People

Grant Edgar Mottice was born on Dec. 6, 1865 in Waynesburg.

In his father's Bible he is referred to at two separate pages as "Edwin Grant" and "Grant Edgar".

He was the son of John C. Mottice and Catherine Gross.  He married Frances Dieringer on Dec. 28, 1903, and they had eight children.  He died unexpectedly on March 9, 1938 of a ruptured gastric ulcer.  He is buried in Waynesburg cemetery.

The photo to the right is undated, but probably before the turn of the century although it could be a wedding photo.  It is the best photo of him I know of.

Andrew Dieringer was the father of Frances Dieringer. He was born on Nov. 13, 1843 and died Feb. 11, 1918. He married Mary Holshoy on Aug. 27, 1844 and they had 12 children of which Frances was the eighth.

John Mottice, son of Peter and Pheby Mottice, was born in 1800 and died in 1879. He was the only son of Pheby.

There is uncertainty about his middle name. Charles D. Mottice, in his genealogy of John's half brother James, identifies him as John Crawford Mottice. Charles K. Mottice, in his history of the line that runs through John's son James, identifies him as John L. Mottice. But the 1870 census report identifies him as John B. Mottice, and all other documents list his middle initial as "B".

The genealogical search for the Mottice family effectively ends with Peter Mottice, 1772-1855. As I posted previously, we don't know the name of his father or any other details with any degree of certainty.

Here is a document, dated November 17, 1872 and written in German that I cannot translate, in part because of the elaborate script.

It refers to "Andreas Dieringer" and his "fine wife" who was born "Maria Holzhey", then in large letters "_urde geboren" followed by the date in 1872 and the location in Waynesburg, OH. "Geboren" means "born" in German, but the first letter of "_urde" I cannot decipher and cannot translate.

Frances Dieringer was the daughter of Andrew Dieringer and Mary Holshoy, and later wife to Grant Mottice.

She was 8th of 12 Dieringer children, ten of whom were girls.  Of her 9 sisters, six were older than she.  She was born in Waynesburg and lived there most of her life.  In the 1950s (perhaps earlier), she moved to Canton with her daughter, Ruth, after Ruth's husband Verle Garster died.

She married Grant Mottice in 1903, and they had 8 children before he died in 1938.