Knox Historical Museum

General Tye King, formerly of King in the Mackey Bend area of Knox County, Kentucky, was interviewed at the home of Charles Reed Mitchell in Barbourville, Kentucky by his longtime friend, William Sherman Oxendine. The interview took place on July 10, 1991.

In the interview, Oxendine primarily focused on the military career of General (first name, not military rank) "Gene" King who rose to the rank of captain in the medical field during World War II. This included following Patton's army in his campaign across Europe, including evacuating casualties from Bastogne.

Vol. 26 No. 1 - Spring 2014

• The Barbourville Story: Parts 13, 14 & 15, by W.S. Hudson  (Schools, Union College 1-2)
• Nasby Mills on Stinking Creek, Part 7, Conclusion, by Michael C. Mills
• Stinking Creek Road Rerouting to Middle Fork (Nasby Mills sidebar)
• E.W. Murphy and His Slaves, by James Leslie Clark
• Museum Bookshelf: My Good Life, by George Hammons

Vol. 26 No. 2 - Summer 2014 and No. 3 - Fall 2014 (Double Issue)

• Barbourville Story, Parts 16 & 17
• Boone Festival & Floods
• KCHS Boys Basketball Regional Championships
• 1937: KCHS's First Regional Championship
• KCHS Cheerleaders 2019
• Douglas Bargo Wins 2017 Susan Arthur Award
• KCHS's First Football Team
• Barbourville Story, Parts 18, 19 & 20
• Medicine, Minks & Progress
• Brief History of Early KCHS

Vol. 26 No. 4 - Winter 2014

• Governor James D. Black and the Kentucky Gubernatorial Election of 1919, by C.R. Mitchell
• A Biographical Sketch of James D. Black, by William Sherman Oxendine
• George Washington West: History and Exploits of Notorious George, by Archie B. West
• Cannon Elementary School, by Jakalyn Jackson
• Meet the Museum Staff:  [1] Wayne Adams
• Museum Additions

Vol. 27 No. 1 - Spring 2015

• Meet the Museum Staff: Douglas Bargo
• Red Summer 1919: The Context of The Black Expulsion
• Jakalyn Jackson Wins Arthur Historical Award
• Archie West's Unexpected Saturday Adventure

Vol. 27 No. 2 - Summer 2015

• Knox Central’s Back-to-Back Regional Basketball titles, by Michael C. Mills
• A Quilt as a Community Project, by Douglas Bargo
• Governor James and First Lady Nettie Black Centennial Celebration, by Thomas C. Clark
• Bert Scent Wins 2019 Susan Arthur Award, by Preshus Howard
• The Establishment of the Barbourville Pentecostal Orphanage, by William G. Martin
• Meet the Museum Staff: [3] David Cole
• Letters to the Editor
• Editorial: 2020 Daniel Boone Festival Cancelled, by C.R. Mitchell
• A List of Pentecostal and Holiness Women and Men Ministers of the Gospel, by Beulah Mealer

Vol. 27 No. 3 - Fall 2015

• Knox Countians on the Pandemic of 1918: The “Spanish Influenza” of a Hundred Years Ago, by Charles Reed Mitchell
• Home Schooling in the 1860s: A Memoir of a Civil War Education, by Judge Henry Cook Faulkner
• Knox County Politics Way Back When [campaign cards]
• 1948 Knox County Communities [center spread map of Knox County, KY]
• Meet the Museum Staff: [4] Cheryl Davis-Thompson

Vol. 27 No. 4 - Winter 2015

• The Home Front in Southeastern Kentucky during the Civil War: My Mother, Samantha Sharp Faulkner, [Part 1], by Judge Henry Cook Faulkner
• The Law Firms of Knox County, Kentucky in 1912, Advocate, 26 April 1912
• Meet the Museum Staff: [5] Dora Sue Oxendine Farmer
• Henry Cook Faulkner: A Biographical Sketch, by Dr. Claude W. Faulkner
• Mildred Ellen Smyth Faulkner, compiled by C.R. Mitchell
• “Our Garden of Girls,” a poem by Mrs. H.C. Faulkner
• Kenneth Herndon Tuggle, Lt. Governor of Kentucky, 1943-47, compiled by C.R. Mitchell The Neighbor Next Door [Kenneth Tuggle], by Jack Gibson

The spring issue of the Knox Historical Museum's quarterly magazine, The Knox Countian, is now available for purchase at the Museum in Barbourville or via the online Museum Store. The cost per magazine at the museum is $3 while the cost via the website is $3 plus 6 percent sales tax and a $1.25 shipping fee.