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JESSE E. EVANS was born in Hopkinsville, Ky., January 23, 1860. He is the youngest of two children of Themas E. and Hally (Adams) Evans. His parents were born in Kentucky ; his father died when Jesse was an infant; his trade was that of a tailor in Hopkinsville. His mother afterward re-married, and Jesse received his education in Hopkinsville. In 1880 he formed a partnership with his maternal uncle, J. M. Adams, at Church Hill, Ky., in the general merchandise business. On Novem- ber 19, 1883 he married Eva L., the youngest daughter of David and Eliza Steger, of Long View Precinct. They reside near the store, and are members of the Reformed Church at Church IIill.
TIENRY A. FARNSWORTH was born near Columbia in Murray County, Tenn., on November 21, 1829, and is one of three children by the first marriage of Samuel A. and Jane (Coward) Farnsworth, of Tennessee. His parents died in Hickman County, Ky. The eldest brother of IIenry is Andrew II., who is living in Henderson County, Tenn, and a sister Mary Jane is now Mrs. Robert Duff, of Limestone County, Tex. Henry remained at home with his parents until he was
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nineteen ; he attended the common schools in winter, and worked on the farm in summer. After leaving home he engaged in contracting for, and the construction of railroads, etc., continuing in this for six years. At .twenty-six years of age, he married Miss Laura H. White, of Tennessee. They have five children, all living : Robert F., Joseph HI., Julia, Rich- ard C. and Emmie. Mr. Farnsworth had a grondfather of the same name who participated in the war of 1812.
E. J. FAULKNER is a native of Trigg County, Ky., where he was born in 1834, but has resided in Christian County about thirty years. His father's name was Ephraim Faulkner and his grandfather's name was John. Mr. Faulkner had seven brothers and sisters. His mother's name was Elizabeth, daughter of Mattie and Caldwell P. Poole, who was a soldier of the Revolution. Mr. Faulkner's parents came at an early day to that part of Christian County which is now Trigg County, and improved a farm there. Mr. Faulkner was educated in the common schools and worked at home on the farm till twenty-one years of age. Then he managed business for others till he acquired sufficient capital to start farming on his own account, buying a farm in 1862. Afterward he sold that farm and bought the one on which he at present resides. On December 9, 1862 he was married to Miss S. C. Mason, the cighth child out of nine of John B. and Belina Mason. Her parents were natives of Virginia, who immigrated here in 1830 ; William Mason, her grandfather, was a Revolutionary soldier. These children have been born to this unior : Faulkner, Ida, Robert and Walter. Mrs. Faulkner died in 1868. In 1869 Mr. Faulkner married Miss Ann F. Mason, the sister of his first wife. He and his son Robert are members of the Church Hill Grange. Mrs. Faulkner is a Baptist.
JOHN W. FOARD was born in Christian County, September 5, 1846, and is a son of Robert and Jane (Hewell) Foard, the former born in North Carolina in 1802, and the latter in Virginia May 12, 1813. His father, Francis Foard (subject's grandfather) was a Revolutionary soldier, and was wounded while in.the service, from the effects of which he suffered until his death in 1833. Robert Foard and family came to Kentucky in 1836 and settled in Trigg County, and two years later re- moved to Christian County and settled near Beverley, where he died March 6, 1870; his widow is still living ; he was a member of the
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Methodist Episcopal Church South, from 1834 to the time of his death, and his wife has been a member since 1329. He was made a Master Mason in 1842, and was a bright and shining light in the order. John W. Foard, the subject, received an English education, and grew to man .. hood on the old homestead at Beverly. He purchased his present home from his brother in 1872. It was formerly known as the old Col. Will- iam Henry place, but has been christened by Mr. Foard as " Hedgefield." He raises tobacco principally, but pays some attention to stock and grain ; he is a charter member of Church IIill Grange and its present Chaplain ; he is a Master Mason, and Treasurer of the lodge at Beverly, and is also a member of the Knights of Pythias, and a member of the Christian Church. Mr. Foard was married October 29, 1868, to Miss Rosa Adams, youngest child of John and Elizabeth (Cayce) Adams. She was educated at South Kentucky College in Hopkinsville. They have had eight children : Daniel W., Walter A., C. H., John R., Lilian L., Jessie W., Lizzie J. and Maggie ; the last three are at home ; Daniel W. and C. H. are dead. Mrs. Foard is a consistent member of the Christian Church. Mr. Foard is one of the stanch citizens of the county, is public-spirited, energetic and an enterprising business man.
JOHN ANDREW GARRETT was born in Dubois County, Ind., on September 15, 1846, and is the third of five children of James and Parmelia Garrett, both of them being natives Gi Ireland. Mr. and Mir1. James Garrett emigrated to Indiana via New York, in 1839. Their fam ily were: James, who married in Missouri, and died there, leaving a wife and two children; Eliza, married and living in Indiana ; Sarah Ann, who married, and died shortly afterward; Mary Ann, married, and living in Indiana; and John Andrew Garrett. He remained at home till he was nineteen, working in the summer and attending school in the winter. At nineteen he enlisted in the Fifty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, under Col. Carr, who was brother-in-law to Gov. O. P. Morton ; he was with Gen, Sherman at the surrender of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston near Raleigh, N. C., and at Atlanta. After the surrender at Appomattox Court House, he was with Sherman's army at the grand review in the City of Washington, and was honorably discharged from the service at Louisville, Ky., and paid off at Indianapolis, Ind. Then he engaged in the saw-mill business in Dubois County, Ind., since then removing oppo-
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site Mt. Vernon, Ind., in Kentucky, cutting walnut lumber; then in Illinois, Iowa, Tennessee and Arkansas, and also where he at present re- sides. Ile was married to Miss Maggie, the fourth of six children of Lawson and Alinetta Downs, of T'rigg County. Mr. Garrett's family now consists of three children, Lester, their third child, dying in infancy.
JOHN CHAMBERS GARY was born in Buckingham County, Va., and is the second of eight children of Robert S. and Mary (Chambers) Gary. Ilis parents removed to Christian County in the fall of 1836, and settled four miles south of Hopkinsville, where they died. John, the subject, was educated in the subscription schools of the neighborhood, and when grown, married, in December, 1851, Miss Eliza, daughter of James and Susan Clark. Her grandfather was a Colonel in the Revolu- tionary war, and the family still preserve with much care his silver shoe and knee buckles. Mr. Gary purchased his present place about the year 1853, and has erected an excellent residence, with the best of out-build- ings. Mr. and Mrs. Gary have had seven children, five of whom are liv- ing, and married.
ROBERT S. GARY was born in Buckingham County, Va., and was one of eight children born to Robert S. and Mary W. (Chambers) Gary, both natives of Buckingham. Of the eight children but five now live. Ilis parents moved here early in the fall of 1836, purchasing a large farm and successfully working it till their death. They were all members of the Baptist Church. Robert was but two years old when the family ar- rived here; he was educated in Russellville College, leaving it in 1854. He began to farm the old family homestead in 1855, since which time he has continued to live upon it and has greatly improved it. In 1857 he married Mattie L., daughter of James and Susan Clark, natives of Chris- tian County, Ky. She was educated in Hopkinsville and Lafayette. They have had twelve children, seven of whom are living. He is a mem- ber of the Church Hill Grange.
J. C. GLASS was born in Hopkinsville, Ky., in 1828, the fourth child of Zachariah and Mary Jane (Clark) Glass, who were natives of Virginia but removed to Kentucky at an early day. ITis maternal grand- mother was a Miss Gaines, a daughter of one of three brothers of that name, who came from Switzerland. They were most probably the ances- tors of all of that name in America. Mr. Glass had two brothers and five
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sisters, both his brothers and one sister having died. The party of Vir- ginian emigrants with whom his parents came to Kentucky, contained 200, of whom 175 were slaves. His maternal grandfather was known as " Richgrove " John Clark. Ile settled with his family seven miles south from Hopkinsville, and was a large man, weighing 350 pounds. He was one of the best-known and most hospitable men of this section, being vis- ited by nearly every one in Christian County. Everything used on his farm was manufactured there-rope, eloth, and tobacco hogsheads. Mr. Glass' paternal grandfather, Thomas Glass, and family settled first near Frankfort, Ky. The Indians, however, drove them from their settlement. and they buried such things as would not injure by contact with the earth ; they returned to Virginia and remained a year. Organizing a large party they came again to Kentucky, and remained in spite of Indi- ans. Mr. Glass' father successfully followed the business of saddlery, merchandise and banking. He finally purchased a large tract of land near Hopkinsville. Mr. Glass has a very pleasant homestead of 500 acres of choice land, on which he cultivates corn, wheat and tobacco. He is a charter member of Church Hill Grange, and he regards it as a good thing for farmers. He is one of ten who stood by and kept it up when interest in it flagged; at its annual stock sales, the Grange has set free dinners to all who attended. The first year the attendance on sale day was 200, the second year 600, and last year there were 4,000 people present. In 1856 he married Miss M. W. Gant, of Hopkinsville. They have two children: Sally (Mrs. J. E. MePherson), and William A., at home. Mr. Glass is very fond of the chase, and is one of an old hunt- ing party formed forty years ago. They still annually take their hunt in the forests of the Southwest.
JOHN R. GREEN was born October 19, 1848, in Union School- house Precinct, and is one of the enterprising farmers of this county ; he is the sixth of twelve children born to John R. and Elizabeth T. (Nelson) Green. His grandfather, Thomas Green, was an early settler in the county, and improved the place now known as " Broad Castle " farm, where John R., Jr., was born, and now resides. John R., Sr., was also born in Christian County, where his life was spent. He was a farmer and merchant, whose energy and systematic business habits were warmly eulogized by all with whom he came in contact. Ile was a Royal Arch
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Mason. His native humor made his society very desirable to all his friends. Ile died February 7, 1875; his wife was born in Virginia, and was a daughter of Dr. Hugh and Mary Ann Nelson, prominent families of that State. John R., Jr., received his elementary education at the hands of a private tutor, Prof. Otto Barthes, after which he attended the Forrest Academy of the city of Louisville, Ky. At the age of nineteen he went to Clarksville, Tenn., where he engaged as shipping clerk for a tobacco dealer. In 1870 he went to Hopkinsville, and there dealt in leaf tobacco until 1875, when, in consequence of the death of his father, he returned to the old homestead, where he has since remained actively engaged in farming, with which he combines general trading in tobacco and stock. In business he has frequently sustained severe loss, but his energy and will have overcome all obstacles, and he is now well established in a prosperous business. On the 24th day of February, 1874, he was married to Miss Lucy Phelps, daughter of Hiram and Cornelia Phelps, of Hopkinsville, where she was born, and where in the Bethel Female College she was educated. They have three children : Cornelia, IInnter Wood and Lizzie Nelson Green.
JOHN WILSON GRESHAM was born in Christian County, Ky., September 22, 1840, and is the fourth of twelve children born to Arehi- bald and Susan (Boyd) Gresham. In 1852 the family removed to Wood- ford County, Ill. John W. was then twelve years old. His mother died in August, 1881, but his father is still living in Illinois. There are nine living children. The subject was educated in the public schools of Illi- nois. He served his country as a soldier in Company E, One Hundred and Eighth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, from August 28, 1862, to September, 1865, and was then honorably discharged at Chicago, Ill. He returned March, 1866, to Kentucky, and in 1874 he purchased his present homestead. He married Miss Fannie Gregory, of this county, on November 19, 1868. She was born February 4, 1842, and is a daughter of Isam and Mary (Hall) Gregory ; she received a common school education. They have three children : Wilbur, born April 5, 1870 ; twins were born May 18, 1872, a boy and girl. The boy died in infancy, and the girl, Minnie May, died, at the age of ten years, of white swelling, on February 21, 1883. When suffering from disease she was visited by a little school-mate. On leaving she said, " I hope next time I
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see you you'll be better, Minnie," to which she replied, " You'll never see me better till I go up yonder." Mr. and Mrs. Gresham are members of the Baptist Church. He has held the office of Deacon several years.
JOHN W. HANBERY was born March 14, 1827, in Trigg County, Ky., and is a son of Thomas Hanbery, a native of Norfolk County, Va. He moved to Kentucky in an early day, and both he and his wife died in Trigg County. John's education was limited and confined to the winter months of the common schools of the neighborhood. He hired ont when but a boy, and thus contributed his mite to the support of his mother's family, his father dying and leaving a large and almost helpless fatnily. This he continued until he was grown. He was married, November 7, 1852, to Miss Eliza Wadlington, who has borne him eight children, five boys and three girls, three of whom are married. Mr. Hanbery is a live, energetic man, and a good farmer. He accumulated considerable prop- erty, but became involved by going security for a friend, lost his all and was left $1,400 in debt. But undaunted by the misfortune, he went to work, commenced again at the bottom of the ladder, to repair his ruined fortune. He rented 1,200 acres of land, bought stock upon which he gave a mortgage, and with the help of his sons, the eldest two being now young men, put in a large crop of wheat, corn and tobacco. This was in the Centennial year (1876), and it seemed to have been a lucky vent- ure, for everything he touched proved prosperous, and his old debts were soon all paid. In 1882 the Courier-Journal mentioned him as probably the largest tobacco-grower in the world. Mr. Ilanbery is a member of the Church IJill Grange and of the Baptist Church.
COL. GANO HENRY is a native of Scott County, Ky., was born February 8, 1820, and is a representative of one of the most prominent families ever in this county. A general sketch of the family precedes this, and details are needless in this sketch. His parents, Gen. William and Cornelia V. (Gano) Henry, removed to Christian County when he was yet an infant. He was educated in the common schools, and at the age of twenty-one years was appointed Sheriff of the county, holding the position three years. Ile was married in 1845 to Miss Harriet Me- Gaughey, the youngest daughter of Col. Arthur MeGaughey, and Julia Hume, his wife. Ilarriet Henry died in 1852, leaving two children- Arthur and Harriet. In May, 1855, he was married to Miss Anna K.
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Davis, of Shelby County, a daughter of Col. Presley and Sarah T. Davis. Four children were born to this last marriage : William, Gano, Mary P. and Annie E. ; the last three live at home; William, the eldest, is dead. Mr. and Mrs. Henry are members of the Baptist Church. In 1854 Mr. Henry was commissioned Colonel by Gov. Morehead and placed upon his staff. In 1858 he was elected President of the Evansville, Henderson & Nashville Railroad, and the next year made a trip to Europe in its in- terest. He held the office until work was stopped on the road by the war. He was appointed one of a Commission by the Legislature, at the session of 1849-50, to lay off' the County of Christian into precinets and fix their boundaries. He has always been a busy, publie-spirited and en- terprising eitizen.
R. W. HENRY, lawyer, Hopkinsville, was born in this county June 12, 1858, and is a descendant of one of the oldest families of Kentucky. Gen. William Henry, his great-grandfather, was born in Charlotte County, Va., April 12, 1761. An extended sketch of the Ilenry family immediately precedes this notice. Maj. R. W. Henry, the father of our subject, was born in Christian County, June 4, 1825. Here he married Fannie Bell and became a planter of considerable note. IIe was a Major in the Confederate service. IIe was captured at Fort Donelson and car- ried a prisoner of war to Indianapolis, Ind., where he died in 1862. Mr. Henry was reared on the farm and educated in the private schools. In 1878 he entered the Law Department of the Cumberland University, from which he graduated the following year. Ile was admitted to praetiee in August, 1879, since which time he has been a member of the Hopkinsville bar. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and also of the Chris- tian Church.
JOIIN N. JOHNSON was born in Louisa County, Va., on Febru- ary 22, 1832, being the fifth of nine children born to Thomas and Eliza- beth (Seargeant) Johnson. Both parents were born in Virginia ; his father dying there in 1847, his mother moved the family, including John, to Beverly, Christian Co., Ky., in 1849. She bought a farm on which they lived three years, but being too small, she sold it, and bought the one on which John now resides. John remained with her as the head of the family till he was twenty-five years old. Ile then married Martha, third child of Pleasant and Sarah (Weathers) Cayee, borrowing the money on
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which to start house-keeping. He resided at home one year longer, and then bought a place near Lafayette, and settled upon it. Here he re- mained thirteen years, till he secured the farm next to his present place, on the cast. He built his residence in 1883; his mother died ten years ago ; he was a charter member of the Lafayette Grange, and is now a member of the Church Hill Grange. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are members of the Christian Church. Mr. Johnson's maternal grandfather was a soldier of the Revolution, and refused to receive any pension. His four grand- parents lived to be very old, each nearly reaching one hundred years, and all finally died without any trace of disease, and simply from old age.
JOHN RICHARD KNIGHIT is a native of old England, and was born in Dudley, Staffordshire, in July, 1843. He is the eldest of five children born to Joseph and Mary Ann Knight (nee Hall). Joseph was an iron-master, and had been brought up to the business by his father, John Knight, who was manager of the iron works at Dudley. IIe and his wife came to America and first stopped in Maryland, where he worked some time in the Mount Savage Iron Works, and while there assisted to make the first "T" rail made in the United States. He afterward worked at Cincinnati, Ettawa, Ga., Cumberland Iron Works, ete. He then bought a farm at Indian Mound, Tenn., where the family resided some years, his wife having died at Ettawa, Ga. After the battle of Fort Don- elson he went to St. Louis, and from there to Louisville, and became Superintendent of the Louisville Iron Works, which position he held un- til his death in 1873. John R., the subject, attended school at Carters- ville, Ga., Marysville, Tenn., and Rose Military School near Clarksville, Tenn. He entered the iron business at Ettawa, Ga., and went with his father to St. Louis and Louisville, and afterward engaged in the same business in Ironton, Ohio, Sharon, Penn., and Chattanooga, Tenn. His last work in iron was at the Hillman Rolling Mill, Lyon County, Ky. He was married, January 28, 1866, to Miss Maggie E. Palmer. They settled at Indian Mound, having inherited the farm from his father, and resided there eight years. He then sold out and purchased his present farm in this county. Mr. and Mrs. Knight have had seven children born to them, six of whom are living.
GEORGE ENOS KNIGHT was born at Mount Savage, Maryland, January 10, 1848. He is the fourth of five children born to Joseph and
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Mary (Hall) Knight. They were natives of England, and emigrated to Maryland in 1843. His mother died in Ettawa, Ga., to which place the family had removed. They then went to Cumberland Iron Works, Ten- nessee, and various other places, finally settling in Louisville, where, after being Superintendent of the Iron Works for ten years his father died. George was educated at the Cumberland Iron Works, Tenn. In 1865 he went to the Louisville Iron Works, and remained there under his father's direction until 1873. His father's death occurred that year, and he received the honors of the Odd-fellows' burial at New Concord, Calloway Co., Ky. George remained at Louisville till 1875, when he came to his present place in Christian County, which he had just pur- chased. He has since engaged in farming and building. On February 16, 1879, he was married to Miss R. J. Shropshire, the oldest daughter of John O. and A. E. Shropshire. Her parents reside at the Tennessee Iron Works, Lyon County, where she was born. They have had one child-George, who died in infancy in 1880. Mrs. Knight is a member of the Christian Church.
COL. ARTIIUR MCGAUGHEY was born in Pennsylvania in 1790. During his infancy his father emigrated to Shelby County, Ky., where his boyhood was spent, and afterward located in Hart County, Ky. He served as a volunteer in the war of 1812, and after the war was commis- sioned Colonel of the militia by Gov. Adair. In 1819 he married Miss Julia Hume, and in 1826 moved to the southern part of Christian County, where he purchased a large tract of land, and spent his ample means building upon and improving an extensive farm. He was a man of a high sense of honor, untiring energy, combined with great delicaey and refinement of feeling. IIe died in 1852. Albert Wallace was born in Culpeper County, Va., in 1800. In 1832 he emigrated to Crittenden County, Ky., and settled on the bank of the Ohio River, where he owned a large tract of land. In 1846 he married Miss Ellen Kenton MeGaughey, of Christian County. In 1856 he moved to the south part of Christian County, and in 1856 to Hopkinsville, where he resided until his death in 1879. He was a man of stern integrity, temperance and purity of life. In his intercourse with men he was dignified, reserved and unobtrusive. Ile was the father of eight children, only four survived infaney, viz .: Julia II., Alfred II., Henry D. and Dr. Howerson Wallace.
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ROBERT H. McGAUGHEY, son of Col. Arthur and Julia P. (Hume) MeGaughey, was born January 26, 1826, at Bacon Creek, Hart County, this State, and the same year his parents removed to this county, he at the time being but three months old. 1Ie was educated principally at Transylvania University, Lexington, graduating in 1846 with honors. He has always followed farming, and owns a good farm in Union School- house Precinct, highly improved and in an excellent state of cultivation. He is a charter member of Church IIill Grange, and ever since its organ- ization he has held the important position of its Treasurer, except for the last two years. When he resigned this office the Grange showed its ap- preciation of his services by presenting him a gold pen, holder and case, which he values highly. He was married, September 9, 1868, to Mrs. Mary J. Green, a daughter of Jefferson and Adelaide Crumpler, of David- son County, Tenn. He is a member, and has been since 1846, of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
JOIIN W. McGAUGHEY, the youngest of six children of Col. Arthur and Julia (Hume) McGanghey, was born July 1, 1832, at his present home "Steadfast." This fine place is situated one mile southeast from Nowstead Postoffice. His father was born April 1, 1790, in Bedford County, Penn., and his mother, Julia P., was born January 1, 1799, in Clark County, Ky. John W., the subject, has followed the occupation of a farmer, being fairly successful. He was married, April 7, 1868, in Christian County, Ky., to Miss Hattie P., daughter of Lindsey and Eliza- beth Kincade. Hattie P. was born September 17, 1845, in Christian County, and had the advantages of the schools of the vicinity. They have had four children, three of whom are living. They are, Henry Hume, Arthur Kenton and Robert Howe. Mr. McGaughey was Magis- trate for three years, beginning with 1880. He is an Elder in the Old School Presbyterian Church, of which he has been a member many years. Mrs. McGaughey is a member of the Reformed Church. Mr. McGaughey has beautified his home by surrounding it with ornamental trees, in which he justly takes great pride.
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