Charity Grimes (1811 - 1892)

Born 8 Dec 1811 in Franklin, Greene, Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Died 11 Jan 1892 at age 80 in Leadmine, Dallas, Missouri, United States

Biography

Charity was born on 8 December 1811, in Franklin, Greene, Pennsylvania, United States, daughter of Peter Graham and Mary Shearin

Birth

08 DEC 1811

Franklin, Greene, Pennsylvania, United States^[1][2]

She married William Gregory on 13 August 1829 and they had 9 recorded children:

• Simon Peter Gregory 1830-1877
• Samuel Gregory 1832-1918
• Mary Gregory 1834
• Nancy Gregory 1839-1889
• Elizabeth Gregory 1836-1844
• Margaret R Gregory 1843-1920
• Caleb John Gregory 1846-1852
• George Henry Gregory 1847-1880
• Charity Jane Gregory 1854

Death

11 JAN 1892

Lead Mine, Dallas County Missouri^[3]

She was buried in the Kirk Chapel Cemetery, Tunas, Dallas, Missouri, United States of America ^[4]

Residence

1870

Washington, Blackford, Indiana, United States^[5]

Note

Named for her grandmother, Charity Kimball Graham, she was a tall, well formed, handsome girl and married at the age of seventeen, William Gregory, born 29 December, 1807, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Mitten) Gregory. Their original marriage certificate, written on a small slip of paper, 7 x 2 inches, is in the possession of the compiler, and thus it runs:

"This is to Certify that William Gregory and Charity Grimes was married on thursday the 13th Day of August, 1829." By A. Tuttle, J. P. L. R.

Presumably about that time Charity's father bought government land in Indiana and presented it to her for a home. Indiana in those days was literally a "howling wilderness," and the early settlers there endured hardships which modern pioneers know little about. In this trackless, neighborless, bookless, "ague and fever" country the Gregory's, with their two infant children, installed their home in 1832. Their cabin was in the woods with the nearest neighbor three miles away. There were many Indians and wild animals; bears often prowled about the dooryard and wolves were always howling around the house at night-time.

They first lived near the present city of Muncie, where five of their children were born and where two died within a month. In 1849 they moved to a 460 acre farm in Blackford County (also given to Charity by her father) and this became their permanent home. Mrs. Gregory was hardy, thrifty, energetic, a woman of vigorous intellect and strong common sense. She wove linen, carpet, blankets and coverlets. Her husband, with the aid of his sons, cleared the land. Before many years much live stock was accumulated and the house of logs gave away to a comfortable frame one. Beside their own nine children they took into their home two other children.

Mr. Gregory was taken ill one morning and with his son George started for Hartford City seven miles away for medicine, which he procured and started for home. But after two miles of his return trip was forced to stop at a farm house (Gaddis), where he grew rapidly worse and died three days later, 5 May, 1869, without ever reaching home. His sudden death was a great shock to his wife and the three children still at home. After George's marriage in 1872, there being too much land and stock for the women to see after, Mrs. Gregory sold part of the latter and divided the land among her children and they all lived near together until the death of her eldest son, Peter, in 1877. The country was so unhealthy that within five years after his death, fifteen of the Gregory family died. After the death of her daughter Jane in 1879, she broke up her household in Indiana and left with Nancy for Lead Mine, MO, to make her home with her daughter, Margaret Edmondson. There Nancy died of la grippe in 1889.

Two years later Mrs. Gregory was taken with the same disease and after a lingering illness her suffering and storm-beaten life came to an end, 11 January, 1892, at the age of 80 years. She died as she had lived, in the faith of her fathers, and was buried beside her daughter Nancy in Kirk Cemetery, Dallas County, MO. She was a quaint old lady of remarkable character, very fond of social life, full of recollections, blunt of speech, odd of dress, shrewd of instinct and cheerfulness itself, notwithstanding her long life of hardships and afflictions.

(T his sketch is found in The Graham - Grimes genealogy with Cognate Branches, by Frances Grimes Sitherwood)

Charity Graham/Grimes Gregory

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Charity Graham Gregory

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Charity's Life

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Charity Grimes

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Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S-1761213085 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Charity Grimes CONT http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=0&pid=418
2. ↑ Source: #S-1761213085 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Charity GRAHAM/GRIMES CONT http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=0&pid=418
3. ↑ Source: #S-1761213085 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Charity Grimes CONT http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=0&pid=418
4. ↑ "Find a Grave Index" database Family Search (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVY-T99S : 13 April 2023), Charity Graham Gregory, Burial, Tunas, Dallas, Missouri, United States of America, Kirk Chapel Cemetery, citing record ID 27214680, Find a Grave, www.findagrave.com
5. ↑ Source: #S-1761213085 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Charity GRAHAM/GRIMES CONT http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=0&pid=418

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Acknowledgments

Thank you to Stephen Gregory for creating WikiTree profile Grimes-760 through the import of Gregory Ancestors.ged on Feb 28, 2013.

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