John Graves was born on Dec 4, 1779 in Whately, Franklin Co, Massachusetts during the Revolutionary War. His father John Graves b1746 was 33 and his mother Lois nee Parker was just 29. He married Mehitable Coleman and they had three known sons together between 1804 and 1813- listed below. Mehitable passed on in 1814. He then married Lucy Hart Graves on 18 Apr 1815 and they had one known son Jerome together in 1823. Lucy passed on in 1837. He passed away some 20 years later in 1856 in Port Huron, Michigan having lived a long life of 77 years. He was buried in Greenfield, Franklin Co, Massachusetts.