Merchants of the Past

The following is Greg Justice's new project, more will be added!

Generously transcribed and submitted by Greg Justice,
  thanks Greg!

CARL KIBLER LANCASTER
REAL ESTATE AND AUCTIONEER
FALMOUTH, KY 41040
12/17/1916 TO 12/30/1993

The following was generously compiled and submitted to Greg Justice by Wanda Lancaster, thanks Wanda!

    CARL K. LANCASTER WAS A BUSINESS MAN IN THE BEST ASPECT OF THE WORD SALE.  WHEN YOU WENT TO ONE OF HIS AUCTIONS YOU KNEW THAT YOU HAD BEEN TO AN AUCTION.  A BOX OF ITEMS BEING NIC-NAC'S AND SUCH SOLD FOR A PRICE OF ANY WHERE FROM A  QUARTER TO DOLLAR AND HIGHER DEPENDS ON THE ITEMS. BUT IN ANY EVENT YOU COULD WALK AWAY WITH SOMETHING FROM CARL'S AUCTIONS. NOTHING LIKE TODAY'S AUCTIONS.  HE WOULD EXCEPT ANY BID EVEN DOWN TO A NICKEL AND DIME. TRY THAT TODAY.

    CARL K. LANCASTER WAS BORN IN FRANKLIN COUNTY KY ON 12/17/1916 TO LEADY DONALDSON AND ANNIE REDDEN LANCASTER. CARL WENT AND WAS EDUCATED IN A ONE ROOM SCHOOL HOUSE IN SWITZER KY.

    CARL MARRIED IVA SWITZER AND ONE DAUGHTER WAS BORN NAMED EVA LLOYD, (EVA LLOYD BROWN TODAY). FARMING WAS THE MAIN WAY OF LIFE FOR CARL AND FAMILY UNTIL THEY MOVED TO HARRISON COUNTY AND DECIDED TO ATTEND AUCTION AND REAL ESTATE SCHOOL. CARL HAD NO TROUBLE FINDING HIS WAY TO SUCCESS IN HIS FIELD OF AUCTIONEERING.  CARL COULD SELL ICE CUBES TO An ESKIMO, AND THEN SOME. AT THE START HE CONDUCTED SALES UNDER THE DIRECTION OF JOHN L. CUMMINS AS APPRENTICE AUCTIONEER. CARL PASSED HIS EXAM AND WAS WELL ON HIS WAY. HIS ABILITY TO KEEP YOUR ATTENTION AT SALES WAS GREAT, HE WOULD TELL A JOKE OR A SHORT STORY, AND KEEP RIGHT ON SELLING.

   CARL MOVED TO PENDLETON COUNTY IN THE FIFTIES AND CONTINUED TO FARM AS WELL AS RUN HIS REAL ESTATE AND AUCTION OFFICE. AS A FARMER HE RAISED CATTLE, TOBACCO, HAY AND GRAIN. CARL WORK FOR THE LEXINGTON STOCK YARDS FOR A 10 YEAR PERIOD, ONE DAY A WEEK. ALSO HE WORKED THE FALMOUTH STOCK YARD. THE WALTON STOCK YARD SELLING THE LIVESTOCK AS WELL AS LOTS OF MISC, ITEMS.

    IN 1962 CARL MARRIED WANDA McNABB BENNETT. WANDA STOOD BY CARL AND WORK RIGHT BESIDE HIM, AS CLERK AND CASHIER FOR THEIR COMPANY. A COUPLE OF OUTSTANDING SALES  FOR CARL WAS THE PENDLETON SCHOOL SYSTEM, HE SOLD THE GOFORTH, McKINNYSBURG, MORGAN, MT. AUBURN AND BUTLER SCHOOLS AT AUCTION. NEXT HE SOLD THE ESTATE OF THE LATE GEORGE GEDGE. BEING HIS PERSONAL PROPERTY ON MAPLE AVE AS WELL AS HIS SHELL SERVICE STATIONS AT FALMOUTH, BROOKSVILLE, AND BUTLER. CARL WAS APPOINTED AUCTIONEER FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF KY BANKRUPCY, BY ATTORNEY PORTIA SHAFER OF COVINGTON, KY.

   CARL AND WANDA OWN AND OPERATED THE MENZIE BOTTOMS AUCTION BARN. ALONG WITH THE
AUCTIONS THEY HAD A NEW AND USED FURNITURE STORE THERE ALSO. WHICH IS NOW THE SITE OF THE NEW PHILIP A. SHARP MIDDLE SCHOOL.

   DURING CARL'S CAREER HE SIGNED FOR A NUMBER OF APPRENTICE AUCTIONEERS. SUCH AS B.N. SONNY WILSON, EARNEST DOODLE BOBB, FELIX WADE, TERRY BARNES, CHARLIE WEBSTER, AND ELMER PRIM ALONG WITH OTHERS.

   IN THE LATE 70'S CARL AND WANDA PURCHASED THE PROPERTY LOCATED ON 2ND ST AND
MOUNTJOY STREET. HERE THEY BUILT THE NEW HOME AND MOVED TO TOWN. THEY OPENED THE NEW AND USED FURNITURE STORE THERE AT 206 MOUNTJOY ST. I HAD THE PLEASURE OF LIVING NEXT DOOR TO THEM AND AT TIMES CARL WOULD CATCH ME DOING SOME OF THE MOST SILLY THINGS. FOR INSTANCE ONCE I WAS CLOWNING AROUND IN THE BACK YARD AND SINGING TO THE TOP OF MY LUNGS, WHEN FROM OUT OF NO WHERE CARL KINDA YELLS AT ME AND SAYS YOU NO GREG I ALWAYS WISHED THAT I COULD SING BUT NOW I WISH YOU COULD. HAHAHA HE WAS A TRIP.

   LIFE CHANGES PEOPLE SOME TIME FOR GOOD AND SOME FOR BAD, BUT ALL IN ALL WE CHANGE. ON JULY 5TH 1989 CARL SUFFERED A STROKE THAT LEFT HIM UNABLE TO TALK OR WALK. THIS WAS THE HARDEST THING CARL HAD TO DEAL WITH. BUT HE MADE WAY AND FOUND THE MEANS IN WHICH HE LIVED THE REST OF HIS LIFE ONE DAY AT A TIME. CARL DIED 12/30/1993 AFTER HIS 4 YEAR AND 4 MONTH STRUGGLE  AT EDGEMONT MANOR IN CYNTHIANA, KY, AT THE AGE 77 YEARS AND 13 DAYS OLD.

   CARL WILL LIVE IN THE MEMORIES OF ALL HE HAD CONTACT WITH IN HIS LIFE. LIFE, TO LITTLE TIME FOR THE MAN WITH DREAMS AND IDEAS TO SHARE THEM ALL WITH THE WORLD.

THIS INFORMATION WAS SUBMITTED BY :
WANDA M. LANCASTER, CARL'S WIFE
GREG JUSTICE  (MEMORIES)
ON THIS DATE  2/14/2001