History of Kingsville, (Montgomery County) Ohio United States of America

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Adelia Cleopatra Graves, author, was born in Kingsville, Ohio, March 17, 1821; daughter of Dr. Daniel M. and Mariam Amanda Spencer; granddaughter of Caleb Spencer, a soldier in the Revolution; and a niece of Platt Rogers Spencer, the originator of the Spencerian system of penmanship. She attended academies at Jefferson and Kingsville; was graduated from the latter in 1841; and after graduation married Zuinglius Calvin Graves, the principal of the academy, and in the fall of the same year became teacher of Latin and Enghsh composition there, remaining in that position till 1847. With her husband she removed to Winchester, Tenn., in 1850, where he became president of the Mary Sharpe female college. She was matron and professor of rhetoric there till 1881, and secretary and treasurer, 1881-95. She was editor of the Southern Child's Book, 1856-59, and wrote for the Baptist Sunday-school Union in 1869, under the pen-name of "Aunt Alice"' a Life of Columbus, two volumes of Poems for Children and tinder her won name The New Testament Catechism of Questions and Answers in Rhyme. She is also the author of Jephthah's Daughter (1867), a dramatic poem for the use of schools; Seclusaval, or the Arts of Romanism (1869); and Woman in Sacred Song (1885). She died in Winchester, Tenn., Nov, 6, 1895.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Kingsville, (Montgomery County) Ohio

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