hoard, it appears that he may have begun accumulating his notices as a boy of
nine or ten years old. They extend back to a Bluegrass of men in buckskins — to
those who saw Indians as well as buffalo; and, from coonskin caps and tricorns,
they come forward to the stovepipe hat. One finds, for example, the printed
funeral ticket of Capt. James Masterson, the pioneer and Revolutionary soldier,
who was always seen in fringed hunter’s garb.8 Added to the conventional
particulars of the invitation is the note: ”The Volunteer Battalion, consisting of
the Citizen Volunteer Artillery, the Lexington Light Infantry and Mechanics
Infantry, will parade at 1 o'clock. It is hoped that the companies will turn out
generally to bury this old pioneer and patriot.” Also preserved is the
announcement for the funeral of Mrs. Thomas Irvine, widow of Col. John Todd, a
soldier who was slain by Indians in August of 1787 at the Battle of Blue Licks.

In a work sometimes called ”The Indian Fighter," Matthew Harris Jouett ‘

. painted Capt. Masterson with buckskins and rifle and dog, and Jouett also
‘ painted others whose names appear in the roll kept by Gen. M’Calla. Another

drawn by Jouett’s brush is Dr. William H. Richardson of the Transylvania
Medical School.9 Richardson, who was wounded in a duel with Dr. Benjamin
Dudley, lived on the N ewtown Pike at Caneland, a house of fourteen rooms built
for Dr. William Warfield, amidst pleasure grounds laid out by an English
gardener. Mrs. Richard Higgins and Mrs. Augustus F. Hawkins were painted by
Jouett, as well, and so were Gen. Leslie Combs and the artist John Grimes. A
painter whose funeral notice is included among the invitations is Asa Park, of
Virginia, who moved to Lexington in 1816. He was known for his fruit and
flower still lifes. For the Lafayette Masonic Ball, he painted a transparency of the
American Eagle; according to the Lexington Reporter, ”This was placed in one of
the large arches between the two rooms [of the Masonic Lodge], and was often
the subject of our gaze and admiration.”10

Among others mentioned in the profusion of notices preserved by M’Calla
are Henry Clay, the statesman of compromise; Mary Nicholas, the widow of Col.

1 George Nicholas; John Bradford, Kentucky’s first printer; Matthew Kennedy,

Kentucky’s first architect; Eliza Todd, mother of Mary Todd Lincoln; W. T.
Barry, Congressman and diplomat; Charles Wilkins, capitalist and owner of
Mammoth Cave; ”Old Duke” Robert Wickliffe, the wealthy land claims lawyer;
Mary Owen Todd Russell (later Mrs. Robert Wickliffe), heir of John Todd and, by
consequence, wealthiest woman in the Bluegrass. There is Charles Humphreys,
whose brother David designed the great seal of Kentucky, and Walter Dunn,
who imported the first shorthorn cattle into Kentucky.11

One finds also references to numerous landmarks, some vanished, others
still at hand. Familiar to many are both the Ashland of Henry Clay and the
residence of William T. Barry (and later of William R. Morton) on ”Hill,” or High
Street, designed for Sen. John Pope by Benjamin Latrobe. There are frequent
allusions to the old steam mill, the earliest steam mill in the West, which was
established to grind flour by pioneer John Maxwell near the intersection of South
Mill Street and Bolivar.12 There are references, as well, to the John Bradford
House and the home of Col. Josiah Dunham (who conducted a girl’s academy
visited by and afterwards named for the Marquis de Lafayette), to the post office,

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