History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 543. [Bourbon County] [North Middletown Precinct] LEAH LAMME, farmer; P. O. North Middletown; Mrs. Lamme is a daughter of James Wells, a native of Maryland who emigrated to Kentucky at a very early day and married Katie Owens, a Virginian by birth, and whose father first settled and named the town of Owingsville, in Bath Co., Ky. Mr. Wells died at the age of 82 years, and his wife at the age of 89. Mrs. Wells was the mother of twelve children, five of whom are now living. Leah, the oldest daughter now alive, and who is the subject of this sketch, was born on the 10th of December, 1797, and was married in 1833 to James Lamme, who was killed with a knife on the 7th of July, 1839, by Peter Hedges. Mr. Lamme left a farm of 298 acres, where his widow still lives. She is now 84 years old and is a member of the Dunkard Church. Lamme Owens Hedges Wells = MD VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/bourbon/lamme.l.txt