R. E. Hathway Post No. 3593 (Lexington, KY)

In December of 1938, the R. E. Hathway Post No. 3593 was organized for Colored veterans of foreign wars. Officers were elected the following January. The post was under the Hugh McKee Post No.677, which was believed to be the oldest in Kentucky. The initial members of Hathway Post No. 3593 were a rather elite group of African American men.

• Rev. John N. Christopher, pastor of Liberty Baptist Church, husband of Mary E. Christopher, lived at 274 E. 5th Street.
• Rev. Clarence Galloway, pastor of Bethel Baptist Church, husband of Mary B. Galloway, lived at 233 Roosevelt Blvd.
• Rev. John C. Newman, who served in the Philippines in 1899; husband of Ella B. Newman, lived at 301 E. 6th Street.
• Rev. John A. Jackson, who was blind, lived at 623 N. Upper Street.
• Rev. James W. Wood, husband of Estella Wood, managing editor of Inter-State County News, notary public, lived at 519 E. 3rd Street.
• Dr. Charles C. Buford Sr., husband of Roberta Buford, office at 269 E. Second Street, lived at 423 N. Upper Street.
• Dr. Bush A. Hunter, office at 439 N. Upper Street, lived at 437 N. Upper Street.
• John W. Rowe, the only Colored lawyer in Lexington in 1938, husband of Hattie H. Rowe (director of Douglas Park in 1939), office at 180 Deweese, lived at 860 Georgetown Street.

For more, see the printed announcement on the letterhead "Hugh McKee Post No. 677, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Lexington, Kentucky," dated December 29, 1938, found in the 'Negroes' file of the Milward Collection (vertical file), Box - Moss Family-Newspapers, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center; for home addresses and other information, see Polk's Lexington (Fayette County, Ky.) City Directory 1937-1939.