Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Jessamine Co.

WILLIAM J. WILMORE was born January 19, 1844.  He was educated at Bethel
College, Nicholasville; was engaged at farming until 1869; was the
appointed gauger for the Seventh Internal Revenue District of Kentucky,
and in 1876 was appointed government storekeeper.  He held this until
1878, when he was appointed division deputy collector for the Seventh
District, and held this until June, 1883.  Since then he has been general
superintendent for E. J. Curley & Co., distillers at Camp Nelson, on the
Kentucky River; two distilleries, one on each side of Boone's Knoll, have a
mashing capacity of 1,100 bushels per day, yielding 100 barrels of whisky
[sic].   Mr. Wilmore was married September 11, 1865, to Miss Mary F.,
daughter of James and Eliza (Gates) Buford, of Garrard County, and to this
union one child has been born--Mary Annie.  James C. Wilmore, the father of
William J., was born in Jessamine County in 1809, married Anna B., daughter
of Gen. and Anna (Welch) Olds, and to their marriage were born James,
Naomi (wife of Charles Hemphill) and William J., whose name heads this
sketch.  James C. Wilmore was a farmer and stock trader.  He served his
county in the Legislature one term, was its sheriff in 1853, and died in
1869.  Mrs. Anna B. Wilmore was born in 1810.  James Wilmore, grandfather
of William J., was born in 1785, and served in Jessamine County as justice
of the peace and sheriff.  The father of James Wilmore emigrated from
Pennsylvania to Maryland, but later settled in Jessamine County near
Nicholasville, on Union Mills Turnpike, and purchased 300 acres of land.
He married Jane Dillion, and had twelve children born to him: Sallie
(married J. B. Sparks), James C., John W., Thomas D., Charles, Oliver A.,
Hannah (married B. Grimes), Kitty (married Samuel R. Welch), Charley,
Jacob, George and Elizabeth (who married C. Rutherford).

Wilmore Curley Gates Buford Welch Olds Hemphill Dillion Sparks
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