Bio: Hiram Gryder, Claiborne Parish, LA
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Jan. 2000
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Hiram Gryder, now a planter of Claiborne Parish, La., is a Danville Kentuckian, born March 4, 1806, the second of seven children born to William and Mary (Perry) Gryder, who was also born in the Blue-Grass State; their children being as follows: Nancy (now living in Claiborne Parish, La.), Hiram, Jennie (a resident of Arkansas, and the widow of Jonathan Knox), Hugh, Clay, Mary (wife of W. C. Martin of Webster Parish), and John. Mr. Gryder removed to Tennessee when a boy, and to Arkansas in 1818, where he resided until 1820, when he came with his people to Claiborne Parish, La., which place has since been his home. He was married in 1834 to Miss Mary Hayes, by whom he became father of six children: Ellen, Martin, Martha (wife of Henry Johnson), Hugh, Robert and Margaret. Upon Mr. Gryder's arrival in this region he found the country a wilderness, the woods inhabited by wild game of many kinds and Indians. However, pioneer life had no terrors for him, and he went to work immediately to make a home for himself, and in this has succeeded well. He has never in his life seen a railroad, and it must be confessed does not care to, but in other respects he is enterprising, and is quite deeply interested in political matters, being a stanch Democrat. He has been a member of the Christian Church since thirty-two years of age, and has always been deeply interested in the cause of Christianity. For many years he has been a member of the Masonic fraternity.