Bullitt County Biographies S-Z
Biographical information about people who resided in Bullitt County (or had strong connections to those who did)
WILLIAM H. SHEPHERD was born in Bullitt County, Ky., January 5, 1841, and his father, James Shepherd, also a native of Bullitt County, was born July 16, 1817, and married Miss Malinda Welch, whose parents came from Virginia. William H. Shepherd enlisted at Louisville, September 22, 1861, in the Fifteenth Kentucky Volunteers, Federal service, and served three years and six months. He was wounded at the battle of Chickamauga, was taken prisoner and sent to Andersonville, later to Charleston, S.C., and still later to Savannah, Ga., where he was paroled and sent to Annapolis, Md., then to Louisville, where he was discharged, having been held as a prisoner of war fourteen months. He was married to Melissa Croan, who bore him three children--Daily D., born January 24, 1867; William, August 5, 1870; and Musette, June 15, 1873. Mrs. Shepherd departed this life December 18, 1873, and in 1875 Mr. Shepherd was untied in marriage with Miss Elizabeth V. Smith, who has borne him seven children--Nannie, Clara, Julia, Isaac, Charles, Owen and Lydia. Mr. Shepherd owns, cultivated and resides upon a fine farm near Shepherdsville P. O., Bullitt County.
Shepherd Welch Croan Smith = VA
Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888, Bullitt Co.
JAMES R. STALLARD was born about three miles south of Taylorsville, Spencer Co., Ky., June 4, 1813, and is a son of Edmond and Margaret (Robison) Stallard, the former also of Spencer County. Walter Stallard, the father of Edmond, was a pioneer Baptist minister, and came from Virginia to Kentucky when Louisville was a mere village, and settled in that part of Shelby County which has since been absorbed by Spencer County. Edmond was a farmer, and died in 1814. His wife, Margaret Robison, a daughter of James and Jane (Dunn) Robison, was born in Ireland in 1786, but was brought to America when an infant. James R. Stallard was reared a farmer, and although he had a widowed mother to aid in life, has thriven well at his vocation, and now owns a farm of 1,100 acres in Elk Creek Precinct, Spencer County. In April, 1837, he married Mary, daughter of Adam Carrithers. Adam was of Irish ancestry, was a farmer, came from Pennsylvania to Kentucky, and died in 1859, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Stallard was born March 10, 1820, in Spencer County, and her mother, Elizabeth (Miller) Carrithers, was a daughter of John Miller, of Virginia. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Stallard have been born ten children: Margaret (deceased), Edmond, Adam, Mary E. (deceased), Ruth A. (deceased), Benjamin H., Emma V. (deceased), Annie B., James P. and Cora L. Mr. and Mrs. Stallard are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Stallard Robison Dunn Carrithers Miller = VA Shelby Ireland PA
Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 6th ed.,1887, Spencer Co.
PITTS STALLARD was born in Nelson County, June 21, 1830, the ninth of a family of ten children born to David and Elizabeth (Stone) Stallard. David was born in Kentucky, was engaged in agricultural pursuits all his life, was a son of Walter, who was a native of Virginia; immigrated to Kentucky in an early day, and settled in Spencer County. He was a Baptist preacher. Mrs. Elizabeth (Stone) Stallard was a daughter of Benjamin Stone. In 1839 our subject left his native county, and went with his mother to Spencer County, his father having died in 1833. He adopted farming as his vocation, and has always followed it, together with stock raising and trading. He married, May 6, 1856, Sarah C. Wells, of Nelson County, daughter of William Wells, and twelve children blessed their union, five living: W.V., Oscar, Katie, Jessie and Ben D. Mr. and Mrs. Stallard and all the children, except Ben D., are members of the Baptist Church. Mr. Stallard has been a member of the Little Union Church since 1855, and is now one of the deacons. He is a Master Mason, also a member of the I.O.O.F. He owns 400 acres of fine land and a beautiful, large brick residence.
Stallard Stone Wells = Nelson VA
Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 6th ed.,1887, Spencer Co.
JONATHAN STARK, like the Dupuys, Holmeses and Hayneses, was of French extraction, and descended from that class of protestants known as Huguenots. The old Huguenot families referred to, were early settlers in several different localities in Kentucky. Jonathan Stark settled in what is now Spencer county. Here he was baptized into the fellowship of Elk Creek church, in July, 1795. The family with which he was connected, moved to what is now Oldham county, where a church was gathered, perhaps by an old patriarch of the tribe, of the name of Abraham Stark, during the great revival of 1800-3. At this church, which was named Floyds Fork, but was popularly known as Stark's Meetinghouse, Jonathan Stark was ordained to the ministry, in 1803. He preached in this church, at least nine years, after which he moved to Indiana.
Stark Dupuy Holmes Haynes = Oldham-KY IN
A History of Kentucky Baptists From 1769 to 1885, Including More Than 800 Biographical Sketches, J. H. Spencer, Manuscript Revised and Corrected by Mrs. Burilla B. Spencer, In Two Volumes. Printed For the Author. 1886. Republished By Church History Research & Archives 1976 Lafayette, Tennessee. Vol. 2, p 178 [Spencer County]
CHARLES B. STILWELL was born in 1823, in what is now Spencer County, Ky., but was at that time Shelby County. His father was John Stilwell and his grandfather Joseph, the latter of German origin, and both were farmers. John Stilwell married Eliza Bowman, daughter of Charles Bowman and Patience (Clark) Bowman. Mr. Bowman came from New Jersey, and the Clarks from Pennsylvania. Our subject, after receiving a common-school education, began life for himself by learning the carpenter's trade, and later was engaged in the milling business in Taylorsville for about ten years. In 1874 he was elected to the office of county clerk of Spencer County, which position he has since held, and previous to his election had been appointed school commissioner. He has been a member of the Presbyterian Church since 1840, has been elder since 1857, and is also a member of the Masonic fraternity. In 1853 he married Mrs. Martha Webb, whose maiden name was Jarnagin, daughter of Dr. Pleasant Jarnagin, of Tennessee. Her parents both died in Arkansas. Mrs. Stilwell is also a member of the Presbyterian Church. They reside near Taylorsville, where they have a beautiful country seat of six and a half acres.
Stilwell Bowman Clark Webb Jarnagin = Shelby Germany NJ PA TN AR
Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 6th ed.,1887, Spencer Co.
THE STONE FAMILY. Thomas Stone was born in Spencer County, August 13, 1806, and died September 10, 1873. He was through life a merchant trader and farmer, and amassed a handsome fortune, owning about 800 acres of land, servants and money. He was a gentleman in the truest sense, public spirited, honorable, generous and courteous. He was one of the nine children of William Stone and Rebecca Erskine, who immigrated from Loudoun County, Va., to Nelson County, Ky., the latter part of 1700. The Stones came from England the latter part of 1600, settling in northern Virginia and southern Maryland. They were noted for strong practical sense, energy, pride of character, and love of justice. They espoused the cause of the colonies, one of them, Thomas Stone, being one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. They were Episcopalians in religion. The Erskines were also from England, and settled first in Maryland. They were people of wealth, and were devout Catholics. Thomas Stone, the subject of our sketch, married, February 25, 1835, Sallie A. May, who was born in Spencer County, Ky., November 28, 1814. Her father, Humphrey May, was born in 1782 in Pittsylvania County, Va., and was of Welsh extraction. He came to Kentucky at the age of seven years, and was the fourth of eleven children born to Gabriel and Susanna (Stokes) May. Sylvanus Stokes and Sallie Allen (a sister to Col. Ethan Allen, the hero of Ticonderoga) were the parents of Susanna Stokes May. She and her husband and seven children came to Kentucky in 1788. They were Episcopalians. The Mays were people of fine sense, sobriety and great amiability of temper. Humphrey May's wives were Elizabeth and Margaret Connelly, the daughters of John Connelly and Frances Brent, who immigrated from Fluvana [sic] County, Va., to Nelson County, Ky., in 1805. The Connellys were of Irish extraction, and were people of great wit and humor, and fine literary tastes. The mother of John Connelly was a Miss Edwards. John Connelly's son, Dr. Henry Connelly, was twice governor of New Mexico. Besides the above mentioned John Connelly had six other children, all of high respectability. The Brents were a fine old Scotch family, much given to high living and sporting. Thomas and Sallie (May) Stone had eight children: William H., a farmer and trader, who married Maggie Green, of Spencer County; Mary (deceased); Eli D. (deceased); Sallie E., who married Searles Mars Lewis, of Broomfield [sic], a skillful physician, and who served with distinction as a regimental surgeon in the Confederate Army; Annie R., who married her cousin, Davis Stone, a large farmer in Nelson County; Martha E., who married Rowland Cox, a fine civil engineeer and a farmer from Daviess County; James B., a farmer and trader in Spencer County, and Thomas, a practitioner and professor in a medical college in New York City. Stone Erskine May Stokes Allen Connelly Brent Edwards Green Lewis Cox = Loudoun-VA Nelson England MD Pitsylvania-VA Wales Fluvanna-VA Ireland NM NY Daviess
Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 6th ed.,1887, Spencer Co.
JESSE STONE was born in Spencer County, KY, May 9, 1835, the youngest of a family of three children born to Lemuel and Evaline (Buky) Stone. Lemuel was born in Nelson County, KY and engaged in agricultural pursuits all his life. He was a son of Jesse Stone who was bon in Va, immigrated to KY in an early day and located in Nelson County. He was a farmer and stock raiser all his life, and was a son of Spilsby, who was a son of Josiah, who was born in England. Mrs. Evaline Stone was born in Bullitt County, a daughter of Rodolphus Buky. Our subject was educated at the Georgetown College, Georgetown. He has always been engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock raising, and has always resided in Spencer County, with the exception of the years 1878 and 1879 that he passed in Louisville. Our subject married, November 19, 1861, Kate Bodine, of Nelson County, daughter of Dr. A. Bodine. Six children have blessed their union, four living: Alfred, who residing in FL, and has an orange grove. Lemuel, Morrison and Lizzie. Mr. and Mrs. Stone and all the children except Alfred are members of the Baptist Church, Mr. Stone is deacon in the Little Union Baptist Church. He owns 700 acres of fine land.
Stone Buky Bodine = Nelson VA England Bullitt Scott Jefferson
Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 6th ed.,1887, Spencer Co.
MRS. MELINDA STONE, nee May, was born in 1818, in Spencer County, Ky. Her father, Stephen May, was a son of Gabriel, born in 1751 and Susanna (Stokes) May, born April 3, 1793. He was a farmer, and of the same family as Ethan Allen, of Revolutionary fame. Her mother, Elizabeth Berkely, was a daughter of Scarlet Berkely of Virginia. Our subject married Eli D. Stone, a son of William and Rebecca (Askin) Stone, of Virginia. He was born April 10, 1812, and died August 11, 1884, and had been through life one of the best and purest Christians. Mr. and Mrs. Stone were married in 1837, and as one has said of them, "Though God gave them no children to care for and develop parental affection, yet their home was the welcome, cheerful and pleasant home of nieces and nephews, and a hospitable visiting place for a large circle of friends." Mrs. Stone owns the homestead which is managed by her brother, Jonathan May, who was born in Spencer County, January 5, 1829, and who has never married. Mr. May is a leading member of the Presbyterian Church, and a gentleman of refinement and intelligence.
Stone May Berkely Askin = VA
Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 6th ed.,1887, Spencer Co.
DR. H. H. STOUT was born February 5, 1829, near Elk Creek, Spencer County. His grandfather, Peter Stout, came to Spencer from Jessamine County in 1807, with his son, Elijah, father of our subject. The Stouts moved from Virginia to Jessamine County, Ky., and are of German origin. Elijah was a farmer and mechanic, a devoted member of the Baptist Church, and died in 1867. He married Lucy, daughter of Daniel Bennett, of Spencer County, whose father came from New Jersey to Kentucky, when there was but a mere shanty at Louisville. Daniel Bennett died in 1850. The Bennetts were of Scotch origin. Mrs. Lucy Stout was a member of the Baptist Church; she died in 1874, in the seventy-first year of her age. The Doctor is the eldest of three children, Nancy R. and Lucy being the other two. He was born and reared on a farm, and engaged in merchandising six years. He received his literary training in the common schools and academies of the county, and at the age of nineteen began reading medicine. In 1850 he entered the Louisville University, the Transylvania University in 1853, and graduated at the Kentucky School of Medicine in 1854. After graduation he located in Shelby County, and then moved to Elk Creek, where he has resided for twenty years. He is a member of the Baptist Church, also of the Masonic fraternity, of which he was a charter Master, and served in that capacity ten years. In 1848 he married Miss Emily Carolin, daughter of Matthias Carolin, and who died five months later. In 1857 he married Sallie, daughter of Eliab Cooper, of Spencer County. She became the mother of three children: Leonora, Lucy J. and Mariam K., and died in 1864. The Doctor's third marriage occurred in 1874 with Miss Florence Collings, daughter of Samuel Collings, of Spencer County, a farmer and leading citizen of that county. Two children have blessed their union - Zella and Homer H. Mrs. Stout is a member of the Baptist Church.
Stout Bennett Carolin Cooper Collings = Jessamine VA NJ Shelby
Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 6th ed.,1887, Spencer Co.
GEORGE T. SUMMERS, farmer, was born in Jefferson County, Ky., Juy 27, 1843, and is the second child and eldest son in a family of nine children born to George G. and Diana (Gilliland) Summers, both of whom were natives of Kentucky and of Irish descent. George G. Summers was educated and married in his native State, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1853, when he came to Adams Township, Morgan County, and bought 200 acres of wild land and improved a farm. In 1876, he left the old home farm, which he aftrward divided among his children, and removed to Eminence, where he resided until his death, which occurred December 24, 1883, in his sixty-fourth year. He was enlisted and mustered for the war with Mexico, but was discharged before going into active service. He was educated in the Catholic fath, but belonged to no church. For many years he was a member of the Masonic fraternity. George T. Summers, the subject, received a fair common school education, and also attended commercial college at Indianapolis. He was employed on his father's farm until he was twenty years old. In October, 1863, he enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Seventeenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, recruited for the six months' service, and was mustered out with same in April, 1864. After his return from the army, he engaged in the live stock trade, mainly horses and cattle, for a number of years. He also taught for three winters, and was employed for a time as a salesman in a notion store at Indianapolis, and still later, as a salesman in a general store at Eminence. He is at present engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was married, September 15, 1860, to Sarah F. Mosier, a native of Morgan County, Ind. To this union were born three sons, all of whom are living. Mrs. S. died in April, 1881. Mr. Summers was next married, February 1, 1883, to Mrs. Elizabeth E. (Voshell) Miller, a native of Morgan County, Ind. Mrs. Summers is a member of the Baptist Church. In politics, Mr. Summers is a Democrat, and is one of the early settlers and enterprising citizens of the township and county.
Summers Gilliland Mosier Voshell Miller = Eminence-Morgan-IN Mexico
Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. Jefferson County.
JAMES S. SUMMERS, farmer, was born in Jefferson County, Ky., August 25, 1845, and is the third in a family of nine children born to George G. and Diana (Gilliland) Summers, whose sketch will be found above. James S. Summers, the subject of this sketch, received a fair common school education. He was employed on his father's farm until he was of age. He then farmed on shares for several years, during which time he bought property in Eminence, where he resided three years. In 1875, he removed back to the old homestsead in Adams Township, Morgan County, a part of which he bought and upon which he now resides. He was married, January 28, 1866, to Cynthia A. Sligar, a nataive of Bullitt County, Ky., and a daughter of Thomas Sligar, who was also a native of Bullitt County, Ky., where he was born in 1803. He now lives with the subject of our sketch and is in his eighty-first year. To Mr. and Mrs. Summers have been born six children - three sons and three daughters - all of whom are yet living and take a great interest in music. In politics, Mr. Summers is a Democrat.
Summers Gilliland Sligar = Eminence-Morgan-IN Bullitt-KY
Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. Jefferson County.
SOLOMON SUMMERS (deceased) was born in Jefferson County, Ky., in 1813, and was a son of Willamena Summers, a native of Holland. September 15, 1828, Mr. Summers married Miss Ellen Whitaker, who was born July 7, 1812, and is a daughter of Abraham and Nancy (Whitaker), natives of Kentucky. Mr. Summers died in 1852, leaving eight children to be cared for by Mrs. Summers. Of these children, four of the boys, William, Simpson, Harrison and Robert, were volunteers in the Union army. The first three were members of the Louisville Legion, and the last named enlisted at Louisiana, Mo. William and Simpson were killed at the battle of Stone River and Robert was killed near St. Louis. William (on account of whose death Mrs. Summers draws a pension) was born in Jefferson County, Ky., February 12, 1834. Harrison is also dead. Two of the daughters born to Mrs. Summers died of cholera many years ago, and the third, Martha A. Summers, born January 17, 1846 or '47, died in 1854. In her old age all of her children are dead. She has, however, five grandchildren, four in Missouri and on in Kentucky.
Summers Whitaker = MO Holland
Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888, Jefferson Co.
R. D. TAGGART was born in Nelson County, Ky., February 14, 1845, the third of four children born to William and Mary S. (Wakefield) Taggart. His father was born in County Antrim, Ireland, in 1800, came to the United States in 1835, and settled in Nelson County, Ky., where he still remains. He has been engaged all his life at farming. He is a son of James Taggart, who was born in Ireland in 1780. Mrs. Mary S. Taggart was born in Nelson County, August 22, 1809, and died February 15, 1882. She was a daughter of John and Betsey (Taylor) Wakefield, the former a native of Virginia. When our subject was six years old he removed with his parents to Spencer County, where he has since resided. He has passed his life in farming pursuits, and now owns 200 acres of land. He is still unmarried. In religion he is a member of the Presbyterian Church. His brother, James, now resides in Shelby County, Ky., engaged in farming. He married Susie E. Carrithers, and has two children: Lillie P. and William F. Another brother, John Taggart, now deceased, was born December 8, 1842, and from the time he was eighteen years of age up to his death, June 16, 1884, he was a member of the firm of Hughes, Taggart & Co., one of the largest pork-packing establishments in the city of Louisville. He was a strict member of the Presbyterian Church.
Taggart Wakefield Taylor Carrithers Hughes = Nelson Ireland VA Shelby
Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 6th ed.,1887, Spencer Co.
ROBERT LIVINGSTON THURMAN, son of that excellent minister of Christ, David Thurman, was born in Washington county, Kentucky, November 19, 1815. He was taken by his parents to what is now LaRue county, while he was a small child. Here he was raised upon farm. He was converted to Christ at the early age of thirteen years, and was baptized by his father into the fellowship of Nolin church. He finished his education at Georgetown College, where he graduated in 1842. He was ordained pastor of Severns Valley church, in Elizabethtown, July 25, 1843. He served this church about seven years, conducting a female seminary about half of that time. In January, 1850, he was appointed agent for Indian Missions, and in May following, became one of the editors of the Baptist Banner, published at Louisville. In 1851 he accepted an agency for Georgetown College, which he prosecuted about four years. In 1855, he accepted a call to the pastoral care of the Baptist church in Austin, Texas. He remained in that position only a few months during which time he collected funds to erect a house of worship for that church. In October of the same year, he was appointed agent of the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, for the State of Kentucky. He prosecuted this agency with satisfactory success, until 1861, when he resigned on account of the war. He was then appointed Superintendent of the Executive Board of the General Association. In 1868, he resumed the Foreign Mission agency for Kentucky, and has prosecuted it with a good degree of success, to the present time (1885).
Mr. Thurman has been an enthusiastic advocate of missions from his youth, and has been just styled "the prince of agents." The cause of missions, both foreign and domestic, owes much to his unflagging zeal and tireless energy.
A History of Kentucky Baptists From 1769 to 1885, Including More Than 800 Biographical Sketches, J. H. Spencer, Manuscript Revised and Corrected by Mrs. Burilla B. Spencer, In Two Volumes. Printed For the Author. 1886. Republished By Church History Research & Archives 1976 Lafayette, Tennessee. Vol. 2, pp 77-78 [Washington County]
O. P. TICHENOR was born in Nelson County, Ky., July 28, 1830, the sixth of a family of seven children born to Thomas and Hannah (Lucas) Tichenor. Thomas was born in New Jersey, immigrated to Kentucky in 1790 with his parents, and settled in Nelson County. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits, saw milling and blacksmithing, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and a son of Daniel Tichenor. Our subject left his native county when he was in the twenty-fourth year of his age, and moved to Spencer County. He is one of the largest and most successful farmers in Spencer County. He is also extensively interested in saw mills, threshing machines and clover hullers. He was elected magistrate in 1875, which office he still holds, serving now on his fourth term, and for the past sixteen years has been railroad sinking fund commissioner. He has also been land processioner for a number of years. He married, January 29, 1857, Susan P. Bennett, of Spencer County, daughter of Samuel and Isabella (Hardesty) Bennett. Nine children were born to this union, seven living: Thomas B., Anna E., Mattie C. Milligan, Mary (who is attending school in Taylorsville), Lillie K., Ollie J. and Joseph C. Mr. Tichenor, his wife and four daughters are members of the Baptist Church, and he has been for forty-three years. He is a Master Mason in good standing. He owns 475 acres of good land near Taylorsville, and has an elegant, large, brick residence.
Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 6th ed.,1887, Spencer Co.
JOSEPH L. TROUTMAN, a native of Bullitt County, Ky., was born July 1, 1848, and is the fourth son born to Levi J. and Mary Ann Troutman, also natives of Bullitt County. Jacob Troutman, grandfather of Joseph L., was a native of Pennsylvania, and was prominent among the first pioneers of Bullitt County. Joseph L. Troutman was reared on the farm, but learned the trade of blacksmithing, through which, in connection with his farming interests, he has accumulated considerable property. He married Miss Ann Alsop. His farm is near Shepherdsville, Bullitt County, Ky.
Troutman Alsop = PA
Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888, Bullitt Co.
DR. JAMES H. WAKEFIELD is a native of Rockport, Ind., where he was born August 14, 1821. At the age of twelve years he removed with his parents to Spencer County, Ky., where he grew to manhood. His father, James Wakefield, was born 1790, in Nelson County, Ky.; removed to Indiana in 1818, thence to Todd County, Ky., in 1848, where he died in 1856. He was the son of John, of Pennsylvania, who previous to 1775 immigrated to Kentucky, where he died in about 1815. Subject's mother, Elizabeth, daughter of James Heady, of Nelson County, Ky., was born in 1788, and died in 1827. To subject's father were born: John, Elizabeth (McRocklin), James H., Indiana (married first to Brown then to Jiles), Louisiana (Wakefield), Benjamin H. L., Hilliard B., Zerilda, Eliza, William H. and Joseph B. Subject in 1841 commenced the study of medicine with Dr. James J. Heady, of Spencer County, Ky., and graduated at the Louisville Medical University in 1845; practiced ten years at Merom, Ind.; thence at Daysville, Todd Co., Ky., fifteen years, and retired from practiced in 1867, when he settled at his present residence, and engaged in agricultural pursuits. Dr. Wakefield has been thrice married, first in 1849, to Miss Sarah Wills, of Merom, Ind., to whom were born James and William. His second marriage, in 1862, was to Miss Octavia C. Mann, of Todd County, Ky., to whom were born Elizabeth and John; his third marriage, in 1874, was to Miss Mary F. Burrus, of Todd County, whose children are: Charles B., Morrison H., Robert W., Matthew and Ova C. Dr. Wakefield is owner of 400 acres of valuable land, in a fine state of cultivation. In politics, he was formerly an Old Line Whig, but now affiliates with the Democratic party.
Wakefield McRocklin Brown Jiles Wills Mann Burrus = Spencer-KY Nelson-KY Louisville-Jefferson-KY PA IN
History of Todd County, Kentucky, ed. J. H. Battle, 1884, F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884, pp. 333-34. [Trenton Precinct]
JOSEPH WALKER was born in Spencer County, Ky., December 17, 1847. He is the eldest of twelve children born to Presley, Sr. and America (Ganote) Walker. Presley was born in Spencer County, Ky., October 12, 1823, and is the ninth of a family of eleven children born to Joseph and Nancy (Clark) Walker. Joseph was born in Maryland, and at the age of six years came with his parents to Kentucky, and settled in what is now known as Spencer County. Mrs. America Walker was born in Jefferson County, Ky., and is a daughter of David Ganote. Our subject was educated in the common schools, and has always been engaged in farming and stock raising and trading. He buys up cattle, sheep and hogs, and drives them to Louisville. He married, May 5, 1864, Josephine Guthrey, of Spencer County, Ky., daughter of Norbon and Maria (Collins) Guthrey. Eight children have been born to their union - seven living: Francis L., Guthrey, Leslie, Alexis, Presley, Pius H., and Jesse C. Mr. Walker, his wife, Francis L., Guthrey and Leslie, are members of the Baptist Church. Mr. Walker owns 450 acres of land. Politically he is a Democrat.
Walker Ganote Clark Guthrey Collins = MD Jefferson
Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887, Spencer Co.
PRESLEY WALKER was born in Spencer County, Ky., October 12, 1823, the ninth of a family of eleven children born to Joseph and Nancy (Clark) Walker. Joseph was born in Maryland, and when about six years of age came to Kentucky with his parents, and settled in what is now known as Nelson County, and was always engaged in farming. Mrs. Nancy Walker was born in Pennsylvania, a daughter of Nathaniel Clark, who was also a native of Pennsylvania. He immigrated to Kentucky, and settled in Nelson County. Our subject was educated at the common schools, and has always been engaged in farming, stock raising and stock trading, and owns 500 acres of fine land near Wilsonville. He married, January 28, 1847, America Ganote, of Jefferson County, Ky., daughter of David Ganote, and twelve children have blessed their union - eleven living: Joseph (who married Josephine Guthrey, and had eight chilren - seven living: Frances L., Guthrey, Leslie, Alexis, Presley, Pius H., and Jesse C.); David (who married Miss Gailbreth, and had three children: Presley, Wade and Minnie); Presley (who married Miss Sarah Ganote, and had five children: Lula B., Mollie E., A. Ellen, America, and James T.); Artimissa (who married John McKinley, and had two children: America I. and Presley R.); Allen (who married Miss Carrie Collings, and had one child - C. Presley); Sarah C. (who married William W. Flanders, and had one child - Forrest); Miranda C. (who married James B. Gentry and had two children: Stephen Q. and Allen R.); Nicholas L.; Beaurie L. (who married T. Riley Dupin); Forrest and Jefferson D. Mr. and Mrs. Walker are members of the Baptist Church. Politically he is a Democrat.
Walker Clark Ganote Guthrey Gailbreth McKinley Collings Flanders Gentry Dupin = MD Nelson PA Jefferson
Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887, Spencer Co.
LOUIS L. WEEKS, farmer and stock-grower, Linton township P. O. Pimento, was born in Spencer county, Kentucky, November 14, 1820 and is a son of William L. and Nancy (KESTER) WEEKS, former a native of Virginia, of English descent, latter of Kentucky, of English and German descent. They came to this county about 1838, where he was a farmer. His death occurred August 21, 1875, and his wife’s in October, 1845. They had a family of five sons and four daughters, of whom Louis L. is the eldest. Our subject was married April 9, 1845, to Sarah Ann, daughter of David and Ruth (ARMSTRONG) KELLEY, natives of Kentucky, former of Irish and latter of Irish and German descent. They were pioneer settlers of this county, and had a family of seven children, of whom Sarah Ann is the fourth. Her father died in Prairie Creek township, Vigo county, in October, 1859, and her mother, March 18, 1847. Mr. and Mrs. WEEKS had born to them eleven children, viz.: Nancy D., deceased; John K., who married Sarah F. KESTER; David, who married Martha WATSON; Chancy, married to Mary HICKMAN; Julia B., who married Alex. BEARD; Louis H., married to Mary E. SINER; Carrie, deceased; Ruth, deceased; Ida, Daniel V. and Eura. Mr. WEEKS is a prominent farmer of Linton township, and owns a farm of 400 acres, in a good state of cultivation. He taught a subscription school two terms. He is a member of the Baptist Church, of which he is clerk at the present time. Politically he is a Democrat, and served two terms as county commissioner, and one term as township trustee.
HISTORY OF VIGO COUNTY, INDIANA: With Biographical Selections, H.C. Bradsby - 1891, Linton Twp., p. 994
Josiah WHITESIDES was born on the old family plantation, near the town which was named in honor of his family. For the past twenty years he has made his home on the farm which he owns and cultivates, and which is located on section 24, township 50, range 2, Lincoln County. He has about two hundred acres used for raising crops, forty acres for pasture, and sixty acres in timber-land. In politics a Democrat, he has been called upon to serve in almost every local official capacity, and at all times has acquitted himself with great credit. Among other enterprises with which he has been connected is the ice company, which he helped to organize, and which annually harvests hundreds of carloads of the commodity from Keys Lake, it being one of the greatest enterprises of that locality.
The paternal grandfather of our subject, Isaac WHITESIDES, was a native of Scotland, and emigrated to Kentucky in the days of Daniel BOONE. His mother was a native of Wales. He was a soldier of the Revolution, the War of 1812, and fought in the Indian Wars with BOONE. A powder-horn which was used by him in the battle of New Orleans, under Old Hickory, was owned by his son William. For his wife, Isaac WHITESIDES married a Miss ELLIS, of Kentucky, and after her death he wedded a Miss VEACH. By the first union he had five sons, namely: William, Davis, Jacob, John and Isaac E.; and by his second marriage he had three sons and a daughter, as follows: Dorothy, Isaac V., Josiah and George.
William WHITESIDES, the father of the worthy old settler whose name heads this article, was born in Shelby County, Ky., October 10, 1804, and received but limited educational advantages in his early years. Later he learned to read, and his Old Testament, which he had perused from cover to cover hundreds of times, was, with its large print, his favorite book. In the spring of 1826 he settled in this county, which then extended as far north as the Iowa line. The tract of land which he took up was situated near a large pond which bears his name, and for sixty-eight years he continued to dwell on his original homestead. At the time of his death, which occurred December 19, 1894, he owned over twelve hundred acres of fine prairie and timber-land.
The first wife of William WHITESIDES was Eliza A., daughter of Horatio ROBERTSON. She was born in Kentucky, and died February 3, 1856, after having borne eleven children, as follows: Mildred Ann, Mrs. Charles L. ALLAWAY, whose home is near Burr Oak; Isaac, a retired farmer of Elsberry; Amanda E., Mrs. John ELLIS; Robert Robertson, who died of typhoid fever in 1861; Davis, deceased; Mary, Mrs. John W. WATERS, whose husband is a retired farmer of Elsberry; George W., who lives near WHITESIDES; William D., of Montgomery City, Mo.; Jacob, of Middleton, Montgomery County; John F., who lives near WHITESIDES; and Josiah. Isaac, Davis and George W. were all in the Confederate service, and the latter was also a soldier under Maximilian in Mexico. Davis was killed at Ashley, Pike County, Mo., in August, 1862.
On New Year's Day, 1863, William WHITESIDES, Sr., married Sallie Ann METCALF, nee CARR. She was born in Nelson County, Ky., in December, 1810, and first married Garner METCALF, who moved to Missouri at an early day. After his first marriage, the father brought his bride to his home on horseback, arriving under the lowly roof on Christmas Day, 1829. The building was not yet finished, and the half-completed chimney smoked so badly that the proprietor was obliged to take his wife back to his father's home. For many years he raised no meat for his own use, as he could shoot all the deer and turkeys needed, without going out of sight of his cabin. His furniture consisted of such as he could make himself from slabs and rough hewed boards. His bedstead was made of small beams, with deer-skin strips stretched across, as no rope could be had in those days. In time the log cabin of small dimensions was replaced by a six-room log house, and in 1868 Mr. WHITESIDES built a large eight-room frame house, which was one of the finest in the county at that time. In 1889 he divided his land between his children, reserving only a small homestead, where he resided until 1890. He then built a small house in the town which bears his name, but two years later went to live with his son John F., under whose roof his death occurred, and his wife survived him but eight days. He owned twenty-seven slaves (eleven of whom were grown) at the time of the emancipation. He was always a kind master, taking care of them when sick, and never separating mother and child, nor husband and wife. He never sold but two of his slaves. One of these tried to kill him, and the other tried to kill one of his fellow slaves. These two were sold in the South, seventeen years before the war, and the former returned after being freed. The slaves were well clothed and housed, and received food from the same supply of provisions which was provided for the family. In early life William WHITESIDES was a Whig, but became a Democrat before the war, and all of his sons have followed his example.
Josiah WHITESIDES was born May 25, 1853, and was only two years of age when his mother died. He was cared for by old "Mammy Car'line," who had been a house servant, and who, having been well reared, taught the boy the principles of good behavior and conduct in a much better way than did most of the white mothers of that day in the South. Until sixteen years of age the lad attended the district schools, after which for three years he was a student in Watson's Seminary at Ashley, Mo. During this period he studied civil engineering, and followed that calling for some time. His next venture was in renting land from his father and raising two crops. His father then offered him a two hundred acre tract if he would clear and improve it, as it was then all wild and heavily timbered. He accepted the proposition, and still cultivates the farm of which he then came into possession.
January 5, 1875, Mr. WHITESIDES married Susan E. PARK, who was born in this county, January 27, 1850, and who departed this life September 5, 1892. She was a daughter of William and Cynthia E. (STEVENS) PARK, natives of Virginia, and was one of thirteen children, four of whom died in early childhood. In 1854 William PARK removed to Hickory County, where he purchased a farm of about six hundred acres, which was confiscated during the war. On account of sectional bitterness he left the county and took up his abode in Lincoln County. In company with his son Perry, be enlisted in the Confederate service early in 1861, and remained until the latter part of the war. He participated in the battles of Lexington, Carthage, Helena and many others. His son was captured in Helena, Ark., July 4, 1863, and was held a prisoner in the old Alton Penitentiary for twenty-three months, when he was exchanged.
To Mr. and Mrs. WHITESIDES have been born five children, as follows: William L., September 25, 1875; Walter D., May 16, 1878; Eva Lee, February 3, 1880; George E., December 5, 1881; and Richard F., November 29, 1883.
Our subject and his three eldest children belong to the Star Hope Baptist Church, with which the wife and mother was also for years identified. Socially Mr. WHITESIDES is a member of the Knights of Honor, being Financial Reporter of Elsberry Lodge No. 3,845.
Biography of Josiah Whitesides; Portrait and Biographical Records of St. Charles, Warren and Lincoln Counties (Chicago: Chapman Pub. Co., 1895) page 432.
ELIJAH WIGGINTON, the subject of this sketch, was born in Spencer County, Ky., August 31, 1854, the eldest of three children born to D.B. and Lue (Birkhead) Wigginton. D.B. Wigginton was born in Spencer County, Ky., January 29, 1827, taught school about two years, then engaged in farming, and died February 5, 1884. He was a son of Elijah, who was born in Virginia, August 23, 1778, immigrated to Kentucky in quite an early day, was one of the first settlers of Spencer County, and was mainly a farmer. He was a member of the Baptist Church, and greatly assisted in building the church at Little Union, Spencer Co., Ky., in 1839, and died September 10, 1855. His wife, Anna Riley, was born in Virginia, January 29, 1785; died February 14, 1856. Our subject's mother was born February 23, 1832, in Spencer County, near Waterford; died January 20, 1862, daughter of Eli and Elizabeth (Clark) Birkhead. Eli Birkhead was born June 19, 1785; died June 20, 1868. His wife, Elizabeth was born February 23, 1799; died November 18, 1876. Elijah Wigginton, our subject, was reared on a farm, and educated at Linland Academy, Military Institute, Hardin County, Ky. He married, May 19, 1880, Carrie Bell Alexander, of Shelby County, daughter of Dr. S. S. and Sue (Malone) Alexander. Dr. Alexander was born March 31, 1838. Sue F., his wife, was born July 10, 1839; died January 5, 1887. Family record: Elijah Wigginton, born August 31, 1854; Carrie B., born June 15, 1859; Gracie A., born February 24, 1881; Samuel D., born December 18, 1882; Lizzie Sue, born October 10, 1884; Adie Bell, born January 14, 1886.
Wigginton Birkhead Riley Clark Alexander Malone = VA Hardin Shelby
Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887, Spencer Co.
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