GRINSTEAD BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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GRINSTEAD, Edmond B. - b: 1856 Pettis Co, MO
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 547
residence: Windsor Twp

Edmond B. Grinstead, an enterprising and progressive farmer and horse breeder of 
Windsor township, and proprietor of 250 acres of well improved farm lands, was 
born in Pettis County, Missouri, August 14, 1856. He is the son of George W. and 
Susan V. (Sacra) Grinstead, who were parents of nine sons and a daughter, all of 
whom were reared to maturity. George W. Grinstead was born in Kentucky in 1832 
and was the son of pioneers and tillers of the soil for generations past. He 
crossed the plains in 1849 and spent several months in the gold fields of 
California. Upon his return he began farming near Georgetown, Pettis County, 
Missouri, and later purchased a farm in Johnson County. He ceased farming 
operations in 1890 and removed to Windsor, where his death occurred in 1911. 
Mrs. Susan V. (Sacra) Grinstead was born in Kentucky and attended school with 
the late Senator George Vest, of Missouri, who will always be remembered for 
his classical address at the trial of the famous dog case in Warrensburg. Mrs. 
Grinstead died in 1915. To George W. and Susan V. Grinstead were born children 
as follow: Mollie, deceased wife of Joseph M. Jones; Edmond B., subject of this 
sketch; Samuel, Sedalia, Missouri; William, a farmer of Pettis County, Missouri; 
Charles, a resident of Muskogee, Oklahoma; Hallie, deceased; Robert, Government 
income tax collector, Kansas City, Missouri; Ernest, in the employ of the Woodard 
Clothing Company, Windsor, Missouri; Thomas, Denver, Colorado; Sacra L., county 
clerk of Henry County, Clinton, Missouri; William, Pettis County, Missouri. 
Edmond B. Grinstead was reared to the life of a tiller of the soil, and he began his 
independent career upon attaining his majority. Early in life, he became 
interested in live stock and became an expert in this branch of animal husbandry, 
specializing in mules and has dealt in mules for many years. For a period of ten 
years he made a business of buying and shipping live stock, while carrying on his 
farming operations. He purchased his present home farm of 250 acres in 1901 and 
settled there in 1903. The Grinstead home place is nicely improved and is noted 
for the fine saddle horses bred by the owner. "Pearl Wilson," a splendid five year 
old saddle mare owned by Mr. Grinstead, won first prize at the Missouri State 
Fair for two successive seasons. Mr. Grinstead was married in February, 1901, to 
Miss Leona Cooper, who was born in Johnson County, Missouri, near the Henry-
Johnson County line. She is the daughter of Henry and Nancy (Stiles) Cooper, the 
former of whom is deceased. Two children have been born to this union: Genevieve 
and Gayle. Henry Cooper was born in Trigg County, Kentucky, in 1818, a son of 
David Cooper, a native of Kentucky, who immigrated to Johnson County in 1832 
and settled on the Cooper home place. He was father of seventeen children. David 
Cooper lived to the great age of eighty years. Henry Cooper died in 1910 at the 
age of ninety-two years. Nancy (Stiles) Cooper was born in Kentucky in 1834 and 
accompanied her father, David Stiles, to Missouri in 1840. To Henry and Nancy 
Cooper were born ten children: Elizabeth, deceased; David. on a farm in Johnson 
County; George, Warrensburg, Missouri; Jefferson D., Johnson County; Mrs. 
Margaret Muir, Windsor, Missouri; Lucy (Wilcox), Windsor; William, Windsor; John, 
on the Cooper home place, Johnson County; Frank, died in infancy. The Cooper 
place is widely known as the "Windsor Springs," noted for its fine water and was 
a picnic resort. Mr. Grinstead is a Democrat but has devoted very little time to 
political matters during his busy life. He is a member of the Anti-Horse Thief 
Association, and has been active in other matters of a civic nature, aside from 
his farming. He assisted in the organization of the Windsor Telephone Company 
and it was through his influence that the line was extended through to Leesville. 
Few people were sanguine of his enterprise, most folks prophesying that the 
venture would result in a financial failure. Mr. Grinstead persisted, however, and 
his energy and optimism regarding the project eventually won out, and the 
Windsor Telephone Company is now an excellent paying institution which gives 
good service to hundreds of patrons.

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