ROBINSON, MRS. JANIE FERMINE GRACE
Died January 29, 1999 in Midland, Texas. Born in Birmingham February 14, 1901, she had lived here most of her life and was the widow of Joseph E. Robinson of Kentucky. A graduate of Birmingham-Southern College (A.B., 1922) she played on the school's first basketball team for women. She taught high school history for several years and was a long time employee of the Chamber of Commerce. Recognized in the 1970's as a 50-year member of McCoy Methodist Church, she also belonged to the William Speer Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Inurnment (sic.) will be Monday, March 22nd, at 10 a.m. in Elwood Cemetery, graveside services only, with the Rev. Joe Ralines of Alabaster First United Methodist Church officiating.
Survivors included her nephew, Robert M. Grace of Midland, Texas, who had made a home for her since 1993; and his sister, Betty Grace (Mrs. Samuel J. Bowles, Jr.) of Alabaster. There are also 31 great and great great nephews and nieces, including Sally Grace Francis, Bekeley, California, Lovatt F. E. Burges, Phoenix, Arizona; and Cdr. Richard A. Wier, Mountain Brook.
Her mother was Ida Hoskins of Lancaster, Kentucky. Her father was the Rev. Dr. Francis Mitchell Grace, born at Elyton, Alabama in 1832. A Methodist minister and noted scholar of Latin and Greek, he was pastor of six Alabama churches and served on the faculty of five colleges in three states.
It was Mrs. Robinson's grandfather Bayliss Earle Grace (1808-1894) who had a unique connection with Jefferson County history. Born in South Carolina to James Grace and Mary Acker Grace, he came here in 1820, and at age 19 began work in the circuit clerk's office (the county seat at that time being at Elyton) and was elected to that office for three terms (1832-44); to one term as sheriff (1844-48); to three terms as tax assessor, the county's first (1848-60), and served by appointment as the county general administrator and guardian until 1863. He found time to edit the CENTRAL ALABAMIAN (successor to the first newspaper JONES VALLEY TIMES) but according to "True Tales of Birmingham" (Birmingham Historical Society; 1992). He is to be remembered mainly for sending the first wagon load of Iron ore to a Bibb County furnace, from his farm. Just north of Oxmoor, where the L&N railroad cuts through Red Mountain, at a site still known as Grace's Gap.
B.E. Grace died in 1894. In the same year, Bayliss Earle Grace, Jr. also died. The son was a prominent lawyer, a Confederate veteran and survivor of Internment on Ship Island in the Mississippi Sound. They were buried side by side in Woodlawn (now Forest Hill) Cemetery. For 101 years neither grave was marked, until the family placed appropriate monuments in 1995. (Original transcription added by flkayakgirl83.)
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Died January 29, 1999 in Midland, Texas. Born in Birmingham February 14, 1901, she had lived here most of her life and was the widow of Joseph E. Robinson of Kentucky. A graduate of Birmingham-Southern College (A.B., 1922) she played on the school's first basketball team for women. She taught high school history for several years and was a long time employee of the Chamber of Commerce. Recognized in the 1970's as a 50-year member of McCoy Methodist Church, she also belonged to the William Speer Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Inurnment (sic.) will be Monday, March 22nd, at 10 a.m. in Elwood Cemetery, graveside services only, with the Rev. Joe Ralines of Alabaster First United Methodist Church officiating.
Survivors included her nephew, Robert M. Grace of Midland, Texas, who had made a home for her since 1993; and his sister, Betty Grace (Mrs. Samuel J. Bowles, Jr.) of Alabaster. There are also 31 great and great great nephews and nieces, including Sally Grace Francis, Bekeley, California, Lovatt F. E. Burges, Phoenix, Arizona; and Cdr. Richard A. Wier, Mountain Brook.
Her mother was Ida Hoskins of Lancaster, Kentucky. Her father was the Rev. Dr. Francis Mitchell Grace, born at Elyton, Alabama in 1832. A Methodist minister and noted scholar of Latin and Greek, he was pastor of six Alabama churches and served on the faculty of five colleges in three states.
It was Mrs. Robinson's grandfather Bayliss Earle Grace (1808-1894) who had a unique connection with Jefferson County history. Born in South Carolina to James Grace and Mary Acker Grace, he came here in 1820, and at age 19 began work in the circuit clerk's office (the county seat at that time being at Elyton) and was elected to that office for three terms (1832-44); to one term as sheriff (1844-48); to three terms as tax assessor, the county's first (1848-60), and served by appointment as the county general administrator and guardian until 1863. He found time to edit the CENTRAL ALABAMIAN (successor to the first newspaper JONES VALLEY TIMES) but according to "True Tales of Birmingham" (Birmingham Historical Society; 1992). He is to be remembered mainly for sending the first wagon load of Iron ore to a Bibb County furnace, from his farm. Just north of Oxmoor, where the L&N railroad cuts through Red Mountain, at a site still known as Grace's Gap.
B.E. Grace died in 1894. In the same year, Bayliss Earle Grace, Jr. also died. The son was a prominent lawyer, a Confederate veteran and survivor of Internment on Ship Island in the Mississippi Sound. They were buried side by side in Woodlawn (now Forest Hill) Cemetery. For 101 years neither grave was marked, until the family placed appropriate monuments in 1995. (Original transcription added by flkayakgirl83.)
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ROBINSON, MRS. JANIE FERMINE GRACE
Died January 29, 1999 in Midland, Texas. Born in Birmingham February 14, 1901, she had lived here most of her life and was the widow of Joseph E. Robinson of Kentucky. A graduate of Birmingham-Southern College (A.B., 1922) she played on the school's first basketball team for women. She taught high school history for several years and was a long time employee of the Chamber of Commerce. Recognized in the 1970's as a 50-year member of McCoy Methodist Church, she also belonged to the William Speer Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Inurnment (sic.) will be Monday, March 22nd, at 10 a.m. in Elwood Cemetery, graveside services only, with the Rev. Joe Ralines of Alabaster First United Methodist Church officiating.
Survivors included her nephew, Robert M. Grace of Midland, Texas, who had made a home for her since 1993; and his sister, Betty Grace (Mrs. Samuel J. Bowles, Jr.) of Alabaster. There are also 31 great and great great nephews and nieces, including Sally Grace Francis, Bekeley, California, Lovatt F. E. Burges, Phoenix, Arizona; and Cdr. Richard A. Wier, Mountain Brook.
Her mother was Ida Hoskins of Lancaster, Kentucky. Her father was the Rev. Dr. Francis Mitchell Grace, born at Elyton, Alabama in 1832. A Methodist minister and noted scholar of Latin and Greek, he was pastor of six Alabama churches and served on the faculty of five colleges in three states.
It was Mrs. Robinson's grandfather Bayliss Earle Grace (1808-1894) who had a unique connection with Jefferson County history. Born in South Carolina to James Grace and Mary Acker Grace, he came here in 1820, and at age 19 began work in the circuit clerk's office (the county seat at that time being at Elyton) and was elected to that office for three terms (1832-44); to one term as sheriff (1844-48); to three terms as tax assessor, the county's first (1848-60), and served by appointment as the county general administrator and guardian until 1863. He found time to edit the CENTRAL ALABAMIAN (successor to the first newspaper JONES VALLEY TIMES) but according to "True Tales of Birmingham" (Birmingham Historical Society; 1992). He is to be remembered mainly for sending the first wagon load of Iron ore to a Bibb County furnace, from his farm. Just north of Oxmoor, where the L&N railroad cuts through Red Mountain, at a site still known as Grace's Gap.
B.E. Grace died in 1894. In the same year, Bayliss Earle Grace, Jr. also died. The son was a prominent lawyer, a Confederate veteran and survivor of Internment on Ship Island in the Mississippi Sound. They were buried side by side in Woodlawn (now Forest Hill) Cemetery. For 101 years neither grave was marked, until the family placed appropriate monuments in 1995. (Original transcription added by flkayakgirl83.)
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Died January 29, 1999 in Midland, Texas. Born in Birmingham February 14, 1901, she had lived here most of her life and was the widow of Joseph E. Robinson of Kentucky. A graduate of Birmingham-Southern College (A.B., 1922) she played on the school's first basketball team for women. She taught high school history for several years and was a long time employee of the Chamber of Commerce. Recognized in the 1970's as a 50-year member of McCoy Methodist Church, she also belonged to the William Speer Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Inurnment (sic.) will be Monday, March 22nd, at 10 a.m. in Elwood Cemetery, graveside services only, with the Rev. Joe Ralines of Alabaster First United Methodist Church officiating.
Survivors included her nephew, Robert M. Grace of Midland, Texas, who had made a home for her since 1993; and his sister, Betty Grace (Mrs. Samuel J. Bowles, Jr.) of Alabaster. There are also 31 great and great great nephews and nieces, including Sally Grace Francis, Bekeley, California, Lovatt F. E. Burges, Phoenix, Arizona; and Cdr. Richard A. Wier, Mountain Brook.
Her mother was Ida Hoskins of Lancaster, Kentucky. Her father was the Rev. Dr. Francis Mitchell Grace, born at Elyton, Alabama in 1832. A Methodist minister and noted scholar of Latin and Greek, he was pastor of six Alabama churches and served on the faculty of five colleges in three states.
It was Mrs. Robinson's grandfather Bayliss Earle Grace (1808-1894) who had a unique connection with Jefferson County history. Born in South Carolina to James Grace and Mary Acker Grace, he came here in 1820, and at age 19 began work in the circuit clerk's office (the county seat at that time being at Elyton) and was elected to that office for three terms (1832-44); to one term as sheriff (1844-48); to three terms as tax assessor, the county's first (1848-60), and served by appointment as the county general administrator and guardian until 1863. He found time to edit the CENTRAL ALABAMIAN (successor to the first newspaper JONES VALLEY TIMES) but according to "True Tales of Birmingham" (Birmingham Historical Society; 1992). He is to be remembered mainly for sending the first wagon load of Iron ore to a Bibb County furnace, from his farm. Just north of Oxmoor, where the L&N railroad cuts through Red Mountain, at a site still known as Grace's Gap.
B.E. Grace died in 1894. In the same year, Bayliss Earle Grace, Jr. also died. The son was a prominent lawyer, a Confederate veteran and survivor of Internment on Ship Island in the Mississippi Sound. They were buried side by side in Woodlawn (now Forest Hill) Cemetery. For 101 years neither grave was marked, until the family placed appropriate monuments in 1995. (Original transcription added by flkayakgirl83.)
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