Cherokee County GaArchives Obituaries.....Grisham, York April 28, 1884
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The Cherokee Advance 8 May 1884 p 3
An Old Negro Dead

Old Uncle York Grisham, colored, who died at Will's Woods, in this place on the
28th April 1884 was in his 115th year and the oldest person no doubt in Georgia.
 He was burried (sic) in the town cemetery.  He was familiarily (sic) known as
"Uncle York" and by more generations than the present. His good character and
honest principles had won for him the respect of the blacks and whites.  He was
delighted to talk of the early history of this country and his interesting talks
drew crowds around him.  In a talk with him in 1880 he told us that he was born
in Virginia in 1769 and lived there until seven years of age, then moved into
Kentucky where he lived 7 years.  While in Kentucky he belonged to a man by the
name of Fox, and worked on a farm; in those days mules were not used; horses
were the farm animals; he lived in a quarter of a mile of Daniel Boone, and says
Boone was a great hunter and farmed to some extent.  He was carried from
Kentucky to Alabama by a man by the name of Emory, and remained there one year.
 From Alabama he was taken by a man by the name of Winters into South Carolina
and sold.  In 1853 he came Georgia (sic) and settled upon the land now owned by
Gov. Brown, in this county.  His parent's (sic) names were Jerry and Kate and
lived in Virginia.  He was married in Georgia; his wife passed away some 15 or
16 years ago, in Atlanta. For 29 years he was a wagoner for Joe Grisham, who
lived at this place, and was the father-in-law of Gov. J. E. Brown.  The
Revolutionary War and incidents he remembered very distinctly; upon one occasion
he says the soldiers "poked bayonets through cracks of the fence at him and
other children."  He was sold three times; some of his masters were kind to him,
others were not." 
Peace to his ashes. 

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