Grayson County KyArchives Biographies.....Bratcher, Daniel P. March 15, 1820 - unknown
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Author: Genealogy and Biography, Volume V, 2nd edition, 1886

DANIEL P. BRATCHER is a native of Grayson County and was born in what is now
Spring Lick Precinct March 15, 1820. He is the eldest in a family of nine
children, and has always lived in his native county, following the
occupation of farming, in which he has been singularly successful, having at
the present time one of the best improved places in the Spring Lick
Precinct. Like the majority of old residents his education was limited to
such schools as the county afforded, and at the age of eighteen he engaged
in business for himself on a farm about two miles east of his present home
place. In 1849 he purchased the beautiful farm on which he has since lived;
the original tract contained 200 acres, which has since been reduced to 170
acres, almost all of which is under successful cultivation. Mr. Bratcher has
been twice married; the first time, in December, 1846, in Grayson County, to
Judy K. Green, daughter of George and Lavica (Neal) Green, by whom they had
five children: James H., Harvey B., Lavica and Mahala (twins, deceased), and
an infant, deceased. Mrs. Bratcher died May 26, 1871. October 14, 1883, Mr.
Bratcher married Mrs. Sarah E. Mason, daughter of John and Eliza Cain, of
Nelson County, Ky. Mrs. Bratcher is the eighth of fourteen children, and was
born November 24, 1835. Her father, John Cain, died October 29, 1879. Her
mother was a daughter of John Wakefield and died April 6, 1870. Mr. Bratcher
is an active member of the United Baptist Church, and a strong advocate of
temperance reform. Mrs. Bratcher is a member of the Baptist Church also, and
an active member of the congregation. Mr. Bratcher's paternal grandfather
was William Bratcher, a native of South Carolina and one of the early
settlers of the falls of Rough Creek, Grayson County. He was a successful
farmer, and died about 1857. His son, Joseph Bratcher, father of our
subject, was born near the falls of Rough Creek, August 10, 1807, and died
in Butler County, July 3, 1885. Rebecca (Byers) Bratcher, wife of Joseph
Bratcher, was the daughter of John Byers, one of the pioneers of Grayson
County. She was born February 9, 1810, and died in November, 1879. The
family of Joseph and Rebecca Bratcher consisted of nine children: James H.,
Daniel P. (subject), William, J. W., Joseph A. (killed in the battle of
Lookout Mountain), Jonathan E., Lydia (wife of I. House), Rebecca J.
(deceased), and Rebecca J. (wife of C. C. Ferguson).



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