Excerpt of O’Brien Family in entry for Grubb

[..] June 12, 1904 recorded the marriage of Mr. [James Karl] Grubb and Miss Agnes O’Brien, who was born at Halltown, this county, and who is a daughter of Patrick and Sally (Reid) O’Brien. Her paternal grandparents were Dennis and Margaret (Trout) O’Brien, both natives of Ireland. The Trout family, one of wealth and influence, made objection to the marriage of Margaret to the young Irishman, who could claim neither wealth nor family importance, and the result that came was that the young couple eloped, were married and came to the United States on a sailing vessel of the type common to the period. They settled in Maryland, and there passed the remainder of their lives. Patrick O’Brien bought a farm near Halltown, West Virginia, and there remained until his death. Monsignor James M. O’Brien, his brother, is a distinguished clergyman of the Catholic Church. The names of the children of Patrick and Sally (Reid) O’Brien are here recorded: James W., Virginia, Thomas, Robert L., Edward, Minnie, Agnes, Mary and Rose. Robert L. O’Brien graduated from the Baltimore Medical College, and thereafter served as an interne in a leading hospital in Washington, D. C., where he married Avie M. Herbert, a trained nurse. He later established himself in the practice of his profession at Akron, Colorado, where he met his death in an automobile accident. His two sons were then taken into the home of his sister, Mrs. Grubb, and they are now attending the public schools of Bolivar. Mr. and Mrs. Grubb have no children of their own, and thus they take the deepest interest in their two foster-sons, Herman F. and Austin P. O’Brien.