Grooms, Solomon 1 2 3
| Birth Name | Grooms, Solomon |
| Gender | male |
| Age at Death | more than 56 years, 1 month, 17 days |
Narrative
From https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185106690/solomon-grooms:
Solomon Grooms was born in 1754. The first records for him are in the 1780s in Morgan Twsp, Washington County, PA. This part of SW PA was disputed territory with Virginia (this may account for later generation biographies that say he or his brother William were from Virginia). Solomon and family arrive in Bourbon Co, Kentucky approx 1794. His wife was Sarah. It is possibly her maiden name was Parker and she was a sister to his brother William's wife.
Solomon and Sarah had possibly nine children of which seven lived to be adults or minors and are named in his will. They are: Mary (1775), Hannah Francis (1782), William (1784), Richard (1786), Joseph (1795), Sarah (1798) and Francis (1800).
It has been long believed that a William Grooms from the same Pennsylvania documents and later in Bourbon and Clark Counties Ky with Solomon was his brother. This linkage has been confirmed by DNA. Children of both Solomon and William will emigrate to Missouri and live near each other making successive Groom/s research in Missouri complicated!
It is this researcher's belief that William and Solomon are first generation emigrates from Briton borderlands who came to America in the early 1770s and settled in the VA/PA back country. They possibly received land bounties from militia service in the Rev War. There is a Solomon listed in 1782 PA Militia. The best surviving record for Solomon is his will executed in Clark Co, KY 18 Feb 1810. Other than this, where he lived and his burial is unknown.
Son William Memorial # 185105895
James Grooms 11/2017.
Narrative
From https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LRJW-T56/william-or-john-groom-1724-1804, but I'm not sure how much of it I believe:
When William or John Groom was born in September 1724, in Kemberton, Shropshire, England, his father, William Groom, was 25 and his mother, Elizabeth Cripps, was 23. He had at least 4 sons and 3 daughters with Sarah Webb. He died in 1804, in Bourbon, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 80.
Spouse
William or John Groom
1724–1804, Male
Sarah Webb
1730–1783, Female
Children (7)
William Groom
1750–1811, Male
Nancy Ann Groom
1752–Deceased, Female
Solomon Grooms
1754–1810, Male
Sarah Groom
1765–Deceased, Female
Jane Groom
Female1770–Deceased, Female
Thomas Groom
1775–Deceased, Male
Zachariah Groom
1779–1804, Male
Parents
William Groom
1699–Deceased, Male
Elizabeth Cripps
1701–Deceased, Female
Siblings
William or John Groom
1724–1804, Male
Francis Groom
1726–1727, Male
Mary Groome
1728–1790, Female
Dorothy Groom
1735–Deceased, Female
Narrative
Possible parents:
https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LRJW-T56/john-groom-1724-1804
Events
| Event | Date | Place | Description | Sources |
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| Birth | 1754 | |||
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| Death | after 18 February 1810 | Clark Co., Kentucky, United States of America | ||
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Families
Family of Grooms, Solomon and Unknown, Sarah (wife of Solomon Grooms) |
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| Married | Wife | Unknown, Sarah (wife of Solomon Grooms) ( * + after 1810 ) | ||||||
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| Name | Birth Date | Death Date |
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| Grooms, Richard | 25 February 1786 | 14 January 1857 |
Pedigree
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