On this date in 1873 ...

Guilford D. Runyon, age 75, died April 6, 1873 and was buried at Harrodsburg

Tools on a shoe mender's bench at the Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky Photo: Corbis

Guilford D. Runyon, a shoemaker at Pleasant Hill, raised there from a child, departed May 18, 1829. He returned and was admitted to the Junior Order the following June. Was expelled in 1839 from the Society because of his plans to marry Kitty Ferrell of New Orleans. She died before they could be married and he lived in the town of Harrodsburg the remainder of his life. -- Center Family Journal