GRISHAM FAMILY AT BLUE RIDGE
in 1900
About 1980 Clara Elsie (Fergusson)
Crain, Margaret Corene (Grisham) Walker, Willie Jewel (Grisham) Perry,
and Cecil Hobdy Grisham collaborated on identifying the
people.
1. William Clift Winters, second husband of
Harriet A. (Garner) Jones, mother of Margaret Amanda (Jones) Grisham,
and Martha Ann (Jones) Snider.
2. Robert Jeff Fergusson {husband of Ida
Rose Anna Grisham)
3. Ida Rose Anna (Grisham) Fergusson
4. James Lemuel Grisham, Jr. [Married May
Iantha Chumney on 6 Oct., 1901]
5. Martha Ann (Jones) Snider--sister of
Margaret Amanda (Jones) Grisham
6. Harriet A. (Garner) (Jones) Winters
--mother of Margaret Amanda (Jones) Winters and Martha Ann
(Jones) Snider
7. Charles Ephraim Grisham [Married Myrtie
Onie "Myrtle" Deathrage on 2 Aaugust, 1908.]
8. Margaret Amanda (Jones) Grisham [wife
of James Lemuel Grisham, Sr.]
9. May Iantha (Chumney) Grisham - married
James Lemuel Grisham, Jr. on 6 Oct., 1901.
10. Addie May Grisham [Married
Benjamin Hill Lasseter; aka Benjamin Bowman 20 December, 1908
in Callahan Co., TX.]
11. Harriett Lou Emma Grisham--[Married
Samuel Floyd "Sam" Williams on 16 Sept., 1906]
12. Jesse Andrew Grisham [Married Sarah
Bertie Sparks on 22 July, 1906]
Children on the front row:
1.
2. William Claude Fergusson, son of Robert
Jeff Fergusson and Ida Rose Anna Grisham --in the wagon
3.
4. Claude Virgis (Verge/Virgus) Grisham
--with a banjo.
William Claude was the second oldest
grandchild of James Lemuel, Sr. and Margaret Amanda Grisham. The
oldest grandchild was Willie May Grisham, but since her parents William
Richard Grisham, and Iona Mae "Mamie Sewell are not in the picture,
my sources (named above) felt that Willie Mae was not in this picture.
By a process of elimination Children 1 and 3
were (most likely) children of Joeseph Evans "Joe"
Snider and Martha Ann Jones. Child #1 and 3 MIGHT have been Joseph
Lemuel "Joe" Snider (b. 1898) or
Maggie Eleanor Snider (b. 1896) or
Maude Coilla Snider (b. 1894.)
#8 Margaret Amanda (Jones) Grisham, b. 1855, looks
younger than #5 Martha Ann (Jones) Snider, b. 1862.
Where were James Lemuel Grisham, Sr. and
Joseph Evans "Joe" Snider--husbands of # 8 and #5 respectively?
There is a possibility that children 1 and 3
might have been grandchildren of William Clift Winters.
