Grove Lawrence Marble

MARBLE, OLMSTEAD, BLINKS

Posted By: Carrie Robertson (email)
Date: 11/16/2016 at 22:56:40

Thursday May 28, 1908 The Marion Sentinel
Grove Lawrence Marble, second son of Wm. and Sarah G. Marble, was born in Cato, New York, May 2, 1841, having passed his sixty-seventh birthday but a few days before his death, which occurred May 22, 1908. In 1864 he was married to Ellen M. Olmstead, in Elbridge, New York, and together they came to Iowa in 1866, locating on a farm of raw prairie land southeast of Fairfax, Linn Co., where they resided fourteen years. Thirty-seven years ago he was converted and became a member of the Methodist Church at Fairfax, which membership was transferred to Marion. He leaves to mourn his death, by which they lose one of the kindest and most unselfish of husbands and fathers, the wife and two daughters, Mrs. C.E. Blinks and Edith L., one daughter, Inez Imogene, havind died in infancy. He also leaves a sister, Mrs. W.J. Olmstead, of Humboldt, Iowa.
After six years of failing health and one week of the most severe suffering that frail, human bodies are called upon to bear, death came peacefully at the home east of Marion, in which locality the family have resided twenty-seven years, and his loving and tender being passed into eternal rest where all suffering will be over and he will be at rest with loved ones gone before.
The funeral services were held at the M.E. Church in Marion, Sunday afternoon, Dr. J.G. Van Ness, presiding elder, preaching the sermond, assisted by Rev. Sanderson, D.D., pastor of the Marion Church. There was a large attendance of neighbors and friends of the city and country. The music was furnised by Mrs. V.G. Shumack, Miss Blanche Kerr, J.B. Finney and W.B. Nelson. Those who acted as pall bearers were: W.E. Beall, A.M. Secrist, W.P. Secrist, James Jordan, F.M. Goldsberry and G.C. Fernow. The floral offering were very numerous and beautiful. The remains were interred in the Oak Shade cemetery.

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