GRIGSBY BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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GRIGSBY, R. C. - b: 1869 Licking Co, OH
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 371
residence: LaDue, Davis Twp

R. C. Grigsby. The LaDue Hardware Company, operated by R. C. Grigsby, La Due, 
Missouri, and owned by Mr. Grigsby and H. Welling, is one of the flourishing 
business concerns of Henry County. The store was established February 17, 1912, 
when Mr. Grigsby took active charge of it. During the past six years the business 
has increased and broadened. A general stock of hardware, oils, paints, 
agricultural implements, harness, buggies, wagons, etc., is carried and sold to 
the people of the surrounding country. The firm has the agency of the Buick 
automobiles. The business is housed in a large business room and two implement 
rooms which are filled with high grade stock of the best makes. R. C. Grigsby was 
born in Licking County, Ohio, November 24, 1869, and is the son of Alfred and 
Sarah (White) Grigsby, both of whom were natives of Licking County, Ohio. Alfred 
Grigsby was a son of Harry Grigsby, a native of England. Sarah Grigsby was the 
daughter of John White, also a native of England. The Grigsby family migrated 
from Ohio to Missouri in 1870 and located on a farm situated three miles 
southwest of LaDue, in Henry County. Mr. Grigsby hauled the first ties used in the 
building of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway in the neighborhood of LaDue. 
His farm was located in Bear Creek township. He successfully tilled his acreage 
until old age came upon him and he then removed to California in 1911. His death 
occurred at the home of his son in that State in 1913. Mrs. Grigsby died in Henry 
County in 1908. They were parents of the following children: Mrs. Ella Stricker, 
deceased; Henry, living in California; Mrs. Lizzie Stricker, residing in California; 
George, deceased; Nelson, living in California; Mattie, deceased, and R. C., the 
subject of this sketch. R. C. Grigsby was ten months old when he came with his 
parents to Henry County and here he was reared and educated. He attended the 
Willow Branch school and the Franklin school in his youthful days and received 
his higher education in the academy at Warsaw, Missouri. Mr. Grigsby qualified 
for the teaching profession, but took up farming and followed this vocation until 
1910. For a period of two and a half years he was located in California, going to 
that State in 1906, and being employed in the orchard district as manager and 
also was engaged in the real estate business for a time. After returning to Henry 
County he farmed for one year and then took charge of the hardware business in 
LaDue. Mr. Grigsby disposed of his farm in 1915. On April 14, 1897, R. C. Grigsby 
and Miss Nannie E. Reavis of Bear Creek township were united in marriage. Mrs. 
Grigsby is the daughter of Mrs. Marian (Hunt) Reavis, widow of Edwin Reavis, a 
pioneer of Bear Creek township. Mr. and Mrs. Grigsby have a son, Cecil, born 
December 12, 1902. Mr. Grigsby is aligned with the Democratic party and is a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is affiliated, fraternally, with the 
Woodmen of the World.

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