1849-1910

Adoniram Judson Gridley

Farmer/Father                     IL/MI

Selah Gridley and Catherine Skinner Gridley birthed a son on 18 December 1849 in Newark, Kendall County, Illinois, and named the lad Adoniram Judson Gridley. He had one brother and 3 sisters.  In the 1870 census he was living with his parents in Big Grove township, Illinois.

On 20 January 1875, at age 26, Adoniram Judson Gridley married Cynthia Almira Stanley in St. Joseph, MI. In like order, he and Cynthia had 3 daughters and one son.

• Their oldest daughter, Emma, was born (1875) in Illinois.
• Their second and third children, Delaska (1879) and Ada (1883), were born in Beaver Township, Hamilton County, Nebraska, where A. J.’s parents had come to live with them by 1880.
• Son, Cyril was born in Michigan where they made their home and farmed in Benton Township.[1]

Adoniram Judson Gridley died at age 60 on 26 September 1910 in Berrien, MI.

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[1] “Adoniram Judson Gridley,” Wikitree .com.

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