Sent to the Poorhouse: The Allen and Warren County, Kentucky Poor Farms
May 11, 2020
My grandmother, a lifelong Warren Countian who died in the same room in which she was born, often spoke of a great-uncle, ‘Tom-Doc.’ Call him what you will, Thomas Benton Greathouse was the family eccentric and/or black sheep. During my childhood, she would point out the location of his shack, on land later owned by (read more)