Frances (Porter) Grigsby (1747 - 1779)

Born 1747 in Orange County, Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of James Scott Grigsby — married 1768 in Orange, Virginia

Descendants

Died 1779 at about age 32 in Rockbridge County, Virginia USA

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Biography

Born 1747 Orange Co, VA. ^[1]

Frances "Franky" Porter was the daughter of Benjamin Porter (1679–1761) & Ann Campbell. Frances was born in about 1747 to about 1779. She married James Grigsby, the son of John Grigsby and Rosanna Etchison Grigsby in 1768 in Orange Co., VA."Franky was the younger sister, of James Grigsby's stepmother, Elizabeth Porter Grigsby.

Children

1. Benjamin Porter, 18 Sep 1770
2. John, 7 Mar 1772 - ? (died in early youth and is buried with him)
3. Mary, 27 May 1774 - 26 Sep 1836 in Columbus, MS (Andrew Reid Weir, 1755-1821)
4. Hannah, 10 Oct 1777 - ?
5. Simeon, 18 Dec 1779 - lost at sea on ship from Norfolk to New Orleans

The exact location of her burial is unknown. "James, in 1768, married Frances (“Franky”) Porter, Orange Co., youngest sister of his father’s second wife. Soon after they moved from Culpepper (sic) Co., and settled in Rockbridge Co., on the farm first below “Fancy Hill” where his sister Sally lived. Frances shortly after giving birth to Simeon. She was buried near the TOP OF THE SLOPING GROUND IN THE REAR OF HER LAST DWELLING PLACE. There, too, and by her side, John was buried, who died in early youth. Simeon was lost at sea, by the foundering of the vessel in which he sailed from Norfolk for New Orleans, where he intended to settle and practice law. Mary and Hannah were “the two pretty little girls” noticed and spoken of by the Marquis of Chastellux in his Travels through Virginia, to see the Natural Bridge, etc. Mary married a Wier, and their son Adolphus and my father were clerks in the Clerk’s office of Rockbridge Co. Hannah married a Snodgrass, and they moved to Georgia. I met her for a few moments, Dec. 1871, in Giles Co., Tenn. She was the most intelligent and sprightly old woman I ever saw; and she was in her 95th year of age. Her memory was very active and her speech rapid and concise. Benjamin Porter Grigsby married a daughter of Hugh and Lilias (Blair ) McPherson. (He was a Highlander and she Virginian.) This son became a clergyman, and was the father of Hugh Blair Grigsby, L.L.D., born in 1806. (Graduate of Yale.) The Doctor married a Miss Carrington; moved from Norfolk in 1861, where for 4 or 5 years — about 1830— he was interested in a daily paper; but nearly ever since he has been a heavy tobacco planter. He now lives at Charlotte C.-H., Va. They had a son, Hugh Carrington, born in 1856, now being educated at Hampden-Sidney College; and a beautiful daughter named Mary Blair, now about 18 years of age." The Genealogy of the Grigsby Family in Part : Including a Brief Sketch of the Porter Family, by Wm. H. Grigsby (born 1838), Dec 1878, p 1-5, Republished in 1905, Chicago by kin Robert Hall McCormick. One of several sources on the family.

Bio researched and written by LSP, not by Findagrave

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S85

• Source: S129 Smoky Mountain Clans, Vol. 3, also includes: Whaley, Ownby, Bohannon, Maples, and King families. Reagan, Donald B. Publication: Knoxville, TN: Reagan, c1978-c1983
• Source: S80 Media: Internet Byron Johnson GED Publication: http://www.byron.johnson.org/johnson.htm Porters from Byron Johnson.ged - Download
• Source: S85 Media: Internet LDS Church Ancestral File: Porter Publication: LDS Church, Salt Lake City, UT
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/199629658/frances-grigsby
• William H. Grigsby, Genealogy of the Grigsby Family, In Part, Including a Brief Sketch of the Porter Family (1878; Republished 1905; Chicago: Robert Hall McCormick).
• https://books.google.com/books?id=lmCiBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA944&lpg=PA944&dq=Frances+Porter+James+Scott+Grigsby&source=bl&ots=A-Ye_1m57n&sig=ACfU3U0YQSylqsbhpOA-0YjHeYE69m28yw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi6ibCksqTkAhWDITQIHegmB_YQ6AEwEnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Frances%20Porter%20James%20Scott%20Grigsby&f=false
• https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I113306&tree=Tree1
• Genealogies and Reminiscences COMPILED BY HENRIETTA HAMILTON McCORMICK. Revised Edition. CHICAGO: Published by the author 1897. Page 23 thru 27 http://lcweb4.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2009/20090601001ge/20090601001ge.pdf
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