Grier, Benton

GRIER, BORTON, SANDERS

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Date: 11/11/2012 at 10:18:01

1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

LINCOLN TOWNSHIP

Page 755

GRIER, BENTON--Section 28, P.O. Deep River. His ancestors on his father's side were Irish, and settled at an early day in Pennsylvania. His grandfather emigrated to Ohio, where his father (Thomas Grier) was born November 20, 1810, in Belmont county. His father married December 6, 1832, Charity Borton; immigrated to this township in the fall of 1864, became a large property owner and died December 15, 1866, leaving to each of his daughters eighty acres of land, and each of his sons, except Benton, 160. The subject of this sketch was born July 14, 1842, in Guernsey county, Ohio, but was raised and educated in Coshocton county, Ohio. He worked for his father until twenty-three, when he bought eighty acres in section 33, from his brother Ruben, January 10, 1865, and commenced business for himself. He build his present comfortable dwelling during the summer of 1875, and moved to it the following November. He married November 5, 1867, Mary Jane Sanders, of this township, who was born August 5, 1840, in Morgan county, Ohio. His children are: Charles (born May 19, 1869), Ross (born September 26, 1870), Park (born September 10, 1872), Martha Maria (born July 14, 1874), George Edward (born March 1876), Mark (born May 11, 1878) and Morris (born May 28, 1880). Mr. Grier owns 390 acres of good farming land, and ten acres of timber. His farm is in excellent condition, well stocked and free from debt.