Person:William Grubbs (1)

William Grubbs, who died 1775, was the first known member of the family. He married Susanna Hearne, and went to Kentucky from Abermarle County, Virginia, about 1775, with eight or nine daughters and one son Higgason, and made claim for land. William Grubbs died a few days after reaching Kentucky and is buried at Bryan's Station. After his death his wife and children went to Madison County, where Mrs. Susanna (Hearne) Grubbs died later and was buried on Tate's Creek Pike about three miles west of Richmond.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Compiler: Hazel Atterbury Spraker. The Boone Family, A Genealogical History of the Descendants of George and Mary Boone Who Came to America in 1717. (Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1974)
   Hazel Atterbury Spraker compiled this information from information furnished by Judge Charles S. Grubbs of Louisville, KY, a grandson of John Grubbs, son of Higgason; and from "History and Genealogies," by William H. Miller of Richmond, KY.