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GRIGSBY, Moses (1799-1865)

STRANGE, Delilah (1808-1860)

GRIGSBY, George Washington (1830-1908)

 

Family Links Spouses/Children: SHOEMAKER, Margaret GRIGSBY, Albert GRIGSBY, Josephine GRIGSBY, Alvin Oliver GRIGSBY, William Henry GRIGSBY, Eve GRIGSBY, Emma GRIGSBY, Anna Melvina GRIGSBY, Adam GRIGSBY, Laura Alice GRIGSBY, Lewis GRIGSBY, Myra GRIGSBY, Milton GRIGSBY, George Washington 2 3 Born: 22 Mar 1830, Illinois Marriage: SHOEMAKER, Margaret on 15 Sep 1853 in Mt. Carroll, Carroll County, Illinois 1 Died: 28 May 1908, Kalispell, Montana at age 78   General Notes: After losing their first five children in infancy, sympathetic neighbors advised the couple to give their next boy and girl Biblical names so that children born after them would survive to adulthood. Hence, the next girl was named Eve and the next boy named Adam. After Margaret perished when a cyclone struck their home, George never remarried, and lived his remaining years near his daughters, Myra and Anna, in Montana. George married Margaret SHOEMAKER, daughter of John SHOEMAKER and Elizabeth DANIELS, on 15 Sep 1853 in Mt. Carroll, Carroll County, Illinois.1 (Margaret SHOEMAKER was born on 14 Aug 1838 in Illinois and died on 14 Jun 1885 near Aurelia, Indiana.)

1 Illinois Marriages (Carroll County Court, Carroll County, Illinois). Surety: 4. Records a marriage between Grigsby, George and Shoemaker, Margaret on 15 Sep 1853.

2 1870 US Census (Loran, Stephenson County, Illinois). Repository: Ancestry. Surety: 4. Lists George Grigsby (age 41, b. IL), wife Margaret [Shoemaker] (age 32, b. IN), and children Eva (age 8, b. IL), Emma (age 6, b. IL), Anna (age 4, b. IL), Adam (age 3, b. IL) and Lara (age 9 mos, b. IL), living in Loran, Illinois. George is listed as a "farmer." Living a few houses away is Margaret's sister, Emit [Shoemaker] Holroyd, and her family.

3 1880 US Census (District 180, Loran, Stephenson County, Illinois). Repository: Ancestry. Surety: 4. Lists George Grigsby (age 57, b. IL), wife Margaret [Shoemaker] (age 42, b. IN) and children Emma (age 16, b. IL), Annie (age 14, b. IL), Adam (age 12, b. IL), Laura (age 10, b. IL), Milton (age 6, b. IL) and Myra (age 6, b. IL), living in Loran, Illinois. Also in the household is John Stener (age 20, b. PA), listed as a "farm hand." George is listed as a "farmer." George indicates that both of his parents were born in Kentucky. Margaret indicates that her father was born in Ohio and her mother in Pennsylvania.

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