The first man to carry mail in Kentucky came to an unhappy end in Laurel County. On March 21, 1793, Thomas Ross was killed by Indians near the Laurel River, just seven months after the first post-office was established in Danville, Kentucky. On that morning the post, as the carrier was called then, loaded his gun and started out saying he intended to kill an Indian that day.

It seems a Mr. Graham was traveling through the wilderness on that fateful morning, and he came upon the mail-carrier's horse in a stream. He grabbed hold of the horse's bridle and when he looked up, he saw the man cut to pieces and stuck on the bushes all around. He took the mail back to Danville. Mrs. Sarah Graham told this story to Rev. John Dabney Shane in 1844.

Two brothers named Lovelace were the first operators of a stagecoach that ran from Livingston to London in 1882. They were Jesse and Tom Lovelace.