Descendants of Jacob Sylvester Graves
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Jacob Sylvester Graves
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Generation No. 1
Notes for JACOB SYLVESTER GRAVES
Notes for MARTHA ELIZABETH KITTS
Children of JACOB GRAVES and MARTHA KITTS
Notes for VIVA WYOMING GRAVES
Notes for RICHARD WILLIAM GRAVES
Generation No. 2
Notes for GENEVIER GRAVES
Children of GENEVIER GRAVES and MILTON
BALL
Children of ELMER GRAVES and JEANETTE BLANCH
Child of WYLIE GRAVES and FRANCIS HOUK
Notes for PATRICIA ANN GRAVES
Generation No. 3
Child of ELMER WESLEY GRAVES
Endnotes
.Generation No. 1 Return to Index
1. JACOB SYLVESTER GRAVES (RICHARD6, JACOB5, JOHN4, JACOB3, JOHN SEBASTION (GRAFF)2, UNKNOWN1 GRAFF) was born 14 August 1863 in Union County Tennessee, and died 31 December 1942 in Union County Tennessee. He married MARTHA ELIZABETH KITTS 22 May 1894 in Union County Tennessee, daughter of WILLIAM KITTS and BARBARA KITTS.
.Notes for JACOB SYLVESTER GRAVES:
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My Grandfather was born , Jacob Sylvester Graves,14 August 1863 in Knox County
Tennessee. I have never been able to track down any Civil war records on
his Father Richard Graves, but if he did fight it was for the Union. It does
not appear that he was off to war for any length of time according to the
birth of his children.
His Mother was a beautiful little lady named Talitha Fraker. I do know that Talitha Father William Anton Fraker did serve in the Civil war.
I would have a tendency to say that we were from poor dirt farmers but when you really think about it everyone during that time were poor. Times were very hard especially in the Southern area of Tennessee.
The Graves family were very much linked to the Monroe Family. Lucinda Bronson married into the Monroe family. I am not sure if this the connection to the outcome of my Grandfathers life but it was the only one that I could come up with.
For some reason my Grandfather did not want to be a farmer so he spent eight years serving an apprentice to become a lawyer. I have always been proud of the fact, that no matter what people thought of him as a man it took a lot of courage to try to rise above the situation and study to become something different.
From all that I can gather he was rather good at it. He was called to Knoxville to serve as Judge over many cases. According to some material I have read he was asked to help write a manual for Justice of the Peace that was still in effect in 1959. At long last I have found where I got my mouth from.
My grandfather served as a County Judge for Union County for eight years. He also served as Justice of the Peace and I have seen his name several time as marrying several couples. He was also a delegate to the House of Representatives about 1909 and was chairman of the Republican exceptive committee for many years.He served on both the state level and local level for the republican Party.
.Notes for MARTHA ELIZABETH KITTS: Return to Index
Martha Elizabeth Kitts was my Grandmother and her Father has been my biggest challenge. I am hoping by writing this it will lead to the discovery of who her Father was.
My father, well lets say he was sort of truthful. He told me my Great Grandmother was named Margaret. He also said she married George Monroe. So far so good. About two hundred dollars later, saying nothing about mail letters etc. I had no luck. I had gone so far as to study Migration, East Tennessee History, Indians, different ways of spelling the whole smuts. Christmas four years ago I finally asked him again, He replied O. K Patsy you asked for it...Your grandmother was a bastard . I thought for a minute and replied Is that German or English for the first time I heard him give a big roar...but I could tell that there was some pain in his voice. As it turned out she went by her middle her name of Carolyn. I did find a marriage record Carolyn Kitts married William Kitts three months before Martha was born. Carolyn husband "Sweet William Kitts moved West and no one today knows who he was. Of course no one is living any more and that could be one of the reasons I do not know who he is.
Carolyn did marry George Monroe and she died in 1920.
.Children of JACOB GRAVES and MARTHA KITTS are: Return to Index
2. i. GENEVIER8 GRAVES, b. 12 April 1895, Union County Tennessee; d. 02 January 1922, Knox County Tennessee.
3. ii. ELMER WESLEY GRAVES, b. 04 June 1896, Maynardville, Tennessee Union County; d. Greensboro, North Carolinia, Gilford County..
iii. VIVA WYOMING GRAVES, b. September 1897, Maynardville, Tennessee Union County; d. Abt. 1913, Maynardville, Tennessee Union County.
.Notes for VIVA WYOMING GRAVES: Return to Index
Viva died in 1913 I can not find a death certificate, I would like to know the cause of death. I noticed that her middle name is Wyoming. I wondered if this could be a clue.
iv. RICHARD WILLIAM GRAVES, b. Abt. 1900, Maynardville, Tennessee Union County; d. 1900, Maynardville, Tennessee Union County.
.Notes for RICHARD WILLIAM GRAVES: Return to Index
Notice that the name of this child is named Richard after the Graves and Willliam after the Kitts.
v. CONSTANCE GRAVES, b. Abt. 1901, Maynardville, Tennessee Union County; d. January 1996, Corryton, Tennessee; m. DAVID LINK, 06 November 1919, Maynardville, Tennessee Union County.
vi. WYLIE CLONDIS GRAVES, b. 18 April 1912, Maynardville, Tennessee Union County; d. 08 December 1997, Greensboro, North Carolina.
vii. IRMA LEE GRAVES, b. 26 November 1914, Maynardville, Tennessee Union County.
.Generation No. 2 Return to Index
2. GENEVIER8 GRAVES (JACOB SYLVESTER7, RICHARD6, JACOB5, JOHN4, JACOB3, JOHN SEBASTION (GRAFF)2, UNKNOWN1 GRAFF) was born 12 April 1895 in Union County Tennessee, and died 02 January 1922 in Knox County Tennessee. She married MILTON T. BALL 12 September 1914 in Knox County Tennessee.
.Notes for GENEVIER GRAVES: Return to Index
Genevier is one of the many sad stories that belong to this family. Genevier was married and had two children. This is another family that I would love to have information on.
Genevier came down with T. B. in 1920. She was treated by a Doctor that I could not identify. She died January 18 1922 and is buried in Knox county. Soon the Lord would also call her Mother home May 22, 1922 from the same deadly death.
.Children of GENEVIER GRAVES and MILTON BALL are: Return to Index
i. HAZEL PAULINE9 BALL, b. 28 September 1915, Maynardville, Tennessee Union County.
ii. CARL WILLIAM BALL, b. 21 September 1918, Knox County Tennessee.
3. ELMER WESLEY8 GRAVES (JACOB SYLVESTER7, RICHARD6, JACOB5, JOHN4, JACOB3, JOHN SEBASTION (GRAFF)2, UNKNOWN1 GRAFF) was born 04 June 1896 in Maynardville, Tennessee Union County, and died in Greensboro, North Carolinia, Gilford County.. He married JEANETTE BLANCH 31 July 1922 in Morristown, Hamblen, Tennessee.
.Children of ELMER GRAVES and JEANETTE BLANCH are: Return to Index
5. i. ELMER WESLEY9 GRAVES, b. 26 July 1923, Greensboro, North Carolinia,
Gilford County..
ii. MARTHA JEAN GRAVES, b. 02 February 1929.
4. WYLIE CLONDIS8 GRAVES (JACOB SYLVESTER7, RICHARD6, JACOB5, JOHN4, JACOB3, JOHN SEBASTION (GRAFF)2, UNKNOWN1 GRAFF) was born 18 April 1912 in Maynardville, Tennessee Union County2, and died 08 December 1997 in Greensboro, North Carolina. He met FRANCIS REBECCA HOUK 06 January 1935 in Campbell, County Tennessee3, daughter of SIDNEY HOUK and NETTA BRADLEY.
.Child of WYLIE GRAVES and FRANCIS HOUK is: Return to Index
i. PATRICIA ANN9 GRAVES, b. 15 October 1939, Greensboro, North Carolina-Gilford County; m. VON DEXTER REAGAN, 03 January 1959, Rockwood, Tennessee.
.Notes for PATRICIA ANN GRAVES: Return to Index
Knoxville
.Generation No. 3 Return to Index
5. ELMER WESLEY9 GRAVES (ELMER WESLEY8, JACOB SYLVESTER7, RICHARD6, JACOB5, JOHN4, JACOB3, JOHN SEBASTION (GRAFF)2, UNKNOWN1 GRAFF) was born 26 July 1923 in Greensboro, North Carolinia, Gilford County..
.Child of ELMER WESLEY GRAVES is: Return to Index
i. ELMER WESTLEY10 GRAVES, b. 22 February 1947.
.Endnotes Return to Index
1. Union County Cemetery Records "Footprints".
2. Birth Certificate Nashville Tennessee. It is a delayed Certificate he was born in Maynardville Tennessee, Union County Tennessee.
3. 1935 Marriage records of Campbell County in Tennessee. Vol D.
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