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Join our adult craft programs this month! Call to reserve your spot.
06/02/2026

Join our adult craft programs this month! Call to reserve your spot.

Meet life like dinosaurs tomorrow at our Summer Reading Kick-Off! Feller Express will be teaching us about different din...
06/02/2026

Meet life like dinosaurs tomorrow at our Summer Reading Kick-Off!

Feller Express will be teaching us about different dinosaurs in the Community Center starting at 10 AM.

Learn about herbal tincture making with Dr. Bonnie on June 16th! Call today to register, 270-932-7081.
06/02/2026

Learn about herbal tincture making with Dr. Bonnie on June 16th! Call today to register, 270-932-7081.

Primary & intermediate groups had a wonderful time drumming, learning about dinosaurs, and making their own dinosaur ter...
06/01/2026

Primary & intermediate groups had a wonderful time drumming, learning about dinosaurs, and making their own dinosaur terrarium!

Join us Wednesday for our kick-off at 10 AM!

VA Rep, Kevin Kearns, will be at the library on June 10th to answer questions and offer assistance with claims!
06/01/2026

VA Rep, Kevin Kearns, will be at the library on June 10th to answer questions and offer assistance with claims!

Summer Reading is here! Take a look at this week's programs and remember to start your reading logs today!
06/01/2026

Summer Reading is here! Take a look at this week's programs and remember to start your reading logs today!

Join us for Dolly Day on June 5th! The Green River Early Childhood Collaborative will be here to hand out prizes for chi...
05/29/2026

Join us for Dolly Day on June 5th! The Green River Early Childhood Collaborative will be here to hand out prizes for children who register for Dolly's Imagination Library during this event.

05/29/2026

We are out of feeding boxes today! Please come back next week from 11:00-1:00!

*History Blast*The Jewells: Love, Loss, and a Growing FamilyLaura Johnson, Green County Public LibraryEdward Loyd Jewell...
05/29/2026

*History Blast*
The Jewells: Love, Loss, and a Growing Family
Laura Johnson, Green County Public Library

Edward Loyd Jewell and Ada Lucy Fancher began their life together in 1898, newly married and building a home in the Donansburg area of Green County. Edward was the son of James Henry Jewell and Nancy Jo Ann Kessler Jewell of Green County, while Ada came from neighboring Metcalfe County, the daughter of Michael Hall Fancher and Sarah E. Houk Fancher. The couple was married on September 1 at the bride’s family home, with William M. Kidd officiating.
Their first child, Sarah Ann Jewell, was born the following year on September 17, 1899. She would be their only daughter and the first of what would eventually become a large family.
Little Sarah Ann must have been such a joy to Edward and Ada. Sadly, her life was all too brief. At just four years old, she died September 21, 1903, cause unknown. She was laid to rest in the Jewell Cemetery on Little Barren where her grandfather and other relatives were already buried. Her stone bore the inscription: “In love she lived, in peace she died. Her life was craved, but God denied.”
Her death was an early sorrow for Edward and Ada, one of several losses they would endure as parents in an era when childhood illness was often swift and unforgiving.
Despite this early tragedy, the Jewell family continued to grow. Over the next two decades, Edward and Ada welcomed eleven more children, all boys: Ezra Lee (1901–1960), Hova Gordon (1903–1982), William Garnett (1905–1990), Albert Cecil (1907–1917), James Hall (1909–1984), Wilson (1914–1916), William Holland (1916–1916), Maxie (1918–1992), and Lester Loid (1920–1986).
Albert Cecil died from spinal meningitis at age 9, Wilson died just days before his second birthday of membranous croup, and William Holland had mitral insufficiency, causing his death one day after his birth.
Census records from 1910 show the Jewell family living in Metcalfe County. By 1918, they were residents of Monroe in Hart County and Ed worked as a farmer in the Bale community of Green County. 1920 and 1930 census records have them as residents of the Donansburg area of Green County again, with Edward farming and Ada managing a bustling household filled with growing boys.
Both Edward and Ada lived into the mid twentieth century. Edward died November 24, 1945, and Ada on October 5, 1954. They were each buried at Houk Cemetery in Metcalfe County.
Though not all their children survived childhood, those who did carried on the Jewell name, establishing families across Green, Metcalfe, and Hart counties. The brief lives of the others remain preserved in early family records and in the small cemetery where they rest, a reminder of challenges faced by rural Kentucky families of that era.

Photo: Edward and Ada Jewell

05/29/2026

Today is our next food distribution from 11:00-1:00! Here is an informational video about where you go to line up. Please do not enter from the front of the pantry next to Phillips. Go up to the stop sign and turn towards the courthouse and the funeral home. Then turn to go behind the funeral home and it will line everyone up efficiently so we can serve you quicker!

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