JOHN B. STIVERS, Postmaster, P.O. North Middletown; is a native of Clay County and was born June 10, 1821; his great-great-grandfather was a native of Germany; his great-grandfather was also born Germany, and emigrated at an early day to the United States and settled in the city of New York; his grandfather was born in that city on the 5th of May, 1759, and at the early age of fourteen he engaged as drummer boy in the Revolutionary Army and served until the close of that war. He married and emigrated to Kentucky about the year 1784, and settled near Lexington, Fayette County, where R.P. Stivers was born on the 17th of March 1799.
In the year 1819, R.P. was married to Nancy Barger, a native of Virginia. They raised to maturity nine children;
the second son, John B., who is the subject of this sketch, was brought by his parents when only six months old, to Bourbon County, where he has ever since claimed as his home. He volunteered in the Mexican war in 1847, in the 3rd Reg't of the K.V.I.; he also participated in the late war between the sections of the Federal side; was a Lieutenant in the Seventh Regiment of the Kentucky Volunteers. Lieutenant Stivers was in several hot engagements, among them were Arkansas Post, Champion Hill, and the Siege at Vicksburg; was wounded eleven times; twice very severely.
After the cessation of hostilities, he returned to his native State, where he was married on the 5th of September, 1866, to Miss Fannie Judy. This union resulted in one child, Maud Vernon, who was born on the 3rd of July, 1867; she is now a student of the K.C. and B. College, at North Middletown. Her mother died Aug. 23, 1868.
Mr. Stivers was married again on the 17th of May, 1875, to Miss B.J. Peters. He has been a member of the Masonic order for more than thirty years, and is a Republican in politics.
