Polk County, Missouri Biographies - Charles H. GRANT
History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties,
Missouri  1889, Published By Goodspeed, Pgs. 646, 647
Polk County Biographies Section
    
    Charles H. Grant, a prominent farmer and stock-raiser of
Madison Township, residing three miles northwest from Fair Play,
Mo., was born April 23, 1839, in Giles County, Tenn. His parents
John A. and Ann (Hannah) Grant, were natives of Virginia and 
Tennessee, respectively; he was born about 1805, and she about 
1808 or 1810.  They were married near 1836, and the father 
followed farming, and was also overseer on a plantation in 
Tennessee until 1854, when he came to Polk County, Mo., and from
there to Cedar County in the fall of the same year.  Aside from
his farming interest, he was also quite a mechanic.  He died in 
the last named county February 8, 1855, and the mother died in 
Tennessee in 1850.  She was of Scotch descent, and a member of
the Baptist Church.  In their family were seven children, three
now living: C. H., J. A., and Martha C.  Charles H. Grant came to
Missouri with his father in March, 1854, and grew to manhood in
Polk County.  He attended the common schools of Tennessee for 
about six years, and this was about all of his schooling.  
July 6, 1861, he enlisted in Company E, Sixteenth Missouri, six
months' men, and afterward re-enlisted December 18, 1861 in 
Company A, Eighth Regiment Missouri State Militia Cavalry and was
in the Humansville battle.  He was wounded May 20, 1864, in a 
skirmish by a thirty-eight caliber revolver, the ball entering
his left side below the lower lobe of the left lung, and coming
out behind the right shoulder.  He was laid up for six weeks.  
For this he receives a pension.  He was mustered out January 25
1865, returned home, purchased a farm, and December 27, 1866, 
he married Miss Mary M. Frieze, of Polk County, Mo.  Eight 
children were the result of this union, seven now living: Ann E.,
Cordelia A., Martha R., Ulysses S. A., Hattie R., James W., and
Mary J.  Mr. Grant is a Republican in politics, and was elected
by that party in 1870 to the office of assessor or Polk County,
serving two years, and serving as deputy assessor from 1873 to 
1878.  He also filled the same position in 1880.  He is a member
of the Masonic Fraternity, also the G. A. R., and is a member of
the Baptist Church, of which he was deacon.  He has been a school
director most of the time since 1865.  John A. Grant, the paternal
grandfather of our subject, was a native of Ireland, born about
1765, and when a young man came to America.  He was in the War
of 1812 under Jackson, and died in Tennessee about 1845 or 1846.
The paternal grandmother was also of Irish descent, and died in
Tennessee a short time previous to the death of her husband. 
The maternal grandfather, John Hannah, was a native of Scotland,
and died in Tennessee previous to 1835.  The maternal grandmother
also died in that State, several years previous to the death of 
her husband.
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