ASA W. HODGES

ASA W. HODGES, farmer, is the son of R. S. and Mary Ann Hodges, the former of whom, was born in Franklin County, Va., in 1807, and removed with his father, Asa Hodges, to Sumner County, Tenn., about 1814. He was the eldest of nine children, only two of whom are living: Asa M. Hodges, a citizen of Alabama, and Alfred J., residing in Texas. R. S. Hodges was a farmer, and married in Sumner County, Tenn., in 1829, to Mary Ann Murphy. They removed to Ohio County, Ky., in 1847, and were the parents of nine children, six of whom are living in Ohio County. The eldest of these is the subject of this sketch — Asa W. Hodges, born October 3, 1830, in Sumner County, Tenn., where he received the first part of his school training, completing the same after his removal to Kentucky, at the age of seventeen. He resided first one mile and a half east and northeast of Cromwell, and in February, 1874, removed to his present location near Beaver Dam on the Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern Railroad. He has been twice married; first, to Martha Ann Flener, on December 23, 1858. This lady was the mother of three children, only one of whom is now living — James A., born October 31, 1859, and now residing in Butler County. Mrs. Hodges departed this life in February, 1863. March 10, 1865, Sarah T., daughter of Thomas J. and Sarah Blankenship, became his second wife. This union was blessed with seven children: Sally Mary, born March 3, 1868; John T., July 17, 1869; William E., September 22, 1871; Lutetia, May 5, 1874; Burchard, November 25, 1877; Peter Petre, July 1, 1879; Ira Wade, February 25, 1882. Mr. Hodges enlisted in Company B, Twelfth Kentucky Cavalry, August 22, 1862, and served three years. His principal engagements were Resaca, Lookout Mountain, Kenesaw, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta, Bean Station and many other places. He was always with his regiment, and a brave soldier. At one time a ball struck a sapling, which protected his life. He was never sick and never in the hospital.

Source: J. H. BATTLE, W H. PERRIN, & G. C. KNIFFIN 1895

Note: Asa William Hodges died 17 Aug 1904 in Ohio County at the age of 74. He is buried in the Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery.

Hocker

PHILIP M. HOCKER was born October 2, 1827, where he now resides. He is a son of Philip, Sr., and Harriet (Redman) Hocker. The father was born in Montgomery County, Md., July 9, 1786, and when six years old was brought by his father to Kentucky, and located on the same farm where subject now resides. Mrs. Harriet Hocker lived to be ninety-four years old, and was a Methodist eighty-one years. Her husband, subject's father, died in October, 1851. They had seven children — all boys — who grew to manhood. Philip M. is the youngest, and remains at home with his parents. He owns 500 acres of land, partly improved, aside from town property and from a farm he gave his son; he also established another son in business. October 22, 1854, he married Dorcas E. Barrett, who died June 29, 1866, leaving two children: Lavega W. and John W.  June 15, 1868, Mr. Hocker married Minerva E. Williams. They have two children: Harriet A. and Sallie D.

Source: J. H. BATTLE, W H. PERRIN, & G. C. KNIFFIN 1895

Note:  Philip Hocker died January 18, 1893 and is buried in the Goshen Cemetery, Beaver Dam, KY.

GEORGE B. HOCKER was born in Ohio County, Ky., in 1832. His father, Nicholas Hocker, a native of the same county, is still living, engaged in farming. His mother, Clarissa (Cooper), died many years since, leaving eight children. The ancestors, both paternal and maternal, were from Maryland. It is a family characteristic to belong to the Methodist Church, and vote the Democratic ticket. Subject's first undertaking for himself was rafting and cutting staves and hooppoles, but soon after went to farming, to which he has given exclusive attention since, except a period of eight months in the mercantile business, in 1858, in Cromwell. His home farm consists of 185 acres, mostly cleared, with good residence, orchard and out buildings, all the result of the industry and frugality of himself and wife. May 13, 1855, he married Miss Louisa, daughter of John W. and Cynthia (Coan) Ford. They are both Methodists, he holding the position of trustee. They have three children; Laslie F. (whose wife was Miss Ada L. Barnett), Minor W. (who has traveled extensively throughout the southwest), and Ella (at home).

Source: J. H. BATTLE, W H. PERRIN, & G. C. KNIFFIN 1895

Note: George Hocker died after 1910 & is buried in the Hix Cemetery, Pettit, Daviess County, KY.

RICHARD P. HOCKER, son of A. R. and Susan M. (Barrett) Hocker, was born in this county September 30, 1845. The parents were born and reared in Ohio County, but their parents were from eastern Maryland, and came to Kentucky about 1792. Richard P. was reared on a farm and had very limited school advantages, but by diligent study evenings and leisure hours gained sufficient education to enable him to begin teaching school in 1866. He continued teaching eight winter seasons, farming during the summer, and at the same time by continual study gained a thorough literary education. In 1875 he was elected a member of the State legislature, and re-elected in 1879. In 1884 he was nominated by acclamation for sheriff, and at the ensuing election was chosen for the office. His political preferment has been more the general voice of the Democratic party than his own seeking. For several years he has been in mercantile business at Beaver Dam, managing at the same time his farm of 151 acres. He was married, June 14, 1877, to Miss Oma Baker, daughter of I. H. and Charlotte (Render) Baker. Mr. Hocker is a member of the Methodist Church South, and his wife of the Baptist Church. To them have been born two children: Virgie and Clarence.

Source: J. H. BATTLE, W H. PERRIN, & G. C. KNIFFIN 1895

Note: Richard Hocker died 16 Dec 1899 in Beaver Dam, KY.  He is buried in the Old Liberty Cemetery, Ohio County, KY.

JAMES B. HOCKER, son of Henry Davidge Hocker, was born in Ohio County, Ky. His early life was passed on the farm, his education being limited to a short term each winter in such schools as were afforded under the shelter of the "old log schoolhouse" in his district. During the summer months he assisted in the farming operations at home. At the age of seventeen, he entered Hartford College, in which he graduated in the literary course, and at once entered the profession of teaching. His father, Henry D. Hocker, a native of Ohio County, married Harriet E. Coleman, October 1, 1858; they are the parents of nine children, of which number James B. is the third; born January 21, 1867. Henry D. Hocker is the sixth of a family of eight children bora to Nicholas and Clarissa (Cooper) Hocker, of Ohio County; Nicholas D. Hocker is yet living, at the advanced age of seventy-six years. Weaver Hocker and Henry Cooper, ancestors of our subject, were natives of Maryland, and settled in Ohio County at an early day; they were farmers. Weaver Hocker died about the year 1818, aged nearly seventy years. Henry Cooper died in 1863, aged about eighty years. Those of the Hocker family who profess religion are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which Henry D. is a leader. All extend their influence to the temperance cause, both by precept and example.

Source: J. H. BATTLE, W H. PERRIN, & G. C. KNIFFIN 1895

Note: James B. Hocker died 28 Dec 1947 in Daviess County, KY at age 80. He is buried in Rosehill Elmwood Cemetery, Owensboro, KY.

IGLEHART – THE EARLY YEARS

IGLEHART – THE EARLY YEARS

Abstract from The Oaken Hearts, by Donald C. & Clara May Cureton, published 1997.

John IGLEHART, born about 1743 in Prince Georges County, Maryland and Mary              DE NUNE, born 3 Mar 1752, of Huguenot extraction, were married about 1763. John died in Sep 1810 and they had the following children:

1. Martha Sarah, b 28 Aug 1765, mar 19 Feb 1787 Benjamin FAIRALL, 11 children

2. James, b 21 Jul 1767, d 1815, mar (1) Nancy --?-- mar (2)16 Mar 1813 Sallie HUMPHREY, two children

3. John, b 23 Jun 1770, d 14 Dec 1859, mar 4 Feb 1797 Rachel NICHOLS, 11 children

4. Richard, b 11 Sep 1772, d 17 Mar 1855, mar (1) 27 Nov 1797 Sarah STOCKETT, 0 children, mar (2) 19 Jan 1800 Nancy Anne HAMMOND, 11 children

5. Jacob, b 30 Mar 1774, d 9 May 1856, mar (1) 24 Jan 1798 Ann BEALL, 8 children, mar (2) 8 Jan 1813 Esther SOPER, 2 children

6. Jemima, b 31 Mar 1776, d before 1825, mar 29 Dec 1802 William BOYD, 1 daughter

7. William, b 13 Oct 1778, mar 24 Dec 1802 Jane Ann SMITH, 5 children

8. Elizabeth, b bet. 1779-1785, mar 23 Jan 1800 Abraham BOYD, 1 son

9. Levi, b 13 Aug 1786, d 12 Dec 1855, mar 19 Dec 1808 Ann Eleanor TAYLOR, 8 children

10.Dennis, b 1793, d 1846, mar 23 Mar 1815 Winnifred HUMPHREY, 5 children

Five brothers from this family removed to Ohio County, Kentucky from 1813 to 1815 and established the name in the midwest. We don't know whether or not any of their sisters and their husbands also moved. From various records we can determine

approximately when each brother made the trek to Kentucky.

1. James, oldest son, born 21 Jul 1767. A probate record in Prince Georges County of the distribution of his father's estate names, December 1812, "James Iglehart and his wife Nancy of Anne Arundel County, Maryland." On 16 Mar 1813 James married Sallie HUMPHREY in Ohio County. They subsequently had two children and James died in 1815 in Ohio County. James would have been 45 years old when he married in Ohio County.

2. John, second oldest son, born 23 Jun 1770, married Rachel NICHOLS 4 Feb 1797 and they had ll children. Their son, Henry D. IGLEHEART, born 18 Apr 1813, was listed on the 1860 census as having been born in Kentucky. In the 1914 Iglehart compilation is the statement by John B. Igleheart that the John born 1770 moved to Ohio County prior to 1814 but after 1811. John would have been 42 years old in early 1813.

3. Jacob, fourth oldest son, born 30 Mar 1774, married (1) Anne BEALL 24 Mar 1798 (they had 8 children) and (2) Esther SOPER 8 Jan 1813 also in Maryland. Their first child, Rebecca, was born 19 Nov 1813. Their second child, James Soper Igleheart, was born 15 May 1818 in Kentucky. Jacob would have been 39 years old in early 1813.

4. Levi, next to youngest child, born 13 Aug 1786, married Ann Eleanor TAYLOR 19 Dec 1808. Together with his wife and three oldest daughters he migrated in 1815 to a farm on Rough Creek, in Ohio County, Kentucky. Source: Levi Igleheart Branch compilation of 1961 citing inscription on bronze tablet in cemetery on former Levi Igleheart farm in Warrick County, Indiana. Levi was 29 years old in 1815.

5. Dennis, youngest child, born 1793, married Winnifred HUMPHREY 23 Mar 1815 in Ohio County, Kentucky. They had 5 children. Dennis would have been 22 years old in 1815.

One of the sons of John IGLEHEART and Rachel NICHOLS was James N. IGLEHEART, born 1797. A good guess would be that the middle initial stood for Nichols but this has yet to be verified. This James N. IGLEHEART married Ellen HUMPHREYS on 6 Jan 1820 in Daviess County, Kentucky. Notice that James N. was only four years younger than his uncle Dennis. Documentation shows that the three HUMPHREY girls were sisters so we have them marrying two IGLEHEART brothers and a nephew. This can be confusing to unprepared new researchers. Jerry Long in the Kentucky Room of the Owensboro-Daviess County Public Library submitted his research into the Maryland-Ohio County Iglehart family to Kentucky Family Records where it appears in Volume 21, page 41-47. On page 4 6 he wrote:

"The other five sons of John Iglehart and Mary Denune left their native state and joined the migration westward. Before leaving Maryland several of them served in the military during the War of 1812. In the early 1800's James, John, Jacob, Levi, and Dennis Iglehart all settled in Kentucky. John was the first to leave Maryland. About 1803 he went to Kentucky, first settling in Nelson County, near Bardstown, then a few years later, he moved to Ohio County in the western part of the state. James Iglehart left Maryland about 1812 and joined his brother, John, in Ohio County, Kentucky. James died in Ohio County only three years later. Dennis Iglehart made the trip to Ohio County about 1814. In 1816 Jacob and Levi Iglehart, with their families, made the trip together. Jacob settled near his brother, John, and Ohio County became their permanent home. Both have descendants living there today. Levi and Dennis Iglehart, after a few years in Ohio County, took up roots again and moved across the Ohio River into Southern Indiana. Levi settled in Warrick County, Indiana and Dennis in Spencer County, Indiana. In recollections of several descendants, it was later told that four brothers moved west, two settling in Kentucky and two in Indiana. Since James Iglehart had died many years before the other four brothers, most of his brother's families would have had no recollection of him, possibly explaining why, in family stories, it was told that four brothers came West and not five.”

John IGLEHEART who was born in 1770, died in 1859, married Rachel NICHOLS 4 Feb 1797 in Maryland. At least their first three children were born in Maryland, we're not certain of the next, but the remainder were born in Kentucky. They produced a total of eleven children as follows:

1. James N. IGLEHEART, b 2 Dec 1797, d 7 Sep 1851, mar 6 Jan 1820 Ellen HUMPHREY, 8 children.

2. Thomas N. IGLEHEART, b 10 Mar 1800, d 20 Feb 1855, mar (1) 16 Mar 1826 Eliza IGLEHEART (first cousin, b 4 Sep 1805, d 12 Aug 1834, dau of Jacob), 3 children, mar (2) 20 Mar 1835 Nancy WARDEN, 3 children.

3. Mary (Polly) IGLEHEART, b 21 Jan 1802, mar 12 Feb 1824 David BEALL, 6 children

4. Sarah (Sallie) IGLEHEART, b 26 Dec 1804, mar 7 Oct 1834 Joshua ADDINGTON, 7 children

5. Elizabeth IGLEHEART, b 16 Dec 1806, d 14 Jun 1890, mar 22 Mar 1830 Jesse ASHBY, 8 children

6. William D. IGLEHEART, b 10 Mar 1810, d 16 Oct 1865, mar 26 Dec 1833 Lydia SHECKLES, 12 children

7. Henry D. IGLEHEART, b 18 Apr 1813, d 1890, mar (1) 10 Dec 1834 Amelia Ann BENNETT, 8 children, mar (2) 6 Oct 1852, Cynthia Ann ASHBY, 3 children

8. Margaret IGLEHEART, b 4 Oct 1815, mar Sander BOYKEN, l dau.

9. Anna IGLEHEART, b 1 May 1818, mar 16 Oct 1839 Robert SOUTHARD, 4 children

10. Alfred IGLEHEART, b 10 Oct 1820

11. Martha IGLEHEART, b 1 Mar 1823, mar 9 Mar 1841 Edmund SOUTHARD, 9 children

Bill Monroe

Ohio County Feud Over The Use Of Bill Monroe’s Name Nearing End (As of September 2013)

Last week, the Kentucky Supreme Court denied a motion by the Ohio County Industrial Foundation and Ohio Fiscal Court to review the January ruling by the Kentucky Court of Appeals that said the Jerusalem Ridge Bluegrass Music Foundation can use Bill Monroe’s name to promote the Jerusalem Ridge Bluegrass Music Celebration and for tours of the Monroe homeplace. That means the Court of Appeals ruling stands.

But Campbell Mercer, executive director of the Jerusalem Ridge Bluegrass Music Foundation of Kentucky Inc. — formerly the Bill Monroe/Bluegrass Music Foundation of Kentucky Inc. — said Wednesday that there’s still one more legal hurdle to go. In 2005, the industrial foundation and James Monroe, Bill Monroe’s son and the executor of his estate, obtained a temporary injunction in a Tennessee state chancery court prohibiting the Jerusalem Ridge Foundation from using Bill Monroe’s name.

“We still have to go back to Tennessee and ask the judge to lift the injunction,” Mercer said. “There’s a little more legwork. He said in the past that he would give deference to the Kentucky courts. So, we’re hoping when we show him the Kentucky Supreme Court decision that this will all be over.”

In a prepared statement, the Jerusalem Ridge Foundation said it plans to “reassume the Bill Monroe name and to use it to further the tourism and economic development interests of Ohio County, its citizens, the surrounding area and the entire state of Kentucky.”

Mercer said the foundation’s board will have to vote on changing the name back to Bill Monroe/Bluegrass Music Foundation. But he said he expects Monroe’s name to be on the 2014 bluegrass festival at Jerusalem Ridge.

The Court of Appeals ruling in January reversed a Sept. 12, 2011, Ohio County Circuit Court decision, which found that the county and the industrial foundation held the intellectual property rights to Monroe’s name and could stop the Jerusalem Ridge Foundation and its festival from using it. Monroe, known as the “father of bluegrass music,” was born on Jerusalem Ridge near Rosine in Ohio County in 1911. He died in 1996. The Jerusalem Ridge Foundation’s news release says that in 1999, the industrial foundation acquired the Bill Monroe intellectual property rights from James Monroe for $250,000. It said that in April 2001, a group of industrial foundation directors and officers incorporated the The Bill Monroe/Bluegrass Music Foundation of Kentucky, Inc. and hired Mercer to run it. By 2004, the news release said, “personal differences” between Mercer and the Monroe Foundation and the leadership of the industrial foundation resulted in the industrial foundation’s decision to prevent the Monroe foundation from using Monroe’s name.

That order caused the foundation to change its name to the Jerusalem Ridge Bluegrass Music Foundation. In 2007, the Jerusalem Ridge Foundation and Ohio County filed suit, seeking the right to use Monroe’s name.

Now, nearly a decade of legal wrangling seems about to end.

Thanks to Keith Lawrence. 

Tales From Grandmother

My oral history interviews with my grandmother are stories that she told me about her past, or about the past of other family members. To me, as a genealogist, it is important to preserve oral history from older members of the family, whose lives and their memories are at risk of being lost to time. Therefore, interviewing my grandmother, as well as my parents, was always a first priority of mine as a family historian to interview as many grandparents and great-grandparents, as possible – just little remembrances such as the story below.  My children and grandchildren love them!

Grandmother Gets Homesick

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From a tape recording interview made on Oct 10 1977 with my grandmother, Eva Caroline (Smith) Cox (1889-1988,) when she recalled various memories and the following story about her own grandmother Fidella (Porter) Sanders.  She wanted to spend the night with her grandparents who lived about two miles or less from her house.

Grandmother:  “Oh, I don’t know how old I was.  But I wanted to go over there and stay all night and they let me go.  And I don’t know…I just got so homesick…and I wanted to go home.  I had stayed one night.  And I thought, well, the next day I’ll go home, but I didn’t go.” 

When the next night began to come on, oh, I got so homesick.  I began to cry.  I could hear them all hollering over there at home …and talking and laughing in the yard.  And I said I wanted to go home, and grandma said, “No, you can’t go tonight…cause we have no phone, and you might fall.  It’s too late, and there’s a big snow on.  I would never know if you got over there or not.” 

“Well, I just set into squalling.  (Laughs.)  But I set to crying…and she finally give up…about dark.  And there was a big snow that night…up to your knees.  And it was nearly night time, and she couldn’t do nothing with me.  But I remember enough that she got a pair of grandpa’s wool socks and pulled them up over my shoes and fixed them where they wouldn’t fall down, and she let me go.  Laughing)  And there I went.  In the snow, walking.”

Jerri:  “What did your mother say when you got home?”

“And I come in, and Mother was so surprised.  All of them.  They had the lights on… lamps… and they hadn’t eaten their supper …they always ate late.  And grandpa eat early…about 4:30 in the wintertime.  So I had already had my supper.  And I really wanted to go home, and I was so happy when I got there.  There wasn’t any wind blowing.”        

Jerri:  “Were you as big as Amy?”  (My daughter was about six or seven.)

Grandmother:  “Probably was.  Probably larger.  But I was homesick.  And I wanted to go home.  I just would not stay that night.  I could hear their voices…hear them all talking, carrying in the wood, I guess.  I imagined everything.  And the more I listened, the more homesick I got. 

And it wasn’t but a mile.  But they didn’t know.  I could have fell and froze to death.  And nobody wouldn’t have known it.  It’s the wonder my grandmother let me go, but I guess she thought she would have to sit up with me all night.”  (Laughing) 

“Well, I was going.  I had made up my mind.  I was homesick.  Yes, I was.”

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  From an audio tape recording interview with my 90-year old grandmother, Eva Caroline (Smith) Cox ) 1889-1988

Born at Select, Ohio County, Kentucky,

Died at Tyler, Smith County, Texas

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Old Sport –Guard Dog

Of

Charles and Fidella Sanders,

Grandparents of Eva (Smith) Cox,

Who lived at Select, Ohio Co. KY about two miles

from my grandmother when she was a little girl.

 

Grandmother:  “Yes, and one time, her dog bit me.  Old Sport.  I went over there, and in place of going to the door, I went around and thought I would miss him, and he was in the chimney corner, by the chimney, and when I turned the corner he grabbed me.  And I mean he bit the blood out of me.  My grandmother, Fidella Sanders, came running and taken me in the house.  And in that day and time, they had nothing but turpentine, and she put that on that sore, on the place where that dog had bit me.” 

Jerri:  “Was he bad about biting?”

Grandmother:  “Yes.  We all knew that.  He was a guard dog.  He was a great big old black wooly dog….with a little white on him.  He was a pretty good sized dog, too.”

Eula Mae:  “You didn’t like him, then?”

Grandmother:  “No, I was glad when he died.  (Laughter)  Well, I really was.  I never did like that dog.  (Laughter from those around her dining room table, who were listening to her stories.)  Now they were really proud of that dog, and they were old and it guarded them, and they loved him.  But I didn’t like that dog.”

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Contributed by my good friend,  Janice Brown.

Hines

ALFRED THOMAS HINES, Ohio County, was born November 5, 1816, in Millidgeville, Ga.; removed with his parents in 1818 to Warren County, Ky., where he grew to manhood; in 1889 located at Morgantown; in 1842 settled at Madison, Ind.; in 1852 removed to Woodbury, Ky., and in 1856 located at Hines' Mills, Ohio County, where he has since resided. His father, Thomas Hines, a native of Charlotte County, Va., died in 1861, at the age of seventy four years; his grandfather, Harvey Hines, was a native of Ireland. Thomas Hines married Sarah Ruddell, of Georgia; she died in 1843. To their union were born George E., Andrew H., Caroline (Carson), and Alfred Thomas Hines. The last named, in youth, was favored with a good education, and is a man of varied information. He has been twice married; first June 2, 1842, to Mary A., daughter of Francis Honore, of Butler County, Ky., born August 21, 1822; died July 7, 1849, and their union was blessed with the births of Pembroke and Matilda S., married to William E. Bean. March 25, 1852, Mr. Hines married Sarah J., daughter of Simeon and Elizabeth (Wade) Hines, of Butler County Ky., born January 23, 1834, and to them have been born Oscar T., Idle (Armendt), Euddell W., George A., Alexander, Lula D., and Mattie L.  Mr. Hines has long been a merchant, and owns and operates a mill and ferry on Rough Creek, and farms, owning 160 acres of very productive land. He lost nine slaves by the late war. He served six years as magistrate; was many years postmaster, and in 1880 was United States census enumerator, having H. P. Armendt as deputy. He is a member of the Methodist Church, and in politics is a Democrat.

Source: J. H. BATTLE, W H. PERRIN, & G. C. KNIFFIN 1895

THOMAS HENRY HINES, Ohio County, was born November 21, 1827, in Butler

County, Ky., where he grew to manhood and in 1862 removed to Ohio County, where he has since resided. His father, Simeon W. Hines, was born, near Richmond, Va., February 20, 1802; removed, at the age of fourteen years, with his mother to Boyle County, Ky., and in 1826 to Butler County, where he was for several years an active Methodist class leader, and died there February 26, 1872. He was the son of Henry Hines, a native of Ireland, a Virginia planter, who owned 105 slaves, and died about 1807, at the age of eighty-six years. Simeon W. was twice married; first to Elizabeth, daughter of William and Polley (Callioot) Wade, of Boyle County, born in 1815, and died in 1839. To

their union were born Mary, William H., Thomas Henry, George A., John B., Sarah J. D. (married to A. T. Hines), Caroline C. (Wilson), James D., and Elizabeth W. (Acton). The children of his second marriage are Lucy A. (Talley), and Eliza W. (Leach). March 10, 1847, Thomas Henry Hines married Sarah A., daughter of Richard and Mildred (Cardwell) Moore, of Butler County, born February 26, 1832, and to them have been born Simeon W., Warren E., George W., Andrew J., William W., Sarah T. (Leet), James A., Virginia F., Samuel B., Thomas E., Elizabeth M., and Delila A.  Mr. Hines was for many years extensively engaged in merchandising and dealing in tobacco. He has also been largely engaged in buying and selling real estate, at which be has been very successful, at present owning 2,500 acres of land, 600 of which are in good state of cultivation and 700 of fine cane pasturage, which affords ample winter food for a large number of cattle and mules. Mr. Hines is also an extensive money lender, and acted for some years as magistrate. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and in polities a Democrat. He lost six slaves by the late war.

Source: J. H. BATTLE, W H. PERRIN, & G. C. KNIFFIN 1895

JOHN BIRKS HINES, Ohio County, was born January 23, 1832, in Butler County, Ky., where he was reared and lived until 1862, when he removed to Ohio County, where he has since resided. His father, Simeon W. Hines, was born near Richmond, Va., in 1802, immigrated to Kentucky in 1812, where he served many years as magistrate, and died in 1870. He was the son of Henry Hines, who was born and died in Virginia. Simeon W. first married Elizabeth, daughter of William and Polly Wade, of Butler County; she died in 1840, and their offspring are Mary E., William H., Thomas H., George A., John Birks, Sarah J. (Hines), Caroline C. (Wilson), James D., and Elizabeth W. (Acton). To him by his second marriage were born Lucy A. (Talley), Eliza W. (Leach), Nancy W., and Fayette W. (drowned). John B. Hines married, October 18, 1855, Nancy A., daughter of Hardin and Fannie (Rone) Doolin, of Butler County, born August 24, 1839; died January 31, 1870, and from their union sprang George A. (deceased), John C, James D., Mary A. (Hoops), Joseph A. (deceased), and Emerliza (deceased). June 16, 1870, Mr. Hines was married to Rebecca A., daughter of Laban and Frances (Johnson) Wright, of Ohio County. She was born in 1845, and to them have been born Sarah E., Thomas H., Virginia W., Laban W., Willie A., and Rebecca F.  Mr. Hines is a farmer, owning 215 acres of fair land in good condition. In politics he is a member of the Democratic party.

Source: J. H. BATTLE, W H. PERRIN, & G. C. KNIFFIN 1895

JOHN W. HINES, Ohio County, is a son of William H. Hines, a native of Kentucky, a boot-maker by profession; married Hester Ann Rone in 1840. He died in 1863, leaving seven children, of whom our subject, John W., is the second. William H. Hines, in 1861, entered the Federal army, with the rank of sergeant in Company B, Seventeenth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, served one year, and was discharged on account of ill health; afterward joined the Twelfth Kentucky Cavalry, in which he rose to the rank of first lieutenant, and while in service died at Louisville, Ky., in 1863. Simeon Hines, the grandfather of John W., was a native of Virginia. He died in Ohio County, Ky., in 1872, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. John W. Hines was born May 22, 1848, in Woodbury, Butler Co., Ky. During the absence of his father in the war, and after his death, until 1866, young Hines supported the family by his labor. After his mother's second marriage, he worked on the farm by the month and drove team for two years; then carried mail from Hartford to Cloverport on the Ohio River, and between Hartford and Point Pleasant on Green River, for one year. In 1870 he raised a crop of corn. January 15, 1871, he married Alice M., daughter of Philip and Martha Davenport. He then carried mail another year on the same route; then rented land and farmed one year, and in the fall of 1872 bought 100 acres, which he sold five years later, and bought 119 acres where he now resides; has sixty-five acres well fenced and in cultivation. He gives his exclusive attention to his farm and his stock, which is, probably, the best to be found anywhere in his vicinity. Mr. Hines has accumulated his property by good management and close attention to business, but attributes much of his success to the assistance of his wife. They are the parents of two sons, Vernon N. and Luther P., aged, respectively, ten and six years. Mrs. Hines is a member of the Baptist faith. Mr. Hines is in practice on the side of temperance, and is a Democrat, but occasionally votes for a Republican if he thinks him to be the best man for the place. Mr. Hines' mother, Mrs. Hester Ann (Rone) Hines, is still living.

Source: J. H. BATTLE, W H. PERRIN, & G. C. KNIFFIN 1895

Hartford Herald 1875 - Part 3

Sept 8, 1875

Nov 3, 1875

Nov 3, 1875