Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885, Butler Co. STEPHEN DAVENPORT EASLEY, Butler County, was born January 21, 1811, in Halifax County, Va., where he grew to manhood; in 1833, he removed to Smith County, Tenn., and in 1850, located in the southern part of Butler County, Ky., where he has since resided. His father, John Easley, a native of Halifax County, a soldier in the war of 1812, died in Butler County in 1853, at the age of seventy-one years. He was the son of Robert Easley, of Virginia, who died in 1814. John Easley married Susan W., daughter of Stephen and Mary (Adams) Jones, of Person County, N.C. (she died in 1833, aged about fifty years). From this union sprang Mary J. (Ragland), Stephen D., Nancy W. (Thomas), Sarah A. (Farmer) and Susan W. (Noland). In youth Stephen D. received but a common school education, but by reading and study has acquired a good fund of useful information. September 3, 1835, he married Mahala G., daughter of Champion T. and Elizabeth (Jones) Thomas, of Smith County, Tenn. (born February 25, 1820), and to them have been born Susan E. (Turner), Eliza G. (deceased), Thomas H., Mary C. (Ragland), William B., Sarah A. F. (deceased), Martha H. (deceased), Othelia V., John J. (deceased), and Stephen F. Mr. Easley is a farmer, owning 165 acres of well improved land, on which is grown corn, wheat, oats and tobacco. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. For more than fifty years he has been an active Methodist. In politics he was a Whig during the existence of that party, but of late has acted with the Democrats. Easley Jones Adams Ragland Thomas Farmer Noland Turner = Halifax-VA Smith-TN Person-NC http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/butler/easley.sd.txt