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

EDGAR R. MITCHELL was born June 15, 1844, in Warren County, Ky.; was 
reared to manhood in Bowling Green, and, in 1873, located in Allen 
County, where he now resides.  In 1862 he enlisted in the Ninth Kentucky 
Confederate Cavalry; was a prisoner eighteen months, and remained in the 
service until the close of the late war.  In 1881 he spent one season at 
Helena, Mont.  His father, Albert Mitchell, a native of Warren County, 
was born in 1811, and is now a resident of Bowling Green.  He is a son 
of Thompson Mitchell, a native of Virginia, was a wagoner in the war of 
1812, and died in Warren County.  Albert Mitchell married Maragaret, 
daughter of Samuel Barclay, of Warren County - born 1812, died 1855 - 
and from their union sprang George, Edgar R., Lou A. (Poindexter), and 
Thompson C.  Edgar R. obtained a common English education at the schools 
of the vicinity in which he was reared.  On the 11th of March, 1879, he 
married Mary E., daughter of William T. and Mary (Perkins) Fant, of 
Warren County, (born January 25, 1846), and to them have been born Asher 
W., Marshall A. and Lou L.  Mr. Mitchell engaged in merchandising at 
South Union and Rockfield for four years, in which he sustained a severe 
loss. He is now a farmer, having 360 acres of productive and well 
improved land, in a high state of cultivation.  He is a member of the A. 
F. & A. M.; also a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and in 
politics a Democrat.

Mitchell Barclay Poindexter Perkins Fant
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Bowling_Green-Warren-KY MT VA

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