Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886. Warren County.

REV. JESSE S. GRIDER was born February 23, 1828, six miles north of
Bowling Green, and is a son of John and Rebecca (Martin) Grider, who had
born to them four sons and five daughters.  John Grider was born near
Danville, Ky., in 1789.  He was a thrifty, substantial farmer, a patriot
of the war of 1812, served in Gen. Harrison's army, received several
wounds in the hand and arm, and died in 1852.  His father, Capt. Henry
Grider, was born in Pennsylvania in 1755, served as a captain in the war
for independence, also in the Indian war, and was wounded in the battle of
Blue Lick; he was a fine horseman and a prosperous farmer; his wife,
Elizabeth Smith, of Culpeper County, Va., was a daughter of Jesse Smith, a
prosperous and influential farmer of Virgina.  The Grider family
immigrated to Kentucky just after the Revolution, and about 1800 settled
north of Bowling Green.  The mother of the Rev. Mr. Grider was born in
Barren County, Ky., and was a daughter of Dr. Benjamin Martin, who was
born and reared in Virginia.  Dr. Martin served on detail duty under Gen.
Washington, in the Revoluton, and was one of the first settlers on Buck
Creek, where he acquired a large fortune, and during his life was known
through the county as a benevolent and charitable man.  Rev. Jesse S.
Grider was reared on a farm, and attended the common schools, after which
he entered the University at Lebanon, Tenn.  In 1852 he was ordained to
preach in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and, during the first
fifteen years of his ministry, preached in the community where he was
born; for the past sixteen years he has preached in Bowling Green.  During
the late war he preached more or less to both armies; was must respected
by officers and men, and so popular that he was allowed to pass through
either line unmolested.  He has been appointed general endowing agent of
the Cumberland Presbyterian theological school at Lebanon, Tenn., and in
1878 was moderator of the General Assembly at Memphis.  March 4, 1856, he
married Melia E. McLean, of Logan County, a daughter of Andrew J. and
Elizabeth (Ewing) McLean, who were also born and reared in Logan County. 
Andrew J. McLean was a substantial and progressive farmer, also a
surveyor, and was a son of George McLean, who came from North Carolina in
a very early day.  George was a farmer and slave holder, of Scotch-Irish
extraction, and mararied Pamela Davidson, a daughter of Gen. William
Davidson, of Irish descent.  Mrs. Elizabeth (Ewing) McLean was a daughter
of Judge Reuben Ewing, who married Nellie Whitsett.  To Rev. Mr. Grider
and wife eleven children were born:  McLean, Georgie R., Lizzie, Edgar,
Mattie B., and Nellie Whitsett.  Mr. Grider owns a pleasant home, which
contains ninety-five acres of fine land, two miles south of Bowling Green;
he cast his first presidential vote for Gen. Scott.

Grider Martin Harrison Smith McLean Ewing Davidson Whitsett Scott
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Danville-Boyle-KY PA Culpeper-VA Barren-KY TN Logan-KY NC

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