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Congratulations to Mary Jo Gregory Edwards
Olive Zoellers was married to Bess's son, C.A. Zoellers. C. A. died during open heart surgery at St. Joseph Hospital in Lexington. This was in the days before they had perfected the surgery as it is done today. Shortly after that Olive moved to London, Kentucky where she lived and then went south. I attended the Methodist Church with Olive and considered her one of my good friends. Elizabeth Duncan, Hazard, KY |
Mary
Jo Gregory Edwards in Carmel, Indiana was the first to identify Mystery
Person #28 as Bess Draughn. Bess was born on June 7th 1898 in
Hazard, Kentucky. She was the oldest of thirteen children. She
attended Hazard High School, Sue Bennett College in London, KY., and
Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, KY. On May 8th 1916, she
married Tonie Zoellers, the owner and
operator of one of the first movie theaters in Hazard. To that union
was born four children. Zoellers died in London, Kentucky in the
late 1920s.
Shortly after his death, Bess accepted a job as a teacher with the Perry
County School System, first teaching at the Chestnut Point School in Maces
Creek. After being a widow for 28 years, Bess married Talmage
Draughn. Her son, C. A. Zoellers lived in Woodland Park and worked
for the Kentucky Power Company in Hazard. Bess Draughn died in
January of 1975.