Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 453-454 [McCracken]

     FRANCIS EUGENE GRAVES, one of the leading attorneys of Paducah,
Kentucky, was born in Crittenden county, Kentucky, June 20, 1871, and is
a son of William S. and Helen A. (Shelby) Graves, both natives of
Kentucky, the father being born in Marion county, and the mother in
Crittenden county.  The paternal grandfather was William Graves of
Kentucky, and the family is one of the old and aristocratic ones of the
state.  The father was a prominent physician, who moved from Lebanon to
Clinton, Kentucky, and thence to Dycusburg, where he continued in active
practice until his death in 1902, when he was eighty-one years of age.  
The mother died in 1894, aged fifty-nine years.  In politics the father
was a strong Democrat, and both he and his wife were consistent members
of the Roman Catholic church.
     Of the seven children born to his parents, Mr. F. E. Graves is the
youngest now living, three having died in childhood.  Mr. Graves was
reared and educated in Dycusburg, and, then going to Paducah, studied
law with Rhey Boyd, being admitted to the bar in 1894.  In 1897 he was
elected county attorney, and re-elected to the same office in 1901,
being its present incumbent, and a stanch supporter of the principles of
Democracy.  Fraternally he is a member of the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks.  

Graves Shelby Boyd
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Crittenden-Ky Marion-KY Hickman-KY

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