Kenton County, KY - Bios:  Childress, T. Jeff
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T. Jeff CHILDRESS 4462, Kenton Co. 

Surname: Childress, Carey, Jessey, Bristow, Stevens

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., Kenton Co.

T. JEFF CHILDRESS, farmer at Erlanger, Kenton County, Ky., was born in Boone County, Ky., 
January 31, 1836, and is the fifth of six children born to Dr. Henry F. B. and Eliza A. (Carey) 
Childress. Dr. Henry Childress was born and reared in Virginia. He graduated in medicine from 
the University of Virginia, and about 1827 moved to Kentucky, and settled in Pendleton County 
for a few years, then moved to Boone County, where he practice his profession the remainder of 
his days, and died in 1845; his wife still survives him. Thomas J. Childress was reared on the 
farm, and received his education at the common schools of Boone County. In 1858 he made a trip 
over the plains to the Rocky Mountains and Pike's Peak, but returning in the fall of the same 
year, devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits until 1862, when he raised a company and 
joined the Sixth Kentucky Confederate Battalion, under Col. Jessey. He was promoted to first 
lieutenant, and served in that capacity until the close of the war, being a participant in many 
of the principal battles. He then returned home, and has followed farming ever since. He owns 
a farm of ninety-six acres in Kenton County. February 7, 1867, he married Miss Mary E. Bristow, 
daughter of Reuben L. and Statira (Stevens) Bristow, of Kenton County. Four children have blessed 
this union: Lewis L., Statira B., Thomas K. (deceased) and Henry F. Politically Mr. Childress is 
a Democrat.
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