A great portion of the Grilley Family information is resourced in MCHENRY COUNTY, Its History and Its People, 1885-1985 and through many internet sources
Sometimes Norris used his middle name George as his given name. Norris was born to Nelson and Sarah Grilley on 29 April 1937 in Ohio. He had two siblings; Henry, and Harriet L..
By 1850 the family moved to Florence, Oneida County, New York. By 1860 Norris is married to Lucy Teed and is living in Hillsboro (Hillsborough), Vernon County, Wisconsin.
Norris was a veteran of the Civil War. He first enlisted from Hillsborough on 21 November 1861 into the 16th Regiment Company F, First Wisconsin Volunteers and received a disability discharge on 12 November 1862. Another year later he is back in the service with Company C, First Wisconsin Volunteers, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry, and Company D, 21st Wisconsin Infantry. He took part in the Atlanta, Savannah, and South and North Carolina
campaigns and served a total of 30 months.
Norris and Lucy had three children; Albert, Lester, and Lucy. His wife died shortly after their daughter's birth on 10 March 1871 in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
In 1872 he married Lorinda Blood,
daughter of Samuel and Rachel (Frost) Blood. She was born December 5, 1848 in Neosho, Wisconsin. They moved to Minnesota about 1877 and lived near Skyburg
for 23 years. In May 1900 the family moved to McHenry County, where Norris had homesteaded in 1899. Later the township and consolidated school were named for the Grilleys. Six children were born to this union, all in Minnesota; Florence, Clarence, Irving, Martha, Lorinda and Frances.
Norris Grilley and his sons operated several steam threshing outfits. Irving could remember threshing on the ice of the Mouse River northeast of Upham. A hole was made in the ice from which they got water to run the steam engine. Farmers dug flax out of the snow and brought it for miles to be threshed. Norris passed away 26 March 1921 at the age of 84 years. Mrs. Grilley passed away at the home of her daughter and husband, Florence and Charles Wiseman in Deering at the age of 103 years, three months and 18 days. She made over 100 quilts, all by hand and was greatly loved by all who knew her.
Norris' Obituary
Burial, Tombstone Photo, Links to Some Family
Lester Truman and Emma (Owen) Grilley
Son of Norris and Lucy
Lester was known as L.T. or Let. He was born 28 April 1866 in Monroe County, Wisconsin. He moved to Minnesota after his father located there and he married Emma Jane Owen who was born 18 February 1870, the daughter of Robert and Celestia Owen.
In 1899 the family came to McHenry County and filed on land one mile east of his father's.
Let and Emma had seven children: Marland, Iva, Floyd, Kenneth, Ben, Verne, and Olive.
The family lived in McHenry County until 1925 when Let, Emma and some of the children moved to Northome, Koochiching County, Minnesota, where they lived until 1939 when Let was killed in an automobile accident. Emma then lived near her children most of the time in Washington. She lived to be past ninety years of age.
Lester
Emma Jane Owen
Florence Lulu Grilley and Charles Marvin Wiseman
Daughter of Norris and Lorinda
Florence Lulu was born on 30 August 1878 in Minnesota. On 1 November 1906 in Granville, she married Charles Marvin Wiseman. Charles was a veteran of the Spanish-American War having served as a Private in Company M, Indiana Volunteers, 157th Regiment. Florence and Charles had children Merton, Leroy, Myrtle, and Bernice.
Both Florence and Charles died in Oregon and are buried there.
Florence Burial, Tombstone Photo, Links to Some Family
Charles Burial, Tombstone Photo, Links to Some Family
Clarence Nelson and Anna (Kilen) and Louise (Midbo) Grilley
Son of Norris and Lorinda
Clarence was born In Dodge County, Minnesota on 25 November 1880. He went with his parents to North Dakota in 1900 and bought the John G. Owen place a mile from his father's land.
He married Anna Kilen, daughter of Gunder and Andrea Kilen on 22 December 1905. She passed away at an early age of heart disease. One child, Lillian, was born to them and was only eight years of age when she lost her mother. Lillian married Albert Robbins and lived on Clarence's farm until about 1964 when they moved to Adams in Walsh County.
In February 1919, Clarence married Louise Midbo, daughter of Hans and Karl Midbo at Adams. They did not have any children and lived in McHenry County until about 1936 when they moved to rural Adams and remained there until Clarence passed away in July 1967 at the age of eighty-six years.
Clarence
Anna Kilen
Lillian
Irving and Manda (Severson) Grilley
Son of Norris and Lorinda
Irving was born on 21 July 1883 in Goodhue County, Minnesota, and attended grade school there. In May of 1900 he and his family came to McHenry County where his father had already taken a claim in what is now Grilley Township. After 13 pioneer years, earning part of the living by farming and operating one of his father's steam threshing rigs, he bought the quarter south of his parents which Reynold Owen had homesteaded.
On 6 November 1913, he married Manda Severson, daughter of Sever and Mattie Severson of rural Glenburn. The Grilley's had one daughter, Irma, who married John McDonald, and one son, Hollis, who married Lorraine Smith of Deering.
Irving and Manda continued to live on this place until Irving suffered a second heart attack (had recovered from the first one two years before) in February 1973 and passed away on February 23, five months short of being 90. After Irving passed away, Manda lived with her children until she became very ill in August of 1975, and needed nursing care. She passed away In a Minot hospital,
February 25, 1976 at age of 85 years.
Irving
Manda Severson
Anyone interested in saving their McHenry County ancestor family information on this NDGenWeb McHenry County website please contact Mike Peterson - lineage40@cox.net. I would be happy to do what I can to publish it for you within our Families Section.
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