HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes,
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III,
pp. 1195-96.   [Jefferson County]

JETHRA HANCOCK, M.D.--Among the native sons who have been the architects
of their own fortunes and have won both fame and fortune may be mentioned
Dr. Jethra Hancock, physician of Louisville.  Dr. Hancock was born in
Birchville, Kentucky, on the 7th of July, 1875, the son of the Rev. Thomas
Howell Hancock.  The family traces its genealogy back to the Hancocks of
Virginia.  Rev. Thomas H. Hancock was born in Warren county, Kentucky, in
1834, the son of Isaac Hancock, a native of Warren county, Kentucky, and
for fifty years was an evangelist of the Methodist Episcopal church, in
eastern Kentucky.  at the present time he is conducting a training school
in Wayne County, Kentucky, which he founded and which is in line with his
evangelistic work, in which he is still active.  He is a pioneer in
evangelical work in Kentucky, is a very devout Christian and has devoted
his life to the church.  He married Lucy Margaret Nicols, who was born
in Elbo (also know as Nichols) Spring, twelve miles from Glasgow in Barren
county, the daughter of Thomas Nicols, who was a native of Kentucky, of
Virginia parentage.
     To Rev. Thomas H. Hancock and wife seven children were born, as
follows: Cora, who married R. C. Lorimore and resides in Hart county,
Kentucky; Ula married L. C. Thomas and resides in Hart county, Kentucky;
Vontress married Bettie Means, who is now deceased, and he lives in Texas,
engaged in the business of farming; Edgar married Nannie Lorimore and
resides in Hart county, Kentucky; Jethra is our subject; Uel is engaged in
newspaper work in New York city; and Ada is unmarried, a teacher in the
Louisville public schools.
     Dr. Hancock was reared on the farm and secured his education under
Professor C. W. Matthews at Munfordsville and Greensburg, Kentucky.
Professor Matthews is now living in retirement in Louisville.  He is one
of the best known educators in Kentucky, and many of the leading and most
successful men of Louisville in all lines of business and the professions
of to-day were his pupils.  At the age of sixteen years Dr. Hancock went
to work on the farm, working during the summers and attending school in
the winter time, and later teaching.  By the time he was twenty years old
he owned a good farm, which he had purchased with his earnings and which
he still owns, and this is a record that very few young men can claim. He
was graduated from the Louisville Hospital Medical College in 1905, with
the degree of M.D., and that same year entered the practice in Louisville
in which he has been engaged ever since, meeting with the success that
has attended all his endeavors and which he richly deserves for his
industry, persistence and preserving application.
     Dr. Hancock is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to Greensburg
Lodge, No. 54, F. & A. M.  He is also a member of the Jefferson County
Medical Society, the Kentucky State Medical Society and the American
Medical Association.  In 1900 Dr. Hancock married Lora Heizer, of
Greensburg, Kentucky who died in December, 1901, her child dying at the
same time.

Hancock Lorimore Thomas Means Nichols Heizer Matthews
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Warren-KY Wayne-KY Glasgow-Barren-KY Munfordsville-Hart-KY
Greensburg-Green-KY NY TX VA

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