Isaac Gruwell

GRUWELL, WREN, FRISBIE

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Date: 12/15/2018 at 09:15:50

17 January 1889 - The Local Record

DIED. GRUWELL--On Saturday Jan. 12, 1889, at his residence in West Branch, Iowa, I. N. Gruwell aged 50 years 9 months and 6 days.

Isaac Newton Gruwell was born in Stark county, Ohio, on the old Gruwell place near the village of Marlboro. He was the son and oldest child of Aaron and Basheba Gruwell, who in the early days of his childhood moved to Logan county in the western part of state, and a few years later emigrated to Iowa and settled in Cedar county near Honey Grove where he has lived since, with the exception of the last three years of his life. He was married in 1883, to Eliza Wren who was taken away by death leaving a son and daughter who survive both parents. In 1878 he married Mary Frisbie who with six daughters now mourn the loss of an affectionate husband and kind indulgent father. He was not a church member at the time of his decease, but his life and character was one worthy of example for honesty and integrity.

The funeral was held Monday afternoon at Honey Grove church where a very large congregation of assembled friends and relations paid their last respects and he was laid to rest in the cemetery at that place.