Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 1901,
reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical Society.

ALONZO THRELKELD.  Seven miles south of Williamstown on the Covington and
Lexington Turnpike are the broad acres and fine home and store of Alonzo
Threlkeld, one of Grant county's most prominent and successful merchants
and farmers.  His acquaintance is extensive and his business large.
     Mr. Threlkeld is the son of Milton H. and Mary A. Threlkeld, and was
born at the old Waddles Mill, on the banks of Eagle Creek, in Scott county,
Ky., twenty-one miles south of Williamstown, on the Covington and Lexington
pike, October 8th, 1845.  He grew up on his father's farm, working on the
farm in the summer season and going to school in the winter time.
     July 1st, 1862, he ran away from school and enlisted in the
Confederate army, in General John Morgan's command at Lexington, Ky.  His
Colonel was Richard M. Gano, of the Third Kentucky Calvary.  All that
summer and fall Mr. Threlkeld was with Morgan in all of his skirmishes,
raids, and battles in Kentucky and Tennessee, and was kept continually
on the move.  He was with Morgan in his famous raid in Kentucky, Indiana
and Ohio, and was surrendered with his command near Buffington's Island
late in September of that year.  With all of the privates of that command
he was taken to Camp Chase, and there held for a long time as a prisoner
of war.  Shortly after his incarceration he was taken desperately sick,
and for many days his life was despaired of by his physician, and when he
recovered his doctor advised him to take the oath and return to his home
in Kentucky as the only means of prolonging his life.  This he declined
to do, and for more than a year longer remained a prisoner.  In March,
1864, he was taken to Fort Delaware, where he was confined until the
surrender of General Robert E. Lee, and the close of the war.  Returning
home in 1865, he lived with his father for two years, assisting him in
refencing and building up the farm that had gone to rack during the war.
     March 9th, 1873, he was united in marriage to Miss Nannie Jones, at
her father's home in Scott county.  For about a year after his marriage
he lived at Sadieville, in Scott county, and worked at the butcher's
trade, the next year he moved to and became a citizen of Grant county,
living on the farm of W. B. Robinson.  At this time Mr. Threlkeld's
worldly effects were only $100.  During this time he opened and conducted
a small country store, and his wife being an invalid most of the time,
much of the work fell to his lot.  He washed, milked, cooked and sold
goods, and at the end of the eight years had gotten together $750.  He
invested this money in a fifty acre tract of land, bought by him from John
M. Stephenson, going in debt considerably and he was much afraid that he
would not be able to pay out.  That was in the halcyon days of tobacco
growing, however, and in three years he had made off of his store and his
tobacco $5,100.
     In 1894 his father, then 84 years old, died at the home where he
now lives.  His mother is still living with him at the good old age of
84 years.  Mr. Threlkeld's good wife, who had traveled most of the journey
of life with him, died August 8th, 1897.  She was a good woman, a loving
and true wife, and died a firm believer in the future.  She loved her
children and her husband with a blind devotion.  Mr. Threlkeld has never
entirely recovered from the blow of her loss.  To their marriage eleven
children have been born, three girls dying in infancy, there being four
boys and four girls yet living, two of whom are married and doing well,
Lulie and Deward.

Threlkeld Jones Robinson Stephenson
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