MILES-Gabriel - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Gabriel Miles, farmer, Covington, was born in March 1813, in Harrison county, Kentucky. His mother died when he was three years old. He was educated on the old subscription system, and as he grew to manhood he learned the trade of a blacksmith in Livingston county, Kentucky, and worked at his trade for a time after he became a resident of Fountain county. He eventually began farming and has during his residence cleared up and improved about eighty acres of land. He now owns a farm of eighty acres, located about two miles east of Covington. Mr. Miles was married to Miss Ruth Alkire, by whom he has two sons. He is a democrat in politics, and a man who stands well in the estimation of the community in which he lives.