Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Granby, Theodore Barron September 10, 1840 - 
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Author: History of Grundy County 1914

Granby, Theodore Barron, a veteran of the Civil War, and a valued citizen of 
Vienna Township, was born September 10, 1840, at Cairo, Greene County, New 
York, and is a son of James A. and Eliza Ann (Carter) Granby, both natives of 
that county.  He attended the district schools in his native place, and was 
fourteen years of age when the family came to Grundy County, Ill., locating on 
canal land in Vienna Township, which then was almost entirely unimproved, only 
a small house had been built.  This land was on Section 5, and here James A. 
Granby spent the remainder of his life in cultivating the soil, dying December 
23, 1869, his wife having passed away November 4, 1867.  Their children were 
as follows:  Theodore Barron; George W., who met his death as a soldier in the 
Union army, at Atlanta, Ga., July 21, 1864; James M., who died at Cheyenne, 
Wyo., April 23, 1869; William A., a resident of Catskill, N. Y.; Mary A., the 
widow of James Jones, of Kankakee, Ill.; Henry A., who died May 8, 1909; 
Frances C., who married Jeremiah Tinsman, of Kankakee, Ill.; and Harriet M., 
the widow of Michael Burns, of Kankakee.

Theodore B. Granby was reared to agricultural pursuits, and early in the war 
between the States enlisted first in the Mechanical Engineers, under Captain 
James Miller, a military organization which was never mustered into the 
service.  On August 10, 1862, he enlisted in the Seventy-second Illinois 
Volunteer Infantry, in Chicago, under the auspices of the Board of Trade, this 
being the first Board of Trade regiment to go to the front.  First sent to 
Cairo, Ill., it went on to Paducah, Ky., where it did guard duty, then going 
to Columbus, Ky., where General Grant assembled his men for the Vicksburg 
campaign in the fall of 1802.  The Seventy-second was in the Army of the 
Tennessee, doing duty all about that section in the Seventeenth Army Corps.  
In the following spring it was in the battles of Raymond, Champion’s Hill and 
Black River Bridge, and from May 19 to May 22 fought at Vicksburg, losing many 
men.  The regiment occupied the city from July 4, until September, when it was 
sent to Natchez, at which place Mr. Granby was taken seriously ill and was 
sent to his home on a furlough.  After two months, he regained his health and 
rejoined his regiment at Vicksburg, in the winter of 1863, and soon thereafter 
was on special detail with General Butterfield on boat to New Orleans.  After 
return to Vicksburg he was detailed to post headquarters, then joined his 
regiment an din November, 1864, it went to Nashville and from there to 
Columbia, Tenn., where two days of battle ensued.  On November 30, 1864, the 
regiment went to Franklin, Tenn., and worked all day throwing up rifle pits, 
the men working for twenty-four hours without stopping.  This was one of the 
bloodiest battles of the entire war, there being an awful slaughter of 
soldiers.  Eighty-four Union men of his regiment were captured by the 
Confederates, among them Mr. Granby.  They were transferred around until 
placed in a stockade at Meriden, Miss., where they remained ten days.  They 
then went to Montgomery and when transportation was secured were sent to 
Andersonville prison, where they remained from January until March 10.  At 
that time they secured their parole and were sent to Vicksburg by the United 
States Government, where they remained until May, then going up to St. Louis 
and Fort Benton, and on to Springfield, Ill., where they secured their 
honorable discharge, August 7, 1865.  Mr. Granby returned to his home at the 
close of his service, and took up the duties of peace, working by the month 
until the fall of 1866.  At that time he purchased an eighty-acre farm in 
Section 10, Vienna Township, on which he has since made his home.

On November 10, 1872, Mr. Granby was married to Mary Eveline Cooper, who was 
born at Rockville, Parke County, Ind., July 12, 1846, daughter of William and 
Frances A. (Garrison) Cooper.  She died October 1, 1892, having been the 
mother of one son, Edgar A., born August 16, 1873, who has always lived at 
home.  He married Janet Archibald.  Mr. Granby is a Republican in his 
political views, and has served as supervisor, collector and in numerous other 
public capacities.  He is widely known in Vienna Township, and has gained 
numerous friends through his upright life, his integrity and his geniality.

Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914, p818-9

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