Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887,
Marion County.

WILLIAM WELLS CLEAVER, a prominent physician of Lebanon, Marion County,
was born on the 15th of March, 1827.  His grandfather, David Cleaver,
came from New Jersey in the close of the eighteenth centry and settled in
what is now Marion, then Washington County, serving the same as high
sheriff.  He had a family of twelve children, the eldest of whom born the
name of his father, and was the father of Dr. W. W. Cleaver.  David
Cleaver, Jr., was born in 1804, and married Miss Lucy Kirk, daughter of
James Kirk, of Virginia, who settled near Lebanon in 1792, and who lived
to the age of ninety-nine years.  David and Lucy (Kirk) Cleaver each
lived to be quite old and died on the old Cleaver homestead near Lebanon.
Of their twelve children elven are now living and have families.  Dr.
W. W. Cleaver is the second of the family.  He was reared on his father's
farm, attending the common schools and Lebanon Academy.  When eighteen
years old he commenced the study of medicine under Dr. M. S. Shuck, and
after thorough preparatory reading he entered the medical department of
the Louisville University, from which he graduated in 1850.  With slight
exception he has been practicing at Lebanon since his graduation, and is
pronounced a leader of his profession.  In the early months of the late
civil war he organized a company of soldiers for the Confederate Army,
which was attached to the Eighth Kentucky Cavalry.  This company he
commanded at the battle of Perryville and elsewhere, and until he was
appointed to the office of regimental surgeon.  He was twice made a
prisoner and for four months held in the Federal prison at Fort Delaware.
Dr. Cleaver was married in Marion County, July 9, 1850, to Miss Joanna
Grundy, daughter of Felix B. Grundy.  The Doctor is a member of the State
and Beech Fork Medical Associations, and of the Masonic fraternity, and
enjoys the esteem of a large circle of friends.

Cleaver Kirk Grundy
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Washington-KY Jefferson-KY NJ VA

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