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COLLIN COUNTY PIONEERS

[James M. Graves]

Examiner
February 13, 1936

...James M. Graves was born in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, February 1, 1818, came to Collin County, Texas, in 1845, married Martha Coffman, in 1849. They had five children, three girls and two boys. He arrived in Texas with fifty cents in cash, flint-rock musket, a pony, a saddle. Pony was stolen by Indians. At the out-break of the Civil War he had accumulated some live stock, slaves, $400.00 in gold and his homestead about six miles north of McKinney, which is now owned by children and grandchildren, near present town of Melissa on H. & T. C. Railway....

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