Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Allen County.

JAMES A. BRITE is a native of Allen County, born December 22, 1817.  His 
father, James Brite, was a South Carolinian by birth.  He married Mary 
Burton; she died in 1839, aged seventy years.  She left a family of nine 
children.  James Brite was of Irish parentage, and was a farmer by 
occupation; he died in 1825.  He was a son of Tobias Brite, a native of 
South Carolina, who came to Kentucky in 1805; and whose age, at his 
death in 1825, was upward of ninety years.  James A. was only six years 
of age when his father died, and he continued to reside with his mother 
until her death.  His early education was limited to the "winter terms" 
in the common schools; his summers were spent in labor on the farm, but 
by close application to business and home reading, after arriving at 
manhood, he obtained an education sufficient for all the ordinary 
business of life.  In 1847 he came into possession of his inheritance in 
the homestead farm, to which he has added at different times since.  He 
now is the proprietor of 600 acres of land, 300 of which he has brought 
into a high state of cultivation, and improved with good fences, large, 
comfortable dwelling, barns, and eight acres of orchard producing a 
great variety of fruit.  His farm is admirably adapted to grass and has 
excellent water privileges.  Mr. Brite has given most of attention to 
stock raising, in which he has been very successful.  In 1839 he was 
united in marriage with Virginia, daughter of Walter and Cynthia A. 
Bush, natives of Virginia, who removed to Kentucky, where Mr. Bush was 
among the first settlers of Barren County.  He was a farmer by 
occupation, and "cleared" a large farm upon which he lived to a ripe old 
age.  Mr. and Mrs. Brite are the parents of four children, two of whom 
are living, namely:  James W. and Elizabeth J.  Mr. B. is a member of 
the Baptist Church.  He is a Democrat, but has no political aspirations.  
He is a gentleman of sterling integrity, and as a public-spirited 
citizen he commands the respect of the community in which he resides. 

Brite Burton
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Barren-KY SC VA

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