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

BENJAMIN WILHOITE, born in 1807, in Culpeper County, Va., is the fourth of
a family of seven children born to Jeremiah and Susanna (Yager) Wilhoite.
Jeremiah moved to Oldham County in 1815, and both the Wilhoites and
Yagers are of German descent.  Benjamin was born and reared on a farm, the
pursuits of which he has made his business through life, and is the owner
of 340 acres on the Oldham, Henry and Jefferson Pike about nine miles from
LaGrange.  He is a member of the Christian Church of forty years' standing.
In 1832 he married Miss Emily J. Fields, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth
(Childs) Fields.  She was born in 1817 in Danville, Mercer County.  Her
parents were born and reared near Danville, and in 1825, moved to Oldham
County, where Mr. Fields died in 1863, and Mrs. Fields in 1873.  Mr.
Fields was a soldier in the war of 1812, and his ancestors came from
Ireland in the earliest period of Kentucky's history.  Mrs. Fields was of
Welsh origin.  Mrs. Wilhoite is the fourth in a family of seven, and has
borne her husband five children, Miller, Jeremiah, William M., Paschal,
and Sarah E., who died in 1865, was the wife of Emry Sweeny, who died in
1868.  Paschal was killed in 1863 in the Confederate Army by the home
guards at or near Danville.

Wilhoite Yager Fields Childs Sweeny
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Danville-Mercer-KY Culpeper-VA

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