June 11, 1858, Margarette gave birth to George Grinder in the log cabin overlooking the Buffalo River.  George had a brother and a sister, who were some years older.  George’s mother died when he was two years old.  Bob placed his wife in a sitting position on the west side of the hill with four huge sandstones around her to selter her body from wild animals.  By this manner of burial, he honored her wishes to keep her people’s traditions.  The grave is still standing in the Silver Hill cemetary, and believed to be the start of the Ginder Family Burial Place.

George was three years old when Margaret Torkes became his stepmother.  Bob built a new house half way up the hill from the river of sawed lumber.  Bob built a large log barn at the base of the hill where the crops could be stored easily.  About this time, he built a ferry to cross the Buffalo River.

George was five years old when he remembers seeing strange people come to his home at night and his father would take them across the river or hide them in the barn.  Sometimes in the night, the dogs would bark, then a light knock on the door, and George could hear low talking, but he never knew who these people of the night were.  After the strangers in the night, men with crazy acting dogs would come by and ask questions about slaves.  George’s father told the men he never saw any runaway slaves.  Grinder wanted no trouble with the slave owners, but he had to help the unfortunate ones who had unjust masters.

Bob Grinder was a member of the “Peace Society” until the fall of 1861 when the Confederal Army had a march into the areas and took members of the society, chained with log chains fastened about their necks in rows of two, and marched them off to Little Rock.  There were about seventy-four peace-loving men from Northern Arkansas, chained together like criminals and marched under heavy guard from Burroughsville (Marshall) to Little Rock.  At Little Rock, they were pressed into Confederate service.  After this happened, Bob went to Springfield to join the Union army.  His family never saw him again.

Margaret’s mother, who was very sick with pneumonia fever, loved with her.  George and Joshua were allowed to spend the night with Hannah Grinder Baker, Bob’s sister.  The next day, George was told the bushwackers had visited his home in the night and demanded to know where the man of the house was.  Margaret refused to tell them, afraid the masked men would overtake Bob and kill him before he reached Springfield.  The men with black maskes entered the house and carried Joshua’s Gramma outside in the snow.  While the fire was being set, Margaret caught the leader off guard, reached up and pulled down him mask.  She called out the man’s name, and he hit her over the head with a heavy chain.

In the spring, the war hit Hannah’s home with a heavy blow.  Zeb Baker and his son, Andrew, were working in the field when a party of Jayhawkers rode into the field killing the Baker men.  Hannah asked the officers to leave the yoke of oxen so she could make crops for the small children in the family.  The men refused and even made her give them a jar of honey, the only food she had.  She and her children were left to survive the best they could.