NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11196 MARION CO WILLIAM THOMPSON PURDY Purdy, Kirk, Wayne, Smith, Staten, Hanley, McAlister, Hocker, Brawner, Clay, Knott #11196: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume V, Battle Perrin Kniffin, 4th ed. Marion Co. WILLIAM THOMPSON PURDY was born October 25, 1823. His father, John S. Purdy, was born in Nelson County in 1798. He married Lydia Kirk in 1818, and they became the parents of ten children, of whom are now living Daniel H., Nancy Sherrell, William T., Presley, Mary J. (Wayne), and John W. Lydia Kirk, a daughter of Daniel Kirk, was born in 1802 and died in 1854. John S. Purdy was a carpenter and building and plied that trade in connection with farming, and died in Marion County in 1872. He was a son of Henry Purdy, a native of Maryland, who came early to Kentucky and located in what is now Marion County. He was a farmer and followed that vocation up to the year of his death (1833). The maternal grandfather, Daniel Kirk, was a native of Maryland, and was among the early settlers of Nelson County. He was the father of one son (Henry) and one daughter (Lydia). Henry Purdy was thrice married. His first wifes name was Smith and she was a Virginian; his second wife was a Miss Scarbour Staten, and the third a Miss Hanley. To these three marriages were born twenty-one children. William Thompson Purdy was born and reared on a farm in Marion County, and educated in the common schools. At the age of nineteen he engaged in farming on his own account; this he has followed up to the present time with success, and is now the proprietor of farms aggregating 300 acres, lying on the waters of south Rolling Fork, in Marion County. In 1842 and 1843 he made two trips South with stock for markets. Those trips proved successful and in the following year, 1844, he was married on the 10th of October, to Martha McAlister, and they are the parents of seven sons and three daughters: James, Richard, Leonard, William L., Sam, George T., Harvey, Rosa, Lydia (Hocker), and Isabell. Martha McAlister was born September 27, 1825. Her parents were Cornelius and Eleanor (Brawner) McAlister, the former a native of Ireland who came to American with his parents when a child; the latter was of Scottish parentage and a native of Kentucky. Mrs. Purdy is a member of the Catholic Church; Mr. Purdy is not a member of any church. Politically he is a Democrat, but cast his first ballot for Henry Clay. He is a Royal Arch Mason, and a member of the J. P. Knott Chapter. Mr. Purdy is a stanch advocate of temperance and prides himself on the fact of his never having in all his life tasted any kind of spirituous liquor. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH Archives:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kyresearch