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From: Sandi Gorin <>
Subject: BIOS 2076 THRU 2080 - HOOVER, ALFORD, JORDAN, JORDAN, SEARS
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 06:30:36 -0500


Good morning on another rainy and cooler morning in south central KY. Are
any of these fellows yours? Hope so! Sandi

2076 JESSAMINE CO - HOOVER, WILLIAM A
Hoover Nave Evans Cole Vince Burnett

2077 FAYETTE CO - ALFORD, M C
Alford Mitchell Smith

2078 TODD CO - JORDAN, COLEMAN
Jordan Terry

2079 WARREN CO JORDAN, HENRY
Jordan McKee Burns Reiff

2080 ALLEN CO - SEARS, SAMUEL
Sears Pulliam Cushenberry Lynn Patten Berry Stark Henderson Atwood Stone
Dobey Stark

#2076:
Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Jessamine Co.

WILLIAM H. HOOVER is the son of Peter Hoover, who was of German descent and
born near Hagerstown, Md., in 1789, immigrated to Kentucky with his parents
in 1800 and settled in Jessamine County just west of Nicholasville. In 1811
he married Miss Eva Nave, removed to the southern portion of the county,
and settled in what was then a wilderness, on Hickman Creek. About this
time he was drafted in the war of 1812, which was soon ended. He resided
nearly three-quarters of a century at this same place, making for himself a
good name for all that was honorable, truthful and upright, and accumulated
a considerable fortune for his children. He died in 1872, a true and
honored member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Eva Nave Hoover,
the mother of William H. Hoover, was a native of Estill County, Ky., born
in 1790, and like her husband lived to a ripe old age, dying in 1876,
having made for herself a character for purity and sweetness of disposition
seldom equaled. William H. Hoover is the fourth of eight children, and was
born in Jessamine County, Ky., August 17, 1821. He spent his youth and
early manhood as a teamster, driving a train of wagons from Nicholasville
to Louisville, Ky., and in assisting his father in partially subduing the
great forest that surrounded them. For many years he had charge of his
father's saw and grist-mill. When a young man he became a member of the
Masonic order and rapidly rose to the high positions of that fraternity, of
which he is still a worthy member. His opportunities for receiving an
education were exceedingly limited, there being practically no schools in
this then sparsely settled district of Kentucky. But being a practical and
industrious man he made the best of his opportunities and gathered
knowledge by observation and experience, and to-day he is a man of good
practical education. He has always been a Democrat in politics, and for
more than thirty years a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South. He has accumulated a nice estate, given his two children good
education and a nice start in life, and is now taking his old age quietly
and pleasantly on his beautiful blue-grass farm, near his children and
grandchildren. He married Miss Sarah J. Evans, of Garrard County, Ky.,
November 26, 1857. She was the daughter of Dr. Hezekiah and Nancy (Cole)
Evans, and born November 18, 1841. Her father was assassinated in 1862 on
account of his strong Southern sympathy near his home in Garrard County;
her mother died in 1882, aged about seventy years. To William H. Hoover and
wife were born three children: William H. Hoover, Jr., the first, was born
September 5, 1858, and received his early training at the district schools,
Bethel Academy, Nicholasville, Ky., and at Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, Tenn., where he entered in 1877 and remained until he completed
his education; he then returned to his father's farm, where he assumed
control until November 10, 1885, when he married Miss Mattie R. Vince, of
Jessamine County, Ky.; he then removed to his own farm adjoining that of
his father, where he is now farming and breeding thoroughbred and trotting
horses. Thomas D. Hoover, the second son, was born in 1859, and died in
infancy; Everett B. Hoover, the third and youngest child, was born October
21, 1860, and like his brother received his early education in the free
schools and at Bethel Academy; in 1877 he entered the Wesleyan College at
Millersburg, Ky., where he remained until 1879; then entered Vanderbilt
University, where he took a special course of study, preparatory to
studying law. In 1880 he entered the Columbia College Law School, New York
City, where he remained two years, taking the full law course, graduating
in June, 1882. He at once returned to his home and received his license to
practice law in August, 1882, and has been a continued practitioner ever
since. He married Miss Ella Burnett, of Boyle County, Ky., November 21,
1882. To this union was born Elizabeth Hoover, the first grandchild of
William H. Hoover, January 31, 1884. In April, 1886, Everett B. Hoover was
elected judge of the city court of Nicholasville, Ky., and was re-elected
the following year, of which office his is the present incumbent.

#2077:
HISTORY OF FAYETTE COUNTY KENTUCKY, by Robert Peter, ed. by William H.
Perrin, O. L. Baskin Co., Chicago, 1882. Reprinted by Southern Historical
Press, Easley, SC, 1979. Page 554

M. C. ALFORD, lawyer, Lexington, son of C. F. and Margaret (Mitchell)
Alford, was born in Fayette Co., Ky., on July 10, 1855. His father was a
native of Garrard, his mother of Fayette county. The son was educated at
Kentucky University; graduated in law in 1877, and began practice in the
September following, with Z. F. Smith, with whom he has since remained in
partnership. In April, 1881, he was appointed Master Commissioner of the
court of common Pleas, a position he fills with ability and credit. January
4, 1882, Mr. Alford was nominated for City Recorder at the Democratic
primary by a large vote.

#2078:
History of Todd County, Kentucky, ed. J. H. Battle, 1884, F. A. Battey
Publishing Co., 1884, Page 360. [Town of Guthrie]

COLEMAN JORDAN was born November 21, 1812, in Halifax County, Va. In 1829
he came to the neighborhood of Bowling Green, Ky.; soon after removed to
Todd County, where he has since resided, and for many years engaged at the
carpenter trade, also farming. He was married, in 1846, to Lucy H. Terry.
She was born in 1826 in Tennessee. Eight children have been born to his
union: Elizabeth, Granville C. A., Tabithe, Maria, Coleman E., Robert,
Dixie and Lucy J. His three sons are carrying on the carpenter
trade--Granville C. A., Coleman E. and Robert.

#2079:
Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886.
Warren County.

HENRY JORDAN, of Warren County, was born in Ireland in 1829, and is the
second son of Henry and Elizabeth (McKee) Jordan. He emigrated to Canada in
1854, where he remained four years; then went to New Orleans, remaining
there one season, after which he came to Bowling Green, Ky. (in 1859), and
now lives eight miles south of the latter town. Before leaving Ireland he
married Ellen Burns, from whom he was divorced after living in wedlock
fourteen years. They had two children, Mary J. and Elizabeth. He next
married Mary A. Reiff, who was born and raised in Lancaster County, Penn.
They have eight children living as follows: Henry Fletcher, Gracie, Joseph
F., Maud, Nora, Frederick, Annie L. and Samuel. Mr. Jordan belongs to the
Masonic order and to the Odd Fellows, and in politics is a Democrat. He and
his wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Mr. Jordan is a
stone and marble cutter by trade, and also pays some attention to a small
farm which he is the possessor of.

#2080:
Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886.
Allen County.

SAMUEL SEARS was born June 4, 1814, in King and Queen County, Va., and in
1815 removed with his parents to the northern part of Allen County, Ky,
where he grew to manhood and has since resided. His father, Thomas Sears, a
native of Virginia, served during the entire period of the Revolutionary
war, was an extensive farmer, owned many slaves and died about 1825, at the
age of eighty-four years. He was married five times and reared children by
three of his wives. His offspring are Henry, Thomas, William, Walker,
Betsey (Sears), Mariah (Pulliam), Frances (Cushenberry), John, Richard,
Robert, Nancy (Cushenberry), Samuel, Albert, Mary A. (Lynn), Amanda
(Patten) and Joseph M. Samuel Sears' mother was Frances Sears (no blood
relation), who died in 1833, at the age of fifty years. In youth Samuel
attended the old field schools of the vicinity in which he was reared. He
has been twice married; first, on the 29th day of March, 1835, to Maria T.,
daughter of Thomas and Matilda (Berry) Stark, of Allen County, born July
29, 1820; died in 1858, and to them were born Matilda J. (deceased), Thomas
J. (deceased), Margaret J. (Henderson), William E. (deceased), Elizabeth
(Atwood), Charles L., Rolley (deceased), James M., John W., Sidney
(deceased), Wallace (Atwood) and Samuel. On the 5th of January, 1865, Mr.
Sears married Mrs. Harriet Stone, daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth (Dobey)
Stark, of Warren County, born June 1, 1822, and this union was favored by
the birth of one daughter, Hattie. Mr. Sears is a farmer by profession,
having 150 acres of well improved and productive land. Before the war he
was one of the largest planters in the community, and by the war was a
great sufferer in property. He lost forty-seven slaves by the late war and
has sold out among his children about 800 acres of land. He has been a
member for forty-eight years and a deacon for thirty years in the Baptist
Church. In politics he was an old line Whig, but now affiliates with the
Democratic party. By his own exertions, mainly, and attention to business
principles, Mr. Sears has amassed a handsome estate which was wrecked by
the war. In the late conflict he was a conservative Union man.

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