BARTLETTS in KENTUCKY

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      DR. JOSEPH W. BARTLETT was born July 27, 1833, a son of Joseph S. and Amanda F. (PORTER) BARTLETT. His father was a native of Massachusetts. In early life he was a teacher, later a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and for many years a missionary among the Cherokee Indians. He came to Kentucky after the war of the Rebellion, and died in Todd County in 1875, at the age of seventy-eight. The mother was a native of Virginia, and removed with her father to middle Tennessee, when a child. She was first married to Elisha ZACHARIAH, who died September 9, 1826. March 12, 1828, she married Joseph S. BARTLETT, and died September 21, 1866, aged fifty-seven years. She was a life-long member of the Baptist Church.
      Dr. BARTLETT was born in Williamson County, Tenn., and on reaching manhood he attended Medical College at Nashville and St. Louis. On leaving school he began the practice of his profession in Todd county, where he is still engaged. For the past three years he has had an interest in a mercantile business carried on by his son, Walter E., who has a flourishing trade. Young BARTLETT is a gentleman of rare business qualifications, and bids fair to become one of the solid men of the county. The Doctor is the oldest practicing physician in the northern part of the county, with a wide-spread patronage. In his leisure, he has gathered about him the evidences of liberal culture, and dispenses the cordial hospitality of a home surrounded by the mark of thrift, business and comfort.
      Dr. BARTLETT was married to Moody A. SULLIVAN of this county, June 16, 1859. Her parents are Caleb and Betty (ROPER) SULLIVAN, natives of Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. BARTLETT are parents of six children: Eusebia A., Walter E., Carrie T., Susie E., Willie L. and Joseph W. The parents and five of the children are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Eusebia A., is the wife of Dr. P. S. ANDERSON, of Woodburn, Warren Co., Ky. Dr. BARTLETT is a member of the Masonic order.
~~~~~~~ [Ref: Battle, J. H., ed. History of Todd County, Kentucky: Kirkmansville Precinct (n.p.: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884), p. 241.]

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      NATHANIEL BARTLETT, a native of Boston, Mass., was born August 8, 1809, and is a son of Capt. William and Elizabeth (TRASH) BARTLETT, natives, respectively, of Wales and Salem. Mass. Capt. William BARTLETT was an old sea captain, sailing from Boston to the West Indies and China; he died about 1818.
      Nathaniel BARTLETT immigrated to Cincinnati, Ohio, when eight years of age, crossing the mountains in a wagon, and proceeding down the river in a skiff. He was educated in the private schools of Cincinnati, and in 1831 engaged in the wholesale liquor business on Main Street, Cincinnati, where he was engaged until 1850. In 1867 he removed to Covington, Ky., where he has lived a retired life, owning considerable property in both Cincinnati and Covington. In 1835 he married Miss Eliza WARD, a native of Cincinnati and a daughter of James Ward; she died in 1873, leaving five children: Nat. P. BARTLETT, Mrs. Maria MORTON (of Avondale), Mrs. Alice SMITH, Mrs. Rosa MILLER and Mrs. Carrie TRANTER. Mr. BARTLETT is a member of the Swedenborgian Church, and until the administration of President Cleveland he was a Republican, now siding with the Democrats. In 1840 he joined the Lafayette Lodge of Free Masons.
~~~~~~~ [Ref: Battle, Perrin & Kniffin, 7th ed. Kentucky: A History of the State: Kenton County]

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      FRANK B. BEAUCHAMP, M.D., was born April 9, 1817, in Green County, Ky. He is the second of four boys and three girls born to Joseph and Lydia (BARTLETT) BEAUCHAMP, all of whom lived to be grown, but all now deceased excepting Frank B. and a sister, Hester A. DESPAIN, who is living in Missouri. Joseph BEAUCHAMP was born in Delaware; he was a farmer and gunsmith by trade, came to Louisville in a flat-boat when yet a boy, then located near Danville and about 1809 in Green County, where he remained till death. He was a son of John BEAUCHAMP, who was born in Delaware, was a soldier in the war for independence, and was taken prisoner at the battle of the Brandywine. With his family and others came down the Ohio River in a flat-boat and landed where Louisville now stands, and shortly after returned to Delaware, leaving but one child in Kentucky. He married a Miss DOWNHAM, of Delaware. He was a son of Coston BEAUCHAMP, who was born and reared in Delaware, was a farmer and large land-holder and trader. He landed at Louisville, Ky., about 1783, and died in Washington County about 1830, at the ripe age of one hundred and four, although blind for some years. He was a patriot and a strong advocate for the independence of the colonies. He had a son, Jeroboam BEAUCHAMP, who represented Washington County twenty-two years in the Kentucky Legislature. He had five sons, all of whom were highly educated and all went to Texas, where they became large land-holders and speculators, and there one, Thomas, owned a tract of land sixteen miles square. Coston BEAUCHAMP was a son of Samuel BEAUCHAMP, who, it is supposed, came from England over 200 years ago.
      Dr. BEAUCHAMP's mother was born in South Carolina, and was a daughter of John BARTLETT, who married a Miss FALKNER, a native of South Carolina came to Kentucky about 1792, and later in life located at Skagg's Station, in Green County. While a boy he was captured in the mountain regions of South Carolina by Indians and held captive five years. He was a captain in the war of 1812, was at Chippewa Plains, and, it is said, was the first discoverer of gold in North Carolina. After a number of years' residence in Kentucky, he returned to North Carolina and explored the gold fields, and during these explorations died. John BARTLETT was a son of Nathaniel BARTLETT, of Welsh descent.
      Dr. F. B. BEAUCHAMP was reared on a farm, and at the age of eighteen years he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Harvey HAMILTON, of Monroe County, Ky., and then studied with Dr. BURKS, of Green County, two years. At twenty-two years of age he located in the western part of Green County, where he practiced his profession, making a specialty of female diseases; he spent one year in south Mississippi and Alabama, after which he returned to Green County, where he practiced his profession, carried on a farm containing 600 acres and ran a distillery till the war broke out, through which he lost his slaves, with considerable other property. In March, 1884, he located at Buffalo, La Rue [sic] County, where he has erected a large hotel and where he continues to practice. He still owns a farm of 300 acres in Green County. He started in life with but 10 cents, after he had procured his education, which he requested his father to give him instead of land.
      He was married, in 1850, to Elizabeth DARNALL, of Marion County, a daughter of Benjamin and Nancy (SUTTON) DARNALL, natives, respectively, of Maryland and Washington County, Ky., now Marion. Benjamin DARNALL was educated for the priesthood, but became a farmer and settled in Marion County about 1800. The Doctor had born to him by this marriage one child, John S., who died at the age of twenty-six years in the Confederate army. The Doctor's wife died January 22, 1874, a member of the Roman Catholic Church. He married his second wife, Mrs. Susan DE SPAIN [sic], in 1876, a daughter of William and Susan (LAMB) JONES, natives of Pennsylvania, and early pioneers of Boyle County. William JONES was a farmer, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was in the battle of Tippecanoe. He was a son of Isaac JONES, who married Fannie DEAVERS, both natives of Pennsylvania or New Jersey. He was of English descent, was a soldier in the war of independence, immigrated to Kentucky about 1792, and settled in Boyle County, afterward in Green County. In politics he is a Democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for Martin Van Buren.
~~~~~~~ [Ref: Battle, Perrin & Kniffin. Kentucky: A History of the State: Larue County, 3rd Ed. (1885).

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