BIO: JAMES A. WITHERS 1847
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Submitted by Sandi Gorin. Used with permission.

#4389: Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd
ed., 1886. Metcalfe County.   JAMES A. WITHERS was born November 4, 1847,
in Hart County, Ky., where  he was reared to manhood. In 1867 he located in
the north part of Metcalfe County, where he has since resided.  His father,
James Withers, a native of Barren County, is now living at the age of
seventy-six years.  He is the son of Charles and Rhoda Withers, Virginians,
who removed to Kentucky about the year 1808. Charles was a soldier in the
war of 1812, and died in 1872.  James Withers married Susan, daughter of
Reuben Kelley, of Barren County (now living, aged sixty-eight years), and
to them have been born Melinda (Withers), John S., Thomas V., Charles R.,
James A., Jared C., Ellen S. (Edwards) and America R.(Grinstead). In youth
James A. procured a common English education at the district schools of the
vicinity in which he was reared.  On December 27, 1871, he espoused in
marriage, Eliza A., daughter of William M. and Harriet (Ralston) True, of
Metcalfe County (born June 21, 1848), and from their union there has been
no issue. At the commencement of their united career, with only a small
patrimony, Mr. and Mrs. Withers, with courageous hearts, began to solve the
problem of life by relying for success upon their own exertions, and by
industry and frugality have secured a comfortable competence.  Mr. Withers
is a farmer, owning eighty-five acres of tolerably well improved and
productive land in a good state of cultivation.  He is an active member of
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and in politics is a stanch Republican.

Sandi Gorin	205 Clements Avenue, Glasgow, KY 42141-3409
		(502) 651-9114 or sgorin@scrtc.blue.net

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