The Saturday Herald and Leader, Lex., Ky” Saturday, July 16, 1977 0-3 ‘Miss Lucie’ McCauley, aristo- cratic disciplinarian, “taught Johnny to read...” < . 11‘. (A i . mil 1: 8111181143 " ,. ~11 coumv xv." * . MRS! 3. vi CAULEY. Pnimiru. -:~ Air‘fii'N“: ”More" t. -"t a 21:3,: (, 1.. i.- .- t ' . ' ‘ (3,1 ”0.)! .s I. ~ «‘4 i 1'" ‘w 3);... 121,34}, its): :- .4 “(.‘Ri‘Wez’ ~ Heaven. Age Two, with Two Kittens Michael Lippert, 2, thinks grandparents Mr. and Mrs. John M. Lippert's house, Keene-Troy Pike, a nice place to be. Brick shaft tops lit by 57-inch stone chim- ney that centered saddlebag log house replaced men She Hit RU - itv,‘ .~'*7-'" " _. 1885 prospectus advertised board Monday through Friday, $1. 50 100 years ago by present frame structure. A: diary kept by former owner, “Miss Lucie” (Mrs. Hugh) McCau- ,ley, notes that in 1870 her husband was tearing off old porch probably replaced by those above '1 ‘ _ . Emigrafed to Augusta Mr. Lippert s Faust and Lippert parents were Matt and Elizabeth Car- grandparents immigrated to Augusta, roll and Austin and Sally Belle Ky., from Germany. His wife’s grand- Mitchell. .' 9' Sliding Place “1‘ ve slid down that rail more times than I have fingers and toes," accord- ing to Mrs. Paul Shearer, Shun Pike. Stairway is in unusually large hall made when one or one and 1,5- story brick ell was made full two stories. 4‘15“”: 3:?! t‘fiwifir ‘W "is-«“Mfi‘x «new» ,3 ,. 7 . .1 'le NH. . . Summer???“ ' . Built-in chest with dovetailed drawers and paneled doors in rear bedroom of frame section may be survivor rebuilt I when 103 section was replaced ‘3 1:5 ’A‘ ,. ler,: PupHSJ By BEl l YE LEE MASTlN HeraldLeader Home Paoe Editor Nov. 24, 1870 Thanksgiving todav. but It did not suit me to sin a holiday. Some of the airls I. boys thouaht to have some tun and fastened up the schoolroom, but I broke oven the window and dot in and turned them out with instructions not to return without an aooloav. Nov. 25. Several ot the transaressors came in orderly this morning. A few still thought they did right ‘ at caurse were expelled. Journal of “Miss Lucie" McCaulev TROY, Ky. — Aristocratic, color- ful ”Miss Lucie" McCauley was a strict disciplinarian during 50 years of teaching‘in Jessamine and Woodford counties The home of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Lippen on Ethe KeeneTroy Pike in A Home Jessamine was known as Locust Grove Seminary in 1885 when Miss Lucie advertised for pupils. Boarders could stay Monday through Friday for $1.;50 all week for $3 One pupil says the sch601room was aformer turkey house .. - “We user laugh about going to school in a turkey house," according to Miss Georgia McCauley. Mrs. Paul Shearer, whose mother was reared by Miss Lucie, recalls a separate turkey pen and that the schoolhouse, in the yard to the right of the Lipperts’ house, had two rooms, one Miss Lucie’s office. Plagued by toothache (usually at night) and neuralgia, she sometimes Firsf HoUse Was ‘50 By BE'ITYE LEE MASTIN Heralereoder Home Page Editor TROY, Ky. — Two chimneys at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Lippert, Keene-Troy Pike, help date architecture of a structure begun in pioneer days. Victorianin appearance, the house has a stone chimney (capped above the roofline with brick) probably erected for William Scott, one of three brothers who fought in the Bat tle of Kings Mountain. Scott bought land on the waters of Clear Creek as early as 1797. He probably erected a log, saddlebag- style house that stood on the site. The term refers to two sections attached to opposite sides of a stone chimney. Rare in the Blue Grass, saddlebag houses are common in North Caro- lina, where Scott was reared. In 18128, he solngiIl acres including what now is the Lippert farm to Thomas Hughes. Earlier assigned to Scott by Moses Trimble, the tract was described as on""Shawny Run Road." “ Some time after about _1810, Thomas Hughes added a brick ell by erecting three walls, butting two against the log house. The ell was one or one and 1,5 sto ries high. The chimney, which has a massive stone foundation, was ex- tended higher later when the roof was ‘ raised and the brick ell made a ‘full two stories high. A parlor in the ell has a mantel that almost didn't survive, Johnny Lippert says. “We had it off once, then decided to clean it and put it back on" The mantel has graduated squares, chevrons that resemble an arrow, daisies and pinwheels beneath .... _.“..-«gq ‘v"! ”a Jaw 1e. ’_--‘J|‘_ ‘i- 2'.“ r s 3‘}. un.‘ . ”1.0-.tu' .1 (( ‘hi' ”V .‘t\'t.'s H. . l; ’ A. .A ‘ 2.. 2.1.1; .... I898 Photorph Shaw's House Unchanged Hugh McCauley and Miss Lucie pose with Maude Boner (later Mrs. Thomas Shirley Haydon) whom they reared. in 1915, Miss Lucie deft Mrs. Haydon, whose marriage she ipposed. $1,000 in “recognition of her faithful and devoted .riendship and service to me since her childhood." Firstk taught with her head tied up, accord- ing to Mrs. Marion Mahin, whose un- cles, aunts and parents, May Mosely and Ben‘ Wilson, were pupils. “The days Miss Lucie came down with her head tied up, she'd bang a ruler and lift the pupils a foot out of their seats. “But there was none of this dlebag‘ . a breakiront shelf typical of after about 1810. In 1825, Thomas and Elizabeth Hughes sold 177 acres here for $100 per acre to James McCauley, de- scribed as being of Fayette. ‘ McCauley, who rauy have been born in Harrison C nty, married Mary (Polly) Mahin, daughter of Wil liam Mahin who came to Jessamine in 1790. Polly‘s mother was a-niece or other relative of William Scott, and three of Polly’s brothers married Scotts. James had four sons by an earlier marriage; Polly bore him six addi- tional children, with 29 months the longest interval between births. James enlarged the part log, part brick house. A log kitchen and the saddlebag chimney were retained, and a two-story frame section erected in place of the saddlebag house, which perhaps had burned. Rebuilding probably took place in the 18505. Doors and window frames have Greek Revival “ears," or reen- trant angles, and the slight arch typi- cal of the Gothic Revival. [ One of two first-floor rooms of the ell was made into a large ball for a stair that serves the new brick second story and the .twostory frame section. After James McCauley‘s death at ‘ s Staff Photos by ‘ ' Frank Anderson -‘ "I I ‘JOhnny can't read’ when Miss Lucie got through with him." . . "My mother (Maude Boner Hay- don) never would hear a word against Miss Lucie, ” according to Mrs. Shearer. Mrs. Shearer has two diaries the teacher kept from 1870-72. One entry reads, "2 Yankees came 8; staid all night selling a right to make pruning knives." Another says, “Small Pox'es bad in Lexington." , , - Before opening a school on the farm, Miss Lucie taught at Keene and Troy and boarded with pupils, coming home only on weekends Her husband, Hugh, is remem- bered as “stubborn as a mule,” and “contrary When he wanted to be." He Jl‘ - (r \ the house in 1870, the farm was div- ided among his widow and seven sun viving children. (One, Melsina (or Melsenia,) often described as mute, actually was only deaf but in that day could not be taught to talk)- Polly lived until 1880. Earlier. a daughter-m law schoolteacher’princi- pal Lucie F. Tanner (Mrs. Hugh) McCauley, began buying her hus-‘ - band's brothers‘ interest in the dower tract : Hugh died in 1914 Lucie followed in 13 months, deeding Loqust Grove weeks before her death to her mother,.Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Tanner, and then to a niece, Bessie Hutchison. floor at left has Flemish bond brickwork; second floor ‘ there is common bond masonry. The second story was added when frame section at right was built to replace earlier log house. A door once opened (see modem photo. top left) from second floor onto upstairs porch. kept a brown sugar jug by his plate and sprinkled iti‘On everything he ate. “If ever a couple was mismatched and mismated, those two were." one woman says. Miss Lucie's diaries paint a differ- ent picture: “This is the day for home, and I always hail it with plea- sure, " she wrote in 1872. “11 is 12‘ years today since my wedding day." She learned that husbands, like schoolchildren, need special handling; One day as Hugh worked on the back of the farm, a missionary came with a note from his wife: 1 “This man wants $500. 1 th nk he only needs 5100." “She' 11 not tell me what to do, " her husband declared, and gave the supplicant the larger amount. 18705 Plat House and division of land are shown after death of James McCauley, who owned farm 18% to 1870. Dark line at right angle 'to Keene'l'roy Pike is McCauley Pike. Two other children re- ceived acreage elsewhere.