Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 643-645 [Graves]

     WILLIAM J. WHITLOW, a well known farmer near Sedalia, Graves
county, is a native Kentuckian, and enjoys the distinction of having
arrived at a comfortable degree of material prosperity through his
own efforts and from an inauspicious beginning, when he was poor and
had only his hands to help him.  He is now only in the vigor and
health of middle age, but through his industry and thrift has
accumulated means which insure his declining years from any want. 
He bears the reputation of being an upright and reliable man, kind
and provident for his family, and public-spirited and true in his
ideals of citizenship.
     Mr. Whitlow's family is of Irish descent, being one of the many
which settled in South Carolina from the earliest days of
colonization, in which state grandfather Jesse Whitlow was born. 
Alfred M. Whitlow, the father of William J. Whitlow, was born in
Allen county, Kentucky, as was also his wife, Rena (Long) Whitlow,
who was a daughter of Nicholas Long.  Alfred Whitlow has followed
the trade of a blacksmith all his life, and he also buys farms.  He
now make his home on a fine farm of eighty acres near Sedalia, and
is strong and vigorous at the age of seventy-three.  He has always
voted the Democratic ticket, and is a member of the Missionary
Baptist church.  His wife died in 1864, having borne her husband six
children: Louisa F., William J., George, deceased, Rena, deceased,
one that died in infancy, and Rufus, deceased.
     Mr. William J. Withlow was born in Allen county, Kentucky,
December 23, 1855.  He learned the ins and outs of farming at an
early age, and had to make his start in this work without any
capital.  He has been increasingly successful, so that he is now the
owner of a model farm of one hundred and sixty acres, well improved
and stocked, not far from the village of Sedalia, and to this he
devotes the best efforts of his years.
     Mr. Withlow is a stanch Democrat in politics, and follows the
family creed by being a member of the Missionary Baptist church.  On
December 23, 1883, his birthday, he married to Miss Maggie Atherton,
who was born in Carlisle county, Kentucky, in September, 1864, a
daughter of James and Savilla Jane (Goldsmith) Atherton, who are
both living in Carlisle county.  Mrs. Whitlow was reared and
educated in her native county.  Six children have been born to Mr.
and Mrs. Whitlow: Donnie Belle, one that died in infancy, Willie
May, Cletus, Rhode and Kirskey.  Mr. and Mrs. Whitlow are highly
esteemed throughout the neighborhood, and are numbered among the
representative people of Graves county.

Whitlow Long Atherton Goldsmith
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SC Allen-KY Carlisle-KY

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