Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 
1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical 
Society.

JOHN A. JUDY was born in Mercer County, Ky., October 6, 1844, and is a
son of Peter Lyall and Martha (Hedger) Judy.  When he was a small boy
his father removed to Grant County, and in a short time started for the 
West, but while making the voyage up the Missouri River died, and John 
returned home to battle with the world.  He received a fair common 
school education and began to work for his living as a farmer and 
trader.  He was a good farmer, a good trader, and a better manager, and 
as the years passed by his income accumulated until he was in possession
of considerable property.  He followed farming and trading until the 
early nineties, when he opened a drug store at Dry Ridge, one of the 
first in the town.  A little later he formed a partnership with George 
W. Miller, and later still, sold out his interest to Mr. Miller.  In 
1898 he again began business in the drug line at Dry Ridge, and again 
sold out to Mr. Miller in about a year. 
     In 1899 he bought the Dry Ridge Roller Mill, which is said to be
one of the best mills in northern Kentucky, and has continued to run it 
with much satisfaction to his customers and profit to himself ever 
since.  The output of the mill is about thirty barrels of high grade 
flour per day of twelve hours, and there is scarcely a day when it does 
not run that long at least, and a great deal of the time runs night and 
day. Its product is the finest made in the county, and customers from 
all parts of the county patronize it, while a ready demand is found for 
the flour produced by this mill in large towns outside of the county, 
though not a great deal is shipped away, as it takes pretty near all it
can produce to supply the wants of customers within the county limits.
     While Mr. Judy is making money out of the mill, and running it with
entire satisfaction to his customers and to himself, yet he is willing
to sell, as his health has not been so good as it might be of late, and 
he thinks the seclusion of a farm life would be better for him than the
milling business.  Should any one desire to engage in the mill business
no better place can be found than here.
     In the field of matrimony Mr. Judy has been eminently successful,
and evidently believes in the scriptural injunction, "It is not good for
man to live alone" for he has been married three times.  He was married
the first time to Miss May Green, in 1872.  She departed this life some
few years later, and he was remarried two years after to Miss Sallie
Conner.  His second wife lived a number of years, and a year after her
death he was again married, to Miss Jane McKensey, who still survives.
No children has been born to any of these marriages.
     In politics Mr. Judy is a Democrat. During the thirty-five years in
which he has been a voter he has never voted any other ticket, and has
never missed an election.  He has been a candidate for county office on
one or two occasions.  He is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church,
and a man who lives up to the principles of the church in which he holds
membership.  He is a member of Oswego Tribe of Red Men, Dry Ridge, and
a regular attendant at all their meetings.

Judy Hedger Green Conner McKensey Miller
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Mercer-KY

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