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Below is a family biography from the book, History of Kentucky, Edition 7 by J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin and G. C. Kniffin and published by F. A. Battey Publishing Company in 1887.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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DR. JERRY DEANE VIOLETTE, a native of Kenton County, Ky., was born September 7, 1850, and is a son of Dr. Culvan F. and Susan (Deane) Violette, natives, respectively, of Carroll and Gallatin Counties. Thompson Violette, the father of Dr. Culvan F., was born in New Orleans, and was of French extraction. William Deane, the father of Mrs. Susan Violette, was born in Virginia, came to Kentucky, and first located in Clark County, but afterward moved to Gallatin. He was in the battle of the Thames, and was for a number of years magistrate and high sheriff of Gallatin County. Dr. Culvan F. Violette now resides on his farm in Gallatin County, in retirement, having relinquished the practice of medicine. Dr. Jerry D. Violette was reared in Gallatin County, to which county he was taken at the age of five. At the age of twenty-five he began the study of medicine under his father, and graduated from the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, in 1881, beginning practice the same year at Williamstown, Ky., where he is still profitably employed. January 15, 1884, he married Miss Futha Bell Carder, daughter of William F. Carder. The Doctor is a Royal Arch Mason, and also an Odd Fellow, and has passed all the chairs in both orders; is also a member, and one of the founders, of the Grant County Medical Society.

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This family biography is one of 67 biographies included in the Grant County, Kentucky section of the book, The History of Kentucky, Edition 7 published in 1887 by F. A. Battey Publishing Company.  For the complete description, click here: History of Kentucky, Edition 7

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