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CORPORAL
FREDERICK W. GRIGG was born in the Germantown section of Philadelpia PA
on May 17, 1897 to William Erie and Mary Butler Grigg, His father was an
insurance agent. The family soon moved to Lower Merion PA, where they
resided when the Census was taken in 1900. They had moved to 46 West
Chestnut Avenue in Merchantville NJ by the summer of 1910. Frederick
Grigg was the tenth of the eleven Grigg children, coming after Leora,
Florence, Cora, R. Horace, Walter, Robert, Ernest, Marion, and Arthur
Grigg, and before Thomas. All but Cora and Thomas lived to majority.
After moving to New Jersey, the Griggs were members of the First Presbyterian Church of Merchantville.
After
joining the United States Army at the age of 16 in 1915.
He first saw service with Battery B, 1st New Jersey Field
Artillery, on the border during the armed intervention with Mexico in
1916. When the battery returned to Camden he was mustered out of
service. He was working in Trenton when America entered the Great War
and enlisted in the Second New Jersey National Guard and was first
placed on guard duty in the state. Later he was sent to Camp McClellan,
Anniston AL, and sailed for France in June 1918. when sent overseas, Corporal Grigg was a member of Company E, 113th Infantry
Regiment.
Corporal
Frederic Grigg was killed in the Argonne Forest and Meuse drive in
October, 1918. He was struck in the stomach by a fragment of shrapnel.
He was buried at the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery in
Romagne, France.
The
Grigg family had left Merchantville by 1920. William and Mary Grigg had
moved to Glendale CA by 1926, and were living at 2245 N. Louise Street in
Glendale by 1930. Mary Grigg took part in the 1930 Mother’s
Pilgrimage to France. Mary Grigg passed in January of 1941, William the
following year.
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