History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 742.
[Nicholas County]  [Carlisle City and Precinct]

F. P. CLARY, telegraph operator and station agent, P. O. Carlisle; was
born in Mason County, Ky., June 18, 1854, and is a son of Joshua and
Eliza (Prather) Clary.  He was born in Fleming County, Ky., in Dec. 1818.
He is a blacksmith by trade and is still living; has been married three
times.  He was married the first time in Mason County, in March 1842, to
Miss Eliza Prather, the mother of our subject.  She died in Oct. 1859.
His second marriage occurred in Illinois in November 1865, to Mary Y.
Hamson, who died in Oct. 1847.  In 1869 he married Rebecca Anna March, in
Orangeburg, Mason County, Ky.  He is the father of 13 children of whom
F. P. the subject of this sketch was the 7th.  He received a common
school education, and in 1874 began the study of telegraphy at Cynthiana,
where, by his energy and strict attention to business he soon became
proficient in that, and two years later took charge of the Station and
Telegraph office at Carlisle.  He was married in Carlisle Oct. 4, 1881,
to Miss Fannie Conway, who was born in Pike County, Ky., May 20, 1861,
and was a daughter of Washington and Rhoda L. (Piper) Conway, both
natives of Nicholas County.  He born Aug. 27, 1832; she, April 17, 1839.
Mr. Clary is a man of fine personal, social and business habits, and one
of the most substantial young men of the town.  Politically, he is
identified with the Democratic party.

Clary Prather Hamson March Conway Piper
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Pike-KY Mason-KY Fleming-KY IL

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