Front-Page New York Times Story on "The Whole Nine Yards" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Thu Dec 27 17:04:31 UTC 2012
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Bonnie Taylor-Blake
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 8:02 AM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Front-Page New York Times Story on "The Whole Nine Yards"
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>
> By the way, several months ago I was able to piece together who was
> using "the whole six yards" in *The Mt. Vernon [Kentucky] Signal* a
> century ago. The paper's correspondent from Livingston was William
> Will/Bill) Martin Owens (1866-1944), born and raised in nearby Level
> Green (Rockcastle County) and in neighboring Pulaski County; at some
> point he settled down in Livingston. At the time I wasn't able to
> figure out what W.M. Owens did for a living, but he seems to have been
> an upstanding member of the community, enough so that he was tasked
> with reporting happenings in Livingston to the publisher in Mt.
> Vernon.
1900 census: Farmer (in Livingston); wife is Alice
1910 census: Farmer (in Livingston): widowed
1920 census: no occupation; wife Celia
1930 census: laborer steam RR; wife Celia
1940 census: no occupation; wife Celia
Here is his tombstone:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=6995111&PIpi=98337
95
Bonnie, if you want a copy of his death certificate I can send it.
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