Jacob Grice (1771 - 1818)

Born 5 Aug 1771 in Marion, Province of South Carolina, British Colonial America

Descendants

Died 29 Mar 1818 at age 46 in Conecuh, Alabama, United States

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Biography

Jacob came with wife Abigail Harrelson Grice, also along with daughter Charlotte Grice Bethea and Charlotte's husband Goodman Bethea, in 1818, to AL which was on brink of statehood. These Grice family members had all been born in SC, in Marion District. All the Betheas of age to do so, had fought or given material support in war against Loyalists (in American Revolution) in SC with Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox. The record of these Betheas, including Jesse Bethea, Goodman's father, is included in Harllee's "Kinfolks."

Jacob died very soon after entry into Alabama, perhaps in raids or in deliberate fighting of Creeks and/or Seminoles; volunteers and career soldiers went out from Ft Crawford--which was located at what is now called East Brewton, AL-- in exactly the early spring of 1818 when Jacob died. He was buried somewhere in the area; then his body was later moved to the Still Chapel Cemetery, no doubt put there by Grice/Bethea family of his wife Abigail who died in 1855. A grandson whom Jacob Grice would not have known, Hugh Bethea born 1829, had married a Celiann Still; this is the family of the Still Chapel Cemetery where Abigail Harrelson Grice was buried in 1855, and probably, also, at this juncture, where Jacob's remains would have been reinterred.

Sources

History of Conecuh Co, AL by B. F. Riley, 1881 edition

Harllee's "Kinfolks" under Bethea family history

Find a Grave, for Grice, Abigail, and Grice, Jacob. They are buried in Still Chapel Cemetery, now in the part of Escambia County, AL, near East Brewton.

1790 Census in old Cheraw District, SC, St Thomas, finds Jacob Grice as head of household, with next columns filled out as 1, 3, 3. So that Jacob himself is over 16, 3 males are under 16, and there are three females including, no doubt, his wife Abigail Harrelson Grice, though she is not given by name in this first census.

Interesting is presence of Philip Dorset on same census sheet, columns after that 1, 2, 3. Dorset is a couple of names down from Jacob Grice. Philip Dorset and other Dorsets are certainly of the family that were in NC in Revolutionary times, and intermarried with Moffets there. A Rebecca Dorset, by herself as head of household, is below on list, 3 down from Philip Dorset.