Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 6th ed.,1887, Spencer Co. ISAAC F. JEWELL was born in Spencer County, August 12, 1861, the third of three children born to Jackson and Sarah F. (Read) Jewell. His paternal grandfather, William Jewell, was born in Virginia, but moved to Kentucky in 1775 and settled on Elk Creek, in what was then Shelby County, but now Spencer. He was a farmer, became the father of ten children, and died in 1844. Jackson Jewell, father of Isaac F., was born in 1816 in Shelby, now Spencer County, married in 1843 Sallie Jane Robison, daughter of William Robison, of Jefferson County, Ky. Of their five children, three are now living: James R., Martha and Robert F. Mrs. Sallie Jane Jewell was born in 1816 and died in 1854. Jackson Jewell married for his second wife, in 1855, Sarah F. Read, of Barren County, Ky. She was born in Fauquier County, Va., in 1834, and moved to Kentucky in 1847. Her father, William Read, was born in Virginia in 1814, and died in 1866. He was an Englishman, a farmer, and resided near Glasgow, Barren Co., Ky., where he died. The children of Jackson and Sarah F. Jewell are Annie L., Rice B., Isaac Franklin, Laura and Ella. Jackson Jewell is a farmer, is now seventy-one years old, and resides on the farm where he was born. He is a member of the Elk Creek Baptist Church, of which his wife, who is now fifty-two years old, is also a member. Isaac F. Jewell was reared on a farm and educated at Elk Creek Academy. At the age of twenty-one he went to Jefferson County where he remained two years; then returned to his native county, and in January, 1866, opened a livery, feed and sale stable in Taylorsville. He has a number of fine rigs and fast horses, many of which can trot a mile in less than three minutes. He married, September 29, 1881, Carrie Ashby, of Jefferson County, daughter of John R. Ashby. Two children have blessed their union: Zella, born March 13, 1883, and Webber, born May 18, 1887. Jewell Read Robison = VA Shelby Jefferson Barren Fauquier-VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/spencer/jewell.if.txt