Grindall Wing went by the name of Henry Wing. According to old family stories he left Vermont at age 18, moving to Ohio during the War of 1812. He was engaged with Capt. Reilly in shipping supplies to forts along the Maumee River and in surveying Ohio. He married Eleanor Frazee about 1824 in Columbiana Co., Ohio. They lived near Defiance for a year, moving in 1825 to a place near Ottawa, where he was the first permanent white settler. He was killed Sept 17, 1843 by a falling tree while building the Defiance-Ottawa Road. His widow died in 1848. He & Eleanor had 11 children: Jarvis, Oliver, Rhoda, Nathan, Henry, Alnora, Eleanor, Pauline, Austin, Cleopatra, & Francis.
Grindall Wing went by the name of Henry Wing. According to old family stories he left Vermont at age 18, moving to Ohio during the War of 1812. He was engaged with Capt. Reilly in shipping supplies to forts along the Maumee River and in surveying Ohio. He married Eleanor Frazee about 1824 in Columbiana Co., Ohio. They lived near Defiance for a year, moving in 1825 to a place near Ottawa, where he was the first permanent white settler. He was killed Sept 17, 1843 by a falling tree while building the Defiance-Ottawa Road. His widow died in 1848. He & Eleanor had 11 children: Jarvis, Oliver, Rhoda, Nathan, Henry, Alnora, Eleanor, Pauline, Austin, Cleopatra, & Francis.
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