James W. Bullock, farmer and resident of the First District of Sumner County, is a son of James P. and Mildred (Didlake) Bullock. He was born in Winchester, Clark Co., Ky., in 1817, being one of twelve children, five of them living. The father was born in Virginia in 1789, and moved to Kentucky in boyhood, where he married in 1811, moving to Sumner County in 1849, and engaging in farming until his death in 1858. He was a man of ability and energy. He served as a volunteer in the war of 1812, under Gen. Harrison. In 1814-15 he was appointed clerk of the Clark County Kentucky Court, and held the office until 1845, when he was succeeded by our subject, who filled the office until 1851. David Bullock, our subject's grandfather, was the first clerk of the circuit and county clerk of Clark County, having been appointed to the office in 1793, and was succeeded by his son, James P. The mother of James W. was born in Virginia in 1790, and died in Sumner County at the advanced age of eighty-six years. Both parents were members of the Christian Church. Our subject was raised and educated at home. July 30, 1846, he married Miss Susan, daughter of Nathan and Sallie R. Divine. They have two children: Sallie R., wife of Harvey Chenault, and Nathan Divine. Mr. Bullock moved to Sumner County in 1854, and settled on a farm where he now resides, owning 300 acres of rich land, highly cultivated and well improved, six and one half miles east of Gallatin. He has obtained his handsome property by his own industry and good management; and is one of the best farmers in Sumner County. Politically he was formerly a Whig, but cast his first presidential vote for Van Buren in 1840; since the war he has been a Democrat. The entire family are members of the Christian Church. Mrs. Bullock was born in Mt. Sterling, Montgomery Co., KY., in 1829. Her parents are natives of Virginia. He was of Irish, and her mother of French extraction.