Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Heck, Granville Everett 1892 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

GRANVILLE EVERETT HECK.

   Granville Everett Heck, a well-known young man, now a clerk in the Delphi
postoffice, is a native of that city, where he was born on March 23, 1892. He is
a man of honorable impulses and temperate habits, and enjoys the confidence of a
host of friends, not only in Delphi, but throughout Carroll county.

   Mr. Heck is a son of Abraham and Allie (Campbell) Heck, natives of this
state. Abraham Heck is a farmer by occupation, but lives within the corporate
limits of Delphi. At various times he has been engaged in different occupations.
For some years he was a dairyman, but during the past few years has cultivated a
farm of thirty-eight acres which he owns, near the corporation line of Delphi.
Mrs. Abraham Heck was reared in the Methodist church. She has borne her husband
seven children, of whom Granville Everett is the eldest. The others are, E. Fay,
M. Lucille; William E., George R., Margaret J. and Vernon.

   Mr. Heck's paternal grandparents were Aaron and Lavina Heck, the former of
whom was killed on a railroad, after having reared a family of seven children,
Calvin, Albert, Abraham,, Hannah, Sarah, Laura.and Ella. The subject's maternal
grandparents were Jack and Jennie (Paris) Campbell, also natives of Indiana, who
reared two children, Allie and Maud, besides whom they had another child,
Walter, who died early in life. Mr. Campbell died early in life. Mrs. Campbell
was later married to Albert Dunn, now deceased, and she is now living at Delphi.

   Granville Everett Heck, who was reared in Delphi, receiving his elementary
education in the graded schools of that city and graduated from the high school
in 1911. During the next two years he worked on the Vandalia railroad at
Logansport and for his father in the dairy. On April 3, 1913, he was appointed
as a clerk in the Delphi postoffice and still holds this position.

   A short time after having been appointed to his present position, in October,
1913, Mr. Heck was married to Birdie M. Grauel, who was born in Pittsburg,
Kansas, a daughter of Absalom and Emma (Edwards) Grauel. Mrs. Heck was one of
eight children born to her parents, the others being, Fannie, Beatrice,
Florence, Daisy, Myrtle, Margaret and Pauline. Mr, and Mrs. Granville E. Heck
have had one son, Donald E. Mr. Heck is a member of Delphi Lodge No. 174,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is independent in politics.


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Biographical Section of
HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana


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