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Edmonson County, named in 1825, honors Capt. John Edmonson, who was born in Virginia in 1764. During the War of Revolution he served as a private in a company led by his father and fought at the Battle of King's Mountain in 1782. He came to Kentucky in 1790, and in the War of 1812 he raised a rifle company in Fayette County. He was killed at the Battle of River Raisin on Jan. 22, 1813, one of nine leaders killed there for whom Kentucky counties are named. Edmonson County was formed from Grayson, Hart, and Warren counties.
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