Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B, 1887 Fleming County DR. JOHN T. WALL, a native of Cynthiana, Harrison County, Ky., was born April 22, 1824, and is a son of William K. and Priscilla (Taylor) Wall. William K. Wall was born in Washington County, Pa., May 19, 1786, and was a son of John Wall, who was a farmer and a large land owner in Pennsylvania. Removed to Kentucky about the year 1793 and settled upon a farm one mile east of Cynthiana, where he died at an advanced age. The earliest known ancestor of the Wall family was Walter Wall, who came to the United States from England about 1640 and settled on Long Island, removing from there to New Jersey, where he reared a large family; he subsequently moved with a number of other New Jersey families to western Pennsylvania, and made what is known as the "Jersey settlement." William K. Wall was a lawyer of prominence in Cynthiana, and was a member at various terms of both houses of the Kentucky Legislature, was Commonwealth's Attorney for the Judicial District for twenty-five years; he died in Cynthiana, March 22, 1853. Mrs. Priscilla Wall, a daughter of Dr. Septimus Taylor, of Virginia, died June 14, 1833, a member of the Christian Church. Dr. John T. Wall was educated at St. Mary's and bacon Colleges, the Transylvania University of Lexington, Ky., in 1848-49; he immediately located in Flemingsburg, where the greater part of his professional life has been spent. He was a soldier in the Mexican war, and participated in the battle of Buena Vista. April 16, 1850, he married Elizabeth Dudley, daughter of James and Eliza Dudley, of Flemingsburg. Their family consists of four daughters, Ida D., Priscilla W., Mary and Amanda W. Dr. Wall is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and with his wife is a member of the Christian Church. Wall Taylor Dudley = Harrison-KY Washington-PA England NY VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/fleming/wall.jt.txt