Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887, Woodford Co. BENJAMIN J. MITCHELL was born May 14, 1850, and is the eldest son of William J. and Tabitha A. (Phelps) Mitchell, natives of Jessamine County and Clark County, Ky. Benjamin J. is a native of Jessamine County, and accompanied his father to Woodford County; was there reared on a farm, and is now a renter there of 160 acres of good land. He married a Miss Lou Oldham, a native of Montgomery County and to this union have been born three children: Nannie, Willie and Susan. Mr. Mitchell and wife are members of the Christian Church at Midway. Mitchell Phelps Oldham = Jessamine-KY Clark-KY Montgomery-Ky http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/woodford/mitchell.bj.txt