The livery man of Morganfield, is the son of Elisha and
Matilda (Conn) O'Nan. His father, a farmer of Union County, was born in
Taylorsville, Spencer County. His mother was born in Jefferson County; his
parents married in what is now Lindle Precinct, in 1846. Here his father died
in 1857, and his mother followed in 1860. His grandfather, John O'Nan, a farmer
of Spencer County, was a native of Virginia; he married Margaret Lincoln, of
Spencer County, and they were both buried in the same grave. His grandfather,
John Conn, was a farmer of Virginia. He was, at one time upon the present site
of Louisville, when a man who owned some of the land offered him fifty acres
where the Galt House now stands for a silver watch worth about fifteen dollars.
He would, no doubt, have given the watch many a time afterward, for the same
proparty[sic]. Our subject was born in Union County July 6, 1848. He attended
the schools of Union County very irregularly until he was about twenty years of
age, and went to Brownsboro for one term. On September 6, 1871, he married
Mattie Ann Harmon, the daughter of Thomas Harmon. She was born in Indiana in
1850, but came to Union with her father in 1866. She died in Lindle Precinct on
April 1, 1878. Three children, John Lee, aged thirteen; Dennis Edward, aged 11,
and George Oscar Love, were born of this union. In 1871 Mr. O'Nan went to
Uniontown and opened a livery stable. He returned to his farm in 1872, but in
June, 1885, again left it to engage in the livery business at Morganfield,
where he now runs a livery and feed stable of fifty stalls, and where he has
some ten or twelve horses for hire. His farm consists of 300 acres, all of
which is under cultivation. He is a Democrat in politics, and has been a member
of the Christian Church for seventeen years. A clever gentleman, a first-class
farmer, and a good judge of horse-flesh is John T. O'Nan.
