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

HENRY T. MOTLEY was born April 12, 1844, on Sulphur Fork, Allen Co., 
Ky., where he grew to manhood and has always resided.  In 1863 he 
enlisted in the Fifty-second Regiment Kentucky Mounted Infantry, and 
remained in the service seventeen and a half months.  His father, Thomas 
Motley, was born near Raleigh, N. C.; moved from Virginia in his boyhood 
with his parents; settled in Allen County, Ky., and died in Missouri in 
1851; he was the son of James Motley.  James Motley was the son of John 
Motley, a native of Viginia and captain in the Revolutionary war.  
Thomas Motley married Narcissa, a daughter of Mastin and Aimie Jane 
Williams, of Virginia.  Mrs. Narcissa Motley was born in Charlotte 
County, Va., in 1803, and died February 9, 1883.  She moved from 
Virginia with her parents at about the age of fifteen years; her mother 
died when she was young.  Mastin Williams was a son of Tom Williams, who 
was a captain in the Revolutionary war.  The children of Thomas and 
Narcissa Motley are John, Polly (Witherspoon), James E., Mastin W., 
Lucinda (Hendrix), Sallie F. (Dalton), William T., Louis, Zacharia, 
Henry T. and Edna E. (Willoughby).  Henry T. obtained a common school 
education in the schools of the county, and is a reading man.  He 
married, February 1, 1865, Syrena, daughter of George and Carolina 
Tabor, of Allen County, born January 8, 1844, and from this union there 
is no issue.  Mr. Motley is a farmer and stock raiser, having 152 acres 
of productive land in a high state of cultivation. He is a member of the 
Liberty Baptist Church, and in politics is a Democrat.

Motley Williams Witherspoon Hendrix Dalton Willoughby Tabor
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NC Charlotte-VA MO

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