Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 
1887, Oldham Co.

JAMES G. EDDINS, farmer and stock grower, of Oldham County, Ky., was
born in Jefferson County, June 26, 1840.  His father, Abram Eddins, was 
a native of Virginia, came to Kentucky in 1826, and settled in Jefferson
County on a farm, fifteen miles from Louisville, where he resided
fifteen years, and then moved to Oldham County, where he died in 1875.  
He married Mary A. Ashby, of Kentucky, who bore him four sons and five 
daughters, of whom our subject is the second.  He was a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and died in 1879.  His grandfather, Blakely 
Eddins, was a native of Virginia, came to Kentucky in 1826, and settled 
in Jefferson County, where he died.  His maternal grandfather, Hawkins 
Ashby, was a native of Kentucky, and took an active part in the war of 
1812. Our subject remained until his twenty-second year, on the farm 
with his father, when he engaged in farming for himself.  He was married
in 1880 to Ruth Wilhoyte, of Oldham County, daughter of Jesse and Jane 
(Stonestreet) Wilhoyte.  She bore him one son, James Butler.  Mr. Eddins
resides in Brownsboro Precinct, where he has a farm of 160 acres.  He is
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Politically he is a 
Democrat.

Eddins Ashby Wilhoyte Stonestreet
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Jefferson-KY VA

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