Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887,
Henry Co.

LOUIS A. BERSOT was born in Carroll County, Ky., in 1842.  His father,
Julius Bersot, was born in Switzerland in 1803, was of French parentage,
and came to America in 1816, settled in Carroll County, and married Miss
Maria Poindexter, daughter of Robert Poindexter, of Frankfort, Ky., who
was in seven campaigns, and twice wounded during the war of 1812, and who
was a brother of Gov. Poindexter of Mississippi, a trusted friend of Henry
Clay.  Mrs. Maria Bersot died in 1868, and her husband, Julius, in 1875,
both being members of the Baptist Church.  Louis A. Bersot is the eighth
of eleven children, and was reared on the home farm near Ghent, in Carroll
County.  He was educated at Eminence College, afterward taught school at
Jericho, Henry County, and in 1870 entered the ministry in the Christian
Church.  He has had charge of Westport Church about seven years, and the
Sandhill Church, about four years, and also of the South Jefferson Church,
twelve miles below Louisville.  His residence is on his farm of ninety
acres, near Brownsboro.  In 1864 he married Miss Ada R. Smith, of Jefferson
County, a daughter of Benjamin Smith, who was a soldier in the war of
1812, a native of Virginia, and of German descent.  The children born to
Mr. and Mrs. Bersot are eight in number, and named as follows: Panolia E.,
Lizzie J., Letellier F., Julius S., Louis O., Addie M., Vernon C. and
Vassie M.  Mrs. Bersot is also a member of the Christian Church, and Mr.
Bersto is a Knight of Honor.

Bersot Poindexter Smith
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Carroll-KY Frankfort-Franklin-KY Louisville-Jefferson-KY VA MS
Switzerland

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