WILLIAM UDOLPHO GROVES

WILLIAM UDOLPH GROVES, SON OF PETER B. AND SARAH A. GROVES, WAS BORN FEBRUARY 14, 1862, IN MARION COUNTY IOWA AND MOVED WITH HIS PARENTS TO RINGGOLD COUNTY IN 1879, WHERE HE RESIDED UNITL HE DEPARTED THIS LIFE APRIL 6, 1924, AGE 62 YEARS, ONE MONTH AND 23 DAYS, AT THE ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL, ST JOSEPH, MO., WHERE HE HAD GONE FOR AN OPERATION ON SATURDAY APRIL 5. HE HAD BEEN ILL HEALTH FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS BUT WAS NOT CONSIDERED SERIOUS UNTIL HE TOOK SUDDENLY WORSE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2 AND GRADUALLY GREW WEAKER UNTIL THE END.  HE UNITED WITH THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH WHEN IT WAS ORGANIZED HERE AND CONTINUED IN THE FAITH. HE WAS ALSO AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE I.O.O.F. LODGE NO 570 AND REBEKAH LODGE NO 523 OF BENTON, IOWA.  HE LEAVES TO MOURN HIS DEPARTURE FOUR BROTHERS; L.S., A.J., T.O. AND E.H. GROVES, WHO RESIDE IN BENTON; ALSO A HOST OF RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. HIS FATHER, MOTHER, ONE BROTHER,RUSSEL AND TWO SISTERS, AMELIA AND CORA HAVE PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.