Welcome to Graves County, KY History and Genealogy Presented by Kentucky Genealogy Trails a part of Genealogy Trails Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Kim. (Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required) We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for folks. All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to any or all of our mailing lists Kentucky is covered under our "Southern" States mailing list. Many thanks to host Debbie Goosinow for all her hard work on this site.   COUNTY HISTORY Graves County was formed in 1824, the 75th in order of formation,the largest county in Kentucky,located in the central part of the Jackson Purchase Region,and included 560 miles of land.The county is named after Major Benjamin Franklin Graves.The fertile land attracted early settlers from Virginia, North Carol-ina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, who brought with them a degree of education and culture and a determination to succeed on the land.A fire destroyed courthouse records in 1864, and then again on December 18 1887.Graves is a “limited” dry county.The county seat is Mayfield.The first Sheriff was Elijah Cravens.The first marriage was William Burrell and Stacy Pryor on April 15 1824.The first tavern license was granted July 15 1824 to William Edwards.The first deed recorded after the organization of the county was to Vincent Anderson and John D. Anderson, conveying a part of lot No.1, for the sum of $18.00, dated June 17 1824.The first will was made by Roland Hughes, dated June 30 1824. If you are interested in contributing information, click here. RECORDS OF INTEREST Court Minutes Biographies Tax Records County Poor House Church Records Surnames Cemeteries Obituaries Newspaper Death Certificates Births Deaths Deeds Military Fallen Officers Wills Census Marriages Bible Divorce's SURROUNDING COUNTIES McCracken County (north) Marshall County (northeast) Calloway County, Kentucky & Henry County, Tennessee (southeast) Weakley County, Tennessee (south) Hickman County (southwest) Carlisle County (northwest)   CITIES, TOWNS, AND COMMUNITIES OF GRAVES COUNTY Bell City--Boaz--Cuba--Dukedom--Folsomdale--Hickory--Mayfield--Fancy Farm--Farmington--Kaler--Lynnville--Lowes--Melber--Pottsville--Sedalia--Symsonia--Viola--Water Valley--West Viola--Wingo If you would like to join click here Free Counter Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.