Delia Webster

ID: 594
This file appears in: Maysville
Delia Webster

The title page of the book Delia Webster wrote describing her court trial for attempting to assist Lexington, Kentucky fugitive Lewis Hayden and his family in 1844, is shown here. Courtesy of the Library of Congress

This file appears in: Maysville

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #68 in Maysville commemorates the founding of that Mason County city. Originally called Limestone and located on the Ohio River, Maysville, like Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian Mountains, was a natural avenue for the earliest…