This estimable gentleman is a farmer of Shiloh Precinct, is
the son of Abram and Naomi (Dunn) Detrez; Abram was born in the Canton of Vo,
Switzerland, in 1803. In an early day he came to this country and married in
Switzerland County, Indiana. He had several brothers in the war with Napolean
Bonaparte. This remarkable old gentleman finally moved to Trimble County,
Kentucky, where he died in 1881, leaving a handsome estate to his wife and
children. Subject's mother was born in Carroll County, Kentucky, in 1816; she
now lives on the old home place in Trimble County, Kentucky; subject's paternal
grandparents were John Louis and Jane Detraz, both born in Switzerland; his
maternal grandfather, John Dunn, was born in Pennsylvania, and his father was
commissary under Napoleon; subject's maternal grandmother, Rachel (Porter)
Dunn, was born in Virginia; subject was born in Switzerland County, Indiana,
December 5, 1839, and there received some three years training in the common
schools of the county. In 1871, three brothers of them, Albert, David and
subject, came to Union County and bought land in Shiloh Precinct. David
afterward went back to Trimble and is managing the farm there for his mother.
Subject, May 9, 1875, was married to Miss Virginia Ann Hart,
daughter of Benjamin F. and Sarah (White) Hart, who was born in Union County
March 2, 1856; the issue of this marriage is as follows. Wade Hampton (dead),
Sallie B., David Clyde and Naomi May.
Mr Detraz, when the South called for aid, enlisted in the
Confederate army and went out in Company E, Fourth Kentucky Cavalry, and was in
many hard fought battles; among them Bull's Gap, Marion, Withville and
Cumberland Gap; he was paroled at Mt. Sterling, Ky., in 1856. Subject is a
Democrat in politics and one of the best farmers in the county. He owns
eighty-five acres of fine land on which is a nice frame residence; has been a
member of the Christian Church for twenty-five years and is a Mason in good
standing.
