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KNOTT
COUNTY HALL OF FAME
Uncle Solomon Everidge
Uncle Solomon Everidge (1819-1903), an 80 year-old Hindman
resident, walked 22 miles barefooted in 1899 to encourage educators
Katherine Pettit and May Stone to come to the forks of Troublesome
Creek and start a school. They came the next summer, obviously
impressed by the words of Everidge. According to a published account
he said, "women, my name is Solomon Everidge. Some calls me
the granddaddy of Troublesome. Sine I was a little shirt-tail
boy hoeing corn on the steep hillside, I have looked up Troublesome
and down Troublesome for somebody to come in and learn us
something."
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