Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998
From: Gary Bastin
Subject: Rooster Tales (Rooster BASTIN Legends)
Resent-From: BASTIN-L@rootsweb.com
In the course of tracing our BASTIN family, certain individuals leave a lasting legacy that later generations talk about for years. The following story falls in this category and comes from Glen and Edith Bastin of Horse Cave, KY, and is forwarded with their permission (Thanks, Mom and Dad!) -- Gary Bastin
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998
> From: Edith Bastin
"Dale's story he had heard his father, Medford Bastin, tell about Rooster Bastin follows: Rooster needed some money and he was broke. He figured out a way to get some cash. He took a hammer and beat up some brick and he was selling it on the street for flea powder. The law took him in for misrepresenting what he was selling and for peddling on the street. He got a lawyer to represent him. The lawyer said I'll get you out of this if you will do what I tell you. The lawyer told him, "when they call you on the stand you bleat like a goat no matter what they ask you." The judge got tired of listening at him and threw the case out of court; for he felt he didn't have enough mind to know what he was doing. As Rooster was leaving the court house, his attorney stopped him and said what about my fee. Rooster looked at him and went "baaa baaa" and kept walking. The judge had already said he was crazy. So, he was home free and it didn't cost him anything."
Medford, who told this story about his first cousin, 'Rooster', was:
Bastin, Medford Grigsby
Birth : 28 Aug 1875 Metcalfe Co, KY (or 22 Aug 1875)
Death : 12 Jun 1968 Hart Co, KY
Parents:
Father: Bastin, Joseph Henry
Mother: Turner, Sarah Parish
Rooster was a son of William M. and Nancy Jane Ennis Bastin:
Ennis, Nancy Jane
Birth : 15 Nov 1845 Taylor Co, KY
Death : 26 May 1900 Metcalfe Co, KY
Family:
Marriage: 17 Apr 1865 in Green Co, KY
Spouse:
Bastin, William M.
Birth : 30 Aug 1842 Barren (now Metcalfe) Co, KY
Death : 11 Mar 1917 Metcalfe Co, KY
Parents:
Father: Bastin, Thomas III
Mother: Shofner, Louanna 'Annie'
Children:
Bastin, Helen
Bastin, Mattie
Bastin, James Thomas 'Tom'
Bastin, Clarence Underwood 'Dick Reuben'
Bastin, Mallory S. 'Rooster'
Birth : ABT. 1872 Metcalfe Co, KY
Death : IL
Bastin, Maggie 'Mag'
Bastin, Charles Leman 'Charlie '
Bastin, Clauddins D. 'Dick'
Birth : 1879 Metcalfe Co, KY
Death : 1879
Bastin, Annie E.
Bastin, Mary Jane
Bastin, Pearl B.
(Rooster was a brother of my Great-grandfather, James Thomas Bastin. To date, no descendants for Rooster have been identified. -- Gary)
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