LDS film # 09962913, Excerpts from History of Kentucky, Illustrated, 1885, by Battle, Perrin, and Kniffin. Appeared in the Central City Messenger and Times-Argus, Central City, Kentucky, in seven installments during May, June, and July 1959. Higgerson Riley Engaged in Tobacco Trade in South Carrollton in 1877 HIGERSON [note spelling throughout] RILEY, Muhlenberg County, was born September 1, 1822, in Daviess County, KY, and is the second of seven boys and two girls, born to Lewis and Cassandre (Pedicord) Riley, natives of Ohio and Daviess Counties, respectively, of Irish and Scotch descent. Lewis Riley was a colonel of militia, and son of Michael Riley, who married a Miss Jackson. They were natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Virginia; they were among the first settlers of Ohio County; he stood guard during the Indian times at Fort Hartford. The mother of our subject was the daughter of Higerson Pedicord, who was married twice. Higerson Riley, was reared on a farm, received a good education and lived with his parents until he was seventeen, when he engaged in farming at Daviess County. In 1842 he moved to Ohio County, where he engaged in hotel and grocery business and dealing in tobacco. With the exception of one year he engaged in steamboating, he lived there until 1866, when he moved to Riley Station, in Daviess County, and purchased a farm. In 1877, he sold and moved to South Carrollton, where he has been successfully engaged in the tobacco trade ever since. He was married April 2, 1840, to Sarah E. Barnard, who was a native of Virginia and of English descent. To this union eight children have been born, four now living: Lewis L., Barthenia I., now Henry; Sadie M., now Bruce, and J.C. Riley. Mr. and Mrs. Riley are members of the Episcopal Church South. Riley Pedicord Jackson Bernard = Daviess Ohio PA VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/muhlenberg/riley.h.txt