Judge James Monroe Posey

From : History of Kentucky, Volume 5 By William Elsey Connelley, Ellis Merton Coulter; THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY CHiCAGO AND NEW YORK; 1922 ; pg.180

The father of William H. Posey was Judge James M. Posey, who was born in Anderson County in 1832, and died at Lawrenceburg in 1907. He lived practically all of his life at Lawrenceburg and was a man of great prominence both as a lawyer and public official. He finished his education in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and immediately after the Civil war served for eight years as County Court clerk, was for sixteen years, four terms, county judge of Anderson County, was for four years deputy collector of internal revenue of the Eighth Internal Revenue District, and enjoyed many other distinctions and honors in his home community. He was a lifelong Baptist and a member of the Masonic fraternity.

Judge Posey married Miss Lorinda Montfort, who was born in Anderson County in 1835, and died at Lawrenceburg in 1892. Judge and Mrs Posey had a family of nine children their names being as follows:

• Mary W, who died at Fresno California in 1914, was the wife of A.W. Reiss of Fresno
• William Horace the second
• Owen Breckinridge, who died in infancy
• Lucretia, wife of Stephen Ross of Fresno California
• James Albert, a dentist at Frankfort
• Eloise, wife of F.H. Connelly, a real estate broker at Fresno
• Edward M., in the stock and bond business at Chicago
• Charles Rowland who has distinguished himself by his extraordinary business energies is manager at Baltimore Maryland of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
• Thomas H. is a dentist at Lawrenceburg