History of Trigg County, Historical and Biographical, ed. W.H. Perrin,
F.A. Battey Pub. Co., Chicago, 1884. p. 190.   [Cadiz Precinct]

JUDGE JOHN R. GRACE was born May 27, 1834, in Trigg County, Ky.  He is a
son of William D. and Mary (Organ) Grace.  The father was born in
Caldwell, now Trigg County, January 24, 1813, and is now living on his
farm, about three miles from Cadiz.  The mother was a native of Wilson
County, Tenn.  She died August 30, 1834.  John R. was reared in or near
Canton, and attended the subscription schools of that locality, after
which he attended the Lebanon High School one year.  At about the age of
nineteen he took up the study of law, under the preceptorship of Maj.
Matthew Mayes, where he continued one year, after which he went to
Louisville, and there entered the law department of the Transylvania
College; there graduated in the class of 1855.  He then came to Cadiz and
engaged in the practice of his profession.  In 1858 he was elected County
Judge.  Two years later he formed a partnership with Maj. Matthew Mayes,
firm of Mayes and Grace.  This partnership continued till [sic] 1865. He
then formed a partnership with Henry C. Burnett, which continued till
[sic] the death of the latter, which occurred in September, 1866.  He
continued the practice of his profession till [sic] 1868, when he was
elected Circuit Judge of the Second Judicial District, comprising the
counties of Trigg, Christian, Hopkins, Caldwell and Lyon.  He was
re-elected in 1874, and again in 1880; this position he still honorably
fills.  In 1880 the county of Muhlenburg [sic] was added to this circuit.
In October, 1882, he was nominated on the Democratic ticket for Congress,
representing the First Congressional District, and was defeated by Oscar
Turner, the Independent candidate, by a small majority.  Judge Grace was
married in 1859, to Miss Emeline, daughter of Abner Terry, of Trigg
County.  This lady died in January, 1861, aged twenty-four years.

Grace Organ Mayes Burnett Turner Terry
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Caldwell-KY Wilson-TN

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