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Quilt patterns adorn house on Dunnville Road

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Betty Sue Jasper sent a photo which shows a quilt pattern on the house on Dunnville Road in front of the Camp Billy Williams wayside marker on Dunnville Road, about two miles NE of the Eunice Church of God at the foot of Dug Hill in Eunice, KY on KY 206.


The Wayside Marker explains much of the location's importance in the Civil War and says, in part,
"In December 1861 Union Col. Frank Wolford, with companies A, B, C, and H of the 1st Kentucky Cavalry was order to Camp Billy Williams, named for the owner of the farm on which the camp was located.

"Soldiers at the camp hauled corn to Webb's Cross Roads (now the junction of SR 76 and US 127 about eight miles distant, following Damron Creek Road. Once there they guarded the large stores of forage procured by 1st Kentucky Quartermaster Lt. Co. Silas Adams. The cumbersome supply lines, crucial to military movements, were a favorite target of Rebel raiders.
"The 1st Kentucky constantly scouted the heavily forested countryside surrounding Camp Billy Williams to keep theraiders at bay. The location of Camp Billy Williams was chosen for its access south to Jamestown on the Cumberland River and west to the thriving comunity of Neatsville, a steamboat terminal on the Green River. Home Guards in Neatsville alerted the troops of an approaching enemy by striking an anvil or bass drums."
The wayside marker also has an old map of the area, pictures of roads and conveyances of the time, and a very brief biographical account of William Honnell, a young Centre-educated Presybterian Minister who "helped move the body of Confederate General Felix Zollicoffer during the Battle if Mill Springs to prevent it from being trampled."

Another quilt pattern can be seen on the porch, and two smaller ones adorn a little well house by the Wayside Marker.
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Quilt Pattern on Camp Billy Williams house



2008-11-30 - Dunnville Road, bear Eunice District 1, Adair Co., KY - Photo by Betty Sue Jasper.
BETTY SUE JASPER spotted the qulit pattern on this house on Dunnville Road and took this beautiful picture. The house itself is quite significant. It was once used as a Union Army hospital, according to Ryan Beard, whose family has lived on land near by for many generations. A wayside marker in front of the house relates Camp Billy Williams' importance to the Union in its fight with General John Hunt Morgan. The house and the marker are located approximately 15 miles NE of Columbia, KY. The residence is now the home of Denise Stewart. "One of Adair County's most talented quilters," writes Rebecca Grant.
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Quilt pattern on wellhouse, Dunnville Road



2008-11-30 - Near Eunice, KY - Photo by Betty Sue Jasper.
Quilt patterns abound at the site of the Camp Billy Williams wayside marker on Dunnville Road near Eunice, on the Dunnville Road, District 1, Adair County, KY. There's a different one on the other side of this little well house on the property. Flickr.
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