William and Elizabeth Graves moved their family of 11 children from Missouri to Texas at the start of the Civil War, in 1861.  Because
of plentiful timber for fuel and fences, they settled on Elm Creek and began the work of breaking up the prairie sod and splitting rails to fence the farming land.  From the union of William and Elizabeth there were ten children, seven of whom lived in Grayson County ~ Mahalia Graves Rodgers, Lucretia Graves Miller, Lousinda Graves Talley, Elizabeth Graves Sarton, Addaline Graves Burgett, Ben Graves, and Dan Graves.

In 1908 their son, Henry, moved with his family to Grayson Co. and settled on a farm near Tioga.   In 1914 Henry married his second wife, Mary Keen, in Tioga.  He had six married children from his first wife ~ Ellen Graves Marlow, Charlie Graves, Jack Graves, Will Graves, Convis Graves, and Walter Graves.  Two children were born in his latter years by his wife, Mary ~ Jewel, born 1915 and James Odom
born 1918.  Jewel and Odom attended Tioga school, with their first teacher being Mrs. Wadill who had also taught their older sisters and brothers twenty years before.

Henry and Mary bought a house on South Main Street in Tioga and lived out their years there.  Henry died in 1924; but Mary lived to be 102 years old, dying on September 28, 1977.  She was the oldest member, at the time of her death, of the First Baptist Church of Tioga.

Jewel Graves married Chester Gaddie in 1932 and lived their entire lives in Whitesboro.

	Hazel Graves Ryan d/o Walther Weatherford Graves
Middle : Walter Weatherford Graves