History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 512.
[Bourbon County]  [Millersburg Precinct]

WILLIAM M. LAYSON, Jr., farmer; P. O. Millersburg, son of Zed M., born
May 11, 1811, in Bourbon COunty, to Isaac and Mary (Moore) Layson; she of
John Moore and a Miss Black, natives, the former of Delaware, the latter
of Maryland; came to Fayette County about 1788.  Isaac Layson, son of
John and Margaret (Martin) Layson, located near where Paris now stands,
before the first house was built at that place.  Isaac had eight children:
Wm., Zed M., Margaret A. Moore, John M., Robert W., America (Moore),
Audrey and Isaac Z;; the four oldest are still living.  The grandparents
of our subject were natives of Bourbon County.  The father of our subject
was twice married; first to Margaret H. Miller, daughter of William
Miller, he a son of Major John; by this marriage there were two sons; one
of them, Wm. M., born May 6, 1844; his first wife died Dec. 18, 1851.  In
1854, he married Sarah W. Varnon, daughter of Benjamin and Sally Varnon;
by this marriage there were five children, all living: Margaret H.,
Edward V., Laura R., Martha M. and Eugenia B.; second wife deceased in
1877.  On the 27th day of April, the subject of this sketch left home for
the Confederacy, determined to join the Southern army, afterward joined
a party of twenty men, camped on the nigh of the 5th near Hazel Green; on
the following morning, his eighteenth birthday, they were attacked by a
party of home guards; finally reached Marshall's command in Virginia,
where all of the company enlisted except William and two companions who
went to Corinth, Miss., intending to enlist there, but by the advice of
friends went to Chattanooga, Tenn., where they joined Morgan's Command,
serving two years, engaging in many hard-fought battles, some of which
were: Gallatin, Snowhill, Woodbury, Greasy Creek, Green River Bridge,
and Augusta; was taken prisoner by the Federals, sent to Louisville,
where he remained until Nov. 8, 1863, when, taking the oath was released
and returned home, engaging in farming and stock trading in the South.
Jan. 25, 1870, was married to Mrs. Maggie (Orr) Morehead, daughter of
B. G. Orr, a prominent officer of Nicholas County, where he died; she a
granddaughter of John Orr, who served in the war of 1812 under Col.
Johnson.  They have had four children, two of whom died in one night
of scarlet fever; those living are Charles B., born March 31, 1871; Zed
Clark, Dec. 29, 1875.  They are members of the Presbyterian Church.

Layson Moore Martin Miller Varnon Orr Morehead
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Nicholas-KY DE MD

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