History of Trigg County, Historical and Biographical, ed. W.H. Perrin,
F.A. Battey Pub. Co., Chicago, 1884. pp. 179-80.  [Cadiz Precinct]

JAMES BATTOE was born January 30, 1826, in St. Clair County, Ill.  He is
the fourth of a family of seven children, born to John and Annis (Hodges)
Battoe.  The father was a native of Kentucky; he died in 1832, aged forty.
The mother was born in Trigg County; she died in 1846, aged forty.  Our
subject remained with his mother till [sic] about the age of ten years, he
then worked out by the month and year till 1848, when he came to Trigg
County; here he worked on rented farms.  In 1869 he bought his present farm
of 214 acres, where he has since lived and has cleared about fifty acres;
his buildings which he has placed on this farm cost about $500.  Mr. Battoe
was married in 1869 to Eliza Lawrence, a native of Trigg County; two
daughters have blessed this union.  Mr. and Mrs. Battoe are life-long and
devoted members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.

Battoe Hodges Lawrence
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St._Clair-IL

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