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CAPT. WILLIAM A. SHUCK was born April 16, 1839, in Shelby County, Ky., where he grew to manhood, and in 1861 entered the Buckner Guards, as a private, and after a service of one year was breveted second lieutenant in the Eighth Kentucky Cavalry, and in 1862 was promoted to a captaincy in Morgan’s command. He was captured with his chief on his famous raid through Ohio, and remained a prisoner of war at Johnson’s Island until the termination of hostilities. His father, John Y. Shuck, was also a native of Shelby County, where he died in 1845, at the age of thirty-two years. He was the son of John Shuck, of Shelby County, one of the early settlers of the commonwealth. Subject’s mother, Martha F., daughter of David and Nancy (Barbee) Lyle, of Shelby County, died in 1868, aged forty-nine years. To her and husband were born subject and Elizabeth P. (Mason). Subject was favored with a good English education and is still an extensive reader. On March 1, 1870, he was married to Lida, daughter of B. J. Kenneday, of Oxford, Miss, (died November 15, 1870). He was next married May 12, 1876, to Miss Bertha, daughter of William L. and Mary (Kickman) Alexander, of Fulton County, and to them have been born Mary L., Lyle Y. and Fannie H. Capt. Shuck is a farmer, having 100 acres of good land. He is a member in good standing in the K. of H., and in politics is a Democrat.