Jefferson County KyArchives Obituaries.....Graves, Wm. J. 1848 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sharon Hamilton sharkay@cccexpress.com December 22, 2007, 9:45 pm The Hannibal Journal, Thursday, October 12, 1848 Death of the Hon. Wm. J. Graves. -- A widely extended circle of admiring and enthusiastic friends will hear with most poignant sorrow of the death of this distinguished gentleman. After months of most extraordinary suffering, he expired last Friday morning in Louisville. This news says the Louisville Courier, will affect the Whig party throughout the Union with the profoundest sorrow, for there were few men in the country more universally esteemed by his party than Wm. Jordan Graves was. Reveille Additional Comments: Another article in the paper stated that he died at 8 o'clock. The Hannibal Journal was published at Hannibal, Marion County, Missouri. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/jefferson/obits/g/graves3876gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/