1880 US Census. Barren County, KY. |
In the 1880 US Census entry above, my 3rd-great-grandfather Guilford Dudley Read and family can be seen living in Glasgow Junction, Barren County, Kentucky. Read, who often went by Dudley, is listed as a farmer and butcher. I've covered his butcher shop previously, in a post from 2014. An August 1885 article gives some insight into the types of crops grown on Dudley's farm:
Morning Star, 27 Aug 1885. |
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