Francis Grinter (1852 - 1864)

Ancestors

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Francis was Lenape.

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Biography

Francis was born about 1852. Francis was the child of Moses Grinter and Anna Marshall. Francis passed away in 12 July 1864.

• Fact: Burial White Church Cemetery, Kansas City, Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States

Sources

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 03 January 2017, 23:35), entry for Francis Frankie Grinter(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:K2W5-6LQ); contributed by various users.

An obituary for Moses Grinter says they were married January 1836. [Need to find this source to verify this date. Their marriage is confirmed by the 1842 Delaware Census where "Anna Grinter" is listed as No. 101. He died on 12 June 1878 at Muncie, Delaware Township, Wyandotte County, Kansas. The Grinter's probably lived in more than one place, including Bethel and the White Church area, before building their brick home on the Kansas River about 1857. It is said that they lived in a "pioneer cottage" just above the ferry for a number of years. It appears that they might have left the White Church area about 1843, but no later than 1848.

Anna Marshal and Moses Grinter had ten children: 1. Frances Katherine born 26 December 1839, died 9 April 1908, married John C. Grinter . 2. W. H. H. Grinter born 1 November 1841, died 10 December 1887, not married. 3. Mary Jane Grinter born 3 May 1843, died 10 July 1908 married Audley Paul Defries. 4. Victoria B. Grinter born 26 June 1848, died in infancy. 5. Florence D. Grinter born 11 July 1851, died 24 October 1857. 6. Prudence Grinter born 26 June 1854, died in infancy. 7. Martha Vashtie Grinter born 16 July 1857, died 20 June 1930, married first W. D. Allen and second Henry Clay Kirby. 8. James Grinter, died in infancy. 9. Francis Grinter born 1 July 1862, died 12 July 1864. 10. Cunningham Reed Grinter born 4 March 1864, died 11 March 1924, married Elizabeth Shirley. [missing data here]. In addition, she and Moses Grinter raised her niece Rose Grinter and her nephew John Grinter. ("Genealogical Study of the Grinter-Marshall Descendants, and of Henry Clay Kirby's Family," 11 pp., compiled by William Clay Kirby, n. d., in the Kirby-Willey collection, to be cited as the "Grinter Genealogy) Annie's obituary says that five of the children are buried in the old Indian cemetery at White Church and one son is buried at the Grinter Chapel near Stony Point. (Obituary, Kansas City, KS Press, 30 June 1905) Four of their children were still living in 1878 when Moses died of a paralytic stroke. ("Death of an Old Citizen," Wyandotte ((Kansas.)) Gazette, June 14, 1878.)

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