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From: Sandi Gorin <>
Subject: BIOS #3926 THRU 3930 - SMOOT, McKEE, PETREE, McFARLAN, McGAW
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 07:18:38 -0600


3926 OWEN CO - SMOOT, J C - Smoot Dennis Clark Marston Proctor
3927 SHELBY, McKEE, JOSHUA - McKee Ashbrook Buckner Anderson Vandyke Coats
Groves Gibson
3928 TODD CO - PETREE, JOHN W - Petree Mobley Welch Harned Brown Carroll Terry
3929 WARREN CO - McFARLAN, J B - Atward Atwood Cockerill McFarlan Pulliam
3930 WEBSTER CO - McGAW, JOHN P - McGaw Boothe

#3926: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th
ed., 1887, Owen Co. J. C. SMOOT was born in Clinton County, Ind.,
February 4, 1835, and is a son of George and Dorothy (Dennis) Smoot.
George was born in Owen County, Ky., February 8, 1801. He moved to Indiana
in 1828, where he lived until 1835, when he returned to Kentucky. He was
an old and highly respected farmer, and died in Owen County in 1882. Reed
Smoot,
paternal grandfather of J. C. Smoot, was born in Culpeper County, Va. He
was a Revolutionary soldier, and married Fannie Clark, a native of
Virginia. He came to Kentucky at an early day, being among the first
settlers. He was a very wealthy man, and owned 10,000 acres of Owen County
land. Dorothy (Dennis) Smoot was born in Franklin County, Ky., a daughter
of Jesse Dennis. Jesse Dennis was a wealthy farmer, and was killed by a
horse kicking him in 1840. He was born in Woodford County in 1788, and his
father Samuel, was born in Ireland, came to America in
1773, and was a brave soldier of the Revolutionary war. J. C. Smoot was
educated at the common schools of Owen County. He has made farming his
chief occupation, and owns a farm of 400 acres, which he values at
$20 per acre. February 20, 1864, Mr. Smoot married Susan E. Marston,
daughter of William And Nancy J. (Proctor) Marston, and two children have
blessed their union: W. K. and Helen. William Marston, the father of Susan
E., was a prominent and wealthy farmer of Owen County, he died September
11, 1863. Mr. Smoot is a stanch member of the Republican Party.

#3927: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th
ed., 1887, Shelby Co.JOSHUA McKEE, farmer, was born in Clark County, Ky.,
August 2, 1829, a son of Joshua and Rebecca (Ashbrook) McKee. His father
was born in Virginia, a son of Joseph McKee. His mother was born in
Kentucky, a daughter of Levi Ashbrook. Our subject was taken to Shelby
County when he was four years old. He received his education at the common
schools and has engaged in farming. June 3, 1884, he married Lula Anderson
of Shelby County, daughter of Arch and Carrie (Buckner) Anderson. Mrs.
McKee had three brothers and two sisters, Robert B., who married Laura
Vandyke and had three children: Love, Claude and Willie; William H., a
lawyer in Taylorsville, Ky., married Jennie Coats of Owensboro and had one
child, Arch; Alice B., who married B. B. Groves and had one child,
Roy B.; Merriwether L., who married Annie Gibson and had two children,
Alice and Eddie; Archie, who was born in Louisville, Ky., and still single.
To Mr. and Mrs. McKee on child, Charlie M., has been born. Mr.
McKee owns 102 acres of land.

#3928: History of Todd County, Kentucky, ed. J. H. Battle, 1884, F. A.
Battey Publishing Co., 1884, pp. 280-81. [Fairview Precinct] JOHN
W. PETREE, a leading and enterprising citizen and farmer, was born November
27, 1830, about four miles east of Fairview, and is the third of five
children--three boys and two girls--three now living, born to John and
Sythie (Mobley) Petree, natives respectively of South Carolina and Johnson
County, Ga.; the father of Scotch-Irish descent and the mother, on her
father's side, of Irish origin. Subject's father was born in May,
1806; emigrated to Todd County, Ky., in an early day and settled near
Elkton, where he lived till [sic] about 1871, when he moved to Kansas,
where he still lives. Subject's grandfather, Hazel Petrie, died about
1870. Our subject attended the common schools and received a fair
education. He was reared on a farm and lived with his parents till [sic]
the age of twenty-two, when he went to the Iron Works of T. G. Welch & Co.,
on the Cumberland River, where he was engaged as general manager,
contracting for wood and furnishing coal, etc. There he remained two
years. In December, 1854, he returned to Fairview, Christian County, where
he engaged in blacksmithing and wool-carding, in which business he was
engaged, with good success, till [sic] 1863, when he sold his business to
T. H. Harned, and engaged in farming 260 acres of land on A. J. Brown's
farm. He has speculated considerably in cattle, and at farming has met
with good success. He now owns 450 acres, one-fourth mile east of
Fairview; his farm is embellished with one of the finest brick residences
in the county. Starting with about $30 in money, he has by good
management and industry established one of the best homes in the county of
Todd. On February 19, 1856, he married Miss Mary Ann Harned, a native of
Christian County, and daughter of John and Mary (Carroll) Harned, natives
of Virginia and Christian County, Ky., respectively, both of Irish descent.
This union was blessed with ten children, all living: William S., Mary E.
(now the wife of J. C. Terry), Joseph E., Charles B., Thomas L.,
Abilene, John W., Hazel, Paul and Harry. Mr. Petree takes special interest
in giving his children a good education. He and wife are both members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was formerly a member of I.O.O.F.;
as also a member of the Grange. Possessing a strong constitution and an
iron will, Mr. Petree bids fair to spend many years of usefulness in the
community where he is an honored and upright citizen.

#3929: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd
ed., 1886. Warren County. J. B. McFARLAN, Warren County, was born in
Cadiz, Trigg County, Ky., in November, 1828, and is a son of Thomas and
Martha (Pulliam) McFarlan, of English origin. They were natives of this
State; the father held the office of sheriff for several years, and died in
1837. Subject lived with his mother until grown, when he married Martha
E., daughter of James Atwood, of Allen County, Ky. By this marriage he had
two children: William O. and Charles W. His wife died in 1854, and he
afterward married Mrs. Atward, the daughter of J. J. Cockerill, of Allen
County. Seven children are the result of this marriage: Cornelia, Biddie
(deceased), Fannie (deceased), Thomas, Anna L., H. C. and James R. Mr.
McFarlan and his wife are members of the Baptist Church. He is a Democrat
in politics.

#3930: Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 2nd
ed.,1885, Webster Co. JOHN P. McGAW was born in Carroll County, Miss.,
Mary 15, 1860 to John R. and Martha A. (Boothe) McGaw, natives of South
Carolina and Mississippi, and of Irish and English descent, respectively.
John R., at the age of thirteen, moved with his parents to Mississippi,
where he was afterward married, and where he was engaged in agricultural
pursuits until 1871. He then came to Webster County, Ky, where he bought a
farm, on which he resided until his death in 1878. He served for some two
years in one of the Mississippi regiments, Confederate service, during the
late civil war,
participating in several of the leading battles. He was, at the time of
his death, a magistrate. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and of
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. John P. McGaw still resides on the
home place with his mother, and now owns part of the farm. He has held the
position of school trustee, and is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church. He is yet unmarried, and in politics, is a Democrat.

Colonel Sandi Gorin
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