JAMES CRAWFORD GRAVES

     James Crawford Graves, b January 1852 in Robertson County, Texas - was the fifth of six children of George Washington Graves, b ca 1814 in Tennessee, died before 1880, and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Graves, b ca 1863 in Virginia, died after 1880. The parents immigrated to Texas from Giles County, Tennessee ca 1850.

     About 1874, James Crawford Graves was married to Lennie Louisa Smith, b September 1856 in Louisiana, whose parents were from Mississippi. James and "Louisa" had nine children:

     George W. Graves, b 1875; Elbert Graves, b June 1878; Rosa L. Graves, b March 1881; Jimmie J. Graves - a daughter, b 1884; Ernest Graves, b 1887; Joseph Douglas Graves, b April 1888; Vadney Graves, b June 1889; Lissie D. Graves, b October 1891; and Merrell Graves, b June 1894.

     The sixth child, Joseph Douglas Graves, married first in Robertson County, Texas to Perlie Person, and had issue. He married second to Lola Agnes Keele, and had Mary Lou Graves, b 1927, who was married in San Angelo, Texas to Thomas Edgar Alexander, b 1921- a son of Fred and Ethel (Lester) Alexander. Thomas and Mary Lou (Graves) Alexander live near Perry in Falls County, Texas; and he is the maintenance director of Torbett-Hutchings-Smith Memorial Hospital.

Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing the biographies of these Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical Commission, page 199 column 1.  
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