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This gallery traces the Grigsby family history from 1872 through family photos and information gathered together by William (Bill) Redman Grigsby for his Grandsons, Ryan and Jack. Photographs were cleaned up by Murry Grigsby, Bill's brother. Most of the photos came from Mom and Dad as did life itself. Other photographs were generously contributed by Phyllis and Martin Jones, Janie Root Eddy, Kathleen Staten Thompson, Donald Grigsby, Bud Miers, Terry Miers, Holly Kottenstette Fritz, Jim Miers, Norman Spring, Connie Hester, Lynnette Herring Fleming, Verna Mae Bechtel Staten, Rebecca Rombach Copple, Mrs. Emerson Carey II and Kiki Tomson. We hope you enjoy seeing and reading a small bit of the Grigsby history.
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Murry > This photo of mom and dad was made sometime in the spring of 1929 when dad was a senior at Williamsburg High School and mom was a sophomore. Mom is holding the trophy for first place for a scholastic competition. Dad is kneeling in the second row wearing his letter sweater. The accompanying information says: "In 1929 our High School Scholarship team of 22 members, pictured above, sponsored by Miss Mary McLindon (far left) and Mrs. Helen Sutherland (far right) won top honors in the Emporia District and State Class C contests and first place in the English contest over schools of all classes in the State (Kansas). It was a tremendous victory." Mom was listed as Elma Mae Staten and dad was listed as Maurice (Buster) Grigsby! The guy had a bunch of aliases -- Jim, James, Maurice, Buster, Bud, Grig, etc.
Murry > This photo was probably taken in the summer of 1929 and Verna Mae wrote on the back of the photo: "Mother, Frankie, Verna, Mae, Inez and Junior." Kathleen Staten told Bill that mom and her family moved from the Killwinning, Missouri area in December 1924. Bill is sure that "mother" is Lurena Taylor Staten (our grandfather, Chalmer's mother) who had traveled with her daughter, Frankie (Uncle Bennett's wife) from Missouri to visit and see her grandson, Chalmer Murry Staten, Jr. in Kansas. So the people in the picture are from left to right, Verna Mae Staten, Frankie Staten Bennett holding Junior (born about June 1929), Inez, Grandmother Lurena Staten, and "Mae" (our mother) holding the dog she called "Pup." Bill is guessing that this house was in the Williamsburg, Kansas area because he has one of Mom's high school report cards for 1928-29 from Williamsburg High School in Franklin County. Bill also has a May 4, 1926 6th grade report card for mom in an elementary school in district 70 of Franklin County. Grandfather George Bechtel (Verna's father) lived near Baldwin City, Kansas in Douglas County. Bill believes Verna and Chalmer followed grandfather George Bechtel to Kansas when he moved from the Killwinning, Missouri area. Grandmother Lurena died in 1931. Also, notice the outside entry to the "basement" or "root cellar" with a dirt floor but a place to go when tornadoes appeared. This basement was probably like the one we had at our 1276 South Pennsylvania Street house in Denver in 1940.
Murry > This is a 1930 photograph of the Robert Edward Staten family around Downing, Missouri sometime after grandmother Lurena and her daughter Frankie visited Verna and Chalmer in the Williamsburg area in 1929. Chalmer is in this picture suggesting he traveled from Williamsburg to Downing to visit his family (Lurena Elizabeth died in 1931 and was buried in Downing so he may have come home to see her because she was sick?). The people in the photo of the Robert Edward and Lurena Elizabeth Taylor Staten family are from left to right standing: Josephine, Effie, Mae, Chalmer Murry, Ray, Tilda and Frankie and seated are Robert Edward and Lurena Elizabeth Taylor Staten.
Murry > The photo shows dad holding Anna Maree Grigsby (Miers) sometime shortly after she was born on September 7, 1930. Bud and Neva Blair were married on February 1, 1930. They were divorced on December 1, 1933. I wonder if that was Dad's graduation/wedding suit he's wearing? This picture comes courtesy of dad's grandson and our nephew, Jim Miers.
Murry > 1932 Anna Maree Grigsby. Sister Ann at two years and two months old somewhere around Williamsburg, Kansas probably at the home of Ann's Blair grandparents. On the back of the picture in pencil, it reads: "Makin' eyes at Grandma! 2 years and 2 months, Anna Maree." Grandma in this photo caption had to be Neva's mother, Ann's grandmother Blair.
Murry > 1933 Anna Maree Grigsby. Sister Ann at three years old. This photograph was contributed by Ann's son, Jim Miers. This photo may have been taken on her third birthday in September because she's wearing a very fancy dress and it appears to be a posed photograph. This picture reminds us all that Ann has shared her good looks with her daughters, grand daughters and great grand daughters!
Murry > This photograph was provided by Kathleen Staten who told Bill it was taken at the "Calhoun place" northwest of Kilwinning, Missouri, where Robert Edward lived with his wife and son, Ray Staten and Ray's daughter, Kathleen according to the 1920 census. Kathleen was 19 years old when the image was made so that means it was taken in 1933 (Kathleen Fern was born July 22, 1914 and she died January 2005). The people in the photograph are from left to right: Robert Edward Staten, Lurenna Brewer (daughter of Tilda Staten and Clarence Brewer), Doris Brewer Shoemaker (daughter of Tilda and Clarence), aunt Tildie (Tilda Belle Staten Brewer Laws), aunt Josephine Staten Weininger Laws, Maxine Weininger (daughter of Josephine Staten Weininger Laws and Chester Weininger), aunt Effie Staten Weldon Rowe, uncle Hugh Weldon (Effie's first husband), Kathleen Fern Staten Thompson, and Marjorie Weldon Martin (daughter of Effie and Hugh). Tilda Staten's second husband was Jimmy Laws and Josephine Staten's second husband was Henry Laws and Jimmy and Henry were brothers. Why are all of the subjects except two looking away from the person who took this photograph? Another photographer or is the food being served?
Murry > 1934 Grigsby Summer. The people in the photograph in the back row from left to right are: Hildreth Grigsby Root, Gladys Severns Grigsby (Walter's 2nd wife), grandmother Lida Alma Graves Grigsby, Theodore Grigsby, Charles Grigsby, Phyllis Grigsby?, Flossie Greeve Grigsby, James Maurice Grigsby and Elma Mae Staten Grigsby (hiding behind dad because she's pregnant with Bill to be born in Denver in October 1934). In the front row from left to right are: Janie Root Eddy, Bobbie Dean Grigsby (Walter's son born 1931 and died in 1951), Wilma Jo Root Henderson, Patty Sue Grigsby (Walter's step daughter) and Dorma Jean Grigsby Ward (Walter's daughter). None of Theodore's family, Josie, Donald or Lida Margaret are in the photo. Walter Grigsby may be the photographer. I believe this group had gathered to sell the homestead after grandfather William Redman died in 1933 and to move grandmother Grigsby to Colorado. Donald Grigsby remembers that the family house was sold about a "year" after grandfather William Redman died and that grandmother Lida Alma moved to Denver with our father and mother. So this may be a historic photograph showing family for whom Bill had no pictures and in the midst of the disintegration of the Grigsby family presence in Williamsburg, Kansas.
Murry > This is another gem Bill found going through some more of mother’'s photos. It’s a picture of her sister, Inez. On the back of the photo in mother’'s hand writing it says: "“Inez Arlene Staten Ashton Born 12-04-1916 Dec (deceased?) 12-04-1934 WHS class of 1934.”" Bill is guessing that the photograph was taken in the fall of 1934 and that Inez was married (October 28, 1934). — Is that a wedding ring on her left hand? Therefore, Inez was 17 years old when the photo was taken. Inez died during childbirth and her child also died at birth and is buried with her in Mount Hope Cemetery near Williamsburg. Her obituary stated she died of "peritonitis." Mom had placed a temporary marker on their grave around 1954 and Bill replaced that with a more permanent head stone in about 2001.
This photo of mom and dad was made sometime in the spring of 1929 when dad was a senior at Williamsburg High School and mom was a sophomore. Mom is holding the trophy for first place for a scholastic competition. Dad is kneeling in the second row wearing his letter sweater. The accompanying information says: "In 1929 our High School Scholarship team of 22 members, pictured above, sponsored by Miss Mary McLindon (far left) and Mrs. Helen Sutherland (far right) won top honors in the Emporia District and State Class C contests and first place in the English contest over schools of all classes in the State (Kansas). It was a tremendous victory." Mom was listed as Elma Mae Staten and dad was listed as Maurice (Buster) Grigsby! The guy had a bunch of aliases -- Jim, James, Maurice, Buster, Bud, Grig, etc.
> This photo of mom and dad was made sometime in the spring of 1929 when dad was a senior at Williamsburg High School and mom was a sophomore. Mom is holding the trophy for first place for a scholastic competition. Dad is kneeling in the second row wearing his letter sweater. The accompanying information says: "In 1929 our High School Scholarship team of 22 members, pictured above, sponsored by Miss Mary McLindon (far left) and Mrs. Helen Sutherland (far right) won top honors in the Emporia District and State Class C contests and first place in the English contest over schools of all classes in the State (Kansas). It was a tremendous victory." Mom was listed as Elma Mae Staten and dad was listed as Maurice (Buster) Grigsby! The guy had a bunch of aliases -- Jim, James, Maurice, Buster, Bud, Grig, etc.
This photo of mom and dad was made sometime in the spring of 1929 when dad was a senior at Williamsburg High School and mom was a sophomore. Mom is holding the trophy for first place for a scholastic competition. Dad is kneeling in the second row wearing his letter sweater. The accompanying information says: "In 1929 our High School Scholarship team of 22 members, pictured above, sponsored by Miss Mary McLindon (far left) and Mrs. Helen Sutherland (far right) won top honors in the Emporia District and State Class C contests and first place in the English contest over schools of all classes in the State (Kansas). It was a tremendous victory." Mom was listed as Elma Mae Staten and dad was listed as Maurice (Buster) Grigsby! The guy had a bunch of aliases -- Jim, James, Maurice, Buster, Bud, Grig, etc.
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