Press Honors Our Senior Citizens in the year 1928.

 In the year 1928, The Crittenden Press did several issues of honoring the county's citizens that were eighty years old or older.  This is one of the articles.  It was honoring Mrs. Fannie Travis that lived on Brown Mines Road in Frances, Ky.  Dated August 31, 1928.

August 31, 1928

Mrs. Fannie Travis was born February 13, 1844, in the home of her father, William Redd, which was then located on the Dycusburg and Salem road.

Her mother, Elizabeth Waddell Redd, was born in Virginia and came to Kentucky when about seven years old, her parents having located in Trigg County. Mrs. Travis paternal grandfather, also named Wm. Redd, came of a long line of distinguished ancestors famous in both English and American history, located in Trigg County about 1800.

He built a large brick home which still stands near Cadiz. His son, Wm. Redd, Mrs. Travis’ father, came to Crittenden about 1840 as manager for the Cobb Foundry Company, of Cobb’s Furnace which was located about one and one-half miles below Dycusburg near the Cumberland River. This was at that time a thriving center of industry and commerce. The town, dwellings, stores and offices are now gone but at that time the furnaces alone employed more than fifty white men and over 200 negroes. Mrs. Travis remembers very vividly this hustling, bustling town now vanished for the map.

She was married in 1866 to Lt. William L. Travis, who was born in Livingston County, son of Blake Travis, and who organized Co. K of the 17^th Kentucky Cavalry at Dycusburg, following the robbery by Confederate forces of his store at Canton, Kentucky (also on the Cumberland River.)

Mrs. Travis had ten children. The following named eight are still living: Mrs. Tom Wring; Mrs. Etta Stubblefield; Mrs. Pollie Patton, Mrs. Birdie Peek, Mrs. Nellie McKinney, Mrs. Maye Perkins, Mrs. Miriam Simpkins, all of Crittenden and Mr. Phil S. Travis of Salem. Her only brother, Wm. Redd III, also resides in Marion.

Mrs. Travis did not witness any action during the Civil War but was near the fight at Salem. He stories of the earlier days of Crittenden County are very interesting and historically valuable.

In spite of her eighty years she is very active and more alert mentally and physically than many people half her age. Her friends say that they have never seen her angry nor heard her say an unkind work of any one.

(Note) Mary Frances “Fannie” Travis died March 7, 1936, and her husband William L. Travis died Dec. 30, 1905. They are buried in the Owen Cemetery, near Frances, Ky.