William T. Aull, Superintendent of City Scales, was born in Knottsville Precinct, March 16, 1840. His father, James Aull, was born near Bardstown, Nelson Co., Ky., and when ten or twelve years of age came with his parents to Daviess County, Ky., settling in Knottsville Precinct, being among the first to settle in this precinct. He was married here to Charlotte McDaniel. She was born in Nelson County, Ky., and came with her parents to Daviess County about the same year that her husband came, and their parents’ farms joined. Mr. and Mrs. James Aull are both living on the old farm in Knottsville Precinct, and have had a family of five sons and six daughters. Two daughters are deceased. William T., the subject of this sketch, is the eldest. He lived on the old homestead farm, in Knottsville Precinct, until the outbreaking of the late war, and in September, 1861, enlisted in Captain Noel’s First Kentucky Confederate Cavalry, and remained in the service until the battle at Salt Works, Va., October, 1864, where he lost his right leg by a bullet from a Spencer rifle, while driving the enemy from the field. He was left at a little village called Liberty, in Tazewell County, Va., and remained with the family of Jefferson Hickenbothem until Feb. 19, 1865, when he went to Yorkville, where he was compelled to submit to a second operation on his leg; remained there with the family of the Rev. Mr. Anderson, a Presbyterian minister, until July 10, 1865, when he came home to Daviess County, Ky. He then attended the Pleasant Valley Academy two years; then began teaching school, teaching in Daviess, Hancock and Ohio counties four years. He was then elected County Assessor of Daviess County and held that office four years, when he was elected Constable of Upper Town Precinct for two years. He then kept the Stoneman Hotel in Owensboro until burned out, Jan. 24, 1882, since which he has been Superintendent of the City Scales for the City of Owensboro. Mr. Aull married Mary E. Bruner, Aug. 29, 1879. She was born in Hancock County, Ky., and is a daughter of W. and Isabella (Head) Bruner. Mr. and Mrs. Aull have had seven children, four now living – Germaner, born Nov. 19, 1871; LeRoy, born Dec. 13, 1873; Maude, born June 26, 1877, and W. Jessie, born Nov. 1, 1882. In politics Mr. Aull is a Democrat. He is of Scotch descent. His grandfather, Benjamin Aull, was in the war of 1812.

Source: History of Daviess County, Kentucky. Chicago: Interstate Publishing Co., 1883. Print.