HISTORY OF FAYETTE COUNTY KENTUCKY, by Robert Peter, ed. by William H. 
Perrin, O. L. Baskin Co., Chicago, 1882.  Reprinted by Southern Historical 
Press, Easley, SC, 1979.
Page 769
JOHN B. OVERTON, deceased.  
In the year 1811 James Overton, coming to Kentucky from Virginia, purchased 
from Benjamin West 275 acres of land within a few miles of Lexington, 
comprising what was then considered one of the best improved estate in 
Fayette County.
On account of its beauty it received the name of "Bellvideria," which 
appellation it still retains.
James Overton had four sons, Samuel, James, Richard and Charles, and two 
daughters, Ann and Mary S., and at his death he left Bellvideria to his 
widow during her lifetime, after which it was to be equally divided among 
his three sons, James, Richard and Charles, the eldest, Samuel, having 
bequeathed to him a large estate in Richmond, Va., and the daughters being 
left property consisting principally of negro slaves.
Mary S. married her second cousin, John B. Overton, of Louisa County, Va., 
August 28, 1832.
They first settled in Tennessee, then moved to Mississippi, but in 1836 
John B. bought Bellvideria from the widow, Francis E. Overton and her 
three sons to whom it was to descend, and he and his wife moved upon the 
estate of her father.
There they continued to reside with their children till the death of the 
husband and father, December 28, 1844.
His will was similar to that of his father-in-law, and by its terms his 
widow has a life interest in Bellvideria, and at her death it is to equally 
divided between her children, their heirs and assignes.
She has two sons, J. B. Overton and Richard Overton, of Fayette County, Ky., 
and two daughters, Mrs. F. A. Patterson of Springfield, Ill., and Mrs. 
Sue O. Queen, of Covington, Ky.
The Widow Overton remains at Bellvideria.
She is in her seventy-fifth year; and the only other surviving member of 
her father's family is her brother Richard, who lives in California.
Bellvideria lies on the south side of the Lexington & Winchester Turnpike, 
on which road it has a frontage of just one mile, between the third and 
fourth mile-posts.
The estate now contains 235 acres, forty acres having been sold from it 
since its first possession by the Overton family in which it has now been 
owned for more than seventy years.
The land is rich, and has produced very large crops of wheat, corn, rye, 
oats, hemp and tobacco.
There are now only about sixty acres in grain, the remainder being devoted 
to blue grass and timothy.
The original frame house is still standing upon it, being nearly a hundred 
years old, but in 1862 a new brick residence was built in front of and 
joined to the old structure, which has been so often repaired that all the 
outside work is modern.
Overton West Patterson Queen
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