History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., 
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p. 
614.

JOSEPH W. GORE, Upper Town Precinct (recently cut off from Knottsville), 
was born in Knottsville Precinct, Sept. 3, 1826, and is a son of Thomas 
Gore (deceased), a native of Virginia, who came to this county with his 
parents from Nelson County, Ky., about 1804 or 1805.  Mr. Gore has 
always lived on a farm.  When a young man he learned the carpenter's 
trade, at which he worked for twelve years.  Since that time he has 
devoted his time and attention to farming.  He was married in 1853 to 
Miss Susan Shortridge, by whom he had six children, four now 
living--Alice, Oscar, Annie and William.  Mrs. Gore died in 1866 and in 
1875 he again married, this time to Miss Mary Purcell, by whom he has 
three children--Mamie, Lida and George.  For the past thirty years Mr. 
Gore has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South.

Gore Shortridge Purcell
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VA Nelson-KY

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