Brief Life History of Jacob Henton
When Jacob Henton Grider was born on 12 July 1791, in Greenbrier, Virginia, United States, his father, Private Jacob Grider, was 28 and his mother, Rebecca Henton, was 23. He married Mahala Pennington on 21 December 1809, in Jackson, Madison, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 27 February 1848, in Greene, Missouri, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Greene, Missouri, United States.
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- Jacob Henton Grider, "Find A Grave Index"
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Spouse and Children
1791–1848 Male
1793–1855 Female
Children (9)
1812–1853 Male
1814–1852 Male
1818–1854 Male
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1824–1878 Male
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Parents and Siblings
1762–1860 Male
1768–1842 Female
Siblings (8)
1786–1863 Male
1788–1861 Female
1791–1848 Male
1797– Male
1800–1880 Male
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World Events (8)
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
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1808
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Name Meaning
Americanized form of South German Greiter, itself a variant or an altered form of South German Greuter and Swiss German Grütter or Grüter (see Grueter ). Compare Greider , Gryder and Kreider .
History: The ancestors of many of the American Griders were Mennonites from Switzerland who, because of religious persecution, fled to the Palatinate in Germany and later, in the beginning of the 18th century, emigrated to PA (see Kreider ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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