Backroads of Barren County, Ky., newspaper articles written by William 
Daniel Tolle 1877 thru 1920's, compiled by Sandra K. Gorin, Gorin 
Genealogical Publishing, copyright July 1991. Used by permission. p 11.

WILLIAM BYBEE in an early day owned a farm on Beaver Creek in the same 
locatility of those other farms mentioned.  He sold his farm to John 
Martin and bought one of the same creek west of the Louisville Pike 
about three miles from Glasgow, where he lived out the remainder of his 
days, and died at a good old age many years ago.  Mr. Bybee was a 
thorough going man full of business and vim.  He was a farmer and stock 
trader.  Before the Civil War he made regular trips South with horses 
and mules.  In the spring he would buy horses enough to run his farm, of 
a cheap kind, and work them making large crops, feeding them all the 
while, and after the crops were laid by he would keep feeding them at a 
high rate until they were ready for market, when he would run them 
south.  By this mode his stock did not cost him high and he could afford 
to sell them low, and made money.  The Civil War broke up all this 
business.
	In latter years Mr. Bybee following the business of auctioneer.  
On one occasion he was selling a horse in Glasgow. He was on a block 
holding the horse by the bridle when the horse became affrightened and 
jerked him off the block crippling him, so he never recovered.  He went 
on crutches the remainder of his life.

Bybee Martin
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Louisville-Jefferson-KY

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