• General Notes

      Listed in Lawyers in Kentucky 1859 in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. His wife's brother, James T. Morehead and two of James's sons are listed as well.
  
      Margaret Wickliffe Preston (1819-1898) owned the farm Mann's Lick, which she came to realize had black gold (coal oil) on it. In December of 1865 she leased twenty acres to S. A. Atchison, Sr. who created the Manslick Petroleum Company, and also assigned her husband's Louisville agent, Frederick Wedekemper, to bore for oil and construct the necessary buildings in another part of the farm. ... Margaret W. Preston confided to her husband "that Atchison offers to lease Mannslicks, that is 20 acres including the greasy well at the center of the survey for 20 years, to bore & divide the oil with me, giving me one half clear of expenses."
  
      Among General David Rice Atchison's nearest relatives left in this State, after he moved to Missouri, born in the same county, was the Hon. Samuel Ayers Atchison, the eminent lawyer, who died in Louisville in 1869. This latter gentleman was twice wedded. His first wife, an elegant lady, was the sister of Governor James T. Morehead. Among her children was the brilliant young lawyer, Samuel Atchison, who died in this city in 1880, lamented by his friends, and mourned by those who knew him best, as one whose like would not soon be looked upon again. He had a magnificent mind, and stepped to the front rank at the chancery bar as if he had an imperial title.
  
      Mr. Achison?s second wife was Miss Eliza Love, a lady of great refinemen and intelligence, who is still living at the age of eighty years in full possession of her faculties.

Details of Samuel Ayers' family with Cynthia G. MOREHEAD