Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B
Bracken County

James W. Staton was born in Mason County, Ky., May 27, 1835, the eldest son
of James and Jane (Calvert) Staton.  James Staton was born in Brown County,
O., in October, 1809.  He was a blacksmith by trade, and was the father of
nine children, five of whom are living.  He died in 1886, having survived
his wife two years.  William Staton, grandfather of James W., was also a
native of Brown County, O., and settled in Bracken County, Ky., in 1812.  He
was a blacksmith, and died in Ohio in 1863.  William Calvert, maternal
grandfather of our subject, was born in Virginia, settled in Kentucky when a
young man, and was a farmer by occupation.  James W. Staton was reared and
educated in his native county, where he lived until 1856, at that time
removing to Bracken County.  October 6, 1859, he married Miss Caroline M. T.
West, a daughter of Michael West, of Bracken County.  They are the parents
of six children, viz: Robert E., Halbert W., Joseph F., Carroll A., Carrie
J. and James W., Jr.  In 1857 Mr. Staton was appointed deputy surveyor of
Bracken County, and later in the same year was made deputy clerk of the same
county.  In August, 1862, he was elected county surveyor, and on the 1st day
of September, 1862, was appointed master commissioner of the circuit court,
which office he still retains.  At present he contracts and operates the
book-printing department of the Bracken Democrat.  He is a member of the
M.E. Church South, a Mason and a prominent Democrat.

Staton Calvert West 
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Mason-KY Brown-OH 

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