History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., 
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p. 
654.

J. M. SOSH was born in Breckinridge County, Ky., Oct. 10, 1832.  His 
father, John Sosh, was born in Spain, in 1792, and came to America when 
thirty years of age, and settled in Breckinridge County, where he was 
married to Mrs. Elizabeth Sutton.  J. M. was the fourth of their seven 
children.  He was married Dec. 6, 1850, to Elizabeth L. Bratcher, a 
native of Breckinridge County, born April 5, 1833.  They have three 
children--Richard A., born Jan. 19, 1853; George L., born July 1, 1855; 
Walter S., born Dec. 10, 1859.  Mr. Sosh is by trade a blacksmith and 
wagonmaker.  He came to Daviess County in 1867, and is working at his 
trade a mile and a half west of Owensboro.  He served in the late war in 
the Twenty-first Kentucky Regiment, U. S. A., thirteen months; was in 
the battles of Columbus, Franklin and Nashvill, Tenn.  He was discharged 
at Victoria, Texas, in 1865.  He is neutral in his political views.

Sosh Sutton Bratcher 
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Breckinridge-KY Spain TN TX

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