SOLOMON M. AND MARGARET GRIGSBY

The following bio was taken from page 219 of the book entitled "Rusk County History" compiled and edited And used with permission of the Rusk County Historical Commission.

Transcribed by Shirley Koym

Submitted by Gloria Briley Mayfield, Rusk County TX Coordinator

Solomon M. and Margaret Grigsby were born in South Carolina, July 22, 1801 and January 2, 1799. Their first three children where also born in South Carolina: Mark, June 29, 1820; Pyanah Elizabeth, March 20, 1821; James, February 2, 1822.

The family moved to Alabama where four other children were born: Jane, December 9, 1825; Ira, September 5, 1827; Charles Johnson, January 13, 1830; and George Washington, July 4, 1833, in Morengo County.

The family moved to Mississippi where Rachel Ann was born September 22, 1835, and Arthur Harvey was born January 28, 1838.

When Henderson, Texas was formed in 1843, Solomon was one of the five Justices of the Peace. On Margaret Grigsby’s probate record we find that Solomon had already died on October 13, 1862 and that she had died June 18, 1863. Their heirs were listed as follows: George Washington Grigsby, Arthur Harvey, Ira, Rachel, who was deceased, leaving husband James M. Lockridge and two daughters, Rachel and Mary; Charles Johnson Grigsby who was deceased, leaving an infant daughter named Margaret Grigsby, whose guardian was an uncle, Arthur Harvey Grigsby; Mark, deceased, leaving daughter, Josephine and Mary Jane, and wife, Margaret: Pyanah Elizabeth (P. E. Cook), whose children were Texannia and Frances Cook. Jane Grigsby, wife of Kinchen Baldwin, and Mark’s wife and two daughters all lived in Travis County and went to Cooke County, Texas to get their inheritance of land from the Francis Hamilton Estate which came to them through their mother and grandmother, Margaret Grigsby.

Mark Grigsby married Margaret A. Farris, October 30, 1845, in Nacogdoches County. Jane Grigsby married Kinchen Baldwin, November 4, 1850; Ira Grigsby married Delilah Hinsely, January 12, 1850. He died December 21, 1871. Charles Johnson Grigsby married Marinda Sparks September 1, 1853. George Washington Grigsby married Hannah Jane Mixon, January 25, 1853. Rachel Ann Grigsby married J. M. Lockridge, September 10, 1856. Arthur Harvey Grigsby married Mary Ann Sewel, June 25, 1858. All of these marriages except Mark’s and Pyanah’s were in Rusk County, Texas.

Jane and Kinchen Baldwin had their first children in Rusk County and the latter ones in Travis County at Baldwin Bend on the Colorado River west of Austin, where Kinchen was also a Justice of the Peace.

James Kinchen, who was born October 24, 1851, married Mary Jane Nichols on August 4, 1870 in Travis County, Texas. George Washington Baldwin, born January 19, 1854, married Easter Arizona Maxey, a half-sister to Mary Jane Nichols, Travis County. John Arthur and Mary Margaret were twins born October 2, 1856. Mary married J. M. Flowers on October 17, 1875 in Travis County, and John Arthur married Fannie Rose Lee Smith. He was a Baptist preacher. Asa, born February 10, 1858, died September 2, 1866. Sarah Elizabeth was born June 1, 1861 in Travis County and married Benard Thomas, March 20, 1880. Eliza Jane, born 1864, married Travis Wallace, August 21, 1883. Henry Baldwin, born March 27, 1866, married Effie Pepper, June 21, 1887. He died August 21, 1933. Willard was born in 1870. Kinchen died March 21, 1898 and is buried near Telegraph, Texas. Jane Baldwin died March 1, 1902 and is buried in Carlsbad, N.M.

Submitted by Ollie R. (Webb) Edwards, granddaughter of James and Mary Jane Baldwin