History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 748.
[Nicholas County]  [Carlisle City and Precinct]

THOMAS COLLINS HERNDON, physician and farmer, P. O. Carlisle, whose
portrait appears in this work, is the oldest practitioner in Nicholas
County, was born near Blair's Mill, on Licking river, on the 22nd of April
1817, and named for his grandfather, T. C. Herndon, who was a native of
Fauquier County, Va., and came to Mason County about 1812, and to Nicholas
in 1816.  His wife was Mary Ann Seal, daughter of Captain John Seal, of
revolutionary fame.  She was born and raised in Alexandria, on the Potomac;
her mother was Sally Jarvis, who, with her husband died in Virginia.  The
grandfather of our subject by his marriage had five sons and three
daughters, viz: Priscilla, married Geo. M. Campbell, and reared family in
Nicholas County; Solomon resided in Virginia; William left family in
Nicholas, went West, and was never heard from; John M. reared a family
in Boone County, Ky.; finally settled in Dearborn County, Ind.; James W.
reared a family in Nicholas, was a very prominent man in the county, and
held the office of Colonel in the State Militia at the time of his death
of cholera in 1833; Sarah J. married Jeffrie Bartlett and settled in
Indiana; Francis married Lawrence McCowan and settled in Boone County,
Ind.; and George W. reared a family in Nicholas.  The father and four
oldest sons were soldiers in the war of 1812.  Our subject received a
limited common school education, but engaged in teaching, the proceeds
for which he applied in further education and graduated from the
Louisville Medical College in 1844, when he spent on year at Elizaville,
then came to his present location, where he has since resided and built
up a large practice and a reputation in Nicholas and adjacent counties.
He was married to Miranda J. Craycraft on the 19th of Nov., 1846; she a
daughter of Zadock and Annie Hendricks.  By her he had three children:
W. W., Mary A., wife of Walter S. Potts (see hist.), and William E. (see
hist).  Both sons are graduates of the University of Louisville, and are
practicing physicians in Nicholas County.  The mother of these died March
27, 1860, when the Doctor was remarried upon the 9th of May following to
Mary Ann Craycraft, a sister to his first wife; by her he has one child,
Thomas C.  The Doctor, in connection with the practice of his profession,
is extensively engaged in the breeding of all the principal strains of
the Bates family of shorthorns; also fine horses and Cotswold sheep and
is carrying on general agriculture upon his large and beautiful farm,
"Herndon Ranch."  They are members of the Missionary Baptist Church at
Locust Grove.

Herndon Seal Campbell Bartlett McCowan Craycraft Hendricks Potts
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Mason-KY Boone-KY Boone-IN Jefferson-KY Dearborn-IN Fauquier-VA

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