King Solomon, Town's Grave Digging Drunk-Turned Hero

By OAN Reporting Staff

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King Solomon was a gravedigger who may have saved the town of Lexington during the Cholera epidemic of 1833. Kentucky journalist Sam Terry tells the story of the man they called “King Solomon.”

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