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Subject: Bone.Azariah.B.1816.Hopkins.BIOS


Azariah B. Bone January 26, 1816 - 
Hopkins County KyArchives Biography

Author: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume IV, Battle - Perrin - Kniffin, 2nd edition, 1885

Azariah B. BONE, Hopkins County, was born in Todd County, Ky., January 26, 
1816, and is a son of Azariah and Nancy (Anderson) Bone, natives of Logan 
County, Ky., and of English and Irish descent respectively. Azariah Bone, 
subject's father, as married in his native county, and soon after moved to Todd 
County, Ky., where he followed farming until 1826. He then moved to Cooper 
County, Mo., where he bought a farm and resided for many years. In 1844 or 1845 
he moved to Texas and purchased land where the city of Sherman now stands, 
where he resided until his death. He was from early life a devoted member of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was an ordained minister in that church for 
some years. He then joined the Protestant Methodists, and remained a member and minister during life. He was a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity. Azariah B. Bone was employed on his father's farm until he attained his majority. He then farmed on shares in Missouri for about five years, after which he removed to Christian County, Ky., where he farmed about seven years. In 1852 he came to Hopkins County, Ky., and bought a farm of some 200 acres near Nebo, to which he added from time to time until he was owner of well improved farms amounting to over 1,000 acres, a part of which he has since deeded to his children. Here he has been for over thirty years extensively engaged in farming and stock raising. During the war he received a commission as captain of the home guards. He was married October 11, 1840, in Tennessee, near Keysburgh, Ky., to Miss Mary A. Johnson, a native of Christian County, Ky. Four children have blessed this union, three of whom - one son and two daughters - are living. Mr. Bone is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He is a Democrat.



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