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

JOHN T. SHERIFF (deceased) was born in Londonderry county, Ireland,
December 11, 1817, being the fifth son of a family of eleven children.  In
1837 he emigrated with his parents to the United States, locating in
Cincinnati.  In 1838 his father bought a farm in this county and the family
located on it.  The son came to Williamstown and accepted a position in the
dry goods establishment of N. C. Tunis, which place he held two years, when
he purchased a half interest in the business. The following year he secured
control of the entire business, which he successfully conducted until 1866,
when he sold out his mercantile business to J. H. Webb. He then bought a
farm.  Mr. Sheriff died November 24, 1895.

Sheriff Tunis Webb
=
Cincinnati-Hamilton-OH Ireland

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