Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886. Metcalfe County.

SAMUEL W. MITCHELL was born September 8, 1850, where he now resides, in
the northeast part of Metcalfe County, near Sulphur Well. He is the
second of five sons and two daughters, all of whom lived to be grown,
born to James and Susannah W. (Davis) Mitchell. James Mitchell was born
and raised in Adair, now Metcalfe County. He is a son of Col. Elzie
Mitchell; in 1878 moved to Glasgow.  Mrs. Susannah W. Mitchell was born
and reared in Boyle County, Ky. Samuel W. was born and reared on a farm;
received the rudiments of an English eduation in the common schools,
after which he attended Bethel College fifteen months, also attended for
ten months a military academy conducted by Gen. E. Kirby, Smith, at
Newcastle.  He married, September 15, 1875, Ophelia Biggerstaff, of Hart
County, a native of Monroe and a daughter of Robert and Nancy (Williams)
Biggerstaff, who were born and reared in Monroe County, Ky. In about
1878 Robert Biggerstaff moved to California, where he represented a
patent wheat separator. In the spring of 1874 located near Fort Worth,
Tex., at Aledo, where he is superintendent of a ranch. He was a strong
Union man during the war.  He is a son of Aaron Biggerstaff, who married
Henrietta Stone, of Virginia, and who emigrated from Virginia to
Kentucky at an early day; he was a farmer and a slave holder. To Mr. and
Mrs. Mitchell were born four boys:  Charles W., James W., Little W., and
Henry W.  Mrs. Mitchell is a member of the Reformed Church.  Shortly
after his marriage Mr Mitchell located where he now lives on his
father's farm of 1,300 acres; he is making a speciality of breeding
jacks and jennies; he has been constantly engaged in farming, except
four years, in which he was engaged in the mercantile business at Horse
Cave; he owns an interest in a section of land in Jackson Co, Tex. He is
a member of the I. O. O. F. In politics a Democrat.

Biggerstaff Davis Mitchell Smith Stone Williams
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Adair-KY Boyle-KY CA Glasgow-Barren-KY Hart-KY Jackson-TX Monroe-KY VA

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