History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., 
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p. 
613.

GRIFFIN GATEWOOD, son of James Gatewood, was born in Bowling Green, Ky.,
Sept. 6, 1820.  His father was a native of Virginia.  He removed from 
Bowling Green with his family in 1831, to Hancock County, where he died 
in 1838.  Griffin came to Daviess County in 1839.  He ran Jewell's 
grist-mill two years and in 1841 came to Knottsville and learned the 
saddler's trade with L. T. Brown.  In November, 1842, he went to 
Jewell's mill and carried on a saddler's shop till December, 1843, when 
he removed to Yelvinton and remained eight years.  He then had a shop in 
Owensboro four or five years and since then has been engaged in farming. 
 He was married Feb. 4, 1841, to Martha A., daughter of L. T. Brown.  
Eleven children have been born to them, only six now living--James L., 
Amanda, Mattie J., Thomas H., Nannie C. and Edwin L.  Thomas H. and 
Edwin L. are teachers, and are fast gaining enviable reputations.  
Amanda has also taught in this county.

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