HISTORY OF HENDERSON COUNTY, KY.



in 1793. He fought at the battle of New Orleans, and died in Hen-
derson County in 1838. His pAternal grandmother was Rebecca
Stevens Dudley, of English descent. She immigrated to Henderson
from North Carolina at an early age, and died in 1833.
     Jenks W. Williams, on the sixteenth da! of January, 1855, mar-
ried Miss Miry Weaver, daughter of Littleberry Weaver, a beautiful
woman, and one who has shown marked motherly talent in raising her
children. She is a woman full of energy in the face of adversity or
prosperity, and has performed life's duties nobly and as becoming a
good, true wife. She was born in the City of Louisville on the tenth day
of Alpril, 1839, and came to Henderson when only three'years of age. By
her marriage, seven children have been born, five living, Lillian Jas-
per, Eliza, Mary, Jenks and Sallie. Lillian married Joseph Bennett and
has two children, Jenks W. and Lida; Sallie married John P. Moore,
of New York, and has one son, John. The mother of Mrs. Williams
was a daughter of Colonel Robert Smith. She died in 1883 at the
home of her son Albert.
    Jenks W. WVilliams, from early life, has made the town his home,
and has proven himself a useful citizen. He has held several offices,
and in every instance has proven himself worthy of the trust. During
the year 1866, '67, '68 and '69, he served as Jailer of Henderson
County; in 1857 and '58 as Constable; in 1886 as City Councilman.
For ten years he was engaged in the tobacco business with Joseph
Adams, and subsequently in the same capacity with other tobacco-
nists. In 1869, while Jailer of the county, the Ku-Klux attempted to
mob a prisoner confined in the jail. Mr. Williams was found at his
post, and, mainly through his influence, be that what it may, the mob
dispersed, leaving the prisoner still in the jail. For several years
Mr. Williams was proprietor ot the Commercial Hotel on Third Street,
and then of the Hord House, until 1884, when he rented his
present house, on Main, near First Street. This house he fitted up in
handsome style. It contains twenty furnished rooms, and a dining
room of eating capacity for sixty-two persons. The hotel is a credit
to his energy and taste, and is largely patronized. Mr. Williams is
very much like a well regulated clock-never idle.
    PHILIP LUDSON JOHNSTON, of Pennsylvania, c me to Hen-
derson in 1839 or '40, and, being a practical distiller, engaged in that
business in the Horse Shoe Bend with two of his brothers. This was
the first sweet mash distillery -built in the county. On the twenty-
fifth day of Febi uary. 1841, he married Miss Eliza Worsham, and, only
a short time afterwards, returned to his native State, Town of Easton,



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