Grace "Grissy" Appleby 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: Abt 1774 - Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania
    Christening: 
          Death: 1832 - Golconda, Pope Co., Illinois ( about age 58)
         Burial: in Golconda, Pope Co., Illinois
 Cause of Death:
Parents 
         Father: William Appleby (Abt 1752-Abt 1808)
         Mother: Agnes McKeehan (1742-Bef 1787) 2
Spouses and Children 
1. *James McCurdy (Abt 1764 -       ) 3 
       Marriage: 

2. John Calvert (       - After 20 Aug 1823) 1 
       Marriage: 
       Children:
                1. George W. Calvert (1816-1876)
                2. David C. Calvert (Abt 1818-      )
Notes
General:
McCurdy Pioneers of North America by Clyde W. McCurdy, page 81:

"The Appleby genealogy tells us that James McCurdy was married to William Appleby's daughter Grace, who was called "Grissy". This seems to be confirmed in William Appleby's will, which refers to his daughter, "Grissy McCurdy". There is some contradiction about the age of Grace Appleby, because her name does not appear on the Big Spring Church records with William Appleby's family. Grace may have been only a year younger than her sister Elizabeth, who was born in 1770, according to her gravestone. Elizabeth's age was given as 14 on the Big Spring Church records, but should have been 17. This would be correct if the lists were made in 1787. If Grace was born circa 1771, she could have married James McCurdy by 1787-1788."

SECOND HUSBAND:

John Calvert married to Mary McCurdy was a brother-in-law of Grace Appleby married to Mary's brother James McCurdy. Some people claim that John Calvert married Grace in Pope Co., Illinois after the deaths of Mary and James.

BIRTH YEAR:

If Grace/Grissy Appleby was the mother of George W. Calvert, born 10 Jan 1816, and of David C. Calvert, born in about 1818, then Grace was probably born no earlier than 1774.
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Sources

1 Dorothy (Dee) Appleby Turner, Appleby Heritage Association, http://appleby.rootsweb.com.

2 Bessie P. Douglas, "The Families of Joshua Williams of Chester Co., Pa & John McKeehan of Cumberland Co., Pa with Some Allied Families," Augsburg Press, Minneapolis, 1928, pg 289.

3 Julius Augustus McCurdy, "The McCurdy's of Stone Mountain, Georgia," 1979, pg 23.

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