Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Volume I and Volume II, Lewis
Publishing Company, 1904, pp. 108-110.  Graves Co.

JAMES H. BREWER

     James H. Brewer, one of the leading residents of Graves county,
Kentucky, is the son of Peter and Tabitha Brewer, and was born in Wilson
county, Tennessee, July 6, 1840.  Peter Brewer was born in Wilson county,
Tennessee, while his wife was born in Davidson county, Tennessee.  The
paternal grandfather was William Brewer, born in Davidson county,
Tennessee, of Welsh descent, while the maternal grandfather was born in
middle Tennessee of Welsh-Irish ancestry.  William Brewer, the paternal
grandfather, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and fought under General
Andrew Jackson, participating in the battle of New Orleans, and one of his
brothers, John, was in the Florida war of 1811. Peter Brewer was a farmer
by occupation, and made his home in Wilson county, Tennessee.  In politics
he was a Whig, and religiously was a member of the Christian church.  He
died when but fifty years of age, while his wife passed away in April,
1894, aged seventy-six years.  Three children were born to them, namely:
James H., Sarah, deceased, and William F.
     James H. Brewer lived in Wilson county until he was seventeen years of
age, and then removed to Graves county with his mother, and has resided
there, within six miles of the old homestead, ever since.  He chose farming
as his life occupation, and now owns a fine farm of one hundred and
seventy-eight acres, all well improved and in a high state of cultivation.
Starting out in life with no capital, he has worked his way steadily to the
front, and is now one of the leading farmers of this locality.  In politics
he is a Democrat.  In religious matters he and his wife are members of the
Methodist church, while fraternally he is a member of the Masonic order.
From 1880 to 1892 he served most acceptably as a magistrate, with the
exception of one term intervening.
     On November 29, 1859, he was married to Miss Nancy Mason, who was born
in Graves county, Kentucky, and died in 1865.  Two children were born of
this union, namely: Mary E., who married Calvin R. West; and James I.  Mr.
Brewer married, in 1868, Miss Martha Crawford, who was born in Graves
county, and they have had two children, viz.:  William B., who died at the
age of twenty-seven years; Onie O., now Mrs. Millard Johnson.  Residing
with Mr. and Mrs. Brewer is an aunt, Mrs. Fannie E. (Brewer) Pugh, the
widow of John R. Pugh, who was born in Smith county, Tennessee, and died
May 5, 1881, in Davidson county, Tennessee, aged sixty years.
     Mr. Brewer is noted for his hospitality and kind-heartedness, and is a
man of honorable dealings, with friends wherever he is known.

Brewer Mason West Crawford Johnson Pugh
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Wilson-TN Davidson-TN Smith-TN

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