Waller County Texas Archives Biographies.....Groce, Jared Ellison 
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Author: Steve Stacey

Jared Ellison Groce was first married to Mary Grace Waller, d/o Leonard 
James Mourning Waller of Spotsylvania County, VA. and wife Frances (later 
moved to SC.) Groce removed to SC, then to GA. and by 1824, purchased 4100 
acres in Monroe County, Ala. Mary Grace died on a visit to family in SC and 
the children were placed in schools, Son William Waller Groce went to 
Montgomery, AL. Daughter Sarah went to Nashville, TN. Groce then married 
Annes Waller, younger sister of Mary Grace. Restless by nature according to 
family lore, Groce gave his Alabama holdings which had made Groce millions 
in the sale of timber to a booming Mobile, AL. approx. 90 miles downstream 
from his land on the Alabama River. He gave the holdings to William Waller 
and Caroline Waller Mordecai, wife of Dr. Solomon Mordecai, children of the 
Waller sister's brother. Groce removed to Texas. His daughter, when in 
Tennessee became engaged to William Harris Wharton, a family friend of Sam 
Houston. After William and Sarah Wharton joined her father in Texas, they 
became Texas patriots and Wharton wrote to Sam Houston asking him to come to 
Texas to offer military experience to the independence movement. A man named 
Edwin Waller lived in the same area. He signed the Texas Declaration of 
Independence but little is known of his past. Both Edwin Waller and Jared 
Groce were from Spotsylvania County, VA. The Wallers including Leonard James 
Mourning Waller moved south except one brother, a minister, who moved west 
to Kentucky. According to the Waller families that settled in Monroe County, 
Alabama, Edwin Waller is descended from the eldest son pf LJMo, William 
Waller and Susan White. Edwin was a brother of Mrs. Caroline Waller Mordecai 
and William Waller, recepients of the Groce lands in Alabama. The Wallers in 
Alabama married into the Weatherford family, descendants of William 
Weatherford, The Red Eagle, the adversary of Gen. Andrew Jackson during the 
Creek War of 1812-1814.

Additional Comments:
This information comes from Waller & Weatherford Family Histories available at 
the Monroe County Public Library Genealogy Room and land records from BLM-GLO 
and supported by Deed Books held at the Monroe County Courthouse Probate 
Records Room

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