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Dr. T. M. Warden was born in Madison County, Ky., January 19, 1809, and is a son of James and Jemima (Thorp) Warden. The father was born in Culpeper County, Va., about 1784, and in 1794 immigrated to Kentucky, traveling from Pittsburgh in a flat-boat and landing where Maysville now stands. He was reared upon a farm, received a common-school education, and died there in October, 1839. The mother was born in Madison County, Ky., in 1793, where she was married to Mr. Warden at the age of fifteen. She died in Missouri, where she went after her husband’s death, her death occurring in 1873. She was the mother of eight children, only two of whom are living: Tillett M. and Thomas. Those deceased are Tarlton, Tilson, Tilman, Roxana, Mourning and Nancy. Nathan Warden, the grandfather, was born in England, and with two other brothers served in the Revolution, shortly after going to Culpeper County, Va., and subsequently to Kentucky, where he died. The mother was of Scotch parentage, and died in Kentucky. Thomas Thorp, the maternal grandfather, was born in Virginia, and there married Elinor Jackson, a relative of Gov. Jackson, of Missouri. They moved to Kentucky in an early day, and there passed their lives. Our subject was reared upon his father’s farm in Madison County, received a good education, and after becoming of age spent three years in travel. He then began to study medicine under Samuel Brown, of Brandenburgh, Ky., and later attended the Louisville Medical Institute for two years, graduating in 1841. After spending some time in Leavenworth, Ind., he returned to Madison County, and next went to Miliken’s Bend, La. After remaining in Vicksburg one year he came to Crawford County in 1846, where he has practiced his profession since, and is actively and successfully engaged, although eighty years of age. February 24, 1840, he married Mrs. Eliza Bartlett, a native of Bristol, England, and daughter of William Amas, a native of the same place. Mrs. Warden has borne seven children, six now living: Marian W., Mortimer, Isabella, Lillie, Clarence N. and Fannie W. Another child, Mortimer, is the one deceased. Mrs. Warden died March 8, 1885, aged seventy. Dr. Warden owns 130 acres of land, twenty-five of which he cultivates, and upon which he lives with his daughter Lillie. In politics he is a Democrat.