Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Graves, W. C. 1869 - 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  Col. W. C. Graves, of Spring Hill, Kan., is one of the best known auctioneers
in eastern Kansas. He is a native of Ohio, born in Cincinnati, July 17, 1869.
His father was a native of Dayton, Ohio, born in 1848, and his mother of
Cincinnati. They were the parents of eight children, as follows, all of whom are
living; Edward, Bolivar, Mo.; J. A., Spring Hill, Kan.; Ella Inman, Napvine,
Wash.; J. M., Roosevelt, Okla.; Jennie Chamberlin, Roosevelt, Okla.; Ely, Spring
Hill, Kan.; Walter, Grand Pass, Mo., and W. C., whose name introduces this
sketch. The Graves family are Miami county pioneers, coming to that county in
the fall of 1869. They located on a farm two miles south of Spring Hill. W. C.
Graves received a common school education and at the age of twenty-one he
engaged in farming and stockraising and was successfully engeged in that
business until 1902. For a number of years prior to 1902, Colonel Graves had
been engaged as an auctioneer in connection with his farming operations, but
since that time has devoted himself exclusively to autioneering. He began his
career as an auctioneer under Col. Bill Buckeye, of Paola, Kan. He not only has
cried sales in Johnson and Miami counties, but he is well known as an auctioneer
in Oklahoma, Texas and Colorado, as well as Kansas. He is in general demand in
this line of work and his sales amount to many thousands of dollars each year.
Colonel Graves was married at Paola, Kan., in 1892, to Miss Lizzie Meeks, a
daughter of S. S. Meeks, a Johnson county pioneer and Civil war veteran. To
Colonel and Mrs. Graves have been born four children, as, follows: Meek,
Gertrude, Margaretta and Bonnidell. The Graves family reside at Spring Hill
where they are well known and highly respected.

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HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915


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