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George W. Waddle August 4, 1844 - 
Hart County KyArchives Biography

Author: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume V, Battle-Perrin-Kniffin, 4th ed., 1886

DR. GEORGE W. WADDLE was born in Hart County, Ky., August 4, 1844, and is the 
second child in a family of nine children born to John B. and Martha 
(Reynolds) Waddle, the former a native of the Old Dominion and the latter of 
Shawneetown, Ill. Both were of English descent. John B. Waddle was born in 
1823, and about 1827 was brought by his parents to Hart County, Ky., where he 
grew to manhood and was married, receiving such an education in youth as the 
primitive common schools of Kentucky afforded at that time. In early life he 
learned the cabinet-maker's trade, which, with farming, has been his chief 
occupation. For some six or seven years he was deputy sheriff of Hart County, 
and for the past eight years has served as magistrate, or justice of the 
peace, of Munfordville District, where he now resides. He belongs to no church 
or secret order. Mrs. Martha J. Waddle departed this life in the fall of 1854. 
She was a life-long and devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
George W. Waddle received a good common-school and academic education in 
youth. At the age of twelve or thirteen years he was employed as a salesman in 
a drug store in Munfordville, where he remained until the fall of 1861, when 
he enlisted in Company I, Second Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry (Federal service). 
He was soon after detailed as assistant hospital steward and served till the 
fall of 1863 when he was discharged on account of disability. Notwithstanding 
he was serving in the medical department, he yet participated in the battles 
of Shiloh and Corinth, being severely wounded in the left arm in the latter 
engagement. In the spring of 1864 he re-enlisted in the THIRTIETH Kentucky 
State Guards, who were afterward mustered into the United States service in 
order to draw their pay. With this regiment he remained until the close of the 
war, when he came to Campbellsville, Taylor Co., Ky., where he has since been 
engaged in the practice of medicine. The Doctor was married March 15, 1865, to 
Miss Martha J. Willock, a native of Taylor County, born November 10, 1845. She 
is a daughter of David and Phebe T (Burge) Willock. Six children have blessed 
their union, viz.: Hattie Lee, Sneed T., William P., David E., Mary E. and 
George W., Jr. Mrs. Waddle is, and has been from early life, a devoted and 
consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Doctor belongs to no 
church or secret order. In politics he is a Republican and is one of the 
successful physicians of the county.


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