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MYSTERY PERSON #65

Lyndon Combs of Hazard has solved the mystery.

Mystery Person #65 is W.R.Fuller (Welcome Ramsey Fuller). Hear W.R. in his own words soon on this site.

W.R. Fuller operated Fuller's Department Store, he owned the Fuller Fouts Building on Main Street in Hazard and was in business with Joe Eversole at First Federal Savings & Loan. Soon you'll hear the story of how W.R. got his name.
I attended medical school in Atlanta, Georgia. I was in good company. I had three brothers in medical school. I entered the service during World War I around 1914. After the war I met a pretty school teacher who taught Latin. She became my wife. When I 1st came to Hazard in the early 1920s, it was hard to get hotel accommodations. Ma Hibler rented out rooms and ran the Hibler coffee shop. I rented a room on the top story of the Sampson Building next to the Grand Hotel. I shared the room with Edwin Smith who worked for a feed company. We'd have to take drinking water in a bottle up there to drink. The water was pumped out of the river and was not good for drinking. I was taking a shower one afternoon late and the water went off after I got soaped up, white as snow. I stood and waited for the water to come on for about 5 or 6 minutes. I hollered down the hall, "How long before the water will come back on?" They asked me what time it was.. I said "Its nine o clock." They said, "The water will be on tomorrow morning at 6. You can finish your shower tomorrow."

Is it W. H. Jefferson or Dr. D. Carr? Carol Willliams, Perry County

Dr Britt Combs? Ovitt Couch, Hazard. KY

Dr. Brown, Dr. Morgan or Dr. Hagan? Lyndon Combs, Hazard, KY

Dr. J. C. Coldiron? (I hope it is o.k. to keep on guessing more than once.) Thanks. Carol Williams, Perry County

Could it be Ance York? Carlene Shackelford, Hazard, KY

Is it J. E.Hagan or N. G. Riggins? Carol Williams, Perry County

Is it F. F. Sheldon? Carol Williams, Perry County

Could it be W.E. Smith? Gail Osborne, Lexington KY

I think it could be M. A. Wheeler. Carol Williams, Perry County

Second guess - could it be Dr. R. L. Collins? Mary Jo Edwards, Carmel, IN

Could it be Gordon Honeycutt? Neil Woods

Doc Steel? I can't recall his first name. Everett Hall, Franklin, IN

Is it J. Warren? Mary Jo Edwards, Carmel, IN

Is it Brock Fouts or Dr. Dana Synder? Carol Williams, Perry County

Arlie Barber that used to be over the Power Company? Lyndon Combs, Hazard, KY

I can't come up with a first name right now; but could it be a Mr. Stag or Mr. Staggs? Carol Williams in Perry County

I'd bet they automobile trip from Cincinnati to Hazard in 1924 was an interesting one. Robert, Hazard, KY

I found a Miller family living on High Street/Broadway in the census and it was W. H., Mahala and daughter, Mildred. However if the figures shown are correct she was getting old in 1930. I am going back to look at it again. I have conversed with the two oldest of my friends and we cannot come up with who Mildred was or whom she married. I think I have her family but now I gotta find out who she married. I guess this one has "bumfuzzled" most of the players. I am glad I am not standing alone. IdaLee Hansel, Spartanburg SC

Would this be P.B. Huff that had a barber shop in Hazard? Karen, Hazard KY

Could it be P. B Huff? Kenny Fitzpatrick, Hazard, KY

Could it be a Mr.Huff (perhaps Ronald Huff). Carol Williams in Perry County

I think it is P.B. Huff who owned Huff's Barber Shop on Main Street. Bob Byrge, Hazard, KY

Maybe P.B. Huff. Gail Osborne, Lexington, KY

The clue says the name can be found in one of the illustrations above. The only name I can see is Huff on the barber shop
door. Could this be P. B. Huff, owner of Huff's barber shop? I might have the first part of the name wrong. Old age does that to you. Lois Reynolds Farler, London, OH

Is it Curtis Morris? Barbara, Hardburly, KY

I found a W. H. and Mahala Miller in the 1930 Census. I am going to hang up my Sherlock Cape and clean out my pipe. I am totally confused, but I love it. I cannot come up with why the talk about her father and the medicine and that Mildred was not concerned about her Dad. As you can see my idle mind is racing but coming up blank. IdaLee Hansel, Spartanburg SC

I bought one of the first cars in Hazard. There may have been two or three others in town. They were shipped in on railroad cars. You could only go around the block in Hazard. The road to Lothair was not accessible so you could only have a car in town. My wife didn't want me to buy one because she said we wouldn't be able to use it if we had it. However I decided to buy a new car, a 1924 Buick Master Six. My wife and I picked it up in Cincinnati. As we came back home we could only make it to Jenkins. After that there were no roads. We were in and out of the river beds and crossing creeks all the way to Hazard. I had to constantly jack up the car to get over the rocks. My wife was right about the car.

Who will be the first to identify Mystery Person #65? Look for more clues soon.

I am Mystery Person #65. I smoked for about about eight years. I had to borrow about a thousand dollars in the town where I was working to pay my debts so I could move to Hazard. While I was on the train coming through Tennessee on my way to Perry County I made up my mind I would have to give up smoking if I was going to amount to anything in the business world. I got up out of the smoker car of the train and left my tobacco on the window ledge. I never touched tobacco again.

When I first came to Hazard I was asked by a friend to come to the Shrine dance and bring a girl. I told him I didn't dance. He said we'll send you to the best looking girl in Hazard if you'll bring her to the dance. They set me up with Mildred Miller, who lived next to the Presbyterian church in Hazard. I went to the house and was met by a doctor coming out the front door then was greeted by Mildred's mom. She asked if I would mind picking up three prescriptions for her husband. I told her I would. When Mildred and I got to Main Street, I started toward the drug store. Meanwhile Mildred started upstairs to the dance hall.. I reminded her about the medicine. She said, "I don't think daddy is very sick, I don't think we need to get him any medicine tonight." So we went to the dance.

Welcome Ramsey Fuller's first name can be found in one of the illustations above.