. The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. ialamenities of life as were Jonathan and David. When Mr. Ford died, the hearts of the oldsettlers were touched, and his funeral was largelyattended. He was a relative of the Mayos, ofSandy. 208 THE BIG SANDY VALLEY. J. LEE FERGUSON, The publisher and editor of the Pikeville Times, aRepublican paper, started by him in 1885, and stillconducted with ability, is a son of Dr. S. M. Fer-guson, a leading capitalist and physician of FloydCounty, Ky., and was born in 1852. He receiveda good co
. The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. ialamenities of life as were Jonathan and David. When Mr. Ford died, the hearts of the oldsettlers were touched, and his funeral was largelyattended. He was a relative of the Mayos, ofSandy. 208 THE BIG SANDY VALLEY. J. LEE FERGUSON, The publisher and editor of the Pikeville Times, aRepublican paper, started by him in 1885, and stillconducted with ability, is a son of Dr. S. M. Fer-guson, a leading capitalist and physician of FloydCounty, Ky., and was born in 1852. He receiveda good common-school education in his neighbor-hood, and after-wards obtained acollegiate coursein a Virginia in-stitution; studiedlaw, and gradu-ated at the LawUniversity o fIowa City, Iowa;obtained licenseto practice, andopened an officein Pikeville,Ky.,and rose to prom-inence. He isnow the county prosecutor, although the county ispolitically largely against him. He is a goodwriter, and bids fair to take a high rank as an ed-itor and lawyer. He is unmarried. It is needlessto say that he is an ardent J. LEE FERGUSON. THE ENDICOTTS. 209 HON. JOHN M. ELLIOTT Was so well known to the Sandy people, that theyhave his eventful life indelibly pictured both in theirmemory and on their hearts. He, too, like somany others, added luster to the bar of Preston-burg. The high position to which he attained,the many official stations he adorned, and the tragicmanner of his death, will always keep his nameembalmed in the memory of Sandy people. It is asmall consolation to his widow and to his friends,now the mists have been swept away by time andcircumstances, to believe that his slayer was acrank, scarcely responsible for taking the life ofone of earths warm-hearted sons, and a jurist aspure as a Marshall or a Story. His widow lives inCatlettsburg, keeping green in her memory thegoodness and greatness of her great husband. THE ENDICOTTS Of the Lower Tug Valley are quite an old
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