Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B, 1887 Fleming County DAVID M. VANSANT was born in Fleming County, Ky., October 9, 1833, and is a son of James and Rebecca (McGavic) Vansant. He was reared on the home farm, but for twenty-one years has been in the dry goods and grocery trade at Flemingsburg. He married Miss Susan F. Amos, a native of Bath County, Ky., and is the father of five children: Ernest, Daisy, Ayett E., May L. and David. Mr. Vansant is a Knight Templar and a Democrat. The paternal grandfather of our subject, Adam Vansant, came from Pennsylvania to Kentucky at a very early day, and settled on a farm one and one-half miles southeast of Flemingsburg. The maternal grandfather, William McGavic, came from Maryland about the same time, and both these gentlemen were farmers. James Vansant was born in Fleming County in 1802, was a farmer, and died in 1844. David M. Vansant's grandmother McGavic, whose maiden name was Echols, was born in Pennsylvania near Philadelphia, and was brought, at the age of eight years, to Kentucky, by relatives, stopping at the mouth of Limestone, where the city of Maysville is located, and then traveling an unbroken wilderness to the stockades in what is now Fayette County, and where stands the city of Lexington. She met and married William McGavic and settled in Fleming County, where she passed the remainder of her days. James Vansant was a consistent and faithful member of the Presbyterian Church of Flemingsburg, Ky. Vansant McGavic Amos Echols = Bath-KY PA MD Fayette-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/fleming/vansant.dm.txt