Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Monroe County. JUDGE BENJAMIN F. BEDFORD was born July 23, 1806, in Monroe County, near his present residence. His father, John C. Bedford, was born August 11, 1782, in Virginia. At an early age he removed with his parents to Bourbon County, Ky., where he remained a short time, and then removed to Green (afterwards Barren and finally Monroe) County, where he was among the first settlers. He was a son of Stephen Bedford, also of Virginia. Stephen was a son of Thomas Bedford, of Virginia, who was born in England. When very small he left for America, for which he was disinherited by his parents. John C. Bedford married, about 1805, Rebecca, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Turner) Halsell, of Monroe County. From this union sprang Judge Benjamin F., Thomas (deceased), Steven H., Little B., Emily (Berry), Sarah T. Biggerstaff, Martha (Hill), John C. and Susanna (McMillin). Judge Bedford married November 1, 1838, Lucinda, daughter of Elija and Elizabeth (Gee) Kirkpatrick, of Monroe County. She was born May 16, 1822. To them were born Sarah T. (Graves), Elija, John C., Thomas Halsell, William G., Stephen H., Pendagas, James, Elizabeth (Biggerstaff), Benjamin F. (deceased), Tabitha (Moody), and Leanah (Kidwell). Judge Bedford started in life at the foot of the ladder, but by industry, economy and perseverance he has become the owner of over 400 acres of valuable land in good condition and a fine state of cultivation. He was for thirty years a magistrate and a member of the court of claims of Monroe County. He was for about four years postmaster at Cedar point and has also been judge of his native county, of which he is one of the most influential citizens. In politics he is a Democrat. Bedford Berry Biggerstaff Gee Graves Halsell Kidwell Kirkpatrick Moody McMillin Turner Hill = Barren England Green Bourbon VA Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin & Kniffin, 3rd ed. 1886. Lyon Co. JAMES D. KIRKPATRICK, physician, son of Dr. William D. Kirkpatrick, of Fredonia, Ky. (whose biography will be found elsewhere), was born December 3, 1850, in Fredonia, Caldwell County. At nine and one-half years of age he entered the dry goods store of John F. Harris as salesman, with whom he remained six years; during a part of the time he worked on his father's farm during the summer. The schools at that time were closed, owing to the war. In 1865-66 he attended school near Fredonia, and in the spring of 1866, re-entered Harris' store, and remained until the fall of 1867; then entered Bethel College, at Russellville, Ky.; remained there until 1869, when he returned to Fredonia and the same evening was sent for by Maj. E. F. Neal, the partner of Mr. Harris, to come and take charge of the store. He went, worked with the firm two months; then went to Paducah in compliance with a previous arrangement with J. J. Guthrie, dry goods merchant, and remained from September, 1869, to March, 1872. He then went to Houston, Johnson & Co., in Paducah, for a year; then engaged in grocery business for himself in Paducah, until April, 1875; then attended the State University at Louisville for the sessions of 1875-76, and then returned to Fredonia and practiced with his father as an undergraduate; then returned to the university at Louisville and graduated in March, 1879, from the medical department of that institution. As an undergraduate he spent two years as assistant practitioner, assisting all the physicians and acquiring a practical knowledge of the profession. After graduating he came direct to Kuttawa, April 7, 1879, where he has since been engaged in practice. He has been a member of the Odd Fellows, etc., at Paducah. Since coming to Kuttawa, Dr. Kirkpatrick has been instrumental in building roads, churches and schools, and securing general improvements. He opened the first drug store. He also tried to secure a line of railway and has been identified with every public improvement. Kirkpatrick Harris Neal Guthrie = Caldwell-KY Russelville-Logan-KY Paducah-McCracken-KY LouiKentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885, Muhlenberg Co. LUCILIUS M. KIRKPATRICK, Muhlenburgh [sic] County, was born July 18, 1829, in Wilson County, Tenn. He is the eldest of nine children - four boys and five girls - born to Anderson and Emma E. (Moss) Kirkpatrick, natives of Wilson and Sumner Counties, Tenn., respectively, of Scotch-Irish and German descent. Anderson Kirkpatrick was a son of John Kirkpatrick, who married a Miss Clendening; they were natives of North Carolina and Virginia respectively. John Kirkpatrick was the son of Alexander Kirkpatrick, who was born in Ireland. The family came to Tennessee about 1780. The mother of our subject was a daughter of John Moss, who married Miss Lawrence Slainks; they were natives of Virginia. Lucilius M. was reared on a farm, and received a common school education; he taught several terms of school in Tennessee; he lived with his parents until the age of twenty, when he engaged as salesman for one year in Lebanon, Tenn. He the engaged in business for himself at Cole's Ferry, on the Cumberland River, for eight years. In 1859, he moved to Logan County, Ky., and engaged in farming for two years. When the war broke out he returned to Tennessee, and engaged in farming and trading until 1877, when he moved back to Logan County. In 1879, he located near Penrod, where he has been engaged in the mercantile business, railroad contracting and farming. He was married in September, 1853, to Vandelia S. Coles, of Tennessee, a daughter of Samuel and Sallie (Walker) Coles; natives of Wilson County, Tn., and of Irish descent. Her grandfather, William T. Coles, was born in Dublin, Ireland. To Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick were born thirteen children: Laura L. (deceased wife of _____ Kennedy), Sallie E. (Crewsdon), John W., Mary E. (deceased), Lizzie M. (Mohon), Lucilius Z., Colista A., Anderson D., Samuel T., Robert H., Harry L., Sue D., Frizzella. Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick are members of the Presbyterian church. He is a member of the F. & A.M. Kirkpatrick Moss Clendening Slainks Coles Walker Kennedy Crewsdon Mohon = Wilson-TN Sumner-TN NC VA Ireland Logan Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887, Franklin Co. JUDGE WILLIAM LINDSAY is a lineal descendant of an old Scotch-Presbyterian family of that name, who were first represented in this country by his grandfather, James Lindsay, who was born at Dykehead Farm, Lanark County, Scotland, in September, 1773, and immigrated to America about 1790. He located in Rockbridge County, Va., where he engaged in agricultural pursuits, and married, on June 30, 1797, Agnes McCampbell, a native of Rockbridge County, born December 24, 1775, who was also descended from Scotch-Presbyterian ancestry. Of this union were born nine children: five girls and four boys, of whom Andrew, the father of Judge Lindsay, was the fifth child and third son. Andrew was born October 6, 1809, and died July 4, 1883. He passed his entire life in Rockbridge County, Va., where he engaged in the peaceful pursuits of the farm, holding himself aloof from public life, and enjoying the reputation of an industrious, upright and useful citizen. He married for his first wife, in January, 1834, Sally Gilmore Davidson, whose ancestors, also Scotch-Presbyterians, settled in Virginia as early as 1735, where they became identified with the pioneer settlement and development of that section. She was born October 7, 1809, and died January 7, 1845. The children were: William, the subject of this sketch, born September 4, 1835; James, April 1, 1837; Polly G., October 4, 1839, who became the wife of Daniel A. Teaford, of Rockbridge County, Va., and Sally D., who married James Kirkpatrick, also of that county. For his second wife Andrew Lindsay married, in 1847, Mary F. Gilmore, the children of that marriage being: Marion, born February 22, 1851; Charles, born October 14, 1855; Andrew W., born February 28, 1861, and Bruce, born July 26, 1865. The mother of this family died April 16, 1878. Judge Lindsay received his education at the high schools of Lexington, Va., and after completing his academic course began the study of law at that place at the law school of Judge W. Brokenborough. In November, 1854, he located in Hickman County, Ky., where he pursued his legal studies under Judge Edward Crossland, of Clinton, and was duly admitted to the bar in 1858. He at once engaged in the practice of his profession in Hickman and the surrounding counties, meeting with considerable success from the beginning, but he had no sooner become fully established with a promising career ahead of him that the breaking out of the war between the States compelled a change, and being in warm sympathy with the South, he enlisted as a private in the Confederate Army in May, 1861. In July, 1861, he was made lieutenant of Company B, Twenty-second Tennessee Infantry, a company composed entirely of Kentuckians, and commanded it as captain in the battle of Belmont, Mo., in November, 1861, and at Shiloh, in April, 1862. After the battle, the company was transferred to a Kentucky regiment, and Judge Lindsay thereafter was connected with the Seventh Kentucky Infantry, and served as staff officer with the brigade commanders. Gen. Abe Buford, Gen. H. B. Lyon, Col. Thompson and Col. Crossland. He was paroled at Columbus, Miss., May 16, 1865, at the close of the war. Returning to Hickman County, Judge Lindsay resumed the practice of his profession, and at once met with success. He was elected to the State Senate in August, 1867, to represent the counties of Hickman, Fulton and Graves, and performed his duties in a capable and able manner, and to the entire satisfaction of his constituents. In August, 1870, he was elected one of the judges of the court of appeals, occupying that distinguished position until September, 1878, serving as chief justice the last two years of his term, when he declined a re-election, and, retiring from the bench, commenced the practice of law at Frankfort, where he at present resides. Perhaps no lawyer in Kentucky is better known nor more highly esteemed both in profession and among the people than Judge Lindsay. A large and well developed man, of genial nature, eminently hospitable and kind, he draws his friends to him and holds them as by links of steel. As a lawyer he stands in the front rank of his profession, and enjoys a large and remunerative practice. As a judge his career was of the highest order, and his decisions and opinions were never overruled or appealed from. He wrote the opinion in the case of the Commonwealth vs. Hawes, which involved a question of extradition and the construction of the treaty upon that subject between Great Britain and the United States, in which it was the first time decided by a court of last resort that a person extradition without first being afforded an opportunity to return to the country from which he had been taken. This decision has been followed by the court of the other States and by the Federal courts, and the doctrine affirmed and approved by the Supreme Court of the United States during the session of 1886-87, in the case of United States vs. Rauscher (119 U.S. 407). Judge Lindsay also wrote the opinion in the case of the Covington & Lexington Railroad Company against Bowler, in which it was held that the directors of a railroad company could not assist in bringing the property of the corporation to sale, and then claim the benefits of such sale as purchasers. Judge Lindsay has always been a consistent member of the Democrat party, and faithful to its principles and doctrines. As a citizen, he is closely identified with the business and social interests of Frankfort, and is a member of the board of directors of the Branch Bank of Kentucky. His first wife, whom he married in 1864, was Miss Swan Semple, of Hickman County, who died in June, 1868. His second wife was Miss Henrietta Semple, a sister of his first wife, whom he married in October, 1869. Of this union were born three children, of whom Miss Marion Lindsay survives, her mother dying April, 1882. In December, 1883, Judge Lindsay was united to his present wife, Miss Eleanor Holmes, of Frankfort, a lady of great beauty and many rare excellencies of character, prominent in church and society, in which she is distinguished for the character of her receptions and entertainments, and who presides with grace and tact over the hospitable home of her husband. Judge Lindsay's name is frequently and prominently mentioned in connection with the position of United States Senator, but he prefers the walks of private life, and manifests no inclination to seek or accept political preferment. Lindsay McCampbell Davidson Teaford Kirkpatrick Gilmore Semple Holmes Crossland = Lexington-Fayette-KY Hickman-KY Rockbridge-VA Scotland Carol (Gehrs) Mitchell, 211 Capitol Dr, Pittsburgh, PA 15236-3901