JOHN DRUMMOND GRANT
Is a native of Virginia, born at "Hill's Farm," Accomack county,
Jan. 8, 1847, a son of Rev. Edward S. and Tabitha Jane (Drummond)
Grant. His father was a son of Captain John Grant and Agnes
(Snead) Grant, of this county, and his mother a daughter of Colonel
John P. Drummond and Ann Conquest (Warner) Drummond; said
Col. Drummond represented Accomack county in the Virginia House
of Delegates for 19 consecutive years. Both parents were of Scotch
ancestry. Mr. Grant married Susan Elizabeth Coard in this county,
Dec. 8, 1875, and there have been five children born of the union:
Nola N., Tabitha N., John Drummond, jr., Ava C., deceased, Oct.
11, 1881, at the age of eight months, and Susan T. Mrs. Grant is a
daughter of John W. and Nancy Byrd (Chandler) Coard of Accomack
county. Her father was a son of William R. Coard and Elizabeth
(Rew) Coard, and her mother was a daughter of Captain Mitchell
Chandler and Susan (Byrd) Chandler. Both parents were of English
extraction. Mr. Grant was educated in his native county at the
public and private schools, and for several years of his early manhood
he was a mechanic and teacher in the public schools; eight years Commissioner
of Revenue for District No. 2, Accomack county; from 1883
to 1887 was auditing clerk in office of Auditor of Public Accounts,
Richmond, Va., and from July 1, 1887, to the present, has been clerk
of circuit court of Accomack county. He is a member of the A. F.
and A. M., Knights of Honor, I. O. G. T., Fraternal Mystic Circle,
and Farmers Alliance. Himself and wife are members of the Methodist
Protestant church.
