John (Jackie) Johnson and John Powell, first cousins, came to Shelby Co., Ky. from Virginia. In 1815, together with John Powell’s wife, Nancy Mason, and infant daughter, Mary, they settled in Meade Co., Ky. John Powell took up about 1000 acres of land on the east side of Doerun Creek near the Ohio River. John Johnson took up about 1000 acres on the west side of Doerun Creek and built a cloth factory run by water power. It was one [...]
Alexander C. Glover was born in Shawswick Township (Lawrence Co., IN), January 13, 1820, third of ten children born to Ware and Hetta (Redus) Glover, natives respectively of Kentucky and Virginia, he coming to this State in the fall of 1810, and she in 1813. Alexander received a limited education in the common schools, his father having died when he was only thirteen years of age, and remained at home with his mother till he was twenty-six years of age, [...]