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    1. [KYBIOS] BIO #11122 - WALTER A CHISHOLM - SIMPSON CO
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    3. NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11122 SIMPSON CO - WALTER A CHISHOLM – Chisolm, Dunnington, Saddler, Curnut, Wood, Caudill #11122: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume IV, Battle-Perrin-Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Simpson Co. WALTER A. CHISHOLM was born May 26, 1826, in Calloway County, Ky.; in infancy removed with his parents to Simpson County; at the age of seven years, having lost his parents, he was taken by his uncle, Obediah Chisholm, to Robertson Co. Tenn., where he grew to manhood, and in 1847 he located in Simpson County, Ky., where he has since resided. His father, Thomas E. Chisholm, a native of Kentucky, was born in 1798 and died in 1833. He was the son of Obediah Chisholm, a native of Virgiia, who died in 1837, at the age of seventy years. He had twenty-one brothers and sisters. The ancestors of this family were compelled to flee from Scotland on account of their loyalty to King Charles. Thomas E. married Mary A., daughter of Walter Dunnington, of Simpson County (died in 1833), and their offspring are Walter A., Nancy C. (Saddler), Margaret E. (Baker) and Mary F. (Curnut). Walter A. married, November 24, 1846, Mary J., daughter of Moses and Mary A. (Wood) Caudill, of Robertson County, Tenn., (Born October 25, 1825), and to them were born Mary F. (deceased), Margaret C., Thomas J., John B. (deceased), Moses P. (deceased), N. Olive, George F. and Martha A. Mr. Chisholm has served eight years as magistrate and member of the court of claims in Simpson County. He is a farmer, owning 200 acres of well improved and valuable land in a high state of cultivation. He is a member of the Graham Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons. In politics he is a Democrat.

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