Legacy MattersNathaniel Grimsby, born in 1811 in Kansas, though old when it broke out, fought in the Civil War becoming a second lieutenant and a "picturesque figure".
From When Kansas Was Young by Thomas Allen McNeal
He was a Republican without variableness or shadow of turning. To his mind, politically speaking, the Republican party was summum bonum, while the Democratic party was malum in se. Whatever there was of good in the political acts of the past third of a century, he attributed to the Republican party, and whatever there was of evil to the malign influence of the Democratic organization. With most men political activity stops with the grave, but old Nathaniel Grigsby, as the weight of years bowed his back and the frosts of time, silvered his hair, knowing that his years were nearly numbered, devised a plan by which his political opinions might be transmitted to coming generations, carved in imperishable granite, to be read long after his mortal body had returned to the earth from which it came and his spirit had joined the immortals. He carefully prepared the inscription for his tombstone and exacted the promise it should be graven on the shaft which marked his grave
Hat tip to Paul, Thoughts of a Regular Guy
Posted by Jill Fallon at May 2, 2009 11:58 AM | PermalinkSeveral years ago my sister did a family tree, she was excited to find that Nathaniel Grigsby's brother Aaron was married to Abraham Lincoln's sister, she passed along this info to some of the family, since she had already told us that Sam Houston was a relative and had owned a large part of the "then" downtown Houston area in the long ago past we took what she said with a "grain of salt" she was not above "expanding" her stories, now it makes me wonder.....
Hmmmm!!!
Carol Grigsby Parks