From: KyArchives [Archives@genrecords.org] Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 2:32 PM To: Ky-Footsteps Subject: Shropshire.Augustus.1836.Bourbon.BIOS Augustus Shropshire July 20, 1836 - Bourbon County KyArchives Biography Author: History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882 AUGUSTUS SHROPSHIRE, farmer; P. O. Centerville; was born July 20, 1836, in Bourbon County, and is the son of Col. Ben Shropshire of Harrison County. He was educated at the common country schools, and was reared a farmer. He now owns a body of 203 acres of as fine land, and as finely improved, as can be found in Centerville Precinct, and is called "Spring Hill" on account of a fine spring on the farm. Besides doing a general farming business, he has given much attention to the breeding of fine horses and short-horn cattle, and at present has a fine herd of twenty-five in number, representing most of the popular families, Duke of Ashland being at the head of his herd. Politically, Mr. Shropshire is a Democrat, and in all affairs pertaining to the general welfare of the community he has taken an active part. For the past seven years he has held the office of school trustee. He is a member of the Christian Church, as is also his wife, to whom he was married in February 1864, and whose maiden name was Fanny Forrester and daughter of R. H. Forrester of Chicago, Ill. They are the parents of seven children: Ida, Robert, Benjamin, Pink, Palmer, Garrett and Fanny. Submitted by: Sandi Gorin http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00002.html#0000404 This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/kyfiles/