From Barney Ray Banks:
Just found a very old note from our visit to Owsley County in the late 60s. Judge Monroe King told us the story of Sol and his first wife Nancy Ann Bowman. Seems after her last child was born in OK. (Hobert Lee Banks), in 1909 she got extremely homesick for Kentucky and wanted to go home. She never liked Oklahoma anyway. So, the story goes that she, Sol, and the young baby set out on a trip home to either allow her to stay or just for a long visit, but according to Judge King, she died near Kansas City, Mo. I’ve also heard it was near St. Louis. They prepared her body there and then shipped her on home on the train to Kentucky. He hired a nurse to go along to take care of the baby. She is buried in the New Hope Cemetery near Travelers Rest (near the mouth of Brushy Branch of Bowman Fork of the Little Sturgeon Creek) in Owsley County, KY. Even though her name does not appear on the list of those buried in the cemetery, I have no doubt that this is where she is buried. Not only Judge King told us about her but others we visited with did as well. Judge King made a remark about "... remembering the day of the burial, with that poor man standing there holding that small baby and looking down in that open grave with his wife's casket in it. How very sad." That memory has remained with me all these years. I've often wondered how he traveled back to Oklahoma and if that nurse went with him.
**Grave Manager, her great, great granddaughter, has information that suggests that she actually died on the train to Kentucky.
Just found a very old note from our visit to Owsley County in the late 60s. Judge Monroe King told us the story of Sol and his first wife Nancy Ann Bowman. Seems after her last child was born in OK. (Hobert Lee Banks), in 1909 she got extremely homesick for Kentucky and wanted to go home. She never liked Oklahoma anyway. So, the story goes that she, Sol, and the young baby set out on a trip home to either allow her to stay or just for a long visit, but according to Judge King, she died near Kansas City, Mo. I’ve also heard it was near St. Louis. They prepared her body there and then shipped her on home on the train to Kentucky. He hired a nurse to go along to take care of the baby. She is buried in the New Hope Cemetery near Travelers Rest (near the mouth of Brushy Branch of Bowman Fork of the Little Sturgeon Creek) in Owsley County, KY. Even though her name does not appear on the list of those buried in the cemetery, I have no doubt that this is where she is buried. Not only Judge King told us about her but others we visited with did as well. Judge King made a remark about "... remembering the day of the burial, with that poor man standing there holding that small baby and looking down in that open grave with his wife's casket in it. How very sad." That memory has remained with me all these years. I've often wondered how he traveled back to Oklahoma and if that nurse went with him.
**Grave Manager, her great, great granddaughter, has information that suggests that she actually died on the train to Kentucky.
From Barney Ray Banks:
Just found a very old note from our visit to Owsley County in the late 60s. Judge Monroe King told us the story of Sol and his first wife Nancy Ann Bowman. Seems after her last child was born in OK. (Hobert Lee Banks), in 1909 she got extremely homesick for Kentucky and wanted to go home. She never liked Oklahoma anyway. So, the story goes that she, Sol, and the young baby set out on a trip home to either allow her to stay or just for a long visit, but according to Judge King, she died near Kansas City, Mo. I’ve also heard it was near St. Louis. They prepared her body there and then shipped her on home on the train to Kentucky. He hired a nurse to go along to take care of the baby. She is buried in the New Hope Cemetery near Travelers Rest (near the mouth of Brushy Branch of Bowman Fork of the Little Sturgeon Creek) in Owsley County, KY. Even though her name does not appear on the list of those buried in the cemetery, I have no doubt that this is where she is buried. Not only Judge King told us about her but others we visited with did as well. Judge King made a remark about "... remembering the day of the burial, with that poor man standing there holding that small baby and looking down in that open grave with his wife's casket in it. How very sad." That memory has remained with me all these years. I've often wondered how he traveled back to Oklahoma and if that nurse went with him.
**Grave Manager, her great, great granddaughter, has information that suggests that she actually died on the train to Kentucky.
Just found a very old note from our visit to Owsley County in the late 60s. Judge Monroe King told us the story of Sol and his first wife Nancy Ann Bowman. Seems after her last child was born in OK. (Hobert Lee Banks), in 1909 she got extremely homesick for Kentucky and wanted to go home. She never liked Oklahoma anyway. So, the story goes that she, Sol, and the young baby set out on a trip home to either allow her to stay or just for a long visit, but according to Judge King, she died near Kansas City, Mo. I’ve also heard it was near St. Louis. They prepared her body there and then shipped her on home on the train to Kentucky. He hired a nurse to go along to take care of the baby. She is buried in the New Hope Cemetery near Travelers Rest (near the mouth of Brushy Branch of Bowman Fork of the Little Sturgeon Creek) in Owsley County, KY. Even though her name does not appear on the list of those buried in the cemetery, I have no doubt that this is where she is buried. Not only Judge King told us about her but others we visited with did as well. Judge King made a remark about "... remembering the day of the burial, with that poor man standing there holding that small baby and looking down in that open grave with his wife's casket in it. How very sad." That memory has remained with me all these years. I've often wondered how he traveled back to Oklahoma and if that nurse went with him.
**Grave Manager, her great, great granddaughter, has information that suggests that she actually died on the train to Kentucky.
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