Ray County, Missouri Biographies - John P. Grimes (b. 1838)

Source: History of Ray County, Missouri 1881; p.750


JOHN P. GRIMES

John P. Grimes was born in Campbell county, East Tennessee, June 3, 1838. His father,
Henry C. Grimes, was a farmer, and raised a family of seven children, of whom our
subject was the third in order of birth, and the first son. His father first came to 
Ray county, Missouri, in 1838, but remaining only one year, went back to Tennessee
and remained there five years longer. He came back to Missouri, and settled in Ray
county, in the year 1851. John was then in his fourteenth year, and he spent the
succeeding eleven years on the farm, with his father, about ten miles from Richmond.
The principal part of his education he obtained in Tennessee, though he attended
school after coming to this county until he was grown. In the spring of 1864, he
bought a farm about seven miles northwest of Knoxville, and lived there four years.
He then sold this farm and began merchandising at Knoxville, and continued the
business until February, 1870, when he traded his stock of goods for a farm near
Millville, and lived three, until the following August, raising one crop. He then
bought the store of Carter & Davis, at Millville, and removed thither with his
family. In August, 1878, J. F. Cramer became a partner in the business, and the firm
is styled Grimes & Cramer. They continue to do a thriving business at Millville. Mr.
Grimes was married in the month of October, 1860, to Miss Mary E. Cramer, daughter
of Judge David Cramer, of Ray county. Seven children have been born to this union,
all now living at home with their parents. Mr. Grimes is a member of the Masonic
lodge at Millville, and has several times served his lodge in an official capacity.
He is also a Good Templar, having been a charter member of the lodge where he lives.
He has belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church South since 1868. He has
frequently represented his church as a delegate to conference, etc.


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