History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 512. [Bourbon County] [Millersburg Precinct] JOHN WILL LETTON, farmer, P. O. Millersburg; proprietor of Pleasant Hill farm, was born in Montgomery County, Md., May 22, 1821, to Brice Letton, who was born in 1780, and the youngest son of Michael Montgomery (see history). His mother was Harrietta E. Moore, also a native of Montgomery County, Md., and sister to "Old Zed Moore" who is supposed to have built the first brick house in Paris, where he kept hotel, afterward built the Bourbon House, later he went to the Blue Licks, where he kept the noted summer resort, and died after many years of service. The children born to Brice Letton were eleven, seven sons and four daughters, two sons and two daughters deceased. Those living are: Michael H. in Paris Precinct; Ning W. at Lexington, Mo.; Reuben P. in Silver City, Col.; John Will, Brice S., at Paris, Ky.; Harrietta, widow of Dr. James McClannahan, of Anderson, Ind.; Ann Maria, wife of J. W. Dooley, of Montgomery County, Md. The father of this family was a captain at an early date in the terrible contest at Bladensburg. He received an injury in Washington, D. C., when on his way to Kentucky in his old age, from which he never recovered. Our subject lived with his father until he was twenty-one years of age, when he came to Bourbon County, where, in Feb. 6, 1847, he was married to Mary B. Sandusky, daughter of Jacob and Monan (Bowler) Sandusky. (For further knowledge of Sandusky ancestry, see Turner history.) The issue of this union was eleven children, ten of whom are living, viz: Ann M., born Jan. 28, 1848, wife of Louis Gooch, of Jessamine County; Prudence H., born April 17, 1849, now wife of James Becraft; Harriet E., born April 8, 1851, wife of Thomas Redmon; Mary D., born Sept. 27, 1853; Jacob B. July 2, 1855; Sandusky, Aug. 22, 1857, died at seventeen years of age; Laura S., Feb. 8, 1860, wife of Charles Geffinger, at Millersburg; Martha, born Feb. 19, 1862; John W., May 3, 1864; Sally C., Jan. 11, 1867; Reuben E., Jan. 24, 1869. Mr. Letton, after about a year of married life, removed with his family to Decatur County, Ind., where he engaged in stock-raising until in 1862, when he returned to Kentucky and purchased the house which he now occupies, engaging in general agriculture and stock, hipping to the different parts of the country. He is a member of the Masonic Order at Millersburg. Letton Moore McClannahan Dooley Sandusky Bowler Turner Becraft Redmon Geffinger Gooch = Jessamine-KY Decatur-IN Montgomery-MD MO CO http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/bourbon/letton.jw.txt