David Wilkins:  

I was the immature boy for Logan County, that moved to 401 Sylvan Terrace off Nelson Drive and attended Morningside Elementary from fall 1967-spring 1969. Friends were a few, John Rittenhouse, his sister Beverly, their cousin John Crawley. A friend named Andy off Sunnyvale Ln. Tony Abel, and a special girl friend that let me go home with her many times to play after school, Cherry Warren on Brentwood Dr. It's been a while so spelling may not be correct. My Mother had become permanently hospitalized in the summer of 1969 in which my brother of 4 and myself 8y/o was relocated to Logan County with out any regard to friendships leaving behind. As cruel as this was to me, I would like to see was life has been for those friends I came to think so highly of. I was an odd child, I can admit honestly as in 2006 I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. In the 1960's it was called High functional Autism. To those that were descent to me, I Thank You, is a weak means of my expression for my gratefulness. I'm now a retired Peace Officer of Fayette County, Kentucky. 15 years of that was in the Lexington-Fayette Co. Community Corrections Division. I even had a 4.0 GPA my 1st semester of college at UK. Due to my economic hardship I was forced to drop out with a 3.5 GPA. later. I'm now a genealogist and a US/Kentucky Historian. Certified in Pioneer Grave/Grave Yard preservation in Kentucky. I even had my former High School Principle Wallace Mason in a workshop I facilitated in 2000 that was featuring the late Gov. John Breathitt Family Cemetery near Russellville. That was a high honor. I hope one day we can meet again in this life. May God Bless us all. "Children, are small developing people." David M. Wilkins I always wanted to be a Farmer when I grew up. My family and friends thought that was a pipe dream idea. As it turns out, they were not so correct. My Hero was my Grandfather Burr Wilkins, he took me and worked with me and developed my motor vehicle hadling skills on the farm, the summer of 1969 I was driving heavy equipment as good as any of the best adult I knew, and my Grandfather endorsed my acomplishments to all. However accounting was not going to me a vocation as I was found with dyslexia by my 9th grade teacher Ms. Garrett at Russellville High. My Grandfather passed away suddenly in his rest one day in 1975. To date it has been the hardest death I have endured as his stern but persistant handling of me has made the best of me today. I set the cruise and drive to blow the steam. The wildest thing, I did in school; I took on dares and did stupid dumb things that often made me a dork....it got me made fun of and further labled as a dimwit many times as I was immature in some ways yet mature in many other ways that has make me excel as an adult. Unforeseen in school age. The summer 1978 I married as I wanted to begin a family and prove I could be a young and progressive farmer and family man as well as finish school and later attend vocational scholl to be a better mechanic on the farm. By Nov. of 78, I had file for divorce, after many classmates had advised me that my wife was cheating for her drug abuse habits that I was unaware. More dreams were crushed. Her father had made death threats for no basis on me that I believed was a danger to my family. I left Ky and resided in Austin,Tx. I made a few very good friends ...Expand for more