This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HiB.2ACI/2763.1 Message Board Post: Results of Graves DNA testing: A close match was found with a Graves from Johnson County, Illinois. This family is mentioned (because of intermarriage) in a book written in 1925 by the children of George Elkins who was 100 years old in 1925. The book is entitled A Century in Egypt and is available (reprint) from the Johnson Co. Illinois Historical Society. p. 85-85 “John Graves and wife came from Germany to America. Father thinks they first came to North Carolina and came over the same trail that John Elkins and family traversed, but the Graves family stopped in eastern Kentucky while it was yet a territory. They bought a large tract of land and after they had spent all their money improving it, someone with a better title ousted them. The Graves family moved to what is now Livingston County, Kentucky. John Graves had two sons, Fred and John Graves Jr., and four daughters (names Sarah, Mary, Vanillia, and unknown). p. 94 “We have John Graves at the head of the Graves family, but are not sure the name is correct. Father thinks it was John and we could find no one else that knew what the name was. Father also thinks that Graves and his wife first came to North Carolina and later up the same trail that the people traveled coming to Johnson County, Illinois, but the Graves settled in Livingston County, Kentucky. Dr. J.N. Graves tells us that his grandfather, Fred (or Fed) Graves told him that his (Fred Graves) father and mother came from Germany, and John M. Howerton thinks they were Germans, but some of the relations dispute this as Graves is not a German name. No doubt the Graves are originally from Scotland or England and may have gone from there to Germany and then to America. But as the older Graveses married girls having German names we are inclined to believe that the Graveses came direct from England and settled in North Carolina where there were German families and the mar! riages between the Graves and Alcorns, etc., causing their descendants to think they were all Germans.” Thought some of you Graves descendants might be interested!