History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 797.
[Nicholas County]  [Upper Blue Licks Precinct]

J. R. McVEY, farmer, P. O. Moorefield, born in Nicholas County, Nov. 9,
1829.  His ancestors originally came from Scotland; his grandfather died
in Virginia.  John McVey, the father of our subject, was born in Virginia
and when quite a small boy came out to Kentucky, traveling most of the
way on a pack-horse; he settled in Nicholas County, where he married Sallie
Perrin; they raised a family of nine children.  His brother, James McVey,
was a soldier of the war of 1812, and is now living in Indianapolis.  J.R.
McVey was the seventh child of his parents, and spent his early life upon
a farm, where he also engaged to some extent in trading.  On the 12th of
October, 1854, he married Lydia McClary, daughter of Robert and Fannie
(Summers) McClary, of Mason County.  Four children have been born to them;
Charles (deceased) married Miss Fannie Hawkins; Robert married Miss Willie
Conway; Sallie married Charles M. Hopkins, of Bourbon County, who died
June, 1877; and Fannie.  Mr. McVey is a member of the Masonic Lodge at
Carlisle, and himself and family are members of the Christian Church at
Mt. Zion.  Till [sic] the war he was a supporter of the Whig party, and his
suffrage is now exercised in the interest of the Democrats.  For many years
he has engaged in trading South, and by industry and diligent attention to
business has acquired quite a handsome property.  His early education was
of the most limited character, having learned to read and write from his
wife and children.  His father before him was a trader and stock driver,
having piloted 1,600 head of stock to Mexico during the Mexican war.

McVey Perrin McClary Hawkins Conway Hopkins
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Mason-KY Bourbon-KY IN VA Scotland

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