From: KyArchives Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2017 5:17 PM To: Ky-Footsteps Subject: Hilburn.Andrew.M..1845.Allen.BIOS Andrew M. Hilburn December 25, 1845 - unknown Allen County KyArchives Biography Source: Kentucky: A History of the State, 3rd ed., 1886 Author: Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin ANDREW M. HILBURN is a son of Dempsey Hilburn, who was a native of Georgia, and married Virginia Able, of Mississipi; she, at her death, left a family of eight children. Dempsey Hilburn after his marriage removed to Sumner County, Tenn., where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits, and accumulated a fine property, which, at his death, was left, with his children, in charge of a relative. The property was lavishly spent, the children left penniless and soon after bound to different parties. Andrew M. was born December 25, 1845; when only eight years old, he was bound to one Presley Venable, with whom he remained about eight years, when, upon the death of the latter, our subject took charge of the farm. In September, 1861, he enlisted as a soldier in the First Tennessee Confederate Cavalry, in which he served sixteen months, and was engaged in the battle of Shiloh, after which he was attacked by typhoid fever; he was able to return to his command in June, 1862, and with it participated in the engagements at Corinth and Iuka, Miss.; after his discharge from the army, he returned to the Venable farm and remained there until 1867, with the exception of eight months spent in Illinois. On the 3d of September, 1868, he married Malinda E., daughter of A. J. Newman, of Allen County, Ky. Their union has been blessed by the birth of five children, namely: Minnie Laura (deceased), Edward L., born July 25, 1872; Hallie Emma, July 6, 1875; Boyd Fletcher, July 5, 1880, and Myrta Green, September 18, 1883. After his marriage Mr. Hilburn continued to follow agricultural pursuits, in which he was very successful, until 1877, when he leased his farm and engaged in the merchandise trade for G. F. Martin, with whom he took a partnership in 1880; in 1881 he sold his farm and gave all his attention to the trade. In 1884 he bought the Martin interest, and up to the present time he has owned the entire business, in which he has been uniformly successful. In 1883 his health became so impaired that he suspended business for awhile and made a tour of a few months to the West and bought some land in Kansas, with a view of removing to that State, which he afterward found would not be possible, except through the sacrifice of much property; and he therefore abandoned the intention. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with which he united in 1871; Mrs. H. has been a member of the same church from a much earlier date. He is a Master Mason and a member of Graham Lodge, No. 208. He is a Democrat but has no political aspiration; is temperate in habits and favors the cause of temperance by his example. He started in life without means and but little education; his close application has given him a practical business education, which, with his untiring energy, has brought him a large reward in the way of the world's goods. His views are liberal and his hand is always open to the call of charity. Submitted by: Sandi Gorin http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00002.html#0000404 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/