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    1. SORRELL/GRIGSBY/MURRAY/WINDSOR/GEYER/RHODES - In DC & VA
    2. Betty Hart
    3. If you are descended from any of the following, please contact <mailto:[email protected]>me. Ethlene Pearle Grigsby WINDSOR married into my Mother's family. I have pictures of Pearle, her husband, and her father-in-law. If you are interested in these, let me know and I'll attach them to a message. I also have a copy of the 1900 DC Census showing GRIGSBY, Annie E.*, Head, Widowed, born in Virginia; her four daughters ... Pearle (married name WINDSOR), 14; Mabel E. (married name GEYER), 12; Annie M. (from picture of gravestone, it appears that she died 2 years after this census at age 12), 10; and, Emma L. (married name RHODES), 8. All four daughters were born in DC. (This census showed two SORRELL and one GRIGSBY families all on this one page, meaning that they lived very close to each other.) I have photos which I took of a LARGE monument in Congressional Cemetery (in DC) that has the following names on it: 1st Side - E. Pearle (Grigsby) WINDSOR; her husband, Lemuel Henry WINDSOR; and their son, Henry Grigsby WINDSOR. 2nd Side - R. H. SORRELL; Mary E. SORRELL; and, Emma J. MURRAY*. 3rd Side - GRIGSBY ... Milton T.; Richard S.; A. Mae (according to age listed in the 1900 census, this is Pearle's sister ... listed as Annie M.); Annie E. (according to year born, this is Pearle's Mother). I have a copy of the newspaper article describing the auto crash in which young Henry Grigsby WINDSOR died. This article states that he was killed in a car accident in the vicinity of Colonial Beach, Virginia; that he was staying with his family at their summer place near Fredericksburg. The article also mentions that Henry's cousin, Miss Joan GEYER, of West Point, Virginia, was killed. Pearle's sister, Emma, married a Geyer. So I expect that it was Emma's daughter, Joan, who was also killed in this crash. I have the information from Pearl's obituary which named her sisters, Mabel E. GEYER and Emma L. RHODES. She passed away on June 15, 1967, at her home in Washington, DC. If you would like an e-mail with any of the articles I have mentioned or photos, please let me know. I would greatly appreciate any information you may have on any of these persons. Betty *I believe that MURRAY was Pearle's Mother's maiden name (Annie E. MURRAY GRIGSBY).

    08/28/2005 10:45:09