History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 799.
[Nicholas County]  [Upper Blue Licks Precinct]

H. C. THROCKMORTON, farmer, P. O. Pleasant Valley Mills, born in Nicholas
County, Dec. 21, 1830.  His great grandfather came from Virginia and
settled on Johnson Creek.  His grandfather, John I. Throckmorton, came
also from Virginia when quite a youth.  The father of our subject, also
named Jno. I., was raised in Nicholas County, farmer, died in May 1853;
his wife, Lucy Holladay, survived him two years.  H. C. Throckmorton
received most of his education from the academy at Millersburg, under the
tutorage of Richard Todd and other teachers of that day.  March 11, 1852,
he married in Nicholas County, Parmelia, daughter of Grayson and Ellen
(Cook) Hughes of Nicholas County.  They have two children, Ellmore and
Robert.  Mr. Throckmorton has devoted his life to agricultural pursuits
and by industry and economy has acquired quite a handsome estate; his
farm contains some 400 acres in Nicholas County, most of it located in
Pleasant Valley, and unexcellent in point of fertility.  He is an ardent
Democrat; his wife is a member of the Christian Church at Stony Creek.

Throckmorton Todd Holladay Cook Hughes
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