GROUND OBITUARIES, Henry County, Missouri
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GROUND, Florence Lucinda BALCH 1861 - 1938

Mrs. E. M. Ground Died - About 4:25 p. m. January 7, 1938, at the Ground home, 
seven miles east of Clinton. In ill health several years, she had been bedfast 
since a stroke last March, growing worse the last week. Her son, Henry, and wife 
of the home, cared for her, and last Thursday other children came to administer 
and comfort their mother, whose home the past 20 years or more had been in and 
near Clinton. Florence Lucinda Balch was born January 22, 1861, in Pike County, 
Ill. To her and her husband, Emanuel Monroe Ground, whom she married August 17, 
1882, were born nine children, six of whom survive; Henry, of the home; Freeman, 
near Urich; Mrs. Rose Garrett of Adrian: Mrs. Harvey Hatch, Oberlin, Kans.; Mrs. 
Charles White, near the home; Mrs. Jess Thompson, Coal. There are eight 
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, Shirley and Jessaline Shumaker, 
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Oda Shumaker. near Ohio Post Office, and 
granddaughters of Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Ground. Deceased had been a member of 
the Christian church since youth. She was a good wife, mother and daughter, ever 
thoughtful of others, bearing her affliction in silence. Funeral services were 
conducted at the home at 2:30 p. m. Sunday by Rev A. S. Olsen. Burial at Englewood 
under direction of Consalus & Peck. Mesdames Ben Cheatham and Miss Hazel, 
Howard Jones, Gene Henry and Frank Sargert sang In the Sweet By and By and In 
the Garden. Pallbearers were Otto Knoles, Claude Foster, John Lovell, Ellery 
Walker, Robert Warner and Ben Cheatham. Those attending from a distance 
included Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Ground and daughter, Miss Mildred; Mrs. Garrett and 
Jimmy of Adrian; Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Hatch and his brother, Walter, of Oberlin, 
Kans. 

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