1859 when lie removed to Versailles, and engaged in the grocery business, which he has continued successfully to the present time, and now, at seventy years of age, 1894, says he can wait on a customer as spry as he ever did. July, 1845, tie married Miss Fannie Holton, daughter of Rev, John M. Holton of Bracken Co., Ky., and they have had six children, only four of whom are now living. Mrs. Fannie Wasson died Apr., 1904.

Charles Edwin Wasson, born June 27, 1846, married Miss Laura Belle Roudebush of Covington, Ky., June 27, 1872. She was born Feby. 27, 1851. Children: Lynn E., born May 6, 1873; Loyd R. born May 11, 1876; Nannie Eloise, born Oct. 3, 1880; Hortense Theresa, born Jany. 2. 1883; Lewella, born Sept. 28, 1886. Charles E. Wasson is a traveling man and lives in Covington, Ky. His son Loyd R. married Miss Pearl May Bayer Dec. 19, 1904. She was barn Mar. 23, 1878. He is general agent of the Louisville & Nashville railroad at Detroit, Mich. Lynn E. Wasson is in the employ of the Norfolk & Western railway. and is the commercial agent in charge of the office in Indianapolis, Ind. The rise of these two young men in the railroad world has been rapid and their future prospects are bright.

Lewella, daughter of Jno. M. Wasson, was born Sept. 18. 1848, married Samuel Nuckols, a prosperous farmer, near Versailles, Ky., June 28, 1870. He was born Nov. 11, 1845. Children: John W., born Oct. 13, 1872, died June, 1899, was a young man of fine promise in the banking business. Lewis Allen, born Aug. 22, 1874, graduated at Ky. University June, 1894, with first honors in a class of twenty, he being the youngest. He then read law with Hon. D. L. Thornton of Versailles and Is now a leading attorney there. Eva Owen, barn Mar. 21, 1876; Claude C., born Feby. 28, 1880, married Apr. 28, 1906, Miss Sue Quid Swindell of Baltimore, Md., and is in business in Brooklyn, N. Y., with the Consolidated Car Heating Company. Lida Marie, born Nov. 4, 1882. Del Eva, daughter of Jno. M. Wasson, is unmarried and lives at home with her father, She is a bright and interesting young lady. Besides being quite a genius, she has invented a lady’s hook and eye fastener that is a very useful article.

DANIEL EDGAR, son of Jno. M. Wasson, born Aug. 4,

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