... The bondsman, Samuel Waddy, was a cousin of the groom [Anthony Thomson]. ... He was the only child of John and Jane Cobbs Waddy, both well known families of Louisa County, Virginia. ... Samuel Waddy came to Kentucky with his Thomson relatives, settled in Shelby County, where many of his descendants still live. He was married three times; first to a Thomson cousin, second to a Depuy, and third to Elizabeth Hobbs. There were no children by the first and second marriages, but by the third there were eight, all since long deceased except the two youngest, William Lewis Waddy (1819-1896), who married Maria Louise Thurston, and Amanda M. Waddy, still living, wife first of J.N. Boyle, second of B.F. Donley. ...