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VARBLE, GEORGE, farmer and stock raiser, Sec. 17, P. O. Carrollton. George Varble was born in Oldham County, Kentucky, on the 15th of March, 1822. His father George Varble was a native of North Carolina, by occupation an agriculturist; in an early day he became a resident of Kentucky, and there formed the acquaintance of, and married Miss Sarah Cravens, a daughter of Annan Cravens and Abigail Hathaway; by whom he had nine children, John, who died in infancy; Charles who grew to maturity, moved to Greene County, where he died; William, who died in Jersey County, Illinois; Bourbon, who died in Kentucky; Lewis, who also passed the remainder of life in Kentucky; Anderson, who also lies at rest in the same cemetery; Elizabeth, who died in Greene County; Melinda A., who was laid at rest in Greene County, and George, the last of his race, who became a resident of Greene County; permanently located during the Spring of 1849; prior to his arrival Mr. V. had purchased a tract of land comprising 280 acres, on which he now bent all the energies of his nature to bring to a proper degree of cultivation. March, 1843, in Kentucky, Mr. Varble was married to Miss Hannah Admayer, a daughter of Henry, who died on the 28th of September, 1878, and was laid at rest in the Hutchens Cemetery; to the care of her husband she left a family of six children: Nancy Jane, who married John Barrett and resides in Greene County; Sarah, who married John Thomasson; Elizabeth, who married James Pope; George S., who married Miss Martha Heron; James B., who married Louisa Stone; Lafayette and James A. who reside on the old homestead, George Varble is well known in Greene County as an honest upright citizen and of generous impulses, that a detailed statement of his life would be superfluous, and it is only sufficient to say that he has become an exceedingly prosperous farmer, the owner of 355 acres of valuable land in Greene County, and merits the respect and confidence of his many friends.