Individual Details
Thomas Grier
(24 Jun 1744 - 25 Jan 1828)
Events
| Birth | 24 Jun 1744 |  | |||
| Military | 1778 or 1779 | | |||
| Marriage | 24 Apr 1781 | Hannah Alexander | | ||
| Move | 1783 | Steele Creek, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States | | ||
| Marriage | 30 Apr 1789 | Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States - Susannah Spratt | | ||
| Census | 1790 | next to brother James, Mecklenberg, British North America | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 1820 | owned 29 slaves - Steele Creek, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States | | ||
| Will | 4 Feb 1825 | | |||
| Will | 23 Jan 1828 | Steele Creek, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States | |||
| Death | 25 Jan 1828 | Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 5 Feb 1828 | was characterized in the Catawba Journal as 'highly respectable and most valuable citizen.' - Steele Creek, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States | | ||
| Occupation | late 1700's | farmer - Steele Creek Mecklenburg, North Carolina, British North America | | ||
| Burial | Steele Creek, Mecklenberg, North Carolina, United States | |
Families
| Spouse | Hannah Alexander (1761 - 1788) |
| Child | Margaret Grier (1782 - ) |
| Child | James Grier (1783 - 1845) |
| Child | Col Thomas James Grier (1785 - 1872) |
| Child | Alexander Grier (1788 - ) |
| Spouse | Susannah Spratt (1769 - 1853) |
| Child | Hannah Grier (1790 - 1791) |
| Child | John Spratt Grier (1792 - 1822) |
| Child | Samuel Grier (1795 - 1824) |
| Child | Andrew Grier (1797 - 1850) |
| Child | Catherine McKnight Grier (1799 - 1828) |
| Child | Mary B Grier (1802 - 1824) |
| Child | William McKee Grier (1804 - ) |
| Child | Zenas Alexander Grier (1806 - ) |
| Child | Susan N Whyte? Grier (1810 - 1834) |
| Father | JAMES GRIER (1708 - 1784) |
| Mother | Margaret Brown? or Pringle? (1711 - 1787) |
| Sibling | John Grier ( - ) |
| Sibling | JAMES GRIER II (1738 - 1808) |
| Sibling | MARGARET GRIER? (1743 - 1803) |
| Sibling | Mary Grier (1740 - 1795) |
Endnotes
1. Doris Dickenson, , to ria lobato, email, 31 May 2013, "Grier info," Genealogy - Wylie Grier in gmail acct; privately held by ria lobato, , 2013.
2. Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : 7 October 2016), Steele Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Charlotte, NC, memorial # 103166561, photo by “t. stephens”, grave maker of James Greer, 11 Sept 1828., Thomas Grier - Steele Creek Cemetery - Charlotte, NC.
3. "Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements and Rosters," database, same (revwarapps.org/index.htm: accessed 6 June 2013), Thomas Wylie, Susannah Spratt.
4. "Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements and Rosters," database, same (revwarapps.org/index.htm: accessed 6 June 2013), Thomas Wylie, Susannah Spratt.
5. Doris Dickenson, , to ria lobato, email, 31 May 2013, "Grier info," Genealogy - Wylie Grier in gmail acct; privately held by ria lobato, , 2013.
6. Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : 7 October 2016), Steele Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Charlotte, NC, memorial # 103166561, photo by “t. stephens”, grave maker of James Greer, 11 Sept 1828., Thomas Grier - Steele Creek Cemetery - Charlotte, NC.
7. "Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements and Rosters," database, same (revwarapps.org/index.htm: accessed 6 June 2013), Thomas Wylie, Susannah Spratt.
8. Kathleen Marler, Residents of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 1762-1790 (Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield Company, 2005, 2007), 13 (taken from Deeds Vol 1-3 and Will books A-C, military, cemeteries, etc).
9. Historical Committee of 1976, The History of Steele Creek Presbyterian Church, Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1745-1978: 3rd Edition, 1st Edition - 1872 (Charlotte, NC : Craftsman Printing and Publishing house, 1978), 201.
10. "," database, The Steele Creek Historical and Genealogical Society of the Old Steele Creek Township, Mecklenburg Co, NC, The Potts Papers (www.rootsweb.ancestry.com: accessed 5 June 2013), Martha Grier who married James Grier.
11. Doris Dickenson, , to ria lobato, email, 31 May 2013, "Grier info," Genealogy - Wylie Grier in gmail acct; privately held by ria lobato, , 2013.
12. Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : 7 October 2016), Steele Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Charlotte, NC, memorial # 103166561, photo by “t. stephens”, grave maker of James Greer, 11 Sept 1828., Thomas Grier - Steele Creek Cemetery - Charlotte, NC.
13. Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : 7 October 2016), Steele Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Charlotte, NC, memorial # 103166561, photo by “t. stephens”, grave maker of James Greer, 11 Sept 1828., Susannah (Spratt) Grier, Steele Creek Presbyterian Cemetery, Charlotte, NC.
14. "Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements and Rosters," database, same (revwarapps.org/index.htm: accessed 6 June 2013), Thomas Wylie, Susannah Spratt.
15. Kathleen Marler, Residents of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 1762-1790 (Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield Company, 2005, 2007), 137-139 (taken from Deeds Vol 1-3 and Will books A-C, military, cemeteries, etc).
16. 1790 U.S. census, Mecklenburg Co., NC, population schedule, , p. 352, col 1, alpha listing, Thomas Greer household; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 June 2014); citing NARA microfilm publication M637, roll 7.
17. "The William Grier House," database, (www.cmhpf.org: accessed 8 June 2013), The history of the William Grier House and Deeds.
18. Linda Lawless Blackwelder, A History of Central Steele Creek Presbyterian Church (N.p.: n.p., 1984), 46.
19. Doris Dickenson, , to ria lobato, email, 31 May 2013, "Grier info," Genealogy - Wylie Grier in gmail acct; privately held by ria lobato, , 2013.
20. Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : 7 October 2016), Steele Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Charlotte, NC, memorial # 103166561, photo by “t. stephens”, grave maker of James Greer, 11 Sept 1828., Thomas Grier - Steele Creek Cemetery - Charlotte, NC.
21. Historical Committee of 1976, The History of Steele Creek Presbyterian Church, Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1745-1978: 3rd Edition, 1st Edition - 1872 (Charlotte, NC : Craftsman Printing and Publishing house, 1978), 201.
22. "The William Grier House," database, (www.cmhpf.org: accessed 8 June 2013), The history of the William Grier House and Deeds.
23. "The William Grier House," database, (www.cmhpf.org: accessed 8 June 2013), The history of the William Grier House and Deeds.
24. Linda Lawless Blackwelder, A History of Central Steele Creek Presbyterian Church (N.p.: n.p., 1984), 42-3.