Plus it is after the death date of Mary Engle. But here we have a poem dated as published PRIOR to the ascribed death date of Mary Engle Harbin AND her tombstone is also Aoril 15, 1878. Dated 5 Years, 1 month and 12 days BEFORE the death date as listed on the tombstone????? Perhaps the 14 years married is how the death date came about?
----------
Here are some "receipts", recipes, that would have been in the local newspaper during her lifetime.
Mountain Echo newspaper, London, KY
Friday 20 August 1875;Front Page, Column 4
Lemon Pie With Raisins*
Take the juice and grated rind of one lemon, one egg well beaten, one cup of sugar; two tablespoonsful of corn starch dissolved in two thirds of a cup of sweet milk, one cup of raisins carefully washed, and butter one half the size of an egg. Mix and bake with an under crust.
*remember - there was no such thing as "seedless" grapes, hence - no "seedless" raisins. A housewife of this time would know to wash and sort carefully to pick out moldy raisins and to remove the seeds from each raisin before cooking with these!
----------
Mountain Echo newspaper, London, KY
Friday 15 February 1878;Page 4, Column 1
TEA CAKES - Five eggs, two cups sugar, one cup of butter, three pints of flour; flavor to taste. Roll thin, cut and bake in a quick oven.
Lemon puddings - Two eggs, one cup of white sugar, one tablespoonful of flour, one teacupful of water, juice one lemon. Grate the rind of the lemon into the sugar. Beat eggs separately. Add eggs just when ready to bake and bake in their crust. The above proportion for one pie.
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