Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameVan Buren GRADDY
Birth Date7 Jun 1836
Death Date25 Mar 1911 Age: 74
Death PlaceLiberty Township, Crawford County, Missouri
Burial PlaceLeesburg, Crawford County, Missouri, Lick Creek Cemetery
OccupationCW Confederate Soldier, Kentucky Co. A 3 Mtd. Inf.
Spouses
Birth Date30 Apr 1865
Birth PlaceCuba, Crawford County, Missouri
Death Date20 Sep 1902 Age: 37
Death PlaceLeesburg, Crawford County, Missouri
FatherAbraham HENDRIX , 46 (1813-1887)
MotherRhoda Elmira PITTS (1838-1873)
Family ID2390
Marr Date8 Jul 1886
Marr PlaceCrawford, Scotland County, Missouri
Marr MemoMissouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002
ChildrenRufus Allen (1887-1967)
 Louis W. (1889-1952)
Notes for Van Buren GRADDY
Friday, October 10, 1902

GRADY, INFANT
St. James Journal: "Mister, I believe our baby is dead." These words from
a 7-year-old boy startled night operator Martin in the West Plains depot
Friday night. He looked through his ticket window and saw in the waiting
room a man and six children spending the night in the depot for lack of
money to go to a hotel. The operator went out and found a 14-year-old girl
holding a dead baby. Hackmen, railroad men and a few people waiting for a
train made up a collection and sent the man and his five children to a
hotel. The county took charge of the dead child. The man was Van Buren
Grady, who was trying to get to relatives in Crawford county from Arkansas.
Mrs. Grady died two weeks ago.
Mr. Grady was for many years a familiar figure around Bourbon where he lived
until about 6 years ago when he went to Shannon county and it seems from
there on down to Arkansas.

On Ancestry from littlebritches102

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Notes for Matilda Catherine "Tilly" (Spouse 1)
Friday, October 10, 1902

GRADY, INFANT
St. James Journal: "Mister, I believe our baby is dead." These words from
a 7-year-old boy startled night operator Martin in the West Plains depot
Friday night. He looked through his ticket window and saw in the waiting
room a man and six children spending the night in the depot for lack of
money to go to a hotel. The operator went out and found a 14-year-old girl
holding a dead baby. Hackmen, railroad men and a few people waiting for a
train made up a collection and sent the man and his five children to a
hotel. The county took charge of the dead child. The man was Van Buren
Grady, who was trying to get to relatives in Crawford county from Arkansas.
Mrs. Grady died two weeks ago.
Mr. Grady was for many years a familiar figure around Bourbon where he lived
until about 6 years ago when he went to Shannon county and it seems from
there on down to Arkansas.

On Ancestry from littlebritches102

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