BIO:  GRAVES, John H., s/o John & Mary Graves

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

GRAVES   MORGAN   BURRIS

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1886

Daviess County, Barr Twp., page 815

JOHN H. GRAVES was born in Barr Township, Daviess Co., Ind., in 1823, and
received the education of the average farmer boy of his time.  On reaching
man's estate he paid his own way in school, thus acquiring a good education
for that time.  After raising a crop of corn and selling it he worked on
the Ohio River on a flat-boat, but on returning was taken very ill, and spent
all his accumulated means to pay his physician.  For three winters he cut
cord-wood in the South for 50 cents a cord, and in time accumulated enough 
money to purchase forty acres of the farm on which he now lives.  He now
owns 400 acres of land and is well fixed financially.  In 1849 he married
Elizabeth Morgan, born in Daviess County in 1829.  She is the daughter of
Charles and Mary (Burris) Morgan, and has borne her husband these children:
Valentine, Charles, Mary, Matilda, James, William, Rebecca, Jennie, Gertrude,
Catharine, Julia and John H.  Charles was a teacher by profession for about
four years.  All the family are members of the Catholic Church.  Mr. Graves
is a warm Democrat, and cast his first vote for Polk.  His enterprises have
met with abundant success and he may be mentioned as one of the prominent
men of the township in which he lives.  His parents, John and Mary Graves,
were born in Kentucky in 1793 and 1790, and died in 1865 and 1866, 
respectively.
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