Benjamin Groomes

Birth Date

c1814

Death Date

1876-10-21

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, cabinet maker. Virginia native. Married to Mary Parrish Groomes in Nashville in December 1838. Father of Catherine Grooms, Thomas Randle Grooms, Benjamin Franklin Groomes, Sarah E. “Sally” Groomes, and Richard “Dick” Groomes. Cabinet maker in Nashville in 1850. Cabinet maker in Nashville 1860. Partner with James Cavert in Groomes, Cavert & Co. in Nashville in 1860. Owned eight enslaved persons in Nashville in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville, p. 87A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville Ward 6, p. 433.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville Ward 6, p. 255B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville Ward 6, p. 333A.
Tennessee Marriage Records, Davidson County, Nashville,1838-1864, p.8.
Tennessee City Death Records, 1872-1923, Davidson County, Nashville, p. 55.
Nashville City and Business Directory for 1860-1861, vol. V., (Nashville, TN: L. P. Williams & CO., Publishers and Proprietors, 1860), pp. 142, 182, 199.

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