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John Lincoln “J. L.” Grimes Sr.

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Birth	:	23 Oct 1876 Florida, USA
Death	:	Apr 1962 Alachua County, Florida, USA
Burial	:	High Springs Cemetery, High Springs, Alachua County, USA
Coordinate	:	29.8349609, -82.5949097
Description	:	Taken from the High Springs Herald High Springs, Florida About 1961 J. L. Grimes retiring after 63 years in grocery business On the first day of January, 1900, the first day of this Twentieth Century, 23-year-old John Lincoln Grimes opened his grocery here in High Springs. On Saturday, Mr. Grimes now will close out his business career of 63 years in the grocery business and retire "to rest the balance of my life." He got his start in business in 1898, when he bought out a little grocery at Gracy, located at the Gray and McDonald saw mill site, about three miles down... Read More	Taken from the High Springs Herald High Springs, Florida About 1961 J. L. Grimes retiring after 63 years in grocery business On the first day of January, 1900, the first day of this Twentieth Century, 23-year-old John Lincoln Grimes opened his grocery here in High Springs. On Saturday, Mr. Grimes now will close out his business career of 63 years in the grocery business and retire "to rest the balance of my life." He got his start in business in 1898, when he bought out a little grocery at Gracy, located at the Gray and McDonald saw mill site, about three miles down the railroad toward Alachua. Mr. Grimes smiles when he tells of his first business venture. "I bought the store for $25, enough stock to get going for $50 and the fixtures for 6.50." He went on to say that the equipment included scales at $4, a butcher knife for 50 cent, a hanging oil lamp for 50 cent, a money drawer, and a tobacco cutter, also at 50 cent each. Two years later, he moved to High Springs with savings of $1,200. He bought a lot for $350, a store for $250, a half block of land and two four-room houses for $300, and invested the balance in stock for his store. He operated his business without interruption until about 1938, when he had trouble with his eyes, which necessitated an operation and a layoff from business of about five years. He went back again at it though, and since has served the public until today when he is reluctantly leaving "the best customers I've ever had." Born near the present site of Newberry on October 27, 1876, he was the son of John and Angeline (Hodges) Grimes. He remembers the "big hurricane of 1896" very well. "Before that time," he said"there were big pines standing everywhere and no underbrush. You could go hunting birds in a horse and buggy." When the big storm struck, he was with a brother-in-law, Richard Cathcart, building a home near Alachua. He said the wind blew harder and harder, and that they decided to quit work and go home. "It was the awfullest experience in my life," he said. "We started out in a wagon, but we finally had to unhitch the team, and we rode mules, with the big trees crashing on the earth all about us, and the wind blowing like fury." He said that after the storm, it took three days to cut a road through the tangled woods to get the wagon back home. In 1898, he remembers the troop trains pasting through here on the way to Tampa for embarkation to Cuba and the Spanish-American War. And the terrible freeze in which the temperature sank to two below zero and a three-inch snow fall. "The snow fell on Sunday and on Friday there were still traces of it around the city," he said. In 1901, Mr. Grimes married Miss Ann Olivia Easterlin of High Springs. Today, there are four children, Mrs. Lou (Dell) Cloutier, and Mrs. Myril (Oliver) Hoag, both of High Springs; Mrs. Ruth Arnold and Henry Grimes, both of Washington, D.C. Mr. Grimes comes from a long lived family. His grandfather on his mother's side lived to be 96, and today Mr. Grimes has a brother living, Willie Grimes of Waldo, and four sisters, Hattie Cannon and Leeta Stancel, both of Belle, Minnie Hollingsworth of St. Petersburg and Eula Fowler of Gainesville. Mr. Grimes took an active part in community affairs, serving on the School Board, the City Commission, clerk and treasurer of the City and also Mayor. One of the old school, Mr. Grimes has lived by the rule "go to bed at dark, and get up by daylight." He is retiring now "to rest the balance of my life." J. L. GRIMES, dean of High Springs businessmen's daughter Mrs. Olivia Hoag, will take over the bussiness from which he is retiring. Submitted by Barbara Wilson Krause [email protected] 8 March 2013

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John Lincoln “J. L.” Grimes Sr.'s memorial is located at: High Springs Cemetery, High Springs, Alachua County, USA.
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John Lincoln “J. L.” Grimes Sr. death on Apr 1962 in Alachua County, Florida, USA
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Latitude: 29.8349609
Longitude: -82.5949097

Family Members:

Spouse

Annie Oliva Easterlin Grimes

(1884 - 1971)

Children

Henry S. Grimes

(1903 - 1993)

John Lincoln Grimes Jr.

(1905 - 1905)

Ruth Grimes Arnold

(1907 - 1987)

Alice Olivia Grimes Hoag

(1909 - 1972)

Daisy Dell Grimes Cloutier

(1912 - 1996)

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