Nathan N. Grant (1832 - 1923)

Born Jan 1832 in Madison Co., Tennessee

Husband of Mary (Dickson) Grant — married 22 Feb 1866 in Red River Co., Texas

Husband of Josephine Laura (Bell) Grant — married 4 Feb 1897 in Red River Co., Texas

Descendants

Died 1923 at about age 91 in Deport, Red River Co., Texas

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Biography

Nathan Grant is the son of Spencer Grant and Mary (Stark) Grant. He was born in Madison Co., Tennessee, but his family moved into Henderson Co. soon after. Stephen Grant was one of his brothers.

In 1854 he joined a party of three other young Tennesseans in a wagon trip to Texas. It was a 24 day journey before they crossed the Red River into Texas. Nathan Grant then devoted himself to farming.

"Mr. Grant joined the Eleventh Texas Cavalry under Colonel “Bill” Young, rendezvoused two months at Fort Washita, now Oklahoma, and then prepared for an Arkansas campaign. He was a participant in the battle of Elkhorn and followed orders of the army to proceed to the aid of the Confederates on the east side of the Mississippi river. He took part in the engagement at Corinth, became a part of Bragg’s army in the invasion of Kentucky and helped to fight the Richman and Perryville battles. In the engagement at Murfreesboro, where he was in the thick of the fight, as usual, he was shot through the leg, captured and sent to Camp Morton Indiana, as a prisoner of war. He was among the exchanged prisoners at City Point, Virginia, on May 12, 1863, and was furloughed home from the South Carolina hospital. When he recovered sufficiently of his would to take his old place in the line, he rejoined his command at Dalton, Georgia, on the Atlanta Campaign. General Jo Wheeler was in command, and when Atlanta fell he was on the retreat in front of Sherman’s army to Savannah, back north into North Carolina, where the battle of Bentonville was fought and the surrender of General Johnston’s army soon took place."

"Mr. Grant has married twice. His first marriage occurred on February 22, 1866, when Mary Dickson, a daughter of James and Abigail Dickson, became his wife. She passed away on March 30, 1894, the mother of six children, concerning whom mention is briefly made as follows: John D., the eldest, died unmarried; Minnie Abigail is the wife of Frank Bell of Deport, Texas; William S. also lives here; Gertrude, now deceased, was the wife of J.C. Mason of Deport; Charles lives in this community; Archie D. died in 1905, leaving one child. On February 4, 1896, Mr. Grant married Mrs. Laura Grant, widow of his deceased brother, Stephen Grant. She was a daughter of Leander Bell, and her first husband was L. C. Thomas, by whom she was the mother of three sons – R.G., W.M., and L.C. Thomas. Two children were born to her and Mr. Grant, Ruby and Lee, both of whom died in childhood."

Nathan and Josephine were old when they married and had no children.

Nathan N. Grant died in 1923 at the age of 91. He is buried in Deport Cemetery, Red River Co., Texas.

Note

The two paragraphs quoted above come from the source below, "A History of Texas and Texans". This is a very colorful article on Nathan Grant with a lot more information about his family and his life after the war. It does contain some errors.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Researched and entered by Deborah Kueter, July 9, 2014.

See also:

• Find-a-Grave - Memorial #31359876 (with picture of grave marker)
• A History of Texas and Texans, by Frank W. Johnson, A Leader in the Texas Revolution, Edited and Brought to Date by Eugene C. Barker, Professor of American History, The University of Texas, Volume IV, published by The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York, 1914 – pages 1916- 1917.