Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887, Jessamine Co. JAMES H. BAUGHN was born February 22, 1834, and is the third son of Joseph and Martha (Overstreet) Baughn. Joseph Baughn was born in Virginia in 1796, came to Kentucky when a child, and was reared in Bullitt County; he was a farmer, and died in Jessamine County in 1852. Mrs. Martha Baughn was born in Jessamine County, four miles southwest of Nicholasville, and died in the same house in which she was reared and married. She was the only daughter of Henry Overstreet, was born in 1798, and died in 1864. Henry Overstreet, the maternal grandfather of James H. Baughn, was born in Hanover County, Va., in 1763. He was in the Revolutionary war, was at Braddock's defeat, and while barefooted, pulled some of his toe-nails off running through the brush. He died in 1847, a member of the Methodist Church. Joseph Baughn was in the war of 1812. James H. Baughn was born four and one-half miles southwest of Nicholasville, Ky., was reared on a farm until he was eighteen years old, and then went to learn the carpenter trade under Daniel Ford. For the last few years he has turned his whole attention to his trade, formerly combining it with farming. He married, November 20, 1857, Elizabeth, daughter of Matthew and Mary (Bruner) Walker. Matthew Walker was born in Virginia, and Mary Bruner in Pennsylvania; both are deceased. Eight children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Baughn, four living: William D., Sallie (married to Henry Funk), George W. and Harry O. Mr. and Mrs. Baughn are member of the Christian Church, and Mr. Baughn belongs to the Odd Fellows. He owns nine acres of land, three and one-half miles south of Nicholasville, on the Lexington and Danville Turnpike. Baughn Overstreet Ford Bruner Walker Funk = Bullitt-KY Hanover-VA PA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/jessamine/baughn.jh.txt