NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11248 BOYLE CO – JAMES A. SLAUGHTER – Slaughter, Majors, Hawkins, Nelson, Bradshaw, Burros, Prall, Gaines, Vinson, Cooper, Bohanon #11248 Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume V, Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 4th ed. JAMES A. SLAUGHTER was born September 11, 1835, in Logan County; in 1837 he removed with his parents to Jessamine County, in 1840 to Harrodsburg and in 1846 he located on the Lancaster pike, three miles east of Danville, Boyle County, where he has since resided. His father, Gabriel Slaughter, a native of Mercer County, born in 1809, was a farmer and slave owner and a Whig; was twenty years a deacon in the Baptist Church and was accidentally killed by a log rolling upon him in 1850. He was the son of Augustin Slaughter, a native of Culpeper County, Va., a soldier in the Revolutionary war, who came to Kentucky in an early day and died in 1846, aged seventy-eight years. His brothers in Kentucky were Gabriel, Robert, Stephen and James. His children were Stephen, Gabriel, Robert, Lucinda (Majors), Susan (Hawkins), Eliza (Nelson and Bradshaw) and Mary (Burros). Gabriel married Eliza, daughter of Col. A. S. and Hannah (Prall) Drake, of Lexington (born in 1812, died in 1867), and from their union sprang Mary (Gaines), James A., Simeon and Benjamin. James A. Slaughter, has been twice married; first, July 10, 1861, to Miss Mary, daughter of M. T. and M. A. (Vinson) Cooper, of Bedford County, Tenn. (born in 1838, died in 1862), to whom there was no issue. He was next married, August 1, 1865, to Miss Ada P., daughter of John and Susan (Bohanon) Stout, of Woodford County (born in 1846), and to them have been born Florence T. and Lula D. Mr. Slaughter is a farmer and stock raiser and owns 250 acres of productive and well improved land. He is a member of the Baptist Church and a prohibitionist. He is also interested in a stock ranch of 165,000 acres of land in Texas, on which are 20,000 cattle. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx