Adair County Pioneers Progress
First Families of Adair County

George Breeding moved to Adair Co., Kentucky about 1802
Contributed by Roberta J Dooley

This is information on George Breeding who settled in what is now the community of Breeding, Adair Co., KY.

George served in the war against the Indians in the Northwest Territory. He moved to Kentucky, near Maysville, about 1786. About 1788 he moved to Lincoln Co., Kentucky and then about 1802 he moved to Adair Co., Kentucky. He left a large estate of 840 acres when he died, after previously haven given his son James 450 acres.

George BREEDING, a native of Virginia, was born in 1772, and when fourteen years of age was brought to Kentucky where Maysville now stands.  When about sixteen years of age he was brought to Lincoln County, and 1802 came to Adair County, where a farm was bought and deeded to George BREEDING, where the little village of BREEDING's now stands.  Here George remained during the rest of his life, engaged in agricultural pursuits and left an estate of about $7,000 in land and slave mostly.  He was married three times; first to Miss Margaret Cloyd, a daughter of James and Jane (Lapsley) Cloyd, of Lincoln County.

To this marriage were born sixteen children, of whom all died in infancy except two-Peter, who died at age nine, and Rev James BREEDING.  Mrs. BREEDING, during life a consistent Christian and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, departed this life February, 1840, in the sixtieth year of her age. George BREEDING next married Mrs. Sally Black of Lincoln County, who, at the time of her death was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and left no children by her last marriage.  The third marriage of George BREEDING was to Mrs. Parthenia L. (Carter) Turk, a daughter of Benjamin Carter of Adair County.  This marriage was blessed by the birth of two children: Mary Elizabeth and Rachel Jane, wife of R.D. Priestly, of Canton, Miss.  At the time of her marriage Mrs. BREEDING had five children by her first husband.  She died a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. George BREEDING was called from the scene of his earthly labors May 29, 1859, leaving a large estate of 840 acres of land to his widow and her two children, having previously given his son James 450 acres.

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Added Note - From The Methodist History of Adair County, Asbury's Journal - George Breeding and wife. Margaret Cloyd Breeding, settled in Adair County near the headwaters of Little Renox Creek in 1802. A Methodist Church was organized in their home and their son, James grew up under religious influences to become a noted Methodist minister, The small village of Breeding, Kentucky, was named in his honor.

Source: Adair County Review - Winter 2000, Page 95. Published Quarterly by the Adair County Genealogical Society.