History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 690.
[Harrison County]   [Cynthiana City and Precinct]

RICHARD WAITS, farmer; P. O. Cynthiana, was born in Nicholas County,
July 12, 1801.  He is the son of John Waits (see sketch of Elizabeth
Martin).  He received his education from the common schools of Harrison
County.  At the age of 21, began farming on his own account, which he
still continues.  He has been twice married, in Bourbon County, Nov. 4,
1830, to Miss Mary Parker, of Bourbon County, born in 1811, and died in
Aug. 10, 1833; in 1839, in Harrison County, he married Miss Sarah
Van Deren, a native of Harrison County, born Jan. 10, 1818.  They have
five children: Mary E., James H., John L., Maggie and Alfred V.  He and
family are members of the Christian church.  He is a Republican.  Mr.
Waits is a man of sterling qualities, which has endeared him to the
community, of which he has been a member so long.  He has always been a
hard-working man; now in the later years of his life he is surrounded
with those comforts and enjoying those pleasures that are ever the result
of honesty, industry and economy.

Waits Martin Parker Van_Deren
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Nicholas-KY

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