TAYLOR - HOUSTON COUNTY, GA - Bios Col Washington L. Grice ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: From page 341, Biographical Souvenir of the States of Georgia and Florida. (I have seen a copy of this book. It was not copyrighted.) Col. Washington L. Grice, attorney, Hawkinsville, Ga., was born in Carroll County, Ga., February 22, 1832. He is the son of Garry and Ann (Lamar) Grice, the former for North Carolina and the later from Georgia. Garry Grice was a farmer and held various responsible county offices; was judge of the inferior court, tax- collector, census taker, and server in the legislature one term. His death occurred in 1879, at the age of seventy-four. His wife died in 1841. These parents had three children, viz.: Q.C., married a Miss Gray and is living in Fayette County; T.C., wife of M.L. Yates, is living in Douglas County. Washington L. began teaching at eighteen years and taught for four years with good success. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1854, and has practiced continuously since, with the exception of the time spent in the war. He enlisted May 24, 1861, in the Sixth Georgia regiment, but was afterwards transferred to the Forty-fifth, of which he was lieutenant-colonel. March 4, 1862, he was elected major and served until the spring of 1864, when he resigned to serve the legislature. He afterward served in the State militia in Captain W.H. Pruden's battery. On the promotion of Col. Simmons he became lieutenant-colonel of the Forty- fifth Georgia by appointment. At the close of the war he again resumed practice of his profession, serving as judge of the Macon court for a while, but retiring, as he did not desire official life. He was married in 1870 to Miss Mattie V. Warren, daughter of Gen. Eli Warren, of Perry, Ga. To this union were born two boys, Warren and Herbert. Col Grice is a member of the Methodist Church, and his wife is a member of the Baptist Church. The Colonel is an enterprising business man, as well as a reliable and influential citizen. Burial: Perry, Houston County Evergreen Cemetery (old cemetery at end of Main Street) Washington L. Grice (b 22 Feb 1832, d 9 Mar 1925). CSA. In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust. Martha V. Warren Grice (b 18 Jul 1840, d 1 Jan 1926). The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/houston/cemeteries/evergr.txt Note: page 813 contains a sketch of Col. Wm. S. Wallace that mentions Col. Grice thusly: Referring to Col. Wallace, "He was reared in Talbot. He read law, and in 1855 was admitted to the bar and formed a partnership with Judge W.L. Grice, then of Butler, and practiced with him until after the war......." Source Information: Ancestry.com. Georgia and Florida Biographies [database online]. Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2003. Original data: Biographical Souvenir of the States of Georgia and Florida. Chicago, IL: F.A. Battey & Company, 1889. ==================== And now this letter, some thirty years later, to the editor of the Butler Herald from Col. W.L. Grice, on the subject of who authored the poem amongst other things. As transcribed by Carla Miles Historycam@wmconnect.com The Butler Herald Tuesday, May 11, 1915 Page Seven Butler In The Olden Time By Col. W.L. Grice Mr. Editor: On a recent visit to your town, the first in many years, I was the guest of Henry P. Wallace, who is the son of my old friend and law partner, Wm. S. Wallace, than whom Taylor County never produced a better citizen. It has occurred to me that a rambling sketch of the town and people as I saw them sixty years ago might be interesting to some of your readers, and hence by your leave, I will undertake to give from memory a short account of some of the men and things of the antebellum times. Butler was incorporated in the year 1854, and the commissioners designated in the charter were: C.Y. Perry, Ezekiel Royal, James T. May, Isaac Mulkey and P.C. Carr (Note: this would have been Perry Cook Carr, Capt., Co. A, 27th Ga., "The Georgia Drillers." This company was raised in Marion Co. Capt. Carr born 1814, died June 13th, 1862 of thyphoid fever in a Richmond, Va. hospital. A very rare photograph of him in uniform may be viewed at ttp://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/marion/photos/ ph216captperr.jpg ) I settled there in the fall of the next year, and the law card of Grice & Wallace which was published in the Macon Telegraph for several years bore the date of December 10, 1855, as I remember it. I have been a subscriber to the paper from that day to this except while in the army. Four preachers and five lawyers had preceded me to the newly settled county site. The preachers were James T. May, Dr. James Griffith, Wm. W. Corbitt and E.H. Wilson. All of these were Methodists except the last, but none of them had the care of churches. The lawyers were Hopkins Holsey, Daniel W. Miller, W.W. Corbin, Benjamin F. Reese and X.B. LeSeuer. Col. Wallace and Julius H. Holsey came to the bar soon after my arrival. W.H. Caldwell and John Walker were the practicing physicians. Dr. A.L. Edwards and Dr. Dugger came later. John Sturtevant was ordinary of the county; James T. Harmon, clerk; and W.W. Wiggins, sheriff. If I remember correctly Sanders W. Durham was pastor of the Baptist church and Wyatt Brooks of the Methodist. The Justices of the Inferior Court were T.J. Riley, Hiram Drane, A.M.K. Swift, R.B. Rucker and ------. (line drawn, no name given) The Judge of the Superior Court was E.H. Worrill and Col. Jack Brown was Solicitor. Brown was succeeded by Thaddeus Oliver. His son, the Rev. Hugh F. Oliver, now deceased, always insisted that his father was the author of "All is Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight," and that he and his brother, now Capt. James Oliver, of the U.S. Navy, were "the two in the low trunnell bed." ====== 1860 Taylor tax list Name Poll - Military Age Number of Acres - LL # - District # - County Land was in Total Value of Acres # of slaves - total value Grice, Washington L 1 1 professional 2 1/3 slaves $2700 ============== Their son, Judge Warren Grice - Born December 6, 1875 - Died May 27, 1945 is buried in Marshallville [Macon County], Ga. Cemetery beside his wife: Clara Elberta Rumph, wife of Warren Grice - Born July 14, 1875 - Died May 28, 1952. There is an obit posted on the Macon County Website for Judge Warren Grice and his wife, Clara Elberta Rumph Grice. CAMPBELL, DAVINE V."