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SUBMITTED BY: Karen R. Hammer
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HUSBAND: William GRAVES
Birthdate: 20 Nov 1820
, Chatham co., North Carolina
date and place of marriage: 20 Nov 1842, Chillicothe, Ross co., Ohio
other marriages: Rebecca STRETCH (see below)
Death date: 16 Jun 1908
, Stark co., Illinois
father: John GRAVES
mother:Joyce Elizabeth FREEMAN
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WIFE: Ann RATCLIFF
Birthdate: 23 Apr 1824
, Londonderry, Ross co., Ohio
date and place of marriage:20 Nov 1842, Chillicothe, Ross co., Ohio
Death date: 18 Jan 1856
, Vinton co., Ohio
father: Simon RATCLIFF
mother: Rachel DIXON
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CHILD 1: Simon Sylvester GRAVES
Birthdate: 18 Mar 1844, Liberty twp., Ross co., Ohio
married: Martha E. DRUMMOND
date and place of marriage: 1 Mar 1868, Ross co., Ohio
Death date: 4 Nov 1917, Beatrice, Gage co., Nebraska
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CHILD 2: Martha Madaline GRAVES
Birthdate: 2 Apr 1846, Ross co., Ohio
married: Nathan Monroe COX
date and place of marriage:2 Jul 1868, Wyoming, Stark co., Illinois
Death date: 18 Dec 1932, Toulon, Stark co., Illinois
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CHILD 3: James Newton GRAVES
Birthdate: 13 Nov 1848, Ohio
married:
date and place of marriage:
Death date: 9 Dec 1848, Ohio
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CHILD 4:Sarah Ann GRAVES
Birthdate: 18 Jul 1855, Londonderry, Ross co., Ohio
married: Charles Henry COX
date and place of marriage: 10 Sep 1874, Chillicothe, Ross co., Ohio
Death date: 22 Jun 1942, Los Alamitos, Orange co., California
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WIFE: Rebecca STRETCH
Birthdate: 28 Nov 1833
, Ross co., Ohio
date and place of marriage: 26 Jul 1856, Vinton co., Ohio
Death date: 26 May 1905
, Princeville, Peoria co., Illinois
father: Thomas STRETCH
mother: Rebecca RAINS
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CHILD 1:Cynthia Jane GRAVES
Birthdate:26 Sep 1860, Ross co., Ohio
married: David Griffith EVANS
date and place of marriage: 25 Feb 1879
Death date: 22 Oct 1931, Peoria, Peoria co., Illinois
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CHILD 2:Thomas Lafayette GRAVES
Birthdate: 20 Jun 1862
married: Nettie Bell LAIR
date and place of marriage: 5 Apr 1883, Princeville, Peoria co., Illinois
Death date: 25 Aug 1933, Carthage, Miner co., South Dakota
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CHILD 3:Ewing Oscar GRAVES
Birthdate: 3 Nov 1870, Peoria co., Illinois
married: Viella Dell GINGRICH
date and place of marriage: 14 Aug 1895, Princeville, Peoria co., Illinois
Death date: 14 Apr 1948, Princeville twp., Peoria co.,
Illinois
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CHILD 4:Eugene Austin GRAVES
Birthdate: 3 Nov 1870, Peoria co., Illinois
married: Emma Jane FOX
date and place of marriage:19 Oct 1893, Duncan, Stark co., Illinois
Death date: 1 Nov 1956, Austin, Mower co., Minnesota

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SOURCES:
Certificate of Death - Thomas Lafayette Graves.
Certificate of Death-Rebecca Stretch Graves, #22721
Certificate of Death-ElvirtaGraves Knutz
Certificate of Death-Lulu Graves,
Certificate of Death-Maude Graves Roe Hittle
Certificate of Death-Nettie Lair Graves
Certificate of Death-Cynthia Graves Evans, (Myrtis Evans, Informant).
Certificate of Marriage-Thomas L. Graves and Nettie B. Lair
Certificate of Marriage-Wm. Graves & Rebecca Stretch, by John Swaim MG,
Page 514, Doc. no 103 of the 1850-1859 marriage book, July 26, 1856
Marriage Records of Ross County, Ohio 1798-1849, Compiled by Robert Casari
Headstone-William and Rebecca Graves
Headstone-J. Elizabeth Graves
Headstone-Viella Gingrich Graves
Headstone-Eugene Austin Graves
Headstone-Oscar Graves
Obituary of William Graves, (Stark County News, June 24, 1908
Obituary of Emma Fox Graves
Obituary of Florence Graves Kneer
Obituary of Leo Graves
Obituary of Viella Gingrich Graves
Obituary of Thomas L. Graves, (The Carthage News, Carthage South Dakota.
Death announcement published Sept. 1, 1933; Obituary published Sept.
8, 1933.)
Obituary of Elvirta Graves Knutz, (The Huron Daily Plainsman, Huron,
South Dakota.)
Obituary of Leila Evans
1850 Federal Census, Ohio, Ross County
1860 Federal Census, Ohio, Ross County
1870 Federal Census, Illinois, Peoria County
1880 Federal Census, Illinois, Peoria County
1900 Federal Census, Illinois, Peoria County
1910 Federal Census, Illinois, Peoria County
1920 Federal Census, Illinois, Peoria County
1930 Federal Census, Illinois, Peoria County
1910 Federal Census, South Dakota, Kingsbury County
1920 Federal Census, South Dakota, Miner County
1850 Federal Census, Illinois, Stark County
1860 Federal Census, Illinois, Stark County
1870 Federal Census, Illinois, Stark County
1880 Federal Census, Illinois, Stark County
1900 Federal Census, Illinois, Stark County
History of Ross and HighlandCounties, Ohio, (William Bros., Publishers)
Stark County, Illinois Essex Township Cemeteries, (Stark County
Genealogical Society)
Richard Ratcliff of Lancashire, England & Talbot Co., Md. and his
Ancestors and Descendents
Diary of Eli & Henrietta (Graves) Trimmer, Joyce Mercer, Location: Stark
Co. Genealogical Society Quarterly, V9 #4, p. 11, June 2001,.(1906, 1907
Stark County Genealogical Society, Stark County Genealogy Society
Quarterly, SCGS Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 1, Sep. 2002.Trimmer Diaries
The county of Ross : a history of Ross County, Ohio, from the earliest
days, with special chapters on the bench and bar, medical profession,
educational development, industry and agriculture and biographical
sketches, by Henry Holcomb Bennett, (Madison, Wis.: S.A. Brant, 1902,
729pgs.)
Princeville Township Cemeteries, Peoria County Genealogical Society,
Illinois Death Index, Url:
http://www2.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/genealogy/forms/idphdeathsrch.html
"Graves Death Is Ruled As Accidental", (The Princeville Telephone,
Princeville, Illinois)
Illinois Statewide Marriage Index

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