Is your surname Grigsby?

Connect to 3,374 Grigsby profiles on Geni

Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love

  • Build your family tree online
  • Share photos and videos
  • Smart Matching™ technology
  • Free!

Sarah Welch (Grigsby)

Also Known As: "Sally"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia
Death: 1821 (63-64)
Virginia, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of John Grigsby and Rosanna Grigsby
Wife of Thomas Welch, 'Rev Patriot Virginia 11th & 15th Reg'
Mother of Mildred McCorkle; Nancy MacCorkle and Elizabeth Darst
Sister of Nancy Ann Grigsby; William Grigsby; Susanna Grigsby; Lettitia Roark; James Grigsby and 5 others
Half sister of Charles Grigsby; Joesph Grigsby; Jane Ashley Paxton; Rachel McNutt; Martha Trimble and 5 others

Managed by: Private User
Last Updated:

About Sarah Welch

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/K4F6-QRS

Sarah "Sally" Grigsby was the daughter of John Grigsby and Rosanna Etchison. She married Thomas Welch in about 1755 in Culpeper Co., VA and had known Welch children (from my old copy of Henrietta Hamilton McCormick's Genealogies and Reminiscences, signed by her husband to our family):

Mildred, 1 Jan 1776 (Alex. R McCorkle) below Nancy, 1780 (Wm F McCorkle) below Rosa, abt 1780 (Wm Cunningham) Elizabeth Betsy, 1790 (Benj. Darst) below Benjamin, 19 Feb 1792 (Charlotte Pitzer) below Thos III, 4 Apr 1794 - 9 Jul 1853 (Eliz Porter Grigsby) Jane, ? (Benjamin Holmes) Rachel, ? (Thomas Wilson)

She died in ABOUT 1821.

Their "Fancy Hill" home was built for Thomas and Sarah. It was one of the "Seven Hills of Rockbridge" belonging to the Grigsbys. In 1997, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Owners, Elmer and Eva H Knick, were going to tear it down but were persuaded to renovate it instead, which they did. It's a 2 story brick house. The registry has a lot of data on it.

I suspect she was also buried at Falling Spring Presbyterian Church Cemetery, like her husband but it appears to be undocumented.

An obit was not located at the Library of Congress. Perhaps locally, 1821 newspapers may have something.

Bio by LSP

view all

Sarah Welch's Timeline

1757
December 30, 1757
Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia
1776
1776
Rockbridge County, VA, United States
1780
April 1780
Culpeper, Culpeper County, VA, United States
1790
1790
1821
1821
Age 63
Virginia, United States