HISTORY OF FAYETTE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, by Robert Peter, ed. by
William H. Perrin, O. L. Baskin Co., Chicago, 1882.  Reprinted by Southern
Historical Press, Easley, SC, 1979.

JOSEPH GRAVES, farmer, P. O. Chilesburg.  the parents of subject came to 
Fayette County, Ky., about the year 1815, from Spotsylvania County, Va., 
where Joseph first saw the light, March 9, 1809.  Two of his uncles, Maj. 
Benjamin and Coleman Graves, were killed at River Raisi .  Since infancy, 
he has been a resident of the county in which he now owns and works 
intelligently and diligently seventy-six acres of as fine land as can be 
found in this fair and fertile region.  He formerly was a dealer in fine 
blooded horses, for which Fayette County is so celebrated.  His father 
and mother both died in the county.  February 11, 1831, he married 
Margaret A., daughter of William and Lucy (Gatewood) Hayes, both of whom 
were "natives and to the manner born," and died in the only country that 
they knew, as a fond fatherland, fruitful of earth's gifts, of fair women 
and brave men, of grand old names and thrilling memories.  The Hayes 
family came to Fayette county in the days of early pioneer effort, when 
the settler was of necessity a soldier, the farmer a fighter of Indians; 
when hearths and homes and crops and flocks were in constant hazard, and 
were only held as the hard-won  reward of eternal vigilance, alike of 
women and of men.  Mrs. Graves was born in the county, February 11, 1813, 
and was married on the eighteenth anniversary of her birth.  Of the 
children born of the union, a son and a daughter are dead.  The family 
living consists of William; George; Joseph; Lucy, wife of F. B. Field; 
Mary, wife of W. P. Talbott; Anna, wife of L. Crutcher; Ellen and Margaret.  
Further references to the Graves family will be found on other pages of 
these biographies.

Gatewood Hayes Field Talbott Crutcher
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Spotsylvania-VA

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