Roswell Miller Grant (1802 - 1885)

Born 10 Jan 1802 in Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Levi) Grant — married 9 Aug 1824 in Maysville, KY.

Husband of Jane Elizabeth (Kemper) Grant — married 4 Jun 1850 in Cincinnati, Ohio

Husband of Ruth (Chanselor) Grant — married 9 Nov 1850 in Shannon, Ky.

Died 24 Jan 1885 at age 83 in St. Albans, Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States

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Biography

Roswell Miller Grant, born 10 Jan 1802 at Youngstown, Ohio, was the sixth child of Rachel (Miller) Kelly, the second wife of Noah Delano Grant.

Roswell Miller Grant served in Col. Todd's regiment in the war of 1912 as a drummer boy. He was a tanner and farmer. Vestryman of St. Mark's church in St. Albans, W. Virginia.

He married 3 times:

1) 12 Aug 1849 @ Maysville, Kentucky, Mary Levi [b. May 1808 @ Maysville, Kentucky, daughter of Judas Levi and Mary McGraw; d. 12 Apr 1849 @ St. Albans, W. Virginia]

2) 4 Jun 1850 @ Cincinnati, Ohio, Jane Elizabeth Kemper [b. 9 Nov @ Cincinnati, Ohio, daughter of Caleb Kemper & Virginia Flora ___; d. 13 Jun 1857]

3) 9 Nov 1860 @ Shannon, Kentucky, Ruth Chanselor [b. about Sep 1809 @ St. Albans, W. Virginia, daughter of John Chanselor & Elizabeth ___; d. 1 Jun 1872]

Roswell Miller Grant died 24 Jan 1886 at St Albans, West Virginia.

Sources

• Grant, Arthur. The Grant Family, A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Matthew Grant of Windsor, Conn. (A.V. Haight, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 1898); p. 66: https://archive.org/details/grantfamilygenea00gran/page/66/mode/1up

• Public Member Trees; Ancestry.com; Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Repository #R-1958205582 #S-1450862356

• "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2QD-QDB7 : Sat Feb 24 05:53:03 UTC 2024), Entry for Roswell Grant and Mary Levi, 9 Aug 1824.

• Tom Bredehoft,"Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/99H9-VC7 : accessed 14 October 2012), entry for Roswell Miller (B) GRANT.