Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887,
Shelby Co.

LEONARD A. WEAKLEY, attorney at law, Shelbyville, was born in Shelby
County, Ky., February 25, 1846, and is a son of Calvin S. and Mary A.
(Scarce) Weakley, both natives of Kentucky, who were married in 1840, and
had born to them seven children.  The mother died in 1856, but the father
is still living.  Leonard A. Weakley was the fifth child born to them,
was reared on the farm six miles east of Shelbyville, and in early life
attended the common schools.  In 1863 he entered the school at Shelbyville
under Prof. J. W. Dodd, who was afterward professor in Vanderbilt
University, at Nashville, Tenn., and attended school one year.  He then
entered college at Georgetown, Ky., and graduated in June, 1866.  He
then taught school in connection with B. F. Duncan for five months, at
Campbellsburg, Ky., and afterward taught a five months' term at Buffalo
Lick, in Shelby County.  In October, 1867, he entered the University of
Virginia, graduated in law from that institution, and commenced the
practice of his profession in Shelbyville, where and at which he has
been constantly engaged ever since.  In 1857 he became a member of the
Baptist Church, at Clay Village, Ky., and in 1871 united with the Baptist
Church, at Shelbyville, of which he is at present a deacon.  He has
always been a liberal contributor the church, and is regarded as a man of
strictly moral character.  June 23, 1875, he married Victoria Hammett,
daughter of Henry and Ann (Thompson) Hammett, natives of Maryland.
Previous to 1860 Henry Hammett moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and was for a
number of years engaged in the hardware business.  Afterward he moved to
Baltimore, Md., where he died in 1885.  He was the father of fourteen
children--six daughters and eight sons.  Mr. and Mrs. Weakley have had
born to their union five living children: Anna E., Rowena, Calvin S.,
Hattie T. and Victorine.  Mrs. Weakley is a member of the Baptist Church.
Mr. Weakley is an earnest advocate of Sunday-schools and takes an active
part in all church work.  Politically he is a Baptist.

Weakley Scarce Hammett Thompson Dodd Duncan
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Campbellsburg-Taylor-KY Nashville-Davidson-TN Cincinnati-Hamilton-OH
VA MD

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