Person:Sidney Graves (1)

The parents of Joseph Graves, Sidney and Margaret (Dipboye) Graves, were respectively natives of Pennsylvania and Virginia and were married in the latter state. About 1834 they came to Indiana and settled on the farm now owned by their son Joseph, but which was without any special improvements save a small log cabin and a few acres denuded of their forest growth, but of which Sidney later put sixty acres under cultivation. On this farm the parents lived until 1868 and then retired to Middletown, where the father died in his seventy-ninth year, and the mother then made her home with her children, spending her latest years at the home of her son Joseph on the old homestead, dying at the age of eighty-two years, eighteen years after the death of her husband. Their family comprised twelve children, of whom ten attained mature years, the eldest dying in childhood and the youngest when sixteen. Of those who grew to maturity, George H. died in Delaware County; two reside in Henry County, Joseph, of this notice, and Lizzie, wife of William Leiphardt, of the Middletown woolen factory. Lora1957@@aol.com

1. ↑ B.F. Bowden. Compendium of Biography, Henry County, Indiana 1920
   page 330-331.