Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B, 
1887 Robertson County

ELDRIDGE KENTON was born near Blue Lick, Nicholas County, Ky., February
14, 1833, and is a son of William and Mary (Burden) Kenton, natives of 
Virginia.  He was reared to farming and was educated at the common 
schools.  He settled in Robertson County about twenty years ago, but 
had served in the Third Kentucky Mexican Volunteers.  He was sheriff of 
Bracken County four years and for four years sheriff of Robertson 
County.  September 14, 1854, he married Hannah T. Wiglesworth, of 
Harrison County, born in 1835, but now deceased.  His second marriage 
was to Miss Nancy E. Henson, of Bracken County, and to this union has 
been born one child, William T. Kenton.  Mr. Kenton has represented 
Robertson and Nicholas Counties in the Lower House of the Kentucky 
Legislature, and in politics is a Democrat.  He owns 800 acres of fine 
land in Robertson County, 250 acres of Nicholas County land (the
Governor Metcalfe farm), and is an extensive dealer in tobacco.  He is
also a Knight Templar and a member of the Baptist Church.

Kenton Burden Wiglesworth Henson 
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Nicholas-KY VA Bracken-KY Harrison-KY

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