BIO: DR. HENRY P. BOSLEY ========================================================================= From: "Sandi Gorin" sgorin@scrtc.blue.net To: ;KYBIOGRAPHIES@rootsweb.com; Subject: BIO#710 - BOYD CO - BOSLEY, DR HENRY P Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 06:49:13 -0500 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit KENTUCKY: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin & Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887 Boyle Co. DR. HENRY P. BOSLEY was born March 21, 1823, and is the seventh of seven sons and three daughters born to Gideon, Jr. and Elizabeth (Fleece) Bosley, natives of Lincoln County. Gideon Bosley was born July 9, 1784, was a farmer, and a soldier in the war of 1812, and died November 29, 1830, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a son of Gideon Bosley, Sr., who married a Miss Cole of Baltimore, and later settled in Lincoln County, Ky., on the Stanford road, about five miles from Danville. Mrs. Elizabeth (Fleece) Bosley died in 1864, aged seventy-four. She was the daughter of John Fleece, who was born in Germany, served in the war for American independence, and married a Miss Withers of Fayette County, Ky. He died about 1835, aged eighty-five. Mr. Henry P. Bosley, a native of Washington County, was reared on the home farm until sixteen, when he entered Centre College, and at twenty began the study of medicine with Dr. Fleece. About 1846 he located at Danville, studied awhile with Drs. Fleece and Pawling, graduated from Transylvania University in 1848, practiced at Etna Furnace, Hart County, three years, then at Lebanon two years, and then settled in Danville, where he has a beautiful brick cottage. He relinquished his profession about fifteen years ago, having practiced irregularly in connection with the cultivation of his farm of 300 acres. April 3, 1860, he married Mrs. Sallie Walker, daughter of James G. and Amelia j. (Kavanaugh) Denny, of Garrard County. Mrs. Bosley died February 4, 1879, and on the 27th of April, 1880, the Doctor married Miss A.L. Bosley, daughter of J.S. and Josephine (Lytle) Bosley. To this union have been born two children, Elizabeth Fleece and Harry P. Bosley Fleece Cole Withers Pawling Walker Kavanaugh Denny Lytle = Lincoln-KY Hart-KY Garrard-KY Germany +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sandi Gorin sgorin@scrtc.blue.net 205 Clements Ave, Glasgow, KY 42141-3409 - (502) 651-9114 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------------------------------ **************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net. **************************************************************************** *