The Grant Family: Hugh and Catharine Barr Grant / The Grant Family: Six Generations at the Grant Homestead

Side A: Hugh Grant Sr. (1769-1806) owned a gristmill and land in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the 1790s. He married Catharine Barr Grant (unknown-1836) and they had 6 children: Alexander, Jacob, Isabella, Nancy, Mary, and Hugh Grant Jr. (born posthumously). In 1804 Grant purchased 450 acres of federal land at the Chillicothe land office. In 1805 he and his family moved to Jackson Township, Ohio. Uncertain of the location of his tracts, he settled his family in a log structure along the Scioto River. During the winter of 1806-1807, Grant died in a freak accident climbing a honeybee tree. Catharine Barr Grant realized they were on the wrong land and moved her family to the right property holdings where the Grant Homestead remains. She died August 17, 1836, and is buried in Union Methodist Cemetery. Side B: When Catharine Barr Grant and her children took possession of their property, they built a log structure. Hugh Grant Jr. (1807-1883) inherited it in 1832. Making bricks from clay found onsite, he built his farmhouse sometime in the late 1830s-early 1840s. A classic example of I-House architecture with Greek Revival elements, the Grant Homestead was added to the National Register of Historic Places in June 1998. Six generations of the family would reside in the house, making their additions and changes through the years. Adam Gabriel Grant or A.G. (1840-1913), son of Hugh Grant Jr., became a central figure in Grove City’s development. Later generations included: John Grant (1868-1933), Relieffe Grant Sawyer (1893-1987), and Ruth Sawyer Jividen (1915-2014). Jividen, sold the property to the city shortly before her death.