KENTUCKY: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887,
Marion Co.

SAMUEL AVRITT, attorney at law, was born in 1842, and is the third of eight
children born to John and Elizabeth M. (Tucker) Avritt.  His grandfather,
John Avritt, came from Virginia in boyhood and settled in Marion County
(then Washington), married a Virginia lady named Vaughn, and reared a large
family of children, John Avritt, Jr., being among the younger.  The latter
with his wife, Elizabeth Avritt, nee Tucker, came from Virginia to Kentucky
in the pioneer days, the grandfather, John H. Tucker, being a minister, and
both he and his wife were killed by Indians in Fort Tucker, Adair County.
John and Elizabeth Avritt reared a family of eight children, all of whom
are living in Marion County.  Samuel Avritt, a native of Marion County, was
educated at St. Mary's College, and entered upon the study of law at the
age of twenty-one under the tutorship of Gov. Proctor Knott; was admitted
to practice in the year 1865, since which time he has been a member of the
Lebanon bar, taking front rank as a lawyer.  George C. Avritt, a younger
brother of Samuel, is also a member of the Lebanon bar, having been in
practice since 1870.  In 1868 Samuel Avritt married Miss Mary, daughter of
J.G. Phillips, Sr., and has one daughter, Laura E. Avritt.

Avritt Tucker Vaughn Knott Phillips
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Washington-KY Adair-KY VA

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