Grimball, John Berkley, 1800-1892
Variant namesCharleston and St. Paul's Parish, Colleton District South Carolina rice plantation owner, South Carolina Senator, and president of the local agricultural society.
From the description of Diary of J.B. Grimball, 1832-1938. (College of Charleston). WorldCat record id: 31740871
S.C. Senator of Charleston and St. Paul's parish, 1838-1843; member, Southern Rights Convention, 1852; president, Charleston Library Society, 1871-1875; husband of Margaret Ann Morris Grimball; brother of Eliza B. Wilkins; son of John Grimball (1748-1804); father of Berkley (b.1833), Elizabeth Berkley, Lewis Morris, William Heyward, John (1840-1922), Arthur, Gabriella Manigault, Charlotte Manigault, Harry Morris, and Harriet Morris Grimball.
From the description of John Berkley Grimball papers, 1801-1896. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 44063023
Planter, of Charleston, S.C.
From the description of John Berkley Grimball papers, 1727-1930; (bulk 1840-1900). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19594304
John Berkley Grimball, son of John Grimball, was born June 23, 1800 and died Mar. 7, 1893. On Mar. 10, 1830 he married Margaret Ann Morris (called Meta), daughter of Col. Lewis Morris and Elizabeth (Manigault) Morris of Morrisania, N.Y. and Wilton, St. Paul's Parish, S.C. She died in 1881. Both are buried at Magnolia. Grimball and his wife had at least eight children.
From the guide to the John Berkley Grimball Papers, 1727-1930, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)
John Berkeley Grimball was a rice planter of Charleston and the Colleton District, S.C. Married Margaret Ann ("Meta") Morris.
From the description of John Berkley Grimball diaries, 1832-1883. WorldCat record id: 22612724
John Berkley Grimball, son of John and Eliza Berkley Grimball, was born in Charleston, South Carolina, 23 June 1800, and died there in 1892. He was a descendant of Paul Grimball (died 1696), who came to South Carolina from England in 1682 and was secretary and receiver general of the province.
Grimball was graduated from Princeton University in 1819 and traveled for some time in Europe before returning to South Carolina to begin his career as a rice planter. In 1830, he married Margaret Ann (Meta) Morris (1810-1881), a descendent of Lewis Morris, general in the Continental Army, member of the Continental Congress, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Meta's father, also called Lewis Morris, married Elizabeth Manigault of South Carolina in 1807. She died in 1822. In 1834, Morris married Aramintha Lowndes, who died in 1843. Lewis Morris, while maintaining control of Morris family property around Morrisania in upper New York state, lived near the Grimballs at the Bluff Plantation. Through Meta's family, Grimball was connected to the prominent Manigault and Lowndes families of South Carolina. It was also Meta's income from the New York estates that helped sustain the Grimball family after the Civil War.
The Grimballs had nine children: Elizabeth (1831-1914), who married William Munro (died 1900) and lived in Unionville, South Carolina; Berkley (1833-1899), who studied law; Lewis (1835-1901), a physician who married Clementina Legge; William (died 1864); John (died 1922), who attended the United States Naval Academy and married Katie Moore; Arthur (died 1894); Gabriella (died 1924); Charlotte; and Harry, who married Helen E. Trenholm, daughter of Edward L. Trenholm, in 1876.
Other information about Grimball and his family appears in the descriptions that follow.
From the guide to the John Berkley Grimball Diaries, 1832-1883, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)
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Birth 1800
Death 1892