History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 510.
[Bourbon County]  [Millersburg Precinct]

JOSEPH A. GRIMES, farmer and distiller; P. O. Millersburg; a native of
Stewart County, Ga., about forty miles from Columbus, where he was born,
Nov. 15, 1844, to John and Eliza (Grimes) Grimes; she died in 1860, aged
about fifty years; he in 1862, aged fifty-four years; they were natives
of North Carolina, settled in Georgia at an early date; they had three
sons and one daughter--John W., who was assassinated in his own dooryard,
in 1865, cause supposed to have grown out of war troubles; Julia A.,
wife of Henry G. Feagin, a member of one of the wealthy and prominent
families of Alabama, near Midway; he has held the office of Sheriff of
Stewart County two terms, and is extensively engaged in mercantile and
agricultural pursuits; Robert J. Grimes, engaged largely in agriculture
and milling interests in his native county; served during the war in
the Virginia Army, under Gen. Longstreet; Joseph A. received a liberal
education, and assisted his father, who was one of the foremost planters
in the county; he enlisted in 1862, in Captain Ball's Company, 55th
Georgia Regiment, under Colonel Haskill, commanded by General Kirby
Smith, with whom he served until the capture of the command at
Cumberland Gap, when they were sent to Camp Douglas, at Chicago, where
they were held as prisoners until the close of the war; he then
returned to his native county, where he engaged in agriculture until
his removal to Bourbon County, in 1867.  He was clerk and proprietor
of the Bourbon House at Paris for a time, before removing to his
present home; since which time he has been engaged in agriculture and
stock raising, also the manufacture of whiskey, upon the old copper
distilled plan.  He was married May 30, 1871, to Sue C. Mackey,
daughter of John A. and Lucinda (Conner) Mackey, the latter a native of
Nelson County, the former a native of Louisiana, came to Nelson county
when a young man and engaged in agriculture and trading; they now
reside in Warren County, Ky.  Mr. Grimes has by this marriage five
children, viz: John R., born April 26, 1872; Emma L., March 22, 1874;
Mary T., June 28, 1876; William C., July 20, 1878; Joseph A., April
13, 1880.

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