"Grigg, Samuel B. & Son, merchants of Kingston, Arkansas. Mr. Grigg was born in Maury County, Tennessee, May 13, 1829, and is a son of John G. and Elizabeth (COOK) Grigg, who were born in Virginia June 22, 1801, and in Lincoln County, Tennessee, respectively.

The father was a farmer and blacksmith by occupation. He was taken to Tennessee in his youth, and in 1853, moved to Arkansas, where he died at the age of eighty-two years. He was a Democrat. His wife died in Madison County, Arkansas, in 1881. They were members of the Presbyterian Church, and became the parents of fourteen children, nine of whom are living: Henry A., Isaac S., J. D., William J., Ervin T., Robert, Albert R., Elizabeth Jane, widow of Richard CLARK, and Sarah, wife of Robert REYNOLDS.

From his boyhood days Samuel B. Grigg has followed the occupation of farming, and began doing for himself at the age of twenty-one years. During 1880-81-82 he kept a boarding house at Eureka Springs, and from 1869 until his removal to Eureka Springs he was engaged in merchandising at Kingston, and was also postmaster at that place.

January 10, 1850, he was married to Elizabeth MOORE, a daughter of Robert and E. Moore. Mrs. Grigg was born in Lincoln County, Tennessee, in 1827, and two of her six children are living: John W., and Mahala Jane, wife of P. M. GURLEY. The children who are dead are Robert T., Malinda E., William C., and an infant unnamed. Mr. Grigg and wife are members of the Primitive Baptist Church, and he is a Democrat politically. He is a good business man, and he and his son John W., by their honorable and upright dealing, are doing well financially. They also own a fertile and well-located farm.

John W. was married to Flora HARDY, by whom he is the father of three children, only one now living, Ova M. John W. Grigg is a Democrat and a Royal Arch Mason, and represented his lodge in the Grand Lodge. He belongs to the Primitive Baptist Church." (Goodspeeds History of NW AR...)