NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11963 ADAIR CO – FRANK R. WINFREY – Winfrey, Graves, Clay, Crittenden, Williams, Bledsoe, Ross, Barger, McClure, Hays, Saufley #11963: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume V, Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 4th Ed. Adair Co. FRANK R. WINFREY, a native of that part of Cumberland County which is now the part of Russell County, was born January 12, 1843. He is the son of Frank H. and Catherine (Graves) Winfrey, both natives of Culpeper County, Va. Hon. Frank H. Winfrey was born in 1798, and in childhood (about 1804) was brought to Cumberland County, by his parents. He was a man of good education and of large general information. He early in life espoused the cause of the Whig party, advocating the principles set forth by Clay, and held office under his chosen party about thirty-two years. He was elected sheriff of Cumberland County under the old constitution, and soon after was elected to represent his county in the Legislature. Every two years he was re-elected until he had held the honorable position twenty successive years, and was contemporary with the celebrated John J. Crittenden. He was a clear, forcible speaker, of great ability as a statesman, and was in his time the most popular man in his region, often being elected when his party was in the minority. He was elected in 1843 to represent the counties of Cumberland, Clinton, Wayne and Russell in the Senate of Kentucky, over Hon. Sherod A. Williams, when the Whig party was in the senatorial district 600 in the minority, and was re-elected at the close of his first term. He was married to Miss Catharine Graves, a daughter of Capt. Thomas Graves, one of the noble band who aided in gaining American independence. He served seven years, enlisting when but a mere boy as a private, but securing a promotion to the position of captain of a company. He was present and took part in the closing conflict at Yorktown and in the ceremonies of the surrender. He was a very wealthy man, a resident of Russell County, where he had emigrated from Virginia, and lived to a ripe old age, dying in 1845. By his marriage Frank H. Winfrey became the father of twelve children: Polly, wife of T. W. M. Bledsoe, Matilda, wife of George W. Ross; Israel C.; Thomas C.; Fanny, wife of George W. Barger; Susan E., wife of John R. McClure; F. R.; Belle, wife of Dr. L. G. Hays; William Joseph (deceased); Kate P. (deceased), and two who died in infancy. Hon. Frank H. Winfrey died in 1855 in the fifty-seventh year of his age, his widow in 1883 in the seventy-ninth year of her age. Frank R. Winfrey in youth received an ordinary English education. While he was attending the high school of Burkesville the war began, and in September, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, of the Twelfth Kentucky Volunteer Federal Infantry. He took part in many of the bloodiest battles of the war, and in May, 1863, was promoted to the office of first lieutenant, and afterward to captain, but not mustered in as such for want of sufficient number of men, and in February, 1865, was mustered out of the service, received an honorable discharge, and came home. The first year was spent in farming, and in October, 1865, he began the study of law under Maj. T. C. Winfrey, his brother. During the winter of 1866 and 1867 he attended the Louisville University of Law, where he graduated in 1867. He remained with Maj. Winfrey, and about three years after graduation formed a partnership with him. From 1868 to 1874 he served the count of Adair as county attorney, elected on the Democratic party. The firm of Winfrey & Winfrey is one of the most prominent law firms of Adair County, and has always done a large and flourishing law practice in the circuit courts and court of appeals. Mr. Winfrey was married in 1874 to Miss Izora W. Staufley, the daughter of Harvey Saufley, a Virginian. There have been to him two children: Mike C. and Iva Jane, who is dead. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Columbia, and he is a member both of the Masonic order and of the I. O. O. F. In politics Mr. Winfrey espouses the cause of the national Republican party. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH Archives:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kyresearch