History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 633.
[Scott County]   [Stamping Ground Precinct]

JOHN H. WASH, farmer, P. O. Stamping Ground; is a native of Scott County,
and the son of Lucius and Betsey (Casy) Wash.  His father was a carpenter
by trade; was born in Virginia in 1786; emigrated to Scott County in or
about the year 1805; and died in 1857.  His mother was born in Franklin
County, Ky., in 1802, and died April 15, 1856; she was the daughter of
Josiah Casy, a native of Culpepper [sic] County, Va.  John H. Wash, our
subject, was born Sept. 4, 1821; his education was very limited, and in
fact received the greater part of it after he became of age.  At the age
of twelve years he was bound out as a farm hand, where he remained until
he was twenty-one years of age.  At that time he became an apprentice at
the carpenter's trade, working at the same but one year, when he became
the manager of farms for different men, which he followed until 1854. By
his hard work up to this time, he had saved from his small earnings
about $2,000 with which he bought a farm and made a home for his parents,
taking care of them to the time of their death.  In 1854, in Scott County,
he married Miss Mary J. Johnson; who was born in 1831, and died March 26,
1876.  At the time of his marriage he began farming on his own account,
which he has since continued, now having 120 acres of well improved land.
By his marriage he had three children, two of whom are now living, viz:
John and Ely.  He is a member of the Baptist Church; a Democrat, and a
member of the Scott Lodge, No. 203, A.F. & A.M. at Stamping Ground. By
his industry and economy, he has arisen from poverty to ease and comfort;
a self-made man, respected and enterprising citizen.

Wash Casy Johnson
=
Franklin-KY Culpeper-VA

http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/scott/wash.jh.txt