Ray County, Missouri Biographies - Major John Grimes (b. 1818)

Source: History of Ray County, Missouri 1881; p.705


MAJOR JOHN GRIMES

John Grimes was born in Campbell county, East Tennessee, on the 19th day of
December 1818. His father, George Grimes, was of Irish extraction. He died about
the year 1846. His mother, Nancy, was of German descent. She died in 1863. Our
subject was educated in his native county, and lived there with his parents
until about twenty years of age. He came to Ray county, Missouri, first in the
year 1837, and engaged in farming here for two years. He then returned to
Tennessee, and entered the southern stock trade, in which business he continued
for three years. He then bought a tannery, and operated it for the space of ten
years, after which he dealt in dry goods until 1859, when he returned to Ray
county, Missouri, and engaged in merchandising at Knoxville, in which business
he has ever since continued. Major Grimes was married June 4, 1843, to Miss Nancy
T. Kincaide. She was born in Campbell county, East Tennessee, February 26, 1818.
Her parents were Thomas and Martha Kincaide, both dead. Major and Mrs. Grimes
became the parents of five children: four of them are still living: Martha J.,
born July 14, 1845, married to W. R. Withers in 1867, has one child, John C.;
Nancy C., born June 21, 1847, married in 1870, to John Linville, has one child,
Thomas G.; Louisa E., born June 10, 1849, married in 1870 to D. D. Gant, has
two children, Mary Y and Robert C.; John K, born September 29, 1854, is a
practicing physician at Polo, Caldwell county, Missouri. In 1862, Mr. Grimes
was elected captain of company G., state militia, and when the regiment to which
his company was assigned was organized, he was promoted to the position of major,
and served during the war. He and Major Cox commanded the Union forces in the
fight at Albany, in this county. Major Grimes represented this county in the
general assembly in 1864. He owns in sections 25, 26, 27, 34, 35, township 54,
range 28, and in section 32, township 54, range 27, 1,100 acres in all. He has
given each of his children 220 acres. His homestead is handsomely improved, and
is one of the best farms in that section of the country.

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