Robert Earl Grindstaff

Robert married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jerry Wayne Grindstaff was born about 1943 in Carter County, , , Tennessee; died on 22 Apr 2017 in Carter County, , , Tennessee; was buried in Happy Valley Memorial Park, , Carter County, Tennessee.
2. Bobby Gene Grindstaff was born about 1944 in Carter County, , , Tennessee; died on 11 Sep 2017 in Carter County, , , Tennessee; was buried in Happy Valley Memorial Park, , Carter County, Tennessee.

Earl married Ellen R. Bradshaw. Ellen (daughter of Robert Samuel Bradshaw and Dell Sena Perry) was born about 1913 in Carter County, , , Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Stewart Renfro, who shot and killed his brother-in-law, Orb Salyer, at Elizabethton, surrendered yesterday morning at 5 o'clock to Sheriff Collins, of Carter County. He had not left his premises, it was learned after he gave himself up, but immediately after the shooting went to the barn in the rear of his home, remaining there until after daylight.

Soon after the coroner's jury had returned a verdict that Salyer had been shot through the head and killed by a discharge from a shotgun in the hands of Renfro, the latter was given a prelimary hearing before Magistrate D.S. Jenkins. He was bound over to the September term of court, but was released in $2,000 bail.

The tragedy occurred at Renfro's home. Orb Salyer, 22 years old, and a brother were visiting their sister, Renfro's wife. According to the reports of the killing, Renfro, who is 40 years old, came home intoxicated. The Salyer boys tried, it is said, to take him to his room. Renfro resisted their efforts, and it is further stated, became infuriated at them, seizing a shotgun and firing it at Orb, who fell to the floor dead. He then, it is said, pointed the gun at the other brother, but the gun failed to discharge.

When the Salyer brothers left home Monday morning to visit their sister in Elizabethton, they were accompanied by their father, who was preparing to make a business trip to West Virginia. The father of the boys, it is said, had a premonition in a dream of the fate that awaited one of his sons.

"Be careful, boys", he is reported to have said to his sons, after relating a dream which he had the night before and in which, it is said, he saw his sons fighting, one evidently trying to kill the other. The elder Salyer was in West Virginia when he received news of the tragedy.

•Funeral services for Orb Salyer, the young man who was shot through the head and killed at Elizabethton Monday night by his brother-in-law, Stewart Renfro, were held this morning from the home of his brother, W.C. Salyer. The body was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery.

David married Unknown Partner. Unknown was born about 1876. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Dell Sena Perry on 16 Sep 1905 in Carter County, , , Tennessee. Dell was born on 15 Nov 1882 in , Giles County, Tennessee, ; died on 30 Apr 1949 in Carter County, , , Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Martha Jane Duffield about 1870 in Carter County, , , Tennessee. Martha (daughter of Samuel Landon Duffield and Elizabeth M. Eliza Ferguson) was born in Feb 1840 in Carter County, , , Tennessee; died on 17 Oct 1913; was buried in Colbaugh Cemetery, , Carter County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Sarah E. Large on 5 Oct 1871 in Hawkins County, , , Tennessee. Sarah was born on 22 Feb 1855 in Hawkins County, , , Tennessee; died on 23 Mar 1918 in Carter County, , , Tennessee; was buried in Highland Cemetery, , Carter County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]