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| | Grimes Surname of Bourbon County, Kentucky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Avory Grimes I, b prior to 1765, died between 8 Nov 1814-6 Feb 1815, married about 1788/89 to Elizabeth Bates (she was b1778, died after 1850, buried Paynesville, MO, PIKE county). |
 | | Avory was the son of Philip Grimes I born 1734, prob. |
 | | Thomas Jefferson and Kitty Scobee Grimes lived all their married lives on the farm between Clintonville and Austerlitz, Ky, Bourbon Co. This land was entered from the Govt by Philip I, who gave it to his son Avory I in 1814 (or it may have been Avory who entered this portion of land). |
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