"Elizabeth Craig Cave's name is on th Memorial Wall at the Bryan
Station spring. She was one of the heroic women who walked out
casually from the stockade to carry back water while knowingly
surrounded by Indians waiting to attack the fort. Pg. 351;
"Elizabeth Craig Cave seems to have survived her husband about
ten years."..."1827, Elizabeth divided slaves among her children
....From deed given by John Cave to various buyers in Woodford,
beginning 1830, it seems probable that his mother died in that
interval between 1827 and 1830."
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"son of William Kennon Harrison, brother of Edmund Reid
Harrison. Will and our grandfather, Edmund Pendleton Harrison
were first cousins, one married to the mother, the other to the
daughter.
Will D. (Harrison) and Mary Emma had Versa Burton (Aunt Burt)
and Pearl Eugenia (Aunt Lolly). They lived in Pine Bluff when
E.P. and Evelyn Emma were first married."
The Hurts came from Wales before the Revolutionary War and
settled in Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia. They were
related to the Overtons, Lawsons and the Pendletons by marriage.
My grandfather and a brother went to Bedford later on and
settled on the southside of the county.
#7644: History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas
Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin &
Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 611. [Scott County] [Georgetown City and
Precinct] HOMER S. RHOTON, Georgetown, and Mrs. George of Clay
County, Mo., are the only living children of Benjamin W. Rhoton,
who was born in Surrey County, North Carolina, in 1790, and who
came to Kentucky in 1811. He studied medicine and graduated from
Transylvania University; he was the leading physician of
Woodford County, and for many years, the superintending
physician in the Eastern Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, being
succeeded by Dr. William Chipley. He was Fellow of the Royal
Medical Society. As minister of the gospel, he presided over the
Southern Methodist Episcopal Church. He resided in Danville,
Lancaster, Versailles, Lexington, and Georgetown, coming to the
last named place in 1850; here he died in February, 1863. He was
twice married, his first wife being Miss Jeffries, and his
second, Mrs. Margaret E. Peters, daughter of Frank P. Gaines,
and widow of Aleck Peters, daughter of Frank P. Gaines, and
widow of Aleck Peters, a portrait painter of Woodford County. On
June 17, 1840, in Lexington, Ky., was born Homer S. Rhoton, the
subject of this sketch. Ten years later, he came to Georgetown,
and attended the Georgetown College, continuing until he reached
the senior year. In 1860 he began as teacher in the city
schools, and was Principal of the male department four years. In
1866 he was elected School Commissioner of Scott County, by a
unanimous vote, serving ten years. In 1874 he was elected Police
Judge of Georgetown, and re-elected in 1878. In 1879 he was
elected Treasurer of Scott County, which office he still holds.
He is a member of the Student's
Association. In 1866 he began reading law with M. Polk and
Lieutenant Gov. Jas. E. Cantwell, and was admitted to the Bar in
March, 1868, at Frankfort, Ky.
STROTHER, James French, (grandson of James French Strother
[1811-1860] and great-grandson of George French Strother), a
Representative from West Virginia; born near Pearisburg, Giles
County, Va., June 29, 1868; attended the public schools,
Pearisburg Academy, and Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical
College at Blacksburg; deputy collector of internal revenue at
Lynchburg, Va., 1890-1893; studied law at the University of
Virginia at Charlottesville; was admitted to the bar in 1894 and
commenced practice in Pearisburg; settled in Welch, McDowell
County, W.Va., in 1895 and continued the practice of law; United
States commissioner 1897-1901; appointed judge of the criminal
court of McDowell County by Gov. Albert B. White on January 1,
1905; was thrice elected and served until September 30, 1924,
when he resigned, having been nominated for Congress; elected as
a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Congresses (March
4, 1925-March 3, 1929); was not a candidate for renomination in
1928; died in Welch, W.Va., April 10, 1930; interment in Monte
Vista Cemetery, Bluefield, W.Va.
--Congressional Biography