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John Allen Gano July 14 1805 - unknown
Bourbon-Scott County KyArchives Biography

Author:  History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, KY

REV. JOHN ALLEN GANO, Sr., minister and farmer; P. O. Centerville; whose 
portrait appears in this work; was born in Georgetown, Scott Co., Ky., July 
14, 1805; his father, Richard M. Gano, was then a merchant in that place; his 
grandfather, John Gano, was a Baptist Minister who served under Gen. 
Washington as Chaplain in the Revolution; he was lineally descended from a 
French Huguenot of some prominence, who escaped to the Isle of Guernsey, and 
sailed to America at the time of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. The mother 
of John A. was formerly Elizabeth Ewing, from Bedford County, Va., where her 
parents resided and died; he was the fifth child and first son of his parents, 
who only raised another son, Dr. Stephen F. Gano, still living near Georgetown;
he received a tolerable liberal English and classical education and studied
and commenced the practice of law; becoming a convert to the Christian
faith, he resolved with the help and blessing of God to preach the Gospel
of Christ. The 2nd of Oct., 1827, he married Miss Catharine Conn, the only
child and daughter of Capt. Wm. Conn, of Bourbon County, KY., who resided
near the village of Centerville, and gave them the farm near his own, where
his father, Thos. Conn, settled in about 1787, where he lived and died in
1811; he came from Culpepper [sic] County, Va., and owned a landed estate
around him here of two thousand acres of land. His son, John M. Conn, came
to Kentucky before the family, and with servants to assist him, prepared
the ground and raised a crop, before the removal of his father's family;
this was a very hazardous undertaking as the Indians were about, one had to
watch with his trusty rifle, while the others plowed. He removed to the old
homestead in 1828 late in the year. Capt. John M. Conn then was living on
Townsend Creek on a fine farm, a portion of his father's original survey,
where he had long lived and raised a large and interesting family. The
father-in-law of John A. had a good farm, a part of the same survey
extending up to the village; he had recently purchased the farm of his
brother James, who inherited the old homestead, and removed to and is now
living in Nicholas County. Col. Thompson Ware, who married Sally Conn,
lived on a good farm immediately south of Capt. Wm. Conn and on the
Lexington road; Mr. David Stonnoy, who married Miss Cassandra Conn, owned
lands immediately west of Col. Ware, all portions of the same survey, on
the headwaters of Townsend. Old Mr. John Hall lived at the time on a small
farm adjoining, and northwest of them, a part of the Conn survey. The first
child born to them, a son, Wm. Conn Gano, born at his grandfather's, Sept.
23, 1828; the second, Richard M. Gano, was born at Springdale, June 18,
1830; Fanny Conn, March 24, 1832; Robert Ewing, Jun 1, 1834; Stephen F.,
April 25, 1836; Franklin M., Dec. 11, 1839; Eliza G., Oct. 19, 1841; John
Allen, Jr., July 21, 1845; and Mary Ellen, June 10, 1848; all of whom were
born at Springdale; Robert, Stephen and Eliza died in early infancy; Mrs.
Fanny Conn Spears died at Springdale, Feb. 4, 1850; Wm. Conn Gano died at
Rural Glen, July, 1863; Capt. Wm. Conn died at Bellevue, Aug. 7, 1872, the
day he was 88 years old; Mrs. Mary Eliza Buckner died at Bellevue, Aug. 4,
1877, leaving four children; and Franklin M. died near Taylor, in Texas,
February, 1881, and left three children; his son, Gen. R. M. Gano, is now
living at Dallas City, Texas, and his youngest son, John. Allen, Jr. is
residing near Taylor, Williamson County, Texas. The father of our subject
died in October 1815, and his mother died April 1812, leaving six children. 


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