GRIMES, Solomon
Source: Greencastle Star 25 Sept 1880 p7
Sept 18, 1880, Solomon Grimes in the 73rd year of his age at the residence of his son-in-law, James Vandaver, Esq of Clinton Township. The deceased was one of the pioneers of Putnam County. He emigrated to this part of the state from North Caroline in 1826 and settled on Little Raccoon Creek near the eastern line of Parke County but moved to Big Raccoon in Russell Township at what has been known as the Rambo Mills in about the year 1830 at which place he married Anna Butcher who survives him. They had 10 children: five sons and five daughters, two of the latter being dead. By his death has passed away another of old Putnam’s early settlers, one who placed his feet upon her soil when wild and uncultivated and covered by a dense forest from one end to the other. But few of those early pioneers remain with us. Soon all will be gone, and with them that living connecting link of humanity with early history will be obliterated forever, and will only be known to the future in the written history they leave behind.
Source: Greencastle Star 9 Oct 1880 p 1
“Hathaway’s Mills” –Solomon Grimes, an old resident of Russell township died on Saturday Sept 18th, aged about 75 years