History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 767. [Nicholas County] [Carlisle City and Precinct] THOMAS E. SAMMONS, City Marshal, P. O. Carlisle, was born in Genevieve, New York, Feb. 22, 1853, and is a son of Patrick and Mary (McGuinnis) Sammons. He was born in Ireland and went to Cape of Good Hope, Africa, where he held a Government station three years; he emigrated to America in 1850, and lived nine years in Kentucky. During the war he entered the service, and was captured at the battle of Chickamauga, and died in Libby prison in 1863. His wife, Mary, was born in Ireland in 1826, and is still living. They had five children, of whom Thomas, our subject, was the second. He was educated in the schools of Cleveland, Ohio, and Carlisle, Kentucky. He learned the saddler's trade, in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, and in 1877, located at Carlisle; three years later he took into partnership, Augustus Laubley, with whom he is now engaged in business. He was married in Bourbon County, May 15, 1872, to Miss Lizzie Fallon, who was born in Bourbon County, July 20, 1857. They have one girl, Mary H. born July 29, 1880. Mrs. Sammons was a daughter of Patrick and Mary (Mallon) Fallon, both natives of Ireland. Mr. Sammons is an energetic and enterprising man, and highly respected by all who knew him. Jan. 6, 1882, he was appointed by the town Council of Carlisle as City Marshal, which position he still retains. On the death of his father, the duties of supporting his widowed mother and his younger brothers and sisters devolved upon himself and older brother, and which duties they have faithfully fulfilled in the present. Himself and wife are members of the Catholic Church at Carlisle. His political sympathies are with the Democratic party. Sammons McGuinnis Fallon Mallon Laubley = Bourbon-KY Montgomery-KY NY OH Ireland Africa http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/nicholas/sammons.te.txt