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B. C. Brackett, born in Hardin county, Kentucky, May 30, 1826, son of B.C. Brackett and Sarah (Upton) Brackett, was raised on a farm, and selected farming as the business of his life. On the 20th day of August, 1846, he married Matilda Boyd, daughter of James Boyd, of Hardin county, Kentucky. She was born in Kentucky, but came originally of Virginia stock. Mr. Brackett's life was spent in the quiet pursuit of his calling as farmer in Hardin county, Kentucky, till 1869, when his family becoming rather numerous, and land becoming scarce on which to settle them, he decided to move west, and accordingly in the fall of 1869, with his entire family, including one married son, he started for Texas, reaching Grayson county, November 1. He settled in the vicinity of White Mound, where he purchased a tract of land comprising 233 acres, on which he located and began work. On this place he has since lived, pursuing, as in Kentucky, his calling as a farmer in his own quiet and unassuming way. He has had the great misfortune since location in Texas to lose his wife, who died July 15, 1871. She was the mother of eleven children, whose names are: Daniel L., Mary E., James A., Jeff Davis, Nancy Jane, Benjamin A., Theresa A., Aventine, Sarah, Jasper and Fannie. Several of these were quite young at the date of their mother's death, and Mr. Brackett has had on his hands a responsibility in the rearing of his family that few men are called on to assume. But he has discharged his duties on the respect faithfully, having brought them all up to maturity and having seen them settle down to lives of soberness and industry. Source:Biographical Souvenir Of The State Of Texas, F.A. Battey & Company of Chicago,1889: containing biographical sketches of the representative public, and many early settled families. Includes index. FHL Film #547587 |
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