from The Sayings, Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky

Wednesday, March 31, 1897

Abram Kulp, a highly respected member of the Society of Shakers, Pleasant Hill, died Sunday, aged sixty-eight years.  For more than sixty years he lived at the village and was for many years a farm deacon, understanding his business and attending to it with industry and energy.  A week ago he got upon his faithful horse, Pilot, and, as if stricken with vertigo, fell off on the other side and lay unconscious.  He was soon taken to a comfortable room, but never again became conscious.  A month previous to this accident he was found on the Pleasant Hill and Danville Road lying under his prostrate horse.  So soon as Messrs. Caldwell and Brown had dragged him out, the horse, of his own volition, got up.  Brother Kulp’s left collar bone was broken but otherwise he seemed to be uninjured.  The funeral was conducted yesterday in the solemn and simple manner of the Society, and his remains were consigned to their last resting place by his father and other relatives who had been faithful Shakers.  He was not only popular with his people, but a favorite with all who knew him, many of our citizens attending the obsequies.

Both photos taken at Pleasant Hill, Shaker Village, Mercer County, Kentucky.