Talk:Gray Hawk, Kentucky

Name

Gray Hawk was most likely named for an Indian chief or tribe that resided at the head of Flat Lick creek and only a few hundred yards away from the major divide between the Cumberland River Drainage and the Kentucky River drainage at the start of War Fork creek. A fresh water spring with a round holes cut in rock was found in the early 1940’s by landowner Hence Lee Brumback and his son Tyra while exploring for water for their animals during a drought. The site was later explored by Tyra Brumback and his son Randy in 1972 while trying to develop the site into a better watering hole for cattle by piping the water about 100 feet from the spring and making a concrete tank for cattle to gather around while preserving the actual spring. At this time while digging out the area they discovered a second hole carved into the rock just inches from the first. A pipe was placed into the spring and both holes covered with flat rocks and cemented into place. The site has not been explored since. Tyra Brumback spoke of his family finding many arrowheads in the area from the 1930’s to the 1950’s. Most of the finds are believed to have been taken to Ohio by another of Hence Brumback’s son, Marshal who resided in Norwood, Ohio the majority of his adult life. Today the site is owned by Randy Brumback and his wife Jenifer who reside in Gray Hawk. While in High School Randy had a math teacher by the name of Edsel Cunningham who spoke in class of a large American Indian camp located somewhere in the area around a spring and the actual location was now unknown. None of the information ever came together as being significant to each other until Randy Brumback began to connect some of the pieces together which was the carved holes in the rock, the area being on a major watershed divide, the finding of Indian artifacts, the name of the community, and the information obtained from Edsel Cunnagin who was educated in many disciplines including local history. Randy Brumback made an attempt around 1985 to contact the University of Kentucky Historical Department about the information but never connected with anyone who showed interest in exploring further. None of this information lends itself to a conclusion that this is where Gray Hawk obtained it’s name. There are families with a last name of Gray in the county but none with a last name of Hawk in the past 100 years and as of this writing. Edsel Cunnigan is now dead and it is unknown if any information exists that would further substantiate his story. I129.222.80.107 (talk) 01:02, 15 April 2023 (UTC)