NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11788 BRACKEN CO – GEORGE L. BRADFORD – Bradford, Hobday, Kirk 11788 Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume 8B – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 1886, p. 754. GEORGE L. BRADFORD, a son of Thomas H. and Mildred (Hobday) Bradford, was born in Bracken County, Ky., January 18, 1844. His grandparents came from Maryland to Kentucky at an early day and located where Augusta now stands. George L. Bradford was educated at Augusta College, and at the age of twenty-one was elected sheriff of Bracken County. He was subsequently elected Mayor of Augusta, and in 1886 was made county judge. In 1865 he married Miss Theodosia Kirk, a daughter of Benjamin Kirk, of Mason County, Ky. Politically Judge Bradford is a Democrat. Sandi's Puzzlers: http://www.gensoup.org/gorinpuzzles/index.php Sandi's site: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11787 WHITLEY CO – JUDGE ROBERT BOYD – Boyd, Sears, Adams 11787 Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume 8B – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 1886, pp. 753-54. Judge Robert Boyd as born in Whitley County, Ky., December 11, 1833. His ancestors, who are traced back to Scotland, came to America at an early date and first settled in Virginia, but afterward move[d] to Whitley County, Ky., of which State his parents, Samuel and Mary A. (Sears) Boyd, are natives. Samuel Boyd was a farmer by occupation, and was one of the most reliable and enterprising men of his day and community; he served in the war of 1812. Judge Robert Boyd was the sixth in a family of seven children; he was brought up in Whitley County, and in early life attended the common schools, but finished his education at Centre College, Danville, Ky. In 1855 he commenced reading law with Judge Green Adams, of Barboursville, Ky., but in 1856 Mr. Boyd was elected circuit court clerk of Whitley County, and in 1858, during his term of office, was admitted to the bar. His term of office expired in 1862, and the following year he located at London, Laurel County, and began the practice of his profession, which he successfully continued until 1867, when he was elected to the State Senate from the Thirty-eighty [sic] Senatorial District, being re-elected in 1871. In 1875 he was the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor, making an active race, and the following year he was a delegate to the National Convention at Cincinnati, O., being a candidate the same year for Congress from the Ninth Congressional District, but was defeated by a small majority. In 1884 he was a delegate to the National Convention at Chicago from the Eighth District. In 1886 he was elected Circuit Judge of the Fifteenth Judicial District, of which office he is the present incumbent. He has been one of the most substantial practitioners of the legal profession in eastern Kentucky, both professionally and financially, being popular socially. His political preference has always been with the Republican party, for which party he has been an earnest worker. He has never married, but to all appearances is as happy as those who have a home blessed with wife and children.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11787 PIKE CO – ANDREW J. AUXIER – Auxier, Mayo, Marshall, Ferrell, Connolly, Scott 11787 Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume 8B – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 1886, pp. 744-5. ANDREW J. AUXIER, a native of Johnson County, Ky., is the fourth of eight sons born to Nathaniel and Hester Ann (Mayo) Auxier, natives, respectively of Johnson County, Ky., and the State of Virginia. Samuel Auxier, grandfather of Andrew J., was born in North Carolina, in 1787, was of French descent, came to Kentucky with is father at the age of five, and died in 1884. Lewis Mayo, maternal grandfather of Andrew J. Auxier, came to Kentucky from Virginia, and was an early settler of Johnson County. Mrs. Hester Ann Auxier was born in 1815, and when a young woman was a school teacher in Johnson and Floyd Counties, the family having come from Virginia about the year 1835. John B. Auxier, an uncle of Andrew J., was one representative in the State Legislature for Johnson County, and during the late war was a major in the Thirty-ninth Kentucky Union Volunteers, while a brother of our subject, Daniel V., was Captain of Company A, same regiment, and was killed at Saltville, Va., in October, 1863. Andrew J. Auxier was reared on a farm and received his preparatory education in Johnson County. When in his twenty-first year he began the study of law under James E. Stewart, now of Lawrence County, was admitted to practice June 19, 1866, at Paintsville, and in August of the same year he removed to Pikeville, where he has ever since been engaged in active practice. In 1870 he was elected County Attorney, and held the office until 1874; in August of the latter year he was elected Commonwealth’s Attorney of the Sixteenth Judicial District, which comprises eight counties, and filled the place until 1800. In 1882 he was appointed by President Arthur U. S. Marshall, which position he filled until 1885, when he resigned and became a member of the law firm of Auxier, Ferrell & Connolly, which firm is doing an active and lucrative practice in Pike and surrounding counties. Mr. Auxier is also the contractor for the erection of a new court-house at Pikeville, at a cost of $23,700. In May, 1868, Mr. Auxier married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of John Scott, a prominent farmer of Pike County, and the result of this union is the birth of five children, viz.: Mary Hester, Redolphus Roderick, Nathaniel John, William Miles and Andrew E. The Auxier families are members of the M. E. Church, and in politics Mr. Auxier is a Republican; he is also a member of the Masonic fraternity.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11786 MONROE CO – DEMETRIUS SIMS - Sims 11786 History of Edgar Co. IL, William H. Perrin, Chicago, 1879, p. 644. DEMETRIUS SIMS, farmer and stock dealer, Sec. 13; P. O. Grand View; is another old settler and a native of Monroe Co., Ky., was born Oct. 22, 1837; lived at his native place until nearly 21; then came to Edgar Co., and located in Paris, where he engaged in mercantile business; this, he followed about thirteen years; then bought the frm where he now lives. He began business for himself at the age of 21. Now, by hard work and economy, after several losses, he has a nice farm of eighty-two acres, valued at about $75 per acre. Mr. Sims is a business man that has a good name and reputation for honesty and square dealing, and is known as one of the straightforward men of Grand View Tp.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. BIO #11785 - WARREN CO – JAMES H. WHITE – White, Bailey, Robinson, Clack, Wells, Bailey, Moore, Gott, Conkin, Harlen. Gramt 11785 Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume II – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886, p. 225-26. JAMES H. WHITE was born July 21, 1845, two miles southeast of Glasgow, and is a son of Thomas R. and Elizabeth J. (Bailey) White, natives of Barren County, Ky., and to whom three sons and four daughters were born, James H. being the second. Thomas R. White was for many years a Baptist minister, but afterward became a member of the Christian Church, in which he preached. He also taught school and conducted a farm, and was postmaster at Polkville for ten years. He died in September, 1863, aged forty-four years. He was a son of Edmond White, a native of Virginia, who, with his parents, came to Kentucky about 1800. He married Susan Robinson, of North Carolina. Her parents brought her to Kentucky at a very early day. Edmond White was a son of George White, who was a captain in the war for independence. Mr. White’s great-grandfather, Robinson, married a Miss Clack, a native of Virginia, who died in Barren County, Ky., at the age of one hundred and eighteen years. The mother of James H. White was the daughter of Henry and Nancy (Wells) Bailey, natives of Barren County, Ky. Henry Bailey was a farmer and slave owner, and died in 1854, aged seventy years . He was of English origin, and was a son of Richard Bailey, of Virginia, who served seven years in the Revolution. J. H. White was reared on a farm, and acquired an education by self-application. He spent ten years in teaching in Kentucky, Kansas, Arkansas and the Indian Territory. December 12, 1861, he enlisted in Company G, Fifth Kentucky Cavalry, and participated in the battles of Perryville, Stone River and Tullahoma, and was with the regiment in all its principal engagements, except three months, while in hospital, in 1862; was discharged in May, 1864, at Louisville, Ky., as a private. His physical health being rendered a complete wreck while in the army, he was disabled for the performance of manual labor, and had to seek other methods than his former occupation to procure a livelihood. After his return home he studied the English branches, and, by close application to his books, was enabled to commence teaching in 1867. Three years of his last teaching were spent in the West. In 1878 he returned to Kentucky, and engaged in farming and selling books. In August, 1871, he married Margaret E. Gott, of Edmonson County, a daughter of James F. and Emmerine (Moore) Gott, both natives of Warren County. Mr. and Mrs. White had born to them six children, three living: James T.;, Emma R. and John S. Mrs. White died October 15, 1882, a member of the Christian Church. Mr. White married his second wife, Rosetta Conkin, of Warren County, November 5, 1884. She was born in Monroe County, and was a daughter of Jeremiah H. and Nancy (Harlen) Conkin, who were born, respectively, in Jackson County, Tenn., and Monroe County, Ky. This second union was blessed with one child, Verlie. Mr. and Mrs. White are members of the Christian Church, and located where they now reside in October, 1884, on seventy acres, seven miles south of Smith’s Grove. Mr. White was a member of the Grange in its day. In politics he is a Prohibitionist, and cast his first presidential vote for Grant in 1868.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11784 SHELBY COUNTY – SAMUEL TORBITT CASTLEMAN – Castleman, Pryor, Torbitt, Weissinger, Muir 11784 History of Kentucky, The Blue Grass State. Volume III Illustrated. The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago – Louisville, 1928, p. 211. Samuel Torbitt Castleman, one of the prominent stock raisers of Shelby county, resides on the Taylorsville pike, and his intelligence and skill, controlled by good judgment and keen powers of discernment, have combined to make his private enterprise a public asset. A son of David R. and Joanna (Pryor) Castleman, he was born March 15, 1877, and is a native of New Castle, Henry county, Kentucky. His mother was born in the same county, and the father was a native of Woodford county, Kentucky. He was born in 1847 and the mother’s birth occurred in 1849. David R. Castleman was a successful merchant and a member of the wholesale grocery firm of Torbitt & Castleman, whose establishment was located in Louisville. His life was terminated in 1893, at the age of forty-six years, and the mother long survived him, passing away in 1924, when seventy-five years of age. The public schools of Louisville afforded Samuel T. Castleman his educational advantages, and his first work was along transportation lines. He proved reliable and efficient and was made passenger representative of the New York Central Railroad Company in Louisville. He filled the position for a considerable period and then embarked in the insurance business in that city. He prospered in the venture and was thus engaged for fifteen years. In 1921 he moved to Shelby county and is now operating the Undulata Farm, one of the show places of Kentucky. The estate comprises two thousand acres and is situated near Shelbyville. Mr. Castleman raises blooded cattle and thoroughbred horses and thoroughly understands the business in which he is engaged, making his efforts count for the utmost. On January 21, 1910, was solemnized the marriage of Samuel T. Castleman and Miss Margaret Weissinger, a daughter of Colonel Harry Weissinger and Belle (Muir) Weissinger. The latter was a daughter of Judge Peter B. Muir, of Louisville, one of the eminent lawyers and jurists of Kentucky. The paternal grandfather, George W. Weissinger, became one of the owners of the Louisville Journal and built the first greenhouse in the city. It was situated on his beautiful estate, which is now a part of Central Park. Colonel Weissinger was one of the distinguished officers of the Confederate army and after the war engaged in the tobacco business, in which he achieved notable success. He was a dominant figure in other lines of activity and promoted Louisville’s growth and development along many lines. Mr. and Mrs. Castleman have a family of four children: Harry Weissinger, who was born December 21, 1911; Isabelle Muir, whose birth occurred on the 1st of April, 1915; Joan Pryor, whose natal day was August 1, 1919; and Samuel Torbitt Jr., born January 21, 1922. Mr. Castleman is an adherent of the democratic party and conscientiously discharged the duties of citizenship. He enjoys the social side of life and belongs to the Louisville Country, River Valley Country, Pendennis and Kentucky Clubs, all of Louisville, and the Lotus Club of New York city.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11783 CHRISTIAN CO – HORACE P. RIVES – Rives, Pendleton, Garrott 11783 County of Christian, Kentucky; Historical and Biographical. Edited by William Henry Perrin. F. A. Battey Publishing Co., Chicago and Louisville, 1884. Longview Precinct. p. 503-4. HORACE P. RIVES was born in Montgomery County, Tenn., on January 20, 1845, and is a son of Henry A. and Eleanor P. (Tillotson) Rives. The grandfather was Stephen Rives, and was born in Virginia; he moved to Tennessee in 1829, where he subsequently died. The father was born in Virginia, in 1816, and came to Tennessee with his father; he is now living in Montgomery County, that State. The mother was born in Virginia; died in Montgomery County, Tenn., in 1882. To her were born the following children: Mildred E., W. M., Stephen E. and Horace P. (subject). Horace P. attended school in Kentucky, where he graduated and afterward followed surveying; he is now quite an extensive farmer and tobacco-grower, and owns about 350 acres; he was married to Miss Mary E. Pendleton. Two children blessed this union – Willie and May. Mrs. Rives died in 1875 and Mr. Rives was next married to Miss Nannie A. Garrott, a daughter of Robert W. Garrott. To this union were born two children – Harry A. and Maggie. Mr. Rives is a Democrat.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11782 GRAVES CO – L. B. BLALOCK – Blalock, Pryor, Anderson, Forrest 11782 Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume I – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 1885, pp. 222-3. H B BLALOCK was born July 11, 1838, within a mile of where he now lives in Graves County. He is the eldest of three boys and six girls born to Levi and Rutha A. (Holifield) Blalock, natives respectively of North Carolina and Henderson County, Ky. Levi Blalock emigrated from North Carolina to Illinois in 1832; then to Hickman County, Ky., in 1836, and in the same year came to Graves County; here he died in 1857, aged forty-four years. L. B. Blalock received about six months’ schooling in his youth, but subsequently acquired a good business education; he was reared a farmer and remained with his mother until his marriage, January 16, 1877, to Nancy J. Anderson, daughter of Ervin and Maria (Pryor) Anderson, natives of Caldwell and Simpson Counties, Ky., and of Scotch and English descent. These parents were among the first settlers of Graves County, the Pryors, coming in 1822, and settling on Clark’s River, and three years later near Pryorsburg, named in their honor. The Andersons settled here about 1825. To Mr. and Mrs. Blalock were born four children: James L., John F., a third that died unnamed and Newton J. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and formerly Mr. Blalock was an Odd Fellow and a member of the Grange. He owns 585 acres of land, of which over one-half is under cultivation and improved with a fine frame residence. Since 1870 he has traded in tobacco most successfully. In November, 1863, he enlisted in Company E, Twelfth Kentucky Cavalry, Confederate States Army, under Gen. Forrest, and took part in the following battles: Cross Roads, Okalona, Miss., and Jackson, Tenn. The army disbanded in March, 1865, at Paducah, Ky. Without a nickel, our subject returned home, engaged in farming and succeeded in acquiring a comfortable fortune.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11781 CALLOWAY CO – ROBERT S. COLEMAN – Coleman, Gatlin, Williams 11781 Kentucky: A History of the State, 1st Edition, Histories and Biographies of Ballard, Calloway, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCracken and Marshall Counties Kentucky; Part II, Reprint; Battle, J. H. W. H. Perrin & G. C. Kniffin; Chicago, F A Battey Publishing Co, 1885, p. 171. ROBERT S. COLEMAN, Calloway County, is a native of Stewart County, Tenn. He was born March 8, 1829, and is a son of William H. and Mary (Gatlin) Coleman. The father was a farmer by occupation, a native of North Carolina, who came west in 1816, and died in Stewart County, Tenn., in 1850. Our subject was the only child of his parents, and his early life was spent upon the home farm. After becoming of age he was variously engaged in steamboating, clerking and farming until 1855, when he began the study of medicine, and removing soon after to Henry County, Tenn., completed his preparatory studies there; he then attended the university of Nashville, and graduated from the medical department of that institution in 1862. He then accepted a position in the Confederate hospital service, but was taken prisoner in the fall of the same year at Fort Helman, and paroled. He then continued the practice of medicine in Henry County, Tenn., until 1872, when he came to Murry, where he has since resided, and enjoys the confidence of the community in his professional skill, and occupies an eminent position as a physician, surgeon and citizen. November 7, 1856, he wedded Miss Fannie A. Williams, of Henry County, Tenn. There are five children living of this marriage: John R., who graduated with honors from the medical department of the University of Louisville in 1882, is a young man of fine social and intellectual worth, a thorough physician, has an extensive practice and bids fair to rise to distinction in his chosen profession; James H., a counselor at law, with fine intellect and fair promise; Thomas E., Mary A. and Fannie P., all children of splendid sense. Subject is a member of the Masonic order. He is chairman of the board of health and has served as president of the medical association.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11780 BALLARD CO – DR. ELI J DESHA – Desha, Smith, Lee, Ravelle, Ellison, Owen, Childress 11780 Kentucky: A History of the State, 1st Edition, Histories and Biographies of Ballard, Calloway, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCracken and Marshall Counties Kentucky; Part II, Reprint; Battle, J. H. W. H. Perrin & G. C. Kniffin; Chicago, F A Battey Publishing Co, 1885, p. 119. DR. ELI J. DESHA was born October 13, 1838, in Madison County, Mo., where he was reared until 1858, when he came to Ballard County, Ky., where he now resides. His father, Eli D. Desha, a native of Louis­iana, died in 1874 at the age of sixty-three years. He was the son of Robert C. Desha, a soldier in La Fayette's army, who remained in the United States after the American Revolution and died at St. Michael, leaving a wife, two sons and a daughter, the daugh­ter marrying Sterling Smith, of New Madrid. Eli D. married Eva, daughter of Henry La Lee, of Virginia. She is now living at the age of ninety years. Their offspring are Elizabeth (Ravelle), Eliza (Ellison), subject and Eva J. Subject in youth ob­tained a good education at Fredericktown, and from choice pursued school-teaching as an occupation and medicine as a profession. He was married December 7, 1862, to Miss Angie, daughter of James M. and Elizabeth (Owen) Childress, of McCracken County, (born in 1844), and to them have been born Hillen G., Arthur T. (deceased), Owen L., lona LeRoy, De La S., Angie E., Roxie V., Lucius C., Orville U. and Julia E. Arthur T., a bright youth of seventeen years, of un­usual mental capacity and of great promise, died January 23, 1882, lamented by all who knew him. Our subject owns a farm at Weldon Park, on which he resides, and has devoted much of his time and means to agriculture as a science. He is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and in politics affiliates with the Democratic party, which has ever been the political rec­ord of his ancestry.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11779 SIMPSON CO – JOSEPH C. HOBDY – Hobdy, Harrel, Horn, Hinton, Wilkins, Finn, Hampton 11779 Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume IV – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886, p. 205-6. JOSEPH C. HODBY was born in Allen County, Ky., September 10, 1848, and is the third of five children, only four of whom are living, born to Moore C. and Matilda J. (Harrell) Hobdy, both natives of Sumner County, Tenn., and of English descent, born in 1820 and 1819, respectively. Moore C. Hobdy received a good common school education in youth, for that early day, in his native county and State. He was married in his native county, but soon after removed to Allen County, Ky., where he bought a partially improved farm, to which he afterward added other lands, and where he resided until the fall of 1882, when he sold out and removed to the northwest part of Simpson County, where he bought another farm, upon which he yet resides. He and wife have been from early life devoted members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, in which church he has been a ruling elder for many years. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity, having held various official positions in his lodge. Joseph C. Hobdy received an excellent English and scientific education in youth, at the Presbyterian Academy of Bowling Green and the Greenwood Academy of Sumner County, Tenn. He remained on the old homestead until he was twenty-eight years old, but after attaining his majority he farmed the place in partnership with his father for about seven years. In January, 1879, he removed to the northwestern part of Simpson County, Ky., where he bought a farm of 351 acres, upon which he now resides, and where he is extensively and successfully engaged in farming and stock raising. The farm is said to be one of the best, and is surely one of the best improved places in the county. Mr. Hobdy has, near his dwelling, the largest and best spring to be found in southwestern Kentucky. He first married, November 17, 1874, Mary F., daughter of William G. and Elizabeth C. (Horn) Hinton, both natives of Allen County, Ky., and of English descent. She was born in Allen County, Ky., August 17, 1856. To this union were born two children, viz.: Leslie (deceased) and Cora. Mrs. Mary F. Hobdy’s death occurred June 7, 1880. She was a devoted member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Mr. Hobdy next married, September 11, 1883, Fannie M. Wilkins, a native of Franklin, Simpson, Co., Ky., born March 30, 1855. She is a daughter of Nathan S. and Sarah B. (Finn) Wilkins, both natives of Simpson County, Ky., and of Irish descent. Mrs. Hobdy’s parents both died when she was only an infant, after which she remained with her father’s people in Texas until she was eleven years old. She then returned to Kentucky and resided with her guardian, John A. Finn, until September, 1867, when she was admitted to Nazareth Female Academy, of Nelson County, Ky., graduating from that institution in June, 1872. After this she taught music for four years at Leitchfield, Ky., and for two years near Franklin, Ky. After her return from college she made her home, until her marriage, with Thomas H. Hampton, of Franklin. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Hobdy has been blessed by one daughter, Mary F. Both Mr. Hobdy and wife are members of the church – he of the Cumberland Presbyterian and Mrs. Hobdy of the Catholic Church. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity, having advanced to the R. A. degree. He has held various official positions in, and was a charter member of his lodge, viz.: New Roe Lodge, No. 592, of Allen County, Ky. In politics he is a Democrat, and is one of the most successful and extensive farmers and stock raisers of the county.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking further information. 11778 SHELBY CO – F. S. KESTER – Kester, Hostetler 11778 History of Edgar Co. IL, William H. Perrin, Chicago, 1879m p. 582 F. S. KESTER, farmer, P. O. Paris; was born in Shelby Co., Ky., March 24, 1814; his parents removed to Clark Co., Ind., where he was raised upon a farm, and, being the oldest of a family of six (five of whom are still living), was put forward in the duties of the farm, and his opportunities for a school education were few and far between; he followed farming and stock-raising for a number of years, in which business he was successful; he came to Illinois and settled in Douglas County in 1862, and in 1865, came to Paris, and engaged in the book and stationery business; in this he continued some six years, since which time he has only looked after the affairs of his property. He married Miss Sarah J. Hostetler, of Indiana, May 19, 1856; she was born Nov. 9, 1834; they have three children – Nellie M., Lou and John O.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking further information. 11777 LAWRENCE CO – LEVI M. ATKINS – Atkins, Thornsberry, Burchett 11777 Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume 8B – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 1886, page 743-4 LEVI M. ATKINS, a native of Pike County, Ky., was born July 22, 1841, and is a son of Anderson and Nancy (Thornsberry) Atkins, natives, respectively, of Virginia and Tennessee. Anderson was a farmer, and died when Levi M. was quite young. The latter was reared on the home farm, received a fair education, and in October, 1861, enlisted in Company H, Fourteenth Kentucky Volunteers, Federal service, and was mustered out in January, 1865, as duty sergeant. In 1865 he located in Louisa, and in 1876 built the Chattaori Hotel, which he conducted until March, 1881, when he sold out and engaged in the lumber trade, now doing a business of $30,000 per annum. May 20, 1865, he married Miss Sarah Elizabeth Burchett, daughter of Armstead Burchett, and born to them two children, both now dead. Mr. Atkins is the owner of 1,400 acres of land in Johnson County, Ky., and 5,000 acres in Wayne County, W. Va. He is a Freemason and a Republican, and in 1874-75 was town marshall of Louisa. Mrs. Atkins is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Thank you so much for your patience in my not posting last week due to the death of my beloved mother. Sandi NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking further information. 11776 JOHNSON CO – GREEN F ADAMS – Adams, Preston, Price 11776 Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume 8B – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 1886. GREEN F. ADAMS was born in Magoffin County, Ky., October 15, 1857. He was reared on the farm and educated in the common schools. When fourteen years of age he began merchandising in his native county, and in 1885 removed to Johnson County, where he is a merchant. In 1880 he married Samantha Preston, a daughter of Montgomery and Miranda (Price) Preston, of Johnson County; his wife died in August 1887, leaving three children: Helen, Samantha and Wm. W. Mr. Adams is a member of the Masonic lodge of Paintsville, and casts his vote with the Republicans.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking further information. 11775 JOHNSON CO – JAMES B. AUXIER – Auxier, Williamson 11775 Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume 8B – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 1886, p. 745. JAMES B. AUXIER is a native of Johnson County, Ky., and was born December 11, 1857. He is a son of Nathaniel and Hester Auxier, natives of Kentucky and Virginia, and reared to farming in Johnson County, Ky. He attended school until seventeen years of age, and then taught school one term. He then read law under his brother, A. J. Auxier, and at nineteen years of age was admitted to the bar, practiced to some extent, but did not go into full practice until twenty-three years of age. In 1886 he formed a co-partnership with Hibbard Williamson, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume. Mr. Auxier is a Republican.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking further information. 11774 WARREN CO – DR. GEORGE W. WHITE – White, Sherman, Wells, Bailey, Renick, Hayes, Drake, Gott 11774 Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume II – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886, p. 225 DR. GEORGE W. WHITE was born May 14, 1842, near Prewitt’s Knob, Barren Co., Ky., where he remained until five years of ago. In 1847 he removed with his parents to Warren County, where he has since resided, until 1870, about three miles from Oakland Station, and since that time at the Station. He was a member for some time of Company B, Eleventh Kentucky Infantry, with which he served first as private and later as orderly sergeant. He was for a portion of his time hospital steward. He was present at the battles of Shiloh, Stone River, the siege of Knoxville, and took part in Sherman’s march to the sea. His father, Thomas R. White, was also born in Barren County, October 20, 1817. He was a farmer, and for a number of years a devoted minister of the Gospel in the Christian Church. He was a son of Edmund White, who was born in Hanover County, Va. about 1791, and who was of Irish descent. Thomas R. White married, about 1840, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry and Mary (Wells) Bailey. From this union sprang George W., James H., Sarah F. (Renick), Luther, Nancy J. (Hayes), Ellen (Drake) and Mary W. (Gott). Dr. White began life as a farmer without any capital, and in 1865 commenced the study of medicine. In 1867 he entered the medical department of the University of Louisville, where he spent one year. In 1858-69 he practiced medicine, and the following year entered the Kentucky School of Medicine, from which he graduated in 1870, and immediately engaged in the practice of his profession at Polkville, Ky., where he has since continued with success. The Doctor is a member of the Christian Church, and in politics a Democrat.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking further information. 11773 ADAIR CO – JOHN A. CRAWLEY – Crawley, Vickers, Shaw, Cabbage 11773 History of Guthrie and Adair Counties, Iowa; Springfield, Ill: Continental Hist. Co., 1884. Cass Township John A. Crawley was born in Adair county, Kentucky, October 27, 1814. He removed from Kentucky in 1824, to Illinois, where he remained until he came to Iowa, which was in 1849. His father, Charles T., died in 1839, in Illinois, where he spent his last years. He was married in 1855 to Miss Rebecca Ann Vickers, a native of Illinois, by whom he had eighteen children, eight of whom are now living: Nancy Ann, Amanda Jane, Sarah S., Phoebe C., William H., Charles, J. D., George W., Martha R. He remained in Boone county until 1871, when he came to Guthrie county, locating on section 2, Cass township. He owns one hundred and twenty acres of ground, nearly all under cultivation, and raises a large stock of hogs, cattle, and horses. He was married to Mrs. Martha Shaw after his first wife died, and after her decease he married Mrs. Amelia Cabbage, a native of Kentucky.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking further information. 11772 CHRISTIAN CO – WILLIAM EDWARD RAGSDALE – Ragsdale, Collins 11772 County of Christian, Kentucky; Historical and Biographical. Edited by William Henry Perrin. F. A. Battey Publishing Co., Chicago and Louisville, 1884. Longview Precinct. WILLIAM EDWARD RAGSDALE is a son of William J. and Emily J. (Tillotson) Ragsdale, both natives of North Carolina, who after their marriage removed to Tennessee and settled in Montgomery County, on the line between that and Christian County, where they remained but a short time and removed to Stewart County, Ky [sic TN], and finally to Trigg County, where he died in 1853 and she in 1868. William J. Ragsdale was by trade a wheelwright, though he devoted his time and attention to farming and trading; he had a family of nine children, two of whom died in infancy; the remaining seven are all residents of this county, viz.” Elizabeth F., Lucy A., Mary H., James S., William E., Emily and Rebecca E. William E. Ragsdale was born July 31, 184i7; he commenced life as a farmer, and now in connection he is extensively engaged in trading, and doing one of the largest tobacco broker’s businesses in this section of the State; he has been a resident of Christian County since 1867, and though his office and tobacco business are carried on in Hopkinsville, he resides at his beautiful farm, “Woodlawn”, which contains 526 aces of good land, located on the Clarksville and Hopkinsville pike. On the 20th of November, 1866, he married Miss A. E. Collins, a native of Christian County, born in 1849. They have been blessed with five children.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking further information. 11771 McCRACKEN CO - W. P. ALLEN – Allen, Stanley 11771 Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume I – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 1885, p, 280. W. P. ALLEN, in 1833, came from near Petersburg, Va., to Kentucky, settling in McCracken County. Soon after removing to that county, he married Miss Lucinda Stanley, and they are still among the honored citizens of McCracken County, living in their old homestead, where they have passed a full half-century, the old gentleman still retaining much of his youthful vitality and actively superintending his farm. They have four living children, who are residents of their native county.

Special Note: As some of you know who are on my other lists; my postings will be sporadic. My 95 year old mother suffered a severe stroke last Thursday and is in critical condition. The outlook for her surviving for more than a very short time is very minimal. So, I am not going to be posting on a regular basis for some time. Thank you so much for your understanding. Sandi NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking further information. 11770 FULTON CO – J. M. ANDERSON – Anderson, Sherman, Porter, Johnston, Sherman, Browder, Griffith, Henry, Patterson 11770 Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume I – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 1885, pp. 181-182 J. M. ANDERSON, Fulton County, was born December 5, 1836, in Madison County, Tenn., and is the eldest of eight children of Joshua B. and Martha V. (Sherman) Anderson. The parents were natives of South Carolina and Alabama respectively, and of English and Scotch origin. The father’s parents, Jacob and Mary Anderson, moved to Williamson County, Tenn. in 1818. From there the father moved to Madison County, and thence to Haywood County, where he died in 1875, aged seventy-five years. J. M. Anderson, in 1858, began to work at the carpenter’s trade, and remained at the bench for three years. In 1861 he enlisted for twelve months in Company A, of the Sixth Tennessee Infantry, under Col. G. C. Porter. Among the battles in which he participated were Murfreesborough, Shiloh and Chickamauga. In May, 1862, he re-enlisted and was detailed as clerk in the quartermaster’s department and while serving there he ranked as captain, having first gone out as first lieutenant; he was later promoted to major. In 1865 he was paroled with the rest of Gen. Johnston’s army, on its surrender to Gen. Sherman. Returning home he followed the trade of carriage-maker, at Woodville, Tenn., until 1871. He then came to Fulton, where he engaged in the carpentering and undertaking business until 1883. He next began clerking in a dry goods store, and in February, 1884, became a partner in the firm of Browder & Anderson. H was married on December 5, 1868, to Miss Catherine C. Griffith, a daughter of Bennett and Elizabeth (Henry) Griffith. One child, Claudia, was born to this union. Mrs. Anderson died in July, 1874, and Mr. Anderson next married, on January 7, 1881, Miss Samuella Patterson, daughter of the Rev. Samuel G. Patterson. One son, James S., has been the result of this union. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He is a member of the Masonic and K. of H. fraternities and is at present a member of the Fulton Council.