Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Allen County.

CHARLES H. BRUNSON was born November 20, 1859, on the place where he now 
resides in the northeastern part of Allen County, Ky., whre he grew to 
manhood and still lives.  His father, James S. Brunson, also a native of 
Allen County, was born April 14, 1823; was a farmer and died August 27, 
1884.  He was a son of Moses Brunson, a native of Virginia, who removed 
to Allen County, Ky., with his parents in 1796.  He was born October 
1796; ended his career July 14, 1857.  His father, Stout Brunson, was a 
blacksmith, a native of Virginia.  James S. was twice married; first to 
Elizabeth Devasher, of Barren County, November 28, 1849, and their child 
is Mary (Smith); his first wife died September 22, 1852, and he next 
maried, July 7, 1853, Elizabeth Moore, daughter of James Moore, of Allen 
County. She was born in 1826, and became the mother of the following 
children:  Susan J., born May 22, 1854; William A., September 6, 1855; 
Sarah Jane, January 21, 1857, died March 13, 1857; Lizzie A., born 
January 26, 1858; Charles H., November 20, 1859; Fannie W., January 4, 
1862; Thomas L. C., February 28, 1864; Merica E., October 20, 1865, died 
December 17, 1865; Lurana F., December 26, 1866, and James R., November 
19, 1868.  Susan A. Brunson was married, December 25, 1873, to William 
E. Dilliard, and to them were born Laura B., September 4, 1876; William 
O., October 21, 1878; Cyrus Luke, May 7, 1881; John T., June 17, 1884, 
died August 6, 1884.  Mrs. Susan J. Dilliard (their mother) died 
November 20, 1884.  William A. Brunson maried, February 23, 1882, Miss 
Nunie B. Moorehead, and to them was born James Kagie, in March, 1884.  
Lizzie A. Brunson was married to George W. Dilliard, December 26, 1878, 
and to them were born James G., September 18, 1879; Earnest C., January 
21, 1881, and Luie Cleveland, November 20, 1885.  Fannie W. Brunson 
married William E. Atwood, January 4,1881, and to them was born Susan 
E., August 21, 1883.  James S. Brunson united with the Baptist Church at 
an early age, led a devoted Christian life, and lived to see all his 
children united with the same church, and when called to cross the murky 
stream of death, died triumphantly in the Christian faith.  Charles H. 
Brunson obtained a common English education in the public schools of his 
vicinity.  He is a farmer, cultivating the old family homestead, 
consisting of 140 acres of productive land, which is in a good state of 
cultivation.  He is a member of the Baptist Church, and in politics is 
independent.

Atwood Brunson Devasher Dilliard Moore Moorehead Smith 
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Barren-KY VA

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