Edward Owings Guerrant - born February 28, 1838 in Sharpsburg (Bath County), Kentucky, died November 27, 1916. He is buried in the Lexington, Kentucky, Cemetery. Among his books are: "Bloody Breathitt" (1890); "Forty Years Among the Highlanders" (1905); "The Galax Gatherers" (1910); and "The Gospel of the Lilies" (1912). A book was written about Dr. Guerrant in 1950 entitled " Edward O. Guerrant: Apostle to the Southern Highlands."