Grider, Mary

Notes:

Russell Co., KY Marriages, 1826-1865 - Gaar-Guy
Grider, Welkerson to Sarah Stapp. May 14, 1844. Married by Wm. H.H.Abshere. 1-28.




Sarah "Sally" Medaris (6) (Rice 5) b. abt 1789 in NC., d.1869 in Russell, Kent. Married James Grider born 9/5/1783 in Burke, Co. NC. James was the brother to Barbara Grider who married Sarah's brother Charles.
(James' grandmother, Sarah Morgan, was a first cousin of Daniel Boone's. Sarah Morgan's father was John Morgan. His sister, also named Sarah Morgan, was Daniel's mother.)
They had the following children:
Hamilton Grider (7) b. 1805 in Ky. married Sally Bailey on 6/22/1825d. in Vermillion, Ill. They died before 1854 as proved by an Adair Co.KY court order dated 5 June 1854 in which Elzy Bailey was appointed guardian of [seven children] infant heirs of Hamilton Grider, deceased.
Wesley Grider (7) b. 1809, married Lucy Holt on 10/11/1828
Betsy Grider (7) b. 1812, married Alfred Grider on 4/11/1829 in Adair, Ky.
Sallie Grider (7) b. 1813, d. 1875, married David Bryant on 1/14/1834
Wilkerson Grider (7) b. 1 Jan 1815, d. 1868, married (1) Sally Holt,(2) Sarah Stapp 18 May 1844 Russell Co. KY
William Grider (7) married Isabell Bailey in Russell Ky. on 7/28/1836.There is question of William's middle name as Preston.
John F. Grider (7) b. 1823, in Russell Ky. d. 2 May 1852, married ????Pescoe. There is discussion among the Grider descendants as to whether John is truly a son of James and Sarah.
One researcher states: John F. Grider is not the son of James and Sarah. I have in my possession copies of papers from Henderson Co. TN stating that Silas Grider was appointed guardian of Sarah F. Grider,dau. of John F. Grider of Henderson Co. KY. Kentucky Vital Statistics show that John F. Grider died in 1852 of measles. In his household in 1850 Henderson C. KY census are Pekoe children.
Another points out: (That researcher) is basing her claim on the fact that guardian bonds at the Henderson county court house show Silas as guardian to Sarah Ann Grider, minor child of John F. Grider. However,the bonds do not state that John F. was a son of Silas. I would guess that John giving guardianship of his daughter to Silas could indicate that he was John' s father, but it is not definite proof. I'm not saying (the other) is wrong; I just think more proof is needed. However, knowing (this researchers) background, I know she is very good at this stuff, and I wouldn't necessarily want to bet against her theory. I guess each individual will have to decide for his or her self.
As my main concern is this site, I will leave the Grider debate up to the Grider descendants . Hopefully we will be updated if this issue is resolved.
Rachel Grider (7) b. 4 Jan 1824, d. 30 Dec 1914. married Michael GreenMcKinley on 2/25/1845 .
Anna Grider (7) b. 1826, d. 1910, married John Pearce on 2/7/1853.
Lucinda Grider (7) b. 1828, d. 1864, married Charles McKinley

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:Zx4XaPKeh5c:www.mindspring.com/~kellcin/rice.htm+mckinle y+and+grider&hl=en

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Pierce, John, to Ann Grider. February 7, 1853. Married by Marcellus Baugh,
J.P.R.C., at James Grider's. Witnesses: Charles McKinley, Wintsville Grider.
1-52,53,63.

Wilkerson married Stapp, Sarah on 18 May 1844 in , Russell, Kentucky. Sarah (daughter of Stapp, William and McClure, Jane) was born before Aug 1813 in , Adair, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

CENSUS YR: 1860 STATE: Kentucky COUNTY: Russell DIVISION:Russell REEL NO: M653-39 4 PAGE NO: 773
REFERENCE: August 1, 1860 By: George W. Moore

40 910 910 Grider Wilkerson 45 M Farmer35 0 Ky

CENSUS YR: 1860 STATE: Kentucky COUNTY: Russell DIVISION:Russell REEL NO: M653-39 4 PAGE NO: 774
REFERENCE: August 2, 1860 by: George W. Moore

1 910 910 Grider Sarah 4 8 FKy X
2 910 910 Grider Charles 24 M Labore rKy
3 910 910 Grider Wesley 19 M X Labore rIll X
4 910 910 Grider Jane 1 5 FKy X
5 910 910 Grider William 1 2 MKy X
6 910 910 Grider Mar y 6 FKy X

CENSUS RECORDS:
......1850 Census: Russell County, Kentucky: Household 356, Family356: Page 469:
Grider, Wilkerson, age 35, KY, Farmer
Grider, Sally, age 37, KY
Grider, Charles, age 14, KY, School
Grider, Washington, age 13, KY, School
Grider, Wesley, age 9, IL, School
Grider, Jane, age 5, KY
Grider, Wm, age 2, KY
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......1860 Census: Russell County, Kentucky: Household 910, Famiy 910:Page 773:
Grider, Wilkerson, age 45, KY, Farmer, Real estate $ 350
Grider, Sarah, age 48, KY
Grider, Charles, age 24, KY, Laborer
Grider, Wesley, age 19, IL, Laborer
Grider, Jane, age 15, KY, at School
Grider, William, age 12, KY, at School
Grider, Mary, age 6, KY

Notes:

Name: William Stapp
Birth: 1772 Virginia
Death: 1827 Russell County, Kentucky
William Nelson Hewitt, 540 W. Sweetwater Ave., Phoenix, Arizona 85029
602-504-1111, bhewitt@mindspring.com

Birth: ABT. 1772 in Virginia 1
Death: 31 MAR 1827 in Russell Co Ky 1
Note:
[Stapps&Morgans.ged]

William married McClure, Jane in Sep 1796 in , Clark, Kentucky. Jane (daughter of McClure, Halbert and Young, Alice) was born about 1776 in , , Virginia; died in Feb 1860 in , Russell, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Born Virginia or Kentucky but where??

Notes:

Name Prefix: Mr.
REFN226
!Nauvoo Btz for dead Bk A Albert named Aunts &Cousins

!Petty Papers Vol 10 #2 pg 39 "Kty Baptists" Vol 1 by Spencer Statesthat the father in la w to Ralph Petty was James McClure.


Other possiblesiblings or children: Alexander McClure, Sarah McClure(md H. Kinkaid), John Mc Clure.
Some of these names are on the 1790 Clark Co., KY tax lists.

Possible given name: James


Slaying of the Halbert McClure Family
By Emory L. Hamilton

From the unpublished manuscript,
Indian Atrocities Along the Clinch, Powell and
Holston Rivers, pages 111-113.

On the 20th of September, 1782, Colonel
Arthur Campbell wrote to Colonel William Davies
(1), saying:
On the 11th instant a party of Northward
Indians penetrated as far in this county as the
settlements on the head of Moccasin Creek, which
is within ten or twelve miles of Abingdon, attacked
a family of fourteen in number, (of course secured
in the interior part), killed the husband on the
spot, captivated the wife and six (6) of the
children, three of whom, after being a short space
in the enemies hands, was most inhumanely
murdered. One, a young woman, so long survived
the blows as told the tragic tale. Two made their
escape the first day and night. The old woman and
one child, with a considerable booty in horses,
household goods, etc., was carried forward three
days, some distance down the Sandy River.
When part of our duty, with a
perseverance in purpose, through a most rugged
and difficult way that does them honor, overtook
the Indians and wounded several of them;
recovered unhurt, the two remaining captives,
with the Indian's baggage and plunder they had
taken.
Just seven days before the above letter was
written, Campbell, had on the 13th of September,
1782, written to Col. Preston thusly: (2)
By a few lines received from Major
Dysart, (3) I am informed that the Indians have
murdered Halbert McClure's family, near our
Courthouse, and some other persons, the number
there unknown.
Captain John Carr, who was born on
Carr's Creek in Russell Co., VA, September 6,
1773, and once lived as a boy on Moccasin Creek,
wrote to Dr. Lyman C. Draper, in 1854 from
Sumner Co., TN (4) saying:
...After that time (1776) my father moved
near the head of Moccasin Creek. The Indians
came and killed part of a family and carried off
others as prisoners. This family lived within about
two miles of my father. Their names were
McClure. Sally, the oldest daughter was to be
married the next day after the attack was made by
the Indians. The father McClure was killed, also
a son of his by the name of Moses, and Katherine,
a grown girl, and John McClure, his oldest son
was wounded, but afterwards recovered.
Sally McClure made her escape from the
Indians the first night. She met the party who were
in pursuit of the Indians, as might be expected,
her intended husband was among them. His name
was Kincaid, who married her shortly after her
return.
James Oxer, who once lived on the Clinch,
filed a Revolutinary War pension claim as the only
living heir of his father, George Oxer, who was an
Indian spy on the Clinch and who died in
Montgomery Co., KY, in October 1809. In the
claim filed in Warren Co., Indiana, in 1858, he
states:
That his father served on the Clinch and
was married to Dorcas Shelby (Shelley) who died
in Kentucky in 1824; that his father was in a
skirmish with the Indians in which Captain
(Alexander) Barnett (5) recaptured the McClure
family of Virginia, and placed them in the care of
his father George Oxer.
Joseph Smathers who once lived in this
vicinity before emigrating to Kentucky, tells a very
confused version of this incident to the Rev. John
D. Shane, (6) in which he says:
McClure's lived at the head of Little
Moccasin Gap. McClure's cabin had a wooden
chimney (7) on it. They (Indians) had gotten
between the chimney and cabin. They had learned
to say the old man's grace. (Perhaps a table grace
or prayer they overheard). His daughter was to
have been married in a few days. He (the father
McClure) came and fell on his knee and begged
them to desist and was shot dead. They
tomahawked and scalped a daughter and tread on
her, and left her for dead, but she came to and
lived. Two other daughters were taken off. One
was the bride. They taunted her about her groom
and mocked the grace the old man said. There
never was half as much mischief done (by Indians)
on Holston as on Clinch.
Halbert McClure had settled in 1773, near
the head of Moccasin Creek in Washington Co., in
Rich Valley, on a 400 acre tract of land opposite
and a little east of Cabin Creek Ford and Bromley
Gap on the southside of the North fork of Holston
River. He assigned this tract of land to John
Kinkead in 1781. (8) He was one of the appraisers
of the estate of Benjamin Estill on April 17, 1782,
and was a Juror in Botetourt Co., at a court on 15th
of May, 1771.

(1) Virginia State Papers, Vol. III, page 316-17.
(2) Draper MSS 9 DD 38
(3) Major James Dysart, first Sheriff of
Washington Co., VA, lived east of Abingdon, on
Route U. S. 11, at Book Hall (still standing). He
died in Rockcastle Co., KY, in 1831. Was one of
the Long Hunters and also at the Battle of Kings
Mountain where he commanded a company
(4) Draper MSS 6 XX 99
(5) Alexander Barnett was County Lieutenant of
Militia for Russell Co., VA, after its formation in
1786, and was a militia officer serving on the
Clinch, while the territory was still Washington
Co., VA.
(6) Historical Collection of Rev. John D. Shane,
Draper MSS 12 CC 96-7.
(7) Early settlers often built this type chimney. It
was laid up of sticks of wood, pen fashion and
daubed with clay. They were called "stick and clay
chimneys".
(8) Washington Co., VA Entry Book 1, page 10 &
70.

Contact: Rhonda Robertson at: rsr@mounet.com

Halbert married Young, Alice about 1762 in , Augusta, Virginia. Alice (daughter of Young, Patrick and Todd, Isabella) was born about 1746 in , Augusta, Virginia; died after 1800. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]