Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887,
Mercer County.

SAMUEL P. DEBAUN was born December 18, 1831, and is a son of Joseph Debaun,
a native of Mercer County, and born in 1808; he had nine children--eight
sons and one daughter; he died January 7, 1857.  Samuel P. Debaun was born
in Mercer County, receiving a common school education, and was reared a
farmer.  Mr. Debaun enlisted in Eleventh Kentucky Cavalry (Federal), and
was first lieutenant of Company C.  He took an active part in the war,
and participated in a number of battles and skirmishes, including the siege
of Knoxville.  He married Miss Katie Mays.  She died and he afterward
married Miss Ellen Philips, by whom he had two children, one of them, Ida,
living.  Mr. and Mrs. Debaun belong to the Christian Church, in which he
was an elder.  Mr. Debaun is deputy county court clerk of Mercer County
and also notary public.  He had one brother, John W., killed by lightning,
and one, Pleasant M., a Federal soldier, died a prisoner of war at
Andersonville, Ga.

Debaun Mays Philips
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