Dr. John D. Batson
Source: Perrin, William Henry, Ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882, p. 648 (Cynthiana City and Precinct).
DR. JOHN D. BATSON; P.O. Oddville; was born in Millersburg, Bourbon County, Ky., Aug. 5, 1824; son of John A. and Rachel (Drummond) Batson. He, born in Fauquier County, Va., in January, 1787; a farmer, and son of Mordecai and Elizabeth Batson, who were natives of Virginia. She, born in Virginia Nov. 22, 1793; daughter of Amos and Rebecca Drummond, of Virginia. John A. died in Kentucky in 1851, his wife having preceded him to the Land of Shadows in 1839, leaving seven children, our subject being the sixth son. Dr. Batson received his primary education principally in Bourbon and Harrison Counties, and then took a course at the Medical College at Cincinnati, graduating from that institution in 1845, when he commenced the practice of his profession, at which he has continued ever since. Jan. 2, 1853, he married, in Harrison County, Miss Susan C. Crow, born in Harrison County, in October, 1834; daughter of Rev. J.C. and Nancy W. Crow, from which union has resulted in three children: David W., James R., and John B. The first named is President of the Kentucky Wesleyan College, the second is a physician, and the third a farmer....
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