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Birthday Party for Uncle Jim Hatcher at Big Shoal, 1919. |
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This shows the crowd that attended James "Uncle Jim" Hatcher's birthday party at Big Shoal, Pike County, Kentucky, on September 22nd, 1919. The party was attended by many of his Floyd County friends and relatives. Hatcher can be seen in the center of the group wearing a black hat and a boutonniere. Sitting in front on the left is Reverend M. C. Reynolds, a revered Methodist minister of Coal Run, Kentucky. The James Hatcher Coal Company, operating at Big Shoal near Pikeville, produced Aladdin Coal, widely sought by buyers. Photo courtesy of William Pruitt of Abbott Creek. |
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Hatcher Hotel in Pikeville |
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The Hatcher Hotel in Pikeville, built in 1931, contained 106 rooms, all equipped with ice-cold running water. It was erected at a cost of $250,000 and was managed by Hatcher himself. In its spacious lobby was a small museum displaying ox-yokes, ancient hand-made furniture, weapons of bygone days, a huge, old-fashioned fireplace, and utensils used by early Pike and Floyd County settlers. The walls of the lobby were covered with Pike and Floyd County historical data, favorite mottos, and philosophical sayings. In one room of the hotel Hatcher kept on display his own coffin, which had been fashioned out of a walnut tree that had once stood on the hotel's lawn. |
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James Hatcher's Obituary |
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Jack May's War |
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