History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p.
691.

JOHN W. LASHBROOK was born on the same farm where he now lives April 4,
1834.  His father, John Lashbrook, was born in Shelby County, Ky., Feb.
7, 1798.  He was married at Adams Fork, Ohio County, to Rebecca Burton,
Dec. 14, 1826, a native of Virginia.  They came to Daviess County soon
after their marriage and settled on a  farm in Masonville Precinct,
where their son, John W., now lives.  They built a cabin here in the
woods and cleared a farm.  Bears and wolves were plenty; neighbors were
few and far away.  Mr. Lashbrook died June 27, 1874.  Mrs. Lashbrook
died May 8, 1870.  They had a family of six children--Amanda M., born
June 14, 1828, married John N. Johnson, and died April, 1880; James A.,
born Feb. 12, 1830, died in childhood; Bassett, born Feb. 7, 1832, died,
aged twenty-two; Winorah H., born March 30, 1837, married Lindsay
Pursen, and died Sept. 2, 1859; Sarah A. H., born Sept. 12, 1841, is the
wife of James Yewell, in Owensboro.  John W. Lashbrook, born April 4,
1834, was the third son and fourth child, but the oldest living.  He
married Miriam L. Burton, Dec. 24, 1867.  She was born in Masonville,
March 6, 1835, and was a daughter of James and Susan (Ward) Burton, old
settlers of Daviess County.  After Mr. and Mrs. Lashbrook were married
they settled on the old homestead farm, where they now reside.  Mrs.
Lashbrook is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.  They have one
son--James Allen, born Oct. 22, 1868.  Mr. Lashbrook owns a fine farm of
138 acres, 100 under cultivation.  Politically he was first a Whig but
is now a Democrat.

Lashbrook Burton Johnson Pursen Yewell Ward
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Shelby-KY Adams_Fork-Ohio-KY VA

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