History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 604.
[Scott County]  [Georgetown City and Precinct]

WILLIAM N. OFFUTT, farmer and short-horn breeder; P. O. Georgetown, was
born in Scott County, in August 1841.  His father, Alexander Offutt, was
a native of Maryland; born Oct. 10, 1803; emigrated to Scott County with
his parents in about 1810; during his life followed the occupation of a
farmer, and died in 1873.  His mother was Emeline Smith, born in Scott in
1824, and died in 1853; she was the mother of five children, William N.
Offutt being the oldest child.  He attended the Georgetown College to the
opening of the war, when he enlisted in the Confederate Army, and served
under Morgan to the close of the war; when he began farming in his native
county, at which he still continues.  In 1868 he began breeding and raising
short-horn cattle, and is at the present time making it a specialty. In
1868, in Scott County, he married Miss Sue W. Ford, a native of Scott
County, born to Reuben and Mary (Webb) Ford in 1850; he was born in Scott
County in June, 1819, attended the school at Oxford, Ohio, and graduated
at the Center College when but sixteen years of age.  He attended the
Transylvania Law School at Lexington, where he graduated with high honors;
in 1839 was admitted to the bar, and began the practice of his profession,
continuing the same until 1845, when he gave up his profession and began
farming, which he continued to the time of his death, which occurred in
September, 1856.  He was married in Scott County, in 1843, to Miss Mary
Webb, a native of Scott County, born at her present residence to Mitchum
and Susan (Holmes) Webb.  Mr. and Mrs. Offutt have had five children,
three of whom are living: Reuben F., William N. Jr., and M. Webb.  They
have the well improved farm of 900 acres called "Elmwood".

Offutt Smith Webb Ford Webb Holmes
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Fayette-KY MD

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