Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Metcalfe County.

REV. JOSEPH FERGUSON was born February 14, 1830, in Cumberland, now 
Metcalfe County, Ky. His father, Archibald Ferguson, was born in 1805 in 
Bedford County, Va. At the age of seventeen or eighteen years he removed 
to Franklin County, Va., and in his twentieth year, with his parents, to 
the State of Kentucky. He was a son of Joseph Ferguson, who was of 
English descent.  Archibald Ferguson was married, December 6, 1827, to 
Frances, daughter of William and Margaret (Campbell) Smith. From this 
union sprang Margaret C. (Shaw), our subject, William S. (deceased), 
Sarah H. (Owens), Nancy (Amyx, deceased), John, Mary (deceased) and 
Alfred. Rev. Joseph Ferguson was married, October 18, 1849, to Louisa 
J., daughter of John and Catherine (Amyx) Branstetter. Mr. Ferguson's 
early advantages for obtaining an education were very limited, and 
consisted principally of the privilege of attending, in the coldest 
weather, for a few days or weeks, the old log schoolhouse of the time; 
still by study he has obtained a fair English education.  He started 
almost even in the race of life, but by hard and persevering labor he has 
obtained a reasonable share of this world's goods.  He has devoted a 
portion of his time to the ministry.  He is the owner of about 155 acres 
of well improved and productive land in good condition.  He has followed 
farming as his principal occupation in life, but has in connection 
worked some little at the carpenter's trade.  He united, September 10, 
1848, with the Baptist Church, but, finding that his belief was more in 
harmony with the doctrines of the Methodists, he withdrew from the 
former, and in 1854 or 1855, united with the Methodist Episcopal Church 
South, of which he has since been a consistent member.  He is a member 
of Trowel Lodge, No. 373, of the Masonic fraternity, and politically is 
independent, voting for the man rather than for the party.  He is a 
careful man and has for twenty years kept a daily records of many of the 
transactions of his life, and is superintendent of an interesting 
Sunday-school at Wesley's Chapel, Summer Shade Circuit, Louisville 
Conference. 

Amyx Branstetter Campbell Ferguson Owens Shaw Smith
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Bedford-VA Cumberland Franklin Louisville-Jefferson

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