Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B, 1887 Bracken County JOHN H. BOUDE, a practitioner of the legal profession of Augusta, Ky., was born in that place in 1825, and is a son of Samuel and Susan (Payne) Boude, the latter a daughter of Col. Duvall Payne. Samuel Boude was a native of Pennsylvania and was born in 1794. He came to Kentucky with his parents in 1796; his father was a merchant of Augusta, and served as Postmaster, having been appointed by John Quincy Adams in 1826. John H. Boude was reared in Augusta, where he attended the college from which he graduated in 1843, at the age of eighteen. He read law at Maysville, Ky., with Thomas Y. Payne, and was admitted to the bar in 1846, locating in Bracken County, where he engaged in practice. In 1849 he married Miss Margaret W. Rudd, a daughter of P.H. Rudd, of Augusta. In 1862 Mr. Boude was elected county attorney of Bracken County, being subsequently elected county judge. In 1885 he was appointed Postmaster, which position he fills at the present time. Politically Judge Boude is a Democrat. Boude Payne Adams Rudd = VA PA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/bracken/boude.jh.txt