A wandering laboring-boy an grew up literally without educa tion. He never did more in th way of writing than to bungling ly write his own name. Befor he was grown he passed on year as a hired hand with hi uncle Isaac on Watauga, branch of the Holston River Getting back into Kentucky, an having reached his twenty eighth year, he married Nan Hanks mother of the presen subject — in the year 1806. Sh also was born in Virginia; an relatives of hers of the name 0 Hanks, and of other names, no reside in Coles, in Macon, an in Adams counties, Illinois, an also in Iowa. The present sub jcet has no brother or sister 0.