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Kentucky: A History of the State |
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Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd Edition,1886 Allen Co. Kentucky
ed., 1886. Allen County. |
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| Kentucky: A History of the State. (Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd Edition,1886 Allen Co. Kentucky
ed., 1886. Allen County.). |
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James Stark, a native of Culpeper County, Va., born in
1776, was an active politician; owned sixty-five slaves at the time of
his death; lived sixty-three years with his wife, Elizabeth Duncan
Stark, who survived him three years, and died in 1860. His children
were Theophilus, Charles C., Dillard G., Frances (Kelley), Emily
(Pulliam), and Maria D. (Richey). Charles C. Stark was born May 21,
1804, in Culpeper County, Va; removed in 1808 with his parents to
Allen County, Ky., where he now resides. His wife, Lucy S., daughter
of George and Mary (Taylor) Green, of Hart County, was born in 1807
and died in 1867. Their offspring are as follows: James T., Elizabeth
F. (Grubbs), Maria E. (Spillman) and John W. James T. Stark was born
May 17, 1833, in Edmonson County, Ky., and in 1844 removed with his
parents to the northern part of Allen County, where he has since
resided. He secured a good education at Camden Seminary, and engaged
in teaching ten years. His first wife, whom he married April 11,
1861, was Fannie, daughter of Bradford and Fannie (Pulliam) Dodd,
of Barren County (born 1845; died March 20, 1863); and to them was
born one child, Charles B. February 23, 1864, Mr. Stark married
Mary J., daughter of Hon. Thomas J. and Nancy P. (Lewis) Morehead,
of Allen County (born July 14, 1843),
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