Clark County

Biography of Thomas Wright

Clark County

Thomas Wright of Clark County, Kentucky, has been described in Genealogies and Sketches of Some Old Families, by Benjamin F. VanMeter, 1901, pp. 34-35. This and some other material may be found in the family file in the Clark County Library. I am taking the liberty of copying some of that material (in quotes) and adding other information that I have found. “Thomas Wright removed from Virginia to Clark County about the year 1780, and settled on Prettyrun Creek, on a part of the remaining one half of the Gist land–a part of the military survey of which Thomas Lewis …

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Biography of R. S. Scobee

Clark County

R. S. Scobee, a native of Clark County, KY., was born December 10, 1854, and is the youngest of a family of five children born to Robert and Lucy (Pendleton) Scobee. Robert Scobee, also a native of Clark County, was an enterprising farmer who devoted the whole of his life to agricultural pursuits; he was a son of Robert Scobee, who was a miller, distiller and farmer. Mrs. Lucy Scobee was born in Clark County, KY., a daughter of Rice Pendleton. R. S. Scobee was reared on a farm and received a common school education; he chose farming for an …

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Biography of Rice P. Scobee

Clark County

Rice P. Scobee, a native of Clark County, KY., was born June 23, 1847, and is a son of Robert and Lucy (Pendleton) Scobee. Robert Scobee, also a native of Clark County, was a farmer by occupation, a popular citizen in the community in which he lived, and died in April 1882, a son of Robert Scobee, who was a farmer, distiller and miller. Mrs. Lucy Scobee was born in Clark County and was a daughter of Rice Pendleton. Rice P. Scobee was reared on his father’s farm and educated at the common schools. In 1862 he enlisted in the …

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Biography of John E. Groves

Clark County

John E. Groves is the great-great-grandfather of my father, Harold W. Groves His sons were George Groves and Samuel Groves, grandfathers of William Groves whose children married their first cousins. Prince William County, Virginia, 1787, was the birthplace of John E. Groves. The record of his death in Grant County lists his parents as Samuel and Mary Groves. His father appears to have been a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War under Captain James Smith but he never lived to file for his pension. His wife, Mary is listed as a widow in 1799 in Chappawamsic Neck, Virginia. In the early …

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Biography of Rev. J. W. Fitch

Clark County

Rev. J. W. Fitch, of Winchester, KY., was born in Lewis County, KY., March 28, 1840, and is the ninth of a family of ten children born to Benjamin and Ollie (Burriss) Fitch. Benjamin Fitch was born in Pennsylvania, and when about ten years of age, came to Kentucky with his father, Joseph Fitch, a native of Pennsylvania, who settled in Lewis County, where he lived and died and was a farmer all his life. Benjamin Fitch was brought up as a farmer, which occupation he followed his whole life. Mrs. Ollie Fitch was a daughter of Matthew and Mary …

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Biography of Rezin A. Scobee

Clark County

Rezin A. Scobee, a prominent and successful farmer and stock-raiser of Clark County, KY., was born in that county, September 9, 1839, and is a son of Robert and Emily (Pendleton) Scobee. He was educated in the common schools, and with the exception of five years spent in Montgomery County, has been engaged in farming and stock-raising in his native county. He was formerly a stock-trader, shipping cattle and driving mules South. He still deals in stock to some extent. October 31, 1861, he married Miss Sarah R. King, of Clark County, daughter of John P. and Mary (Taul) King. …

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