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Joseph Addison Graves (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and farmer)

b. 1814-11-15 d. 1867-03-19

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Anna Cabell Harrison Graves in Boone County, Kentucky, on November 21, 1842. Father of Louise Anna Graves, Charles A Graves, and Fannie C. Graves. Guardian of Jane E. Winn, Susan A. Winn, and Amanda L. Winn. Graduate of Transylvania University Law School in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1836. Farmer in Boone County in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Boone County in 1850. Household owned two enslaved persons in Shelby County in 1860. Attorney in Louisville in 1861.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boone County, District 2, p. 155B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boone County, District 2, p. 347.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 2, p. 4.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 2, p. 275A.

Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Transylvania University, 1836, (Lexington: Clarke & Company Printers, 1836), 14.

"Jefferson County Court," Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), 9 July 1861, p.

"Joseph Addison Graves (1814-1867)," Find A Grave, Memorial 91758053, accessed February 2, 2024, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91758053.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Boone County Marriages, Film 000551023, p. 52.

Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Kentucky County, District, and Probate Courts, Jefferson County Wills, vol. 6-7, 1862-1872, p. 487.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 104.

Citation

Graves, Joseph Addison. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208118 (November 12, 2026).

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