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position as that filled, and well filled, by Judge Stites. Arnold says : ' To accustom a number of persons to the intelligent exercise of attending to and comparing and weighing evidence, and to the moral exercise of being placed in a high and responsible situation invested with one of God's own attributes, that of judgment, and having to determine with authority between truth and falsehood, right and wrong, is to furnish them with very high means of moral and intellectual culture ; in other words, it is providing them with one of the highest kinds of education.' The people of Louisville are very familiar with the perfect exhibition on the part of Judge Stites of those high and ennobling qualities. They rejoice to know that in him they have an npright, learned and incorruptible judicial officer, in whose hands all the interests committed to him are secure of sound and honest legal action. They all, one and all, join in saying to him : 'Well done, good and faithful servant of the people.' The ermine could not more appropriately fit the person of any one."
COL. L. A. SYPERT. (For sketch see chapter on the war history of Christian County.)
GEORGE O. THOMPSON. No proper history of the business interests of Hopkinsville could be written without mention being made of the man whose name heads this sketch, and whose portrait appears else- where. Beginning at the age of eighteen to learn the trade of cabinet- maker, by industry and business sagacity, and notwithstanding many reverses (principally by fire), he has risen to the distinction of being one of the wealthy men in the city of Hopkinsville. He was born in Virginia December 23, 1805, and though nearly eighty years old, is still in active business. In 1811 his parents, Charles and Ann (Graves) Thompson, carne to Christian County and settled four and a half miles north of IIop- kinsville, where they lived until 1834, when they removed to Hancock County, Ill., where the father died in 1844, and where the mother also died a few years later. But four of the nine children born to them are now living, viz. : W. G. Thompson, of Bloomington, Ill. ; Albert Thomp- son, of Carthage, Ill .; James II. Thompson, of Winterset, Iowa, and George O., of Hopkinsville. Our subject engaged in the manufacture and sale of furniture in Hopkinsville in 1835, and has been at the head of that line of trade continuously until the present, or about fifty years. From 1838 until 1870 he was associated with H. H. Coleman. He was
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married in 1835, to Margaret Phaup, daughter of John and Sarah Phaup. She was born in Hopkinsville, Ky., in 1815, and there died in 1846, leaving five children : James J. Thompson, of Collin County, Tex .; Bettie (wife of James MeElwain of Todd County, Ky.) ; Ellen (deceased wife of W. C. Graves, died May, 1881) ; Charles Thompson, of Hopkinsville, Ky .; and Maggie (wife of Virgil A. Garnett of Pembroke, Ky.). IIis present wife, Martha J., daughter of Roger Thomson, to whom he was married .in 1848, was born in Christian County, Ky., in 1823. Mr. Thompson is a member of the Baptist Church and Mrs. Thompson of the Southern Presbyterian.
GEORGE V. THOMPSON, son of James E. and Jane Thompson, was born August 20, 1832, in Trigg County, Ky. His paternal grand- father, James Thompson, carne from Virginia to Logan County, Ky., being among the earliest settlers of that county ; thence he moved to the town of Cadiz in Trigg County, in which he died. James E. Thompson was his second son and was born February 25, 1805. He married Jane Hill in October, 1826. She was born March 2, 1805, and died on the 24th of September, 1841. Their children were : Zebulon, George V., Bettie, Cornelia J., and Thomas C. Thompson. The second marriage of James E. Thompson was to Miss Elizabeth A. Burbridge, who bore him Walter, Sallie and James E. Thompson, Jr. After the death of this wife Mr. Thompson then married Mrs. Lovisa Rodgers. He died in Trigg County October 5, 1881. IIe served as Cireuit and County Clerk of Trigg County, for a period of twenty years; was twice elected to the office of County Judge, and represented that county in the State Legisla- ture. lle was a ruling member in the Baptist Church, and an honored member of the Masonie fraternity. George V. Thompson was reared in Trigg County, and in 1853 was married to Miss Elizabeth O. Ellis, daughter of Nicholas and Mary Ellis. Nicholas Ellis was a son of the Rev. Įra Ellis, of whom mention is elsewhere made, and was born Sep- tember 1, 1796, in Virginia. He removed to Kentucky in 1829 and died in 1849. In 1819 he married Mary Gunn, who was born in 1800 in North Carolina, and who is now a resident of Hopkinsville. Elizabeth O. (Ellis) Thompson was born in Christian County, Ky., August 1, 1834. Mr. George V. Thompson has a family of three children : Benjamin, Emma (wife of F. H. Bristow), and Olivia Thompson. Ile eanie to Hop-
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kinsville in 1863 and has since been a resident of the town, and engaged in the leaf tobacco commission business. Ile is an honored member of the A. F. and A. M., and both he and his wife are members of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church South.
ALFRED V. TOWNES was born December 24, 1837, in Madison- ville, Hopkins Co., Ky .; his father, Alfred Townes, bern in North Car- olina June 8, 1794, descends from an English family on his father's side ; his maternal ancestry being the Hopkins family, of Irish origin, among the descendants of whom was Stephen Hopkins, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of whom the Breckinridge family of Kentucky is a branch. The mother of our subject, Ann Maclin, is a descendant of the family of James Taylor, who came from Carlisle, England, in the seventeenth century, settling in Virginia. Ann Maclin was born in 1800, March, 18, in Mecklenburg County, Va. She and Alfred Townes were married in Virginia, March 31, 1836, and to them were born two children-the subject and a sister, Ann Eliza, a resident of Madison, Ky., and wife of Richard McClanahan. Alfred Townes died June 19, 1872, and his wife March 16, 1864. Alfred V. Townes was educated in Greenville, Ky., and Danville, of same State, and has devoted his time largely to surveying, being a practical civil engineer. In the fall of 1861 he entered the Federal Army as a private in the Third Kentucky Cav- alry, but was early commissioned First Lieutenant of Alexander's Bat- tery, then to acting Major of the Tenth Kentucky Cavalry. He was mustered out in 1864 ; he then enlisted as a private in the Seventeenth Kentucky Cavalry, but soon received the appointment of Lieutenant and acting Assistant Quartermaster in the Second Division of the Kentucky Department, under command of Gen. E. Murray. Mr. Townes was mar- ried, February 4, 1874, to Lucy A. Lander, daughter of William and Kate Lander. She was born in Christian County, Ky., December 12, 1842. They have but three children: Kate Maclin, Willie V., and Alfred HI. Townes. Mr. Townes is the last surviving member of a Pres- byterian Church once formed at Madisonville, Hopkins County.
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JOHN D. TYLER was born December 25, 1826, in Montgomery County, Tenn. ; his parents were Richard K. and Lucy Q. (Redld) Tyler. The Tyler family is of English origin, and was first represented in the United States in the colonial days, during which a branch of the family
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settled in Caroline County, Va. Richard K. Tyler, Sr., the grand- father of our subject, served as a soldier through the war of 1812; he had a family of three sons and one daughter, Richard K., Jr., being the youngest. This family settled in Montgomery County, Tenn., about 1816, and there the parents died. Philip Redd and wife (nee 'Temple), were the parents of Lucy Q. Redd, and maternal grandparents of subject. Philip Redd was also a soldier in the war of 1812, and came to Ken- tucky from Virginia about 1818, his wife having previously died in Vir- ginia, after which he married Lucy Hackett. He settled near the pres- ent site of Cadiz, in Trigg County (then Christian County), where he died. Richard K. Tyler, Jr., and Lucy Q. Redd were married in 1822, and he settled in Montgomery County, Tenn., where he engaged for some years in agricultural pursuits, and where in 1829 his wife died, leaving two children : John D., and a sister who became the wife of Ira Ellis, both of whom are deceased, leaving but one descendant, a son, who re- sides in 'Trigg County, Ky. Richard K. afterward married Miss Minerva R. Waddell, of Trigg County. He died on October 28, 1878, and she in December, 1879. John D. Tyler was educated first under his uncle, John D. Tyler, and later in the Cumberland College, at Princeton, Ky. He qualified for the profession of the law, was admitted to practice in 1847, but abandoned the law to devote his time to agriculture, and is now an extensive land-owner in Christian and Trigg Counties. He retired from the farm in 1881, at which time he removed to Hopkinsville. He was first married in 1847 to Miss Helen M., daughter of Asbury and Mary Harpending. She was a native of Caldwell County, Ky., and died in 1870, in Trigg County. His present wife, to whom he was married June · 3, 1873, is Lizzie M., daughter of Col. W. S. and Mary P. Moore. She was born in October, 1841, in Alabama, but reared from infancy on the old " Elk Grove " farm in Christian County. They have two chil- dren : Mary Moore and Richard K. Tyler. Mr. Tyler is an honored member of the Masonic fraternity.
CAPT. BENJAMIN T. UNDERWOOD, the youngest in a family of fourteen children born to John and Mary (Teague) Underwood, is a native of Shelby County. Ky., and was born November 2, 1823. His early life was spent at home assisting to till the soil of the home farm, and receiving such an education as could be obtained from the common schools of the
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period. In 1842 he left his home in Shelby County and settled in Hop- kinsville, engaging in mercantile pursuits, a business he carried on for thirty years with varied success. In September, 1861, he enlisted in the Federal Army, and organized Company A of the Twenty-fifth Kentucky Infantry, and was chosen Captain of his company ; he resigned after the battle of Pittsburg Landing in 1862, and returned home. In 1880, he was elected to the office of Circuit Clerk of Christian County, which office he is now filling with credit to himself and the satisfaction of the people. He has been twice married : in 1844 to Ethelinda C. Campbell, who died in 1867, leaving one son -- George B., now a resident of Hop- kinsville. In 1869 he married Martha J., widow of Dr. William Ran- dolph and a daughter of Capt. C. W. Roach. This union has been blessed with one child -- Thomas Underwood.
JOE WEILL was born in 1846 in Bavaria, Germany, to Jacob and Barbara Weill. The first eighteen years of his life were spent in Ger- many, where he was educated. In 1864 he came to the United States, and located in the city of Louisville, Ky., to which place he was fol- lowed by his parents in 1866; there his mother died the following year ; his father is still a resident of that place. Joe Weill began business in Louisville as a clothier, but remained but a short time, when he removed to Newnan, Ga. ; there he conducted business until coming to Hopkins- ville in 1869. From the latter date until 1878 he was here engaged in merchandising. He is now the proprietor of a livery and feed stable on Nashville Street. Mr. Weill is a straightforward business man, a member of the llopkinsville Lodge, No. 37, A. F. & A. M., and also of the I. O. O. F.
WILLIAM GORDON WIIEELER, M. D., is a son of Dr. James Wheeler, and was born in Talladega County, Ala., on the 28th of Octo- ber, 1841. In 1843 he was brought to Christian County by his parents, and was here reared. He was educated at the University of Virginia, and took a course of lectures at the Medical University of Toronto, Canada, and also at the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, graduating from the former in 1866, and from the latter in 1867. In 1867 he entered upon the practice of his profession in this county, and continued the same in connection with farming until 1873, when he came to Hopkinsville and engaged in the tobacco and grain commission business, and since 1878 he
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has been associated with J. N. Mills. He was a soldier in the late Civil war, enlisting October 8, 1861, in the First Kentucky Cavalry, Confeder- . ate States Army, commanded by Col. Ben Hardin Helm, and served with him until October, 1862, when he was commissioned Captain in the Signal Corps, and served with Kirby Smith and John C. Breckinridge. In the winter of 1864, on account of disability, he resigned and returned home. He was engaged in the battles of Shiloh, Murfreesboro, and Richmond, Ky. In Clarksville, Tenn., on the 15th of November, 1876, he married Miss Anna G. Auchenleck, daughter of Melville Auchenleck, of Scotch descent. She was born in Clarksville, Tenn., July 20, 1853, and is the mother of one child-Emily, born August 4, 1877. Dr. Wheeler is an active member of the order A. F. & A. M., Lodge No. 37, and is a mem- ber of the Episcopal Church.
W. A. WILGUS was born April 12, 1859, in Cadiz, Ky., and is a son of T. J. Wilgus and Eliza (Kelly) Wilgus ; the latter was born and reared in Warren County, Ky., but was of an old Virginia family, and the former (Mr. Wilgus), was born in Russellville, Ky., and removed to Cadiz several years prior to the late Civil war. W. A. Wilgus, the sub- ject, was educated in the schools of Cadiz, and during his vacations and at odd times learned something of the printing business in the office of the old Cadiz Democrat. In October, 1877, he came to Hopkinsville, and accepted a position with Col. J. M. Dodd, editor of the Hopkinsville Dem- ocrat. After six months he was appointed foreman of the office, and at the expiration of fourteen months formed a partnership with W. T. Townes and bought out Col. Dodd. They started the South Kentuckian, Janu- ary 1, 1879, since which time he, in connection with Charles M. Meacham, · has continued the same. In another part of this work will be found a sketch of the paper. Mr. Wilgus is an enterprising and energetic young business man, and deserves well of the people of the city and county. He was married, June 28, 1883, to Miss Sallie P. Cook, only daughter of Dr. E. R. Cook.
DR. M. W. WILLIAMS is a son of Josiah and Cynthia (Vaughan ) Williams ; he is a native of Tennessee, and she of Alabama. They were the parents of twelve children, of whom the following are now living : Indiana, the wife of William Cowan, of Tennessee; Rufus B., a pho- tographer of Winchester, Tenn .; Martin L .; Jasper M., a teacher ;
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Thomas E., a farmer; Jennie, Jerry P., Josiah C. and Cynthia. Dr. Williams (subject) is a native of Winchester, Franklin Co., Tenn., born June 7, 1855; he was educated in the University of the South, at Sewanee, . Tenn., and studied dental surgery in Winchester, under the preceptorship of Dr. C. P. Baird; entered the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery in 1876, and graduated from the institution in March, 1877. He immedi- ately entered upon the practice of his profession at Baltimore, and in 1879 came to Hopkinsville, where he has built up a large and lucrative practice. May 2, 1882, he married Miss Daisy, daughter of Capt. Darwin and Mary (Walker) Bell, of Christian County. Mrs. Williams is a native of this county, and is the mother of one child, viz .: Marion Walker Williams, born October 11, 1883.
RICHARD HI. WILSON was born May 8, 1834, in Lunenburgh County, Va .; he is the son of J. B. and Martha Wilson, of whom mention is made elsewhere. (See sketch of Dr. E. A. Wilson, of Garrettsburg Precinet.) Richard H. was reared in his native State, and there engaged in the pursuit of agriculture until coming to this county in 1869, and there, on the 3d of February, 1863, he married Miss Margaret A., daugh- ter of Orlando and Lavinia Smith. In the spring of 1861 Mr. Wilson entered the Confederate Army, as a member of the Ninth Virginia Cav- alry, in which he served for about two years ; he was then detailed as a recruiting officer and drill-master in his native State, in which capacity, with the commission of Lieutenant, he served until about the close of the war in 1865. As above stated, Mr. Wilson came to Christian County, Ky., in 1869, and here engaged in farming and stock-raising until re- moving to Hopkinsville, in January, 1833. His enterprise has been manifest in his improved methods of farming, and in the erection of build- ings which are not only an ornament, but add value to the surrounding community. Besides his magnificent city residence, on the corner of South and Campbell Streets, he has finely improved two farms in the county. Mrs. Wilson is descended from two of the first families of Vir- ginia. Her paternal grandfather was Dr. Anthony Smith and her ma- ternal grandfather was Dr. Thomas A. Feilds, both noted physicians of Virginia, and both ardently devoted to the Presbyterian Church, in which they sustained for many years the relation of Elders. Mrs. W. is the oldest of four children born to Orlando Smith and Lavinia Feilds, the
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.other members being, Susan G., wife of William B. Wheeler, of Tennes- see ; Wilber, who became a civil engineer, and died while in military ser- · vice, at the age of nineteen years, and Kate, wife of Mr. Ephraim Barnes, of Edwards County, Ill. Mrs. Wilson was born March 27, 1842, and is the mother of five children, viz .: Wilber F., born April 22, 1866; Harry, born March 6, 1870; Maggie S., born May 17, 1873; Edward, born September 26, 1879 and Guy Wilson, born May 1, 1881. Both Mr. and Mrs. W. are members of the Presbyterian Church, of Hopkinsville ; he is also a member of the Knights of Honor.
ALFRED L. WILSON, a member of the firm of Wilson & Galbreath, Hopkinsville, Ky., was born in Trigg County, Ky., July 5, 1861, and is a son of John F. and Augusta A. Wilson (nee Foard). His father, John F., eame from Virginia, his native State, to Kentucky, and, then a young man, located in Christian County where he married. His wife was a daughter of James M. and Mary D. Foard. She was a native of Christian County, and both she and John F. Wilson died in Hopkinsville, the former on the 10th of June, 1861, and the latter December 13, 1875. They left a family of five children : John F., William A., Dee C., James R. and Al- fred L. Wilson. The latter was educated in the schools of Hopkinsville and Paducah, Ky. He was married on the 28th of May, 1883, to Miss Anna V., daughter of Johnson T. and Virginia (Hooser) Savage. Since April 7, 1882, Mr. Wilson has been engaged in his present prosperous business on West Main Street, near Nashville Street. Johnson T. Sav- age, father of Mrs. Wilson, was born in Huntingdonshire, England, in May, 1838, and came to the United States with his father, George Sav- age, in 1843, and that year settled at Evansville, Ind. His mother, Ann Savage, died in the old country. Johnson T. grew to manhood in Evans- ville, Ind., where he learned the trade of marble cutter, which he has followed for many years sinee coming to Hopkinsville in 1859. He was married in Hopkinsville, Ky., to Miss Virginia Hooser, daughter of David Hooser, of Hopkinsville. Besides Mrs. Wilson, they have two children- George D. and John F. Savage.
JUDGE WILLIAM P. WINFREE was born January 28, 1843, in Sumner County, Tenn. His father, Shurvin T. Winfree, was born in Pow- hatan County, Va., in 1819, and his mother, Elmira B. Atkinson, was a na- tive of the same county, and was born in the year 1824. These parents were
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married in Virginia in 1842, and immediately removed to Tennessee, set- tling in Sumner County. William P. is the eldest of fourteen children born to these parents, of whom the greater number are now living, and among the prominent families of this county. The family removed from Tennessee to this county in 1848, and located near Hopkinsville, where William P. grew to manhood, meantime attending the common schools, and later a high school in Montgomery County, Tenn. At the breaking out of the late war he enlisted in Company H, First Kentucky Cavalry, in which he served for the term of his enlistment, during which he partici- pated in the battles of Perryville, Chickamauga and Winchester, Tenn., in the last of which he was wounded. In the year 1865 he began the study of law under the instruction of Hon. H. J. Stites, of Louisville, Ky. He was admitted to practice in 1866, and in that year located in Hopkinsville, where he has since practiced with the exception of one year spent in Pleasanton, Kan. In connection with his law practice, he there edited and published a paper known as the Linn County Press. Returning to Hopkinsville in the fall of 1870 he here resumed his prac- tice, which he prosecuted with fair success until the summer of 1882. He was then the choice of the people for County Judge, an office he now fills with marked ability, still practicing in the higher courts. In 1869 he was married to Carrie Bradshaw, daughter of Benjamin and Juliet Bradshaw, of Hopkinsville. She was born in Christian County, Ky., March 20, 1846. They have a family of five children, viz .: Lulu L., Jennie, Willie, John and Benjamin Winfree. Judge Winfree is a mem- ber of the Hopkinsville Lodge, No. 37, A. F. & A. M., and also of the Christian Church, in which he sustains the relation of a Deacon. The family residence is on Maple Street, Hopkinsville.
JAMES H. WINFREE, third son of Shurvin and Elmira Winfree, was born in Sumner County, Tenn., February 27, 1846, and was roared to manhood in Christian County, Ky., attending the common schools of the county, meantime laboring on the farm. His pursuit had been that of agriculture, until removing to the city of Hopkinsville in 1881, when he became associated with his brother, Judge W. P. Winfree, in the im- plement trade. Mr. Winfree was married December 20, 1883, to Miss Katie Bell, daughter of Washington and Ellen Sydnor, of Logan County, Ky. She is a native of Kentucky, and was born in 1860. Both Mr.
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and Mrs. Winfree are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he being also a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the Chosen Friends.
WILLIAM J. WITHERS' father was Lewis W. Withers. He was born in Pittsylvania County, Va., where he grew to manhood, received a good education, and was married to Miss Jennetta Smith. She was also a native of Virginia, and there died, prior to the removal of the family to this county. She left but one child, whose name heads this sketch. Mr. Lewis W. Withers' second marriage was also in Virginia, to Miss Mary Ann Richardson, who is still living, and who is a sister to the wife of Gen. James Lee, of Virginia. As a result of this second union, Mr. Withers had several children, of whom but two are now living, viz .: R. B. and John P. Withers, of Mississippi. The family came to this county about 1845, and settled near the present village of Pembroke, where for many years L. W. Withers engaged in the agricultural pursuits, and dealing in stock. He died at Eggs Point on the Mississippi River in 1872. He was a man of more than ordinary literary attainments, and was eminently fitted for many positions of honor, but never sought any public trusts, choosing rather the quiet retirement of the farm and his books. He was a member of the I. O. O. F., and for many years prior to his death was a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church. Will- iam J. Withers was born in Virginia, October 2, 1842, and was about three years old when the family emigrated to this county. Here he was reared and educated, and in 1861 entered the Confederate Army as a member of the First Kentucky Cavalry. The incidents connected with his fraudulent arrest and prosecution as a spy, even after he had retired , from the service, would be of thrilling interest, but by request we for- bear their mention. Suffice it to say, he followed the fortunes of the war until his health was destroyed, and now, like all true men, accepts the results of that desperate struggle, a willing subject to the powers which prevail. On the 3d of May, 1865, he married Miss Sarah Polk, daughter of William M. Shipp. She was born in this county, November 15, 1844. To them have been born three children : William Shipp, Lewis W. and Jennie Elizabeth ; the second of whom died when three years old. Mr. Withers and wife are members of the Episcopal Church, while he is a member of the Knights of Honor. He owns an extensive farming
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interest in the county, including a valuable farm of 200 acres, adjoining the city of Hopkinsville.
DR. BENJAMIN S. WOOD. Perhaps no family in the history of Hopkinsville and Christian County are more extensively known than are the immediate descendants of Bartholomew Wood, of whom extensive and frequent mention has been made elsewhere in this work. He had a large family, among whom was Bartholomew T. Wood, the father of Benjamin S. Wood, whose name introduces this sketch. Bartholomew T. Wood was born in North Carolina, and came to the present site of Hopkinsville with his parents in childhood. Here in the infant village he passed his boyhood days, attending the primitive schools, and learning the lessons of true manhood and hospitality which so characterized his entire life. August 1, 1816, he married Nancy Saffarrans. Together they lived and labored, and in time, by industry and thrift, so manifest in the life of each, became possessed of a handsome competence. Bar- tholomew T. Wood was an admirer of Henry Clay, originally a Whig, later a Democrat, but an ardent supporter of the administration through the late war. He was for many years Deputy Clerk of the Circuit Court of this county, and thus came to know almost all who lived in the county. In his nature he was jovial and humorous, and his faculty for entertain- ing his friends became a common remark, and he was never happier than when thus employed. . He possessed a vigorous constitution, was very athletic, and peculiarly fond of horseback-riding, maintaining much of his youthful vitality of both body and mind to the elose of life. He was for many years a member of the Christian Church, to the duties of which he was remarkably faithful. IIe reared eleven children to man and womanhood, and died at the old homestead. His wife, Nancy Wood, sur- vived him but a few weeks, when she too died, having for several years been an invalid. She was born in Martinsburg, Va., and was a daughter of John Saffarrans, a German coppersmith, who came to Hopkinsville from Virginia in the early part of the century. Mrs. Wood was a devot- ed member of the Methodist Episcopal Chureli, and possessed a warm, generous heart, which characteristics secured to her many friends. Two of their family of eleven children, Caroline and Catherine, died prior to the death of the parents, the former in September, 1850, and the latter in 1863. Several of the surviving ones are residents of Christian Coun-
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