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son, Thomas S. Chapman, born in 1811, was an outstanding mem- H
ber of this family. He was county clerk for eight years and was
~ ·» later elected county judge, an oiiice he filled, for four years.
Thomas S. Chapman married Prudence Friley in 1834. Their son
was Thomas Huston Chapman.
· Edward Hanson Clements moved into the county in 1804 from
Virginia. He settled on part of a land grant of several thousand
acres lying about midway between Morganiield, Uniontown, and
Waverly. This was land given to Colonel Grundy for services in
the Revolution. A, son, Patrick Clements, had two children,
Samuel Lewis and Martin J. Clements. The latter, born in 1851,
like his father was a farmer, and became an extensive land owner
in Union County. He was educated in the county schools and
attended college at Dayton, Ohio. For eighteen years he was
president of the Farmer’s Bank of Uniontown. This bank was
organized in 1902, with a capital of $25,000. In 1910, it absorbed
the Bank of Uniontown. Samuel Lewis Clements, also an exten-
sive land owner, married Mary Catherine Cambron, whose
mother was a niece of Colonel Grundy, the original owner of the
lands occupied by the Clements family.
James M. Cooper moved from Crittenden County to Union ,
· County in the early 1860’s. He was an engineer, and lived and
worked at Casey’s Mine, near Caseyville, until about 1872. After I
a short stay_ in Kansas, he returned and operated Casey’s Mine  
until 1880. Besides being a mine owner and operator, Mr. Cooper
owned land on Tradewater Creek, and operated drugstores at
Sturgis and Caseyville. His wife was Mary Ann Cook. Will
Cooper, a son, lives in Union County.
g The Cruz family of Union County descended from Peter J.
Cruz who settled there in 1820. Peter Cruz was born in Italy,
but at an early age was placed under the care of Trappist Monks
in France. Peter immigrated to America with members of the
Trappist Order, and with the Monks came to Nelson County »
where he helped to build the Trappist Monastery, now known
as Gethsemane. In 1820, he immigrated to Union County, settling
» about four miles from the present site of Uniontown. With his I
wife, Matilda, he lived in the county more than forty-five years.
This couple had seven children who lived on what was long ’
known as the old Peter Cruz farm. i
Whether David and Jacob Carrier lived in Union County is  
not clear. However. each owned land there, for an act of the b