462.     William Kester was born about 1733 in Philadelphia Co. PA. He died 1820 in Elk Creek, Spencer Co. KY and was buried 1820 in Elk Creek, Spencer Co., Kentucky. William married Elizabeth Leacock on 25 Jun 1762.

The following was written by William Ferguson Kester, as quoted in "The Pound and Kester Family" book by John E. Hunt.

'"My grandfather was married three times. His first wife's name I do not recollect. By her he had one son, whose name was Paul. His second wife was a widow Ferguson, her maiden name being Elizabeth Lacock. By her he had two sons, William and John, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Sarah. His third wife was a widow Stilgar, who had been married twice before, her first husband's name being Pound.

"Grandfather and family came from Virginia to Kentucky during the first settlement of the State. They came down the Ohio River on a flatboat and while floating on the river were fired on by Indians. Landing at the falls of the Ohio they were escorted by a company of men to Coxes station, near Bardstown, in Nelson Co., where there was a

fort. At this time the Indians made frequent incursions to that neighborhood, stealing horses and sometimes murdering the citizens. On one occasion a company of sixteen men was raised and started in the morning as soon as it was light enough to track the indians through the wild pea vine and followed them all day and when it was so dark they could follow them no longer they encamped. Hearing a horse neigh in the distance they divided the company, surrounded the Indians, fired into them and killed two of them, but lost one of their own number, the captain of the company.

"Grandfather lived in Nelson County for years and then he and his sons bought a tract of land on Elk Creek, formerly in Shelby, now in Spencer Co. This land they bought of Mr. Shepard without surveying it and it was supposed to contain five hundred acres, but since measured six hundred acres. It cost one hundred dollars and a horse.

"Some time after moving to Elk Creek, Grandfather's second wife took ill and kept her bed for about seven years before she died. A while after her death the old gentleman married my Grandmother, my mother's mother. When they were married he was eighty and she seventy‑five and each of them died at the age of eighty‑seven.

            1810 Census KY Shelby - William Kester

463.     Elizabeth Leacock was born about 1733 in Trenton, Sussex Co., New Jersey. She died about 1805 in Elk Creek, Spencer Co., Kentucky and was buried 1805.