WILLIAM RICHARD "WILL" GRISHAM

PARENTS: James Lemuel Grisham, Sr. and Margaret Amanda Jones

WIFE:  Iona Mae "Mamie" Sewell

WILLIAM RICHARD "WILL" GRISHAM, and his brother-in-law ROBERT JEFF FERGUSSON

45. William Richard "Will" GRISHAM (18.James³, 4.Andrew², 1.George¹), was born 29 August, 1873, in Tupelo, Lee County, MS. Will was baptized in August, 1901, by the  Blue Ridge Baptist Church, in Hamilton Co, TX.  Will, a farmer and stockman married Iona Mae "Mamie" SEWELL on 21 December, 1898, in Hamilton County, TX, Iona Mae "Mamie" SEWELL (daughter of William Cornealius "Neal" Sewell and Mattie Jane Waddell) was born 7 January, 1879, Schulenberg, Lavaca County, TX.  Mamie was baptized in  1915 or 1916, by the Blue Ridge Baptist Church, in  Hamilton County TX. Mamie died 12 November, 1936, at the Kings Daughters Hospita in Temple, Bell County, TX,  and was buried 13 Nov 1936, in the  IOOF Cemetery, Hamilton, Hamilton County, TX. Will died 13 March, 1937,  in the Blue Ridge community of  Hamilton County, TX.  Will was buried in the IOOF Cemetery, Hamilton, Hamilton County, TX.

Will with his parents and younger brother Lem, moved to Fannin County, TX, in Septenber, 1878, from Tupelo, MS. As Will and Lem watched their father ride his horse driving cattle across the Mississippi River, they felt that they would never see their Pa again. Will, Lem, their Mother, and wagon crossed on a ferry.

Children:

96. i Willie May GRISHAM , born 13 September, 1899

97. ii James Cornelius "Jim" GRISHAM , born 10 May, 1901.

98. iii Herbert Andrew GRISHAM , born 11 December, 1903.

iv J. W. GRISHAM  lived 5 days.  He was born 2 January, 190_, died 7 January, 190_.  J. W. was buried in he  Live Oak Cemetery, Hamilton County, TX.

99. v Vennie Lou GRISHAM , born 25 January, 1906.

100. vi Alice Bernice GRISHAM , born 11 December, 1918.

The James Lemuel Grisham Family

1880 Census 
Texas, Fannin County,
Super. Dist: 2; ED: #25; JP #3; Census taken 23
June, 1880, by J. N. Fairchild
(The 1880 Census was based on place of residence on 1 June, 1880)
Page 66; Dwelling No. 546; Family No. 575
Birthplace: 1--Individual; 2 -- Father; 3 --Mother

1900 US Census
Hamilton County, TX
Town: J.P. #1, Supv. Dist. No. 4; Sheet No. 17; Enum. Dist. No. 82, Line Page # 52A
Date: 22 June, 1900 by C. M. Boynton
Dewlling and Family No.: 311

1920 US Census
Hamilton County, TX
Division: J. P. #4; Supervisor’s District: 11; Enumeration District No. 96; Enumeration Date: 6 and & February, 1920; Sheet No. 677 9B 4943; Census Taker: Eldora B. Snell
Dwelling #: 184; Family #; 195

1 = Birthplace of Individual; 2 = Birthplace of Father; 3 = Birthplace of Mother

All of the family (except Alice) could read and write. Jim, Herbert, and Vinnie Lou had attended school at some time after 1 Sept., 1919.

SOURCES

Cole, Pamela

Cole, S. Bob, Ph.D

Crain, Clara Elsie Fergusson

Grisham, James Cornelius

Grisham, Richard and Velma

Grisham, William Richard - Newspaper obituary, 1937, in a Hamilton County, TX, newspaper.