Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Warren County.

WILLIAM H. BLEWETT was born September 28, 1823, in Bowling Green, and is 
the eldest of seven sons and four daughters born to Garland J. and 
Elizabeth G. (Mitchell) Blewett.  Garland J. was born in the southern 
part of Warren County, July 4, 1801; his wife in the same place in 1803.  
He as one of the leading attorneys of Bowling Green, and served a term 
in the Legislature.  After the death of his wife, which occurred in 
July, 1870, he moved to Lexington, Mo., where he died in March, 1884.  
He had accumulated considerable wealth, and was a son of Eli and 
Elizabeth A. (Williams) Blewett.  His parents were born and reared in 
North Carolina; immigrated to Kentucky and settled near Woodburn about 
1800.  They were of Scotch origin; Eli died at about the age of fifty 
years, and his wife at the age of ninety years.  Mrs. Elizabeth G. 
(Mitchell) Blewett was a daughter of Charles and Anna (Grider) Mitchell, 
who were born and reared in Warren County.  After Charles Mitchell's 
death his widow married a man named Boon and reared a family of 
seventeen children.  Her father, Harry Grider, was a soldier in the war 
for independence; was of Dutch origin and migrated from Maryland or 
Virginia to Kentucky.  William H. Blewett was reared in Bowling Green 
until he was sixteen, when he moved with his parents two miles north of 
town.  On arriving at maturity he engaged in steam-boating, which he 
followed for ten years on Barren, Green and Ohio Rivers; one year of 
that time he ran between St. Louis and New Orleans.  In 1858 he was 
appointed deputy sheriff and served four years. In 1860 he located on 
108 acres and now owns 200 acres of well improved land.  During the war 
his sympathies were with the Union, and on that account he was compelled 
to leave home; he went to Louisville where he assisted Gen. Buell in 
making a map of Warren County, and then went to Bloomington, Ind., where 
he remained until after the evacuation of Bowling Green by the 
Confederates, when he returned home.  In 1864 he was appointed United 
States assistant assessor of internal revenue and served six years; he 
then engaged in farming until 1870, and after which he engaged for three 
years at milling.  He then sold out and after serving as deputy sheriff 
for four years he return to his farm.  In October, 1847, he was united 
in marriage with Mary Collett, a daughter of James and Mary (Carter) 
Collett, natives of Loudoun County, Va.  James Collett was born in 
April, 1788, and died at the age of seventy-six; his wife was born in 
November, 1786.  He was a soldier of 1812, immigrated to Warren County 
in the spring of 1814, and settled where Blewett now resides; he was a 
son of Jerry Collett, of Loudoun County, Va., who was a farmer and of 
Dutch descent. To Mr. and Mrs. Blewett ten children were born:  Columbia 
(deceased), Orville A., Madora A. (deceased), Metta C. (deceased), 
Webster F., James F. and Asher E (twins), Georgia (deceased), Mary E. 
and Hector (deceased).  Mr Blewett is a member of the Masonic 
fraternity, a Good Templar, and was formerly a member of the Grange.  He 
cast his first presidential vote for James K. Polk, and now votes the 
prohibition ticket.

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