History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 757. [Nicholas County] [Carlisle City and Precinct] COL. DAVID MANN, farmer, P. O. Carlisle, was born March 14, 1809, in the house in which he now lives, to Peter and Barbara (Jones) Mann; she a daughter of Jacob and Susie (Earlywine) Jones; the two latter families were among the earliest settlers of what was then Bourbon, now Nicholas County; Peter was a son of Geo. and Elizabeth Mann, who came from Rockingham Co., Va., to Nicholas County about 1790, and purchased 500 acres of land, being in part, the home where Col. Mann now lives; he had seven sons and one daughter; George, the eldest, died in the Revolutionary war; Jacob settled in Clinton County, Ohio; John, died in Nicholas County; Peter, accidentally killed by the fall of a tree in the year 1852, in his eightieth year; Henry, settled in Greene County, Ohio; Charles, David, and the daughter, who married Adam Shillenger, also settled in the above county. The parents of our subject had six sons and one daughter, four of the former; Jacob left a large family who are scattered throughout the country; Elizabeth, wife of David Trimble, both of whom are deceased; William and family, all deceased but one son, LaFayette, residing in Nicholas; David and Amos, residents of Nicholas; Emanuel, near Millersburg, and Peter J. in Cooper County, Mo. The subject of this sketch received a limited education and spent his life working on the farm and at different trades, until 1845, since which time he has been engaged in farming. Upon Jan. 26, 1832, he was married to Olive Stoker, daughter of Edward and ELizabeth (Currant) Stoker; he a son of Edward, or "Old Stoker" as he was commonly called; one of the first settlers of Nicholas County and a Revolutionary soldier; he, by this marriage had eight children, three of whom died without issue. Those living are, Melvina, wife of G. Cheatham (see history); Lucian, Maria A., wife of Solomon Robertson, of Nicholas; Pickett T., wife of Joseph Mays, in Nicholas; Rozella, wife of Winfield Buckler, a lawyer at Mt. Olivet, Ky.; they are all members of the Christian Church; Lucian enlisted in October 1862, in Co. B., 9th Ky. Mounted Riflemen, under Capt. J. G. Neal, Col. Breckinridge and Gen'l Morgan, subsequently under Gen. Wheeler and Cols. Grigsby and J. S. Williams; the principal contests in which he was engaged were at Hartsville, the raid on the Louisville and Nashville R.R., raid through Kentucky, Dug's Gap, Atlanta, and in the long skirmish with Gen. Sherman; at the close of the war he returned home, and on November 28, he was married to Miss Emma Layson, daughter of Martin Layson of Millersburg; by her he has four children: Carrie Lee, Minnie Noble, Robert T. and David L.; he is a member of the K.T.; for several years a tradesman in Carlisle; was in the Rocky Mountains engaged in mining; also, in Illinois, farming; he was one of the soldiers who assisted in guarding the much-talked-of treasure held by Jeff Davis, at one time during the war. Mann Jones Earlywine Shillenger Trimble Stoker Currant Cheatham Robertson Mays Buckler = Robertson-KY Bourbon-KY Rockingham-VA Clinton-OH Greene-OH Cooper-MO http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/nicholas/mann.d.txt