Big upset at the First Region yesterday, as Murray stunned Lone Oak 6-3 in the quarter-finals at Brooks Stadium. Here were yesterday's scores:
Calloway Co. 21, Fulton City 1 (5 innings)
St. Mary 6, Heath 3
Hickman Co. 11, Graves Co. 1 (6 innings)
Murray 6, Lone Oak 3
Here are the semi-finals, which will be played today:
Calloway Co. v. St. Mary
Hickman Co. v. Murray
That is an unusual collection of teams to still be playing. I'm pulling for Hickman County.
OK, terrific ... I will join you in rooting for Hickman County.
ReplyDeleteFewer people lived in Hickman County according to the 2010 census than did in 1830, says Wikipedia.
ReplyDeleteThere are 4,902 people in Hickman County, Kentucky. Thus, it is much smaller in population than Hickman County, Tennessee, which has 24,690 people.
DeleteI have always assumed that Hickman County, Kentucky and Hickman County, Tennessee were named for the same person. But Wikipedia says that Hickman County, Tennessee was named for Edwin Hickman, a pioneer killed by Native Americans in the area in 1791, while Hickman County, Kentucky was named for Captain Paschal Hickman, who was killed by Native Americans in the River Raisin Massacre in 1813.
DeleteOne of the great overlooked facts of early 19th-century life in the upper South is that the folks who lived there spent a lot of time thinking about people who had been killed by Native Americans.
DeleteCOOL! Kentucky.gov has a downloadable JPEG of a 1950 Hickman County highway map. I'm adding that to this original post.
ReplyDelete"Hickman County, where history and progress unite."
ReplyDeleteThere's a floral shop in Clinton called "Violet Femmes."
ReplyDeleteThat is too cool for Sunday school
DeleteAs we have previously noted, Hickman County High School was formed from a merger of Clinton Central and Fulgham High School after the 1958-59 school year.
ReplyDeleteThe Catholic priest who serves Hickman County, Kentucky is Father Shijo Vadakumkara.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, my guess is that the biggest church in Hickman County is probably the First Baptist Church of Clinton. Here's some information on their pastors.
ReplyDeleteWILL STOP HUNT
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Kentucky Sheriff Now Looking
For Wright's Safari
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SAYS ISLE IN HIS STATE
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300 Residents On Island Protest Re-
lease of Lions; No Law Against
Hunting of Such Animals.
Clinton, Ky., Jan. 10, 1933--(AP)--Denver M. Wright's lion hunt will not be permitted on Wolf island ...
"We should raid Kentucky and take it back. Let's keep pressing eastward and take Paducah! They can take Wolf Island, but they will never take our FREEEEEEEDOM!"
DeleteFrom the Supreme Court's ruling in Missouri v. Kentucky, 78 U.S. (11 Wall.) 395, 398 (1870):
Delete"The State of Kentucky, on its side, gave proof which was much of it in direct opposition to that presented by Missouri. It proved that land on the island was entered in the Virginia land office during the Revolutionary war; the state now known as Kentucky being then part of Virginia, and that in 1828, one of the courts of Kentucky exercised jurisdiction over the island in a matter of apprenticeship. Although it presented fewer evidences from ancient maps and books of travels than did the State of Missouri, it produced more living persons whose recollections came in support of its case. More than a score of witnesses, many of them ancient, including boatmen, navigators, and several persons who had lived from childhood close by the island, some opposite to it, and specially interested by their business to note on which side vessels sailed, all testified that while now the main channel of the river was to be regarded as on the east side of the island, it was undoubtedly and within their memory and knowledge not so formerly, but was on the west side; many of these witnesses going into details, and showing a positive and experimental knowledge on the subject upon which they spoke -- details of a sort that could not easily be invented and which, if not invented but true, tended to give the case to Kentucky."
This case was not all that close. Here's some more evidence, from (78 U.S. (11 Wall.) 395, 402:
Delete"{T}hat Kentucky is now, and has been for many years prior to the commencement of this suit, in the actual and exclusive possession of the island, exercising the rights of sovereignty over it, is beyond dispute. The island lies opposite to and forms part of Hickman County, one of the counties of the state, and the lands embraced in it were, in May, 1837, surveyed under state authority, and have since then been sold and conveyed to the purchasers by the same authority. The people residing on it have paid taxes and exercised the elective franchise according to the laws of the state. In 1851, a resident of the island was elected to represent the county in the General Assembly, and served in that capacity. And as early as 1828, a minor living there with one Samuel Scott was bound an apprentice to him by the proper court having jurisdiction of such subjects. This possession, fully established by acts like these, has never been disturbed. If Missouri has claimed the island to be within her boundaries, she has made no attempt to subject the people living there to her laws or to require of them the performance of any duty belonging to the citizens of a state. Nor has there been any effort on her part to occupy the island or to exercise jurisdiction over it."
I still can't believe we let Missouri in the SEC.
DeleteI'm having second thoughts about rooting for Hickman County. I just remembered that the 3-year-old and I watched Murray's team practice at their (fantastic) stadium, right after eating pizza down there and on the eve of the Tigers' regular-season opener. We talked to two of the guys as we were leaving the field, and they were really nice to my daughter. She asked why no one else was in the stands, and one of the guys said that practicing when no one was in the stands is how you get better for the games when people are in the stands. I had forgotten about this little episode, and now it makes me wonder how crucial that bit of insight was in my daughter's 5-1, unofficial-league-championship season in YMCA soccer this spring.
ReplyDeleteThe Hickman County Falcons have fallen, 11-3, to Murray.
ReplyDeleteOne more Hickman County shoutout: Murphy's Pond.