HISTORY OF FAYETTE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, by Robert Peter, ed. by
William H. Perrin, O. L. Baskin Co., Chicago, 1882.  Reprinted by Southern
Historical Press, Easley, SC, 1979.

G. L. BARBEE, farmer, P. O. Lexington, is descended in a direct line from 
one of those who, in the early days of the Republic, left Virginia and 
took up their residence in the wilds of Kentucky, to undergo a career 
checkered with moving events and crowded with glorious experiences.  His 
son, Nathaniel, born in Bourbon County, when he reached man's estate, 
married Catharine, daughter of Fielding Bradford, who with his brother, 
John, was connected with the printing of the "Kentucky Gazette", usually 
referred to as the first newspaper published west of the Alleghany 
Mountains, though it was really the second, the first having been issued 
at Pittsburgh.  The initial number of the "Gazette" appeared at Lexington 
August 18, 1787.  The outfit had been carried from Maysville on pack-horses, 
and the type had been "pied" on the way.  The little paper was printed on 
the most primitive style of hand-press, the ink being applied with large 
dog-skin balls, to which handles were attached.  The office was a rude 
log-cabin, and the paper was delivered to its patrons by a special carrier 
mounted on a pack-mule.  Without telegraph, post office, steamboat, railway, 
or even stage-coach, the receipt of news was slow; yet the "Gazette" was a 
very creditable production, as is evidenced by files preserved in the 
Lexington Library, and highly valued.  Of the union of Nathaniel Barbee 
and Miss Bradford was born our subject, in 1823.  His parents resided in 
Scott County, where he was brought up, and where he married, January 15, 
1848, Eleanor F., daughter of Zachariah and Matilda (Peddicord) Poindexter.
The father was a native of Fayette, the mother of Clark County, the 
daughter of Fayette.  Her grandfather, Peddicord, came from Maryland.
Mr. Barbee has been a farmer from youth up, and, for some years before 
he left Scott  County for Fayette which was in the spring of 1876, he was 
a considerable importer of Berkshire hogs.  He is owner of seventy-six 
and one-half acres of fine land in a magnificent farming district.  Mr. 
and Mrs. Barbee have had seven children, of whom one, Clara, died, after 
she had  become the wife of B. F. Pettit.  Those living are Catharine., 
wife of W. H. Hays; Bradford P., Richard C., Frank W., John S. and 
Harriet A. 

Bradford Peddicord Poindexter Pettit Hays
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Scott-KY Clark-KY Bourbon-KY VA MD

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