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WILLIAM B. LEWIS was born in Nelson county, Ky., Jan. 11, 1842, and raised in the land of blue-grass and fine horses. His father’s name was Amos, who died in 1875. The subject of our sketch enlisted in the Confederate army in 1862, in the Eighth Kentucky Cavalry, serving during the war. He had served under Gen. Bragg, and was a prisoner at Camp Douglas, Ill., for a time. He married in April, 1872, Susan Wale, who was born in Hardin county, Ky., in July, 1850. The children’s names are Arthur, Fannie, and a babe of the sterner sex. The farm comprises a tract of 200 acres, about eighty-five being cultivated; forty acres in wheat, averaging twenty-five bushels; twenty in corn, averaging fifty bushels; and ten in oats, averaging thirty bushels. There is a young orchard of 100 trees. This farm is situated in township 29, range 81; 120 acres in section 9, and eighty acres in section 4, besides an individual interest in 300 acres. This farm is finely located about three-fourths of a mile south of the new town of Cary on Missouri Pacific Railroad, and has good promise of becoming one of the best of the neighborhood.