Biographical Sketch of Newton F. Grier, Webster County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Newton F. Grier, farmer, stock raiser, and native of Webster County,
Mo., was born on the 18th of July, 1840.  His father, Samuel Grier,
was born in North Carolina, and was there married to Elizabeth Pleasant
who was also born in Caswell county, N. C.  They moved to Missouri as
early as 1834, and purchased land in what is now Webster county, where
they reared their family and resided until their respective deaths, the
father's demise occurring in August, 1871.  Of ten children born to 
them nine lived to maturity and became heads of families, and four
brothers and four sisters are living at the present writing.  Newton F.
Grier's boyhood days were spent in attending the common schools and
assisting his father on the farm, and in 1861 he enlisted in the Con-
federate army, in Col. Snavel's regiment, but was wounded by a gunshot
in the thigh at the battle of Pea Ridge, being permanently disabled, 
and was obliged to return home.  He was married in Webster county, in 
March, 1867, to Sarah E. Smith, whose father, William Smith, was an 
early emigrant from Tennessee to Missouri, and about two years after
his marriage located on his present farm of 260 acres.  He has 150 
acres of land in a good state of cultivation, and has a commodious and
comfortable residence.  His wife died in December, 1879, having borne a
family of three sons and one daughter: Tasso, Samuel, Dorsey and Ollie.
In September, 1880, Mr. Grier married Mary E., the daughter of John
Morton, and by her has two children, Everett and Roxie.  The family 
worship at the Baptist church.

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