This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AgTBAIB/76.126.264 Message Board Post: I am researching the Grissell family. Samuel and Elizabeth Grissel/Griswold married. They are found living in Fayette County, PA in 1850 and 1860, but if anyone can tell me when and where they married, I would be most appreciative. I would also like to know if anyone out there knows when and where Samuel and Elizabeth Vail died and are buried? Thanks. Jane
From the book GENEALOGY OF SOME OF THE VAIL FAMILY DESCENDED FROM THOMAS VAIL At Salem, Massachusetts 1640 Together with Collateral Lines BY WM. PENN VAIL, M. D. 1937, pages 77-78 SAMUEL (6) VAIL; was born in the old home at Green Brook, N. J., and was under age when he came to Fayette County, probably in 1793. He married two daughters of Thomas Grissell, 1st. Agnes Grissell and 2nd. Elizabeth Grissell. He was of Menallen Township when he made his Will, which is dated 25 December, 1854, and proved 8 May, 1865, and it is probable that he still lived on the land he inherited from his father. He calls himself "far advanced in years" when he made his Will. He bequeaths to his wife Elizabeth and to his children, thus; -- his sons Joel (7) Vail and Jesse (7) Vail; to the children of his daughter Priscilla Pile, viz., Hannah, Agnes, Charles, and Albert Pile "who now reside in Morgan County, Ohio, -- to his daughters Hannah Richardson, Mercy Cope, Margaret McGrew, Agnes Frazier and Lydia Vail. Lydia (7) Vail was to have a home with her mother. The homestead was left to Samuel's two sons Edward (7) Vail and Abraham (7) Vail, who were also to care for their mother Elizabeth; and these two sons were named as Executors. WILL OF ABRAHAM (5) VAIL His Will is dated 20 May, 1833; was not probated till 10 January, 1840, and is on file in Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. In his Will he makes no mention of his wife so the assumption is that she had died before he drew up that document. He is "of the Township of Menallen, County of Fayette, being far advanced in life"; mentions separately his sons Benjamin and Robert, saying that he had "given them their share in full." To his son Samuel (6) Vail he gives land adjoining Jeremiah Piersol. To his youngest son, Taylor (6) Vail he gives the remainder of lands in Menallen Township, adjoining lands of John Wood, Charles McCormack and others. He has already given his son Stephen (6) his share, as also to his daughter Catherine Davis. He gives to Charles (7) Vail, son of Samuel (6), and to his sister Priscilla Pile. Likewise to his grand-daughter Mercy Cope, daughter of Samuel Cope. To Margaret, daughter of Samuel (6), Abraham makes a special legacy, and then follows -- "the six following persons being grandchildren and children of son Samuel, (i. e.) Joel, Jesse, Edward, Agnes, Lydia and Abraham." His friends Samuel Cope, Jr., and Dorsey Cope are named as full Executors. The witnesses are Jeremiah Piersol, Job Wheatley and Samuel Cope. Robert S. Vail III Titusville, FL ----- Original Message ----- From: <Quinley01@aol.com> To: <VAIL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 10:17 PM Subject: [VAIL] Re: Samuel Vail/Elizabeth Grissell/Griswold > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AgTBAIB/76.126.264 > > Message Board Post: > > I am researching the Grissell family. Samuel and Elizabeth Grissel/Griswold married. They are found living in Fayette County, PA in 1850 and 1860, but if anyone can tell me when and where they married, I would be most appreciative. I would also like to know if anyone out there knows when and where Samuel and Elizabeth Vail died and are buried? > > Thanks. > > Jane > > > ==== VAIL Mailing List ==== > Message Board > Vail ~ copies default to the VAIL-L > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?tx=board&r=rw&p=surnames.vail > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >