HISTORY OF HENDERSON COUNTY, KY.



A. 0. U. W., and of the Select Knights of the same. In 1863 he was
a member of the California Volunteer Cavalry Service, Co. F. He
also served for thirteen months as First Lieutenant of the California
State Guard, doing provost duty and Indian fighting.  In politics he
has ever been a Republican. He has lately been appointed, by the
City Council, a member of the Board of Health.
    SAMUEL STITES, the subject of this sketch, was a son of
Richard Stites, (who was a Sea Captain,) and was born in Philadel-
phia, March 22d, 1792. During the summer of 1819 he immigrated
to Henderson and engaged in mercantile pursuits.
    For many years he controlled the large landed interest of Mr.
Lyne Starling, of Columbus, Ohio, located in Henderson County, and
by his promptness and efficient business capacity, won the confidence
and highest esteem of that gentleman. On the twentieth day of Feb-
ruary, 1823, Mr. Stites married Miss Rebecca Holloway, daughter
of Major John Holloway, of this county, and unto them were born four
children, namely: Mary Cameron married Edmund L. Davidson, of
Springfield, Kentucky, and died, leaving one child, now Mrs. Susan
Ray, of Louisville; Richard married Miss Ann Mary Hopkins, and
died a few years since, leaving five children, Samuel, William, Camilla,
Richard and Hamilton. Samuel and Camilla are married, Rebecca
married Colonel Wm. S. Elam. She has three children, Lucie, Annie
and William. Lucie married James R. Barret; she has two
children. Henry Pendleton and Susie Rankin. Mr. Stites, after having
lived a most exemplary and successful life, died on the fifth day of
April, 1862. His good wife, one of the strongest minded and most
charitable of her generation, followed some years after.
    JAMES ALVES was born in Orange County, North Carolina,
on the sixth day of March, 1793, and, in early life, came to Henderson
with his father, Walter Alves, one of the signers of the Richard Hen-
derson  Co. ordinance, establishing the Town of Henderson. In 1815
he married Miss Maria Davis, daughter of General Thomas Davis, of
North Carolina, and raised a large family of children, three of whom
are now living, namely: James, twice married, first, to Miss Bettie H.
and secondly to Miss Emily Sneed, daughters of Dr. Richard Sneed,
of North Carolina; Maria D., wife of James Pt. Breckenridge, and John
W., who married Miss Juliet Holloway. Each of these have children.
Mrs. Arabella Alves, widow of Thomas, the eldest son, is living and
has five children, all married; James S., Superintendent Henderson
Mining  Manufacturing Company; Maria. wife of Thomas L. Norris,
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