BIOS: McCRACKEN, Henry McKinley, Born1838, Marshall Co., TN  & Muhlenburgh Co., KY
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Date: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 5:49 AM
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 KYBIOGRAPHIES

#8238: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd
ed., 1885, Muhlenberg Co. HENRY McCRACKEN, Muhlenburgh [sic] County, was
born May 28, 1838, in Marshall County, Tenn., and is the ninth of four boys
and six girls born to John and Abigail (Pyles) McCracken, who were born and
reared in North Carolina, of Irish descent. Henry McCracken was reared on a
farm, and lived with his parents until the war broke out, when he enlisted
in October, 1861, in Company K, Eleventh Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, under
Capt. Roark; was in the battle of Shiloh, and wounded in the right arm,
which was afterward amputated; was discharged in 1862; returned home and
was employed in a tobacco house as overseer; was engaged in various kinds
of business until his marriage, which took place October 16, 1866, to Laura
E. Green, of Muhlenburgh County, Ky., daughter of W. J. and Selia (Vincent)
Green, who were of the first settlers of Kentucky. To this union were born
seven children, five living: Richard C., Alice V., Harry H., Iza M. and
Albert E. Mr. McCracken and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. After his marriage, Mr. McCracken engaged in farming on one hundred
acres, one mile from where he now resides. In 1868, he located where he now
resides on 175 acres, all timber, eighty acres of which he as cleared and
improved. He supported his parents until their death. His father died in
1860, aged seventy-six; his mother in 1867, aged sixty-eight. He is one of
the most industrious and well informed farmers in the county. 

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