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Laura - I hope my information will help you a bit. Daniel
Grindle was a brother to my GGG Grandfather, Christian Grindle of Fayette
County, PA. They were sons of John and Susannah Grindle of PA. Daniel was
the youngest, born JAN 30, 1805 in Saltlick Twsp, Fayette County, PA. About
1836 my Christian (and family) and your Daniel traveled from PA
by flat boat to Perry County, OH.
Hannah Zarley's mother died in Fayette County, PA when Hannah was 5 days
old. Her Grandmother Skinner raised her,
and she was taken from PA to OH in infancy. She had an Aunt named Tillie
Staley. Hannah went to school to Daniel Grindle who had become a teacher
in OH and she married him later. You have the marriage date.
Christian had died by 1838, and the Daniel and Hannah Grindle family later
started westward. They came down the Ohio River to the Mississippi (never
checked that route out
but the family story states it that way). They landed near Bloomfield,
Davis County, Iowa. (on a census there).
Their son Jacob Polk (born 1842) was 4 years old then and story tells he
got frightened when the boat whistled for a landing and jumped overboard
into the river, but rescued unharmed. This would put date at 1846. They
moved to Schuyler County, MO.
My 4th cousin, Ruth Grindle Stevens, in Centerville, IA had part of this
history. She is descended from Daniel Grindle, so we had her family listings
and I did research for her at a Branch Family History Library and the Internet.
I do have a listing of Daniel and Hannah Zarley's children.