I became intrigued when I was
assisting the San Patricio Co TX website for USGENWEB with cemetery surveys to
find graves of another family with a similar surname. I haven’t
found a connection to my particular line out of colonial Virginia, but I have
found some remarkable documentation for this family.
Levi Grooms, Ltn Virginia Line,
REV WAR, VA Stafford County
John Grooms, VA Stafford
County
Horatio
Grooms, VA, died Travis Co TX; Lt then Major - KY Dragoons see
Journal of the executive proceedings of the Senate of the United States of
America 1829-1837 for appointment 6/11/1836; Col. Texas Militia
Served
in 17th Reg. KY Militia, Francisco’s Unit War of 1812, served as constable
of Hickman Co KY in 1830’s,. resided with his family in home of Mirabeau
Lamar at Austin TX in 1846 (also see reference to historical Grooms annex old
Austin at City of Austin website)
Judge
Alfred Grooms, TX, died mid 1890s Travis Co TX, see 1880 Travis Co TX
census. Served as examiner for General Land Office then president of Grooms
Hardware 1891
Elizabeth
Grooms, VA
F Harrison
Grooms, VA, probably the Francis Grooms who served in the 17th
Reg. KY Militia, Francisco’s Unit War of 1812
Thornton
Grooms, VA, d Travis Co TX, see 1880 Travis Co TX census in home of nephew
Alfred Grooms
Charles H.
Grooms, VA 1799, d in 1850’s Grant Co KY., served in 17th
Reg, KY Militia, Francisco’s Unit war of 1812. (I don’t believe
this to be the same Charles Grooms who also served in War of 1812 Capt
Steve Ritchie’s unit between 2/1815 and 8/1815 in the Washington/Nelson Co
KY area.)
Children of the older brother John
Grooms, above, applied for warranty land due their unmarried Uncle Levi Grooms
who was killed in 1777 in the Battle of Brandywine. See affidavits at
Revolutionary War site HERITAGE QUEST. They received 2,666 acres as of
7/20/1833. See pg 216 REVOLUTIONARY WAR BOUNTY LAND GRANTS.
Charles H. Grooms, VA 1799-
c1850 Grant Co KY, farmer
Maria Unknown, KY b1813
Susan
Grooms b 1833, KY
John Grooms b 1835, KY
Mary
Grooms b 1841, KY
Sarah Grooms b 1843, KY
Benjamin H
Grooms b 1846, KY
James Grooms b 1849, KY
Charles W.
Grooms b 1839 KY d Hays Co TX. Served as a magistrate in Hays
Co TX courts
(There was a Benjamin Proctor aged 70 of VA in the household on
the 1850 Grant Co KY census which might imply that Maria was a Proctor.)
Charles W Grooms, b 1839 KY d
Hays Co TX
Mary “Molly” Greenwood
George
Grooms b 1867
Fred Grooms b 1873
Frank Grooms b
1869
Charles Louis Grooms b 1871 Hays Co TX d 1932 San Patricio Co
TX, Mathis TX Cemetery
Charles Louis Grooms b 1871
Hays Co TX d 1932 San Patricio Co TX, Mathis TX Cemetery, farmer
Sallie
Ada Chesser Grooms, b 1874 TX d 1965 San Patricio Co TX, Mathis TX
Cemetery
Lois
Grooms b TX 1897-1971 San Patricio Co TX, Mathis TX Cemetery
Lois Grooms b TX 1897-1971 San
Patricio Co TX, Mathis TX Cemetery
Tom Wagnon
Norma Wagnon
Eileen Wagnon b TX 1927-1950, San Patricio Co TX, Cenizo Hills
Cemetery
Eileen Wagnon b TX 1927-1950,
San Patricio Co TX, Cenizo Hills Cemetery
Walter Leber,
Jr d 2006, San Patricio
Co TX, Cenizo Hills Cemetery
Submitted by
Marvin and Ann Groom Lenz
