This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GRISHAM, WAUGH, CHARRIN, GORDON, OLIVE, PATTERSON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iJB.2ACE/996.1.2.2.2 Message Board Post: George Grisham [Sr.] b. 22 Jan., 1772, Briar Hill, King & Queen Co., VA d. 16 Mar., 1852, Lawrence Co., TN [Records do not record that he used Sr., following his name; however, his eldest son, George Washington Grisham, Jr. was identified as George, Jr., when he carried the chain in measuring land purchased by his father in Lawrence Co., TN.] had probably 10 children with his first wife--sometimes identified as Miss Waugh and 12 children with his second wife, Nancy Ann (Griffin) Gwin. >http://www.htcomp.net/ecw/grisham/1george.htm> <http://www.htcomp.net/ecw/grisham/grisham.htm> The first wife of George Washington Grisham, Jr. is unknown. The second wife of George Washington Grisham, Jr. was Elizabeth Gordon, whom he married 6 July, 1835, in Lawrence Co., TN. <http://www.htcomp.net/ecw/grisham/2georgew/2georg_g.htm> George Washington Grisham, Jr. was b. 22 Jan., 1792, in VA d. March, 1849, in old Tishomingo Co., MS--pneumonia. Probably the youngest child of George Grisham [Sr.] and his first wife was Andrew Jackson Grisham b. 1815, VA d. abt., 1863--murdered in old Tishomingo Co., MS [now Prentiss Co., MS] by Civil War Deserters <http://www.htcomp.net/ecw/grisham/4andrewj/4andrew/4andrewj.htm> Andrew Jackson Grisham, Sr. married Gillie (Olive) Mason The fourth son of Andrew Jackson Grisham, Sr. and Gillie Olive was the George Washington Grisham who married Amanda Patterson <http://www.htcomp.net/ecw/grisham/4andrewj/21gw_gr3.htm> and they were ancestors of the author, John Grisham.