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From: Sandi Gorin <>
Subject: BIOS 1646 THRU 1650 - O'HAAARA, HUEY, BOWLDS, HOSICK, BURGESS
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 06:57:55 -0600

Good morning … I think! 22 degrees, snowing lightly with ice under it -
county schools closed due to icy roads. Down to 10 degrees tonight. Poor
flowers! Please note that the URL has been changed for looking at the past
bios I've posted on this list - I'm trying to add about 10 a day. They will
be searchable only by the surname of the biography - and not by every name
mentioned in the biography itself. Stay warm and dry and here are the bios
for today:

1646 - BOYLE CO - O'HARA, THEODORE
O'Hara Boone
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Mexico

1647 - CARLISLE CO - HUEY, BENJAMIN T.
Huey Bennett Brandon Hobbs Terry
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TN VA

1648 - DAVIESS CO - BOWLDS, JAMES D
Bowlds Hagan
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none

1649 LIVINGSTON CO - HOSICK, JOSEPH T.
Hosick Martin Turner Telford Clanahan
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Hardin-IL VA Scotland Pope-IL SC Metropolis-Massac-IL

1650 - McCRACKEN - BURGESS, ROBERT A.
Burgess Fitsworth Allison Stanley Williams
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TN IL

#1646:
Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY. and J. A.
& U. P. James, Cincinnati, 1847. Volume 1. Reprinted 1968. Boyle County.
The Poets and Poetry of Kentucky, page 590.

THEODORE O'HARA, Well known in Kentucky and the South as a poet, soldier,
and editor, was a native of Danville, Ky. (See extended biographical sketch
elsewhere in this volume.) His celebrated poem, published below, was
written in 1847, on the occasion of the interment at Frankfort of the Dead
who fell in Mexico. [Note: Poems shown: "The Bivouac Of The Dead " and "The
Old Pioneer, Daniel Boone."]
*

#1647:
Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Volume I and Volume II, Lewis
Publishing Company, 1904, pp. 141-142. Carlisle Co.

BENJAMIN T. HUEY Benjamin Thomas Huey, who is now serving as circuit clerk
for Carlisle county and makes his home in Bardwell, was born on a farm in
this county, April 23, 1871, his parents being Jeremiah and Martha
Priscilla (Bennett) Huey. His paternal grandparents were John and Letticia
(Brandon) Huey. The grandfather was born in Kentucky and was an early
settler of what is now Carlisle county. He is now deceased, but his widow
is still living at the advanced age of ninety-four years. She celebrated
the anniversary of her birth on the 9th day of April, 1903. She is still
hale and hearty, and lives in Carlisle county. She was born in Tennessee, a
daughter of William Brandon, an early settler of what is now Carlisle
county, where he lived for many years. Mrs. John Huey was the mother of
three sons and a daughter: William, now deceased; Susanna, the widow of
John M. Hobbs and a resident of Carlisle county; Jeremiah and James, both
deceased. Jeremiah Huey, the father of our subject, was born in Carlisle
county, Kentucky, October 4, 1845, and passed away here on the 6th of
January, 1902. His wife, who is still living in this county, was born here
May 24, 1847, a daughter of John Bennett, a native of Virginia. To Mr. and
Mrs. Jeremiah Huey were born ten children: Ella, Letticia, John W.,
Benjamin T., Barbara Susan, Dixie D., Rhoda J., Maybelle, Lizzie and Emma
D., all of whom are yet living. The father of this family was a farmer by
occupation, and thus provided a comfortable living for his wife and
children. Both Mr. and Mrs. Huey were members of the Missionary Baptist
church, and in its faith reared their children, who have also become
members of that denomination. Upon the home farm Benjamin T. Huey was
reared, and there remained until twenty-one years of age. He gained a fair
education, attending the district schools until thirteen years of age, and
after he had reached his majority he spent five years in teaching and
attending school alternately. In the fall of 1897 he was elected circuit
clerk of Carlisle county, as the Democratic candidate, and in the spring of
1903 was made the candidate of the party for re-election, having no
opposition. He has always been a stanch supported of the men and measures
of the Democratic party. In his fraternal relations Mr. Huey is a Master
Mason, and he also holds membership relations with the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows. He was married in 1898 to Miss Mary Terry, a daughter of W.H.
and Mary Terry, of Carlisle county, where Mrs. Huey was born. Mr. and Mrs.
Huey now have two children: Horace Thomas and Henry Jeremiah. Having always
lived in this county, they are well known and occupy an enviable position
in social circles where true worth and intelligence are received as the
passports into good society.
*

#1648:
History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., Chicago,
1883. Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980. p. 608.

JAMES D. BOWLDS, two miles southeast of Knottsville, farmer and
stock-raiser, owning 150 acres of valuable land, was born in Knottsville
Precinct, March 27, 1842, and is a son of Thomas Bowlds (deceased), also a
native of this precinct. Mr. Bowlds' grandfather, James Bowlds, was an
early settler of Daviess County. Our subject has always been on a farm, and
received his education in the common schools. He married Miss Sarah Hagan
in 1861, the daughter of Benjamin J. Hagan, of this precinct. They have had
ten children, seven of whom are living--Benjamin, Ida, Edward, Jessie, Guy,
Lorena and Minnie. Mr. Bowlds is a member of the Catholic Total Abstinence
Society, and at one time was banner carrier in that society. He has held
the offices of School Trustee and Road Overseer.
*

#1649:
The Biographical Review of Johnson, Massac, Pope and Hardin Counties
Illinois Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago, 1893 [Livingston County]

JOSEPH T. HOSICK, of Elizabethtown, Ill., is one of the leading farmers of
Hardin County, a son of William Hosick, of Virginia, and a grandson of
William Hosick, of Virginia, and a grandson of Alexander Hosick, who was a
native of Scotland, and came to America before the Revolutionary War,
settling in Virginia. William Hospick was born in Virginia, was brought up
on the farm, and secured a good education for the times. He was at one time
Surveyor for his county, and removed to Livingston County, Ky., in 1810,
buying timber land and erecting a log cabin in the woods. He settled down
to hard work, and cleared up and improved his farm. Even at that early day
the question as to the right and policy of slavery was being agitated, and
he, being opposed to the institution in any form, sold his farm and left
the state, this being the only thing he could do, as those who favored the
continuance of the system, whether or not they believed in its
righteousness, seemed to know instinctively, that if the question were
fully and fairly discussed, such discussion must necessarily result in its
overthrow. Leaving Kentucky, he came to Illinois in 1816, entered
Government land, built a log cabin with puncheon floor, and again began to
clear up and improve his farm. He remained in that locality until the end
of his days, dying in about 1840. He was married in 1797 to Polly Turner,
of Kentucky, by whom he had ten children, viz: Elizabeth, Alexander, Nancy,
Polly, Nellie, Perlina, Joseph T., Johnson, Matilda and Sallie. Joseph T.
Hosick was born in Livingston County, Ky., June 9, 1812, and was brought up
on the farm, and educated in the schools of the day, such as they were,
learning but little therein. But being of strong and active intellectual
powers, he obtained a good, practical education, and has made a fair
success of his life. He came to Pope County in 1827, and settled in what is
now Hardin County, buying timber land, erecting a log cabin and going to
work in earnest to establish a home. He made a success of his efforts, and
in after years a large, two-story brick residence took the place of the
humble log cabin, and large fields in a high state of cultivation took the
place of the timbered wilderness. He was married in the year 1832 to Nancy
Martin, of Livingston County, Ky., daughter of David Martin, of South
Carolina, who was of Irish ancestry. To this marriage with Miss Martin
there were born four children, all now deceased, and she died in 1840. He
was married the second time, to Elizabeth M. Telford, in 1842. She is a
daughter of Robert Telford, a native of South Carolina. To this second
marriage there were born five chidlren, viz: Edmond S., a farmer of Hardin
County; Amanda, deceased; Polly Ann, wife of Leroy Clanahan, a minister at
Metropolis; Samuel T., a farmer of Hardin County; and Alice A., deceased.
Mr. Hosick takes pride in the fact that he has made ten trips down the Ohio
and Mississippi Rivers in flatboats, and has traveled a great deal on
railroads without ever seeing an accident. He is also proud of the fact,
that although there are a great many people of his name, yet none of them
have ever been convicted of any crime. He has been fighting whisky for the
past fifty-two years, and has voted with the Prohibition party for the last
five years. It will thus be seen that it runs in the nature of the Hosick
family to oppose the wrong, for as his father was a decidely anti-slavery
man, so is he now a decidely anti- whisky man. He is also on the side of
religion, having been an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church
for fifty years, and all in all, Mr. Hosick is one of the best and most
useful citizens of Hardin County, and is so considered by all who know him.
*

#1650:
Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904, pp
476-477 [McCracken]

ROBERT A. BURGESS, whose pleasant country home is near Cecil, Kentucky, and
who is ranked with the representative citizens and prosperous farmers of
McCracken county, dates his birth in Clarksville, Tennessee, in the year
1853. Mr. Burgess is a son of W. F. and Venetia (Fitsworth) Burgess, who
came to Kentucky when Robert A. was quite small, and settled in McCracken
county. Their other children are William Burgess, M. D., a practicing
physician of Johnstown, Illinois; Mack, a well-known farmer of McCracken
county, Kentucky; and Viola, wife of Dr. Allison, of Paducah, Kentucky. The
mother of this family died in 1901, at the age of fifty-one years. After
completing his schooling, Robert A. Burgess engaged in farming in McCracken
county, starting out in life with no capital save good health, energy and
ambition. With these he has made his way to success. He now owns a
beautiful home, on a forty-acre tract of land, and in the western edge of
the county he has one hundred and forty acres, all well improved and under
a high state of cultivation. Mr. Burgess' family consists of wife and four
children. He married, in 1882, Miss Ellen Stanley, daughter of Ephraim and
Margaret Stanley, of McCracken county. Her brothers and sisters are Robert,
William, Richard, George and Charlie Stanley, and Mrs. Lucy Williams, wife
of Andrew Williams, a well known and successful farmer of McCracken county;
and Miss Fannie Stanley, a popular school teacher of this county. Mr. and
Mrs. Burgess are the parents of the following children: William, Edgar,
Eula May and Robert S. Mr. Burgess is a man well posted on public affairs,
and has always taken an active interest in local politics, affiliating with
the Democratic party. In the year 1878 he was appointed deputy sheriff of
McCracken county, to collect taxes, and served efficiently in that capacity.

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