Cast of Persons
by Robert Hedges ©


This section is comprised of the identities of the cast of players in this drama.

Cast of Farmers

BENNETT =
The Bennetts of Taylorsville; Jack, Li'l Pat etc. - Bennett's Hardware & Equipment, on Main Street, Hwy 44 in Taylorsville.

BENTLEY =
Leon Bentley & wife - General Electric worker/farmer on 200 acres at Waterford. He is formally from the hills of lake area, and sold his farm there to developers, and may have Lawrence Jones III as council. Leon and Mitchell were partners. Mitchell and Curtis were also partners in some tasks.

Mitchell Bentley, son of Leon - dairy Farmer - the new [almost] owner of the old Hedges house, new house, old barn, with a partner.
Curtis Bentley, son of Leon - Post Office worker/farmer.
Wendell Bentley, son of Leon - physical therapist - out of town.

BICKETT =
Ed Bickett - Farmer in Vine Grove who sold grain bins. He was the wholesaler to
D&E Grain Systems.

BRICO =
Jerry Brico - truck driver, probably a perv, came out to the country to get firewood, and sawed several walnut trees down. He also visited around the neighborhood and dropped my name. He once remarked that everyone would think he was a fag, and brought family members with him when he got firewood, just like an old church social.

CHEEK =
Bernard Cheek - Little Mount Farmer with 250 acres, dairy, strawberries, custom planting, chemicals, seed, etc. His daughter married Mildred Dailey's brother first, and Dwight Greenwell second. His son works for him, and called Robert a "gay" once. He has an toothless unmarried farm-hand living in his home named "Joe".

DAILEY =
Shelby Dailey & wife - The Daileys who moved to the Hedges Farm in 1948. and are deceased.

Pete Dailey - son of Shelby, retired truck driver at General Electric Appliance Park, part-time farmer and horse fancer. He had one daughter, and one step daughter.

Ed Dailey & Mildred MacDonald Dailey - son of Shelby, dairy farmer and wife. - Mary Ellen Dailey Stout - daughter Donna Sue Dailey Husband - daughte.r

Young Ed Dailey - son of Ed, 13 year soldier, 1 yr farmer, son-in-law of former Sheriff/Fiscal Judge CL Glasscock.

Bobby Davis =

DAY =
Petie Day - A University of KyfFarmer on the George Baldwin Day Farm, formally of 300 acres, on Plum Creek and Hwy 44 near Waterford. Cousins of Cecil Day and Cecil's two brothers. Petie was a PCA Farmer who was called a "golden boy" by Ben McAdams. Petie went broke when land prices dropped, and he was loaned out past his shrinking equity.

DAY =
Cecil & Noreen Love Day - Retired postman/farmer with his Canadian wife's farm, of 400 acres or so, west of Hedges Farm, which adjoined the Hedges Farm on Love Lane.
Norman Day - Only son of Cecil & Noreen.
Jim Bennett - Metalurgical Engineer/Farmer son-in-law of Cecil & Noreen Day. He bought the Day/Love Farm.

EDWARDS =
Ralph Edwards & Opal Husband Edwards - farmer/Taylorsville Reservoir Lake area worker, living on the Annis Edwards Farm, north of the Salt River on 623. A partner in D&E Grain Systems, with Mike Driscoll. Opal's nephew Gussie married Donna Sue Dailey.
Kerry Edwards - older son of Ralph
Rex Edwards - younger son of Ralph
Mike Driscoll - local HVAC Tradesman, now with an Ice business and the Video store, was an in-law to the Husbands, now an in-law to Prof Zalampas who taught history at JCCollege. Mike was half of
D&E Grain Systems.

FOREMAN =
The Foreman Brothers are the adjoining landowners on the south and south-east of the Hedges. They have about 800 acres, mostly leased, and much in totally trashed woodland. The have the Foreman Brothers Funeral Home in Jeffersontown, KY. Barry Foreman has served as Jefferson County Coroner. Larry Foreman is the new owner of the 100 acre tract described in the partitioning case. C.T. Foreman purchased several tracts at the Hedges Farm Auction in 1991.

GOODE =
Larry Goode -

GREER =
Fuzzy Greer - he is a neighbor of Bernard Cheek at Little Mount, introduced to Robert by the Johnsons. He worked at GE also.

HOLT =
Clarence L. Holt, deceased, was a logger/sawyer who had a mill at High Grove and also leased C.L. Glasscock's mill for a few years. He was a nice old coot, simple, sober, hard-working, and is missed.

HUSBAND =
Garnett Husband - "harny garny" - Opal's sister, Father of Gussie and five more. Uncle to Kerry and Rex Edwards. This individual is linked to Robert Reed by Reed's admissions in 1970, that the Husband family lived next door to the Reed family about 1955 or so. He was father-in-law to Donna Sue Dailey Husband.

JOHNSON =
J.T and Buela Johnson - farmer & his Courier Journal newspaper delivery wife with 200 acres on east side of the Hedges Farm, adjoins at river. Michelle Jon Johnson - daughter and only child of J.T. and Buela.

Shirley sr and (his wife)______Thurman Johnson (Hedges are Thurman kin which makes the Johnsons cousins of the Hedges.) - J.T.'s brother, farmer on 350 acres near Waterford on Hwy 44 at Hwy 623. These are both deceased now. Butch Johnson - son of Shirley, and 1/4 partner with J.T. Marty Johnson - son of Shirley, who works public work. Little Jimmy Stevens - son-in-law of Shirley and heir of Big Jimmy Stevens thousands of acres. Little Jimmy Stevens is a brother-in-law to Butch Johnson and the other seven Johnson children of Shirley Johnson and his Thurman wife. - two sons and three daughters more -

LILLY =
Bernard Lilly - Cousin of the Bennetts, mechanic, Taylorsville Water co repair with partner with Mike Inman.

The Waterford boys - The Martin Brothers and Floyd Scroggins

RICE =
D.R. Rice is a local dozer businessman. He has bulldozed for the Hedges for many years.

TICHENOR =
Lloyd Tichenor = local dairy farmer, with substantial business interests locally.He also descends from the Hedges family.

TRAVIS =
Jan Travis - Son-in-law of Cecil & Noreen Day. Anthony Travis = Jan's brother - Anthony Travis is a substantial local farmer, who has served as local Magistrate. He has been the subject of a "Big Farmer" article in the Courier Journal. He subdivides farms frequently and is part of plannng and zoning. He farms several thousand acres. He has two sons, one of which farms with him and the younger of whom is works in radio in Shelbyville, KY. His mother is Minnie Travis Miller, formally of DPBChurch, who was in the WMU with Catherine Hedges.

WEARREN =
Doug Wearren is a nursery dealer who moved his operation from Jeffersontown, KY to the Foreman farm south of the Hedges Farm on Lilly Rd. He advertises himself as the largest wholesale nursery in Kentucky. Doug Wearran purchased two tracts at the Hedges Farm Sale of 1991. He used slander against Robert Hedges, and refused to pay a debt.

WELLS =
Allen Wells was a local farmer, farming in the Salt River bottoms below the Riverview Lookout. C.T. Foreman handed off the responsibility of paying for the culverts to Doug Wearran, who said Allen Wells should tell him where the culverts which he took from the Hedges farm were installed on the Foreman property. Wells never did that.

WILLIAMS =
Leroy Williams, local dairy farmer, Magistrate, and land developer. He may be one of the Williams brothers from Fern Creek's William's Hatchery.


Deer Park Baptist Church = DPBChurch =
BARNES =
Brian Barnes - youth w/ ObGyn father and access to a Porsche to drive. His older brother was in Prof. Whiteside's Philosophy of Religion Class at UnivLou.

BIRKHEAD =
Mrs Birkhead - singer/mother of several of the youth, wife of Dr. Birkhead of UnivLou Medical School.

BROWN =
Harlan Brown - Retired trainman, deacon at DPBChurch; with a Bloomfield Farm his wife heired, and a mysterious undeeded hunting tule in Bullitt County.

DAUENHAUER =
Mrs Dauenhauer - singer/mother of several of the youth.

GABA =
Dr. Charles Gaba - a surgeon, with several children, who finally made it to Anchorage, KY. Mrs Gaba once taught at Fern Creek Grade, and Nancy Hedges was her student.
Bill Gaba - twin son
Ed Gaba - other twin son
Beth Gaba - oldest daughter
two others -

HARMON =
Edwin or Ed Harmon - youth director at DPBChurch during the late 1970's. He was a Baptist Seminary Student also, and his
wife worked. Robert believed he was a reasonably good friend.

HARRAR =
David Harrar - youth, from the Atherton area. He now works at UnivLou.

HINSON =
Rev. and Mrs. Hinson - Professor at the Louisville Baptist Theological Seminary, who stutters, was a son of a tenant farmer.

JACKSON =
Tommy Jackson - student from Atherton, who arrived at DPBChurch in late 1978, and didn't stay long. He was acquainted with several of the youth group from Atherton and his neighborhood. He has a sister who also stayed in an orphanage. His father is a Louisville fireman.

MORGAN =
Rev Jack Morgan - Priest/spokesperspn for the Archdioscese - church at 15th street, with small attendance. He was an interesting, knowledgeable, spokesperson for the Louisville Archdiocese with a TV show. Robert enjoyed discussing infant baptism with him. Robert hadn't discovered Mensa for conversation yet. He had a lawyer-nephew in Louisville, also named Morgan.

PHILLIPS =
Harold Phillips - Associate Pastor, who was available at church most often when Robert sought good council or good conversation. The church phone was a good place to call A_____a, so Robert frequented church when in Louisville. Harold married an employee of the Southern Baptist Convention.

SHARP =
Reverand C. Carmen Sharp - retired minister at DPBChurch, for which a second parsonage was required. He was a tenant farmer in Jackson, Miss. in his youth, and he preached against the "haves" occasionally. He had three daughters.


Business people

BEAM =
Elmer Beam - Ky Utilities Electric Inspector - disease- sabotaged hog farmer.

BLAIR =
Bob Blair - Business man, Insurance Agent from Anchorage, KY, who once worked at General Electric among the sales staff. He is one of the best salesmen who Robert has ever met, and he throws excellent parties.

BROOKS =
Dr Brooks - A Louisville Dentist. Ella Hedges Deitz recommended him.

DAHLRYMPLE =
Officer Dennis Dahlrymple - Jefferson County Policeman from Fern Creek, who had rumors to pass along to Robert.

DELAHANTY =
Judge Delahanty sr- Jefferson County District Court Judge - His brother, Father Delahanty is a local Priest. Sean Delahanty has been Democratic Party Chair for Jefferson Co. Kevin Delahanty has been elected judge since. (Robert's brother-in-law) Lee Robert Kotheimer is son of Democratic toady, Mayor Pro Tem Kotheimer, 1972?...........is this a clue?.]

FMHA =
office person - one john doe/tenant farmer with an agricultural degree.

HOAGLAND =
David Hoagland - Taylorsville Insurance Agent with the BIG HAIR, 1 - can of hair spray per day - had the farm account insurance.

HORNBACK = Steve Hornback - Land Bank Loan Officer or vice-Credit manager at the Land Bank, son of a Shelby Co. farmer, now with a different bank in New Castle. His brother is occasionally interviewed to get tobacco opinions for the TV news.

LAGISAW = Powell Lagisaw - Resident of 6009 Bardstown Rd, who came to the farm to get free firewood. He once backed his car across two yards to ram the side of the automobile in the Hedges driveway. He moved to Mt Washington.

MCADAMS = Ben McAdams - former PCA Credit Manager from Shepherdsville in the Mount Washington PCA Office.He had a brother, who was not the "big" farmer either.

OTTE = Chuck Otte - UnivLou Police. Louisville EmergencyMedicalTech - He had worked for Standard Oil while Robert had in 1970. He was later a Louisville Policeman, and was a Louisville EMT when Robert visited his house to renew our acquaintanceship.

SHAUGNESSEY = ? Shaugnessey - student politician at UnivLou.

STANSBURY = Mrs Stansbury - former wife of former Mayor William Stansbury. She died from smoke inhalation in a home with a Federal Judge Brown. He died with his mother on Bardstown Rd. when struck while crossing.

SULLIVAN
Edgar Sullivan .He was a local lawyer in Taylorsville, who finished law school during the depression, became the local clerk, and reached 100 years of age a few years ago, Possibly deceased now, but his influence lives on.


mechanics and auto nuts -
BENNETT =
Bennett, Philip - mechanic pal whose first wife works for Kroger.

BUSH =
Bush, Morris - Fern Creek landscaper/businessman who associated with John Stearns.

CUNDIFF =
Cundiff, Gary - mechanic/masonry worker from Fern Creek, now deceased, who always had a lead on a deal or the name of a new shop for working on Chevrolets.

OUTLAW =
Outlaw, Frankie - mechanic/auto trader from Jeffersontown.

PARROT =
Parrott, Dave - Corvette collector, mechanic who has been a route deliveryman. He had cultivated a shady reputation at an earlier time in his life. It was said that he died in a Corvette wreck, with Kenny Southerland, on the Joplin Rd in Oldham County, KY. He has several brothers in the Chevy business.

POTTS =
Potts, Gary - mechanic pal cousin of Phil Bennett. This pair had an estate fight earlier, when their mutual grandfather's estate was up for grabs.

PRITCHETT =
Pritchett, Welby is a mechanic who was in RobertŐs high school class, as well as State Trooper Pratt's former brother-in-law. He grew up on the street where Mrs. J.T. Johnson's sister, and the Bentley's relatives lived in Fern Creek. Robert bumped into him sometime soon after the 10 year reunion, in Fern Creek's Convenient. Robert knows of no personal animosity between.

SCHNEIDTMILLER/STEARNS =
Schneidtmiller, Bill and John Stearns - partners in S&S American/Service Center. Old acquaintences of Robert's who had done him favors in the past, though each may be a no-account.

SUTHERLAND =
Sutherland, Kenny - Mechanic and construction pal from Jeffersontown. He died along with Dave Parrott in a Corvette wreck. His brother took over his house and his business when he died. He was a cousin of the
Fox family, from high school days.

YATES =
Yates, Doug - Mechanic/racer/bodyman/businessman in Cecelia, KY south of Elizabethtown, with his own salvage yard and shop. He purchased his first 1957 Corvette project from Robert in 1973.


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