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

DR. J. T. POINTS.  One of the largest and most prominent families in
Grant County is the Points family, and Dr. J. T. Points is the oldest 
living member of that family, excepting his father, who is yet alive 
and fairly well at the great age of ninety years.  Dr. Tom is a splendid
good citizen, and has a beautiful home on one of the biggest and best 
farms in the county.  He is the eldest son of William Points and 
Marguerette (Franks) Points, and was born in Grant County on his 
father's old farm in 1842, November 19th.  He was raised up on a farm 
and taught to work, as his father never had any boys or girls that he 
did not teach this very important lesson.  The doctor attended the 
common schools of Sherman and Mount Zion until of age, working in the 
summer time on a farm and in the winter trudging to school.  He obtained
a fairly good education, and when he grew to manhood decided to adopt 
medicine as his profession.  He attended the Cincinnati School of 
Medicine, and graduated from that institution of learning and the 
Eclectic College of Cincinnati, and located and began the practice of 
his profession at Mount Zion in 1869.  Some years later his home and 
his medical books and instruments were all destroyed by fire, and he 
then decided to abandon the active practice of the profession and engage
in farming and the rehandling of leaf tobacco.  This has been his 
business for twenty-five years, and he has been very successful in that 
line of agriculture and especially in stock raising.  November 21st, 
1867, he was united in marriage to Miss Hattie McBee, daughter of the 
late William Walter McBee, and to this union seven children have been 
born.  W. W. Points, a prominent lawyer and now County Attorney of 
Grant County, is the eldest, the others are Mrs. Vevie Blackburn, wife
of Cashier Everett Blackburn, of Berry Station; Allen H., assistant
cashier of the Jonesville Deposit Bank, J. Fennimore, at home on the 
farm with his father; Elvie S., wife of Edward Blackburn, cashier of 
the Jonesville Deposit Bank, Sarah M. and Edith.  Mr. Points, and in 
fact all of the Points family, have been active in business all of 
their lives, and have been prominent as members are workers in the 
Democratic party.  Mr. Points, his wife and all of the members of his 
family, are members in good standing of the Mount Zion Baptist Church, 
and he has been and is a deacon in the church.  His farm at Sherman is 
one of the best and most sightly in the county.  It contains nearly 
three acres of rich, rolling fields nearly all covered with blue grass 
and fine stock.  He has been noted for years as a breeder of fine 
Shropshire sheep and fine Poland China hogs, and has, by his pure 
breeding, put much good blood into the stock of the county.  His herd 
of shorthorns is one of the best in the state. Mr. Points has many 
calves, fine hogs and fine sheep on his place, and is prepared 
nearly all of the time to supply the demand for fancy animals for
breeding purposes.  A courtly gentleman of the old school, honest and 
upright in his dealings with his fellow men, he is a model citizen and 
worthy of the confidence his neighbors and friends repose in him.

Points McBee Blackburn Franks
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