Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Woodford Co.

JACOB SANDUSKY, a native of Poland, came to this country some time in the
seventeenth century.  He had seven children: James, Jacob S., Samuel, John,
Anthony, Emanuel and Hannah.  In 1776 James and Jacob built Sandusky
Station on Pleasant Run, now Washington County.  In 1774 the two brothers
in company with a Captain Howard, cut the first trees on the site of
Cincinnati, and in May, 1774, they located in what is now Harrodsburg, the
same year they descended Cumberland, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, being the
first white men to descend the rivers excepting the French or Spanish.
Jacob Sandusky was the father of seven children, viz.: James, Jacob,
Samuel, Emanuel, John, Anthony and Hannah; of these seven, the second
child, Jacob, married Jemima Voss, daughter of Capt. Voss, of Virginia, who
was held a captive by the Indians for seven years.  Jacob and Jemima (Voss)
Sandusky were the parents of three children: Ephraim, Jacob and Susan; of
these three children, Ephraim the eldest was born about 1778, and died in
September 1854.  His first wife was Annie Evans of Brown County, Ohio, who
died in 1842.  To them were born eleven children: Ephraim, William,
Malinda (Mrs. James Robinson), Jacob, Elizabeth, Rebecca (Mrs. Blackford),
Susan (Mrs. WIlliam Goode), John E., Jonathan, Margaret A. and Henry Clay.
His second wife was Miss Hettie Collins, daughter of Louis Collins, of
Jessamine, by whom he had two children: Ephraim and George.  He owned a
large tract of land situated on the Delaney Creek Pike, which is now in
possession of his children.  Miss Rebecca is the third daughter of Ephraim
Sandusky, was married to Nathaniel Blackford in 1837; she was his third
wife.  He married for his first wife Matilda Reed, April 27, 1826; she
died June 27, 1829.  He married for his second wife Elizabeth Sandusky,
April 26, 1831, by whom he had one child Ephraim, who resides in Harrison
County, Ky.  Nathaniel Blackford, a son of Benjamin Blackford, was born
December 18, 1779, and died February 1, 1877; he was the fourth of seven
children.  Mr. Blackford in his early life was engaged in the wool-carding
business, and subsequently engaged in farming, purchasing in 1832 100
acres, the present place of residence of his widow, called "Locust Grove"
which at his death contained 800 acres.  Mrs. Blackford had five children:
John, Annie (Mrs. H. C. Sandusky, of Bourbon County), Jessie (Mrs. Henry
C. Mussellman), Mamie (Mrs. Silas Wigginton) and William.  Mrs. Blackford
and her eldest son John are engaged in farming, and the raising of trotting
horses.  John was born August 5, 1842, and married, December 1, 1874, Miss
Ellen Burns, daughter of Dennis Burns, of Fleming County, Ohio, and has
one child named Dennis Burns Blackford.  Mr. Blackford is a Master
Mason.  John E. Sandusky, son of Ephraim and Annie (Evans) Sandusky, was
born August 29, 1817, and died January 10, 1872.  He married Miss Hannah
Sandusky; she was a daughter of Jacob and Mowring (Bowles) Sandusky, and
granddaughter of James Sandusky.  They had eight children:  Jacob,
Chilton Allen, John W., Inez (Mrs. S. K. Cozzine, Ky.), Glendora (Mrs.
James C. Smith), Isaac, Lulie A. (Mrs. Hunter George) and Marie C.
Sandusky.  Jacob, son of John E. and Hannah Sandusky, was born June 3,
1843, in Jessamine County.  In 1862 he enlisted in the Fifth Kentucky
Infantry, Confederate States Army, serving throughout the war, and was in
the following engagements: Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Rocky Fall Gap,
Resaca, Dallas, from Dallas to Atlanta, Peach Tree, Intrenchments, Utoy
Creek and Jonesboro; was appointed fifth sergeant in June, 1864; was made
prisoner at Jonesboro, Ga., September 17, 1864, and exchanged September 9,
1864.  He was married, January 3, 1867, to Miss Carrie Allen, of Woodford
County, Ky.  To them were born four children: Bessie, Julia, John E. and
Roberta.  His wife died in 1880.  His second wife was Eliza Sprake, of
Lexington, Ky., whom he married in 1882.  Since 1880 Mr. Sandusky has
been engaged as bookkeeper and traveling salesman for a mercantile house
in Lexington; in 1886 he was appointed upon the police force of Lexington.
Chilton A. Sandusky was born in 1845; he entered the service of the
Confederate States Army in the same regiment as Jacob, and after serving
three months contracted measles and died in Abington.  John W. Sandusky
married Miss Belle Hewlett, of Lexington, September 4, 1872, and has five
children: Chilton A., Isaac H., Lewis W., John B. and Emma L.  Mr. J. W.
Sandusky is engaged in farming, with his mother, Mrs. Hannah Sandusky,
upon the homestead farm, which contains 400 acres.

Sandusky Voss Evans Collins Blackford Reed Mussellman Wigginton
Burns Bowles Cozzine Smith George Allen Sprake Hewlett Goode
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Washington-KY Harrodsburg-Mercer-KY Harrison-KY Bourbon-KY
Lexington-Fayette-KY Woodford-KY Fleming-OH Brown-OH VA Poland

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