Born on the twenty-third of February 1890, Paul Morse Nower was the youngest son of Samuel Jackson and Phobe Jane (Judd) Nower. The brother of my great-grandmother Myrtle Clark, Paul was my great-great-uncle. If I had ever met him, I was too young to remember as he died in 1963 when I was just six years old.
Paul was a Chesapeake and Ohio railroad man who worked as a conductor on a steam engine. My father remembers his Great-Uncle Paul throwing candy to the children as his train passed through Dover, Kentucky, the caboose having a statue of a white bird on top.
According to his niece, Francis Clark Johns, Paul was quite a character! She remembers him as being very cheery and pompous, but very caring. He once bought a Cadillac, even though he didn't drive, just to park it in the front yard so it would look good to the neighbors!
Paul grew up in Dover, Kentucky before moving, as a young man, to Covington in the same state. He married a woman named Olive Copper, but the marriage was not long-lived. On March 13, 1929, he married Nellie Grace Bess of Keyser, West Virginia. His residence was still listed as Covington on the marriage license so it is unknown how the two met.
Paul and Nell settled in Russell, Kentucky where he continued his work with the railroad. On September 24, 1963, after an extended illness, Paul died in a Huntington, West Virginia hospital leaving Nell to mourn his passing. Funeral services were conducted in Russell and his body was taken to the Greenbrier Burial Park in Hinton, West Virginia for burial.
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