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

B. H. VOIERS was born in Henry County, Ky., April 3, 1843, the eleventh of
fourteen children born to William T. and Nancy (Moxley) Voiers, natives of
Kentucky and Virginia.  William T. was born in 1797, was by trade a
shoemaker, but kept a hotel in New Castle, Ky., and died in 1865.  His
wife was born in 1812, and died in 1880.  Our subject was reared in Henry
and Trimble Counties, having moved with his parents to the latter county
when quite young.  He first engaged in farming, which occupation he
followed until 1873.  He then entered mercantile business, in which he is
at present engaged, and has been very successful.  With the exception of
a small sum of money received from his father's estate he began life a
poor boy.  He married Miss Nannie G. Tandy, daughter of Daniel and Sarah
(Gant) Tandy.  Three children have been born to their union: Carrie M.,
Sada L. and Cora Lee.  Mr. Voiers and family are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South.  Politically he is a Prohibitionist.  He owns 100
acres of land, and a house, lot and store near Bedford.  Mr. Voiers was
unanimously nominated by the Prohibition convention, April 23, 1887, to
represent Trimble and Oldham Counties in the Legislature, it being the
first convention of the kind ever held in Trimble Co.

Voiers Moxley Tandy Gant
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Henry-KY VA

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