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Author: Bennett H. Young

Samuel H. Woodson.

   Samuel H. Woodson was a step-son of Col. Joseph Crockett. While in the
military service in Albemarle county, Virginia, and guarding prisoners which had
been surrendered by Burgoyne, Colonel Crockett protected the property of Mr. and
Mrs. Tucker Woodson. There resulted from this circumstance a warm attachment
between Mr. Woodson and Mrs. Woodson and the young officer. Shortly after
Colonel Crockett had been ordered to come west and serve under George Rogers
Clark, in command of the Illinois or Crockett Regiment, which had been
dispatched by the state of Virginia to assist Clark in his contest with the
Indians, Tucker Woodson died, and after Colonel Crockett returned from the West
he fell in love with the handsome young widow and married her.

   After this marriage, in 1783, Colonel Crocket came to Kentucky and soon
brought his family here, in 1784, and with him came out Samuel H. Woodson, his
step-son. Colonel Crockett gave him a father's love, affection and attention. He
was prepared for the law and had every advantage the educational facilities of
Kentucky then could offer.

   He entered for his step-son about a thousand acres of land, part of which is
that now owned by Mr. Jesse Bryant, on the pike between Nicholasville and
Lexington.

   He read law with Col. George Nicholas and named one of his sons for Judge
Nicholas. At the time of the formation of Jessamine county he was chosen clerk
for the county. As he held his office for life, it was considered a
distinguished place. He built the house on the Sheeley place, about one mile
from Nicholasville on the Danville turnpike, and kept his office as clerk there.
There were no county buildings in those days and the judges and clerks used
their residences for the discharge of their official duties. He married Annie
Randolph Meade, a daughter of Col. David Meade, of Chaumiere.

   He resigned the clerkship in 1819 and was succeeded by Daniel B. Price. He
was elected to congress from the district, and, moved to Frankfort in 1826. He
came, in 1827, to attend circuit court in Nicholasville and rode, in very warm
weather, on horseback from Frankfort to Nicholasville. During the term of court
he went out to Chaumiere, was taken suddenly ill and died, in the forty-seventh
year of his age. He was a man of great culture, superb integrity, much learning,
and in his day was one of the distinguished men of Kentucky. He left a large
family, and the people, not only of his district but of Jessamine and Franklin,
his adopted home, mourned his early death. He represented Jessamine county in
the legislature from 1819 to 1825.


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A HISTORY OF JESSAMINE COUNTY, KENTUCKY,
FROM ITS EARLIEST SETTLEMENT TO 1898.
By BENNETT H. YOUNG,
PRESIDENT POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY; MEMBER FILSON CLUB; MEMBER CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION, 1890; AUTHOR HISTORY OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF KENTUCKY, OF "BATTLE OF
BLUE LICKS, ETC, ETC.

S. M. DUNCAN, ASSOCIATE AUTHOR.

Every brave and good life out of the past is a treasure which cannot  be
measured in money, and should be preserved with faithfullest care.

LOUISVILLE, KY.: COURIER-JOURNAL JOB PRINTING CO., 1898.


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