Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887, Jessamine Co. WILLIAM W. SAGESER was born February 22, 1836, and is the second son of Thomas J. and Nancy (Wallace) Sageser. Thomas J. Sageser was born four and one-half miles southeast of Nicholasville, Ky., in 1813. He owned a wheat and corn-mill on what is known as Sageser's Branch, which he ran about four years. He also owned a saw mill near the grist-mill, and, with the exception of the four years he followed milling, was a farmer all his life. He died March 6, 1875. Mrs. Nancy Sageser was born fifteen miles from Richmond, Madison Co., Ky., on the headwaters of Paint Lick Creek, in 1816. She died Jun 8, 1877. The paternal grandfather, Frederick Sageser, was a native of Virginia, came to Jessamine County in an early day, and built the first mill that was ever built in the county. He carried on his milling business and farmed also. He was in the war of 1812, and William W. has the rifle he carried during the war. He died in 1865. Mr. Sageser's maternal grandfather, James Wallace, was one of the first settlers at what is known as "this side of the narrow gag" and was a farmer. W. W. Sageser, born four and one-half miles southeast of Nicholasville, Ky., was reared on a farm and has farmed all his life, with the exception of three years during the late war, when he wagoned, hauling provisions, knapsacks, wounded soldiers, etc. He was married, January 4, 1859, to Maggie E., daughter of David and Delila (Davis) Horine, of Jessamine. David Horine was born in 1796, and died January 19, 1884. To the union Mr. and Mrs. Sageser have been born the following children: William F., November 8, 1859; Squire D., February 14, 1861; Mary C., February 26, 1863 (deceased); Theodore P., March 10, 1865; Lula E., February 17, 1867; Ida B., April 26, 1869; Lawrence J., June 28, 1872; Robert L., January 19, 1874; Tilfort T., January 16, 1876, and Bessie M., February 3, 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Sageser, with their children, William F., Theodore P., Lula E. and Ida B., belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Sageser owns 100 acres of good land in Sulphur Well District, and makes a specialty of raising tobacco. Sageser Wallace Davis Horine = Richmond-Madison-KY VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/jessamine/sageser.ww.txt