Sedgwick-Johnson-Sumner County KS Archives Biographies.....Grimsley, Andrew F. 1852 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Andrew F. Grimsley, farmer, of Sedgwick county, Kansas, was born in Ash
county, North Carolina, on January 20, 1852. His parents were Lowry and
Catherine (Koons) Grimsley, both natives of North Carolina. Both the father and
mother were born in 1810. They lived in North Carolina until 1866, when they
moved to Missouri. In 1868 the family moved to Johnson county, Kansas, where the
mother died in 1882. The rest of the family lived in Johnson county until the
fall of 1890, in which year Andrew F. Grimsley moved to Sumner county and lived
until 1900. In that year he bought 120 acres of land in Section 13, Ninnescah
township, and has since bought eighty acres more in Section 32. On March 15,
1879, Mr. Grimsley was married to Miss Ludema Paisley, who was born in Missouri.
Five children have been born of this union, viz.: Mrs. F. C. Hare, of Sedgwick
county; Mrs. Ethel Dobbin, of Viola township; Charles R., at home; Mrs. Bonnie
Hetrick, of Ninnescah township, and Lefa Fern, at home. Mr. Grimsley does
general farming and stock raising. Fraternally he is a member of the Modern
Woodmen of America. He is a Democrat in politics and a member of the Baptist church.

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History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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