BIO:ROBERT B. GADDIE
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 06:20:25 -0500
From:  "Sandi Gorin" sgorin@scrtc.blue.net
To: ;KYBIOGRAPHIES@rootsweb.com;
Subject: BIO#1151 - HART CO - GADDIE, ROBERT B.

Gaddie Compton Highbaugh Bragg Bell Everett
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VA TX Larue-KY
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Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1885, Hart County.

ROBERT B. GADDIE, a leading farmer, was born November 30, 1834, in Hart
County, and is the fifth in a family of two boys and five girls born to
Jesse and Martha (Compton) Gaddie, natives, respectively, of Virginia and
Kentucky.  Jesse Gaddie was a son of William Gaddie, was a slave holder
and an early settler of Hart County, where he died in 1860, aged
sixty-five years, three months and twenty-five days.  Mrs. Martha Gaddie
was a daughter of Joel Compton and Mary Taylor, both natives of Virginia.
Robert B. Gaddie was reared to farming, and by walking three miles to and
from school secured a good education, which enabled him to teach two or
three terms.  At the age of nineteen he went to Texas, traveled through
that State for two years, and then returned to within six miles north of
Munfordville, and resumed farming.  December 11, 1862, he married Miss
Martha E. Highbaugh, daughter of David and Elizabeth (Brown) Highbaugh, of
Hart County, and of German descent. To Mr. Gaddie have been born eleven
children, ten of whom are living:  William R., Lee H., Maggie T., Lewis
J., Elizabeth H., Christiana T., Bell B., Henrietta E., Edith and Geneva
M.  After marriage, Mr. Gaddie lived for a time on Bacon Creek, then moved
to La Rue [sic] County, but in 1872 returned to Hart and settled on 155
acres, which he has since increased to 343 acres and improved with
first-class buildings.  He is also the owner of 154 acres in another
locality.  During the war Mr. Gaddie was a guide for a portion of Bragg's
army, and was badly wounded in a skirmish.  In politics Mr. Gaddie is a
Democrat, although he cast his first presidential vote for Bell and
Everett.  He was once a Granger, and with his wife is a member of the
United Baptist Church.

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