November 24, 1923-Trigg County
Splendid Old Lady Dies At Ninety One
End Came Saturday Afternoon To Miss Bettie Grinter In Cadiz
Native of Logan County But Lived In Cadiz Forty Seven Years
Miss Bettie GRINTER, a splendid old lady of Cadiz, died last Saturday
afternoon at one o'clock at the home of her niece, Mrs. James B. GARNETT on
East Main street.

Miss GRINTER had been an invalid for four years past. She had been confined
to her bed most of the time for months, and on the day before her death,
there were signs that she was growing weaker. She ate the usual meal at
noon Saturday, but as Mrs. GARNETT was sitting by her bedside she noticed
signs of the approaching end. Others of the household were summoned in to
the room and within a brief space of time she breathed her last.

She had not taken a dose of medicine for perhaps a year, and while the
attending physician made occasional calls to see her, ye there was never any
evidence of an ache or pain, and the end came as the result of old age and
the passing of one who had lived out her allotted time upon earth.

Miss GRINTER was a native of Logan County, Ky., and was the daughter of
Samuel GRINTER, in his day a most prominent citizen of that county. She was
the sixth child in a family of nine, and was born at what is still known as
the old GRINTER homestead five miles west of Russellville, in the road
leading toward Elkton, on the 25th of March 1832, and would have been ninety
two years of age had she lived until the 25th of next March. The big brick
GRINTER mansion house is still one of the landmarks of that section of the
state.

The mother died in 1871, and for five years she and the father composed the
household so far as the immediate family was concerned. Miss GRINTER was a
woman of strong character, and aided materially in the affairs of the home
and the transaction of the business of the large plantation.

After the death of her father in 1876, she came to Cadiz and ever since had
made her home with her sister, Mrs. Addie GUNN, in this city, and went to
the home of Mrs. GARNETT several years ago when Mrs. GUNN was rendered
almost helpless by a fall.

She had always lived a quiet simple life taking great interest in home
affairs, and delighted always in her flower beds and things that made home
bright and cheerful. Until fifteen or twenty years ago she regularly every
year made a visit back to Logan County to visit friends of her earlier life,
and to Kansas to visit a couple of brothers, who had long been residents of
that state. Her last visit to Kansas was a number of years ago and she and
Mrs. GUNN made the trip together. Those who were intimately associated with
her will long remember the many noble traits and her devotion to her
household and those she loved.

She had been a member of the Presbyterian church from girlhood and while
there was no congregation of her Church in Cadiz, she was until becoming
disabled a regular attendant at services of the different churches of the
town and took deep interest in the Christian religion.

Her death leaves Mrs. GUNN as the only survivor of the large family of nine
children. Mrs. GUNN now being eighty seven. The late Thomas H. GRINTER was
a brother.

Funeral services were held at the home of Mrs. GARNETT Sunday afternoon at
two o'clock, Rev. George E. FESKETT, of Cadiz Methodist church, being the
officiating minister at the funeral, and the burial followed at East End
Cemetery.

A large concourse of friends and loved ones attended both the funeral and
burial. Mrs. Lille HALL, of Nashville, and Dr. N. L. CARNEY and Mrs. CARNEY
and their son, Mr. Norfleet CARNEY, of Clarksville, were there from a
distance here for the funeral and burial services.

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