Shelby County, KY - Bios:  Middleton Family
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MIDDLETON Family, 3049, Shelby Co. 

Surname: Middleton, Fulton, Willis

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887, Shelby Co.

THE MIDDLETON FAMILY. Among the oldest and most prominent families of Shelby County is the 
Middleton family. Adam Middleton, the fifth son born to Adam and Mary (Fulton) Middleton, 
was born in Shelby County, Ky., March 6, 1813, his parents in Pennsylvania and Virginia 
respectively, and of Scotch extraction on the paternal side and English on the mother's. 
Of their ten children Adam and Robert W. are the only survivors. The father was born in 
1770, and came to Kentucky in 1800, settling five miles east of Shelbyville, where he 
followed his occupation, that of a blacksmith, and for many years was proprietor of the 
Cross Keys tavern, on the State road between Shelbyville and Clay Village (where Adam and 
Roberts W., subjects of this sketch, now reside), and died July 20, 1834. Adam Middleton 
was married to Miss Mary F. Willis, December 24, 1835, the daughter of Pierson Willis, of 
Kentucky. They have seven children living: John T., Mary E., James D., Laura S., Lelia F., 
Price W. and Jennie V. Robert W. Middleton was born in Shelby County, Ky., December 3, 1816, 
and married Miss Lettia Willis, sister of Adam's wife, September 19, 1839. Robert W. and 
Lettia have six children living: Emma F., Mattie E., Julia, Edna, William R. and Wallace B. 
Adam Middleton is now acting in the capacity of president of the State Board of Internal 
Improvements for Shelby County, and for twenty years was president of agricultural and 
mechanical associations of the same county. These brothers own 700 acres of valuable and 
well improved land in Shelby County, and rank among her most substantial farmers and business 
men. Both families are members of the Baptist Church at Clay Village.