History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 570. [Bourbon County] [Centerville Precinct] J. W. FRITTS, M.D.; P. O. Centerville; was born July 6, 1841, in Carlisle, Ky., son of Dr. W. W. and Sarah (Hamilton) Fritts; he, the father, having been born and raised in Clark County, Ky., whilst the grandfather of our subject, Henry Fritts, was a native of, and came from Pennsylvania to Kentucky in 1801, dying in 1879. Dr. W. W. Fritts is and has been for the past forty years a practicing physician in Carlisle. Our subject was married in 1867 to Miss Alice Stapleton, daughter of George W. Stapleton, of Clark County, and has seven children: Frank, Maud, Lizzie, Laura, Willie, May and Walter. Dr. Fritts received his literary education in Georgetown, where he graduated in 1860, afterward in 1873, receiving his medical education in Louisville, where he was graduated, and received his diploma, settling down to practice in Winchester, where he remained till [sic] two years ago, when he came to Centerville, and opened practice, carrying on the grocery business. Dr. Fritts and wife are members of the Christian Church. He served in the Hospitals of the Federal army during the war. He is a Democrat. Fritts Hamilton Stapleton = Clark-KY Jefferson-KY PA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/bourbon/fritts.jw.txt