Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B, 1887 Fleming County H. DULEY, a native of Fleming County, Ky., was born September 13, 1845, and is the eldest of four children born to Charles Z. and Sophia (Northcott) Duley. Charles Z. Duley, a son of Zadock Duley, was also born in Fleming County, Ky., in February, 1818; he is a Mason, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The ancestors of the Duley family came from Ireland about the date of Lord Baltimor's immigration. Zadock Duley was born near Hagerstown, Md. Rev. Benjamin Northcott, the maternal grandfather of H. Duley, was born in Virginia, removing from there to North Carolina, and in 1795 locating in Fleming County, Ky. In 1792 he joined the first Methodist Episcopal Conference ever held in Kentucky. He first married a Miss Armstrong, and being left a widower by her death he married Miss O'Dell, who was the mother of Mrs. Sophia Duley. H. Duley, the subject of this sketch, was educated in the schools of his native county. He began life as a farmer, afterward moving to Missouri, where he engaged in the trade of agricultural implements at Warrensburg about five years, and then turned his attention to the timber trade until 1872, when he went into the newspaper business at Aullville and at Pleasant Hill. Returning to Kentucky in 1875 he was employed as a printer two years, establishing a printing house at Flemingsburg in 1877; in 1879 he founded the Flemingsburg Times, buying the Democrat in 1883 and consolidating the two, the publication being known as the Times-Democrat. February 25, 1880, Mr. Duley married Miss Amelia Phillips, a daughter of W.O. Phillips, of Poplar Plains. They are the parents of two children: Charles P. and Bessie E. Mr. And Mrs. Duley are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Duley Northcott Armstrong O'Dell Phillips = VA NC http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/fleming/duley.h.txt