NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11126 MADISON CO HON. W. T. TEVIS Tevis, Cosby, Stone, Morgan, Walker, Lee, McKenny, Furguson, Bush, Stone, Greeley #11126: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume IV, Battle-Perrin-Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Madison Co. HON. W. T. TEVIS was born September 15, 1840, and is a son of Cyrus C. and Elizabeth (Stone) Tevis, parents of the following children: John (deceased), Mary (now Mrs. Cosby), Sallie Chrisman, Robert C. (deceased), Napoleon, Elizabeth Dinwiddie, Benjamin F., Squire T., Charles C. and W. T. Capt. Cyrus C. Tevis was born in Madison County, was a farmer, an extensive trader and slave-holder. In politics he was a Whig, and in religion a Methodist, and died in 1849, aged about fifty years. His father, Robert Tevis, came from Virginia and settle din the northern part of Madison County; he began life a poor man but succeeded in accumulating a considerable fortune. Mrs. Elizabeth Tevis was born on the banks of the Potomac River, in Virginia, and was a daughter of John Stone, a surveyor and farmer. The Hon. W. T. Tevis was reared on a farm in his native county of Madison, near Kirksville. At fourteen he entered a store at Nicholasville, where he clerked ford a term and then passed a year in Independence, Mo. On his return to Kentucky, he entered Company B, Eighth Cavalry, Morgans command, and in 1862 was wounded in a fight on Red River and taken prisoner by Col. Walker, but was paroled in 1863. He also participated in the battles of Hartsville, Tenn., Munfordsville and Perryville. After being released from his parole he went to Canada, and placed himself under the command of the Confederate authorities there, and engaged in all their efforts for the release of Confederate prisoners, and other acts of hostility on the frontier. After the surrender of Lee he went to Europe, returned to Canada in 1886, remained until he had secured a pardon, and in the fall of that year returned to Madison County. In April, 1867, he married Lucy W. McKenney, of Lexington, a daughter of William and Sallie E. (Furguson) McKenny, natives respectively of Virginia and Clark County, Ky.; and to this union have been born Arthur C., Harry D., Sallie Mc., Cyrus and Maggie. After marriage Mr. Tevis engaged in farming and stock trading. In 1876 he moved to Richmond and engaged in the furniture business and banking, but quit business and resumed farming in 1884, and in 1885 was elected to the State Legislature. Mrs. Tevis died in April, 1884, and in June, 1886, Mr. Tevis married Miss Lella, daughter of Judge Robert Y. Bush, of Hawesville, who married Anna M. Stone. Judge Bush is a son of Christopher Bush, a native of Virginia, but who came to Kentucky when quite young. Mr. and Mrs. Tevis are members of the Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Tevis was once master of the grange. He cast his first presidential vote for Greeley in 1872.