Individual Details
David Lewis GRACE
(1 Sep 1826 - 15 Jun 1900)
1 Jun 1850, District 2, Jessamine Co., KY, pg. 4;
David L. Grace, 25 (1824-25), born TN, farmer
Eliz. Grace, 29 (1820-21), born TN
Loretta J Grace, 2 (1847-48), born TN
In the household of A. J. Cornett, 33, born VA and wife Mary, 27, born TN, and their children. [Note there were Cornett families in Johnson Co., TN.]
1 Jun 1860, P.O. Enterprize, Elk River Twp., McDonald Co., MO, pg. 87;
D. L. Grace, head, 35 (1824-25), born TN, farmer, real estate of $300
Elizabeth Grace, 38 (1821-22), born TN
Loretta Grace, 9 (1850-51), born TN
James T. Grace, 8 (1851-52), born IL
George Grace, 6 (1853-54), born IL
Wm. E. Grace, 4 (1855-56), born MO
Liza N. Grace, 2 (1857-58), born MO.
1 Jun 1870, Upton Twp., Texas Co., MO, stamped pg 486;
David L. Grace, head, 42 (1827-28), born TN, farmer, real estate of $500, personal of $150
Elizabeth Grace, 49 (1820-21), born TN
Loretta Grace, 21 (1848-49), born TN
James Grace, 19 (1850-51), born IL
Geo. W. Grace, 16 (1853-54), born IL
Wm. A. Grace, 14 (1855-56), born MO
Lizzie N. Grace, 12 (1857-58), born MO.
Same page as brother George and at least two other Johnson Co., TN, families.
1 Jun 1880, Benton Twp., Crawford Co., MO, ED 5 pg. 27C;
David L. Grace, head, 52 (1827-1828), born TN, Place of birth of both parents Not Known, School Commisr.
Nellie B. Grace, wife, 36 (1843-44), born KY father born MD mother born KY.
No children in household-Just David and second wife.
1 Jun 1900 Cove Pct., Union Co., OR, ED 117 Sh 9A;
David Grace, head, born Sep. 1826, 73, married 21 yr., born VA father born Unknown mother born Alabama, no occupation, owns free and clear
Nellie R. Grace, wife, born Feb. 1844, married 21 yr., never a mother, born KY father born MD mother born KY.
http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/crawford/crawford-co-p4.html
William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas was first published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.
DAVID L. GRACE, editor and proprietor of the only Democratic newspaper in Crawford County, Kan., is the son of David Grace, a noted iron manufacturer in East Tennessee, and grandson of Col. Grace from Kilkenny, Ireland, who was killed at the battle of King's Mountain, while fighting for the freedom of the colonies in the Revolution. He was born September 1, 1826, on the Virginia and Tennessee State line, and claims a large connection among the Dorans, Donnellys, Smiths, Lowrys and Keyes in that section of country. For the purpose of studying the Cherokee language, when a boy of ten years, he attended Potter's Mission in Alabama, and when the Indians were removed to their reservation, he acted as interpreter for the soldiers in charge of the rebellious Cherokees under the leadership of Ridge, John Ross being the leader of the peaceable Cherokees. He tells many an entertaining reminiscence of his life at the Mission, and his journey westward illustrative of that people in those, to them, trying times. Upon his return he was placed in the Seminary at Marysville, Blount Co., Tenn., in the theological department of which Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was a student, that reflected great credit upon it as an institution of learning. In 1846, he married Elizabeth, third daughter of Maj. John Ward, and in 1850, moved westward to Edgar County, Ill. Not satisfied with his choice of location, and with his eye still turned westward, he visited the lands now within the State of Kansas, but was deterred from establishing his home more on account of the troubles existing among contending parties than because of the then uninviting features of the millions of acres of grass-matted prairies that lay before hem. He selected Jasper county, Mo., and two years afterward was appointed sub-agent for the Indians that were returned on the incompetent list, as persons incapable of properly transacting business for themselves in the organization of the Territory of Kansas. These Indians were scattered all along the Missouri and Kansas Line, but the bulk of them were at Wyandotte on the Kaw River. Many and interesting scenes and situations are depicted by him when "i' th'vein," [sic-probably an OCR issue] of the stirring times spent among this people. At one time when in command of a company guarding the United States train to Santa Fe, Capt. Grace relates in a graphic and highly sensational manner, an attack upon them by Kiowas and Comanches, at Pawnee Rock, who had become emboldened by their success in killing Mr. Mason in charge of a Government ranch at Pawnee Fork. Being of an observant disposition, he ably describes the country through which he passed, and dwells upon the evidences all along his route of the ancient inhabitants of the western part of this continent. His position as sub-agent continued under the Lincoln administration. But his Union sentiments becoming offensive to neighbors in McDonald County, Mo., led to a duel between himself and Maj. Russell, Assistant United States Marshal, near Pineville, Mo., in which his friend, Capt. John Carroll, Mayor of Eureka Springs, Ark., participated, and they came off with flying colors. Finally, in consequence of this prejudice against his Democratic Union bias, he found it safer to remove his family to Cape Girardeau, Mo. In 1875, D. L. Grace was appointed School Superintendent in Crawford County, Mo., to fill out the unexpired term of the deceased school officer. Having spent a greater portion of his life in the schoolroom in the management of seminaries and central schools, Prof. Grace made such beneficial use of his opportunity to do a good work for the public schools, that he was elected two successive terms. The wife of his youth being in the grave, his children grown and moved to the great and growing West, he in 1879, led to the altar, Miss Nellie, eldest daughter of Thomas H. Roberts, editor and proprietor of the Crawford Mirror, and shortly afterward resigned his commission in order to take his wife southward for her health. A short stay at Eureka Springs, Ark., restored Mrs. Grace to the best of health, and he then entered upon the publication of the Eureka Springs Daily Herald; a financial crisis in business circles of that marvelously built city, caused him to invest in a Democratic journal in Girard, Kan., where he expects to end his days. Mr. Grace has living four children, now in Oregon; Thomas, a farmer, and a widowed sister, near Oregon City; George, managing a stock ranch, and William, a druggist. As will be seen, although born in the eastern part of the South, the subject of our sketch is pre-eminently a western man, and his life identified with the growth of the West. To-day he is occupying a home won from the great American Desert, over which he had traveled twenty-eight years before, in search of a home.
NOTE: Research has shown that his grandfather was not killed at Kings Mountain, as his widow had re-married before that battle. Also, his grandfather was a Private, not a Colonel.
David L. Grace, 25 (1824-25), born TN, farmer
Eliz. Grace, 29 (1820-21), born TN
Loretta J Grace, 2 (1847-48), born TN
In the household of A. J. Cornett, 33, born VA and wife Mary, 27, born TN, and their children. [Note there were Cornett families in Johnson Co., TN.]
1 Jun 1860, P.O. Enterprize, Elk River Twp., McDonald Co., MO, pg. 87;
D. L. Grace, head, 35 (1824-25), born TN, farmer, real estate of $300
Elizabeth Grace, 38 (1821-22), born TN
Loretta Grace, 9 (1850-51), born TN
James T. Grace, 8 (1851-52), born IL
George Grace, 6 (1853-54), born IL
Wm. E. Grace, 4 (1855-56), born MO
Liza N. Grace, 2 (1857-58), born MO.
1 Jun 1870, Upton Twp., Texas Co., MO, stamped pg 486;
David L. Grace, head, 42 (1827-28), born TN, farmer, real estate of $500, personal of $150
Elizabeth Grace, 49 (1820-21), born TN
Loretta Grace, 21 (1848-49), born TN
James Grace, 19 (1850-51), born IL
Geo. W. Grace, 16 (1853-54), born IL
Wm. A. Grace, 14 (1855-56), born MO
Lizzie N. Grace, 12 (1857-58), born MO.
Same page as brother George and at least two other Johnson Co., TN, families.
1 Jun 1880, Benton Twp., Crawford Co., MO, ED 5 pg. 27C;
David L. Grace, head, 52 (1827-1828), born TN, Place of birth of both parents Not Known, School Commisr.
Nellie B. Grace, wife, 36 (1843-44), born KY father born MD mother born KY.
No children in household-Just David and second wife.
1 Jun 1900 Cove Pct., Union Co., OR, ED 117 Sh 9A;
David Grace, head, born Sep. 1826, 73, married 21 yr., born VA father born Unknown mother born Alabama, no occupation, owns free and clear
Nellie R. Grace, wife, born Feb. 1844, married 21 yr., never a mother, born KY father born MD mother born KY.
http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/crawford/crawford-co-p4.html
William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas was first published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.
DAVID L. GRACE, editor and proprietor of the only Democratic newspaper in Crawford County, Kan., is the son of David Grace, a noted iron manufacturer in East Tennessee, and grandson of Col. Grace from Kilkenny, Ireland, who was killed at the battle of King's Mountain, while fighting for the freedom of the colonies in the Revolution. He was born September 1, 1826, on the Virginia and Tennessee State line, and claims a large connection among the Dorans, Donnellys, Smiths, Lowrys and Keyes in that section of country. For the purpose of studying the Cherokee language, when a boy of ten years, he attended Potter's Mission in Alabama, and when the Indians were removed to their reservation, he acted as interpreter for the soldiers in charge of the rebellious Cherokees under the leadership of Ridge, John Ross being the leader of the peaceable Cherokees. He tells many an entertaining reminiscence of his life at the Mission, and his journey westward illustrative of that people in those, to them, trying times. Upon his return he was placed in the Seminary at Marysville, Blount Co., Tenn., in the theological department of which Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was a student, that reflected great credit upon it as an institution of learning. In 1846, he married Elizabeth, third daughter of Maj. John Ward, and in 1850, moved westward to Edgar County, Ill. Not satisfied with his choice of location, and with his eye still turned westward, he visited the lands now within the State of Kansas, but was deterred from establishing his home more on account of the troubles existing among contending parties than because of the then uninviting features of the millions of acres of grass-matted prairies that lay before hem. He selected Jasper county, Mo., and two years afterward was appointed sub-agent for the Indians that were returned on the incompetent list, as persons incapable of properly transacting business for themselves in the organization of the Territory of Kansas. These Indians were scattered all along the Missouri and Kansas Line, but the bulk of them were at Wyandotte on the Kaw River. Many and interesting scenes and situations are depicted by him when "i' th'vein," [sic-probably an OCR issue] of the stirring times spent among this people. At one time when in command of a company guarding the United States train to Santa Fe, Capt. Grace relates in a graphic and highly sensational manner, an attack upon them by Kiowas and Comanches, at Pawnee Rock, who had become emboldened by their success in killing Mr. Mason in charge of a Government ranch at Pawnee Fork. Being of an observant disposition, he ably describes the country through which he passed, and dwells upon the evidences all along his route of the ancient inhabitants of the western part of this continent. His position as sub-agent continued under the Lincoln administration. But his Union sentiments becoming offensive to neighbors in McDonald County, Mo., led to a duel between himself and Maj. Russell, Assistant United States Marshal, near Pineville, Mo., in which his friend, Capt. John Carroll, Mayor of Eureka Springs, Ark., participated, and they came off with flying colors. Finally, in consequence of this prejudice against his Democratic Union bias, he found it safer to remove his family to Cape Girardeau, Mo. In 1875, D. L. Grace was appointed School Superintendent in Crawford County, Mo., to fill out the unexpired term of the deceased school officer. Having spent a greater portion of his life in the schoolroom in the management of seminaries and central schools, Prof. Grace made such beneficial use of his opportunity to do a good work for the public schools, that he was elected two successive terms. The wife of his youth being in the grave, his children grown and moved to the great and growing West, he in 1879, led to the altar, Miss Nellie, eldest daughter of Thomas H. Roberts, editor and proprietor of the Crawford Mirror, and shortly afterward resigned his commission in order to take his wife southward for her health. A short stay at Eureka Springs, Ark., restored Mrs. Grace to the best of health, and he then entered upon the publication of the Eureka Springs Daily Herald; a financial crisis in business circles of that marvelously built city, caused him to invest in a Democratic journal in Girard, Kan., where he expects to end his days. Mr. Grace has living four children, now in Oregon; Thomas, a farmer, and a widowed sister, near Oregon City; George, managing a stock ranch, and William, a druggist. As will be seen, although born in the eastern part of the South, the subject of our sketch is pre-eminently a western man, and his life identified with the growth of the West. To-day he is occupying a home won from the great American Desert, over which he had traveled twenty-eight years before, in search of a home.
NOTE: Research has shown that his grandfather was not killed at Kings Mountain, as his widow had re-married before that battle. Also, his grandfather was a Private, not a Colonel.
Events
| Birth | 1 Sep 1826 | [On the VA and TN State Line], Tennessee | |||
| Marriage | 16 Mar 1846 | Johnson Co., Tennessee - Elizabeth WARD |  | ||
| Census | 1 Jun 1850 | Jessamine Co., Kentucky | |||
| Census | 1 Jun 1860 | McDonald Co., Missouri | |||
| Census | 1 Jun 1870 | Upton Twp., Texas Co., Missouri | |||
| Marriage | 15 Jun 1879 | Crawford, Scotland Co., Missouri - Nellie B. ROBERTS | | ||
| Census | 1 Jun 1880 | Benton Twp., Crawford Co., Missouri | |||
| Census | 1 Jun 1900 | Cove Precinct, Union Co., Oregon | |||
| Death | 15 Jun 1900 | Cove, Union Co., Oregon | |||
| Reference No | 11476 |
Families
| Spouse | Nellie B. ROBERTS (1843 - 1939) |
| Spouse | Elizabeth WARD (1820 - 1870) |
| Child | Loretta J. GRACE (1847 - 1920) |
| Child | James Thomas GRACE (1851 - 1921) |
| Child | George Ward GRACE (1854 - 1904) |
| Child | Wiliam Emory GRACE (1855 - 1935) |
| Child | Liza Lizzie Nevada GRACE (1857 - 1944) |
| Father | David Louis GRACE (1771 - 1850) |
| Mother | Margaret SCRIMSHIRE (1787 - 1850) |
| Sibling | Ellen A. GRACE (1810 - 1880) |
| Sibling | Azariah GRACE (1810 - 1840) |
| Sibling | Joseph H. GRACE (1813 - ) |
| Sibling | John A. GRACE (1816 - 1880) |
| Sibling | Lavina A. GRACE (1818 - 1898) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth GRACE (1819 - 1880) |
| Sibling | Rebecca GRACE (1820 - ) |
| Sibling | Margaret GRACE (1822 - ) |
| Sibling | James GRACE (1826 - ) |
| Sibling | George Curtis GRACE (1827 - 1910) |
Endnotes
1. Marriage Record, Copied at the courthouse.
2. Marriage Record.