Benjamin A. Graves Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft@cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Harrison, Biographical Sketches, Page 1038

BENJAMIN A. GRAVES, Sec 2, P. O. Platteville; born in Mercer Co., Penn., Dec. 11 
1825.  Married Miss Lurancy Ray July 25. 1845; she was born Feb. 14, 1828, in 
Trumbull Co., Ohio.  In 1848, they came to Wisconsin, where Mr. Graves began as 
a teamster in this town; he afterward rented farms for a number of years until 
enough was earned and saved for the purchase of a farm of his own in 1858.  This 
farm he sold to a brother in 1875; he then bought his present 107-acre farm of 
George McFall.  Mr. Graves is a member of the U. B. Church, and a Republican; 
has been Constable, etc.  During the last eight months of the rebellion, he 
served as one of the 44th W. V. I.  Have eight children - George, Roswell. Mary 
A., Arnold, Martha, Lulu, Lurinda and Hattie; they lost two - Joab, aged 6, and 
Lorenzo, aged 2.