BIO:  MCGREW, Spencer, s/o Robert M. & Nancy (Russell) McGrew

Submitted by:  ivie@tima.com   (Diana Flynn)

MCGREW,   RUSSELL,   CURRY,   WILSON

"HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF
INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC." CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS.
& CO.,  PUBLISHERS. 1884.

SULLIVAN CO., INDIANA
CURRY TWP.
PAGE 774
SPENCER MCGREW, liquor dealer, P. O. Shelburn, was born in
Sullivan County, Ind., where now stands Shelburn, August 6, 1852,
son of Robert M. and Nancy (Russell) McGrew, natives of Kentucky,
who moved to Sullivan Count at an early day.  He died in April, 1856,
and she is still living in the sixty-sixth year of her age.  Our subject
was reared and educated in Curry Township, and followed farming
until June, 1881, when he located in Shelburn, and engaged in the
liquor traffic.  He was burned out May 17, 1883.  He was also
engaged in same business in Curryville, where he was burned out
July 10, 1883.  He married in Shelburn, June 20, 1882, Miss
Nannie Curry, born Feb. 12,1862, daughter of John and Nancy
(Wilson) Curry;  he a native of Knox, and she of Jefferson County,
Ind.  Mrs. McGrew is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church,
and he is an I. O. O. F., and a Democrat.  He has, in addition to
his other busines, a farm of forty acres of improved land south of
Shelburn.
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