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

JAMES W. STRODE was born January 18, 1833, in Monroe County, Ky., on the 
same farm where he now resides. He was a member of Company K, Fifth 
Kentucky Cavalry, with which he served in the capacity of first 
lieutenant for about eighteen months, when, having been captured by Gen. 
Morgan, at Gallatin, Tenn., he was taken to Vicksburg, where he was 
paroled, and was soon afterward mustered out of service. During his army 
life he had several severe spells of sickness, from the effects of which 
he has never fully recovered.  His father, William Strode, was born in 
South Carolina, in 1794; when a child, he removed with his parents to 
Cumberland, now Monroe County, where he spent the remainder of his life, 
except two years spent in Alabama, and a few weeks' sojourn in Missouri.  
William was a son of William Strode, Sr., who was born in England. 
William Strode, Jr., married, about 1817, Elizabeth Mahan, of Alabama, 
who bore him the following named children: Cynthia (Harvey), Lydia 
(Page), Sally (Hagen), Elizabeth (Strode), William J., Eliza J. 
(Miller), James W., Mary (Carter) Martha F. (Biggers), and Prudy 
(Belcher). James W. married, December 31, 1856, Jennette M., daughter of 
Daniel and Ann (Hippenstall) Ferguson. To them have been born Lindsey 
R., Mary E. (Emmert), and Sarah G. (Bowman). They have besides adopted 
and reared Miss Molly Strode, who is still at home. Mr. Strode has 
mainly by his own efforts become the owner of well improved and 
productive land in good condition to the amount of 200 acres, besides 
300 acres of timber and pasture lands.  He has been for about sixteen 
years a magistrate and a member of the court of claims of Monroe County, 
and is at the present time deputy clerk of this county.  He is a 
believer in the doctrines of the Christian Church, and politically  
Democrat.

Belcher Biggers Bowman Carter Emmert Ferguson Hagen Harvey Hippenstall 
Mahan Miller Morgan Page Strode
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AL Cumberland-KY England Gallatin-TN MO SC Vicksburg-MS

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