Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 584-586 [Graves]

     ANDREW BURGOYNE COLLEY, one of the most extensive tobacco
raisers of Graves county, has lived in this county all his life, and
has made a reputation for energy and business ability by the success
which he has attained by his efforts.  The talents that he received
when he began life he has put to good use, and his prosperity
results from this good management and thrifty industry.  He has been
an influential citizen of his community, and in whatever way he has
touched the public life of his county he has displayed the same
enterprising qualities which have been characteristic of his private
life.
     Mr. Colley's grandfather, David Colley, was a native of
Virginia and of Irish ancestry, while his grandfather on his
mother's side was of German lineage.  His parents were Isaiah and
Eliza M. (Happy) Colley, the former a native of Trigg county,
Kentucky, and the latter born near Lexington, Kentucky.  Isaiah
Colley was a farmer, and in politics was first a Democrat, then
joined the Whigs and later the Republicans.  He was a member of no
church, but attended the worship of the Christian denomination.  He
died in 1863, at the age of sixty-five, and his wife survived him
till 1900, when she passed away at the age of eighty-seven.  Their
nine children were as follows: Granville G., William M., deceased,
Benjamin F., Christopher C., Andrew B., Theodore T., deceased, John
C., Samuel E., and Mary.
     Andrew B. Colley was born in Graves county, August 27, 1845,
and received his educational training in the schools of Farmington. 
He was equipped with a capital of fifteen hundred dollars on
beginning life, and he devoted it to farming.  He has materially
increased his property, and is now the owner of one of the finest
farms in the county, containing four hundred acres of land and
improved to the point that it can be compared with any farm and can
be taken as a model and representative place.  He operates it
himself, and devotes nearly all of it to the culture of tobacco. 
His annual crop averages from forty to forty-five thousand pounds,
of excellent quality and commanding the best prices on the market. 
He has devoted himself to a thorough study of the conditions
affecting this important branch of Kentucky farming, and is as well
posted a tobacco man as can be found in western Kentucky.
     Mr. Colley belongs to the minority party in Kentucky, but
zealously supports Republican principles.  He and his wife are
consistent members of the Christian church.  In 1873 he was married
to Miss Annie Overbey, who was born near Farmington in Graves county
and educated there.  Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs.
Colley: Merritt O., who was a prominent lawyer in Mayfield until his
death, which occurred June 19, 1901; Lubie G., a physician; Carl B.,
deceased; Toma J.; Mary G.

Colley Happy Overbey
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VA Trigg-KY

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