History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 460. [Bourbon County] [Paris City and Precinct] C. F. DIDLAKE; P. O. Paris; superintendent of Paris distillery; was born Oct. 16, 1842, in Clark County, this State; son of Edmond H. and Mildred (Woodford) Didlake. Edmond Didlake, the father of C. F., was a native of Virginia, and emigrated to Kentucky locating in Clark County at an early day, where he lived for many years, and was Sheriff of the county, and prominently connected with its business interests. In 1851 he removed to McLean County, Illinois, and engaged in farming and commission business, where he died in 1873. He was a Mason, and a member of the Reformed Church. His wife survived him until 1876. Our subject removed with his parents to Illinois when a lad. At the age of eighteen he entered the Confederate Army as a member of the 1st Battalion of Kentucky Mounted Rifles. While in Tennessee, after the battle of Chickamauga, he was captured and remained a prisoner at Fort Delaware until June, 1865. After his release he went to Arkansas, and for three years had charge of his father's plantation. In February, 1869, he came to Paris, and since that time has been in charge of Paris distillery. November, 1872, he married Sarah Goodman, daughter of W. C. Goodman, one of the pioneers of Bourbon County. He has a snug home on the outskirts of the city, just inside its limits. Didlake Woodford Goodman = Clark-KY McLean-IL VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/bourbon/didlake.cf.txt