History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 547.
[Bourbon County]  [North Middletown Precinct]

JOHN B. MITCHELL, farmer, P. O. North Middletown, is a native of Bourbon
County, and was born April 11, 1853; his grandfather, William Mitchell
was a native of Virginia, and moved to Kentucky at a very early day,
and settled in Montgomery County, where he raised a family of seven
children--six sons: William, Hawkins, Thomas J., Strother, James and
Frank, and one daughter, Margaret who married John J. Anderson; she and
her mother were killed by a terrific storm that passed over that country
about the year 1848; the house that was occupied by the family at the
time of the catastrophe was completely demolished.  It is remarkable that
seven other members who were also in the house miraculously escaped without
the slightest injury.  Thomas J. Mitchell, the third son, above spoken of,
was first married to Miss Gaitskill of Montgomery County; she only lived
about twelve months after her marriage.  He next married Malinda Thomas of
Bourbon County, about the year 1849, and move immediately to that county;
this union was blessed by two children: John B., who is the subject of
this sketch, and Alice, who is now the wife of Thomas Gaitskill, of North
Middletown.  John B. remained at the homestead and assisted in the duties
of the farm up to the time of his father's death, which occurred April
16, 1862.  At the death of his father, John B. inherited all of the home
place, containing 300 acres, except his mother's dower, which he
subsequently purchased.  His sister Alice inherited 187 acres of the Warren
Rogers place, known as the "Castle" which was purchased by her guardian
about one year after her father's death; the remainder of the Rogers farm
containing 133 acres was given to their mother, Mrs. Mitchell.  John B. is
now one of the representative farmers of his county, and is also engaged in
breeding and raising short horn cattle and Cotswold sheep.  He is a member
of the Christian Church at North Middletown, and a Democrat politically.

Mitchell Anderson Gaitskill Thomas Rogers
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Montgomery-KY VA

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