History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., 
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p. 
653.

MERIT SANDS was born in Daviess County, Ky., Sept. 28, 1857.  His 
father, William H. Sands, was born in Daviess County in 1819, and is a 
son of Hiram Sands, a native of Virginia, who came to Kentucky in an 
early day, and died about twenty years ago.  William H. Sands married 
Mary Camron in 1838.  They have ten children--Fannie (Mrs. Jasper 
Silverthorn), George, Surelda (Mrs. John Hite), Sebina, John, Sallie 
(Mrs. Joseph Carlin), Louisa (Mrs. James Osborn), Robert, Merit, Sidney. 
Merit Sands has a fine farm of seventy acres.  He has been a member of 
the Baptist church at Owensboro six years.  Politically he is a 
Democrat.  He is unmarried.

Sands Camron Silverthorn Hite Carlin Osborn
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