Pioneer Families of Tennessee

The family of John Grant, Jr. and Mary (Polly) Ridenour (My fifth great grandparents)
compiled by, Joe Mode jmode@mindspring.com

We are not yet sure if John Grant, Jr. and Johnathan Grant are one in the same. One researcher lists our John as John Kelly Grant, but Author Hastings lists his John Kelly Grant, son of Noah Grant, as being born in Penn. and dieing unmarried in Texas in 1832. I believe that John Grant, Jr. was born ca. 1795, perhaps in Connecticut. Mark Evans of Baltimore, Maryland places Johns’ birth in Connecticut on 1 June 1799 and lists him as John Kelly Grant. He is between the ages of twenty and thirty in the 1830 Campbell County, Tennessee census. He died before the 1850 census. He married Mary (Polly) Ridenour, daughter of Henry Ridenour ca. 1816. I assume he was married in Campbell Co. Henry Ridenour was in the Revolutionary War and first married Susanna Webb. The Johnathan Grant household is shown in Campbell Co. as containing four members. The children of John and Mary Polly Ridenour Grant, to the best of our knowledge are as follows:

1.        Iris Isabell Grant born 22 Sept. 1816 or 9 Jan. 1815 and died on 29 Jan. 1915 in Scott Co. Married on 7 Oct. 1840 to Rev  James Lay who was born on 20 Feb. 1821 in KY and died on 9 Jan. 1905 in Scott Co., Tenn. They had eleven children and are buried on Smith Creek in Scott Co.

The children: Amanda Lay b. 1843, Lucinda Jane Lay b. 12 Mar. 1845, Mary Lay b. 20 Feb. 1847,

Spencer Foley Lay b. 1848, Henry “Hen” Lay b. ca. 1850. Jackson Lay b. 10 May 1851, John M. Lay b. 27 Aug. 1855, Finely Grant Lay b. 14 Jan. 1858, Rachel Delilah Lay b. Feb. 1861, Silas Lay b. 10 Feb. 1863. More on this family at www.angelfire.com/va2/Terry/Lay3.html

2.        Rufus Grant born 29 Sept. 1824 and died on 21 Nov. 1901 in Campbell Co. Married Lucy Parker in Campbell Co. on 26 March 1845. Lucy was ½ Cherokee according to Donna Cooper Kavanaugh’s letter dated 4-9-84.

3.        Harvey Grant born 9 Feb. 1827 and died on 30 Dec. 1904 in Scott Co. Married Helen Lay on 29 Aug. 1850. He lived and raised his family at Winfield, Tenn. in Scott Co.

4.        Abigail Grant born 1829/30 and died? May have married Felix Broyles on 2 May 1870 and then a Massengale? However, Buford Lay claims that she never married and lived with her sister Caroline Broyles until her (Abigail’s ) death. She is buried at Newcomb, but has no stone. She taught at the first school established in Campbell Co. and everybody called her Abby.

5.        Thirsey Grant born 14 Nov. 1833 and died on 8 March 1888. Married James Jasper Lay on 27 Sept. 1857. They still have descendants living on Little Elk between Elk Valley and Newcomb. Thirsy and Jasper are buried in the Sharp Graveyard on Little Elk.

6.        Caroline Grant born 9 Sept. 1835 and died on 7 Feb. 1929. Married George Preston Broyles on 17 Aug. 1857. Death Record lists her place of death as Newcomb in Campbell Co. States that she was born in Claiborne Co., Tenn. and that her father and mother, John and Mary Ridenour Grant, were also born in Claiborne County. Informant was John Broyles. Buford Lay recalls that his Aunt Caroline had “lost all her teeth by the time she was around 75 years old, but a few years later she started cutting a third set. When she died at 94 she had almost a full set of teeth again. She has a grandson, Carl Broyles, living at Powell now.”

7.        Henry Grant born 9 Oct. 1833 and died on 24 April 1898 or on 15 May 1909. Married Rebecca Johnson who died on 24 Oct. 1904. He lived and started his family at Little Elk Valley in Campbell Co., but then moved to Roane Co.

8.        Rebecca Grant born ? and died on ? Married Ezekiel/John Wilhite on 17 Aug. 1852 by James Wilhite, J.P. She was known as Aunt Becky to Buford Lay, and after she became a widow she lived with his grandpa and grandma Lay until she died. She is buried beside them on Smith Creek in Scott County, Tenn.

9.        Rhoda Grant born ? and died on ? Married Joe Peace

10.     Louisa Grant born ? and died on ? Married a Baird?

11.     Ferba Grant born on ? and died on ? Married a Baird?

12.     Helen Grant born on ? and died on ? Married ?

Iris and Abigail lived in London, Kentucky according to Mrs. Minnie Grant Malicoat, sister to Rufus Grant.


Rufus Grant and Lucy Parker

Rufus Grant, son of John Grant, Jr. and Mary “Polly” Ridenour, was born on 29 Sept. 1824 in Campbell Co. Tenn. and died on 21 March 1901 in Campbell Co., Tenn.. He married Lucy Parker on 26 March 1845 in Campbell Co. They were married by J.H. Grant, J.P. She was born on 24 Sept. 1822, possibly in Kentucky, and died on 17 April 1902. Roy Cooper stated that Lucy was the daughter of an Irish immigrant and that her father had married “a Kentucky Indian, Shoni (Shawnee?)Indian.” I do not know where they are buried. Martha Grant Cate wrote “ In the 1900 census of Campbell Co., Tenn. Rufus and Lucy Parker Grant are living in the home of Lewis and Amanda J. Grant in the 1st Civil District..”

(My note: Was told by Minnie Grant Mallicoat that her father, Nicholas B. Grant, had an Uncle Nathan Parker who lived in Gray, Kentucky. Also list an Ellen Parker, but cannot recall if this is Nathan’s wife or an aunt by the name of Ellen Parker.)

The Nine Children of: Rufus and Lucy Parker Grant as best as I can figure according to census records and information gleaned from Roy Cooper. There will be a gap in this line when documenting John Parker Grant’s family. (Rufus/Lucy are my 4th great grandparents)

1. Nicholas Biddle Grant born February 1846, Campbell Co. and died 17 Sept. 1836 in Campbell Co., Tenn. He married Mary Ann Murray , Rachel M. Wilson on 19 Dec. 1893, and Amanda Dinwitty. Known as Uncle Nick. Was a Sheriff of Campbell Co.  Fought with the 6th Tenn., U.S. Wrote a book called “Life of  a Common Soldier.” Discharge papers for Nick state that he enlisted on 20 April 1862 and was discharged at Nashville on 21 April 1865. Was 18 years old, 5’ 4”, fair complexion, blue eyes, black hair. Was a farmer before the war in the First District of Campbell Co. Signed by James H. Grant, J.P.

Had lived in Campbell all his life and during his younger days was active in politics. Was known and respected not only in this, but adjoining counties. He was one of the county’s most loved aged citizens, believing and acting a Christian, and always for those things which would make Campbell a better county. Funeral services with military honors were held at the Demory Baptist Church, with the Rev. George Haggard in Charge. Buried at Bakers Forge Cemetery. (From obituary) Minnie Grant Mallicoat said of her father Nicholas, on the day Nicholas Grant took to his bed he asked “has my brother John Parker come yet?” He stayed in bed six weeks. Had his picture taken on the day he died, loved peaches and was a Baptist. She said the Grants were real fair complected and came from Scotland. In the 1900 census (Campbell Co.) I also found Nicholas B. and Rachel Grant listed with their children. The sons listed were Silas M. 19, Stewart 11, and Rufus H. 5. There were also four daughters listed in the 1900 Campbell Co, Tennessee Census. (Go to Knoxnews.com for article by Fred Brown on Nicholas. Appalachian Journal: Family Lore, 26 September 2006)


Nicholas Biddle Grant

This family information about Nicholas Biddle Grant came from Minnie Grant Malicote via Alice Coker via Sherilyn Cunnyngham:

Nicholas B. Grant married Mary Ann Murray born 1849 and died 1890. Had fifteen children total.

  1. Margaret Grant married Peter Hatmaker. 2nd spouse N.B. Williams.
  2. Lizzie Grant married James Farmer. 2nd spouse Andy Haun.
  3. Sarah M. Grant b. 1871 and died ??????.
  4. Mary Lou Grant, 1873-1960. Married Peter Hatmaker.
  5. Susan Grant b. 1876 and died ????? Married Jim Housley. 2nd spouse James Lewellyn.
  6. Frankie Ann Grant b. 1877 and died 1940. Married Frank Maupin.
  7. Stewart Grant b. 1878 and died 1949. Married Mary Sharp Cooper.
  8. Silas Milton “Mitt” Grant b. 1880 and died 1973. Married Texas Richardson.

2nd spouse of Nicholas Grant was Rachael Wilson.

  1. Belva Grant born ????
  2. Rufus Grant b. 1894. Married Maggie Miller. 2nd spouse Susie Jorman.
  3. Mattie Grant b. 1896. Married Charles McLester.
  4. Laura Grant b. 1898. Married Dave Davis and had three children.
  5. Ethel Grant b. 1903. Married Dewey Morton.
  6. Minnie Grant married Casper Malicote.

Silas Milton “Mitt” Grant family according to Minnie Grant Malicote. (Married Texas Richardson)

  1. Fletcher Grant b. 1903 and died 1986. Married Ethel Newby.
  2. Begie Grant married Vince Hatmaker.
  3. Mary Grant b. 1905. Married Millard Thompson.

2nd spouse of Silas Milton Grant was Josephine “Josie” Vincenetta Sharp born 1895 and died 1938.

  1. Doyle Grant b. 1924 and died 1993 and had three children.
  2. Silas Grant married Lenore Willoughby and had four children.
  3. Lloyd Grant married Mary Harris and had one child.
  4. Vivian Grant married Oma Lee Carroll and had four children.
  5. Aileen Grant married Don Kidwell. 2nd spouse Dewey Hill.
  6. E.L. Grant married Camille Brinkley. 2nd spouse Merle. Had two children.
  7. Betty Lee Grant married Sammy Shetterly  and had three children.

Fletcher Grant family according to Minnie Grant Malicote. (Married Ethel Newby)

1.        Helen Grant married Ralph Cordell. Five children. A minister and they have a wonderful family.

2.        Arvilee Grant married Helen F. Brashear. No children. Arvilee works for Employment Agency.

3.        Pauline Grant married J.B. Norfleet. Four children. Lives in Nashville.

4.        Robbie Sue Grant (blind) married Bobby Abston. 2nd spouse Dale Heltsley. No Children.

5.        Ralph Grant married Sharon Seay. One child: Thomas Fletcher Grant?

2. John Parker Grant was borned 22 January 1848 in Campbell County, Tenn. and died on 28 March 1904 in Liberty Hill, Grainger County, Tenn. Buried at Liberty Hill Cemetery. Was a clerk or elder of Elm Springs Baptist Church at Liberty Hill. (Pronounce “Elam” by Granny Bowers and East Tenn. folk)

Married 2 May 1872 in Campbell Co. to Sarah Jones. (See notes and stories for more information. John Parker and Sarah Jones Grant were my 3rd great grandparents)

 
Sarah Jones & John Parker Grant                                               Elm (Elam) Springs Baptist Church, Liberty Hill


Sarah Jones Grant

Sarah Jones Grant was borned 24 August 1856 in Anderson? County, Tenn. and died on 10 December 1925 in Spring City, Rhea County, Tenn. Also buried at Liberty Hill Cemetery. Her Death Certificate states that she died of Pneumonia at the age 69 years, 3 months and 16 days. Her parents were James Calvin Jones and Mary (Polly) Pyles/Piles. She had sisters Cinthy and Parley. Tradition has it that Sarah Jones Grant was part Indian. Cloyce Grant, son of Wayne Grant, said that “Sarah Jones Grant was over ½ Indian, probably ¾ and that it traced back to the Jones side of the family.” He said that “John Parker wouldn’t help her do the work on the farm and that’s why she was so mean, she mellowed out after John Parker died. She came out to Oregon and stayed about a year then went back to Tennessee.” He said “The Grants all had dark hair and either dark or gray eyes. The red hair came from the Moyers side of the family, not the Grants.” (From Sherilyn Cunnyngham as told to her by Cloyce Grant) According to Faye Jones Alley, Sarah Jones tended cows or sheep and one day wore her good clothes under her old ones as if she were going to tend the herd, then ran off and got married to John Parker Grant. Her father didn’t like John Parker. On his death bed he asked Sarah to bring John and their children to see him.

Sherilyn Cunnyngham sent this information regarding our Jones side from:

Scholastic Population 1853-1861 Anderson County, Tennessee. This reports the “Amount of Scholars Taken Down in the 2nd District of Anderson Co. for the year 1861.

Rufus Grant          5

Charles Jones       1 (Brother to James Jones, Sarah Jones Grant’s father according to Sherilyn)

James Jones          1

William Jones       1 (The father of James Jones according to Sherilyn and War of 1812 veteran)

Jacob Pile             4

Wm. Pile, Sr.        1 (Perhaps the father of Mary “Polly” Pile, mother of Sarah Jones Grant)

Wm. Pile, Jr.        5     

From Doug Killin’s manuscripte is the following story about Sarah Jones Grant:

Sarah Jones Grant, Wayne Grant’s mother, was a woman of strong opinions. Her father, James Jones, was a prominent Campbell County, Tennessee Confederate supporter and slave owner, owning  more than fifty slaves(?) Seven years after the Civil War, Sarah ran away from home at age fifteen to marry John Parker Grant, whose family was on the side of the Union. Sarah and John settled in Wallop Holler, near Liberty Hill in Grainger County, Tennessee. Mr. Jones held strong grudges, as did his daughters. Neither would visit the other. Finally, in 1889, when Wayne was thirteen, James Jones broke the deadlock and went to see his daughter and his grandchildren. The Civil War had ended thirty-four years earlier. Sarah’s husband, John Parker Grant, died before 1910. (28 March 1904) In 1912, when her son Wiley gathered a group to come to Oregon, Sarah came along and stayed for almost ten years. Sarah’s grandchildren felt that she highly favored Vurty over all others, probably because the two were much alike.


John & Sarah Jones Grant home in Wallop Holler, Grainger Co. Tenn.

According to Sherilyn Cunnyngham, as told to her by her aunts Loma and Velma Moyers: “Laura and J.A.Moyers lived in the cabin along with Laura’s mother and father, John Parker and Sarah Jones Grant. Their first five children were born there, the first was Velma (Pikey) who was born in 1903. From what I understand about the Grants, Wayne and Wiley were the “wild ones,” and my grandfather JA. Moyers was the religious one, very straight and narrow. They didn’t see eye to eye when they were all out here in Oregon and Washington.” (Letter from Sherilyn Cunnyngham date 17 December 1997)

Directions to get to the cabin, according to Sherilyn: From Knoxville take the Rutledge Pike exit (11W),  got to Joppa (20 miles) and turn left over Clinch Mountain to Washburn. Take a right where the road dead-ends, at a group of stores, turn left. Just after a bridge by the R.R. tracks, turn right and follow the road into Liberty Hill. The road to the cabin goes on the hill above it to the front now. It used to run right in front of it. There is a creek in the front yard that you have to cross, a little bridge on it. The road is in the woods. There is a hill straight up behind and a hill in front, a hollow. There are two large, flat rocks behind the house where the children played. (From same letter)


John Parker and Sarah Jones Grant Family, Summer, 1902. In Wallop Holler, Grainger Co., Tenn.

Standing L-R: Wiley & Sally Grant, Lewis Grant, J.A. & Laura Grant Moyers. Ellen Walker Grant holding son Carl Grant. John Parker and Sarah Jones Grant, Rose Beeler Grant holding dau. Ethel and husband Wayne Grant holding son Leonard who died at age three.

Children of John Parker Grant and Sarah Jones Grant: (My third great grandparents, J.M.)

1. James Rufus Grant(Jim) was borned 2 March 1872 in Liberty Hill and died of pneumonia on  26December 1902? in Celina, Texas. He married Susan (Suda) Ellen Walker on 12 August 1897. He was known for his singing schools. James, Suda, and their three children  Jerusa Edith, Ethan, and Carlas W. Grant moved to Texas. Suda and the children moved back to East Tennessee after James’s death. The children lived for several years with their maternal grandparents, Rev. John Davis and Margaret Ann Houston Walker, at Big Springs in Union County and their mother worked at a mill in Knoxville. She remarried to George Melvin Heatherly.

   
                                                     Rufus and Susan Ellen Walker Grant                                   James Rufus Grant

Children of James Rufus and Susan Ellen Walker Grant. (My second great grandparents, J.M.)

A. Jerusa Edith Grant (Granny Bowers) born 25 September 1898 and died 20 September 1990 in Chattanooga, Tenn. (My great grandmother, J.M.) She is  the first GRANT in my, Joe Mode’s, line. She was born in Liberty Hill, Grainger County on 25 September 1898, married William Edgar Bowers on 13  June 1914 in Knoxville, Tenn. and died at the home of her son in Chattanooga on 20 September 1990. They had ten kids,one of the being my mamaw, Dora Katherine Bowers. Edith and Wm. Edgar are buried at Lynnhurst Cemetery in Knoxville. Edith’s son, Arthur Richard Bowers, is now in possession of this bible. Several of the original entries in this bible only consisted of initials. When this is the case, a full name is given if known. Aunt Maureen Bowers said Granny Bowers always told her that she was named after a queen in the Bible and that if she could figure out who the queen was she would tell her. We never knew her first name until I was perusing census records and found that her name was Jerusa. Perhaps spelled wrong, but this must be Jerushah, Queen of Judah, wife of Uzziah, King of Judah. I  knew my great grandmother well. She was a fine Christian, quiet, soft spoken, and kind. She said her Grandfather Grant, John Parker Grant, was a blacksmith and died of a brain hemorage. Her mother and father’s house burned down and some boys set her Grandfather Grant’s house on fire. It was rebuilt. Two boys saved her mother’s sewing machine when their house burned.


William Edgar & Jerusa Edith Grant Bowers

B. Ethan Conrad Grant born 19 March 1900. Died 2 Dec. 1989 in a nursing home near Independence, Oregon. Was “given to his Uncle Wiley Grant to raise.” Was in the Navy during WWI as a radio operator I believe, and wrote for various magazines. Listed in Union Co. Tenn. 1n 1900, 1910 and in Wayne, Michigan with wife Barbara in 1930. Wrote of his trip to Oregon in 1912: Kidnapped to Aregone!

Did not get along with his step-father, George M. Heatherly, according to Doug Killin manuscript. I wrote to him several times and have a couple of tapes that he had done for sister Edith and other relatives.

He went on to speak of his childhood and going to Oregon to live with his Uncle Wiley Grant. “I was taught to read and write before I was five years old. Momma (Susan Ellen Walker Grant) made me because I was sickly as a child, thought I had Polio or Infantile Paralysis according to Dr. Longmire. I had no feelings in my legs so Momma made me read. I sat in a little rocker in front of the fireplace while Moma knitted or crocheted. I spent the winter stumbling through Pilgrim’s Progress. Cried all the way through it. Imagine knowing your ABC’s and not being able to read all  those big words. Had a whale of a time. Momma next winter gave me a copy of Robinson Carusoe and I worked my way through it much easier. We couldn’t read in the Navy because there was no room for books in the radio room. There were three operators and we took shifts, four hours on, eight hours off. There was only room enough for one person to sit and the other person had to stand. I joined the Merchant Marines and was able to read. One trip was 17,000 miles long, went to South America, West Africa, and Europe; from December 8th to May 21st. I read almost 300 books on that voyage.”

 My childhood memories are not good, I was an unhappy child. Momma was strict, but it wasn’t her fault, because after daddy died we went back to live with Grandpaw and Grandmaw (John D. and Margaret An Houston Walker at Big Springs, Union Co.) Grandpaw was strict. We weren’t treated like many other children were because Grandpaw believed that children were to be seen and not heard. The school house was on his land and I thought he owned it because he hired the teachers and made sure that they understood the Biblical admonition to spare the rod and spoil the child, and when he drummed that into the new teacher he hired he gave her the rod and those teachers used it. Carl and I were whipped at school  because other kids picked on us and we probably picked on them and we fought and that would get us licked in school. And then there was a rule that if we got whipped at school we had to get another one when we got home. Well, when I went to law school I found that we were victims of what’s called Double Jeopardy, ha, ha.

When I came out here to Oregon to live with Unk (Wiley Grant) it wasn’t any better. I stayed out here the first time a year and a half. I spent two summers out here and he convinced Mamma to let him fetch me out here because he said the schools were better and she did want us all to get a good education. When we got out here he seemed to have forgotten that and put me to work and kept my pay. I came out in April of 1912. I stayed that summer and I did get some schooling the following winter.


Ethan & Carl Grant. Not sure which is which

C. William Carlas Grant born 16 March 1902. Died 3 November 1931of cancer. A transcribed tape from Ethan Grant to his half-sister, Margaret Heatherly Cox, described Carl’s death: “He suffered so. Carl was in a Veteran’s Hospital in Detroit, Michigan and was given great care. When they found that his was a terminal case he was moved to a private room and a private nurse. Doctor Metz called and told me he didn’t think he (Carl) would last much longer and told me to come soon. The nurse and I were with him when he died. Carl was a bible student and his favorite religious leader was Martin Luther, so he told me that he wanted to be buried in a Lutheran cemetery. We found a plot high on a hill, a high rise and he was buried under a tree about eight inches in diameter and about fifteen feet tall. Put up a headstone for him.”

Continued  Children of Rufus and Lucy Parker Grant

3. Silas Mosier Grant born 10 Nov. 1851 and died ca. 7 April 1881, Monieau Co., Missouri. Married Mary Mahalia Kidwell/Tidwell? in March of 1873. Martha Grant Cate said “My grandfather, Silas M. Grant, was still in Campbell Co., Tenn. in the 1870 census, but left there and ended up in Monteau Co., Missouri.” Martha Grant Cate also said “My father, William Henry Grant, and his twin brother, John Rufus Grant, were born 18 Dec. 1873. There were two daughters who died in infancy and two more daughters and another son named Lewis Walker Grant. My grandfather, Silas M. Grant, died when my father and uncle were just eight years old, so they didn’t know very much about him.”

4. Mary (Polly) Ann Grant born ca. 1853. Married Joe Durham and lived in Anderson Co. They had seven children: 1. Lucy Ann m: Alfred Ridenour. 2. Lizzie m: Will Harmon. 3. Almenda m: Ben Overbay. 4. Mandy m: Frank Easter. 5. Mimie m: Billy Reynolds. 6. Edd. 7. Leona m: W.F. Martin.

5. Joshua/Josiah? Critchfield/Caleb Grant born ca. 1855. Conflicting information as to his name, but was known as Uncle Bob. He married a Haggard and had seven children: 1. Fletcher m: Mary Sharp, d/o Cal Sharp. 2. John m: Evie Rector. 3. George m: Cordie Meredith, d/o Stockley Meredith. 4. Marion (changed name to Rudolf) m: a Mettler. 5. Odie m: Bob Ray. 6. Janie m: Will Irwin. 7. Emmy Ann m: a Fox.


Joshua C. “Bob” Grant

6. Winfield/Waynefield Scott Grant born ca. 1858. Was a Methodist minister in Knoxville. Married Sarah Jane Durham, a Childress, an Evans, and a McFadden. Scott and Sarah Jane are listed as having four children: Remer, Kirk, Vivian, and ?.

7. Lewis Jones Grant born 22 November 1860 and died on 4 July 1948. Called Uncle Dick. Buried at Grantsboro Baptist Church. Married Amanda Jane Haggard on 13 Nov. 1881. D/o Adanirum/Warren Haggard and Lucinda Curnutt. She was born on 3 Oct. 1866 and died on 1 Oct. 1931 in Montgomery, Alabama. She is buried at Greenwood Cem. This family moved to Alabama ca. 1913-1920. Sometime after Mandy died Lewis, called “Pap” by his grandchildren, returned to Grantsboro and lived with daughter Maggie and family. He may have died at the home of daughter Mary Lee in Kingston (Roane Co.) (Much of this family information provided by William Prentis Grant, son of Lewis J. Grant, in a letter to his niece, Mary Ann Grant Lundgren, daughter of Oscar LaFayette Grant)


Amanda J. Haggard & Lewis Jones Grant Family

The eight children of Lewis J. and Amanda Haggard Grant

  1. John Hesselmeyer Grant was born 2 Dec. 1888 and died on 17 Aug. 1976 at Fort Sanders Hospital in Knoxville, Tenn. Married Cora Jones who was born ca. 1891 in Kentucky. He was a teacher in the Powell River area of Campbell Co., Tenn. and later became a pharmacist in Oklahoma.                                                                                                     


John Hesselmeyer Grant

  1. Mary Lee Grant was born 19 Aug. 1891 in Campbell Co. and died on 21 July 1977 in Roane Co. She married Sherman Dalas “Dee” Cooper on 24 Dec. 1911 in Campbell Co. Dee was born on 1 Sept. 1892 in Campbell Co. and died June of 1974 in Roane Co., Tenn.
  2. Sara Margaret Grant (Maggie) was born 21 Aug. 1894 in Campbell Co. and died 27 April 1944 in LaFollette, Tenn. Married William .Paris Cooper on 2 April 1911 in Campbell Co. He was  born 1 January 1888 in Campbell Co. and died 20 August 1965 in Campbell Co. Buried at Grantsboro Baptist.


Mary Lee & Maggie Grant

  1. Adrian Wiley Grant was born 23 Aug. 1897 in Campbell Co. and died on 10 Jan. 1979 in Knoxville, Tenn.  Married Stella Raines, born 6 November 1899 in Campbell Co. and died in Knoxville in October of 1982.
  2. Georgie Anna Grant was born 1 May 1900 in Campbell Co. and died on 22 Oct. 1934 in Montgomery, Alabama. Did not marry.
  3. Harve Loomis Grant was born 23 July 1903 in Campbell Co. and died ca. 1936, Tulsa, OK. Married Eva Edgett.
  4. William Prentiss Grant was born 22 March 1908 in Campbell Co. and died 4 December 1982 in Alabama. Married Thelma ? who was born 27 Aug. in Alabama? Died in Dec. of 1970 in Mobile, Alabama. Prentiss was in the Navy and they had no children.
  5. Oscar LaFayette Grant was born 1 June 1913 in Campbell Co. and died in June of 1984 in Saline, Kansas. Married Catherine ?

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       Prentis, H.L. Loomis,                                      Back: Prentiss & Adrian Grant
Georgiana, Adrian Grant                                   Mary Lee Grant Cooper
                                                                                   “Dee” (Sherman Dalas) Cooper 
                                                                      

8. Isaac Rutherford Grant born ca. 1866 married Viney Ballew on 17 Nov. 1895 and lived in Knoxville. Also married a McGhee (no children).

9. Alvis Grant born ca. 1864 and married Lizzie Woods. Lived in Atlanta. In a letter Alice Coker said “Minnie (Grant Malicoat) told me about her Uncle Alvis Grant, who was a brother to her father, Nicholas. He married Lizzie Woods and they had several children. He left Lizzie after their children were grown and lived with a woman named Cora. Never married Cora. Cora played the piano and sang. She sang a song for me that Cora sang a lot. Here were the words:”

              Me and my wife and a stump-tailed dog,

               Crossed the river on a hickory log,

               She fell in and I got wet,

               But I held to my little brown dog, you bet,

               Ha, ha, ha, you and me,

               Held to my little brown dog, you bet.

 

Continued children of John Parker and Sarah Jones Grant

2. S.W. Grant was born 6 March 1875 and died 1 June 1876. No more known right now.

3.Wayne S. Grant was born 12 December 1876 in Liberty Hill and died on 24 February 1955 in Dallas, Polk County Oregon? He married Rose Beeler Grant. An entry in this bible states “Mrs. Rose Grant died 3 June 1932?” This may be Wayne’s wife. Also listed is an entry for Rosela? Grant born on 15 December 1880. May be Rose Beeler.  Traveled to Oregon in 1910 with brother Louis/Lewis and was a blacksmith and was “the jolliest of all the Grants” according to Uncle Ethan Grant. Wayne owned three trucks used to haul firewood, farm produce and household goods ca. 1921. Originally used horse-drawn wagons. For a month each summer in the late teens, Rose would take her six children (Estan had not been born yet) to the Liberty area south of Salem. They would live in an old house and pick logan berries, raspberries, and boysenberries. On the weekends, when Wayne wasn’t hauling goods with his wagon, later trucks, he would come and visit his family. Often, he took Rose into Salem for dinner on Saturday night. On one occasion, he asked her to take dress-up clothing and they had their picture taken.(Picture in Doug Killin manuscript) Wayne was a blacksmith and logger.

Children of Wayne S. and Rose Beeler Grant:

1. Leonard Grant born 3 August and died 3? November 1902.

2. Ethel Viola Grant Whaley born 10 February 1902.

3. Verta/Vertie May Grant Hamilton born 19 May 1904 and died 16 June 1963.

4. Odesse Grant Killin 14 March 1906 and died ????

5. Elone (Nomie) Grant Mort was born 13 March 1908 and died 5 August 1992.

6. Von Virgil Grant was born 28 May 1910 and died 13 November 1985.

7. Cloyce John Grant was born 11 January 1915 and died  ???? 2002.

8.  Estan Winfield Grant was born 30 August 1919 and died on 21 November 2000.

4. Wiley Garfield Grant was born 6 November 1881 in Liberty Hill and died on 4 May 1974 in Marion, Oregon. He married Sally Loop then Edna Walker An entry in this bible says Sallie D. Grant was born 29 Oct. 1883. This may be the same Sallie/Sally. Date of death is illegible. According to Uncle Ethan Grant, Wiley was well known among Baptist, throughout Claiborne and Grainger Counties as a leader of hymn singing. He worked for .15 cents an hour in a hop yard near Rickreall. By 1914 had his own hop yard southeast of Independence and later was a successful business man in Salem, Oregon. He loved the old church hymns. Wiley was a carpenter and was also a promoter and a salesman of considerable skill. When he came to Oregon in 1912, he gathered several Grainger County residents to come with him, largely based on their ability to sing hymns in choir. In Oregon, Wiley built or remodeled a number of houses, barns, and hop dryers in the Independence, Rickerall, and Salem area. In later days, he developed the “Grant Addition” just north of the state capitol in Salem and was a successful real estate salesman. Aunt Sally died about 1920. Wiley soon married Edna Burch, his housekeeper, who was 20 years his junior. Edna was a teacher who had a deep and enjoyable Tennessee accent. (We don’t have accents-Joe Mode) Her family had come to Independence about the same time as the Grants arrived in Oregon. Wiley and Sally had three known children: Fred, Trula, and Curtis. The two boys and Sally Loy? Grant died of T.B. in the 1920’s and the house in Dallas was condemned as a result and Wiley hired Lewis to burn it to the ground. Show a Curtis P. Grant dying on 11 March 1927 in my great grandmother’s bible. Is this Wiley’s Curtis?

5. Laura Alice Grant was born 24 December 1883 in Liberty Hill and died in Pennine, Rhea County, Tenn. on 12 March 1952. She married Joseph Alexander Moyers on 27 January 1902 in Liberty Hill. Joseph Alexander was born on 1 May 1880 in Liberty Hill and died on 3 February 1965 in Rhea Co. His parents were Benjamin Franklin and Paulina Hazeltine McPhetridge.. Laura is buried at the Spring City Cemetery. There children were all born at Liberty Hill in Grainger Co. and are as follows according to Sherilyn Cunningham:

  1. Velma Louvicia Moyers born 13 March 1903 and died 4 Jan. 1990 in Pennine, Rhea Co.

        Married Corum Kitts Jones on 21 Dec. 1921 in Liberty Hill.

  1. Lloyd Conley Moyers born 23 June 1905 and died 5 May 1941 in Rhea County. He was shot in a bar and killed for “moving in on somebody else’s slot machine territory.” He was married first to Pearl Cash on 19 Nov. 1932 and second to Lillian Masoner.
  2. Agnes Irene Moyers born 18 Sept. 1907 and died on 14 March 1998 in Greenbriar, Robertson Co., Tenn.  She married Jonathathan Boyd Caldwell on 30 Sept. 1934.
  3. Parlie Mae Moyers born 9 May 1911 and died 23 Dec. 1997 in Cassville, Bartow, Georgia. Memorial Gardens, Cartersville, GA. Married first James Murphy ca. 1928 who died of pneumonia after jumping into a cold mountain creek to cool off on a hot day. Married second to Stewart Thornton Caldwell on 14 June 1936 in Tennessee.
  4. Loma Virginia Moyers born 16 August 1914. No more known at this time on her.
  5. Edna Grace Moyers born 29 May 1917 and died on 23 Feb. 2005 in Bristol, Tenn. Buried in Spring City Memorial Gardens, Rhea Co. Married James Felix Alley on 16 April 1938.
  6. Benjamin Franklin Moyers born 13 Dec. 1919 and died on 17 Nov. 1959 in Spring City. He was killed when a bulldozer turned over on him. He married Flora Mae McMillan on 27 July 1940 in Ringgold, Georgia. Buried at Spring City Cemetery.
  7. David Parker Moyers born 4 Jan. 1923 and died on 19 Nov. 1989 in Pennine, Rhea Co. Married Henrietta Elizabeth Fisher on 28 Feb. 1946.
  8. Sarah Ruth Moyer Cunnyngham born 16 March 1925 in Grainger Co. and died on 10 March 1957 of “Melanoma”in Pennine, Rhea Co. Buried at Spring City Cemetery. (Named after Sarah Jones Grant) Married Robert Tate Cunnyngham on 19 Dec. 1946 in Ringgold, Walker Co. Georgia. There children are Sherilyn Cunnyngham, James Noel Cunnyngham, and Deborah Cunnyngham Boyd.
  9. Laura Josphine Moyers born 16 March 1929 and died ???? Married Walter Andrew Alley on 27 Aug. 1949. No more known on her at this time.

Obituary of Mrs. Laura Alice Grant Moyers:

Mrs. Laura Grant Moyers, 69, died at her home in Pennine Wednesday afternoon. She is survived by her husban, J.A. Moyers; two sons, Frank and Parker Moyers of Spring City; seven daughters, Mrs. C.K. Jones, Jr., Miss Lona Moyers, all of Pennine, Mrs. Boyd Caldwell of Nashville, Mrs. S.T. Caldwell of Cartersville, GA, and Mrs. R.T. Cunnyngham of Dayton; 27 grandchildren, 3 great grandchildren; three brothers, Wayne Grant of Dallas, Ore, W.G. Grant of Salem, Ore., and Lewis Grant of Humptulips, Washington. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon  at 2:00 at the Pennine Baptist Church. Burial will be in the Spring City cemetery. Vaughn Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

6. Lewis H. Grant was born 19 September 1886 in Liberty Hill. Married Nellie Gose. Traveled to Oregon with brother Wayne in 1910 and lived in Amity. Later went to Hoaquin, Washington. Owned a truck with his brother Wayne, which he used to haul firewood, farm produce, and household goods ca. 1921.

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