Chronicles of Boone County

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• Straiter, Parks
• Sleet, Lula Mae
  During the 1942-43 academic year, Lula Sleet was one of about sixty young women who trained in aircraft radio drafting at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. After completing the intensive thirteen-week industrial drawing course, she was sent to work for the U.S. Army Signal Corps in their laboratory at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio.
• Sleet, Estill
  According to his World War I draft registration, Estill was tall with a medium build. His World War II draft registration card further clarified, marking his height as 6 feet 2 inches, and his weight at 185 pounds.
• Minor, Maude
  Her death certificate lists her mother as "Florence Blackburn". This is the only place this name appears.
• Minor, Birdie
• Lewis, James
• Ross, Charles
  Charles Ross was likely born into enslavement. His first appearance in documentation is his marriage record, when he married Jane White in 1869. Given that their first child was born around 1865, they were likely married previously, but did not have it legally recognized until 1869.
• Scales, Grace L.
• Scales, Lizzie
  At the time of the 1910 census, Lizzie was an inmate at the Boone County Infirmary.
• Scales, Eddie
  According to his World War I draft registration, Eddie Scales was of medium height and build. His World War II drat registration elaborated further, listing him as 5-foot 8-inches tall and weighing 196 pounds.
• Scales, Noah
  According to his World War I draft registration, Noah was of medium height with a stout build.
• Scales, Wallace
  His World War II draft registration lists him as 6-feet 1-inch in height, and weighing 248 pounds. He also had a scar on his head.
• Scales, Patsy
  Patsy was probably born in enslavement, and likely in Boone County (Ky.) Any surname she may have had before marrying Frank Scales is unknown.
• Scales, William N.
  William Scales was born in Boone County in 1865, as enslavement was ending in Kentucky. His father was Frank Scales and his mother was a woman named Patsy. According to a jailhouse interview, William was separated from his parents at about 10 years old, though the cause for the separation is not known. In 1870, Frank Scales was recorded as a farm laborer, working in Kenton County, but Patsy’s location at that time is unknown.
• Scales, Frank
  Frank Scales was probably born in enslavement, and likely in Boone County (Ky.)
• Lewis, Leonard
• Rogers, Savannah
• Sleet, Richard Benton
• Sleet, Alice
• Loving, Julia Farley
  "Julia Loving was born in Virginia as a slave and was still quite young when freed. She made her way to St. Paul, Minnesota where she became acquainted with the Flandrau family. When Patty Flandrau married Tilden Selmes in 1883 they hired Julia to work for them on their ranch near Mandan in the Dakota Territory. In 1886 Patty gave birth to Isabella and Julia then took the infant under her care. She continued in this capacity until Isabella married Robert Ferguson nineteen years later. After caring for Isabella’s two eldest children, Martha and Bobby, Julia retired to Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. After her death, her body was flown to Kentucky for her burial. " --Cathy Callopy
• Riley, Susie
• Sebree, Amanda Jane
• Roseberry, George
• Roseberry, Harry
  "Harry Roseberry came to work for Julia Dinsmore in 1895 as a young teenager. He continued to live on the farm until 1968, dying just a little over a year after he was taken to Cincinnati by his daughter. On November 23, 1904, he was married to Sussie Riley in Rising Sun, Indiana, by an African American preacher named John Green.
• Straws, Isaac