GROVES OBITUARIES, Henry County, Missouri ==================================================================== GROVES, Arthur 1840 - 1912 Montrose Recorder, Montrose, Henry Co, MO, Friday, Jan 3 1913 - Arthur Groves a much respected and esteemed citizen of LaDue, died at his home Sunday afternoon Dec. 29, 1912. funeral services were held Monday afternoon at LaDue. Mr. Groves was an engineer by occupation and was a very skillful mechanic and is the inventor of the Groves Rotary engine a machine that promises to be valuable to the industrial world. He leaves a wife and several children all grown to manhood. He was born in England. - Montrose Recorder, Montrose, Henry Co, MO, Friday, Jan 17 1913 - Arthur Groves Sr. died at his home in LaDue Dec. 28 1912 with cancer of the mouth. He was born in London, England Feb. 9th 1840. He came to this country when a young man, and married Mrs. Mary Zount, April 30th, 1878. Three children were born to this union, Mrs. Lizzie Martin, Arthur C. Groves of LaDue and Wm. S. Groves of Monroe City, Mo. He also leaves a stepson Louis, and four grandchildren. Memorial services were held at the Christian church conducted by Rev. A. N. Lindsay of Clinton, and the remains interred in the cemetery nearby, followed by a large concourse of relatives and friends. He was an honorary member of the W.O.W. Camp 250, LaDue by which order the services were conducted at the grave. The pallbearers were Sovereign A. R. Marolf, G. F. Vansant, F. P. Marolf, C. E. Borum, W. L. Pinkston, and H. B. Adkins all old members and his co-workers. The Cortege was under escort of the Camp uniformed team Sovereign R. S. Hood master of ceremonies. In early manhood he enlisted in the Royal Navy and served with credit, and distinction in the corps of steam engineering. At the close of his naval career he returned to England and in a short time decided to visit new lands. His destination being either Australia or America. While in the naval service it was his good fortune to be assigned to a man of war that cruised in eastern waters, and in his experiences visited the Island of Ceylon, the straits and the East Indian Archipelago. Of the beautiful scenery, and delightful climate of Ceylon he always delighted to tell. He was perfectly familiar with the Mediterranean ports and those of the North and Baltic seas. It was his good fortune on one of the many cruises to coast along the fiords of Norway, to near the region of the midnight sun. Reaching America through the St. Lawrence he was at Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, Kingston, and lived in Ontario province sometime. Time at length found him in Michigan, Illinois, and finally in Missouri. During his visit to Quebec he saw the old battlefield on the Plain of Abraham where England and France contended in the final struggle for supremacy of the western world. At Calhoun, Missouri he began a long term of service for the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railroad being on over thirty three years in the pumping department and making his home at LaDue. Mr. Groves was a man who took a keen interest in public affairs. He was for many years a Justice of the peace and a member of the board of education. He presided at the trials of several important cases in Henry County and was always ready to labor for the betterment of the Public schools. He was perfectly at home in the discussion of historical, mathematical and philosophical subjects. English literature was his delight and he loved to linger long among the writings of Burns and Dickins, having been personally acquainted with the distinguished novelist. Had Mr. Groves chosen one of the professions for his life work, law, teaching or theology, he would have reached an eminence many never attained. Being a man of a mechanical turn, he solved the problem of a new improvement in the application of steam and a new device for pumping water and oil from deep mines and wells, these two machines he had patented, and models built to demonstrate their practability and later formed a company which was incorporated only a few months before his death. Mr. Groves believed in the fatherhood of God, and the brotherhood of man, and labored in season and out of season to extend the principals of fraternalism among men. Believing in these principles, he became a member of the Woodmen of the World, and was one of its active, tireless workers. Much of the influence of LaDue Camp 250 for good in the neighborhood and its solid advancement and steady growth is due to his influence. He could fill any office, work anywhere in the team and perform any part with ease and precision. In 1898 during one of old Sovereign Manager Farmers lecture tours in southwest Missouri he came to LaDue to assist the then struggling Woodmen Camp and gave a strong and eloquent address on Woodcraft to a crowded audience at the Methodist church. At the conclusion Mr. Groves rising in his seat made one of his characteristic appeals which resulted in many applications being presented and the struggling Camp being firmly established. In appreciation for these words of approbation and good will Sovereign Farmer made Mr. Groves an honorary member of LaDue Camp No. 250 to which he ever afterwards gave his best thought and service. ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. 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