Veatch.Lewis.1804.Harrison.BIOS

History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 684.
[Harrison County]   [Cynthiana City and Precinct]

LEWIS VEATCH, farmer, P. O. Cynthiana whose portrait appears in this work,
was born in Harrison County, Nov. 23, 1804; his father, Thomas Veatch, was
born in Pennsylvania, April 19, 1770; emigrated to Kentucky in about the
year 1785, being among the first settlers of Sellers Run; he was a farmer;
he died in Sept., 1842.  His wife, Jane Huff, the mother of our subject,
was of German descent, born in Virginia in 1765, and died in 1841; they
had nine children.  Lewis Veatch was born on the same farm that he now
resides, has always been a hard working man; by his economy and industry,
he succeeded in gaining a good property, and is now the owner of one of the
best farms of Harrison County.  Sept. 1, 1881, in Harrison County, he
married Mary A. Lewis, native of Harrison County, and the daughter of Almon
and Dicy (Dean) Lewis; she was born Feb. 6, 1840.  Mr. Veatch is a strong
Republican and a personal friend and acquaintance of Gen. U. S. Grant.



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Date: Fri, 04 Jul 1997