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Graves County is a county located on the southwest border of the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 36,649. [1] Its county seat is Mayfield. [2] The county was formed in 1824 and was named for Major Benjamin Franklin Graves, a politician and fallen soldier in the War of 1812.
Friends and family pay their respects to Graves County Jail employee, Robert Daniel, during his funeral at Brown Funeral Home in Mayfield, Kentucky on Saturday. Daniel died while supervising seven ...
The Graves County Sheriff’s Office was contacted by the sheriff’s office in Benton County, Tenn., Thursday evening about “an individual that was wanted on a nationwide extraditable arrest ...
Mayfield is in the center of the Jackson Purchase, an eight-county region purchased by Isaac Shelby and Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw people in 1818. Mayfield was established as the county seat of Graves County in 1821, and the county was formally organized in 1823. John Anderson is believed to have been the first white settler, arriving in ...
Three months after the penitentiary opened, in September 1800, John Turner from Madison County, Kentucky, was arrested for horse stealing. [45] [46] The first female may have been Rachel Miller, a convict from Lexington received at the penitentiary March 1804. If so, she would have been the first woman confined at the prison.
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
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Wingo is located 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Mayfield, the county seat, and 13 miles (21 km) northeast of Fulton, at (36.644711, -88.736509 U.S. Route 45 passes through the center of town connecting the two larger cities.