Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 
1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical 
Society.

J. W. LANCASTER was born February 26, 1838 in Scott County, Kentucky. 
He is the son of James and Anna (Nelson) Lancaster.  His father was a 
farmer and like him the son was reared a farmer, and has continued a 
farmer all his life.  He attended the common schools in winter when a 
boy, and worked on the farm in summer.  His childhood was not unlike 
that of thousands of other Kentucky boys.  His education was necessarily
limited to the common schools.  In June, 1876, he was married to Miss 
Julia Tapp. Three children, two boys and one girl, have blessed this 
union.  The eldest, Harry, the idol of his father and the joy of a 
mother's heart, died a little more than a year ago.  He had succeeded 
to an honorable position in the Corinth Deposit Bank, an institution in 
which Mr. Lancaster is a large stockholder, having helped to organize 
it.  The other son, Hallie, is a boy of ten or twelve, bright, quick 
and lovable.  While he in a part makes up for the loss of the elder son,
the shadow still remains and a sorrow, which time cannot wipe out has 
come into the Lancaster household. The handsomest monument ever placed 
in the Corinth cemetery has been erected to his memory.  Daisy, the 
daughter, was married a few years ago to Mr. James Rednower of near 
town, and she is a comely matron with two sweet children.  His handsome 
residence is in the south end of the county. It was built about half a 
dozen years ago on the site occupied by his former residence, which was 
destroyed by fire in 1892.  He owns a very large farm, and runs it on 
scientific principles, and has reaped a reward in good hard dollars.
Mr. Lancaster started in life a poor man, but today is regarded as one
of the wealthiest men in his section of the county.  All of his wealth 
has been made by rigid industry and good sound business sense.  Though 
time has wrinkled his brow, though more than three score years have 
left their mark upon his figure, turning his hair to a silver gray, his 
heart is still young as much as when he was a boy forty years ago.  He 
is kindly and hospitable, and like a true Kentuckian, no stranger ever 
leaves his house except when every social attention has been paid him. 
He is generous to a fault, and no charitable institution ever calls on 
him for help in vain.  Long may his life remain a part of the history 
of Corinth.

Lancaster Nelson Tapp Rednower
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Scott-KY

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