History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 730.
[Harrison County]  [Claysville Precinct]

WILLIAM H. ROUTT, farmer, P. O. Claysville, is a native of Bracken County,
Ky., and son of Nimrod and Elizabeth (Howard) Routt.  He was born Dec. 10,
1817.  His father was born in Virginia in 1786, and died in 1860, aged
seventy-four years.  His mother was born in Maryland in 1793, and died in
1865, aged seventy-two years.  William, our subject, lived with his
parents to the age of twenty-four; receiving an education and assisting
in tilling the soil of his father's farm.  In 1841 he married Miss Jane
Moore, a native of Bracken County, Ky.; by this union they had nine
children, eight of whom are still living, viz: Maria, Clara, Lucius,
Temple, John, Fannie, Ada and Willie.  In 1862, he removed to Harrison
County, buying a farm near Claysville where he remained three years, he
then returned to the old homestead, which was willed to him by his father,
remaining there until 1867, when he returned to Harrison County, and
since remained there, following the occupation of farming.  He is the
owner of 141 acres of land.  His family are members of the Baptist Church.
He is a Democrat and for a number of years in Bracken County, he has held
the office of Justice of the Peace.

Routt Howard Moore
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Bracken-KY VA

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