...Daviess County, Kentucky Pg.853: Yelvington Precinct. Asa Smeathers. This gentleman is one of the oldest in the county. He was born in Owensboro, Sept. 4, 1804. His father, James Smeathers, was a pioneer here, and lived just across the line in Knottsville, where he died many years ago. March 25, 1825, Mr. Smeathers married Mary E. Duncan, daughter of Hon. Benjamin Duncan, and they had nine children; five are living, namely: Harold, Archie, John T., Mary A. and James T. Benjamin died in 1881, aged forty-five years; Elizabeth (Mrs. Kinne) died in 1857, aged thirty-three years, leaving four children. When Mr. Smeathers was young, wolves, deer and bears were very abundant. He has seen as many as fifteen deer in a drove, and has killed a great many. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church about sixty years.