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1882, Nov. 7: Congressman-James F. Clay, 250; W. M. Fuqua, 27.
Magistrates' Courts: For one justice, the third Saturday in March, June, September and December; for the other, the first Thursday in these months.
This precinct, the same as Lower Town, consists so largely of the city of Owensboro that its history is embraced in that of the city.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
William P. Baker was born in Breckinridge County, Ky., Sept. 2, 1836. He was reared and educated in Hawesville, Ky., and practiced law there twenty years. He was County Attorney of Il: sock County for two terms, and County Judge two terms. In the . .. of 1873 he came to Daviess County, and practiced his pro- fession in Owensboro three years. He then moved to the old "Jo Daveiss" farm, two and a half miles southeast of Owensboro, where he now has 100 acres of well-improved land, and is engaged in farming. A part of his house was built by Jo Daveiss about sev- enty-five years ago. He was married Oct. 22, 1868, to Ione Will- iams, daughter of Judge C. W. Williams, of Owensboro. They have four children-Alice, born Aug. 20, 1869, Hamilton W., July 15, 1872; Mary R., Jan. 1, 1878, and George W., May 1, 1881. Mr. and Mrs. Baker are members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Owensboro. Mr. Baker is a member of Lodge No. 130, A. F. & A. M., Owensboro.
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R. G. Bell was born in Daviess County, Ky., Feb. 21, 1837. His father, Hillery Bell, was a native of Maryland, and died in 1877. His mother, Margaret (Adams) Bell, was born in 1798, and died in 1853. R. G. was the youngest of ten children. He was married May 6, 1863, to Elizabeth Thompson, a native of Nelson County, Ky., born in 1841. They have three children -Flora Jane, George W. and L. G. Mr. and Mrs. Bell are members of the Baptist church. Mr. Bell owns a farm of fifty-four and a half acres, four miles from Owensboro, on the Valley road.
Thomas Bery, farmer, Upper Town Precinct, was born in Jef- ferson County, Ky., May 26, 1847. He was the youngest of three children-two sons and one daughter -- of John and Elizabeth (Ray) Bery. His father died in 1857 and his mother in 1858. He was married May 1, 1873, to Mildred, daughter of Peter and Delila (Matsonboxer) Snowden, and a native of Jefferson County. They have four children-E. C. M., William, Lou I. and Jesse. After his marriage Mr. Bery lived a year on a farm in Butler County, Ky., and in 1874 came to Daviess County. He has a blacksmith's shop, which he runs in connection with farming, where he does first-class work. Politically he is a Democrat. Mrs. Bery is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Ben Botts was born in Fleming County, Ky., March 17, 1823, and lived there engaged in farming till 1873. He was High Sher- iff from 1845 to 1866. In 1873 he went to Illinois but remained there only a year, moving to Sullivan County, Ind. He lived there three years and then came to Daviess County. He now lives two and a half miles southeast of Owensboro, on J. W. M. Fields's farm. He was married June 10, 1845, to Juliet E. Dorsey, a na- tive of Fleming County, born Feb. 11, 1823. They have six chil- dren-Mary W., born Sept. 12, 1846; Annie, born Ang. 1, 1848, now Mrs. W. L. Smith; Seth, born Dec. 1, 1851; Amelia, born Oct. 26, 1855, now Mrs. Silas Wright; George W., born Jan. 5, 1860, and Juliet E., born May 14, 1864. Mr. Botts is a member of the Presbyterian church. He is neutral in his political views.
John. A. Brown was born on the 31st day of March, 1845, about three miles south of Owensboro, Daviess Co., Ky., where he re- inained until the 14th day of August, 1862, when he enlisted in the U. S. army, in Company E, Thirty-eighth Kentucky Mounted Infantry (Colonel Gabriel Netter), Aug. 15, 1862. Colonel Netter was killed in a skirmish with the enemy near Owensboro, Ky., Oct. 19, 1862. The regiment was thien transferred to tlie
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Twelfth Kentucky Cavalry (Colonel Q. C. Shanks). Spent the winter of 1862-'3 at Munfordville, Ky., constantly engaged in scouting and skirmishing incident to the cavalry service, the principal of which was hovering on the flank of John Morgan's command when he made his celebrated raid, destroying the trus- sell work on the L. & M. R. R., near Elizabethtown, Ky. The
severest fight with him was at the mouth of Younger's Creek, on
the Rolling Fork, about Dec. 29, 1862. Starting about the first of July, 1863, they pursued Morgan through Kentucky to Branden- burg where he crossed the Ohio River; thence through Indiana and Ohio to Buffington Island, Ohio, where, on the 22d of July, the greater part of his command was captured. The regiment be- came a part of Wolford's Independent Brigade, accompanying General Burnside to East Tennessee, and was in a severe engage- ment at Philadelphia, Tenn., Oct. 20, 1863, where they were sur- rounded and cut their way out, sustaining a heavy loss. Falling back to London they engaged the enemy for several days in suc- cession; was in a severe skirmish at Maryville, Tenn., in Novem- ber, 1863; participated in the two days engagement in front ot Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 17 and 18, 1863, in which General Saun- ders was killed, holding Longstreet in check until General Burnside could prepare for the siege which followed, lasting about three weeks; was in several severe engagements during the siege; started in pursuit of the enemy, with whom they had an engagement at Beans Station, Tenn., Dec. 15,1863; then at Mossy Creek and Dan- dridge and Flat Gap and Fair Gardens; in the latter engagement Mr. Brown received a gun-shot wound in the left arm on the 28th of Jan- ary, 1864. The regiment was assigned to General Stoneman's Cavalry Corps accompanying General Sherman's army on the Atlanta cam- paign; was in several engagements, continually as they advanced from Tunnell Hill until the fall of Atlanta; was with General Stone- man on the raid into Virginia which resulted in the destruction of the salt works near Abingdon, in December, 1864. Mr. Brown was one of the 180 under command of Major J. B. Harrison who made the daring raid in the rear of the enemy at Saltville, cutting off their communication and preventing re-enforcements, going up the railroad burning bridges until they reached Marion, Va., when they took to the mountains, crossing over into Rye Valley, N. C., continually beset by a superior force of the enemy. Here they en- countered a w^. on train with a strong guard. He was one of eight or ten composi . the rear guard, under command of Lieutenant
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Mitchell, who was ordered to remain behind and cut out the mules and mount the colored teamsters, which daring feat they accom- plished successfully in the face of the guard. On the next morn- ing he was one of five, then composing the rear guard, who were intercepted by seven rebels well armed and mounted; they killed one and captured the other six. They re joined General Stoneman near Moseburg, East Tenn., after being separated for several days. Returning to Kentucky, they were re-fitted, and accompa- nied General Stoneman on his great raid through East Tennessee to Christiansburg, Va .; thence to Salisbury, N. C., in March and April, 1865, where they had a severe engagement, resulting in the capture of the place and the destruction of the Confederate arsenal, containing a large amount of ordnance stores; going thence to Western North Carolina, capturing Asheville; then through South Carolina into Georgia. They remained on the Savannah River until the 20th of May when the President's proclamation of am- nesty expired, which virtually ended the war; was mustered ont at Louisville, Ky., Sept. 7, 1865. He returned home and worked on a farm until the spring of 1868, when he went to learn the carpen- ter's trade and worked at it until the spring of 1874, when he en- gaged in the queen's-ware business a year and then worked at his trade again till May, 1877. He then entered the United States Internal Revenue service as Storekeeper and Ganger and served in that capacity until about August, 1879, when he was commissioned as U. S. Internal Revenue Storekeeper, in which capacity he still remains. He is a member of Owensboro Lodge, No. 130, A. F. & A. M .; Brothers' Lodge, No. 132, I. O. O. F .; Owensboro Encamp- ment No. 45, I. O. O. F .; Star Lodge No. 19, K. of P., and Gen. James S. Jackson Post, No. 3, G. A. R., Department of Kentucky, all of which are held in Owensboro, Ky.
L. P. Castlen, son of John L. and Elizabeth Castlen, was born in Madison, Ind., Oct. 11, 1833. Ilis parents were natives of Vir- ginia, his father born in 1800 and his mother March 19, 1804. His father died in 1835 of cholera, and his mother is still living with her son. There was a family of five children, only three now liv- ing-John, Orrelton (now Mrs. George Heal, of Oldham County, Ky.), and the subject of our sketch. After the death of his father the family moved to Oldhain County, Ky. In 1855 Mr. Castlen married Fannie Minnis and moved to McLean County, where he lived seven years, and in 1862 came to Daviess Connty. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Castlen-John W., Florence
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and Fannie. Mrs. Castlen died in 1861. Oct. 22, 1867, Mr. Cast- len married Elmira Gillim, a native of Daviess Connty, born Oct. 12, 1848. They have had four children-Frank, born Dec. 9, 1868, died Nov. 16, 1880; Novel, born May 31, 1871, died Feb. 5, 1879; Lucy, born Jan. 6, 1874; an infant, born Sept. 20, 1877, died Oct. 25, 1877. Mrs. Castlen's parents, James and Elizabeth (Newsome) Gillim, were both natives of Kentucky. Her mother died May 18, 1870; her father is still a resident of this county. They had a fam- ily of twelve children, eight now living-Charles, Frank, Rebecca, James, Elmira, Nettie, Alexander and John.
Joseph A. Clark was born in Breckinridge County, Ky., Nov. 16, 1843. His parents moved to Nelson County when he was an infant, and returned to Breckinridge County when he was four years old. In March, 1864, he came to Daviess County, where he now has a well-improved farm of 112 acres five miles southeast of Owensboro. Jan. 23, 1866, he married Laura, daughter of J. F. Brown. She was born in Hardinsburg, Ky., in May, 1843. They have four children-Embert A., born Oct. 23, 1866; Mary E., Sept. 14, 1872; Modesta, July 31, 1876; Ellen, March 28, 1878. Mr. Clark and his family are members of St. Stephen's Catholic Church, Owensboro. Mr. Clark's father, T. Clark, was born in Maryland, in 1812, and died in 1876, in Owensboro. His mother, Mary Ann (Speak) Clark, was born in 1816, and died March 12, 1865, leaving four children-James T .; Margaret, now the widow of Caleb Brown; Joseph A .; Martha Ann, now Mrs. William B. Daveiss. One brother, Felix Thaddeus, started with eighty others under Linsey Rhodes, to join the Confederate army, and was capt- nred near Mammoth Cave, Ky., and sent to Johnson's Island. From there he was exchanged and sent to Vicksburg. He went to Chattanooga, and has never since been heard from.
Fred W. Clarke, with M. V. Monarch & Co., insurance agents, and Vice-President of the Sour Mash Distilling Company, was born July 17, 1859, in Cumberland County, Va., and was educated in the University of Virginia. He was a son of William H. and Sarah C. (White) Clarke, both natives of Virginia, his father born in March, 1829, and his mother in 1831. His father was educated in the University of Virginia, and is a member of the firm of William H. Clarke & Co., tobacconists. His inother was educated in Steubenville, Ohio. They were married in 1855, and have two sons-Edward H. and Fred W.
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Benjamin D. Coomes, son of B. D. and Corrilla (Ford) Coomes, was born in Daviess County, on the farm where he still resides, Jan. 28, 1855. His father is a native of Nelson County, Ky., born in 1809, and his mother of Ohio County, Ky., born in 1818. They have five children-F. N., John T., W. P., Benjamin D. and Corrilla. Benjamin D. was educated in this connty, and is still living with and assisting his father in carrying on the farm. His father came to Daviess County when a young man, and now owns 240 acres of well-improved land, three miles south of Owens- boro. In religious faith the family are Catholics.
Zachariah Cruse was born in Olden County, Ky., Feb. 11, 1820. His father, Thomas Cruse, was born in Virginia, and came to Ken- tucky at an early day. He was marrie 1 in 1817, to Rachel Barn- hill, a native of Olden County, Ky., born in 1802. They had three children-Zachariah, Elizabeth and J. B. Thomas Cruse was killed in Owensboro, Ky., in August, 1824, by Joseph Potts, through a mistake, thinking he was another man. He was the first man killed in Owensboro. Mrs. Cruse was afterward married to Jasper Bristow. She died in 1869. Zachariah Cruse was mar- ried in 1844 to Elizabeth Obenchain, a native of Hancock Connty, Ky., born in 1824. They had two children, only one now living- J. S., born July 28, 1849. He still lives on the farm with his parents. He was married March 18, 1875, to Minnie Rarick, a na- tive of Breckinridge County, Ky., born Nov. 5, 1856. Mr. Cruse owns 180 acres of fine well-improved land four miles from Owens- boro.
Isaiah (. Daniel, farmer, was born in Shelby County, Ky., Nov. 13, 1834. He came to Daviess County with his parents in 1836, and was reared and educated in this connty. He studied medicine when a young man, but never practiced his profession. He owns a farm of eighty-five acres three miles southeast of Owens- boro, where he resides. Dec. 10, 1857, he married Sarah C. Nuckols, a native of Goochland County, Va., born Feb. 10, 1833. They have six children- Virginia P., born Oct. 31, 1858; Jacob H., Jan. 17, 1861; Anna J., Dec. 30. 1864; Stonewall Jackson, Aug. 17, 1866; Charles T., July 11, 1870; Ernest C., Ang. 7. 1872. Mrs. Daniel died April 5, 1881. Mr. Daniel is a member of the Baptist church. His father, Leonard Daniel, was born in King William County, Va., in 1801. and died in 1861, in Daviess County, Ky. His mother. Maria (Cox) Daniel, was born in Goochland County, Va., in 1808, and died in 1866. They had a family of seven children, Isaiah being the second.
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W. H. Fant, was born in Kentucky, Oct. 19, 1836. For sev- eral years after the war he dealt largely in live-stock, handling more than any other man in the connty. From 1870-'72 he was a partner in the firm of Claypool & Co., pork packers. During the winter he was in the South, superintending the sale of their provision, and, having more experience, was also the purchaser for their extensive business. He dissolved partnership with the firm and was afterward employed by them at $375 per month during the pork season. From 1874-'77 he operated in the grain and provision market on the Chicago Board of Trade, buying on the margin, which proved disastrous. During this time he was Director in the Bowling Green woolen mille, and also in the head and stave factory. In 1880 he came to Daviess County and was employed in the United States revenue service, twenty-one months. During the winter of 1881-'82 he was associated with a firm in which he made $15,000. In August, 1882, he resigned his posi- tion in the revenne department and is now engaged in the live- stock and produce business. In 1870 he was nominated on the Republican ticket as Representative to the Lower House of the Legislature, but was defeated by 400 majority. The Democratic majority was 1,000, so he ran ahead of his ticket by 600 votes. Mr. Fant is a member of Bowling Green Lodge, No. 73, A. F. & A. M .; has taken nine degrees. He is a Director in the Masonic Life Insurance Company, of Bowling Green. He is also a mem- ber of the Knights of Honor, at Bowling Green. Dec. 11, 1878, Mr. Fant was married to Kate A., daughter of Colonel Joel Ruffner, of Charleston, W. Va., where she was born in 1844. They have one child-Josie R. Mr. Fant is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church.
Captain Benjamin Field was born in Virginia, Nov. 14, 1755, and came to Kentucky abont 1786, going first to Danville. He was a surveyor, and enrvered the land from Covington, Ky., to Daviess County, and from Owensboro to Lewis Station. He was married in 1790 to Mildred Slaughter, a native of Culpeper County, Va. In November, 1795, he started with his wife and three chil- dren, for Yellow Banks, now Owensboro. Dec. 24, 1795, he landed there, left his family in the pirogue, went twelve miles south and put up a cabin, returned for his family, and ripped up the pirogue for a covering for the house. He built the first cabin between Yellow Binks and Hartford. There was a fort at Hartford and one at Vienna, now Culhoon. His wife was a beautiful dancer; danced
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the minuet with a pint cup of water on her head without spilling a drop. Captain Field sent his eldest daughter, Elizabeth, to a dancing school at Hartford. She wanted a new pair of shoes, and, as they had to send to Bardstown for such supplies, she was afraid she would not get them in time. Her father told her she should have the sl so he had a sheep killed, dressed the skin and made her a nice p of white slippers. When they were soiled she stained them th poke berries and thought them as good as new. The ladies in those days carded, spun and wove their own dresses, and Captain Field's daughters were no exception. They were taught to spin and weave when they were so small that it took two of them to manage the loom. At one time there was to be a ball, and Elizabeth made herself a new dress for the occasion. The warp was so fine that her father drew the web through a ring be- fore it was put in the loom. Captain and Mrs. Field had a family of nine children-John was a soldier in the war of 1812 and was at the battle of New Orleans. He married Rachel McFarland, of Daviess County. Elizabeth married Colonel William Newton. Lucy married James Daviess; he died and she afterward married Richard L. May. William first married Nancy McMillen, of Clark County; his second wife was Elizabeth McFarland, and his third, Mrs. Lucy McGee. Fannie married Squire James Newton, of Culpeper County, Va. James and Joshua never married. Thomas married Arabella Morton, of Maryland. Willis married Louisa McFarland, daughter of Captain Robert McFarland. At one time, after high water on Panther Creek flats, Captain Field found a large sturgeon. He tied to it his horse's tail and dragged it, some six iniles, home. The family gathered round, supposing it to be dead, when suddenly it showed unmistakable signs of life, by giving a plunge and knocking his daughter, Mrs. Newton, then a little girl, over. Captain Field died Jan. 2, 1842, and is buried on the old "Shoemaker farm," in Murray Precinct. His wife died in 1853.
Benjamin T. Field, born in Daviess County, Ky., March 26, 1842, is a son of Thomas Field, also a native of this county, born in 1805, and died in 1847. ITis grandfather, Captain Benj. Field, was a Captain in the war of the Revolution, and died in Daviess County in 1842. Benjamin T. was educated in this county and was reared on the same farm where he now lives and which his father gave him. He was married Dec. 14, 1869, to Mattie Hurt, a native of Salem, Va., born Aug. 12, 1851. They have five chil-
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dren-Thomas C., born Jan. 31, 1871; John W., born Jan. 21, 1873; Bettie B., born Oct. 21, 1875; Ella P., born Nov. 16, 1877; and Newton, born Nov. 1, 1879. During the late war Mr. Field served three years in the Tenth Kentucky Confederate Cavalry, under John Morgan. He was captured by the Home Guards in Virginia while trying to make his escape from Ohio when Morgan made his raid through Ohio. He was paroled but never exchanged. Mr. Field owns 142 acres of good land, three and a half miles from Owensboro. He is a member of the Baptist church.
Robert F. Goode, son of J. P. and Mary J.(Morris) Goode, was born in Casey County, Ky., Aug. 29, 1847. His father was born in Missouri, March 26, 1826, and died May 7, 1879. His mother was born in Casey County, Ky., July 4, 1827. Robert is the eld- est of fourteen children, twelve of whom are living. He lived on a farm till fifteen years of age, when he enlisted in the Thirteenth Kentucky Federal Cavalry and served three years. After the war he worked on a farm several years, and bought tobacco for Hugh Kerr & Co. five seasons. Dec. 8, 1880, he was appointed United States Storekeeper by the Government. March 20, 1870, he was married to Eliza Ann Clements, a native of Casey County, Ky., born Nov. 14, 1852. Six children have been born to them, five now living-Lizzie E., born April 22, 1871; Evalina, born Nov. 10, 1874; Janie B., born Aug. 8, 1876; Sudy A., born Feb. 2, 1880; Arthur, born Feb. 10, 1881. Mr. Goode joined the Masonic frater- nity in 1875, and has been a Master Mason six years. He belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic, No. 3, Department of. Ken- tucky.
i: Henry C. Graham, born in Logan County, Ky., Jan. 4, 1843, is a son of John T. and Martha (Tatum) Graham, both natives of Logan County, his father born in 1805, and his mother in 1825. His mother died in 1857. Of a family of seven children, but four are living-Rebecca, Lucy, Henry C. and Cassey. Henry C. enlisted in September, 1861, in the Ninth Kentucky Confederate Infantry. He was in the battles of Shiloh, Chickamauga, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Murfreesboro, Atlanta, Jackson, Missionary Ridge, Kene- saw Mountain, etc., and was never wounded, all his regiment but five being killed before the war closed. He was taken prisoner at Jonesboro, and was confined at Camp Douglas six months. In 1878 he was married to Mattie F. Decker, a native of Owensboro, born July 26, 1851. They have two children-Anna L. and Henry Lee. Mrs. Graham is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
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Her father. Wm. H. Decker, was born in Meade County, Ky., in June, 1826. Her mother, Mary C. (Horn) Decker, was born in Daviess County, April 28, 1833, and died Oct. 11, 1856. They had a family of four children-Martha F., Laura T., Nathaniel H. and Mary C.
William W. Gregory was born Jan. 7, 1803, in Washington County, Ky. In the spring of 1824 he removed to Jefferson County and remained there till May 4, 1864, when he went to Han- cock County and lived till 1866. He then came to Daviess County, and in 1869 bought a farm of 105 acres, seve .. miles northeast of Owensboro. He was married Jan. 28, 1835, to Susan Butler, a na- tive of Jefferson County, Ky., born in April, 1815. Eight children have been born to them-L. L., married Katie McAdams and has three children-Samuel, Susan and Katie L .; Richard P., married Trica Beard and has five children-Joseph B., Ada, Susan W., Bettie and William; William W., Jr., married Cornelia A. Covert; Narcissa A., married W. W. Morris, of Yelvington, and has two children-Edna L. and Bettie M .; Elizabethi M., married Oscar Madden, and has two children-Julia and Oscar L .; John E., mar- ried Lizzie Fairfield and has two children-Ross M. and Russell B .; Alexander V .; Charles B., married Abra Scanks, and has one child-Fern. Mr. and Mrs. Gregory were married on the 28th day of January, 1835, and a son was born Jan. 28, 1840, Jan. 28, 1850 and Jan. 28, 1856.
George S. Hayden (deceased), one of the pioneers of Davies County, Ky., was born near New Hope, Nelson Co., Ky., Nov. 15, 1810, a son of George and Mary (Elliot) Hayden, natives of Mary- land, who came to Washington County, Ky., at an early day. They had a large family, and George S. was the youngest. George S. was reared on a farm in Nelson Connty, and was married there to Miss Delphenia Elder, May 4, 1833. She was a daughter of Dr. Guy and Mary (Birch) Elder. The summer following his marriage he came to Daviess County, settling on his farm in Upper Town Precinct. His wife died here in October, 1839. They had three children-James D., born May 3, 1834, died June 2, 1837; Lucy A., born Aug. 11, 1836, is the wife of Wilferd J. Hayden ; Mary V., born Sept. 9, 1838, wife of John H. Payne, both residing in Upper Town Precinct. June 2, 1840, Mr. Hayden married Miss M. Teresa Burch. She was born in Hardin County, Ky., March 17, 1822, a danghter of John H. and Mary A. (Greenwell) Burch. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hayden settled on the old farm
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in Upper Town Precinct, where his wife still resides, and where he died May 4, 1876. They had a family of thirteen children-Vir- ginia A., born March 11, 1841, married Wm. H. Monarch; Robert H., born Dec. 20, 1842, died Sept. 16, 1878; Margaret E., born Feb. 14, 1845, married John W. Hagan, who died Oct. 26, 1882; J. Artelia, born Feb. 11, 1847; George S., Jr., born Jan. 25, 1849, died Dec. 31, 1852; Nannie T., born March 11, 1850, married S. W. Osborne; C. W., born April 15, 1853, resides on the old home- stead with his mother, engaged in farming; Eva E., born May 16, 1856, married William W. Blandford, Jan. 23, 1883; Joshna B., born April 2, 1858, is employed in the "Famous " clothing house of St. Louis, Mo .; H. Walter, born March 22, 1860, is a farmer and stock-dealer of Curdsville Precinct; Frank X., born May 5, 1862; George S., born April 8, 1865, and Teresa G., born Feb. 22, 1868. The last three reside at home with their mother. The family are all members of the Catholic church. Mr. Hayden was not only one of the pioneers of Daviess County, but was a good neighbor and a representative citizen, loved and respected by all who knew him.
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