Lizzie Groves 1855-1909

GROVES BECK

Posted By: Connie J Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 8/30/2012 at 17:04:06

Mapleton Press
10 June 1909

Death Without Notice

Mrs. Lizzie Groves Dies While Walking to the Cemetery

Daily News, Nebraska City, Neb.—

Mrs. Lizzie Groves, wife of H. W Groves, died suddenly and without warning Monday afternoon. She in company with her daughter, Nora, and with several other friends left her home and started for Wyuka cemetery s attend the Memorial services but had hardly gone two blocks before she complained of feeling faint and said that she would set down and rest. She selected a small mound under the shade of a tree, but had hardly got seated before she was unconscious and passed away before medical assistance could be summoned. From the time she first felt the suffocated until the vital spark had expired less than twenty minutes had elapsed.

Lizzie Beck was born July 12, 1855, at Pittsburg, Pa., and was married to Harry W Groves in 1874, in Mercer County. III., and nine years- ago she came to this city, where she has since made her home. To Mr. and Mrs. Groves were born eight children, four sons and four daughters, Ida died in 1896, a t the age of 8 years. Her husband, with her four sons, Charley, Riley, Amos and Ray—are residents of this city, and three daughters—Lucy Porter Mapleton. Iowa, Minnie Smith, of Long Pine, N e b., and Nora Frary of this city, survive her. Mrs. Groves was a woman who was greatly admired and respected by those who knew her.

The funeral services, will be held at the family home, 1221 South Eleventh street Wednesday afternoon at 2;00 o'clock, and the remains will be taken to her old home at Mapleton, Iowa, for interment.