NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11396 WARREN CO – URIAS RASDALL – Rasdall, Wright, Waters, Doughty, Van Buren 11396: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume II – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Warren Co. URIAS RASDALL, a wealthy and prominent citizen, and founder of Smiths Grove, was born March 15, 1812, in the east part of Warren County, and is the fourth of four sons and five daughters born of Robert and Elizabeth (Wright) Rasdall, who were both born in South Carolina, and were brought to Barren County, Ky., by their parents in an early day. Robert Rasdall was a soldier of 1812. When young he located in Warren County, where he succeeded in accumulating a fine property as a farmer. He was a son of William Rasdall, who was born and reared in South Carolina, and, about 1800, immigrated to Barren County, where he purchased and improved a farm. He was a soldier in the war for independence, and was of English origin. Robert Rasdall, the father of our subject, assisted in cutting out the first road where Glasgow now stands. The mother of our subject was the daughter of Jacob Wright, who was born and reared in South Carolina, and who married a Miss Waters. He died in South Carolina. His widow afterward immigrated to and settled in the west part of Barren County. Urias Rasdall was reared on a farm, and was educated in a country school. At twenty he purchased some land, on which he built and operated a grist-mill. He also dealt considerably in stock, which he shipped south. Afterward he engaged in mercantile business. In 1836 he purchased a wagon-load of knit woolen goods, and hauled them to Wisconsin and sold them for good prices in going from Galena to Madison. In 1863 Mr. Randall engaged in the mercantile business at Glasgow Junction. One year later he purchased the property where he now resides in Smith’s Grove, and continued the business of selling goods. He purchased the store and ground for $9,000, and laid out Smith’s Grove. At present he owns twenty acres of land and several good houses and lots in Smith’s Grove, and also owns his father’s old homestead of 100 acres. December 14, 1837, he was united in marriage to Rebecca Doughty, of Warren County, a daughter of Preston and Nancy (Wright) Dougherty, natives of Warren County. Preston Doughty was a substantial farmer and owner of several slaves, and was a son of Daniel Doughty, a farmer. Urias Rasdall and wife had born to them three children: Leander W., Lorenzo D. and Alvarado. The eldest is in business in Macon, Ga., and was in the Confederate Army. The two younger are in Smith’s Grove. The wife of our subject died September 29, 1852, a devoted member of the Baptist Church, of which Mr. Rasdall is also a member. Mr. Rasdall is a man of strong constitution, having never lost a day by sickness. In politics he is Democratic, and cast his first presidential vote for Martin Van Buren. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11395 UNKNOWN CO – ARA THOMAS – Thomas, Wheatley, Aldrich. 11395: History of the Cherokee Indians and Their Legends and Folk Lore, Emmet Starr, 1921, The Warden Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Ara, daughter of Goren and Eliza (Wheatley) Thomas was born in Kentucky, June 23, 1886 and educated in that State. Married at Muskogee, October 22, 1905 Augustus William, son of Ferdinand and Pauline Aldrich. They are the parents of John Harley, born November 10, 1906 and Roger Arthur Aldrich born August 2, 1909. Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich are members of the Apostolic church. Mr. Aldrich is a farmer, near Ketchum. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11394 BOYLE CO – BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SOPER – Soper, Bibb, Allin, Cravens, Dickerson 11394: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume V – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 4th ed., 1886. Boyle Co. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SOPER was born January 1, 1838 in Jessamine County, Ky., where he lived until October 1, 1882, when he removed to Boyle County. His father, James Soper, a native of Maryland, born in 1792, was a farmer and mechanic and died in 1861. He was the son of John Soper, of Maryland, who came to Kentucky about 1799. James married Elizabeth, daughter of Elijah Bibb of Jessamine County (born October 15, 1808, died August 11, 1870), and to them were born Nancy A. (Allin), William B., James R. subject, David M., John E., Oremandel T. and Amos B. On the 15th of October 1877, Benjamin F. Soper was married to Miss Louisa W., daughter of John and Paulina (Cravens) Dickerson, of Jessamine County (born March 7, 1843), and this union has been favored by the birth of Lewis Edgar, Nora Lee, Charlie Elbert, Frank Walden and Lorris. Enjoying but limited educational advantages himself, Mr. Soper is taking a decided interest in the education of his children. For sixteen years he was engaged with some success as a manufacturer and dealer in lumber. He is now engaged in farming, owning 210 acres of productive land, which, under his careful management, is in a fine state of cultivation. In religion he is a member of the Christian Church, and in politics a Democrat. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11393 ADAIR CO – WILLIAM WALLACE JONES – Jones, Gearhart, Lee, Thorp, Baker, Wheat, Garnett, Read 11393: History of Kentucky by Judge Charles Kerr, Editor, By William Elsey Connelley and E. M. Coulter, Ph. D., Department of History, University of Georgia. In Five Volumes, Volume V, The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York, 1922 William Wallace Jones. It is generally accepted as a truism that no man of genius or acknowledged ability can be justly or adequately judged while still in the heyday of life, chiefly because time is necessary to ripen the estimate upon work which can only be viewed on all sides in the calm atmosphere of a more or less remote period from its completion. This is in no way inappropriate to the life accomplishments of Judge William Wallace Jones, who has long occupied a conspicuous place in the history of Adair County. No man in the community has had warmer friends or is more generally esteemed. He is a man of refinementt and culture, deeply read, a leader of the- county bar, president of the Bank of Columbia, and one who has achieved success in his affairs. Judge Jones was born January 19, 1855, in Cumberland County, Kentucky, a son of Levi and Nancy Obedience (Gearhart) Jones. His great-grandfather, Charles Jones, was born in Wales, and as a young man immigrated to America and settled in Virginia. Shortly thereafter the colonies began their fight for independence, and Charles Jones joined the Patriot Army under the leadership of Patrick Henry in his first enlistment. Later he re-enlisted and was with the forces of General Lee. He married Fannie Thorpe, a native of Virginia, and shortly thereafter came to Adair County, Kentucky, as a pioneer, here spending the remainder of his life in the pursuits of agriculture. William Thorpe Jones, the son of Charles and Fannie Jones, was born in 1798, in Adair County, Kentucky, and as a young man went to Cumberland County, where he married Mary E. Baker, a native of that county. Mr. Jones farmed in Cumberland County for a few years and then moved to Casey County, where he spent the rest of his life as a tiller of the soil and died in 1868. Levi Jones, the father of Judge Jones, was born in 1835, in Cumberland County, where he was educated, reared and married and where he farmed for a few years. About 1859 he removed to Casey County, where he continued his agricultural operations during the remainder of his life and died at the age of forty years, in 1875. He was a Union sympathizer during the war between the states, but a democrat in his political allegiance. His religious faith was that of the Baptist Church, and as a fraternalist he belonged to the Masons. He married Nancy Obedience Gearhart, who was born in 1839, in Cumberland County, and died in Casey County in 19o7. They became the parents of five children, as follows: Maude, who died in infancy; William Wallace, of this notice; Mary E., who died at the age of eight years; C. C., who is engaged in agricultural pursuits in Casey County; and Quincy R.. a farmer of Glendale, Arizona. William Wallace Jones acquired his early education in the rural schools of Casey County, and in 1874, when not yet nineteen years of age, began teaching in the country districts of Casey County. During 1874 and 1875 he taught two free schools, following which he pursued a course at Columbia Male and Female School, Columbia. Next, at home, he finished a course of study equivalent to graduating from Center College, Danville, Kentucky. From that time to the present he has continued his studies and it is safe to say that Judge Jones is today one of the best-rounded scholars in the state. He reads Virgil, Tacitus and Ovid, is a thorough Latin and Greek scholar, and is well versed in both ancient and modern literature generally. In 1877 Judge Jones was admitted to the bar and at once engaged in practice, having since had a constantly increasing general civil and criminal practice at Columbia, where his offices are located in the Jones Building, a business structure owned by him on the southwest side of the Public Square. He is also the owner of a modern residence on Greensburg Street, one of the most desirable homes of Columbia. In politics a republican, Judge Jones has long been before the public, but rather in an official than a political capacity. W. W. Jones was elected judge of the Twenty-ninth Judicial District of Kentucky in 1892 and re-elected without opposition in 1897, serving until January 1, 19o4. He was nominated by the republican party as its candidate for judge of the Court of Appeal of Kentucky in 1898. His only fraternal connection is with Columbia Lodge No. 96, F. and A. M. While his profession and his public duties have engrossed a large part of his attention, Judge Jones has also been a leader in financial affairs in this section for a number of years, and has been president of the Bank of Columbia since 1905. In 1900 he assisted in the organization of the Bank of Jamestown, of which he was vice president and a member of the Board of Directors until 1914, at which time he was elected president. He resigned the presidency in 1918. In 1895 Judge Jones was one of the main factors in the organization of the Monticello Banking Company, of which he was vice president and a director until 19o5, at which time he disposed of his quarter interest in the bank and retired therefrom. During the World war he took an exceptionally active part in all local war activities. He was chairman of the Adair County Chapter of the American Red Cross all through the war period and retains that position at the present time. He was likewise chairman of the first two Liberty Bond drives in Adair County, and assisted in all the campaigns for all purposes, likewise buying bonds and contributing to the various organizations to the limit of his means. In addition he worked helpfully and unremittingly during the epidemic of the influenza. From the elevated plane of public service down through the fields of its usefulness to the community and into the privacy of his family circle the track of the life of Judge Jones has been characterized by a constant and consistent uprightness born of high principles. He married. at Columbia, Kentucky, in 1885, Miss Loulie Wheat, a daughter of Sinclair and Fannie (Garnett) Wheat, both deceased, Mr. Wheat having been a merchant and farmer at Columbia. Judge and Mrs. Jones have one daughter, Fannie, the wife of George R. Reed, an insurance man residing at the Jones' home on Greensburg Street. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11392 LOGAN CO – DR. WILLIAM ALFRED CLARK – Clark, Yancy, Neef, Brennelsen 11392: Centennial History of Missouri, One Hundred Years in the Union 1820-1921, Walter B. Stevens, 1921, S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, St. Louis, Chicago. It is seldom that one attains prominence along several lines, but Dr. William Alfred Clark of Jefferson City is regarded as one of the eminent surgeons of the state and in 1918 served as president of the Missouri state board of health, while in Masonic circles be has also been accorded a place of distinction and leadership, having been grand master of the order in Missouri in 1917 and 1918. He is numbered among Missouri's native sons, his birth having occurred in Clarksburg, Moniteau county, September 11, 1865. He was the eldest of ten children, four sons and six daughters. His ancestors were Scotch-Irish but when they migrated to America is not definitely known. The first authentic knowledge concerning their residence in this country is that they went to Kentucky from Guilford Court House, North Carolina, and in 1833, the grandfather of Dr. Clark left Logan county, Kentucky, and drove across the country in an ox wagon, settling in Moniteau county, Missouri. He took up his abode on the broad prairie where the village of Clarksburg now stands and the town was named in his honor. The doctor's father, George T. Clark, was born in Kentucky in 1830 and passed away about 1893. He lived most of his life In Clarksburg and married Mary B. Yancey, a descendant of Leighton Yancey, who migrated from Virginia to Missouri and was one of the pioneer settlers of Howard county, his farm being the location of the town of Roanoke. A number of the family still live in that locality, and others are near Armstrong and in that vicinity. The village of Clarksburg was built upon the old Clark farmstead, the residence being just at the edge of the town. It was upon that place that Dr. Clark of this review was reared to manhood, working on the farms in the summer months and attending school in the winter season until he was twenty years of age. When he was quite a boy a college was established there called Clarksburg College, and for a number of years it enjoyed a high reputation as an educational center. Dr. Clark attended school there and was graduated in 1888. During the last year of his college course he was also a tutor, teaching half of the day and studying the other half. He also taught three terms in country schools while completing his college course. Later Dr. Clark went to Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, where he passed the examination to the senior class of Waynesburg College, and then pursued a classical course and was graduated in 1889, at which time he won the salutatorian honors of the class. He later returned to Missouri and was elected principal of the public schools at Tipton, where he taught for five years. Afterward he entered the Washington University Medical School in St. Louis and was graduated in March, 1897. Having thus qualified for active professional duties he located for practice in Jefferson City, where he has remained continuously since, enjoying today the leading practice in the capital. He specializes In surgery and has taken much post-graduate work, keeping at all times in touch with the latest theories and advancement made in the profession. His sound judgment enables him to determine readily the real value of any advanced ideas, and his progressiveness prompts his utilization for every new and worth-while method. He is a member of the Cole County Medical Society, the Missouri Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the American Association of Railway Surgeons. He was also president of the Missouri state board of health for the years 1918-1919. In 1899 Dr. Clark was married to Miss Clara T. Neef, a daughter of Herman and Mary (Brennelsen) Neef. Her father was an early settler of Jefferson City, where he engaged in business as a hardware merchant. He was born in Alsace, France, but left his native country during the revolution of 1848. Dr. and Mrs. Clark have two daughters: Helen, who was born May 14, 1901, and is now attending the Academy of the Sacred Heart of St. Louis; and Mary Louise, who was born December 23, 1906. Dr. Clark is very active and prominent in Masonic circles. He has filled all of the chairs from the blue lodge up through the Knights Templar commandery, and he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of St. Louis he has crossed the sands of the desert. His high position in Masonic circles is indicated in the fact that in 1917 he was elected grand master of the state. Throughout his entire life he has made his activities count as a forceful factor in the accomplishment of well defined purposes, based upon conditions of society, upon public needs and upon office unity for the promotion of public welfare. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11391 CHRISTIAN CO – CINCINNATUS D. BELL – Bell, Davis, Bowcock, Short, Webber, Peay, Pendleton, Woodward 11391: County of Christian, Kentucky; Historical and Biographical. Edited by William Henry Perrin. F. A. Battey Publishing Co., Chicago and Louisville, 1884. Longview Precinct. CINCINNATUS D. BELL was born on August 16, 1833, at the old Davis place in Christian County, Ky., and was reared to manhood near Oak Grove, in the vicinity of which he still resides. He is a son of Dr. Joh F. and Kittie (Bowcock) Bell. The father was born in Orange County, Va., on July 15, 1797. He came to Kentucky in 1811, and first settled in Shelby County. In 1813 he moved to Trenton, Todd County, and in 1818 he came to Hopkinsville. Here he read medicine with Drs. Short and Webber until 1822, and then returned to Trenton and farmed and practiced until 1836. He then came to Oak Grove and practiced until his death, which occurred on May 6, 1878. The mother was a daughter of Douglas Bowcock, of Alabama, and to her were born the following children: Elizabeth M., John N., Darwin, Evelina M., Fannie B., Cincinnatus D. (our subject), and Kittie B. Her death occurred in 1837. Our subject was educated in the schools of his native county, and afterward attended the Georgetown (Ky.) College, from which institution he graduated in 1854. Soon after he turned his attention to farming, and has made that his occupation for life. He now owns about 385 acres of valuable land, which he successfully cultivates in wheat and tobacco. He also handles some stock. Mr. Bell was married on October 29 1857, to Miss Annie M. Peay, a daughter of Austin and Maria A. (Pendleton) Peay, of this county. To this lady were born four children, viz.: John P., Mary P., Douglas B. and Austin. In 1862 Mr. Bell entered Woodward’s Second Kentucky Cavalry, and served until the close of the war. Mr. Bell is a member of the Masonic and K. of H. fraternities of Hopkinsville, and is also a member of Salem Baptist Church. In politics he is a Democrat. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11390 MASON CO – DAVID GRAY – Gray 11390 The History of Methodism in Kentucky, by the Rev. H. H. Redford, D. D., Volume III, From the Conference of 1820 to the Conference of 1832. Southern Methodist Publishing House, Nashville, Tennessee, 1870, pp. 32-34. David Gray was appointed this year (1820s) to the Franklin Circuit, and the two years following to the Guyandotte; and died previous to the Conference of 1823. We find a brief memoir of this excellent young man in the General Minutes. Davie Gray was a native of New Jersey, born in 1791. He became, in early life, a professor of Christianity, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Some time after this, he emigrated to the western country, and united himself to the Methodist Society in Maysville. His life and conversation rendered him an acceptable member, and he was esteemed as a pattern of piety. Here he received license to exhort, and employed himself usefully, until 1819, when he entered the ministry as a local preacher. In 1820, he commenced traveling, and in the autumn of the same year he was received as a traveling preacher, and appointed to the Franklin Circuit. In 1821, he was reappointed to the Guyandotte, and in 1822, admitted to deacon’s orders, and reappointed to Guyandodtte Circuit, where he ended his days. His labors were acceptable and useful. He earnestly sought the glory of God and the salvation of souls. He sustained losses, bore crosses, and endured hardships, with great firmness and resignation. He studied much to know how he might be useful to the people, and to know nothing among them but Christ, and him crucified. He was fervent, energetic, and animating; and his piety and zeal often silenced his opposers, and commended him to their consciences in the sight of God. He as sometimes in perils, both on the land and in the water, and his exposures and labors served to hasten his dissolution. His disease was of an inflammatory kind, against which he bore up for awhile, unwilling to give up his labors. But such was the nature of his illness, that in December, 1822, he was confined to bed, where he lingered out his life in great bodily affliction. During his confinement he experiences the most severe pain, which attended him and increased upon him for several moths. This he endured with great patience, and found the grace of God in all things sufficient. His mind was filled with peace, and he often experienced such a flow of divine grace, that he praised God aloud. He closed his sufferings and life together, on the 21st day of May, 1823, and has gone to his reward. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx

NOTE: As you know, I’ve been posting from the Pike County, Missouri history book. Many Kentucky citizens moved to this county in the early years from Bourbon County KY. I am going to take about a week and clear out some of the Bourbon County biographies. NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11389 BOURBON CO – ESTES, ABEL G – Estes, Griffith, Stadley, Mulberry, Stuke 11389 Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883, p. 608. Abel G. Estes, farmer, Clarksville. This old gentleman is a native of Kentucky, and was born in Bourbon county, near Flat Rock, on the 14th day of August, 1815. When about twelve years of age he came with his parents to Missouri, in the fall of 1827. His father, Robert Estes, was by birth a Virginian, going to Kentucky in an early day, where he was married to Elizabeth Griffith, the daughter of Abel Griffith. Previous to this he had served as a soldier in the War of 1812. Robert Estes came to Missouri and settled in the timber on the waters of Little Calumet Creek near where the Burskin Church now stands; there he improved a farm, on which he continued to reside until his death. The mother died, December 26, 1877. The old couple raised a family of eleven children, who lived to be men and women grown, six boys and five girls, nine of whom still survive. Abel G., our subject was reared from boyhood on a farm, and had a common school education. When grown to manhood he began his career as a farmer, which has been his principal business for life. When a young man he spent a short time working in the cooper shops. Mr. Estes has been twice married, first to Elizabeth Stadley, a native of Pike county, Missouri, and daughter of John Stadley, Esq.; she died in July, 1863, leaving five children: Thomas J., Mary A., Robert M., and Olive A., twins, and Armilda E. J. Mr. Estes married for his second wife, in 1869, Mrs. Eunis Mulberry, a native of Kentucky. She had one daughter by her first husband, viz., Judith E., now Mrs. Henry Stuke. Mr. E.’s farm contains a landed estate of 270 acres of well improved land. He has a fine two-story brick house erected in the year 1867. Mr. and Mrs. Estes are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx

NOTE: As you know, I’ve been posting from the Pike County, Missouri history book. Many Kentucky citizens moved to this county in the early years from Bourbon County KY. I am going to take about a week and clear out some of the Bourbon County biographies. NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11388 BOURBON CO – MORDECAI ADAMS – Adams, Mulherren, McCue 11388 Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883, p. 604. Mordecai Adams (deceased) was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, October 15, 1797, where he was reared and educated. In 1817 he came to Pike county, Missouri, where he settled on a farm in Calumet township and continued to reside until his death. He was married in Bourbon county to Miss Sarah Mulherren of that county; by this union were eight children, of whom five still survive: Thomas, Elizabeth, Benjamin F., Mordecai M., and Sarah A. Mr. Amos was a self-made man and by close attention to his farming pursuits he accumulated a large property, sufficient to leave his children all a good home. He and his wife were formerly members of the M. E. Church, but in 1848 he withdrew and united with the Christian Church, with which he was identified until his death, which occurred August 25, 1879. His first wife died May 14, 1849; he was again married in 1858 to Miss Tempie McCue, who died August 20, 1864. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx

NOTE: As you know, I’ve been posting from the Pike County, Missouri history book. Many Kentucky citizens moved to this county in the early years from Bourbon County KY. I am going to take about a week and clear out some of the Bourbon County biographies. NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11387 BOURBON CO – WILLIAM D. CUMMINS – Cummins, Meloan, Stewart 11387 Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883, p. 607. Bourbon Co. William D. Cummins, post office, Paynesville; farmer and stock-raiser; was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, October 29, 1829, and immigrated to Missouri in the winter of 1853, settling and engaging in the mercantile business at Clarksville. He was married, July, 1855, to Miss Bettie Meloan of this county. By this union they have one child, Catharine. Mr. Cummins lost his wife May 6, 1862. He was again married July 28, 1863, to Miss Martha A. Stewart, of Lincoln county. By this union they have four children, three daughters and one son: Fannie M., Bettie K., Lucy L., and Benjamin F. Mr. C. moved to his present farm in 1862. It contains 260 acres of fine land, under a high state of cultivation. He takes great interest in all public enterprises; has been justice of the peace for many years. He and his wife are members of the Christian Church. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx

11136 MORGAN CO – JOHN DRAKE GLASS – Glass, Goad 11386 History of the Cherokee Indians and Their Legends and Folk Lore, Emmet Starr, 1921, The Warden Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma John Drake, Son of John and Samantha Glass was born June 16, 1891. Educated in the Cherokee Public Schools and Male Seminary. Married at Grove, Okla., 1910, Pearl I. daughter of George Washington and Fanny Goad, born Sept. 20, 1892 in Morgan County. Kentucky. They are the parents of John Kenneth Glass, born Sept. 9, 1911. Mr. and Mrs. Glass are farmers and school teachers. He belongs to the Wolf Clan. John K Source: Biographies of the Cherokee Indians KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11385 FRANKLIN CO – HORD HARDIN – Hardin, Hord, Graham, Long, Van Trump, Crow, Wilson 11385 Centennial History of Missouri, One Hundred Years in the Union 1820-1921, Walter B. Stevens, 1921, S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, St. Louis, Chicago. Hord Hardin is connected with one of the strongest financial concerns of the middle west, being the vice president of the Mississippi Valley Trust Company. Mere success has never throughout the history of the world, save in a few rare instances, been the cause of any individual being remembered by his fellows and never has the mere accumulation of wealth gained any man honor. The methods employed in the attainment of wealth, however, may awaken approval and admiration, for the world pays its tribute to him who through enterprise, unrelaxing effort and clear-sighted judgment makes advancement in the business world without infringing on the rights of others. Such has been the record of Hord Hardin, who has wisely used the opportunities that have been presented, who has thoroughly acquainted himself with the tasks in hand and with modern business methods and has displayed marked adaptability in using his powers and his opportunities for the upbuilding of the business. In order to further equip himself for the demands of present-day business conditions he attended night school. His more advanced education was acquired in St. Louis, while his early studies were pursued in the public schools of Frankfort, Kentucky, in which city he was born April 10, 1888. His father, David C. Hardin, was also a native of that state and was a lawyer by profession, practicing for many years in Bardstown, save for the period of his service with the Confederate forces in the Civil war. He married Hannah Hord, a representative of an old American family connected with Virginia and Kentucky. They became the parents of two sons and three daughters: Bessie, the wife of Bernard G. Graham, now living at Frankfort, Kentucky; Hannah, the wife of Oliver W. Long, also of Frankfort; Flora, the wife of Gardner L. Van Trump, a resident of Wilmington, Delaware; William O., who married Aline Crow; and Hord of this review, who is the youngest. The last named acquired a grammar school education in his native city and continued his studies in St. Louis, where for three years he was a student in the St. Louis University, attending the School of Commerce and Finance, from which he was graduated in June, 1917. He pursued this course at night, while in the daytime he was employed by the Mississippi Valley Trust Company. He became identified with the corporation at the age of fifteen years in the humble position of office boy but gradually fitted himself by experience and study for the position of stenographer and was afterward promoted to the position of secretary to the president of the bank. He worked into the position of assistant executive officer when on the 19th of February, 1919, he was elected vice president of the corporation and is now filling that office. His duties cover general banking and he is now contributing in substantial measure not only to the growth of the business but to the development of the city, for every successful business enterprise constitutes a force in municipal progress. Mr. Hardin is also a director of the San Antonio Water Supply Company, having filled the position from 1914 to the present time. During the war period he gave considerable time to the advancement of the Liberty loan and was a generous contributor to all the various war activities. Mr. Hardin was married in St. Louis, June 18, 1910, to Miss Edith Wilson, daughter of Ernest Wilson, who was born in London, England, and is now a resident of St. Louis, where he is engaged in the plumbing contracting business. To Mr. and Mrs. Hardin have been born two sons, Hord Wilson and William Graham, aged respectively eight and six years and both now pupils in the Clark school. Politically Mr. Hardin is a democrat, stalwart in support of the party principles. In religious faith he is a Presbyterian, belonging to the Westminster church of St. Louis. He is a member of the Racquet Club, the Missouri Athletic Association, the Triple A Tennis Club and the Sunset Hill Country Club, and that his interests and activities extend to those things which feature in the city's progress and development is manifest in his connection with the Chamber of Commerce. His cooperation can at all times be counted upon to further measures and plans for the general good and he stands as a most public-spirited citizen as well as one of the leading financiers of St. Louis. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11384 HENDERSON CO – REV. WILLIAM HATCHETT – Hatchett, Dorris 11384 A HISTORY OF KENTUCKY BAPTISTS from 1769 to 1885 by J. H. Spencer, Vol. II, 1886. Henderson Co. WILLIAM HATCHETT was in the constitution of Little Bethel Association. He was a native of Virginia, and began his ministry in Lunenburg county, in that State. He was licensed to preach, in 1817, and ordained, in 1821. In 1828, he emigrated to Kentucky and settled in Henderson county. The next year, he succeeded John Dorris in the pastoral care of Grave Creek Church. In this position he continued about 30 years, although he had the aid of an assistant pastor, a number of years before his death. In 1835, he withdrew from Highland Association, with his church, the following year, entered into the constitution of Little Bethel association. He was a man of meek and gentle spirit, was greatly beloved by his people, and was a good plain, gospel preacher. He was called to his reward, in 186 KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11383 JEFFERSON CO – JOHN STITES – Stites, Hunt, Chenoweth, Gill, Grant, Batterson, Hannah, Karraker, Bodley 11383 History of Kentucky, The Blue Grass State. Volume III Illustrated. The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago – Louisville, 1928. JOHN STITES [photograph]. John Stites, Louisville capitalist, is well known in financial circles as president of the Louisville Trust Company, with which he has been identified in an official capacity during the past fifteen years. A native of Christian county, Kentucky, he was born on the 9th of October, 1850, the son of John and Elizabeth (Hunt) Stites. He prepared for a professional career as a law student in the University of Louisville, where he was thereafter successfully engaged in practice from 1873 until 1887, or for a period of fourteen years. It was on the 1st of August, 1887, that he became a factor in financial affairs as vice president of the Fidelity Trust Company, of which he was subsequently elected president, remaining the executive head of the institution until chosen chairman of the board of directors, in which capacity he continued until January 7, 1911. In that year he assumed the vice presidency of the Louisville Trust Company, with which he has been continuously connected to the present time and of which he has been at the head since May, 1913. The steady growth and success of the institution is largely attributable to his wise control and his thorough understanding of every phase of the banking business. Mr. Stites is also the president of the Eastern Park Land Company and the La Grange Land Company, ad interim president of the Kentucky and Louisville Mutual Fire Insurance Company and a director of the Louisville Railway Company, the Louisville Interurban Railway Company, the Proctor Coal Company, the Bourbon Stock Yard Company, and the National Bank of Kentucky. On the 4th of October, 1877, Mr. Stites was united in marriage to Mildred Ann Chenoweth, of Louisville. Their home is at 1439 St. James court, Louisville. Mr. and Mrs. Stites observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary on October 4, 1927. Their family is as follows: Helen married John G. Gill and is the mother of three children, Mildred Ann, John G. (III) and Susy Barret; Mildred Stites Grant has a son and daughter, Elizabeth Lee and John Stites; John Hunt, a real estate dealer of Louisville, married Louise P. Batterson and has a son and two daughters, Sarah Parkhill, John Junt Stites, Jr., and Louie P.; Elizabeth is now Mrs. William M. Hannah and has two sons and two daughters, Frances C., William M. Jr., Nancy S., and Walter L.; Francis Bell is associated with the Laib Company; Ann Lenox is the wife of Dr. C. W. Karraker and the mother of a son and daughter; C. W. Jr., and Ann S.; James Walker married Edith Bodley, a daughter of Temple Bodley and has one son, James Walker Stites, Jr. Politically Mr. Stites is a gold democrat and he has membership in the Civic League. He also belongs to the Pendennis and Conversation Clubs of Louisville. He is a director and treasurer of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of Kentucky and the Presbyterian Committee for Relief and Education. For a period of three years, from 1908 to 1911, he served as president of the International Sunday School Association. The subjective and objective forces of life in him are well balanced, making him cognizant of his own capabilities and powers, while at the same time he thoroughly understands his opportunities and his obligations. To make his native talents subserve the demands which conditions of society impose at the present time is the purpose of his life, and by reason of the mature judgment which characterizes his efforts at all times, he stands today as a splendid representative of the prominent financier and worthy citizen to whom business is but one phase of life and does not exclude his active participation in and support of the other vital interests which go to make up human existence. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11382 CHRISTIAN CO – JOHN T. BATTS – Batts, Burns, Stultz, Dunn, Long, Cooley, Davis, Anderson, Carlew, Daughborn, Adams, Hood 11382 County of Christian, Kentucky; Historical and Biographical. Edited by William Henry Perrin. F. A. Battey Publishing Co., Chicago and Louisville, 1884. Longview Precinct. JOHN T. BATTS was born on April 27, 1832, in Robertson County, Tenn., and is a son of Jeremiah and Mary A. (Burns) Batts. The father was born in Edgecombe County, N. C., and was a son of Jeremiah Batts, Sr., who was also a native of North Carolina. The latter came to Tennessee and settled in Robertson County when Jeremiah, Jr., was but an infant. In that county the grandfather died, in 1858, at the age of eighty-four. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was highly respected among the people of that county, where Jeremiah, Jr., is still living. The mother was a daughter of James Burns, who was also a native of Robertson County. This lady was born in 1810, and died in 1867. To her were born the following children: Mahala L. (Stultz and Dunn), John T., Lucinda A. (Long), Martha W. (Cooley), Mary E. (Davis), Jeremiah, Emily F. (Anderson), Sallie A. (Carlew), Henry C. and Boscomb. John T. Batts remained in his native county until he reached manhood, and then came to this county. He moved on to his present place in 1878, and now owns about 100 acres of highly cultivated land. Mr. Batts was married on September 13, 1836, to Miss Virginia Daughborn, of Robertson County, Tenn. To her was born was child – Joseph W., - and her death occurred in 1870. Our subject married, on October 23, 1870, Miss Mary J. Adams, a daughter of George F. Adams, who was born in Enniskillen, Ireland, in 1802, and is now living in Montgomery County, Tenn. Mrs. Batts was born in Logan County, Ky., on December 4, 1845, and is the mother of three children, viz.: Alva C., George F. and Mary A. Mr. Batts was a soldier in the late war, and fought under Gen. Hood. He is a Mason, also a member of the K. of H. fraternity, and is connected with the Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church. He gives his support to the Democratic party. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11381 JAMES SIDNEY ROLLINS – Madison Co. – Rollins, Rodes, Gentry, Bogy, Miller, Sates, Gamble, Clay, King, Polk, Stewart, Bell, Everett, Henderson, Douglas, Johnson, Krekel, Woodson, Wyman, Marmaduke, Hickman, Hockaday, Overall, Gray 11381 Centennial History of Missouri, One Hundred Years in the Union 1820-1921, Walter B. Stevens, 1921, S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, St. Louis, Chicago. Madison Co. James Sidney Rollins, lawyer and statesman, distinguished for extraordinary public services, was born April 19, 1812, at Richmond, Kentucky, and died at Columbia, Missouri, January 9, 1888, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. His parents were Anthony Wayne and Sallie Harris (Rodes) Rollins. The father was a native of Pennsylvania, a graduate of Jefferson College in that state and an eminent physician. He was a son of Henry Rollins, who was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, emigrated to America during the Revolutionary war, enlisted in the Continental army and fought in the battle of Brandywine. The mother, a lady of refinement and beautiful character, was a native of Madison county, Kentucky. James Sidney Rollins was educated in Washington College of Pennsylvania and in the University of Indiana at Bloomington, being graduated from the latter institution in 1830 with the highest honors and as valedictorian of his class. His parents having removed to Boone county, Missouri, he followed them after his graduation, taking charge of the large farm upon which they had located. During the same time he read law under the instruction of Judge Abiel Leonard of Fayette. During the Black Hawk war, in 1832, he acted as aide-de-camp on the staff of Major General Richard Gentry and was actively engaged for six months on the Des Moines river, deriving from this service the title of major. He then entered the law department of Transylvania University at Lexington, Kentucky, from which he was graduated in 1834. Among his classmates were Lewis V. Bogy and John C. Miller, both of Missouri, who subsequently served in congress, the former as a senator and the latter as a representative. He then returned to Columbia, Missouri, and entered upon a law practice which was successful and gained him distinction from the outset. In 1836 he was leading counsel for Conway, a negro indicted for the murder of Israel Grant. His defense was masterly and his plea before the jury was a gem of eloquence, exciting the admiration of the bar of the state. For some years, without abatement of effort in his professional work, he was associated with his law partner, Thomas Miller, in the ownership and management of the Columbia Patriot, a whig newspaper. In 1836 he was a member of the first railroad convention held in the state, at St. Louis, and as chairman of a committee in which his colleagues were Ed Sates and Hamilton R. Gamble, he drafted the memorial to congress praying for a land grant in aid of construction. This marked the beginning of a life of great usefulness. In impulse and thought, the public well-being was his greatest desire, and the people whom he sought to serve, recognizing his sincerity and ability, afforded him their confidence and support. In 1838, at the age of twenty-six years, he was elected to the legislature. To this time that body had failed to locate and establish a state university, as contemplated in the act of congress making a land grant for that purpose nearly twenty years previous. Moved by a desire to advance the cause of education and hoping to benefit his own county, he introduced and secured the passage of a bill for location in that one of six central counties named which would provide the largest building fund and afford the greatest advantages. He now devoted his effort to win the prize for his own county of Boone and for months he did little else than address the people upon the subject. A wonderful interest was created and a popular subscription of one hundred and seventeen thousand, nine hundred dollars was made, including a liberal contribution of his own. This sum, and his able presentation of its material advantages, made Columbia the university seat. He was returned to the legislature in 1840 and in 1846 was elected state senator, in both positions devoting his energies untiringly to the development of the state through railway building and river improvement. He was also the leading advocate for the establishment of the insane asylum at Fulton. In 1844 he was a delegate to the national whig convention and went before the people in support of Henry Clay for the presidency. In 1848 he was unanimously chosen as the whig candidate for governor and made a vigorous canvass, receiving the largest vote ever cast for a candidate of that party, but was defeated by Austin A. King, the democratic nominee. In 1854 he was again elected to the legislature, where he opposed slavery extension. In 1857 he was again the whig candidate for governor to fill the unexpired term of Governor Trusten Polk, elected United States senator, and was defeated by Robert M. Stewart. The majority against him was but three hundred and thirty-four and many maintained that an impartial count would have shown his election. In 1860 he was elected to congress on the Bell and Everett ticket, defeating John B. Henderson on the Douglas and Johnson ticket. Both candidates engaged actively in the canvass and an unusually large vote was polled. He was reelected in 1862, defeating Krekel, republican, by four thousand, nine hundred and three majority. During his congressional service he displayed practical wisdom in his methods and at times thrilled his hearers with the brilliancy of his oratorical powers. During his first term he served on the committees on commerce and on expenditures in the war department, and during the second term on the committee on naval affairs. He was a stanch Unionist and gave hearty and efficient support to every measure for the suppression of the rebellion. He introduced a bill for railroad and telegraph construction from the Missouri river to the Pacific coast, under which, with added amendments, the Union Pacific, Central Pacific and Kansas Pacific railways were built. Upon the passage of the bill providing for agricultural colleges in the various states, through donations of public lands, he received from Senator Morrill, its author, a letter acknowledging that but for his intelligent and able support it would have been defeated in the house. Under the provisions of this measure Missouri received three hundred and thirty thousand acres and founded the agricultural college at Columbia. He also advocated in an able and eloquent speech, which was widely published, the thirteenth amendment to the constitution, abolishing slavery, although at the time he was probably the largest slave owner in his district. In 1864 he declined candidacy for reelection to give his attention to long neglected business interests. In 1866 he was again elected to the legislature, receiving nearly the total vote cast. In this session his prominence as a leader devolved upon him much labor and grave responsibility in formulating and securing the enactment of measures necessitated by the changed conditions consequent upon the abolition of slavery and the abnormal status of a great class which had borne arms against the government. He was deeply interested in perfecting the common school system and in the restoration of the university, which had suffered severely during the war. He introduced and brought to passage the bills for rebuilding the president's house, destroyed by fire, and to establish a normal department of the university, the latter being stoutly opposed. In 1868 he was again elected to the senate, much against his desire and personal interest. In this session he introduced and secured the passage of the bill establishing an agricultural and mechanical college in connection with the university and advocated and aided in the passage of the bills establishing normal schools at Kirksville and Warrensburg, providing for aid to Lincoln Institute and establishing the insane asylum at St. Joseph. In 1872 he was presented to the democratic state convention for the nomination for governor. On the first ballot he received a larger vote than any competitor, but in the end a compromise candidate, Silas Woodson, was chosen. Major Rollins had been unable to take part in the canvass before the people owing to the long continued illness of a daughter, who afterward died. This marks the close of his political life, in which he might have continued had he been so inclined. He maintained interest, however, in the local concerns of his county and city, rail, plank and turnpike roads, improved streets, electric lights, waterworks, banks, churches and schools, some of which he had projected and all aided with effort and means. In the years which followed frequent evidences came to him of the high esteem in which he was held by those who knew most of his life work. In May, 1872, at a meeting of the board of curators of the University of Missouri, a resolution was unanimously adopted, declaring that James S. Rollins "has won the honorable title of Pater Universitatis Missouriensis and that the thanks of this board are hereby tendered to him for his great efforts to promote the prosperity, usefulness and success of this institution." The adoption of the resolution was moved by Professor Edward Wyman, of St. Louis, and addresses in line with its sentiment were made by members of the board and others. The title bestowed upon Major Rollins was merited. Reduced to money value, the sums he had secured from individuals and through legislation for the university, including six scholarships endowed by himself, have amounted to five hundred and eight thousand two hundred and sixty-one dollars and bring an annual interest return of over sixty thousand dollars. In addition to this he was the author of legislation which insure the permanency and inviolability of this and other funds, amounting in aggregate to nearly one million five hundred thousand dollars. April 19, 1886, his seventy-fourth birthday anniversary, he resigned his position as a member of the board of curator of which body he had been president for nearly a quarter of a century, and in his letter of acceptance Governor John S. Marmaduke wrote: "It is a matter of history that to you, more than to anyone else, is due its (the University of Missouri) foundation, its location, its organization and its growth and advance to its present position of extended usefulness; and its perpetuity, already assured, will transmit your name through the histories of countless future ages." He was a member of the Presbyterian church, active and generous in all its works. He was married June 6, 1837, to Miss Mary E. Hickman, of Columbia, who yet survives with the following of their children: Laura R., the wife of Irvine O. Hockaday; Captain James H.; Mrs. John H. Overall, of St. Louis; George Bingham; Curtis Burnam; Florence, the widow of the Rev. Joseph R. Gray; and Edward Tutt. A son, James Hickman, of the United States army, died February 5, 1898, at the Southern Hotel in St. Louis, where he was temporarily stopping for medical treatment. Major Rollins was tall in stature, lithe of form and courteous and pleasing in address. He was cultured and highly educated, ready with fact and argument, yet without assumption of superiority. As an orator he was impressive and eloquent, his voice was musical, his gestures graceful, and withal so natural that art was not to be imputed. As a legislator for state and nation, he was honest and incorruptible; his love for his country and devotion to its highest interests was devoted, even passionate. His conception and conduct of public affairs marked him as a profound and sagacious statesman. In his personal life he was of kindly disposition, more ready to commend than to condemn; compassionate and tender-hearted, his benevolences were many, liberal and unostentatious. He was in all relations a model Christian gentleman. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11380 MADISON CO – HENRY CRAIG MORRISON – Morrison, McKittrick, Hargadine, Sparks 11380 Centennial History of Missouri, One Hundred Years in the Union 1820-1921, Walter B. Stevens, 1921, S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, St. Louis, Chicago. Henry Craig Morrison, secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Morrison Lee Mining & Development Company, president of the Contract Waterproofing Company and also secretary of the Arkansas Mining & Mercantile Company, has won a most creditable position in business circles in St. Louis, his native city. He was born July 22, 1888, and is a son of John W. Morrison of St. Louis, whose birth occurred in Georgetown, Kentucky, and who comes of an old family of English lineage. The first representatives of the name landed at Plymouth during the early colonization of Massachusetts, and for a century the. family was represented in Kentucky before John W. Morrison became a resident of St. Louis. Here he entered prominently into the business life of the city as a member of the dry goods firm of Hargardine McKittrick & Company. He wedded Mary Elizabeth Sparks, who was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and is a daughter of Mitchell Sparks, who belonged to one of the old families of Arkansas that settled at Fort Smith prior to the Civil war. Mrs. Morrison is still a resident of St. Louis. In the schools of his native city Henry Craig Morrison pursued his education until he had completed a course in the Central high school and later he attended the Rolla School of Mines, from which he was graduated in 1913 with the degree of Mining Engineer. He then started out on his business career as engineer with the Sandusky Portland Cement Company and after a period spent in Chicago was stationed in St. Louis, representing that company until 1917, when he established business on his own account, organizing the Contract Waterproofing Company. They do engineering and contract work of a most important character and their business has steadily developed. Mr. Morrison is also the general manager of the Morrison-Lee Mining & Development Company and both corporations have offices in the Railway Exchange building. In the former connection Mr. Morrison's specialty is construction waterproofing and a list of his big contracts would be o€ such length as to preclude mention in a work of this character. Among the many notable contracts accorded him, however, were those for the building of the basements and lower portions of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway depot at Chicago, in which city he also did the work on the office building of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, and the Boyce building on Dearborn street. He also received the contract for the concrete work for the Missouri state penitentiary at Jefferson City, Missouri, for St. John's Hospital, the Boatmen's Bank building, the Arcade building, the city jail, the Valhalla Mausoleum and the Anheuser-Busch reservoir at St. Louis. He has developed his powers and ability to the highest point of efficiency and skill, his work of this character bringing him deserved eminence and success. He is also promoting business interests of importance as general manager of the Morrison Lee Mining & Development Company and through his connection with the Arkansas Mining & Mercantile Company. On the 12th of March, 1916, Mr. Morrison was married in Louisville, Kentucky, to Miss Medora Sparks, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, a daughter of George T. Sparks, the president of the First National Bank of Fort Smith. Mr. Morrison is a democrat in his political views but maintains largely an independent policy, voting without regard to party ties if his judgment so dictates. A Presbyterian in religious faith he has membership in the Westminster church of St. Louis. He belongs also to the Automobile Club, to the Missouri Athletic Association and to the Chamber of Commerce and is keenly interested in all that has to do with the progress and welfare of the city, supporting all interests of civic value and worth. He gains his recreation largely from motoring and greatly enjoys making extended tours in this way. His has been, however, a busy and active life and his high efficiency and usefulness in the line of his chosen profession have brought him prominently to the front. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11379 MUHLENBERG CO – PAUL RAYMOND CUNNINGHAM, D.D.S – Cunningham, Carr, Crute, Gresham, Tidwell, Baker, Mitchell, Pool, Wimbly, Wallace, Civils, Adams, Piercy 11379 History of Kentucky, The Blue Grass State. Volume III Illustrated. The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago – Louisville, 1928 Dr. Paul Raymond Cunningham, a prominent member of the dental fraternity of Muhlenberg county, is practicing in Central City and represents the fourth generation of the family in Kentucky. His great-grandfather, William Cunningham, was born in Bonnie, Scotland, a coast town, in 1765, and was the youngest of three children. His brother died in early life and his sister came to the United States soon after her marriage, settling on the James River in Albemarle county, Virginia, in 1780. William Cunningham received a common school education and learned the tailor’s trade under the direction of his father. According to the laws of his country he as obliged to spend at least two years in the regular army and in order to avoid military service he left home. With the assistance of his maternal uncle, a sailor, he stowed himself away on a sailing vessel bound for America and remained hidden until the ship was in mid-ocean. After a six months’ voyage the boat reached Chesapeake bay and was anchored in the harbor at Norfolk, Virginia. Obtaining permission to go ashore, Mr. Cunningham traversed the city and managed to elude his uncle, for a seafaring life was thoroughly distasteful to him. Proceeding to Albemarle county, he joined his sister, with whom he made his home for a number of years, and from 1792 until 1794, during the whiskey rebellion in Pennsylvania, was a solder in the United States Army. After the expiration of his term of service he returned to his sister’s home and resumed his former occupation. In 1795 William Cunningham was married in Albemarle county to Miss Nancy Carr, daughter of a wealthy planter and for a time they lived on a small farm in the county. In the spring of 1818 Mr. Cunningham migrated to western Kentucky and with the assistance of one of his sons and a negro slave built a house and stable on his property in Trigg county, also raising a crop of corn. In the fall of 1818 he again journeyed to Virginia, disposed of his land in that state, and brought his family to the new home in Kentucky. He erected a mill on the present site of Trigg Furnace, cleared his farm and prepared the land for cultivation of corn and tobacco. He was one of the pioneer horticulturists of that locality, bringing his trees from Virginia, and became the owner of a large orchard which bore fruit for nearly a hundred years. Through hard work and good management he developed a highly productive plantation, which is now known as the John Crute farm. Mr. Cunningham also found time for public affairs and was an officer at the first election ever held in Trigg county, formerly a part of Christian county. He figured conspicuously in events which shaped its early history, becoming a member of the third session of the circuit court in 1820, and was appointed by the judge as road commissioner, in which connection he opened up the public highways in the western part of the county. Although not a medical practitioner he was successful in his efforts to combat disease and his skill was much in demand. He was long a leader of progress in his district and served the community to the best of his ability until his death in 1823, at the age of fifty-eight years. His wife was born in 1770 and passed away in 1833. She had reached the sixty-third milestone on life’s journey and was laid to rest in the Trigg Furnace cemetery beside her husband. In their family were twelve children. John, the eldest, who was born in 1796 and died in 1854, married Polly Gresham, who was born in 1799 and died in 1870. They had eight children: William, Jasper, Betsy, John, Mary, Belle, Eddie and Helen. Gideon was born in 1798 and died in 1865, while his wife, Harriet Tidwell, was born in 1800 and died in 1860. They were the parents of five children: Andrew, Michins, Jack, Nicholas and Beadie. Thomas, who was born in 1799 and died in 1870, married Malinda Baker, who was born in 1802 and died in 1870. Their family numbered eight children: William, Thomas, Fream, Frances, Blake, Caroline, Adliza and Alexander. William was born in 1800 and died in 1878. His wife, Jennie Mitchell, was born in 1811 and died in 1875, and they had nine children: Nancy, Andrew, David, Thomas, Mickins, Alexander, Eliza, John and Dabney. Andrew, who was born in 1804 and died in 1879, married Nancy Pool, who was born in 1806 and died in 1886, and they were the parents of six children: Morgan, Green, Bruce, Mary, Eliza and Josie. Dabney was born in 1806 and died in 1866. Mickins was the next of the family. His sister, Mrs. Rebecca (Cunningham) Wimbly, who was born in 1809 and died in 1869, was the mother of eight children: James, Jack King, Clint, Vertura, Emmie, Sarah, Mat and Alice. James, who was born in 1810 and died in 1888, married Sarah Wimbly, who was born in 1815 and died in 1882 and they had ten children: John, Perry, Penelope, Polly, Helen, Malissa, Victoria, Sallie, Nannie and Bettie. Alexander was born in 1813 and died in 1882, while his wife, Cynthia Wallace, was born in 1816 and died in 1887 and they were the parents of eight children: Alexander, Zachariah, Axom, Lida, Malissa, Kate, Malinda and Duncan. Robert, who was born in 1816 and died in 1884, married Mary Civils, who was born in 1818 and died in 1890 and they had a family of eleven children: Leander, William, James, Robert, Mack, Rufus, Washington, Elizabeth, Eudorda, Aurora and Signora. Nancy was born in 1818 and died in 1830. Mikins Cunningham, the seventh child of William and Nancy Cunningham, was born in 1808 and died in 1888. He followed the occupation of farming, was a life-long resident of Trigg county, was an adherent of the democratic party and a Baptist in religious faith. He wedded Betsy Civils, who was born in 1811 and died in 1899. They were the parents of ten children: Robert, Arnold, James, Warren C., Ruth, Eliza, Zurea, Kittie, Bettie and Tishie. Their son, Warren C. Cunningham, father of Dr. Cunningham, was born in Trigg county and studied dentistry under a preceptor. He acquired marked skill in the profession, which he followed during the later part of his life in Cadiz, Kentucky, in partnership with his son, Dr. H. G. Cunningham, who is now practicing in Bristol, Tennessee. The father remained in Cadiz until his demise and was a faithful member of the Baptist church, while in politics he was a democrat. The mother, Julia (Adams) Cunningham, was born in Trigg county and still resides in Cadiz. Her parents were Clay and Sarah Adams, of whom the latter was born in Trigg county and resides on the homestead near Cadiz. Mr. Adams was a native of the Blue Grass state and served in the Civil War. He was a Baptist in religious faith and his life was devoted to agricultural pursuits. Dr. Paul R. Cunningham has four half-brothers and one half-sister, namely: Jewell, who operates a farm in Trigg county; Herbert G., a prominent dentist of Bristol, Tennessee; Fenton, who is a printer and lives in Asheville, North Carolina; Mark C., an accountant, with the Illinois Central Railroad, who resides in Chicago, Illinois; and Mrs. Bentley Piercy, of Cadiz, Kentucky. Dr. Paul R. Cunningham was born October 20, 1901, in Trigg county, and received his early education in Cadiz. He completed a course in the Hopkinsville high school and in 1924 was graduated from the University of Louisville with the degree of D. D. S. He served for a year as an interne of the City Hospital in Louisville and then came to Central City. He is located in the building of the United Mine Workers of America and his office is equipped with the most modern appliances used in dental surgery. He has a natural talent for the profession and the rapid growth of his practice testifies to the confidence reposed in his ability. Dr. Cunningham is a member of the Delta Sigma Delta dental fraternity and acts as scribe of the Kentucky branch of the organization. He is a member of the State, Western Central and American Dental Associations and keeps in close touch with the progress that is constantly being made by his profession. He belongs to the Central City Board of Trade and champions every project for the good of his community. He is a Mason, belonging to the Cadiz Lodge, No. 121, F. & A. M.; Central City Chapter, o. 147, R. A> M.; Central City Commandery, No. 41, K. T.; and Rizpah Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Madisonville. He is affiliated with the Baptist church and his political views are in accord with the tenets of the democratic party. Dr. Cunningham is a young man of serious purpose, keen intelligence and pleasing personality and the respect accorded him is well deserved. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11378 ANDERSON CO – WILLIAM SAFFELL – Saffell, Lincoln, Ogle 11378 Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883. pp. 982. Anderson Co KY. William Saffell, Spencerburg, was born in Anderson county, Kentucky, December 4, 1842. When he was about ten years old his parents immigrated to Ralls county, Missouri, where he lived until 1854. His father, Jacob Saffell, died in 1852, leaving his mother, Julia A., with a large family of small children to rear and educate, with very limited means. His mother moved to Pike county, Missouri. In March, 1861, our subject commenced to learn the blacksmith trade at Spencerburg, on the day of Lincoln’s inauguration. On learning his trade, Mr. Saffell went into business for himself, and by strict attention to business he has accumulated a handsome property. When only fifteen years old he identified himself with the cause of temperance, by joining the Old Sons of Temperance, and has never broken his pledge. Mr. Saffell is a member of the A. F. & A. M. He was married November 1, 1866, to Miss Lucy, daughter of Adam and Emeranda Ogle, who was born August 20, 1847. They have four children: Allie May, Willimette, Emeranda, and Thomas R., deceased. Mr. Saffell and his wife are both members of the Christian Church, and Mr. Saffell has been a member of the school board and also of the town council.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11377 SIMPSON CO – DR. GEORGE W. DUNCAN – Duncan, Hammond, Lyne, Stone, Briggs, Wright, Puryar, Pearce 11377 Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume IV – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Simpson Co. DR. GEORGE W. DUNCAN was born January 26, 1826, in Simpson County, Ky., and is the tenth of eight boys and four girls born to Sanford and Nancy (Hammond) Duncan. Sanford Duncan was born in Loudoun County, Va. He was a son of Colman Duncan, who married Mary Lyne, both of Westmoreland County, Va.; was a Revolutionary soldier, and immigrated to Nelson County, Ky., about 1795. He was born in February, 1742, and died in April, 1823. His wife was born in March, 1749, and died in May, 1814. Colman Duncan was a son of Henry Duncan, who was born in Scotland. He with two brother came to the United States and settled in Westmoreland County, Va. Mrs. Nancy (Hammond) Duncan was a daughter of Job Hammond, who married Mary Stone, both of Kentucky and of Welsh origin. He was an officer of the Revolutionary war, and was wounded in both arms in an Indian fight. Sanford Duncan came from Nelson to Logan County, Ky., about 1800. In 1818 he located five miles south of Franklin, assisted in organizing the county of Simpson, was one of the commissioners appointed to run and locate the State line from Reelfoot Lake to the Mississippi River in 1840; was also appointed one of the commissioners to survey Simpson County and lay out school districts. He did all the public business in his own community, and as one of the most influential and valuable citizens in Simpson County. He farmed extensively and also kept a hotel on Louisville & Nashville Pike, and accumulated a large property in Simpson County. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity. Dr. G. W. Duncan was reared on a farm and received a good education. In 1840 he entered Cumberland College at Princeton. When the college was transferred to Lebanon he returned to Franklin and finished his education. In 1846 commenced the study of medicine with Drs. Briggs and Wright, of Bowling Green. In 1848 he graduated from Louisville Medical University; located and commenced the practice at Mitchellville, Tenn. In 1859 he located in Franklin, Ky., where he has been successfully engaged in the practice ever since. He held the position of post surgeon during the war. He married, September 4,1860, Dorinda Puryar, of Smith County, Tenn., a daughter of William and Mary (Pearce) Puryar, both natives of Tennessee, of French and Scotch descent, respectively. William was a son of Daniel Puryar. To Mr. and Mrs. Duncan have been born eight children, four now living: Mary Sanford, Charles A., George H. and William A. Dr. Duncan and wife are member of the Cumberland Presbyterian and Baptist Churches, respectively. Dr. Duncan is a leading member of the Masonic fraternity, and a Knight Templar. He has been very successful during life, has acquired a good fortune, and is one of the most benevolent and kind-hearted men in southern Kentucky. He has taken a considerable interest in the study of the prehistoric races, and made some valuable discoveries in his excavations of mounds and graves. Dr. Duncan’s wife is also a hard student, and an interesting ornithologist. She has succeeded in making one of the finest collections in the State, and one of the fines private collections in the United States. Her collections can be seen at various expositions, and she is said to have had one of the finest private collections at the New Orleans Exposition. Dr. Duncan and wife are great lovers of the arts and sciences, and win the respect of all who meet them. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx