History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 511.
[Bourbon County]  [Millersburg Precinct]

HERVEY W. LETTON, farmer; P. O. Millersburg; a resident of Pine Grove
farm, was born in the house in which he now lives, May 6, 1809; a son of
Caleb, born Dec. 5, 1768, in Montgomery COunty, Md., he of Michael Letton,
and a Miss Willett, both of whom died in Maryland.  Caleb was married to
Mary Wilcoxon, Nov. 30, 1790, she was born in John Wilcoxon, May 24, 1772.
They came to Bourbon County in 1795, with two oldest children of the
family: Martha, born in 1792, Fielder, 1794; the others were born at the
home where Mr. Letton now lives; they were Caleb, born in 1796; Anna M.,
1798; Verlinder, 1800; Michael, 1802; John W., 1804; James E., 1807; our
subject; Mary N. 1811; Melicent C. A., 1814; all lived to maturity, but
died in the prime of life; the second of the family living to be the
oldest, died at sixty-two years of age; Mr. Letton was married Feb. 28,
1828, to Nancy J. Parker, daughter of Lemuel Parker; she died March 28,
1870; second marriage, March 3, 1874, to Mrs. Mary J. (Kincart) Reed,
widow of Dr. George Reed, of Nicholas County; by his first wife, he had
twelve children: Samuel P., born Feb. 23, 1829, married and farming in
Bates County, Mo.; Caleb E., Oct. 11, 1831, died in his twenty-first
year; Julian, died in infancy; Sarah A.M., born June 13, 1835, married a
Mr. Hall and died in 1856; Mary E., born Oct. 13, 1837, married to Sarah
J. Owen, residing in Millersburg Precinct; Lovina P., born Feb. 5, 1844,
wife of Jeff M. Vincent; Henry S., born Sept. 4, 1846; James H., Nov.
20, 1848, married Lucy Daniels, of Texas, farming in this precinct;
Reuben S., born Dec. 8, 1850, died in 1871; Nancy J., wife of Benjamin
Patton, of Paris.  Mr. Letton has devoted his life to agricultural
pursuits and stock trading in the South; have been a member of the
Masonic Order for more than forty years, was a Whig during Clay's time,
afterward a Democrat, espousing the cause of the Confederacy and giving
three sons to service in the cause; Brice, under General Marshall, who
after about two years service, returned home on account of ill health;
John, under General Morgan, was captured and imprisoned at Camp Chase, but
through the influence of a friend--a Confederate General, was released;
Henry S., enlisted at sixteen years of age, in Company C, 4th Ky. Cavalry,
under General Morgan, was in the advance guard in their raid to the North,
and was captured with a few others, was finally landed in prison at Fort
Delaware, where he was confined until the close of the war.

Letton Willett Wilcoxon Parker Kincart Reed Hall Robinson Owen
Vincent Daniels Patton Daniels
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Nicholas-KY Bates-MO Montgomery-MD

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