Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887, Marion County. MAJ. LEVEN M. DRYE was born September 14, 1843. His father, Matthias P. Drye, was born in Lincoln (now Casey) County, June 28, 1798. He was married to Kizzie Batsell in 1825. Of the eleven children born to this marriage five are now living, viz: Jacob A., Catherine, Leven J., Nathan M., and Lou (Fidler). Kizzie Batsell was born in 1805, and is a daughter of Thomas and Kizzie (Nall) Batsell, of Nelson County; the former was of Irish, the latter of Scotch descent. She is yet living, aged eighty-one years. Matthias P. Drye was a farmer, was a man of some local prominence, a member and worker in the Christian Church, and held the office of magistrate for a number of years; his death occurred August 16, 1883. His father, George Drye, was a native of Germany, who came to America when a young man, and was a farmer by occupation; he married Ann Pfeifer, and reared a family of three sons and five daughters, among whom was Matthias, the father of our Leven M. George Drye died March 21, 1855, aged ninety-four; his wife, Anna, survived until October 19, of the same year; her age was ninety-eight. Leven M. Drye was born and reared on a farm in Marion County, and educated in the common school. In December, 1861, he left school and entered the Federal Army, enlisting in Company D, First Kentucky Cavalry, under Col. Wolford, and with that command participated in the engagements at Perryville, Munfordville and Mount Vernon. After the battle at Mount Vernon he was promoted for meritorious conduct on the field, and was commissioned lieutenant of the same company; next was made a captain, and in 1865 was promoted to the rank of major of the Sixth Cavalry. He participated in the engagements at Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Ringgold, Franklin and Brentwood, and was discharged at the end of the war, September 6, 1865, after an active service of nearly four years. One brother, Jacob A., held the rank of major in the Confederate States Army, he now resides at Pilot Point, Tex. One brother, James, was a lieutenant in the Sixteenth Texas Cavalry of the Confederate States Army, served as aid to Gen. Pillow, afterward served in Kirby Smith's command, was wounded in the fight at Cotton Plant, Ark., and died of wounds at Austin on the 27th of August, 1862. One brother, Dr. John Drye, served in the Federal Army, first as captain of Company G, Sixth Cavalry, from which he was promoted to surgeon of the Sixth, and afterward to the surgency of Croxton's brigade, with the rank of major. After the war he located in Louisville, Ky., where he practiced his profession until his death from cholera in 1873. Maj. L. M. Drye since the war has been engaged principally in farming and stock-raising; he is now the proprietor of the Valley Home farm, an estate of 400 acres of lying on the waters of south Rolling Fork in Marion County. In politics he is a Republican. In 1873 he received the appointment of Government storekeeper and gauger, and remained in the Government's employ for about twelve years. He was married December 24, 1868, to Miss Lou Dunn, and to this union have been born two sons and three daughters: Claudia, Minnie, Myrtle, Jim Blaine and Don Victor. Mrs. Lou Drye was born November 5, 1847. Her father, George Dunn, was a native of Maryland, born in 1804; her mother, Dicy (Scandlan) Dunn, was of Irish parentage, and was born in Kentucky in 1810. She died in 1864, the mother of twelve children, of which Mrs. Drye is the ninth. Mr. and Mrs. Drye are members of the Christian Church, in which Mr. Drye holds the office of treasurer. He is a member of the G.A.R., Hays Watkins Post, No. 21, Department of Kentucky; also a Royal Arch Mason, and a member of Proctor Knott Chapter. Drye Batsell Fidler Nall Pfeifer Dunn Scandlan = Lincoln-KY Casey-Ky Nelson-KY Jefferson-KY TX MD AR Germany http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/marion/drye.lm.txt