Biographical Sketch of James G. Grantham, Greene County, Missouri,
Boone Township

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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This gentleman was born in Washington County, Indiana, February 23,
1828.  His father was Silas Grantham, a native of North Carolina, and
his mother was a Miss Nicholson.  They removed to Illinois about the
year 1835, where they lived a year and then removed to Montgomery Co.,
Indiana, and lived there until James was about twelve years of age, 
and then emigrated to Missouri.  James G. was educated in the common
schools of Indiana and in Greene County, Missouri.  He has followed
the occupation of farming all his life, except a short time spent in
blacksmithing.  When the "gold fever" broke out in 1850, Mr. Grantham,
with several of his neighbors, went to California and spent four years
in mining with varying success.  He returned to Dade County, Missouri,
in 1854 and bought land upon which he lived until 1860, when he moved
to Greene County, and engaged in farming.  He enlisted in the Home 
Guards at Springfield.  He went with them to Rlla and remained there
until just before the battle of Pea Ridge, where he received two very
severe wounds, which came near rendering him totally disabled.  He 
was then mustered out and returned to Greene where he has since lived.
He has a fine farm of three hundred and twenty-one acres of land in
this part of the county.  Mr. Grantham was married November 18, 1849,
to Miss C. Robinson.  Their union has been blest with two children,
Sarah, born November 22, 1854; and James W., born April 14, 1858.  Mrs.
Grantham is a member of the Baptist Church.

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