Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887,
Mercer County.

JOHN HAWKINS CHAMPION was born September 30, 1820, in Jessamine County,
Ky., where he grew to manhood; in 1849 he removed to Mercer County, in 1854
to Collin County, Tex., and in 1860 he returned to Mercer County, locating
on the banks of the Kentucky River in Shaker Bend, where he has since
resided.  His father, Edmund Champion, a native of Pennsylvania, an early
settler in Jessamine County, Ky., a mechanic, and a man of most remarkable
genius, died of cholera in 1833 at the early age of sixty-five years.  He
married Sarah Neal, of Pennsylvania (died in 1852, aged about seventy
years), and from their union sprang Thomas, Peter, James, Mary (Smart) and
John H.  John H. was married at the time of the battle of Perryville,
October 8, 1862, to Miss Sarah, daughter of George and Lucy B. (Gordan)
Munday, of Mercer County (born March 5, 1841), and to them have been born
James, George Edward, Reuben (deceased), Katie S., John Price and Thomas
(deceased).  Mr. Champion was engaged as a carpenter and builder with
success for a period of thirty years.  He is now a farmer, having 400
acres of productive land.  He is a Royal Arch Mason and an Ancient Odd
Fellow.  In religion he is a Methodist, was formerly an old line Whig,
but is now a Prohibitionist.  He lost two slaves by the late war.

Champion Neal Smart Gordan Munday
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Jessamine-KY Collin-TX PA

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