Veterans!! I salute you! Sandi NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11422 BOYLE CO HON. JOSEPH KINKEAD SUMRALL Sumrall, Blackburn, McCreary, Hannegan, Lackland, Lyon, Moore, Clark, Dobyus, Harrod 11422 Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume III Battle Perrin Kniffin, 4th ed., 1885. Boyle Co. HON. JOSEPH KINKEAD SUMRALL was born November 16, 1835, in Mason County, Ky., where he grew to manhood. In 1853 he entered Centre College at Danville, and graduated with second honors in the famous class of 1857, many of whom became noted in after years, especially Senator Blackburn and Gov. McCreary. In 1858 he commenced reading law in St. Louis, Mo., with Hon. Ed. A. Hannegan; received license as attorney from Judge Lackland in 1859, and practiced in that city with success until the commencement of the late war. By some fatality he was present and was captured with the forces at Camp Jackson, at St. Louis, and was paroled by Gen. Lyon but never exchanged. In 1862, refusing to take the unconstitutional oath required of attorneys to further practice law in St. Louis, he located at Maysville, Ky., where he was eminently successful in the practice of his profession, amid one of the strong bars of the commonwealth. During his stay in Maysville he served eight years as county judge, and was also attorney for the Maysville & Lexington Railroad. His health becoming impaired from arduous professional work, in 1875 he purchased and located in Blithewood, the old family homestead of Mr. Collins C. Moore, three and one-half miles northwest of Danville, Boyle County, on the Harrodsburg pike, where he has since resided. His father, Joseph K. Sumrall, was born in Scotland, removed with his parents in childhood to America, located at Pittsburg, where he was reared, engaged in merchandising at Philadelphia, and was early a merchant at Maysville, Ky. He was a zealous Presbyterian, a prominent Democrat, and died in 1844 at the age of sixty-three years. He married Susan, daughter of Benjamin S. Clark of Mays Lick, Ky. (died August 19, 1884, at Fulton, Mo., aged ninety years), and from their union sprang Mary K., Benjamin C., John T., William A., Daniel C., Julia P. (all deceased), Mrs. Elizabeth V. (wife of Maj. Dobyus, of Fulton, Mo.), Sarah J. and Joseph K., subject of this memoir. February 14, 1866, Judge Sumrall married Miss Bettie B., daughter of Collins C. and Mary E. (Robertson) Moore, of Boyle County (born January 11, 1842), and their union has been blessed by the birth of William Lawson, Collins Moore, and Lilian C. Judge Sumrall still practices law to some extent, and is at present attorney for the Mercer National Bank of Harrodsburg, of which he is a stockholder. He is now living in the retirement of his farm, having 400 acres of finely improved and very productive land, on which he raises corn, hemp, wheat, and blue-grass for grazing. This is a portion of the original Harrod tract of land, on which there still remain evidences of the location of Harrods Station, and also his famous spring of pure water. The Judge has been deacon of the Presbyterian Church South, for nearly twenty years. He is an Ancient Odd Fellow, and in politics is a Democrat. Judge Sumrall also during his arduous work at the bar was the author and compiler of a large digest of general and statutory law, used by him in his professional work as a hand and brief book, which would cover, if published, 1,500 pages of closely printed law matter, but he has never yet given it to the profession by publication. He did not do the work for publication, but for his own use in his professional labors, and thereby much abridged and simplified it. He was also the originator of the system, as far as can be learned, in Kentucky, and compiler and draughtsman of the laws regulating the almshouse system of his native county, Mason. These laws were enacted by the Kentucky Legislature, and will be found in the acts of Assembly, 1870-71. It would be creditable to the whole State if this Mason County plan of almshouse should hereafter be adopted instead of the present poor law and poorhouse system. It is no crime to be poor, unable to maintain oneself or family, as one might conclude after perusal of the general laws in Kentucky on reference to the poor and poorhouses as designated by statute. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx