This record is taken from the family Bible of Right Marshall Grooms, which his widow, Eliza Ann Ray, when she came to die, willed to her daughter, Catherine Right Grooms, who on her death requested it be given to her only living brother Zebulon Wason Grooms, who left it to his oldest daughter, Nina Grooms Campbell. The Bible is now (1972) owned by descendants of Nina Grooms Campbell.
Bright Grooms was born Dec. 12, 1790
Katy (Winders) Grooms was born January 6, 1791, married August 17, 1813
Children's Names:
Nancy N. Grooms was born Sept. 29, 1815
Susannah Grooms was born Dec. 31, 1816
L(ucy) J(ane) Grooms born July 24, 1818
Wylie Grooms born Mar. 4, 1820, died May 2, 1842
Catherine Grooms born Mar. 10, 1821
Sarah (Sallie) Grooms born Feb. 7, 1823
Evalina Grooms born June 9, 1824
Mary (Polly) Ann Grooms born Jan. 5, 1826
Martha A. Grooms born Dec. 19, 1827
Right Marshall Grooms born Apr. 30, 1830
Harriet Grooms born May 24, 1832
Polina Grooms born July 15, 1836
Right Marshall Grooms married Eliza Ann Ray, March 18, 1852. She died April 2, 1868
Right Marshall Grooms died Aug. 31, 1862 of wounds received in battle.
Children:
Nathaniel Thadius Grooms born Jan. 28, 1853
Zebulon Wason Grooms born Aug. 30, 1856
Catherine Right Grooms born Mar. 5, 1863