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WILLIAM W. McKENZIE was born in Iredell County, N. C., June 8, 1803; his father, Andrew Mckenzie, was a native of the same county, and died in Trigg County, Ky., in 1817, aged forty-five years. The grandfather of our subject was Andrew Mckenzie, a native of Scotland, who immigrated to America prior to the Revolutionary war, and with his son William participated in that struggle. He died in Christian County, Ky., in 1828, aged ninety-eight years. Elizabeth (Stevenson) Mckenzie, the mother of our subject, was born in Iredell County, N. C., and died in Texas in about 1840. She was the mother of the following children : Mrs. Mary E. Bell, Mrs. Elizabeth L. Girand, William W., Harriet A., Mrs. Agnes L. McCormick, Mrs. Catherine A. Gunnell, Mrs. Jane Stevenson and James L. William W. Mckenzie has been a resident of this county since 1814, having come from his native State with his par- ents in that year ; his early education was limited to such as the pioneer schools of the neighborhood afforded, but by constant reading, observation and experience, he has acquired more than an ordinary education ; he was married, in October, 1827, to Miss Mary C., daughter of Moses Steven- son, of this county, who died in 1838, leaving the following children : Milns E., Francis A., Josiah B., Mrs. Elizabeth A. Cooper and Mrs. Mary W. Sherrell. In 1839 he married Miss Isabella C. Ewing, of Christian County. Mrs. Mckenzie dicd on the 7th of November, 1871, and was the mother of Hon. James A., John F., Mrs. Isabella C. Moss, and Sophia E. Girand. Mr. Mckenzie is one of the most prominent men of Christian County ; he has been a member of the Presbyterian Church for fifty-five
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ยท years, of which time he has for fifty years been a Ruling Elder. He has been a Magistrate of the county for thirty-eight years, County Judge one term, State Senator two years, filling out the unexpired term of Hon. Benjamin H. Bristow, who was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by Gen. Grant.
URIAL L. MAJOR was born in Louisa County, Va., in 1817, and removed with his parents to Christian County, Ky., about 1837, where he departed this life in 1861; he was the son of Charles Major. of Virginia, who died in Christian County, Ky., in 1857, at the age of eighty years. The family are of Irish descent. Subject's wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew Sargeant, of this county, and to them were born: Andrew S., Mollie B. (Clardy), John F., George H., Thomas II., Annie M. and Car- rie E. (Cayee). George H., Major was born in Christian County, Ky., in 1847, and in 1873 was married to Miss Virginia E., daughter of Archer Campbell, of this county, and to them was born William T. After the death of his wife, Mr. Major was married, in 1878, to Miss Mary W., daughter of Walker Carneal, from which union sprang James II. Our subject is a farmer, owning eighty aeres of good land, and is a member of the Christian Church. Thomas II. Major was born on the place where he now resides in Christian County, Ky., April 5, 1850; he was married, October 10, 1872, to Miss Mary W., daughter of Harris W. Killen, of Hopkinsville, Ky., and to them have been born : John K., Lottie A., Lizzie L. and Thomas H. The last-named is a Magistrate in Longview District, and was formerly Constable; he is a farmer, possessing 212 acres of val- uable land, which he is successfully cultivating ; he is also a large dealer in tobacco, handling much of that staple raised in this community, and is of great benefit in furnishing a home market.
HOWARD MAJOR was born December 9, 1843, in Christian County, Ky., on the place where he now resides, and where he grew to manhood. His father, Howard Major, Sr., was born in Madison County, Va., in 1811, removed with his parents to Christian County, Ky., in 1826, and here died in 1871. He was the son of Charles Major, who was born in Virginia, and died in this county in 1857 at the age of eighty- two years. The family are descended from English parents, who came to America, married and left a respectable family. Subject's mother, Rachel A., daughter of James McDonald, of Christian County, Ky., was born
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in 1814, and is still living. To herself and husband were born : Patrick II., Emily B. (married first to Myers, then to Tatum), Adie E. (Hester), our subject, Alice (Ward), Leah (Cayce), Maggie E. (Bradshaw), Ida (Cayce), Dinnie and Lester. Howard Major was married, October 25, 1866, to Miss Virginia, daughter of George W. Cayce, of this county, and from this union sprang : Erastus, George W., Samuel A., Charles and Ruth. Mr. Major is a farmer possessing 151 acres of valu- able land, which yields abundantly any of the products of this latitude. He is a member of the Christian Church.
MERIWETHER A. MASON was born March 1, 1853, on the Springhill Place, three miles from Hopkinsville, in Christian County, Ky. He is the son of William B. Mason, who was born in Todd County, Ky., in 1814, and died in this county in 1877. The Masons are an old Virginia family of high standing. Subject's mother, Sarah N. (Ander- son), of Todd County, Ky., was born in 1817, and is still living. 1Ier children are William B., Clinton T. and subject. Mr. Mason was mar- ried, February 28, 1878, to Miss Lulu J., daughter of William W. and Mary E. (Watkins) Wills, of Christian County, and to them have been born : Sadie, Meriwether A., Jr., and Lizzie E. Our subjeet was favored with a good business education. By profession he is a farmer, owning about 1,300 acres of first-class land, the cultivation of which he superin- tends in such a manner as to make the business profitable. He is a relia- ble gentleman, and a member of the Loeust Grove Baptist Church.
WILLIAM M. MASSIE, of Barker's Mill, was born in Shelby County, Ky., in 1814, and removed with his parents to Todd County, in the same State, in 1818, thence to Christian County in 1859. He is the son of Ilugh Massie, who was born in Virginia, and died in Todd County, Ky., in 1843, at the age of sixty-three years, and Mary Royster, of Vir- ginia, who died about 1838. Their children are : Elizabeth (Durrett), William M., Littleberry, Jolin and Martha (Crouch). In 1842 William M. was married to Miss Elizabeth B., daughter of William B. Sims, of Todd County, Ky., and from this union have sprung: Mary, William, B., Martha (Boone), Henry E., Charles G., Addison E., Ida (Elgin), and Eddie S. Massie. Mr. Massie is a farmer, possessing 424 aeres of good land. He is a member of the Christian Church, and in politics is a Democrat.
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JAMES MEDLEY. The Medley family, as represented by the one of this name in Christian County, Ky., is an old Virginia family, of English and French origin. They were among the old Colonial settlers of Virginia ; shared in the struggle for independence, and filled posi- tions of honor in the councils of State. It is recorded of Isaac Medley, one of the founders of the family in Virginia, that " he was a man of extraordinary mental endowments ; patriotic and public-spirited ; a mem- ber of the, House of Burgesses, and a commissioned officer in the old war." This family has descended, for the last four or five generations, in an un- broken succession from three ancestral families, viz. : Medley, Edwards, and Cook. The Medley and Edwards forefathers emigrated from Eng- land at the same time. The Cooks came from France, and all three fam- ilies were among the old Colonial settlers. Isaac Medley, the bead of the family in Kentucky, was a son of Isaac and Nancy (Cook) Medley, and inherited all the sterling characteristics of his ancestors. He was born in Halifax County, Va., October 7, 1805, and died at Hardcastle, Christian County, Ky., May 29, 1879. His wife, A. Caroline (Edwards) Medley, was a daughter of Stephen and Sarah (Cook) Edwards. She was born in Hali- fax County, Va., January 14, 1819, and died at Hardcastle, Christian County, May 29, 1870. Their children are : Sallie M. (Dennis), Eliza- beth C., Charles E., Virginia C., James, and Granville E. James Med- ley, the subject of this sketch, was born in Stewart County, Tenn., August 21, 1852. His father, Isaac Medley, moved from Virginia in the year 1851, and settled in 1855 at Hardcastle, Christian County, the present residence of James Medley. This was one of the first settled, and is also one of the finest tracts of land in south Christian. Among the pioneer settlers of the place was an old bachelor named Coleman, who, it is thought from the hardness of his own character, as well as that of his associates, gave the place its name of Hardcastle. It was after- ward owned by Dr. Edward Rumsey ; then by Mr. Edward Green; and from him it was purchased by Isaac Medley.
JAMES M. MONTGOMERY. The grandfather of this gentleman was Dr. Francis G. Montgomery, a graduate of the Transylvania Univer- sity, an early settler of Christian County, a physician of prominence, and at one time Superintendent of the Hospital for the Insane near Hop- kinsville ; he died in 1865; his son, and father of our subject, was
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Abraham Montgomery, a native of Hopkinsville, who was assistant at the asylum with his father ; he died in Hopkinsville in 1870, aged thirty-nine years. James M. Montgomery was born in Hopkinsville, Ky., March 26, 1860, and here he was reared until he was fifteen years of age, and then moved to Louisville and lived with his uncle, Judge Henry J. Stites, and then attended the high schools. On the 14th of January, 1883, he married Miss Lizzie W., daughter of James W. and Sarah F. (Radford) Moore ; he is the owner of a farm of 164 acres of good land, upon which he resides, engaged in agricultural pursuits.
JAMES W. MOORE was born in Buckingham County, Va., in 1806, and in 1816 came to Kentucky with his parents, who settled in Christian County on the farm " The Cedars," where he has since resided, and followed the occupation of a farmer. Besides having divided a large tract of land among his children, he is now the owner of 300 acres. In 1832 he married Mary Harrison, of Montgomery County, Tenn., who died leaving the following children, viz .: Benjamin D., James C., Mrs. Mary Montgomery and William H. On the 6th of June, 1850, he mar- ried Sarah F. (daughter of Reuben Radford, of this county), who has borne him the following children : Robert L., born in 1854; Mrs. Elizabeth W. Montgomery, born in 1862, and Frank R., born in 1864. Capt. Benjamin Moore, the father of our subject, was born in Virginia, and died in this county in 1831, aged seventy-two years; he served in the Revolutionary war; his wife, and mother of our subject, was Sarah (Jones) Moore ; she died in this county, and was the mother of William, Mrs. Nancy Jones, Robert, Mrs. Martha Gordon, John, Ilenry, Thomas, Benjamin, David, Jefferson, James W., Mrs. Lucy Summers and Mrs. Mary P. Buckner.
CHARLES O'NEAL is a native of Montgomery County, Tenn., born September 10, 1814. His father, Thomas H. O'Neal, was a native of Rockingham County, N. C., born in 1784. He came to Tennessee in his youth, served in the home guards against the Indians; was a pilot from Clarksville on the river to New Orleans, La., and walked from New Orleans to Tennessee fourteen times. He died near Clarksville in 1875; he was a son of Peter O'Neal, of Irish descent, who died in Rockingham County before 1800. The mother of our subject was Priscilla (Brantley) O'Neal, a native of Montgomery County, Tenn. She died in 1871,
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aged seventy-eight years, leaving the following children : Peter, Charles, William, Mary and John. Charles O'Neal was educated in the common schools, and is a farmer by occupation, having accumulated 827 aeres of land, which he divided among his children. He was married on the 15th of October, 1844, to Miss A E. Radford, daughter of Reuben and Sarah F. Radford, who died on the 1st of October, 1883, leaving the following children : Levette L., Laura, Charles and Walter. Mr. O'Neal was reared in Montgomery County, Tenn., and has been a resident of Chris- tian County since 1844.
LEVETTE L. O'NEAL is a son of Charles O'Neal, a sketch of whom appears above, and was born in Christian County, Ky., October 1, 1850. Ile was reared on the farm of his father, and was educated in the com- mon schools ; he is now engaged in farming and is the owner of 168 acres of good land, which is under a high state of cultivation. In 1873 he married Miss Mary E., daughter of Grant Smith, and has been blessed with two children : Edna and Levette J.
JAMES S. PARRISH was born near Gallatin, Sumner County, Tenn., February 2, 1827, and came to Christian County with his parents in 1833. They settled on his present farm where he has since resided. He is one of the practical farmers of the precinct, and his farm, " Aspen Plains," which contains 462 acres, is one of the best in the county. He was married in December, 1848, to Miss Zerilda, daughter of Drury West. She died in November, 1854, leaving the following children : Henry W., Charles B. and Mrs. Mary P. Ragsdale. In 1856 he married Miss Mar- garet Poindexter, who died in 1870. In 1871 he married Miss Jane D. Ward, of Montgomery County, Tenn., who died February 9, 1884. The father of our subject, David W. Parrish, was a native of North Car- olina, and was reared in Wilson County, Tenn. ; he died in this county, in 1877, aged eighty-six. He was a soldier of the war of 1812; his wife, and mother of our subject, was Luhlda Hunt, a native of Sumner County, Tenn., who died in this county, and was the mother of the fol- lowing children : Mrs. Eliza Donaldson, Mrs. Elizabeth Gilmore, Mrs. Martha Clarke, Mrs. Mary Roberts, James S., Fannie, Mrs. Lucretia Whitlock and Mrs. Amelia C. Mckenzie. Mr. Parrish is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and of the Baptist Church.
WILLIAM B. RADFORD. The father of this gentleman, Will- iam Radford, was born in Buckingham County, Va., in 1799, where he lived
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to the age of fifteen years, and then (1814) came with his parents to Chris- tian County, Ky., where he died in 1875. His father, William Radford, and grandfather of our subject, died in 1837, aged seventy-five years. The mother of our subject was Mary, daughter of Buckner and Mary Killebrew. She was born in Montgomery County, Tenn., and died in this county in 1872, aged seventy-two years. She was the mother of the following children : Mrs. Sarah E. McGuire. William B., Mrs. Eliza J. Steger and James M., now deceased. William B. Radford was born at his present residence, "Long View," on the 7th of March, 1824. He received a good business education ; is now engaged in agricultural pursuits, and is the owner of 900 acres of land. He was married on the 13th of December, 1853, to Miss Sicily A., daughter of Abraham and Mary McElroy, of this county, who has borne him the following children : Annie, Henry, MeElroy, Dr. William, Mollie and Edna. Mr. Radford is an active member of the order A. F. & A. M.
WILLIAM EDWARD RAGSDALE is a son of William J. and Emily J. (Tillotson) Ragsdale, both natives of North Carolina, who after their marriage removed to Tennessee and settled in Montgomery County, on the line between that and Christian County, where they remained but a short time and removed to Stewart County, Ky., and finally to Trigg County, where he died in 1853 and she in 1868. William J. Ragsdale was by trade a wheelwright, though he devoted his time and attention to farming and trading; he had a family of nine children, two of whom died in infancy ; the remaining seven are all residents of this county, viz .: Elizabeth F., Lucy A., Mary H., James S., William E., Emily and Rebecca E. William E. Ragsdale was born July 31, 1847 ; he com- menced life as a farmer, and now in connection he is extensively engaged in trading, and doing one of the largest tobacco broker's businesses in this seetion of the State ; he has been a resident of Christian County since 1867, and though his office and tobacco business are carried on in Hop- kinsville, he resides at his beautiful farm, "Woodlawn," which contains 526 acres of good land, located on the Clarksville and Hopkinsville pike. On the 20th of November, 1866, he married Miss A. E. Collins, a native of Christian County, born in 1849. They have been blessed with five children.
HORACE P. RIVES was born in Montgomery County, Tenn., on January 20, 1845, and is a son of IIenry A. and Eleanor P. (Tillotson)
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Rives. The grandfather was Stephen Rives, and was born in Virginia; be moved to Tennessee in 1829, where he subsequently died. The father was born in Virginia in 1816, and came to Tennessee with his father ; he is now living in Montgomery County, that State. The mother was born in Virginia ; died in Montgomery County, Tenn., in 1882. To her were born the following children : Mildred E., W. M., Stephen E. and Horace P. (subject). Horace P. attended school in Kentucky, where he graduated and afterward followed surveying ; he is now quite an exten- sive farmer and tobacco-grower, and owns about 350 acres; he was mar- ried to Miss Mary E. Pendleton. Two children blessed this union- Willie and May. Mrs. Rives died in 1875, and Mr. Rives was next married to Miss Nannie A. Garrott, a daughter of Robert W. Garrott. To this union were born two children-Ilarry A. and Maggie. Mr. Rives is a Democrat.
EDWIN W. STEGER was born February 22, 1841, on his present homestead in Christian County, Ky., which has always been his residence. His father, William M. Steger, was born in Buckingham County, Va., in 1817, and removed to this county in 1833, where he died in 1877. He was the son of William Steger, who lived and died in Virginia. Subject's mother, Maria L., daughter of Andrew Sargeant, of Virginia, is still living in Christian County, Ky. Her children are: Mary F. (Gary), William A., Jennie A. (West), our subject, Idella (Bard), Elvira (Pierce), Maria L. and John T. In 1868, subject was married to Miss Sallie E., daughter of William and Mary (Gary) Glover, of Trigg County, Ky., and to them were born : Ernest W., William A., Edwin T., James O. and Mary B. Since the death of Mrs. Steger, September 10, 1873, Mr. Steger has remained unmarried. He is by profession a farmer, and owns 200 aeres of very productive land, which he cultivates successfully in tobacco, wheat and corn. Mr. Steger is a member of the Masonic fraternity, also of the Knights of Honor. In religion he is a Baptist, and in politics a Demo- crat.
JOHN QUARLES TIIOMAS, M. D., was born January 3, 1842, near Garrettsburg, Christian Co., Ky., where he grew to manhood, and commenced the study of medicine with Dr. D. W. Quarles, with whom he remained two years ; then attended the Shelby Medical College, at Nashville, Teun., where he graduated in 1861, after which he entered the
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Army as Assistant Surgeon, and after having served in that position for two years was promoted to the office of Major, in the late war. In 1874 . he commenced the practice of his profession at Garrettsburg, in this county, where he remained two years, and then settled on his present location, near Longview, where he is engaged in the practice of medicine and sur- gery. His father, John J. Thomas, was born in 1813, in Albemarle County, Va., came to Christian County, in 1829, which county he sub- sequently represented in the Legislature, and now resides in Paducah. Subject's mother, Lucy M., daughter of Col. Garrett M. Quarles, born in Louisa County, Va., and died in this county in 1848. Her father was a Colonel in the war of 1812. To subject's parents were born : Lt .- Col: Lewis M., who died during the war; our subject, Pendleton, Annie M. (Quigley) and Katie. Dr. Thomas was married, April 29, 1869, to Miss Mary, daughter of Hiram A. Phelps, of Hopkinsville, Ky., and to them have been born : Lewis M., Hiram P., John and Marion A. The Doctor is also a farmer, having 160 acres of good land. He is a Royal Arch Mason, and also a member of the Knights of Honor. He owns a kennel of thorougbred Llewellyn setter dogs, and takes great pleasure in shooting.
CHARLES H. WALDEN was born in Halifax County, Va., Janu- ary 2, 1832, and was there reared and educated. In 1852 he came to Christian County, Ky., where he remained four years, and then removed to Tennessee; in 1857 he returned to this county, where he has since re- sided, engaged in farming. On the 4th of July, 1859, he was married to Miss Celina, daughter of Llewellyn Williams, of Christian County, to whom were born : Harry C. and Laura A. Miss Laura was educated at Anchorage, Ky., and is now teaching at Washington, D. C. Mrs. Wal- den is in Washington at the head of the flower-seed department. Mr. Walden is Deputy County Clerk. His father, Samuel B. Walden, was born in Halifax County, Va., in 1802, where he engaged in farming to the time of his death, which occurred in 1859. The grandfather of our subject was William Walden, a native of King and Queen County, Va., but lived the most of his life in Halifax County, where he was a Magistrate for forty-five years, and where he died in 1845, aged seventy- eight years; he was a participant in the war of 1812. The mother of our subject was Sallie (Flemming) Walden, of Prince Edward County,
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Va. She died in Halifax County in 1832, and was the mother of the following children : William B., Mrs. Martha A. Parrish, George A. . and Charles II. The father's second marriage was to Miss Nancy Mc- Cutchen, who was the mother of Richard M., Mrs. Emiline King and Samuel V. Walden.
BENJAMIN A. WHITLOCK was born in Christian County, Ky., September 17, 1843; his father, Capt. John R. Whitlock, a native of Buckingham County, Va., was born March 13, 1797. In 1810 he emi- grated to Greene County, Ky., and in 1816 he removed to Christian County, where he resided a respected and honored citizen to the time of his death in 1878. He had been a resident of the county for sixty-two years, during which time he was at the head of the militia, and a suc- cessful farmer. His first wife died in 1840; she was a daughter of Will- iam B. Radford, Sr., of Longview, and mother of the following children : William T., John R., Elmira (Beasley), Rufus M., James and Lucy. In 1842 Capt. Whitlock married Sicily H., youngest daughter of Benjamin Radford, of Christian County, but at that time widow of Fielding Bacon, of Trigg County, with two children-Ann F. (Clardy, Newstead, Ky.) and William J. Bacon. She was born in Virginia in 1807, and is the mother also of Benjamin A., Sallie J. and Emma (Garnett) Whitlock. Benjamin A. Whitlock was reared and educated in Christian County, where he resided till 1867, when he engaged successfully in tobacco spec- ulation in Trigg, Caldwell and Crittenden Counties, and later in banking business at Cadiz, Ky. On the 5th of September, 1870, he married Miss Saidee Barker Faxon, daughter of Lucy A. (Steele) and Charles Faxon, of Clarksville, Tenn. They have no children, having lost two the first few years after their marriage. He returned to Longview, Christian County, in April, 1873, and engaged in cultivating an excellent farm which he owns, and on which he still resides. IIe is a member of the I. O. O. F., and a Mason; he unites with Salem Baptist Church ; his wife is a member of the Episcopal Church.
S. T. WINFREE was born in Powhatan County, Va., March 7, 1819, where he was reared, educated and married. In 1841 he moved to Sumner County, Tenn., and subsequently to Christian County in 1845, where he has since remained. He is a farmer and is the owner of 1372 acres of land. In 1840, in his native county, he married Miss Elmira
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B., daughter of William B. Atkinson, who has borne him the following children : William P., John W., James H., George W., Mrs. Jennie V. Gray, Mrs. Irene T. Durrett, Mrs. Florence L. Callnon, Mrs. Mary E. Gray, Julius R., Thomas S., Mrs. Susan T. Cunningham, Matthew F., Alexander A. and Carrie E. Woodson M. Winfree, the father of our subject, was born in Powhatan County, Va., where he died in 1858. He was a soldier of the war of 1812, and his father, John Winfree, was in the Revolutionary war. Serena (Farley) Winfree was a native of Pow- hatan County, and was the mother of the following children : Mrs. Maria Farley, Robert M., Shurvin T., William A., Alexander, Nancy, Mrs. Susan Sweeney and Matthew.
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SAMUEL BLAIR was born in Lafayette Precinct, this county, Sep- tember 13, 1848, and is a son of Evan B. and Winnifred (Fletcher) Blair. Evan B. Blair was born in Montgomery County, Tenn., a son of John and Susanah (Bowles) Blair. John Blair came from Maryland when a young man ; raised a large family in Montgomery County ; was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and was highly respected in his community. The grandfather of Gen. Francis P. Blair and Hon. Mont- gomery Blair was his brother. The family originally came from Scot- land. Evan B. Blair came to this county in 1846, where he resided until his death, November 8, 1866. He was married to Priscilla Fletcher in 1834, by whom he had four children, three of whom survived him, viz. : Mrs. N. L. Stevens of this county, and Mrs. S. B. Elliott and John T. Blair, of Humboldt, Tenn. Mrs. Priscilla (Fletcher) Blair died in the early part of the year 1840, and in the latter part of the same year Evan B. Blair married her sister, Winnifred Fletcher, by whom he had six children, three of whom are now living, viz .: Samuel, James W., at Humboldt, Tenn., and Mrs. Priscilla Bumpuss in Obion County, Tenn. Mrs. Winnifred Blair died October 21, 1870. Samuel Blair assisted on the home farm until about 1870, when he assumed control of it and remained there the most of the time until 1882, when he came to Bennetts- town, and has since been merchandising ; he was married in Bennettstown, April 2, 1879, to Miss Virginia R. Bennett, a daughter of Stephen and Anne B. (Otterson) Bennett, both natives of Halifax County, Virginia. Stephen Bennett was of English-Scotch descent; his ancestors came to Halifax County some time prior to the Revolution, and Robert Bennett and William Hardwick, his paternal and maternal grandfathers, both served in that conflict ; his father, Jolin Bennett, served in the war of 1812. They each fought for this country against the British ; served their full time, and brought home an honorable discharge. Stephen Bennett came to this county in 1841; was married to a daughter of
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