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R. A. MAYES, Graves County, was born March 22, 1840, in Mayfield. He is a son of Richard L. and Elizabeth (Anderson) Mayes. The father was born in Fayette County, Ky., in December, 1805; he died in January, 1861. He came to Mayfield, in 1827, and at once engaged in the practice of law. Ho held the office of county attorney, also of commonwealth’s attorney, and represented this county in the State legislature; he was also a member of the convention of 1849-50, which formed the present constitution of the State. Our subject read law with his father, and was admitted to the bar in 1860, and was soon after elected county attorney. At the close of the war he discontinued the practice of law and was deputy county clerk from 1866 to 1869. From 1870 to 1873 he was engaged as book-keeper in the commission business in New Orleans; he then returned to Mayfield and opened a hardware and furniture store, which he now carries on; he also owns one-half interest in the Mayfield flouring-mill; this he purchased in 1878. Mr. Mayes was married on November 5, 1863, to Isabella Boyd, of Christian County. She died in 1865, aged nineteen, leaving one daughter. His second marriage was in 1874 to Sue Campbell, of Nashville, Tenn. This lady died April 30, 1876, aged twenty-nine years. His third marriage was on March 29, 1877, to Sophia Morris, of Obion County, Tenn. They have two children—one son and one daughter.