History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 743.
[Nicholas County]  [Carlisle City and Precinct]

THOMAS A. DORSEY, lumber merchant, contractor and builder; P. O. Carlisle;
was born near Flemingsburg, Jan. 5, 1828; his father, John L. Dorsey,
was an extensive farmer, and born in Maryland near Hagerstown in 1873, and
died in Nicholas County in 1846; his parents were Leakin and Mary (Ingram)
Dorsey, who came in 1879 to Stockton's Station; their children were Sally,
wife of Thomas Wallace; Rachael, wife of Charles Anderson; Edward, John I.,
Joseph and Amelia, wife of Thomas Andrews; the youngest of the family was
born in Fleming County, the others in Maryland; all are now deceased.
Edward was a prominent physician in Fleming County.  The mother of Thomas
A., was Nancy Spiers, a native of Maryland, settled at Bryan's Station
with her parents, Greene and Mary Spiers, who were of German descent; she
died in 1871, aged seventy-six years, leaving a family of ten children,
six of whom are now living, four sons and two daughters, two of the former
in Missouri and one in Indianapolis; a sister, Mrs. David Stewart of
Maysville; and Mrs. Martha McClure, of Paris; a sister, now deceased, was
the wife of Col. T. S. Parks.  Thomas A. received a very good education
in Flemingsburg schools, and at about twenty years, or at his father's
death, engaged in the avocation of farming in Nicholas County, in which
capacity he continued until the year 1868, when he became one of a firm
which had taken the contract to build the Ky. C.R.R., from the Licking
River to Paris, finishing the same in the year 1871, since which time, by
the assistance of other parties, he has built the mill at Parks' Ferry,
of which he is superintendent, in connection with his contracting and
other business.  He was married Feb. 15, 1855, in Nicholas County to Miss
Maggie Griffith, born Dec. 20, 1832, in Nicholas County, and a member of
one of its early families; her parents were William A. and Cynthia
(Mathers) Griffith, she a daughter of William Mathers; by this marriage
there have been eight children, four of whom died in childhood.  Those
living are: Willie, Nannie, wife of N. W. Yelton, freight agent at
Crittenden Station, on the Cincinnati Southern R.R.; the youngest are
Mattie and Eddie.  The family are members of the M. E. Church.  He was
formerly an old line Whig, now a member of the Democratic party and a
member of the Masonic order.

Dorsey Ingram Wallace Anderson Andrews Spiers Stewart McClure
Parks Griffith Mathers Yelton
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Bourbon-KY Fleming-KY IN MD

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