BIO: W. T. Lea, Daviess/Bullitt Co., KY

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History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co.,  Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted 
by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p.  648.

W. T. LEA was born in East Tennessee, Nov. 28, 1824, and came to Daviess  County, Ky., April 
10, 1851, settling first in Murray Precinct.  He lived in several places, renting land till 
1876 when he bought fifty acres four miles west of Owensboro.  He was married Jan. 4, 1853, 
to Mary E. Trunell, a native of Bullitt County, Ky., born in September, 1833.  They have six 
children--T. J., Millard Fillmore, Ada, Hester, Harry I. and Ellen L.  Mr. Lea has been a 
member of the Missionary Baptist church forty years.  He is neutral in his political views. 
 His family have not had the chills since commencing to use cistern water, sixteen years 
ago.

Lea Trunell
TN Bullitt-KY