[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 120 (Tuesday, August 4, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S8755]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            COMMENDING THE SIMPSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I rise today to pay tribute to the 
accomplishments of the Simpson County Historical Society, which is 
celebrating its 50th anniversary in September, making it one of the 
oldest continuously operating historical societies in Kentucky.
  The society's half century of promoting research and knowledge of 
history makes it one of south-central Kentucky's treasures. At the 
society's very first meeting in 1959, 37 individuals met in a private 
home to discuss the creation of the organization.
  For many years the society maintained a small collection at the 
Goodnight Library until members convinced the county to let them use 
the old county jail and jailer's house as a headquarters. The facility 
now serves as the Simpson County Archives and Museum. Their collection 
contains thousands of items, including books, manuscripts, original 
documents and papers, pictures, county records, tapes, CDs, microfilm, 
microfiche, computers, and more.
  The research materials, librarians and volunteers at the archives 
have helped thousands of visitors connect to their past and learn about 
their genealogy.
  The dedicated staff and volunteers at the society have made it very 
successful. In 2006, Mary Garrett, Nancy Neely, Sarah Richardson, Sarah 
Smith, Beatrice Snider, Margaret Snider, and Dorothy Steers received 
the Lifetime Presidential Volunteer Service Awards for over 4,000 hours 
of volunteer service.
  The group not only preserves history, but gives much to the 
community, for instance by supporting several historical markers in 
Simpson County and providing grants for schools and groups interested 
in preserving history. They also offer scholarships for students who 
want to study history.
  Mr. President, I ask my colleagues to join me in honoring, as listed 
below, the society and their officers for their hard work and 
dedication to the preservation and research of Kentucky's and Simpson 
County's history over the past 50 years and for many more years to 
come:

            Simpson County Historical Society Officers--2009

       President Dr. James Henry Snider, Vice-President Jean 
     Almand, Secretary Jason Herring, Assistant Secretary Bonnye 
     Moody, Treasurer Commie Jo Hall, Librarian Kenny Lynn Scott, 
     Directors Katherine McCutchen, Emily Mayes, Sarah Jernigan, 
     Past President and Business Manager Sarah Jo Cardwell. Gayla 
     Coates, Nancy Thomas, Commie Jo Hall, Morris Hester, Betty 
     Nolan, Elizabeth Wakefield, Allison Cummings, Helen Cardwell, 
     and Stacie Goosetree

              Simpson County Historical Society Volunteers

       Myrtle Alexander, Kathy Allen (Dinning), David Forrest 
     Almand, Jean Almand, Margaret Beach, Roxanne Boyer, Lucille 
     Brown, Jean Burton, Barry Byrd, Bill Byrd, Helen Cardwell, 
     Ruth Cardwell, Sarah Jo Cardwell, Pattye Caudill, Billy Jeff 
     Cherry, Ruth Cherry, Liz Chisholm, Jim Clark, Gayla Coates, 
     Sue Cooper, Irene Harding Cornett, Joe Craft, Nettie Craft, 
     Mary Crow, Allison Cummings, Elizabeth Dinning, Elizabeth 
     Dunn, Ruth Forshee, Jackie Forshee, Kathy Forshee, Larry 
     Forshee, Mary Garrett, Paul Garrett, Addie Gillespie, Nora 
     Belle Gillespie, Cheryl Goodlad, Stacie Goosetree, Kay 
     Gregath, John Gregory, Commie Jo Hall, Janet Head, Jason 
     Herring, Jimmy Jennett, Tracy Jennett, Dorothy Jent, Earl 
     Jent, Amy Kepley, Ricky Kepley, Donna Laser, Mary Malone, 
     Emily Martin, Emily Mayes, Charles McCutchen, Katherine 
     McCutchen, Hallie McFarland, Mary Rose Meador, Lowrie 
     Mervine, Peggy Mervine, Betty Milliken, Edna Milliken, Thomas 
     N. Moody, Anne Mullikin, Nancy Neely, Tom Scott Neely, 
     Dorothy Newbold, Mary Ogles, Olaine Owen, Mildred Perry, Jo 
     Ann Phillips, Marian Phillips, Ruth Richards, Mozelle 
     Richardson, Sarah Richardson, Wendell Richardson, Mattie Lou 
     Riggins, Janet Roark, Betty Rogers, Lou Ella Rutherford, Edna 
     Earl Scott, Kenny Lynn Scott, Ellen Smith, Henry Price Smith, 
     Sarah Smith, Billy Briggs Snider, Beatrice Snider, James D. 
     Snider, Margaret Snider, Lori Snider, James Henry Snider, D. 
     B. Snider, Pearl Snider, Dorothy Steers, Geraldine ``Jerri'' 
     Stewart, Rowena Sullivan, Robert E. Taylor, Nancy Thomas, 
     Jane Truelove, L. L. Valentine, Dan Ware, Bessie Watwood, 
     Alisha Westmoreland, Michelle Willis, Christine Wilburn, 
     Geraldine Wright, Joan Yorgason.

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