Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 
1887, Kenton Co.

MARION GRUBBS, a native of Boone County, Ky., was born March 24, 1842,
and is a son of Wickliffe and Catherine (Gatton) Grubbs, natives, 
respectively, of Virginia and Maryland.  The parental grandfathers 
settled in Kentucky about 1830, and both were farmers.  Wyckliffe 
Grubbs died in September, 1862, at the age of fifty-six years.  Marion 
Grubbs was reared a farmer and followed farming in Boone County until 
1872, when he removed to Covington, and in addition to his grocery 
business in Covington owns and cultivates a farm of 125 acres in Boone 
County.  In 1862 he married Martha Glacken, of Boone County, and there 
have been born to them the following children: Ella, Walter and Ida.

Grubbs Gatton Glacken
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Boone-KY VA MD

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