History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 578.
[Bourbon County]    [Ruddel's Mills Precinct]

ALLEN M. KISER, farmer; P. O. Ruddel's Mills.  Among the emigrants from
Germany to America during the latter part of the seventeenth century, was
John Kiser, who settled in Maryland, and there reared a family of two sons
and three daughters, viz: Jacob, Polly, Elizabeth, Nancy and John. In 1870,
the family moved to Kentucky and located for one year in Fayette County.
They then removed to Bourbon County, where they settled permanently. They,
with the help of a number of other pioneer families, erected a fort on the
farm now owned by James P. Kiser; there for a time they resided for mutual
protection, though the head of each family soon entered a tract of
Government land and began preparing a home. The Kisers secured a large
tract of land, and their interests being mutual, they soon developed a
fine property.  John, the youngest son of the family mentioned, was here
married to Miss Ursula, daughter of John Rout, who with his family came
from Virginia to the new settlement; he became the possessor of a farm,
and subsequently of a mill (both grist and saw), and also later he became
interested in a distillery, for the purpose of converting the surplus
grain of the community into a more marketable form, by reason of its being
less bulky.  There were born to John and Ursula a family of twelve
children, of whom Allen was the oldest; he was born Sept. 6, 1806, and has
spent his life in Ruddel's Mills Precinct; farming has been his principal
occupation, though he was also in connection with his sons interested in
distilling, in which they failed.  Allen was married Jan. 29, 1834, to
Susan, daughter of Elias and Catharine (McLair) Livingstone, who is a
native of Maryland, and formerly resided in Bracken County, Ky.  Six
children were born to them, four of whom grew to maturity, viz: Elizabeth,
wife of W. A. Brannock, of Cass County, Mo.; Mary, who married Thomas
McDonald, and dying left one child, named Raymond; Josie, now Mr. Hamilton,
of Cynthiana, and Allen M., whose name appears at head of this sketch.  He
was born Dec. 26, 1845, and passed his early life on his father's farm; in
September of 1862, he enlisted in Co. C, 5th Kentucky Cavalry, under
Captain Bedford.  He remained in the service until the close of the war,
during which time he spent some time under the famous Gen. John A. Morgan,
and while with him in Ohio, he was captured and held a prisoner for eight
months at Camp Douglass, Chicago; returning to Bourbon County, Ky., at
the cessation of hostilities, he married, on June 10, 1867, Miss Minerva,
daughter of Saloma Keller.  She died Oct. 25, 1876, leaving three children:
Laura, Elizabeth and Shelby.  Dec. 10, 1879, Mr. Kiser married Miss Ella
Current, daughter of Thomas J. Current, on of Gen. Morgan's lieutenants,
and who was killed at Green River Bridge.  Politically,  both Mr. Kiser
and his father are Democrats.

Kiser Rout McLair Livingstone Brannock McDonald Hamilton Keller Current
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Fayette-KY Bracken-KY Harrison-KY Cass-MO VA MD Germany

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