Tuesday, August 09, 2005

James N and Elizabeth Pratt Brashear




Parents of 14 children, all born in Perry County, they are: Rhoda, Ray (lived 3 days), Hiram P. (lived to be 104 yrs. old), Elzira, Martha, Sampson (Capt. in WW1) died in France, Ezekiel, Robert Lee (whose grandson used to be Chief of Police in Hazard), Joel, Preston, Marion (Postmaster at Viper for years), Lucinda, Anna and Eli (the good old boy of Viper). Submitted by Frankie Lane Campbell Roberts of Dayton, Ohio. Photo taken around 1904.

James N. Brashear, Jr. volunteered for service in the Confederate Army on Sept. 12, 1862 and was assigned to Company B, 13th Kentucky Calvary Regiment in which he served for the duration of the Civil War. He married Elizabeth Pratt and they had 14 children as named above."

(I found this on hazardkentucky.com Thanks, Frankie!!)

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