Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887,
Henry Co.

WILLIAM M. PREWITT was born in Henry County, Ky., June 12, 1862, the only
child of W. S. and E. C. (Thompson) Prewitt.  His mother was born in Henry
County, a daughter of Lemuel and Sophia (Watkins) Thompson.  His father
was born in Shelby County, July 31, 1833, the eldest of a family of eight
children born to J. B. W. and Martha (Tinsley) Prewitt.  He was reared on
a farm, and at the age of sixteen began to clerk in a store for R. L.
Tinsley, of Shelby County.  At the age of eighteen he resigned that
position and went to Louisville, where he clerked in a store ten years.  He
then accepted a position as clerk on the "Hazel Dell" boat that ran on the
Mississippi, Ohio and White Rivers, but eight months later abandoned this
business, and coming to Henry County, was married, September 16, 1861.
His father, J. B. W., was born in Mercer County, Ky.; was a tanner by
trade, but also carried on farming, and was a son of Anthony Prewitt, a
native of Virginia, who immigrated to Kentucky at quite an early day, and
settled in Mercer County; was a farmer, dealt extensively in race horses,
and lived to be about ninety-five years old.  William M. Prewitt was reared
on the farm.  He was educated at the Male and Female College at Eminence,
and the Kentucky Wesleyan College, Millersburg, Bourbon County. On January
14, 1886, he married Miss Mamie O. Johnson, of Henderson County, daughter
of J. H. and L. W. (Young) Johnson.  One child has blessed their union:
Lucille B.  Mr. and Mrs. Prewitt are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, as are also his parents.  He owns 225 acres of land.

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