Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1885, Hart County.

JOHN MANSFIELD, seventh of eleven children born to William and Grace
(Noel) Mansfield, was born in Waterloo Precinct, Hart County, June 18,
1824.  William Mansfield was a native of the "Old Dominion," and was one
of a family of seven children of Samuel and Rachael (Depp) Mansfield, who
lived in Culpeper County, same State.  In 1820 he came to Hart County,
where he bought and settled 145 acres of land near Green River, in what is
now Waterloo Valley.  He was a veteran of the war of 1812, but never
entered political life.  He died in 1849, leaving his family a valuable
estate of 300 acres of land and twenty negroes.  His widow died in 1853,
the mother of eleven children:  Thomas, R. C., Lucy A. (Goran) [sic
Gorin], Jane (Lively), Samuel, ELizabeth (Glenn), John, Washington, James
Lawrence, Martha (Garvin) and William P., of whom Lucy, Jane, Elizabeth,
Thomas, Samuel and Lawrence are dead.  Washington and Lawrence enlisted in
Capt. Gardner's company of voluntary infantry, Taylor's army, in the war
with Mexico, and after undergoing all the hardships of the fighting,
Lawrence was taken sick and died in the City of Mexico at about the close
of the war.  Washington lived to enter the late civil war, serving part of
the last year of the conflict.  John Mansfield's early life was spent on
his father's farm, and his employment was hard labor in the corn-field and
tobacco patch.  His inheritance was $500 and two slaves.  This money, and
the proceeds of the sale of one of the slaves, was invested in 140 acres
of land adjoining his father's farm, about forty-five acres of which was
cleared; and on it were two small log cabins.  This purchase occurred in
1850, ten years after his marriage to Miss Jane C. Richardson, daughter of
Thornton and Sophia (Nunley) Richardson, of Hart County, Ky.  She was one
of twelve children - the eldest daughter and the second child - and was
born in Hart County in 1823.  After the first purchase Mr. Mansfield
increased his farm to 400 acres, but at present he owns only 140 acres. 
Before the war he was worth $20,000, of which $10,000 consisted of slaves.
These he lost in the late war, at the close of which he had nothing left
except his land, and soon after lost what was left in lawsuits.  He is the
father of six children: Z. T., R. C., Washington, Sophia, Martha and
Millie, all living, the last named of whom is the wife of William Burke;
the rest are unmarried.  He is a consistent member of the United Baptist
Church (Green River Church), as are also his wife and one daughter.  He is
also a member of the Masonic order, and in politics is a Democrat, but in
ante bellum days was a Whig.

Mansfield Noel Depp Goran Gorin Lively Glenn Garvin Gardner Taylor
Richardson Nunley Burke
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Culpeper-VA Mexico

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