GRAVES, George F.

GRAVES

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Date: 6/5/2021 at 21:35:16

George F. Graves
Born August 11, 1864

George F. Graves, a well-known farmer residing in Maple Township, Ida County, Iowa, dates his birth in Mendota, La Salle County, Illinois, August 11, 1864. His parents, Julius J. and Helen (Barto) Graves, natives of Ohio and New
York, respectively, located in Illinois at an early day and resided at Mendota until 1865. That year they came to Iowa and settled south of Battle Creek, Ida County. There were then few families in this vicinity. In 1876 they moved to Platte County, Nebraska. They reared a family of thirteen children, eight sons and five daughters, all of whom are living. During the war the senior Mr. Graves was a member of the Thirty-first Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and now draws a pension. He is a member of the G. A. R.
Post at Humphrey, Nebraska. Politically, he is a Republican. George F. was reared to farm life, receiving only the educational advantages that were
afforded on the frontier where his father lived. He was married September 15, 1888, to Mrs. Phoebe M. Heath, nee Ostrander, a widow with three children, James, Ada and Harry. Mrs. Graves is a native of Boscobel, Grant County, Wisconsin. They have one child, Clara. They own the nice farm on which
they live, 174 acres in sections 26 and 35. Mr. Graves' political affiliations are with the People's party. He is progressive in his views and is one of the prominent young men of Maple Township.
Source: Biographical History of Crawford, Ida, and Sac Counties, Iowa, 1893, p.256