History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 531.
[Bourbon County]  [Flat Rock Precinct]

BENJ. FRANKLIN SOPER, farmer, P. O. Cane Ridge; was born Nov. 5, 1828,
upon the farm which he now owns, and upon which his father was also born.
His mother was Luraner H. Prather, a native of Montgomery County, Md.,
and a daughter of Walter Prather and Ann Higgins, who came to Bourbon
County, Ky., from Maryland in 1806, with a large family of children, 14
in number, the mother of our subject being then 3 years of age.  Charles
Soper, the grandfather of our subject, was a native of Montgomery County,
Md., but migrated to Bourbon County about 1800.  The Sopers and Prathers
and Crawfords were from the same neighborhood in Maryland, and after
coming to Kentucky settled upon adjacent farms, the land now being owned
in part by the subject of this sketch, whose ancestry were all very
enterprising, energetic farmers and stock men and raised large families.
B. F. Soper received but a meager education, being left an orphan at
two years of age by the death of his father.  However, by strict energy
and native ability he acquired sufficient education to enable him to
teach school, which he followed for some time, subsequently engaging in
farming and stock raising, in which he was very successful.  He was
married June 20, 1953, to Miss Dorcas H. Crawford, a member of the
pioneer Crawford family mention above.  They had three children, all of
whom ware now living, viz: James C., who is connected with the M. K. &
T. R. R. was married Oct. 6, 1881, to a Miss Christy, a native of Clay
County, Mo., near Liberty, and two daughters, Mary Ellen and Sally Belle,
who are living at home.  Mr. Soper has been quite extensively engaged in
stock traffic, but is now principally engaged in farming and stock-raising.
Has been a life-long democrat, a man honored and esteemed by the
community in which he lives.  He and family are members of the M.E.
Church South, in which he has held all important offices from a sense of
duty which he is always ready to perform.

Soper Prather Higgins Crawford Christy
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Montgomery-MD Clay-MO MD

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