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Subject: BIOS #3406 THRU 3410 - CARGILL, MAYES, NORMAN, PULLEN, ROZZELL - GRAVES CO
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 07:12:57 -0500

I'm finishing up the week with 5 bios from Graves Co - and with a wish for
a great weekend for you all. See you Monday! Sandi

3406 CARGILL, WILLIAM M - Cargill Finley Graham Buford Talbert
3407 MAYES, JOHN A - Mayes Anderson Stanfield
3408 NORMAN, S A - Norman Van_Hook Dunbar
3409 PULLEN, BENJAMIN N - Pullen Hall Williams
3410ROZZELL, MILFORD WINSLOW - Rozzell Williams Noblin

#3406: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, Kniffin 1st ed.,
1885 Reprinted 1972 by Kentucky Reprint Co., Murray, KY.Graves Co.
WILLIAM M. CARGILL was born August 21, 1822, in Graves County, Ky., and
is a son of Thomas and (Finley) [sic] Cargill, who were both natives of
South Carolina, and who came to Graves County in 1819 and settled on
Clark's River, where they purchased a farm. William M. was born on this
farm and remained there until he reached the age of seventeen, after which
he worked for wages for three years. Then he served one year as
constable, then became sheriff and served four years in the northern half
of the county, at which time his brother became sheriff of Graves County,
of whom he purchased the office, and in which capacity
he served two years. David Graham then became sheriff. Mr. Cargill then
purchased the office and served a year and one-half. On the adoption of
the new constitution, Mr. Cargill was elected to the legislature and served
one term. On his return he again ran for sheriff. He then opened a
hotel, which he kept until the war broke out, when he entered the
Confederate Army in June, 1861, and at the organization of the Third
Kentucky Infantry was elected lieutenant, and after a time was promoted to
the rank of captain, and later was commissioned major and quartermaster of
the Kentucky brigade under Gen. Buford. He remained in the service until
the close of the war and
was paroled at Columbus, Miss. He then returned to Mayfield and resumed
the hotel business, which he followed for three years, and then opened a
grocery. In 1876 he went to California, remained until 1881, when he
returned and entered the store of his sons, Albert and Edward, where he has
since remained. In 1849 he married Elizabeth L. Talbert, of Mayfield, by
whom he has three children: Albert, Edward and Mary. Mr. Cargill is a
member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
In politics he has always been identified with
the Democratic party.

#3407: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, Kniffin 1st ed.,
1885 Reprinted 1972 by Kentucky Reprint Co., Murray, KY.Graves Co. JOHN
A. MAYES, Graves County, was born August 13, 1844, in Mayfield. He
is a son of R.L. and Elizabeth (Anderson) Mayes. Mr. Mayes, after receiving
his education from the schools of the locality, took up the study of the
law under the preceptorship of Lucian Anderson, and in 1869 was licensed,
since which time he has been engaged in the practice of his profession.
He was married in February, 1883, to Miss Mariana Stanfield, of Mayfield.

#3408: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, Kniffin 1st ed.,
1885 Reprinted 1972 by Kentucky Reprint Co., Murray, KY.Graves Co. S.A.
NORMAN was born September 14, 1850, in Humphreys County, Tenn., and
is the son of Simpson A. and Elizabeth (Van Hook) Norman, both natives of
Tennessee. The father is a farmer, and is still living in his native
county and State; the mother died in 1860, aged thirty-two years. S.A.
Norman is the fourth child of a family of seven children, and remained with
his parents until eighteen years of age, when he came to Graves County, and
engaged as a farm laborer. Later he farmed a place on shares, at which he
was reasonably successful. In 1880 he was appointed deputy sheriff of the
county, and served in that capacity until 1881, at which time he gave up
the office, in order to settle up a large estate, estimated at $75,000.
With this affair, Mr. Norman demonstrated unusual business tact, collecting
over $34,000, all of which was promptly paid over and accounted for. He
bought his present farm of 221 acres in 1881, and is now one of the
substantial agriculturists in the county.
He was married January 1, 1874, to Miss N.C. Dunbar, of Graves County. Four
children bless this union, Marion C., Edna E., Charley and Margaret E.
Politically Mr. Norman is identified with the Democrat Party.

#3409: Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 673-675 [Graves] BENJAMIN N. PULLEN, who combines the occupations
of farming and blacksmithing at Farmington, Graves county, has became so
thoroughly identified with its life and progress that he is an out and out
Kentuckian, as much so as any native of the state. He is a veteran of the
Civil war, and as a farmer and business man has made a reputation for
absolute integrity and reliability. He is an artist at his trade, and many
of his patrons could not be persuaded to take their work to any other
blacksmith, for they have depended upon his skill for years and have always
found him satisfactory and obliging. Mr. Pullen is of Irish descent on
the paternal side, and his
grandfather, Archibald Pullen, was closely connected with the original
stock although he was born in Virginia. William C. and Nancy A. (Hall)
Pullen, the parents of Benjamin Pullen, were both born in Tennessee, the
former in Davidson county and the latter in Dixon county. They both lived
long and useful lives, and resided in Graves county, Kentucky, during the
latter part of their lives. William Pullen died in 1892, at the age of
eighty-one, and his wife in 1901, aged eighty-five. They were the parents
of ten children, as follows: William J.; Mary A.; Elmeta, deceased;
Marshall, who was killed in the Civil war; Benjamin N.; George; James D.;
Sophia; Josephine; and one that died in infancy. Benjamin N. Pullen was
born in Humphreys county, Tennessee, January 13, 1844, and was educated in
the schools of that state and of Kentucky. He came to Graves county,
Kentucky, with his parents,
at the age of fourteen, and this has been his home ever since. He enlisted
in Company B, Second Kentucky Cavalry, being still a boy at the time. He
was taken prisoner by the Union forces at the battle of Lookout Mountain,
and was held captive at Rock Island, Illinois, for eighteen months. He was
then exchanged and paroled for sixty days, but before going to the front.
He has had his shop at Farmington ever since the war, and in addition to
this pursuit tends
a farm of seventy acres situated near town. He enjoys a fair share of
worldly prosperity, and leads a contented life and has a happy home. He
affiliates with the Democratic party, and his religious faith is that of
the Primitive Baptist church. In 1966 he married Miss Cornelia L.
Williams, who was born and educated in Calloway county, Kentucky. The
following children make up their family, and those living have already
taken up or are preparing to assume the
duties of life: Ernest E., Alice P., Leonard G., Edgar L., William A.,
deceased, James D., Ethel May, Myrtle, deceased, Benjamin L. and Sallie.

#3410: Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 690-691 [Graves] MILFORD WINSLOW ROZZELL, M. D. was born on a
farm one mile from Pryorsburg, Graves county, Kentucky, March 13, 1857, a
son of Miles Washington and Melissa (Williams) Rozell [sic]. The father
was born in North Carolina January 8, 1821, and is one of the oldest
residents of Graves county, where he was brought by his parents when twelve
years of age. His father, Thomas Rozzell, was numbered among the pioneer
settlers of the county and was a farmer by occupation, which pursuit has
also claimed the attention of his son, Miles W. The mother of our subject
was born in Graves county, and her death occurred here in 1902, when
seventy-seven years of age. In the
family of his worthy couple were eight children, only four of whom grew to
mature years and three are now living.
Milford Winslow Rozzell spent the period of his boyhood and youth on a
farm, receiving his elementary education in the common schools of the
neighborhood, which was later supplemented by attendance at the schools of
Mayfield and Milburn. For a brief period thereafter he was engaged in
teaching school, and then entered Bethel College, of Tennessee. At
Pryorsburg he began the study of medicine, also teaching during a part of
the time, and he then entered the University of Louisville, while later, in
1889, he graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine, at Louisville, and
then took a post-graduate course at Bellevue Hospital Medical College.
>From that time until 1898 Dr. Rozzell followed a general practice of
medicine at Pryorsburg, after which he took two courses at Eye, Ear, Nose
and Throat College, at Chicago, locating thereafter at Mayfield, where he
has since given special attention
to the treatment of those organs. The medical profession in Graves county
numbers him among its most valued members, and he is considered an
authority in many departments of medical research and practice. In 1880 Dr.
Rozzell was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Pearl Noblin, who died in
1902, after becoming the mother of three
children: Mabel C., Albany M. and Noblin. The Doctor is a member of the
American Medical Association, the Southwestern Kentucky Medical Society, of
the order of Elks and is a Royal Arch Mason. His religious views connect
him with the Cumberland Presbyterian church, of which he is a worthy and
consistent member.

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