Son of Simeon Everly, Jr. and Mary Elizabeth (Everly) Everly

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed.,
1885, McLean Co.

DR. NATHAN H. EVERLY, McLean County, a native of Muhlenburgh [sic]
County, was born May 15, 1827, and is one of twins born to Simeon and
Elizabeth (Everly) Everly, natives of West Virginia, and McLean County
respectively. Simeon Everly was a son of Simeon and Prudence (Howard)
Everly, the former a soldier in many early Indian wars, and a son of
Jasper Everly who emigrated from Germany and settled in Monongahela [sic]
County, now West Virginia, and reared a large family. The maternal
granfather was Jesse Everly, who married Catherine West. They came to
Kentucky and settled on the Island in this county about the year 1806.
Subject's father came to this State about the year 1825. Dr. Everly
received a good common school education, and remained at home with his
parents until 1852, when he began the study of medicine with Dr. N.
Everly, and graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati
in the spring of 1858. Soon after he located where he now lives. He
was married December 15, 1859, to Mrs. Amanda C. McRae, nee James, of
Ohio County, and a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Reno) James, by
whom he had two children: Lillian W. (Shacklett), and George Lovel.
Mrs. Everly died September 29, 1862, and Dr. Everly next married,
October 13, 1864, M. H. Martin, a daughter of Hugh H. and Elizabeth
(Roark) Martin. This union was blessed with three children: Robert
Scott, Hugh Martin and John Scudder. He and wife are members of the
Methodist Church. They are both members of the Grange, she holding
the office of Ceres. He owns a fine farm of 335 acres, well improved.
He was formely [sic] a Whig, but since the war a Republican.