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From: Sandi Gorin <>
Subject: BIOS 4361 THRU 4365 - AMOS, MARATIN, ADAMS, DAY, McNARY
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 07:20:05 -0500


4356 HART CO - AMOS, CHARLES P - Amos Pulliam Whitman Moss Burd Burton
Harper Rucker
4357 HENDERSON CO - MARTIN, GEORGE BURNEY - Allin Martin Smith
4358 HENRY CO - ADAMS, DAVID C - Adams Barton Marsh
4359 HICKMAN CO - DAY, JOHN B - Day Elliott Woosley
4360 HOPKINS CO - McNARY, WILLIAM C - McNary Campbell

#4361: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd
ed., 1885, Hart County. CHARLES P. AMOS was born in Barren (now Hart)
County, January 14, 1812. His father, William Amos, was a native of
Virginia, and was born in Lunenburg County, May 13, 1782. His wife, to
whom he was married in April, 1808, was a Miss Elizabeth Pulliam. This
union was blessed by the birth of eight children, three of whom are now
living: Susan (Whitman), John H. (who married Catherine Moss) and Charles
P. Mrs. Elizabeth (Pulliam) Amos came to Kentucky with her parents,
Benjamin and Lucy Pulliam, who located in Barren County in 1796. William
Amos was a farmer and died in 1858; his father, James Amos, was of English
descent, and was among the early settlers of Kentucky; he built the first
house that was situated within the boundaries of what is now Hart County,
and on the site of the present village of Woodsonville, where he resided
until his death. Charles P. Amos was reared on a farm; he attended the
schools of his native county, in which he improved his time and talents so
well that, at the age of nineteen, he was able to teach, and followed that
profession with success up to within a very few years; he also learned the
trade of house carpenter, in which he engaged in connection with teaching
school and superintending the working of a small farm, which he owns. He
has been uniformly successful in his business transactions, which he has
always conducted with the strictest integrity. He is now retired from
business, and in his old age enjoy[s] the pleasure of seclusion and a rest
from the labors of an active life. His wife, Armilda (Burd) Amos, to whom
he was wedded in 1834, was a daughter of Robert H. and Sarah (Burton) Burd;
the former was a native of Kentucky, and the latter of South Carolina.
Armilda Amos was a life-long and consistent member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and in that faith departed this life July 5, 1876. To
her and husband were born twelve children, only four of whom are now
living: Margery (Harper), Henry S., Susan W. (Rucker) and Mildred F. Mr.
Amos is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His political views
are based on Republican principles.

#4362: History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr,
American Historical Society, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. III, p.266,
Henderson Co. George Burney Martin. At his death at Corydon,
January 10, 1919, George Burney Martin closed the record of a very long and
most useful life. His career was devoted almost entirely to farming, and
he never sought the big honors and achievements of politics or commerce.
He was very successful none the less [sic], and his success was not
reoriented merely by accumulations but by wise distribution of his means
and his working energy. He was a prominent churchman, a generous giver to
church and philanthropic causes, and it is easy to understand the wide
esteem in which his name is held in this section of the state. He was born
at Smith Mills in Henderson County, February 13, 1831 and lived almost to
the age of eighty-eight. His parents were Stephen and Sally (Smith)
Martin, his father of Revolutionary ancestry and a pioneer of Henderson
County. During his boyhood days George Burney Martin acquired only such
education as was afforded by the limited schools in his home community at
Smith Mills. His knowledge was due to reading and wide experience more
than to formal schooling. He grew up on a farm, and from farming as a
vocation he obtained through his good judgment and industry ample rewards,
not only sufficient for his own needs and those of his family but to do
good elsewhere. For many years after his marriage he lived on his father's
old homestead, but in 1885 retired to Corydon, and remained a resident of
that village until the close of his life. His generous fortune he
dispensed liberally, and for twenty-five years or more maintained a paid
missionary in the foreign fields. At his death he left a legacy to the
Orphans Home of the Baptist Church. After his home and family his church
was to him the strongest tie of his life. For more than sixty consecutive
years he served as superintendent of the Baptist Sunday School in his home
community. He was a stanch democrat and prohibitionist and a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In 1860 Mr. Martin married Eleanor Allin,
daughter of Dr. Charles Allin, of Henderson County. She died in 1885, the
mother of eight children, one son and seven daughters, seven of who reached
mature years.

#4363: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th
ed., 1887, Henry Co. DAVID C. ADAMS was born in Henry County, Ky.,
November 30, 1836, and is a son of John and Sallie (Adams) Adams. His
father was born in Henry County, Ky., October 19, 1797, was a farmer, rode
and constable for eighteen years; was also deputy sheriff for several
years. He was a son of David, who was born in Ireland. Mrs. Sallie Adams
was born in Henry County, a daughter of David Adams, Sr. David C. Adams was
well educated for business pursuits, and followed merchandising from 1857
to 1865, but was very unsuccessful;
has always had farming carried on, however, and owns 165 acres of good
land. November 3, 1859, he married Mary E. Barton, of Henry County, Ky.,
daughter of David and Elizabeth (Marsh) Barton. Four children blessed this
union: George M., William M., Florida B. and Sallie M. Mr. Adams, his wife
and Florida B. are members of the Christian Church. He is a Master Mason,
and was the assessor of Henry County for eight years, from 1878 to 1886.

#4364: Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Volume I and Volume II, Lewis
Publishing Company, 1904, pp 407-408 [Hickman] JOHN B. DAY, formerly a
farmer, now residing in the town of Clinton was born and reared in Hickman
county. He was born September 11, 1863, and is a son of Alpheus I., and
Nancy (Woosley) Day. His father was born in Mecklenburg county, Virginia,
and his mother in Bedford, Tennessee. His paternal grandfather was John
Day, also a native of Mecklenburg county, Virginia, and of English lineage.
His maternal grandfather, James Woosley, was a native of Tennessee, of
German descent. Our subject's father settled in Graves county,
Kentucky, about 1837, and lived there till about 1860, at which time he
removed to Hickman county, settling about three and a half miles southeast
of Clinton. Here John B. Day was reared, and was given only a common
school education. In 1886 he married Miss Hettie Elliott, and on the farm
on which Mr. Day was born and reared and still owns, he settled down in
life, taking up the pursuit of farming, which he best understood. Here he
continued to reside till in the spring of 1903, when he removed his family
to the town of Clinton that his children might have better educational
advantages than the country schools afforded them. Mrs. Day, like her
husband, is a native of Hickman county. Her parents were James and
Margaret (Bard) Elliott, both natives of Kentucky, and are now deceased.
They were the parents of eight children, of whom Mrs. Day is the youngest
but one. To Mr. and Mrs. Day have been born four children, namely:
Lula, born October 24, 1897: Nancy A., born December 28, 1892: James, born
July 21, 1897: and Taylor B.,born November 7, 1901. Both Mr. and Mrs.
Day are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. He is a Democrat
in politics, and is numbered among the leading citizens of his county.

#4365: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd
ed., 1885, Hopkins Co. Article on William C. McNary. [photo] WILLIAM C.
McNARY was born September 12, 1801, in Fayette County, Ky. His parents,
William and Ann (Campbell) McNary, were of Scotch descent. In the year
1812 his father removed to Muhlenburgh [sic] County, thirteen miles west of
Greenville, where he died and was buried in the family graveyard, where
also sleeps the subject of this sketch together with a good many members of
at least three generations of the family. William grew up on the farm, and
when he arrived at the age of manhood he purchased a tract of land
containing 500 acres adjoining his father's farm, where he lived until his
death, which occurred on September 19, 1875. All through his long life he
was prominently identified with all measures tending to improve the
condition of his county. He represented his county in the lower house of
the Kentucky legislature, five years, and four years in the senate. He was
for several years a member of the board of internal improvement for Green
River. In 1858, he accepted a call to the presidency of the Greenville
Female Collegiate Institute, which position he filled with honor for three
years, 1857, 1858 and 1864. It was owing to his exertions that the iron
bridge on Pond River, connecting Hopkins and Muhlenburgh Counties was
built. He made two trips to Louisville at his own expense to see the
manufacturers and was present at several courts both in Muhlenburgh and
Hopkins Counties before he could secure an appropriation for the erection
of the bridge. He was for twenty-five years an elder in the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church. He died full of years and honors, beloved by all who
knew him.

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