BIO: James S. Summers, Jefferson/Bullitt Co., KY

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Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles 
Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. Jefferson County.

JAMES S. SUMMERS, farmer, was born in Jefferson County, Ky., August 25, 1845, and is the 
third in a family of nine children born to George G. and Diana (Gilliland) Summers, whose 
sketch will be found above.  James S. Summers, the subject of this sketch, received a fair 
common school education.  He was employed on his father's farm until he was of age.  He
then farmed on shares for several years, during which time he bought property in Eminence, 
where he resided three years.  In 1875, he removed back to the old homestsead in Adams 
Township, Morgan County, a part of which he bought and upon which he now resides.  He was 
married, January 28, 1866, to Cynthia A. Sligar, a nataive of Bullitt County, Ky., and a
daughter of Thomas Sligar, who was also a native of Bullitt County, Ky., where he was born 
in 1803.  He now lives with the subject of our sketch and is in his eighty-first year.  To 
Mr. and Mrs. Summers have been born six children - three sons and three daughters - all of 
whom are yet living and take a great interest in music.  In politics, Mr. Summers is a
Democrat.

Summers Gilliland Sligar
Eminence-Morgan-IN Bullitt-KY