John Will Letton
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 22 May 1821 - Montgomery Co, MD
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• Biography
History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 512.
[Bourbon County] [Millersburg Precinct]
JOHN WILL LETTON, farmer, P. O. Millersburg; proprietor of Pleasant Hill
farm, was born in Montgomery County, Md., May 22, 1821, to Brice Letton,
who was born in 1780, and the youngest son of Michael Montgomery (see
history). His mother was Harrietta E. Moore, also a native of Montgomery
County, Md., and sister to "Old Zed Moore" who is supposed to have built
the first brick house in Paris, where he kept hotel, afterward built the
Bourbon House, later he went to the Blue Licks, where he kept the noted
summer resort, and died after many years of service. The children born to
Brice Letton were eleven, seven sons and four daughters, two sons and two daughters deceased. Those living are: Michael H. in Paris Precinct; Ning
W. at Lexington, Mo.; Reuben P. in Silver City, Col.; John Will, Brice S.,
at Paris, Ky.; Harrietta, widow of Dr. James McClannahan, of Anderson,
Ind.; Ann Maria, wife of J. W. Dooley, of Montgomery County, Md. The
father of this family was a captain at an early date in the terrible
contest at Bladensburg. He received an injury in Washington, D. C., when
on his way to Kentucky in his old age, from which he never recovered. Our
subject lived with his father until he was twenty-one years of age, when
he came to Bourbon County, where, in Feb. 6, 1847, he was married to
Mary B. Sandusky, daughter of Jacob and Monan (Bowler) Sandusky. (For
further knowledge of Sandusky ancestry, see Turner history.) The issue
of this union was eleven children, ten of whom are living, viz: Ann M.,
born Jan. 28, 1848, wife of Louis Gooch, of Jessamine County; Prudence
H., born April 17, 1849, now wife of James Becraft; Harriet E., born
April 8, 1851, wife of Thomas Redmon; Mary D., born Sept. 27, 1853;
Jacob B. July 2, 1855; Sandusky, Aug. 22, 1857, died at seventeen years
of age; Laura S., Feb. 8, 1860, wife of Charles Geffinger, at Millersburg;
Martha, born Feb. 19, 1862; John W., May 3, 1864; Sally C., Jan. 11, 1867;
Reuben E., Jan. 24, 1869. Mr. Letton, after about a year of married life,
removed with his family to Decatur County, Ind., where he engaged in
stock-raising until in 1862, when he returned to Kentucky and purchased
the house which he now occupies, engaging in general agriculture and
stock, shipping to the different parts of the country. He is a member of the
Masonic Order at Millersburg.
Spouses and Children
1. *Mary B. Sandusky
Marriage: 6 Feb 1847 - Bourbon Co, KY
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Children:
1. Prudence Hall Letton