I have a photograph of a horse training stable c. 1890 in Carrollton, KY. The establishment is called "Bond Bros. Stable", and it stood just north of the courthouse. The owners were A. Sydney Bond and his brother William, sons of James A. Bond. One of the persons in the photo is identified as Cole Belch. He appears to have been born ~1855-1865.

I also have a receipt from "Belch & Banta Main Street Livery Stable", Carrollton, KY (one block from the Bond Bros.) from 1898.

Marriages, Carroll Co: Banta George W & Belch Lydia A 1873 3-228 W, so the families Banta and Belch intermarried.

There is a Columbus Belch in the area said (Worldconnect) to have been born 1849 and died 1872, and his wife is listed as a widow in the 1880 census, so this is not Cole Belch.

Can anyone identify Cole Belch, or the owners of Belch & Banta?