Monterey-Alameda County CA Archives Biographies.....Graves, George 1813 - 1889
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

GEORGE GRAVES, deceased, was a native of Marion county, Kentucky, where he was
born, July 28, 1813, near the town of Lebanon. His father, William Graves, was a
planter by occupation, and slave owner, and carried on a large business. Of his
five children, George was the eldest.

  Our subject left Kentucky in 1846, and located in Nottaway county, near
Marysville, where he lived four years. In 1850 he came to California, and
located near San Leandro, in Alameda county, but soon returned to Kentucky for
his family, which he brought to the "Golden State" across the plains, via Carson
river. They lived about four years in Alameda county, when they located on the
present estate, near Salinas, in 1853, where Mr. Graves built up a fine
property, reared his family and served the public as an enterprising, upright
citizen. His death occurred, April 20, 1889, when he had attained the age of
seventy-six years, leaving behind him a handsome property as provision for his
family. A large circle of friends and relatives mourn his loss.

  Mr. Graves was married in Kentucky, August 15, 1846, to Miss Nancy, a daughter
of Ignatius Walker, a farmer of Marion county. She was born January 30, 1825,
and reared in the same neighborhood as her husband. She still survives, and is
the mother of eight children, namely: Ann Lethea, now Mrs. Jackson Gellitt, of
Ventura; Georgiana, now Mrs. Robert C. Bemiss, of San Jose; Simion, lives on the
farm; Jennie, now Mrs. J. J. Conner, of Salinas; Mary, now Mrs. J. J. Kelly, of
Salinas; Benjamin and Charles, at home.

  By a former marriage Mr. Graves had four children, namely: Thomas Graves, and
William T. Graves; and Lovina, a daughter, who married Ebenezer Harris, but is
deceased; and another daughter, Rosina, a widow of Robert Laws, of San Francisco.

  Mr. Graves was a man of great energy and probity, and was highly esteemed by
all who knew him.


Additional Comments:
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Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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