Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Velma Louise Gaines Hamock (May 25, 1910 – October 3, 2000) was an American funeral home owner in Paducah, Kentucky.In 1949 she inherited the business, at one time the only African-American owned funeral home in the city, after the death of her husband A. Z. Hamock.
Paducah Formerly known as the West Kentucky Industrial College from 1909 to 1936, renamed Artelia Anderson Hall from 1936 to 1938. In 1938, it became part of the new West Kentucky Vocational School for Negroes.
He settled in downtown Paducah as an hourly employee at a plant with ties to the tobacco industry. He gained the nickname "Speedy" at work because of his speed with handling tobacco. Single and without known relatives, he befriended A. Z. Hamock, an African American who owned the city's only funeral home for blacks in the segregated city.
AOL latest headlines, entertainment, sports, articles for business, health and world news.
The AOL.com video experience serves up the best video content from AOL and around the web, curating informative and entertaining snackable videos.
William Lindsay (September 4, 1835 – October 15, 1909) was an American politician. He served as a Democratic U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1893 to 1901.
The St. Francis DeSales Roman Catholic Church (Church of St. Francis de Sales) is a historic church building at 116 S. 6th Street in Paducah, Kentucky. It was built in 1899 and, together with its 1927-built rectory, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [1] [2]
The church is located at 820 Broadway in the historic centre of Paducah, close to the Lloyd Tilghman House and Civil War Museum. A church has been on the site since 1846. [ 2 ] The current building dates from 1873, the design of architect Henry Martyn Congdon , and was added to the National Register of Historic Buildings in 1976.