Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Warren County. DANIEL C. AMOS was born October 7, 1850, in Bowling Green. When very small he removed with his parents to the vicinity of his present residence, and in 1882 to the farm on which he is now located. His father, John B. Amos, was born April 18, 1816, in Hart County, Ky. At about sixteen years of age he engaged in staging, which business he continued until the building of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, when he located in Warren County, where he died in 1873. He was a son of Ransom Amos, who was a native of North Carolina. Ransom was a farmer and trader and lived for several years in Hart County, Ky. John B. Amos married, November 24, 1847, Sarah, daughter of Gen. Ambrose Kirtley. >From this union sprang Mary B. (Middleton), Daniel C., Charles B., Lilly, Benjamin F., Alice (Shelton), John B. and Virginia L. Daniel C. married, January 1, 1885, Elizabeth, daughter of David and Mattie (Head) Chenault, of Sumner County, Tenn. Mr. Amos is well educated, having graduated from Cumberland College at Lebanon, Tenn., in the class of 1873, and is a man well posted in the current topics of the times. He labored under great disadvantages in starting in life, having been left by the death of his father to care for the family. He spent about five years in settling up his father's estate and providing them considerable assistance, is now starting for himself. He is a believer in the doctrines of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and in politics is a Democrat. Amos Chenault Head Kirtley Middleton Shelton = Hart Lebanon-TN Louisville-Jefferson Nashville-Davidson-TN NC Sumner-TN http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/warren/amos.dc.txt