| Notes |
- Biography from Edwin Pickett, a resident of Sacramento: 1967:
"Theresa Grigsby was born 21 Nov 1830 in Monroe Co., Tenn, the daughter of John Grigsby and Nancy Wilson. Her Grigsby grandparents had come from Virginia to Tennessee in the late 1700's and her father was born there in 1806. In 1837 the family moved west to Polk Co., Missouri, when Theresa was 7 years old. When she was 14 her father, her step-mother, Mahalia and seven children crossed the plains to California. Besides Theresa, the children were: Granville, age 16, born in 1828; Calvin, age 12, born in 1832; Mary Jane, age 9, born in 1835; Sylvester, age 7, born in 1834; Wiley, age 4, born in 1841; Nancy, age 2, born in 1843; and a son, Joh Tyler was born on the trail 24 July 1845. The wagon train, afterwards called the Grigsby-Ide Party, left Independence, Missouri, 5 May 1845. Grigsby was named Captain at Laramie and at Fort Hall some of the party, including Grigsby and William B Ide, were persuaded by Caleb Greenwood to enter California by the mountain route across the Sierras. Sutter's Fort was reached late in October and from there the Grigsby family went to Napa Valley which was to be their home.
Theresa's father, Captain John Grigsby, was one of the leaders of the Bear Flag Revolt in 1846 and served under Fremont as a Captain in the California Battalion during the Mexican War of 1846-1847.
Theresa Grigsby married William Edgington 12 Jan 1848 at Chiles Valley. Edgington had come overland to California in 1846, arriving in October and enlisting immediately in the California Battalion, serving until March 1847. Shortly after the marriage, gold having been discovered, the couple lived and mined on the American River, just below Sutter's old mill. They returned to Chiles Valley for the winter and in 1849 Edgington and John Grigsby mined on the Yuba and in the parlance of the time, "struck it rich".
The Edgingtons built a home in Napa City and owned business property in the town. They purchased 1000 acres of the Napa Rancho on which the family home was built in 1850. Mrs Edgington died on 24 Jan 1893, having survived her husband by eight years. Six of her ten children and five grandchildren were living at the time of her death. The only surviving grandchild in 1967 is Edwin R. Pickett, a resident of Sacramento, California."
|
1830 - 1893 (62 years)
