Ruth Morgan Chinn, 98, of Versailles, died February 5 at her home. Born at Fountain Blue Farm in Harrodsburg in 1897, she was the daughter of the late Christopher and Naoma Forsythe Chinn, and a descendant of Robert McAfee, one of the original settlers in Kentucky and an early pioneer in Mercer County. Fountain Blue Farm, so named because during a rain a fountain of blue sand would erupt eight to ten feet high in a pond on the property, was one of the first five land claims registered in Kentucky in 1773. One of her grandfathers, Col. Jack Chinn, was co-owner of the 9th Kentucky Derby winner, Leonatus, in 1883. When her family sold Fountain Blue in 1914, they moved to Keene house at Keeneland, and later to the manse at Pisgah Presbyterian Church. Around 1918, she and her mother moved to an apartment in Lexington where they had electricity for the first time. While living in Lexington, she worked for the University of Kentucky as a stenographer. Ruth Chinn and her mother joined her sister's family in the Philppines in the early 1920s and lived there for several years. When they returned she settled in Washington, D.C., where she worked for the Veterans Administration for 30 years. She retired to Kentucky in 1959, living in Lexington and later Versailles. She is survived by two great-nieces, Katherine Harris Meares, Versailles and Ellie Glennon Harris, Minneapolis, Minnesota; two great-great-nieces, Vickie and Nancy Meares, and a great-great-nephew, Claude Meares, all of Versailles. A sister, Katherine Chinn Harris, a niece, Nancy Harris, and a nephew, Lt. Col. William F. Harris, are deceased. Burial in Spring Hill Cemetery, Harrodsburg.

[Source: unknown Central KY newspaper]
Handwritten date - 1996