Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 6th 
ed.,1887, Spencer Co.

DR. H. H. STOUT was born February 5, 1829, near Elk Creek, 
Spencer County.  His grandfather, Peter Stout, came to Spencer 
from Jessamine County in 1807, with his son, Elijah, father of our 
subject.  The Stouts moved from Virginia to Jessamine County, Ky., 
and are of German origin.  Elijah was a farmer and mechanic, a 
devoted member of the Baptist Church, and died in 1867.  He 
married Lucy, daughter of Daniel Bennett, of Spencer County, whose 
father came from New Jersey to Kentucky, when there was but a 
mere shanty at Louisville.  Daniel Bennett died in 1850.  The 
Bennetts were of Scotch origin.  Mrs. Lucy Stout was a member of 
the Baptist Church; she died in 1874, in the seventy-first year of her 
age.  The Doctor is the eldest of three children, Nancy R. and Lucy 
being the other two.  He was born and reared on a farm, and 
engaged in merchandising six years.  He received his literary training 
in the common schools and academies of the county, and at the age 
of nineteen began reading medicine.  In 1850 he entered the 
Louisville University, the Transylvania University in 1853, and 
graduated at the Kentucky School of Medicine in 1854.  After
graduation he located in Shelby County, and then moved to Elk 
Creek, where he has resided for twenty years.  He is a member of the 
Baptist Church, also of the Masonic fraternity, of which he was a 
charter Master, and served in that capacity ten years.  In 1848 he 
married Miss Emily Carolin, daughter of Matthias Carolin, and who 
died five months later.  In 1857 he married Sallie, daughter of Eliab 
Cooper, of Spencer County.  She became the mother of three 
children: Leonora, Lucy J. and Mariam K., and died in 1864.  The 
Doctor's third marriage occurred in 1874 with Miss Florence Collings, 
daughter of Samuel Collings, of Spencer County, a farmer and 
leading citizen of that county.  Two children have blessed their union 
- Zella and Homer H.  Mrs. Stout is a member of the Baptist Church.

Stout Bennett Carolin Cooper Collings
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