05/31/2026
FROM LINEAGE BOOK #4 OF NSDAR:
ELIZABETH GRANVILLE GROESBECK PIERSON (1873-1957) was DAR member #3575. She was born in Ohio. She married Charles Wheeler Pierson 1864-1934. Charles Wheeler Pierson was born April 30, 1864 in Hartford, Connecticut and died in 1934 in New York. He was a lawyer. At one time they lived at 925 Park Avenue, New York City. – FIRST PICTURE. Elizabeth Granville Groesbeck was born July 20, 1873 in Cincinnati, Ohio and died February 20, 1957 in New York. They were buried in florida Cemetery, Florida, Orange County, new York. – SECOND PICTURE. His obit is THIRD PICTURE. Her obit is FOURTH PICTURE.)
She was a daughter of Herman John Groesbeck (1849-1925) and Elizabeth Perry (1850-1924), his wife. (Herman John Groesbeck was born May 22, 1849 in Cincinnati, Ohio and died October 9, 1925 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Elizabeth Perry was born in 1850 in Ohio and died August 24, 1924 in Cincinnati, Ohio. They were buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio. – FIFTH PICTURE.)
She was a granddaughter of Hon. Wm. Slocum Groesbeck (1815-1897) (SIXTH PICTURE) and Elizabeth Burnet (1818-1889), his wife. (U.S. Congressman, Attorney. Born in Kinderhook, New York, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio with his family in 1816 when he was a child. He attended Augusta College in Kentucky and graduated from the law department at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1835. He was admitted to the bar in Ohio the following year and practiced as an attorney in Cincinnati. A member of the Democratic Party, he was a delegate to the Ohio State Constitutional Convention in 1850 and 1851 and was appointed as commissioner to codify the laws of Ohio in 1852. He also served in the Ohio Legislature. Elected to represent Ohio's 2nd District in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1857 to 1859. While a member of Congress, he was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Groesbeck was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1858. In 1861, he was a member of the Peace Convention to prevent civil war in Washington D.C. He was elected to the Ohio Senate and served from 1862 to 1864 and was later a delegate to the Union National Convention at Philadelphia in 1866. He was on the defense counsel as a lawyer for President Andrew Johnson at Johnson's impeachment trial in 1868 and was given substantial credit for defeating the President's removal from office. In 1872, he represented the Independent Liberal Republican Party as a Presidential elector and received one electoral vote for Vice President in the election. He was a delegate to the International Monetary Conference in Paris, France in 1878. Groesbeck, a prominent and wealthy citizen in Cincinnati, died at his residence in 1897 when he was 81 years old.) (They are buried in a crypt in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.- SEVENTH PICTURE)
She was a granddaughter of Aaron Fyfe Perry (1815-1893) (EIGHTH PICTURE) and Elizabeth Williams (1823-1914), his wife. (Aaron Fyfe Perry was born on 1 January 1815, in Leicester, Addison, Vermont. His father, Aaron Perry, was 23 and his mother, Elizabeth Fyfe, was 24. He married Elizabeth Williams on 15 March 1843, in Hamilton, Ohio. They were the parents of Ella Perry - 1843–1854; Mary Perry - 1845–1928; Leonora Perry - 1848–1849; Elizabeth Perry - 1850–1924; Nelson Williams Perry - 1853–1898; Granville Perry - 1856–1856; Edith Strong Perry - 1861–1920. He died on 11 March 1893, in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, at the age of 78, and was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio. - NINTH PICTURE) (Elizabeth Williams was born on 5 March 1823, in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio. Her father, Micajah Terrell Williams, was 30 and her mother, Hannah Jones, was 29. Born in Cincinnati in 1823, She directed her energies to organizing women with artistic talent. From 1874 to 1877, she was president of the Womens Executive Centennial Committee. The committee reorganized in 1877 to establish The Women's Art Museum Association. With the opening of the Cincinnati Art Museum in 1886, Perry ceased to be an active participant in local art circles. She died on 24 June 1914, in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, at the age of 91, and was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio. - TENTH PICTURE)
She was a great-granddaughter of Judge Jacob Burnet (1770-1853) (ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH PICTURES) and Rebekah Wallace (1778-1867) (THIRTEENTH PICTURE), his wife. (Burnet was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Dr. William Burnet. He graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1791, studied law, moved to the Northwest Territory and settled in Cincinnati in 1796. He was admitted to the bar in 1796. He was a member of the Territorial councils of Ohio from 1799–1802 and served in the Ohio State House from 1814–1816. Burnet was considered the "father of the Ohio constitution" and was an associate justice of the Ohio Supreme Court from 1821 until his resignation in 1828 to serve as United States Senator. He was elected to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Henry Harrison. He served in the Senate from December 10, 1828, to March 3, 1831. Burnet was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1815. After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of law and served as president of Cincinnati College and the Medical College of Ohio. Burnet's "Notes on the Early Settlement of the North-western Territory" is a primary reference on the early Northwest. He resided in a mansion on the northwest corner of Seventh and Elm streets in Downtown Cincinnati. The land became used from 1850-1926 as the Burnet House (FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH PICTURES): Designed by renowned architect Isaiah Rogers, “the finest hotel in the world,” as claimed by the Illustrated London News, boasted 340 rooms and modern amenities like running water. Burnet died in Cincinnati on May 10, 1853, aged 83. He is interred in Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati. - SIXTEENTH PICTURE)
She was a great-granddaughter of Micajah Terrell Williams (1792-1844) (SEVENTEENTH PICTURE) and Hannah Jones, his wife. (Micajah Terrell Williams was born in 1792 in North Carolina and died June 25, 1844 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He came to Cincinnati in 1812. He began his career as Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, Cincinnati. Soon after he became connected with the "Western Spy". During the War of 1812 the editor of that paper, who was a Captain in the Army, lost his life, and Mr. Williams succeeded to the editorship On 3rd Month 12th, 1818, he married Hannah Jones. He served as a Member of the Ohio Legislature, and in the session of 1819 when Governor Ethan Allen Brown in his message called the attention of the Legislature to the necessity of providing some means by which the farmers of the interior could send their produce to Lake Erie, the matter was submitted to a Committee of which Mr. Williams, then a Member from Hamilton County, was Chairman. A Bill was passed authorizing two canals, one from Cleveland to the Ohio River and one from Cincinnati north to Maumee Bay, Micajah T. Williams was Speaker of the Assembly when this Bill was passed. At the end of his term as Speaker he was appointed by the Governor of the State a member of the Board of Canal Commissioners. In 1832 he was appointed by President Jackson Surveyor-General of the Northwest Territory, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of General Lytte. He served as a Director of the Ohio Life Insurance & Trust Company, and later became its President. In 1832 he went to England to negotiate the sale of the Ohio State bonds. As a Democrat he was a candidate of that Party before the Legislature for United States Senator, in opposition to Thomas Ewing, who was chosen to that position by the Whig Party. In 1840 Mr. Williams, when General William Henry Harrison was the Whig candidate for President, united with that Party, giving as his reason his convincement "that the Tariff which the Democratic Party opposed, was a necessity for the People, and that the Democratic Party was much more of a Southern than a National one". During his services as Surveyor-General, Byron Kilbourn was made Surveyor of the Government lands in Wisconsin, and soon after his appointment Mr. Williams said to him in course of conversation: "Somewhere on the western shore of Lake Michigan between Fort Dearborn (now Chicago) and Green Bay there must some day be a great city. As you work along that shore examine it thoroughly, determine where that city will be, and I will join you in the purchase of the land and lay out the city." The mouth of the Milwaukee was chosen, and at the first sale of Government land, the land on the west side of the Milwaukee River was purchased, and soon after the city of Milwaukee was laid out, and at a later period the lots were divided in equal numbers between Mr. Kilbourn and' Mr. Williams. Micajah T. Williams died in 1844 at the age of 52 years. He was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.) (Hannah Jones Williams was born August 4, 1793, a daughter of Aquilla and Elizabeth (Dillon) Jones of Baltimore, Maryland and a granddaughter of Moses and Hannah (Griffith) Dillon of Zanesville, Muskingum, Ohio. She met her husband, Micajah Terrell Williams, while visiting her grandparents in Zanesville. There being no Quaker meeting house at the time, they were married in nearby Plainville on March 2, 1818. She died October 22, 1871 in Cincinnati, Ohio and was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio. No grave photos.)
She was a great-great-granddaughter of Surgeon General William Burnet (1730-1791) (EIGHTEENTH PICTURE) and Mary Camp (1731-1781), his wife. William Burnet was chairman of Committee of Public Safety, member of the Continental Congress from New Jersey, and surgeon general of Eastern Department. (U.S. Continental Congressman. He graduated from Princeton College, in 1749, studied medicine in New York and commenced to practice medicine in Newark, New Jersey. He was chairman of the committee of public safety in Newark, in 1775, also superintendent of a military hospital in Newark, in 1775 and was presiding judge of the court of common pleas for the New Jersey State Legislature, in 1776. During the American Revolution War, he served in the Continental Army as Surgeon General of the eastern district of the United States, (1776-83). In 1780, he was elected to the Continental Congress, serving until 1781, when he resigned from office due to his wife's illness. After leaving Congress, he was first judge of Essex County, in 1781 and president of the New Jersey State Medical Society, in 1787.) (He is buried in First Presbyterian Churchyard Memorial Garden, Newark, New Jersey. - NINETEENTH PICTURE)
She was a great-great-granddaughter of Jesse Williams (1753-1833) and Sarah Terrell (1763-1833), his wife. (Jesse Williams was born on 13 January 1753, in North Carolina. His father, Richard Williams, was 26 and his mother, Prudence Bowater Beals, was 26. He married Eleanor Johnson (1757-1781) on 9 November 1774, in New Garden MM, Orange, North Carolina. They were the parents of John Williams - 1775–1815; Esther Williams - 1777–1839; Hannah Williams - 1778–1839; Caleb W Williams - 1780–1851. In 1788 in Guilford, North Carolina, he married Sarah Terrell. They were the parents of Micajah Terrell Williams - 1792–1844; Achilles Williams - 1795–1878; Anne Lynch Williams - 1797–1871;Sarah Terrell Williams - 1799–1893; Robert Williams - 1802–1822; Eliza Douglas Williams - 1804–1889; Jesse Lynch Williams - 1807–1886. After the death of his wife he married Sarah Terrell, of Lynchburg, Va. He afterward removed with his family to North Carolina, where he resided many years, and then in 1814 removed to Ohio, and 1820 to Richmond, where he died in 1833. He died on 21 December 1833, in Richmond, Wayne Township, Indiana, at the age of 80, and was buried in Whitewater Friends Burial Ground, Whitewater, Franklin Township, Wayne, Indiana. – TWENTIETH PICTURE of marker) (Sarah Lynch Terrell was born on 3 November 1763, in Lynchburg, Campbell, Virginia. Her father, Micajah Chiles Terrell, was 31 and her mother, Sarah Lynch, was 25. She died on 20 August 1833, in Richmond, Wayne Township, Wayne, Indiana, at the age of 69, and was buried in Wayne, Indiana.)
She was a great-great-great-granddaughter of Micajah Terrell (1732-1805) and Sarah Lynch (1738-1774), his wife. (Micajah Chiles Terrell was born on 9 May 1732, in Golansville, Caroline, Virginia. His father, David Terrell Sr, was 37 and his mother, Agatha Chiles, was 17. He married Sarah Lynch on 10 February 1754, in Albemarle, Virginia. They were the parents of Capt Robert Terrell - 1755–1780; Elizabeth Terrell - 1757–1826; Agatha Terrell - 1759–1828; Captain Charles Lynch Terrell - 1761–1817; Sarah Lynch Terrell - 1763–1833; Sarah Terrell - 1765–1831; Micajah Terrell - 1765–1851; Samuel Terrell - 1766–1766; Anna Terrell - 1768–1834; Mary Terrell - 1773–1856; Edward Terrell - 1774–1862. Micajah passed away in the home of his daughter and son-in-law Jesse Williams in Stokes County, North Carolina, 1805. He died on 10 December 1805, in Guilford College, Guilford, North Carolina, at the age of 73.) (Sarah Lynch was born in 1738, in Albemarle, Virginia. Her father, Charles Lynch, was 33 and her mother, Sarah Clark, was 22. She died on 10 May 1774, in Bedford, Virginia, at the age of 36.)
She was a great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Charles Lynch (1705-1753) and Sarah Clark (1716-1792), his wife. Sarah Clark Lynch was the mother of Charles Lynch, who in the early stages of the war organized a committee of vigilance in Virginia and cleared that region of Tories and outlaws. The punishment did not extend to the taking of life, however, these acts were the origin of what is now known as the “Lynch Law.” He raised a regiment of riflemen and joined Gen. Greene in North Carolina; at the battle of Guilford Court House this regiment held the position of the right flank and acquitted itself with credit. (Charles Lynch was born in 1705, in County Galway, Ireland. He married Sarah Clark in 1733, in Hanover, Virginia. They were the parents of Col. Charles Lynch - 1736–1796; Sarah Lynch - 1738–1774; Penelope Lynch - 1739–1785; John Lynch - 1740–1820; Edward Lynch - 1740–1765; Christopher Lynch - 1742–1797. He immigrated to Virginia, United States in 1719. He died on 10 May 1753, in Albemarle, Virginia, at the age of 48.) (Sarah Clark was born in 1716, in New Kent, Virginia. Her father, Christopher Clark, was 37 and her mother, Penelope Massie Bolling, was 32. After the death of her first husband, she married John Ward (1708-1816). She died on 20 January 1792, in Lynchburg, Virginia, at the age of 76, and was buried in South River Meeting House Graveyard, Lynchburg, Virginia. – TWENTY-FIRST PICTURE of cemetery marker)
