The caption reads: "Annual Reunion at the residence of H. C. Kirby (former home of Moses Grinter at Muncie Sept. 20, 1931." The succeeding reunion photographs had similar captions. (Photograph provided by Martin Weeks)
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Second Annual Grinter Reunion (1931)
20 September 1931, Muncie, Wyandotte County, Kansas
The caption reads: "Annual Reunion at the residence of H. C. Kirby (former home
of Moses Grinter at Muncie Sept. 20, 1931." The succeeding reunion
photographs had similar captions. (Photograph provided by Martin Weeks)
Numbers have been added to the above image to assist in identifying the
individual persons in the photograph. The names of those persons will be
provided herein as they become available. (Numbering by Martin Weeks)
Identifications to date:
26. Annie* Kirby
28. Henry Clay * Kirby
*Kansas Delaware Indian
A newspaper, probably in the Kansas City area, had an article on possibly this reunion.
A Grinter Family Reunion
200 of Family of Five Brothers Assemble on Homestead of OneDescendants of five Grinter brothers who settled in Kansas from Kentucky a century ago held a family reunion yesterday at the homestead of Moses R. Grinter on the banks of the Kaw River six miles west of Kansas City, Kansas. About 200 of the family attended.
Moses R. Grinter was the first of the five brothers to reach Kansas. He was born in 1809 at Beardstown, Ky. [incorrect] and joined the westward march when the United States government sent him to establish a ford over the Kaw River to link a military road between Ft. Leavenworth and Ft. Riley
He established the ford in 1831 and a decade later married Anna Marshall, a Wyandotte [incorrect--Delaware] Indian, shortly after that tribe moved from Ohio to establish itself upon the Kaw. [The Delaware Tribe moved from Southwest Missouri.] He reared five of ten children and died in 1878. Twenty-one grandchildren and thirty-six great-grandchildren survived him.
The other four brothers came to Kansas in the decade following the arrival of Moses R. Grinter. They were James C. Grinter, who married Rosanna Marshall; Newton Grinter [incorrect], Thomas Grinter [incorrect], and Daniel Grinter [incorrect]. All but one reared families. [ It appears to give erroneous information on Moses' brothers - it
claims Newton, Daniel and Thomas were Moses' brothers, when other sources
indicate they were cousins.]
The oldest descendant present was Mrs. James David, Perry, Kas., who is 75 years old. Next in seniority was Mrs. T. R [R. T.] Mooney, 3445 Forest Avenue, who is 74. [Martin Weeks estimates that the article was from 1931, because it gives Mrs. Mooney's age as 74, and she was born in 1857. [The article was sent from Jane Zolotor to Marty Weeks.]
Times New Roman 14 point. Copy
20 December 2004. TH