The Crittenden Press, Marion, KY  undated, 1928. Used with permission.
[Crittenden Co]

   MRS. FANNIE TRAVIS was born February 13, 1884 [sic], 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
county 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 from the map.
   She was married in 1866 to Lt. Wm. I. Travis, who was born in
Livingston county, son of Blake Travis and who organized Company K
of the 17th Kentucky Cavalry at Dycusburg following the robbery by
confederate forces of his store at Canton, Kentucky (also on the
Cumberland river).
   After serving one year and six months he was mustered out at 
Louisville because of ill health and arrived in Dycusburg October 20,
1863.
   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. P.S. Travis, of Salem.  She had
twenty-nine grandchildren and ten great grandchildren.
   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.  Her stories of the early 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 word of
any one.

Travis Redd Waddell Wring Stubblefield Patton Peek McKinney Perkins
Simpkins
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VA Trigg-KY Salem-Livingston-KY

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