Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameJohn Nathaniel Grice
Birth14 Apr 1834, Fayette Co, PA
Census1840, Worthington Twp, Richland Co, OH
Memoroll#423, pg 75
Census4 Jun 1860, Morris Twp, Knox Co, OH
Memoroll#994, pg 133
Military18 Aug 1864, Richland Co, OH
MemoCompany A, 178th Ohio Vol Infantry
Census28 Jul 1870, Sugar Grove, Dallas Co, IA
Memoroll#385, pg 595
Census1880, Minburn, Dallas Co, IA
Memoroll#335, pg 202
Death23 Sep 1892, Minburn, Dallas Co, IA
BurialGreenwood Cem, Dallas Co, IA
FatherThomas Grice (1799-1859)
MotherMargaret Eicher (1800-1887)
Misc. Notes
Twin with Lydia, born 18 March or 14 April.
His listing in the 1860 census appears to read John Grose (26, PA), with his wife Mary (23, VA) with children Amanda (mistaken as Andrew) (4, OH), Melissa (2, OH) and Richard (6 mos, OH).
John N. Grice was a private in Company A, 178th Ohio Vol Infantry. He enrolled 18 Aug 1864 and was honorably discharged at Charlotte, NC on 29 June 1865. He was five feet nine, dark complexion, brown hair and gray eyes. On a march between Newburn and Goldsboro, NC on 1 March 1865 he took a severe cold and diarrhea. The cold settled in his lungs. He was sent to the hospital in Raleigh, NC on 24 April 1865 and was there four days and then returned to duty, but never really recovered as had a continual hacking cough. Mary applied for accrued (widows) pension 3 Oct 1892. She was dropped from the rolls due to death in July 1901.
Listed in Sugar Grove, IA in 1870 with his wife and 5 oldest children.
Listed in Minburn, Iowa in 1880, as a laborer with his wife, son Lucien and 3 youngest daughters.
Medical Testimony given 29 March 1890 by D. S. Grossman, M.D. in Minburn, Dallas County, Iowa - gave medical advice and treatment to John N. Grice as follows:
"I first treated this applicant in the fall of 1887. He has been under my treatment continuously ever since then. When first called to see him he had serious lung trouble, which has steadily been growing worse ever since then. The history he gave me, together with his emaciated condition and impaired vesicular breathing convinced me that the case is one of long standing. The case seems to me to be more of chr. capillary bronchitis than of consumption. There is permanent rise of temperature of about 2 degs. There are rales diffused through the lungs generally and much soreness. He is temperate and of good habits. He is entirely disabled. He cannot do any manual labor whatever owing to the lung trouble."  .......This testimony is part ot the pension packet from NARA and transcribed by Cynthia Greenman, 3 March 2007.
He applied for a pension 14 Jan 1890 claiming disease of lungs, chronic diarrhea and resulting disease of the rectum. His date of death was 23 Sep 1892. Cause of death was pulmonary tuberculosis (testified by his physician, D.S. Grossman, M.D.)
Spouses
Birth31 Jan 1837, Loudoun Co, VA
Death5 Jul 1901, Dallas Co, IA
BurialGreenwood Cem, Dallas Co, IA
Misc. Notes
Parents: Samuel Barton and Alzira (or Elvira) Triplet (b. 1818) marr 1836
oldest 5 children: Mary (1837), Ann (1839), Charles, Richard, Hannah “Fanny”, and John.
Mary applied for accrued (widows) pension 3 Oct 1892.
She is listed as a widow, with her daughter Flora in the 1900 census for Minburn, IA. No ages are listed and it appears that they are both listed as “Native U.S.” which is also not informative.
She was dropped from the pension rolls due to death in July 1901.
Marriage16 Dec 1854, Mansfield, Richland Co, OH
Marr Memoby John Stewart, JP
ChildrenAmanda Ellen (1855-)
 Mary Melissa (1857-1926)
 Richard Bryant (1859-1916)
 Lucien Benedict (1862-1923)
 Alice Margaret (1865-1921)
 Flora Ann (1872-1957)
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