Daniel Britt Grigsby was the son of John and Hester Sharp Grigsby. He shares a stone with his wife, Sallie, who he married 25 January 1871 in Houston County. Their sons, Adget Buel Grigsby, John C. Grigsby, and William Pugh Grigsby, and daughter, Kathryn Grigsby Bryan, are buried in Garden of Memories. Their son, Daniel B. Grigsby Jr. and daughters, Clara Grigsby and Minerva Ruth Grigsby, are buried in Kyle Cemetery. Daniel served in the Civil War, CSA, Texas Cavalry. He was a Mason.∼In the year of 1835, a long wagon train wound its way south-westward from Illinois to Texas. In the personnel of its heads of families was John Crawford Grigsby, a man destined to become one of Texas' outstanding defenders. The colonists settled in Houston County. D. B. Grigsby, the son of John C. Grigsby was born February 15, 1840, near Crockett, Houston County, Texas. His birth thus occurring six years before Texas was admitted to the Union, D.B. Grigsby had the experience of living under three of Texas' six flags the "Lone Star," the "Stars and Bars, and the "Stars and Stripes." The father, John Crawford Grigsby soon after establishing his home in Texas left it and family to help Texas in her struggle against Mexico. Because of his record at the Battle of San Jacinto, the Republic of Texas gave him a league of land on the Trinity River. The city of Dallas today stands on the 4605 acres which constituted this Grigsby grant.

John Crawford Grigsby while on a trading trip down the Trinity River was killed by the Indians.

Young D. B. Grigsby was reared in the home of his sister, Mrs. Ruth Ann Edens in Houston County. When war came between the states, he enlisted and was made First Lieut, in Hood's Brigade, serving with distinction the duration of the conflict. Upon cessation of hostilities he returned to Houston County to rebuild his home and fortune that had been swept away. D. B. Grigsby was twice married: first to Nancy Cartwright, then, five years after her death, to Sally Glover of Rusk. Following are his living children: A. B., J. C, and W. P. Grigsby, Mrs. J. H. Hemby, Mrs. Kathryn Bryan, Mrs. Mary Louise Zell, and Mrs. A. L. Robertson. In 1890, D. B. Grigsby moved from Houston to Anderson County. The Grigsbys have been identified with the progress and growth of the county continuously since. The Grigsbys were large land owners. It has been said that the name of Grigsby appears more often than any other in the land abstracts of Texas. D. B. Grigsby died at his country home near Elkhart, Nov 8, 1919, and Mrs. Grigsby passed away on March 1, 1925. Both were loved for their splendid characters and deeds. Each as the inevitable end to earthly existence came could look back on a long life of service, could leave the world, "Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams."

[Hohes, Pauline Buck. "A Centennial History of Anderson County, Texas" San Antonio, Tex.: Naylor Co., 1936]