Percy A. Grimes

Percy A. Grimes

(Grandpop)

Grandpop was born in Dec. 1894 in Virginia to Allen Grymes born about June 1860 and Lucy Grymes born about 1875. According to the 1900 census for King George County, Potomac district. Also listed are an older brother whose name I can't read born Dec. 1891 and younger twin brother Thomas and twin sister Martha M. whom Aunt Annie says they called Marie. The twins were born Sept. 1896. Allen's occupation is listed as farmer.

Even though I was using Ancestry .com I had a really hard time finding anything about grandpop's family. In fact I skipped over them a bunch of times until I decided to try the Grymes spelling. Then bingo!!!, I hit bigtime. Well maybe not that big because I did hit the wall after his Grandfather.

I don't know the story of how grandpop's name became Grimes when everyone else in his family was a Grymes.
Maybe we can get some help on that from Virginia or Marie Gray in Moorestown Because their mother Izora Dunlop Gray was grandpop's first cousin. I don't know how much they know about the Grymes side but we should ask because otherwise we'll have to start looking in Virginia for answers.

As I have said before about looking for family connections nothing beats Ancestry.com except maybe traveling around looking up census records and court records, but Ancestry .com is not free and some folks find it too expensive, personally I don't think it is if you're going to use it and they do upgrade it regularly plus they offer all kinds of very nice features. In my travels online I did find a site that gives access to census and some other records at a much better cost than Ancestry. It's called Heritage Quest Online. You can click on the Name to link to it. In fact I'll give you a head start and set up a link to the Grymes page and you can start exploring from there. Just bookmark them for later reference.
Do it while you can because I have no idea how long we can continue to do these searches for free.
As it turns out I don't have the right to link to this site, so you'll have to subscribe to a library to see it.