History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 730.
[Harrison County]  [Claysville Precinct]

T. A. ROBERTSON, farmer, P. O. Smitsonville, is the son of Richard H. and
Mary T. (Samuels) Robertson, and was born June 9, 1832, in Shelby County,
Ky.; his father was a native of Richmond, Va., and came to Kentucky about
the year 1803, a young man of twenty-three years of age; he settled first
in Garrard County, and then removed to Shelby, and subsequently to
Harrison; he was a Democrat and a man possessed of a high sense of honor
and though he died in November, 1858, he predicted with wonderful accuracy,
as subsequent events proved, the near approach of the late civil war. The
mother of T. A. died when he was a child.  Arriving at man's estate, Mr.
Robertson, in 1854, was married to Miss Lucy A. Hickman, a native of
Harrison County.  For about three years following this event he was
engaged in buying, selling and shipping stock; quitting the business at
the close of this period a poorer, and perhaps a wiser man, he moved to
Cincinnati where he spent the two succeeding years.  Returning again to
the old homestead, he spent about two years at farming and milling, and
then purchased his present farm of 175 acres, located on the extension of
the Cynthiana and Claysville Pike.  In 1867 his brother was elected
Sheriff of Harrison County, holding the office until 1870.  In 1873 and
1874 he filled the same responsible position, and during his whole term
of service, T. A. acted as his deputy and though a Democrat, and his
long service as deputy thoroughly fitting him for the office, he sought
no political preferment at the hands of the people.  In 1879 he began
agitating the question of the extension of the Cynthiana and Claysville
Pike, from its terminus (Oddville) to Claysville.  Succeeding in securing
the granting of a new charter for the extension, he was made the first
President, but accepting a contract in the building of the road, in which
he is the heaviest stockholder, he resigned his office.  Though not so old
a resident of Claysville Precinct as many of his neighbors, there is but
little doubt of Mr. Robertson's being one of the leading spirits in that
part of Harrison County.  When he was twenty-two years of age he joined St.
Andrews' Lodge A.F. & A.M.; subsequently he was dimitted and became one of
the charter members of Thomas Ware Lodge, and once by proxy.  His wife,
oldest daughter, and himself, are members of the Christian Church.  Ten
children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Robertson, eight of whom are
living, viz: Richard Henry, Fannie, now wife of W. H. Zilor; two deceased,
Frank W., Laura, Cora, Hattie, Blanche and Stella.

Robertson Hickman Samuels Zilor
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Garrard-KY Shelby-KY VA

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