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(From the Lexington Progress 10 September 1975 by Diane Reed)
The Grider Cemetery is located in the south section of Henderson County on the Marvin Morris farm. It has a total of 36 graves, only 19 of them marked. The names on the stones are Grider, Thompson, Hendrix, Rhodes and Newsom. The oldest marked graves is John Grider, 1755-1798. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. His wife, Isabel Blain/Blair is buried beside him (1761-1802). The Griders married into the Thompson family. Appie Grider married Isaac Thompson, who is believed to have come to America from Ireland. One whole row is made up of Hendrix babies. Mary and A.J. Hendrix had seven babies who died from the age of 1 month to 8 months. The grave of the mother is nearby. She died in 1864, two years after the last baby died. Another grave is that of a returning soldier who died while on his way home from Mississippi from the Civil War in 1866. He became sick and asked to spend the night with a Rhodes family who lived near the cemtery. The soldier, believed to be Piley Newsom, died during the night. His grave is about 30 feet from the other graves. His tombstone reads, "Farewell my wife and children all, my soul to Heaven the Lord doth call". During the Civil War, a young man was riding in a wagon with his family at Middlefork. Some Union soldier believed him to be a Confederate spy and they seized him. Edwin Rhodes, sitting on his front porch making shoes, saw the soldiers marching him down Laster road. They took him up a hollow, shot him, and buried him under a tree root. This is now called the Dancer Hollow on the J.J. Grissom farm. Also during the Civil War, a young boy named Dodd was captured by the Union Army because they thought he was a Confederate spy. They shot him, cut his face off and nailed it to a tree. his playmate came by and saw it hanging there and recognized him. Dodd's body was buried in Unity Cemetery and his tombstone reads, "Brutally murdered". |
| NAME | BIRTH | DEATH | SPOUSE | PARENTS |
| GRIDER, Isabel Blair | 13 Dec 1761 | 1802 | John Grider Sr. | |
| GRIDER, John | 11 Jul 1755 | 1798 | Isabel Blair | |
| GRIDER, John Silas | 14 Jan 1859 | 21 Apr 1859 | Silas & Mary A. Grider | |
| GRIDER, Narcissa Isabel | 12 Jul 1831 | 25 Oct 1831 | ||
| GRIDER, Sally | 10 Oct 1794 | 16 Sep 1858 | ||
| GRIDER, Silas | 01 Dec 1796 | 18 Jun 1872 | ||
| HENDRIX, | 07 Oct 1840 | 22 Oct 1840 | son of R.L. & Mary Jane Hendrix | |
| HENDRIX, | Sep 1857 | infant | daughter of R.L. & M.J. Hendrix | |
| HENDRIX, | Nov 1858 | Infant | son of R.L. & M.J. Hendrix | |
| HENDRIX, Caleb A. | 15 Dec 1860 | 07 Jul 1860?? | R.L. & M.J. Hendrix | |
| HENDRIX, Mary Jane | 06 Jul 1819 | 10 May 1864 | R.L. Hendrix | |
| HENDRIX, Mary F. | 22 Dec 1853 | 23 Jan 1854 | R.L. & Mary Jane Hendrix | |
| HENDRIX, Perlina (Scrap) | 12 Jul 1861 | Apr 1869 | R.L. & M.J. Hendrix | |
| NEWSOM, Piley | 21 Jan 1808 | 24 Aug 1862 | ||
| RHODES, Martha P. | 08 Jan 1869 | 07 Apr 1869 | ||
| THOMPSON, Appie (Grider) | abt 24y | Isaac Thompson | ||
| THOMPSON, James Wilson | ||||
| THOMPSON, Silas C.W. | 27 Jul 1850 | 03 Apr 1851 | Evan & Tennessee (Grider) Thompson | |
| THOMPSON, Tennessee (Grider) | 03 Jan 1825 | 20 Apr 1852 | Evan Thompson |
