Obituaries: Orin Medicus Grisham, 1944, Winn & Ouachita Parishes, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: March 31, 1944 Winnfield News-American or Winn Parish Enterprise

O. M. Grisham Rites Held Tuesday P. M. At Home in Monroe

Concluded With Interment in Winnfield Cemetery 5 P. M.

Funeral services for Judge Orin Medicus Grisham, prominent Monroe attorney and
former district attorney of Winn Parish, who died Saturday afternoon, were
held at his home at 1908 Riverside Drive at 2 p.m. Tuesday afternoon and
concluded with interment in the family plot in the Winnfield Cemetery at 5
p.m. The Rev. L. T. Hastings, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Monroe,
officiated.

Mr. Grisham was a native of Winn Parish, the son of Pinkney Eugene and Violet
Smith Grisham.  He was born near Gaars Mill May 28, 1866.  His early education
was received in the country schools of the parish and later he attended Mt.
Lebanon College, now Louisiana College, until he acquired sufficient training
to get a teacher's certificate.  He then taught school in Winn Parish for a
number of short terms until he won a scholarship by competitive examination
to Peabody Normal College and University of Nashville, Tenn., where he
graduated in 1892.

During the summer he sold books over the entire south at which he made enough
money to put him through law school at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn.,
an set himself up in practice at Nashville.  After practicing law in Nashville
for three years he returned to Louisiana in 1901 and located in Winnfield,
organizing the law firm of Grisham and Oglesby.  Two years later he was
elected district attorney in which office he served one term.

In 1916 he moved to Monroe and became associated with the legal firm of
Stubbs, Theus, Grisham, and Thompson and in 1925 he participated in the
organization of the legal firm of Theus, Grisham, Davis, and Leigh, of which
he continued to be a member until his death.

Mr. Grisham was married to the former Miss Daisy Emerson of Boliver, Tenn.,
who with two daughters, Mrs. O. R. Lewis, and Mrs. Thomas W. Leigh, and four
grandchildren, Mary Stuart and Rhoda Kellogg and June and Grisham Lewis,
survive him.  Surviving nephews and nieces include A. P. Smith and Mrs. Helen
Smith Smooth of New Orleans, Eugene Grisham, Asherton, Texas, Strauss and
Harold Grisham, San Antonio, Eaton Grisham and Mrs. Galen Savage, Bay City,
Texas, Mrs. M. Morehead, Angleton, Texas, Grayson Grisham, Eagle Pass, Texas,
and Tom Bridges and Earl Grisham, Hondo, Texas.

While residing in Winnfield Mr. Grisham was a member of the First Baptist
Church and served the Sunday school as superintendent for many years.  He
continued his church activities throughout his life.  He was also a member
of the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of the World.

Serving as pallbearers were John Theus, Ronald Lee Davis, Dr. J. E. Walsworth,
Carey Thompson, Charlie Evans, Howard Green, R. E. Kellogg, O. R. Lewis,
and Walter Savage.