Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B, 1887
Robertson County

NIMROD A. TILTON, county judge of Robertson County, resides at Mt. Olivet,
and was born in Robertson County, Ky., January 9, 1831, and is the eldest of
three sons born to Jesse L. and Rachel (Ashcraft) Tilton, natives,
respectively, of Mason and Robertson Counties.  His grandfather, Richard
Tilton, came from Maryland and settled in Mill Creek Valley, near May's
Lick, before the county of Kentucky was erected a State.  He was a local
Methodist preacher, a Prohibitionist, and a non-slave-holder.  He served as
the first justice to hold court in Fleming County, was a very wealthy man,
and died in Illinois to which State he had removed.  Ephraim Ashcraft, the
maternal grandfather of Nimrod A. Tilton, was a soldier in the war of 1812,
and took part in the battle of Raisins River.  His settlement in the State
of Kentucky took place about the year 1800.  Jesse L. Tilton was born in
1806, was a farmer and tanner, and died in 1883.  Judge N.A. Tilton passed
his early life on the home farm, but while still a young man made a trip to
the Pacific coast.  He early learned blacksmithing, but has passed the
greater part of his life at farming, and now owns a fine stock farm of 560
acres two and a half miles west of Mt. Olivet.  In 1863 he was elected the
first sheriff of Robertson County, but for the previous ten years had been a
magistrate.  In August, 1886, he was elected county judge.  March 13, 1856,
he married Miss Helen Ashcraft, of Robertson County, daughter of Nimrod
Ashcraft, deceased.  This marriage was blessed with the birth of five
children, of whom two are living: Evan L. and Jessie.  The judge is a Royal
Arch Mason, a Democrat, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

Tilton Ashcraft 
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Fleming-KY Mason-KY IL MD

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