John Walter Grimes 
John Walter was born on April 24th, 1868 in Tallapossa Co., AL.1 John Walter's father was Thomas Martin Grimes and his mother was Mahala S. Goss. He had two brothers named James Ebear and Charles Henry. He was the second oldest of the three children. He died at the age of 46 on November 25th, 1914 in AL. He was buried in Weogufka Baptist Church Cemetery, Coosa Co., AL. Located about 2 miles due south of Weogufka..1 1 General Notes
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Dr. John Walter Grimes of Talladega Springs is a son of Thomas Martin
Grimes. He was born in Tallapoosa County on April 14, 1868. With a good
high school education he matriculated in the medical department of the
University of Alabama and three years later became a student at the
University of the South Sewanee. Here he graduated in pharmacy and the
medical department then took post-graduate work at New York Polyclinic.
For a time he was a teacher but began practice at Juniata, Ala. And
after two years he located in Talladega Springs, where he was quite
successful. Doctor Grimes, alive to the needs of his porfession, keeps in
touch with membership in the Coosa County Medical Society and the State
Medical Association.
He was surgeion for the Alabama midland division of the L&N Railroad.
He deserves the success with is attending him, for he is a self made man
in the truest sense of the term.
Dr. Grimes votes Democratic, is a Knight of Honor and is a member of
the Baptist Church. His wife, Sarah Lavinia, daughter of William Stephen
and Sallie Mitchell Carlise Darden is a Coosa native as her parents. Her
grandparents, Uriah A. and Mary Logan Darden were very early pioneers of
the county. John B. and Nancy Craddock Carlisle were her other
grandparents and they have two children, Clyde and Bruce.
John Walter and Sarah Lavinia were married in a religious ceremony on January 24th, 1899 in Coosa Co., AL.1
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