Hello list- I have in my possession a hand-written chart done by my grandmother's cousin in 1962. Because of all the postings re Grimes I thought this might be of interest. Children of Samuel E. GRIMES and Sallie BROOKOVER: 1) William H. GRIMES b 4 Jul 1827 d 8 Feb 1873 m Eliza A BEASLEY 29 Dec 1853 children Samuel a doctor in Cincinatti; William H. a doctor in Cincinatti m Mary SCOTT; Mollie m Andrew LANE; Elizabeth m Sam RIGGS; Jessie m William KING; Lola; Sally. 2) Lewis C. GRIMES b 10 Feb 1829 d 22 May 1912 m Sally Ann CROPPER children John ; Wilse; Handy; Samuel; Fred; Frank; Minnie; Bert; Emmet. 3) Elizabeth (Eliza) A. GRIMES b 9 Oct 1830 d (?) m Abraham NEWKIRK children Frank; Sam; Henry. 4) Nancy C. GRIMES b 25 Oct 1832 d 1 Sep 1901 m Hamilton PARR. No children. 5) Aseal B. GRIMES b 25 Sep 1834 d 26 Nov 1903 m 1) Jennie HOWARD Apr 1861 m 2) Martha A. LANE 29 Jan 1885. Children (no indication of which marriage): Mary; Samuel, William; Katheryn; Dekalb d 1962 m Mabel SCOTT 27 Jun 1932 children Billie m Phillis HOOD 5 Jun 1955 children Steven; Pamela; Harry. 6) Margaret J. GRIMES b 5 Sep 1836 d 26 Apr 1912 m Jul 1855 Frederick W. OTTO b 1 Jan 1832 Hanover Germany d 16 Jul 1888. Children Henry F b 1856 d 1927 m Annie ALTMYER m 1856 d 1919 children Lutie M. b 1886 d 27 Aug 1963 m Leroy H. BOUGHTON b 1884 d WWI, Emma b 23 Feb 1888 d Jan 1900, Freddie b 21 oct 1884 d 23 Jan 1809, Harry m Fern CLAYTON. 7) Matilda GRIMES b 10 Feb 1839 d (?) m Alexander STEWART 14 Mar 1861 children Aseal; Park; Samuel; Elizabeth; Sallie; Louise. 8) Mary GRIMES b 3 Dec 1840 d 10 Jan 1878 m Harden BRADLEY 28 Sep 1859 children Charlie; Eliza m John HOOD children Fred (living in Florida); Fred m Jesse NORMAN; Dan; Sarah; Nannie; Ella; Mabel m William Shelton. 9) Francis (Frank) M. GRIMES b 7 Dec 1844 d (?) m 11 Jul 1875 Margaret DAILY b 1842 Brooklyn d 1905 children Lewis m Manie KING; Gleason m Mabel LYNN; Dennis; Julia d infant. 10) Darius Calvin GRIMES b 14 Apr 1848 d (?) m Frances C. MYERS 19 Dec 1873 children Musa Gladys; Bertha d 3 Jun 1962 m Bert RIGGS; Anna dy; George m Lillian NOBDAY children Hazel Catherine m John MAHONEY; Kendall m Opal ( ). I have on the same chart ELLIS and BROOKOVER lines if anyone is interested. I am desended from Margaret GRIMES who m Fredrich OTTO. Louise Sklar - Northridge, CA At 08:51 PM 6/25/99 -0400, you wrote: >Hello. I received a copy of a letter from a cousin that gave some >information about the Stewarts. I am sending along the parts of the letter >that pertain to that family. I do hope this helps someone out there. Is the >"home" place mentioned in the last sentence still there? >Stephanie >Colorado > >>From here on I am quoting from the letter. The author quotes from some >notebooks thus the double quotation marks. > >"My grandmother Elizabeth Stewart was the daughter of Alexander Stewart and >Matilda Grimes of Adams County, Ohio. Matilda Grimes was the daughter of >Samuel Ellis Grimes and Sallie Brookover born on April 19, 1804 at >Manchester, Ohio and died Sept. 2, 1891. >On Nov. 13, 1802 Nathan Ellis deeded 40 acres of land lying in Adams County >on the waters of the Ohio to Joseph Stewart, my great-great grandfather. > >'The first Stewart that came to America was in 1636, only 16 years after the >settlement at Jamestown, Va. Our ancestors arrived in Virginia about the year >1730, and came from Glasgow, Scotland. >After the Revolutionary War, the Commonwealth of Virginia offered inducements >to her veterans of the War to settle in the Ohio Valley by giving concessions >on farmland. Bear in mind that what are now the states of Ohio and Kentucky >were territory belonging to Virginia. Our ancestors living in what was then >Passiac (?) County, Virginia in the year 1789 joined a company of five >families, who with their stock and household goods travelled to what is now >called Braddock, Pennsylvania, only a few miles up the Monongahela river from >Pittsburgh. They raised a crop and constructed what was known as a keelboat. >It must have been a large boat to hold the five families, their horses, cows, >pigs, farming equipment, household goods, and, of course, children. They were >to help to make the future farmers, merchants, doctors, lawyers, etc. >Early in the spring of 1790, the five families loaded their belongings in the >crude boat and embarked on the Ohio, floating down the beautiful river to the >mouth of Limestone Creek, where Maysville, Ky. is now located. It was an >uneventful trip. My grandfather Stewart was then four years old. He was born >in Virginia on May 1, 1786. >The Indians were more troublesome on the Ohio side of the river; so they >moved south of the river three miles where there were quite a number of >settlers. The town of Washington is now located there. The following Spring >our little company moved to the Ohio side of the river, and settled around >what is now the little town of Aberdeen. >The Stewarts located on the hill at the head of a small creek called 'Fishing >Gut,' one mile from the Brookover home. Grandfather had 2 brothers and 3 >sisters: Susie, Lavina, Jane, Joseph, James, and John Stewart. >Uncle James and Aunt Susie were never married. Aunt Susie died in 1884, and >was 95 years old. Aunt Lavina's married name was West. She had three >children, William, Joseph, and Ellen. [She actually had more children than >three.] Joseph preached at my grandfather's funeral. William West moved to >Port Huron, Michigan, and one of his daughters and her brother is the founder >of the 'Lady Maccabees' there. Ellen married Pickerell - her daughter lives >near Georgetown, Ohio. >Grandfather Stewart was in the War of 1812 and was mustered out in 1813, and >drew a pension until he died. He married Elizabeth Rains in 1814. To them >were born: >Jane 1816 >Sallie Ann 1818 >William (Billy) 1819 >John 1823 >Alexander 1825 (my father) married Matilda Grimes >Nancy 1827 >Lavina 1830 >Joseph 1832' > >I know this is confusing to read, but I am copying it from a notebook that I >found in my mother's possessions when she died in 1970. Since my grandmother >died in 1941, I don't know when she wrote it. A lot of it pertains to the >Stewarts and Grimes . . . . >In reading this over, I failed to put the names of the children born to >Alexander and Matilda Grimes Stewart. >Elizabeth born Dec. 4, 1862 married (1) L. T. Cole (2) Marion Stockwell >Park Alexander Jan. 29, 1864 >Aseal Grimes Mar. 30, 1866 >Sallie July 12, 1868 married Marshall Hanover >Louise Feb. 5, 1875 married Homer kimball >Samuel Joseph Jan. 17, 1878 >My second cousin Hilda Brown, daughter of Aseal Grimes is living in the >'home' place on the Ohio river, between Aberdeen and Manchester." > > >==== OHADAMS Mailing List ==== >Help Instructions at: http://www.zoomnet.net/~chipmunk/SurnamesMail.html >or contact Betty at: chipmunk@zoomnet.net >Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?surname=OHAdams >Your gracious donations to RootsWeb makes this all possible!! >Rootsweb: http://www.rootsweb.com/ >