Died about at about age 84
in Blooming Grove, Navarro, Texas, USA
Problems/Questions
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Biography
Frederick was born in Sumner County, Tennessee to George W Grimes Sr and Eurydice 'Dicey' Gardner.
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The family lived in Tennessee until immigrating in 1827 to Stephen F. Austin's Colony in the Mexican State of Coahuila and Texas.
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Frederick was part of the Republic of Texas Army from around 1832 until he was a "member of Captain Gibson Kuykendall’s company that was detailed to guard the baggage at the camp opposite Harrisburg, April 21, 1836." [1]
1. Need primary sources for Frederick's relationship with parents.
Sources
↑ 1.01.11.2
Louis Wiltz Kemp. Louis Wiltz Kemp Papers, 1819-1956, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin. Frederick Miller Grimes, 1805-1889.
↑United States Census, 1850, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXLJ-854 : 12 April 2016), Household of F M Grimes, Austin county, Austin, Texas, United States; citing family 25, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
Mrs. Harry Joseph Morris, Citizens of the Republic of Texas (Dallas, TX: Texas State Genealogical Society, 1979), p440.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Frederick by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Frederick: