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My understanding is that John Grisham was a minister and also the father in law of Civil War Governor Joseph Emerson Brown. John Grisham penned a testimonial to the honesty of my Joseph Pinson RWS for Joseph's pension. Joseph Pinson had moved to Rabun Co. Ga., via Habersham Co Ga., from Pendleton District S.C. after the 1820 census, but Pinson's pension voucher (mid 1830's) was directed care of
"Col. Joseph Grisham
Falls Post Office
Pickens District
So Carolina
Both Joseph Pinson RWS and Governor Jos E. Brown's grandfather, Joseph Brown RWS, had rec'd land for their Revolutionary War Service in the Overmountain colonies, on the same Cherokee Creek near present day Jonesboro Tenn.
An early Plat map of Pendleton Township shows a tavern owned by John Grisham. Immediately next door was the blacksmith shop of Joseph Pinson RWS' son, Joseph Pinson Jr.
Joseph Pinson RWS' grandson, Bartley G. Pinson, wrote a letter From Gilmer Co. Ga. to Governor Jos E. Brown at the start of the Civil War. He addressed it to his "truly good friend". We don't know what the G. stands for in Bartley's middle name, but have often wondered if it is Grisham.
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