History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 722.
[Harrison County]  [Leesburg Precinct]

W. K. GRIFFITH, farmer, P. O. Cynthiana, is a native of Harrison County,
where he was born at his present residence in 1828.  His grandfather,
William Griffith, was a native of Virginia, whence he emigrated at an early
day, and figured conspicuously in those pioneer struggles which were the
common lot of all of Kentucky's early settlers.  He was noted for his
uprightness and candor, and soon became possessed of the confidence and
esteem of his fellow men, having been elected as a delegate to the
convention which met at Danville in April, 1792, to frame the first
constitution of Kentucky.  The father of our subject, Burrell Griffith,
married Harriet King, daughter of John King, of Bourbon County, Ky.  After
a brief period of wedded life the connubial tie was severed by the death
of the wife in 1829.  The husband survived her eight years, dying in 1837.
W. K. Griffith married Miss Margaret Spears, daughter of John K. and Emily
Spears, of Bourbon, and is the father of four children: Wm. B., Emma H.,
Hubert F. and John K.  He is the owner of a very fine estate of 1,300
acres of superior blue grass land, located on Cynthiana and Leesburg Pike,
five miles from Cynthiana, and called "Silver Lake" from a very fine lake
which covers an area of about two acres and adjoining his residence.  Mr.
Griffith has for several years past been a successful breeder of short
horn cattle and Cotswold sheep, having at the head of his herd, "Victor
2d," by Duke of Broomfield.  (American Short Horn Register, Vol. 19,
No. 37,102.)  His politics are identified with the Democrat party, of
which he is a warm and valiant supporter.  Mrs. G. [sic] is a member of
the Christian Church at Leesburg.

Griffith King Spears
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Boyle-KY Bourbon-KY VA

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