VANOVER PRECINCT.



Feb. 16, 1862, to Lucinda Murphy, daughter of Matthew Murphy,
of Vanover Precinct. This union was blessed with ten children, of
whom seven are living-William A., James M., Ruth A., Claudie,
Stevens, Stanley and James. Mr. Baird died Aug. 2,1879. Ile was
a Deacon in the Brushy Fork Baptist Church, of which lie had been
a member about twelve years. He was a prominent farmer and
stock-raiser, and owned 225 acres of valuable land about three miles
south of West Louisville. He was a true Christian man and kind
husband and father, and highly esteemed by all.
   Samuel C. Baughn, blacksmith, Vanover Precinct, was born in
this county, May 10, 1832. He was brought up- on the farm, anm
learned the blacksmith's trade without an instructor. He estab-
lisheda shop ator near Little Flock Baptist Church in 1858, where
he is still doing general blacksinithing, having a good trade. Ile
also manufactures plows. He was married April 3, 1853, to Mrs.
Delitla Wilson. They have had nine children, five living-Lucre-
tia M., Delitha M., Letha M., Samuel C. and Cordelia IH. Two
children, Nathaniel B. and Mary -M., died after they were grown.
Nathaniel Baughn, father of the above, was born near Richmond,
Va., Aug. 1, 1801, and is a son of Joseph Baughn, who came to
Shelby County in 1816. Mr. Baughn caine to this county in 1825.
Mle has been a farmer most all his life, and is now a cripple. Ile
married Jane H-lendricks in 1829, and is the father of eleven chil-
dren, eight of whom are living-Samuel C., John P., James R.,
Joseph T., Nathaniel R., Henry C., Mahala J. and Charles T.
Mr. and Mrs. Baughn are members of a sect of the United Bap-
tist church, frequently called BBristowites.
  James S. Bivens was born in Daviess County, Ky., May 9,1S33,
and has always made this county his home. Daring the war of
the Rebellion he served three years in the Confederate army, in the
Third Kentucky Cavalry, under Colonel James Jackson. He owns
a farm of 140 acres eleven miles southeast of Owensboro. In 1857
Mr. Bivens married Bettie Crabtree, a native of Daviess County,
born in 1833. They have four children-Margaret C., Francis,
Tony and Charles.
  Rev. Addison Jasper Brooks, Vanover Precinct, was born in
Fayette CoUnty, Tenn., Jan. 3, 1833, and is a son of Henry Brooks
(deceased), a native of North Carolina. Mr. Brooks was reared a
farmer's boy, and still owns and carries on a farm. He received
a common-school education, but is for the most part a self-educated
man. He was ordained minister in the Baptist church, Oct. 17,



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