Newsletter 2 1978.pdf - The Grayson Family

cha-aed s~met!~ing over 2000 acres of land about
20 miles :rest of Leaven;~orth, ICcnsas wilere he
mat e.nd mqrrled my grandmother in 1854, She,
as I recall, was my gra!1dfa,tborts tbir3 marriage
1%:~ grandf at'ner, George Yashington G.rayson,
fathered three children by a foiimer marriege;
on@ !vas Gc0rr.e ':J~;shiiigt on Grayson, Jr, , vh3 went
to C.l+forns.i and b8p1~n8d t.5 be 1ucl;y 3.n tha
old rn'ning fields p.ild RZSO o:.rged some cold nines
and land in Californizz, old !.!exico and Idabo,
IIe orpsnized what is kno:.~n as the Grayaon Cattle
Com.pany 1~rhLc'n still exists in Spn Francfsco, altbougb$
nr3 G.r2.3r9021 1s n3:r c~ii1i~cted :rith tho firm,
This Junior (+ra.y~m hnd t..:o dauebters end one
eon 2nd. tho husbslld ~j: one of' the dau~hters Socame
S on-ressman froln Calif 91325-2,. I t:lilk.
My erandf atisr, Goorg.e iashi::~zton Greyson, died
in. bis eighty8 and 1s b:lr:ied on of his $9~6
farri~s near Cscsloc&a, Kansas. All o" his ci~lldren
that I bs.19 any k~iowlaci,-e or, kilcluding my
father, David, are ~ O ! J dead,
Etj father, D-vid Gra.rso11, died a:; the age
03 ninety tvo, ss did ny ~ra~drnotner' d5e at the
age of ninety tl~ro, i.iy grandfatfier., George
,iasbinctol Grayson , b;r tbLs last marrieee to
my granda~t~~er, hod three Eons an3 t nree dauchters,
As fnr as I know ~ 1 of 1 these cC;~tldro;i are non
dead.
1 hatre tvro da.ug:ters e.nd four grandsons,