The  Shelbyville  News
Monday, September 13, 1954
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WORLD  WAR  I
VETERAN  DIES
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James A. Grissom, 61
succumbs at Brother's
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          Jesse A. Grissom,  61, overseas veteral of World War I, died Sunday at 2:45 a.m. at the home of a brother, George Grissom,  43 Fourth St.  He had been in failing health for several months and had been confined to a veterans' hospital in Louisville, Ky.
          An employe of local furniture factories for several years, Mr. Grissom was born in this city on July 2, 1893, the son of  Nelson and  Hannah (Bartlett) Grissom  He is survived by the widow,  Willa Grissom,  the brother at whose home he died and one other brother and four sisters,  The latter are  Chester Grissom  and  Mesdames  Sadie Wise,  Justine Parrish, and  Carrie Martin,  of Indianapolis, and  Mrs. Cinderella Roberts  of Drumright, Okla.
          Mr. Grissom was a member of the Shiloh Baptist Church at Louisville.
          Last rites will be held Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. at the Murphy Mortuary.  Burial will be in Forst Hill cemetery.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming

A  Shelby  County  Newspaper
March 14, 1926
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COLORED  WOMEN  DEAD
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Mrs. Julia Ann Grissom Passed Away
Sunday
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          Mrs.  Julia  Ann  Grissom  passed away at 1:40 o'clock Sunday morning at her home on Grissom Lane at the age of seventy-six.  She is survived by four sons,  Noble  of St. Joseph, Mo.,  James  of Jeffersonville, and  Alvin  and  Frank  of Indianapolis; also by three daughters,  Mrs.  Arrow  Gunn,  of Philadelphia,  Miss  Blanche  Grissom  at home and  Mrs.  Myrtle  Penn  at home.  Mrs Grissom also leaves two brothers,  Robert  and  Beverly  Howard,  and seven grandchildren.  She has been a devoted member of the Second Baptist Church for the past sixty years.  Funeral services will be held at the church Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.  Interment will be made in Forest Hill in charge of Ralph J. Edwards.
Submitted by David Craig.

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