... In 1829, he married Matilda Prather, daughter of Thomas Prather, a wealthy merchant of Louisville, and in this marriage he had seven children. This wife died in 1844; and, in 1848, he married Mary Smith, a cousin, and the granddaughter of General Samuel Smith, who had taken him to live with him when a boy. She survived him, but died in 1874. In this second marriage, he had three children, making in all a family of ten children — seven daughters and three sons. ...
