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Subject: Alderson.John.J.1833.Simpson-Allen.BIOS


John J. Alderson April 30, 1833 - unknown
Simpson-Allen County KyArchives Biography

Author: Kentucky: A, History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 4th ed

JOHN J. ALDERSON was born April 30, 1833, in Sumner County, Tenn. He is the 
ninth of seven sons and five daughters born to Jeremiah and Lucretia (Newlen) 
Alderson, natives of South Carolina. Jeremiah as a son of James Alderson, who 
married Elizabeth Russell, and came from South Carolina to Sumner County, 
Tenn., about 1804, and entered lands both in Tennessee and Kentucky, was a 
general trader, a plain man of Irish extraction, and was a son of Benjamin R. 
Alderson, who was a favorite with the Indians. He was accidentally drowned; his 
body was found by the Indians, who mourned and lamented his loss. Our subject's 
grandfather moved to Marion County, Ill., about 1839. The mother of our subject 
was a daughter of James Newlen, who married Patience Horn, and was by 
occupation a farmer. John J. Lived with his parents till twenty, when he 
commenced farming for himself.  He married, January 1, 1860, Nancy B. Peden, of 
Simpson County, and a daughter of Andrew and Rebecca (Owens) Peden, of Irish 
descent. Mr. Alderson had two children born to him by this marriage, one 
living, Enoch. His wife died July 28, 1863. December 29, 1865, Mr. Alderson 
married Nancy Jane Lewis, a daughter of Leonard and Sarah (Williams) Lewis, of 
Kentucky. To this union were born four children, George B., William P., Flora 
E. And Pomona A. His second wife died September 22, 1878. He married for his 
third wife Mrs. Lucinda P. Skeen, of Simpson County. She was the widow of 
Jasper Skeen, to whom she bore two sons: John William and Jasper. Mr. Alderson 
has had born by his last wife one child, Irven. He and wife are members of the 
Baptist Church. He was also a member of the Grange. He came with his parents to 
Simpson County when a lad of twelve years. Mr. Alderson purchased his first 
land of 106 acres on Lick Fork, in 1866, on which he lived fourteen years. 
Located in the fall of 1883, where he now resides, on 120 acres, which he has 
improved with a fine cottage; also owns 100 acres in Sumner County, Tenn.; also 
150 in Allen County, Ky., all of which he has accumulated by his own hard 
labor, except $1,000 secured with his second wife. In politics he is a 
Democrat. 


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