This will be my last post until next Monday. Enjoy your Christmas holiday! Sandi NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11199 MERCER CO J. H. MATHENY Matheny, Chinn, Tilford, McCoun, Jackson. Walker, Lowry. Ruby, Jones, Poteet, Ferguson, Broaddus, McAfee, Curry, Powell #11199: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume V, Battle Perrin Kniffin, 4th ed. Mercer Co. J. H. MATHENY was born May 18, 1831. His father, F. G. Matheny, a native of Bourbon County, and born February 9, 1808, was a dry goods merchant. He first hired to C. C. Chinn, a merchant of Harrodsburg, for his food and clothing in 1820, and in 1827, when in his nineteenth year, purchased a small stock of goods and embarked in business at Salvisa, in Mercer County. He was married in 1828, to Miss Mary E., a daughter of Maj. Samuel and Nancy (Tilford) McCoun. The McCoun family were in Mercer County during the Indian troubles, living in the fort at Harrodsburg, and Joseph McCoun, while a youth, was captured by the Indians and burned at the stake. Samuel McCoun was the son of John and Margaret McCoun, who emigrated from Virginia to Kentucky. Nancy (Tilford) McCoun was a a niece of Maj. John Tilford; president of the Northern Bank of Lexington for thirty years. Samuel McCoun was adjutant for Gen. Andrew Jackson at the battle of New Orleans, and made a fortune flatboating on the Kentucky, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. F. G. Matheny sold a line of general merchandise in Salvisa more than thirty years. Several years of this time he sold $100,000 worth of goods per annum. The late war swept nearly all of his accumulations away, but in 1863 he embarked in the dry goods business in Harrodsburg in a moderate way. The names of his children are Samuel M., of Louisville; J. H.; W. M, attorney and real estate agent of Dallas, Ark.; F. G., Jr., who left with Gen. Walker in the Nicaraugua expedition and has not been heard from since; Dan W. artist, of Sedalia, Mo.; L. T. real estate agent in Chicago; Joseph Stiles, a graduate of Bacon College, who died in his twenty-first year, 1859; Nannie, who died in her seventeenth year; Elizabeth, wife of James Lowry, of Springfield, Mo., and Charles F., a farmer of Cherokee County, Kas. F. G. Matheny, who was a member of the Presbyterian Church, died in 1873, and his widow, who was totally blind the last twelve years of her life, and also a member of the Presbyterian Church, died in 1881, in her seventy-fourth year. Michael M. Matheny, grandfather of J. H. Matheny, emigrated from Harpers Ferry, Va., to Bourbon County, Ky., and shortly afterward moved to Mercer County. His marriage occurred in Virginia to Miss Rachael Ruby, and they were the parents of four sons: F. A., F. G., L. T. and A. M., who is living at Stephensport, Ky. Mr. Matheny, who was an old time tavern-keeper and a farmer, is buried with his wife in the northern part of the county. The Matheny family are of Scotch-French origin. J. H. Matheny in boyhood received a commercial education, partly at Salvisa, in his native county of Mercer, but finished in a commercial school in Cincinnati. When in his eighth year he began selling goods under the instruction of his father, who was said to be the best salesman in the county. This has been his business since, and in 1854 he was admitted into his fathers business as partner, when continued ten years. He then removed to Harrodsburg and formed a partnership in the dry goods business with Augustus Jones, continuing three years, and during the four years following did business again with his father. In 1874 Mr. Matheny formed a partnership with W. J. Poteet, which, under the firm name of Matheny & Poteet, still exists. On May 10, 1855, Mr. Matheny was married to Miss Sarah L., a daughter of Thomas and Ann E. (Ferguson) Broaddus, natives of Mercer County. She was a step-daughter of Col. John McAfee. To the marriage have been born four children: Mary L., wife of John Curry; Annie D., deceased wife of W. D. Powell; Henry Eugene, and Eddie H., who died in childhood. Mr. and Mrs. Matheny are both members of the Presbyterian Church. Col. Sandi Gorin - GORIN worldconnect website: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~sgorin