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Hi Mark, is the crocodile still eating your catfish? While I don't have anything on William A Grubbs I am thinking that he may be of the same family that had a couple of fellows in the Mexican War and I do have some bits about them. Go to the Illinois Trails website and scroll around until you find the Mexican War Diary of Wiley B Smith, then right after it I have posted the roster of men who served in the Montgomery County company---there is a Grubbs. Keep scrolling down to the list of men given medical discharge and there's another Grubbs. Finally, go to the list of Montgomery County residents who later applied for Mexican War pensions and you'll find the first Grubbs along with his wife. And, everybody, take a look at these Mexican War lists, especially if you have the death of a male in 1847. There's a list of the dead and a list of the medically discharged, but others died after they got home so that their deaths were not offically recorded as war deaths (my great-grandmother's Bible lists another of my Mexican War ancestors, Abraham Badgley Starr, as having died "of a sickness he caught in camp"---he died two weeks after arriving home from the war). For one thing, the men were mustered out at New Orleans and left to get home any way they could, and there was a yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans at the time. Wiley's diary is a fascinating look at military life of the time (no food or water provided, minimal medical care, wool uniforms in the tropics, and two-and-three-day runs with men dropping dead).
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