Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., Pendleton Co. LESLIE T. APPLEGATE, a native of Pendleton County, Ky., was born June 14, 1854, and is a son of James T. and Mary C. (Colvin) Applegate, natives, respectively, of Mason and Pendleton Counties. His maternal grandfather, Birkett Colvin, came from Culpeper County, Va., in the latter part of the last century, and settled on Blankett Creek, Kentucky; he served in the war of 1812, and also as a justice of the peace under the old constitution. James T. Applegate was born in 1819, was for four years sheriff of Pendleton County, and during the recent war served as lieutenant in the Eighteenth Kentucky Infantry. His present residence is a short distance southeast of Falmouth. Leslie T. Applegate was reared on the home farm, was educated at Falmouth and at Danville, and read law under A. R. Clark in 1875, was admitted to the bar in June, 1876. June 15, 1887, he married Miss Sally Menzies, daughter of Judge John Menzies, chancellor of the Twelfth Judicial District of Kentucky. Mr. Applegate is a Democrat, and in 1884 was a presidential elector from the Sixth Kentucky Congressional District. He is a Methodist. Applegate Colvin Clark Menzies = Mason Culpeper-VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/pendleton/applegate.lt.txt