Silas Carl Grinstead 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 25 Jul 1884
    Christening: 
          Death: 11 Jun 1941 - Indianapolis, Indiana
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:
Parents 
         Father: Silas Miles Grinstead (1857-1939)
         Mother: Cassie Shaw (      -      ) 1
Notes
General:
THE WILLIAM GRINSTEAD FAMILY IN AMERICA (Gorrell Shumaker and John L. N. Grinstead, April 19, 1974):

pg 143: "Silas Carl Grinstead (7/25/1884 - 6/11/1941) married 4/16/1915 Martha M. Reiter (5/26/1895). Four children: Silas Carl, Jr.; Constance Luella; Benjamin Franklin, Thelma Loraine Grinstead."

OBITUARY:

The Indianapolis News, 12 Jun 1941, pg 31:

Retired Army Officer Dead

Last rites for Silas C. Grinstead age fifty-six, Southport, mail carrier and retired army officer, will be held at 3:30 p.m. Friday in the G. H. Herrmann funeral home. The Rev. George A. Frantz, pastor of First Presbyterian church, will officiate. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery.
Mr. Grinstead died Wednesday at Methodist Hospital after seven weeks' illness. He had been a mail carrier on the south side of Indianapolis since he came here in 1926 following his retirement from the army. He had served continuously in the army from January, 1901 to June, 1925.
He was stationed in the Philippines from November, 1903 to October, 1905 and in Cuba from October, 1906 to February, 1909. He was commissioned a first lieutenant during the world war, being assigned to training camps in this country through the war. He spent the years following the war at Ft. Benning, Georgia. At Ft. Benning he belonged to the Sons of the American Revolution, the Scottish Rite and Columbian Masonic Lodge. He was retired in 1925 at Ft. Benning.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Martha Grinstead; a daughter, Miss Thelma Lorraine Grinstead, and two sons, Silas C. Grinstead and Benjamin F. Grinstead, Southport.
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Sources

1 Gorrell Shumaker & John L. N. Grinstead, The William Grinstead Family in America, 1974, pg 143. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.

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