Royce, Enoch L. 1834-1918

ROYCE, NUTTING, BURCH

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Date: 3/18/2010 at 08:01:51

The Grinnell Herald (Grinnell, Iowa) April 30, 1918

ENOCH L. ROYCE

Enoch L. Royce passed away at 3:30 a.m. Sunday, April 28, 1918, at his home, 500 South Broad street, Grinnell, Iowa, in the 84th year of his age.

E.L. Royce was born at Shafford, Vt., June 18, 1834, and moved with his parents to Racine county, Wis., in 1838. Five years later they removed to Rock county, Wis. In 1860, he came with his parents, three brothers and one sister to Poweshiek county, Iowa, and located in what was known as the Royce Section, one of the choicest square miles of farm land in central Iowa. Here he remained engaged in farming and stock raising, until 1901, when he retired and moved to Grinnell, where he has since resided.

The deceased was married Jan. 8, 1873, to Mary G. Nutting, who with two children, Mrs. Ida M. Burch and Elmer L. Royce, survives. A brother, Leonidas Royce, of Malcom, and a sister, Mrs. George L. Nutting, of Buckeye, Iowa, also are left to mourn the irreparable loss of a true husband and a kind and indulgent father and an affectionate brother. He lived and died according the the counsel of the Poet Bryant: "So live that when thy summons comes to join that innumerable caravan that moves to that mysterious realm of shade, where each must choose his chamber in the silent Halls of Death: Thou go not like the quarry slave at night, scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust approach thy grave as one who folds the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams."

Funeral services were held at the Harpster undertaking parlors this afternoon at 2 o'clock, with interment at the Ivy Hill cemetery, Malcom.