The Times of Long Ago, Barren County, Kentucky. By Franklin Gorin. John P. Morton & Company Incorporated, 1929. Published originally in the Glasgow Weekly Times, 1870's. pp. 103-104. THE LOUGHS. In our number eleven [chapter - see below] we gave the christian names of the Loughs wrong. We will not give them correctly from a verbal and the written statement below of Elder John N. Mulkey. Jacob Lough instead of Solomon, who was a younger son, was the father of the drummer and fifer, John and Thomas instead of George and Jacob. There were two younger brothers, Daniel and Samuel, equal to their brothers as musicians. Jacob Lough entered the army of the Revolution as a teamster, being too young to do camp and field duty. He had been in the army but a short time when he told his comrades he could play on the fife. They laughed at him and ridiculed him, knowing he had never had one in his hands. He said, "I have watched how the fifer moves his fingers, his mouth, and how he holds his fife; get the fifer to lend his to me, and I will show you I can play." The fifer was called, and on being informed of the conversation, believing it to be a camp joke, handed his instrument to Jacob, who, without a blunder, played to the astonishment of all, several tunes, which he had heard in the camp, better than any of the fifers. He was taken from his team and soon made Fife Major. Nearly the whole Lough family, which is numerous, possesses a musical talent almost, if not equal to Blind Tom's. There is a daughter of Thomas Lough, Mrs. Ally Lough Moody, who can play on any musical instrument as soon as she sees it, without being instructed. We give you a letter to us from Elder John N. Mulkey, a Christian preacher well known among us, a good preacher of great respectability and esteemed highly in many of our states. He has lived in Perry County, Ill., nineteen years. "Glasgow, Ky., July 7, '76. Jacob Lough was born in Pennsylvania, and was old enough to take a very decided stand with the patriots in the war of Independence and served his country in the Revolution for five years. During that time he not only contracted a great love for martial music, but also learned how to use both the drum and fife. He raised several sons whom he taught to play upon the same instruments. John and Thomas were with the recruiting officers in Kentucky in the war of 1812, and they were the men whose skill in producing inspiring strains of martial music contributed to call out so many noble volunteers in the War of 1812, and it is a remarkable fact that after the two brothers had been separated for a number of years, say thirty or forty, they were thrown together in Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana, and then and there put forth in their old age all their skill in martial music and contributed much to the raising of volunteers to preserve the union. Before the war was over Thomas, the younger of these two patriotic brothers, died about the year 1863 or '64, and I having been very intimate with him, not only as a brother in the Lord, but as a brother-in-law, having married his sister, Nancy on the 7th day of October, 1824, I made them a visit and preached discourse on the Resurrection. This was the first time I ever saw John Lough, and after he heard the sermon, he came to me and made a request that when he died I should preach his funeral from the same Scripture - 1st Corinthians, 15th chapter - and I compiled with his request on the first Lord's day in January, 1876. He was nearly ninety years old when he finished his work on earth. In addition to the brothers and other excellent qualities they had the crowning grace of being Christians. All of which is submitted by your humble servant, ELD. JOHN N. MULKEY." Insert - pp. 44-45 (Chapter 11): In 1813 a further call for volunteers, mounted men, to join the northern army, was made by Gov. Shelby. The militia of the whole county, as had been the case at previous calls, collected at Glasgow. They were formed in two lines about ten feet apart, which extended from Henry Crutcher's corner on Main Street to below Green Street. The Loughs were present with drum and fife, and by their music roused the pride and patriotism of all patriots. They, with several gentlemen who desired to command a company of Barren boys, marched up and down the lines calling for volunteers but without success. When they had failed to get the required number, John Gorin, afterwards General, stopped between the ranks and ordered the Loughs to proceed and play "Yankee Doodle." One trip made up the company. John Gorin was elected Captain, Charles Harvey (his son-in-law) Lieutenant, Joel Franklin (his brother-in-law), Ensign. Governor Shelby promoted John Gorin, Major; Harvey, Captain, and Joel Franklin, Lieutenant. It is not remembeered who was made Ensign in place of Joel Franklin. Among the privates were John Franklin, Jr., George W. Fletcher, James Simonton, --- Humphreys, --- McCoy, --- Hall and Dabney Crenshaw. Lough Mulkey Moody Shelby Crutcher Gorin Harvey Franklin Fletcher Simonton Humphreys McCoy Hall Crenshaw = Perry-IL Waveland-Montgomery-IN PA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/barren/lough.txt