4. Martin Alexander FINCANNON was born 4 Dec 1845 in Raburn County, GA. He died 19 Jul 1938 in Oklahoma City, OK and was buried in Oklahoma City, OK. Martin married Nervia Safronia TEEM. [Parents]
Martin Alexander Fincannon served in the 11th GA Cavalry during the Civil War. He moved his family from Raburn County, GA to Cave Springs, AR, in 1872. He may have died in 1937; he lived with daughter Nina Hall in later years.
5. Nervia Safronia TEEM died in Oklahoma City, OK and was buried in Oklahoma City, OK.
Last name may have been TEEMS or WEEM/WEEMS; she lived to be 92.
6. James Parker GRYDER was born BET. 1842 - 1849 in AR. He died about 1891 in Hempstead County, AR and was buried in Hart Cemetery, Cave Springs, AR. James married Mary Elizabeth MC CLAIN about 1868 in AR. [Parents]
Paul Fincannon's materials suggest KY as birth place. Birth date range from 1870 and 1880 Census rolls: age 31 in 1870 and 38 in 1880.
Census data:
1870 Benton County, AR Round Prairie Twp.
Grider, James 31 farmer 600/500 AR
Mary 20
Rose 11880 Benton County, AR Osage Twp. 1 15 31 10
Gryder, James 38 AR
Mary 30
Julia 11
John 9
Richard 7
James 5
Morris 3
Nolie 7/12James Parker Gryder served in the 4th AR Infantry during the Civil War.
Isaac Newton Gryder and his son James Parker Gryder and their families moved from Washington, AR to Cave Springs, AR in 1879 to get away from freed slaves. In 1891, after the death of James Parker Gryder, his wife and family moved with the Fincannons from the Cave Springs, AR, area, according to Paul Fincannon. The families eventually settled in De Leon, Erath County, TX, whose typology is very similar to that of Cave Springs, AR.
7. Mary Elizabeth MC CLAIN was born in July 1850 in AR. She died 11 Nov 1943 in Erath County, TX and was buried in Round Grove, TX.
Birth date from 1900 Erath County Census info. received from Barbara Grider 7 FEB 2000. Death date from Paul Fincannon (grandson), received 7 FEB 2000.
Census data:
1870 Benton County, AR Round Prairie Twp.
Grider, James 21 farmer 600/500 AR
Mary 20
Rose 11880 Benton County, AR Osage Twp. 1 15 31 10
Gryder, James 38 AR
Mary 30
Julia 11
John 9
Richard 7
James 5
Morris 3
Nolie 7/121900 Erath County, TX 36 68 2 55
Gryder, Mary E. JUL 1850 49 AR
James C. FEB 1876 25 AR
Morris MAY 1877 23 AR
Rosa J (Julia) SEP 1868 31 AR (actual 9 APR 1868)
John W. OCT 1870 29 AR
Richard NOV 1872 AR
Nola NOV 1879 20 AR
Lilla JUL 1882 17 AR
Alecia FEB 1885 15 AR
Pearl DEC 1887 AR
Jessie FEB 1891 ARAccording to Cecil Bostick (g-grandson of Mary), in the mid 1930s, when he was 7 or 8, he visited his grandmother, Julia Rosa (Mary's daughter), in Rucker (W of De Leon); his grandmother said that Mary Gryder spent about 4 months of each year with each of her three daughters.