Grabs Family
Grabs Family
Wilhelm and Anna Barbara were married in 1780, and there's a long gap between Anna Maria and the twins Christian Heinrich and Johann Gottfried. Were there other children in this family?
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Children of John Gottfried Grabs and Maria Matilda Shore (1798-1854)
Julina Sophia Grabs (1819-1905) m. Isaac Spainhour (1813-1902)
Lewis Edwin Grabs (1820-1891) m. Lucy Harriet Spainhour (1825-1913)
Pamelia Charity Grabs (1828-1910) m. William Washington Spainhour (1819-1899)
Joshuanna Felicia Grabs (1832-?) m. James Wall , moved to Missouri
Lucy Harriet and William Washington Spainhour were siblings; Isaac Spainhour was their first cousin.
Note: These families have been pieced together partly from family information and partly from census records. We're not entirely sure we have all the right children with each brother. In particular, Joshuanna Felicia should appear in the 1840 census record, but there is not a corresponding child of the right age with either Christian Heinrich or Johann Gottfried. Is there another brother yet who is her father? There are a few other people named Grabs who appear in burial or census records who probably belong to this family too. Note however that the name Grubbs is sometimes confused with Grabs. If anyone can help here, we'd be most grateful.
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Children of James Israel Grabs.and Gazille Ellen Glasscock
Ellen Dundena Grabs (1859-1934) m. William Winfield Spainhour (1854-1918)
Flora Evelyn Grabs (1860-1926) m. Julius F. Conrad (1860-1936)
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Children of Johann Wilhelm Grabs and Emilie Sibylla Stoltz
Minnie Olive Grabs (1864-1946) m. Edwin Thomas Strupe (1862-1954)
Frederick Walter Grabs (1869-1942) m. Rosa Ellen Conrad (1869-1941)
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Children of Alexander Alvenius Grabs and Jane Virginia Werner
Laura Eugenia Grabs (1856-1938) m. Christian Frederick Reed (1859-1900)
Emily Odelia Grabs (1863-1945) m. Wesley Winfield Holder (1852-1930)
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Children of Lewis Edwin Grabs and Lucy Harriet Spainhour
William Frank Grabs (1848-1935)
Mary Laura Grabs (1850-1893) m. William Henry Schaub (1846-1919)
John Solomon Grabs (1852-1943)
Lazarus Shore Grabs (1855-1938) m. Jane Paulina Kirby (1853-1945)
Virgil Theophilus Grabs (1859-1935) m. Alice A. Kreeger (ca. 1874-?)
Seth David Grabs (1861-1878)
Dora Alice Grabs (1867-1887)
Forsyth Co. NC Cemetery Records
Marriage bonds, Stokes Co. NC
The Heritage of Stokes County North Carolina 1981
Farlow, Clara B., A Brief History of the Reich Family 1738-1984 and the Grabs Family 1716-1984, typescript
Rupp, Prof. I. Daniel, A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, reprint of second revised and enlarged edition, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1985
Moravian Archives, Winston-Salem
Obituaries, Winston-Salem Journal
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