CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - GROSVENOR Horace H. ==================================================================== NEGENWEB 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. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the NEGenWeb Archives by Shirley Keifer. ====================================================================== Laurel Advocate – 2-13-1916 Death of an Old Settler Horace H. Grosvenor a Victim of Pneumonia H. H. Grosvenor died at his home in Laurel Saturday morning at 11:30 after a ten day illness from pneumonia. The funeral was held at the house at 9:30 Monday morning and the remains taken to the Daily Branch for interment beside those of his father and three children. Rev. W.O. Harper of the Presbyterian Church conducted the service. He leaves a wife and seven children, all of whom were with him at the last. Horace Henry Grosvenor was born March 5, 1832 at Pelham, Hillsboro County, N.H. His mother died when he was seven, and he lived at different places in New England until 1854 when he came west to Davenport, Iowa. As far as the railroad would bring him. In the fall of that year he settled near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he remained until 1859, when in company with others he made the trip across the plains to California, but when troubulous times preceding the Civil War came on he returned and enlisted in the 22nd Iowa Vol. Co. H. from which he was honorably discharged at Savannah, Ga., July 25, 1865. He was in the battles of Port Gibson, Champion Hills. Black River Bridge, Fisher’s Hill and Cedar Creek, as well as at the siege of Vicksburg. May 7, 1866, at Marengo, Iowa, he was married to Catherine Simmons, who survives him. He was in the drug business at Blairstown, Iowa until the spring of 1871, when he came with his family to Sioux City, Iowa and then by boat up the river to the old town of Iona, since washed away, about three or four miles west of the present town of Newcastle. Later that same summer he homesteaded in Dixon County, remaining there, and on the farm adjoining, which he purchased, until he came to Laurel in the spring of 1908; and his son Bert taking the farm. There were ten children: Edward M., who died in California when he was in the late twenties; Minnie, Mrs. J.E. Knapp of Laurel; Harry H. of Daily; Hattie, the first Mrs. J.A. Newman who died Feb. 13, 1895; Gertrude G., Mrs. R.J. Schenck of Herman, David Arthur of Dallas, S.D., Bert V. on the home place at Daily; Ray L., of Walthill, Vernon, died as a child, Joy, Mrs. Howard Lee Norris of Laurel. Mr. Grosvenor was himself the last of a family of fourteen children. The only organization to which he belonged was the Grand Army of the Republic. Above all he was devoted to his home and family. A long and useful life with an honorable discharge at it’s close. Who could ask for more? Card of Thanks We take this method of returning our heartfelt thanks to many kind friends and neighbors for the numerous kindnesses extended to us during the sickness and death of our husband and father. Mrs. H. H. Grosvenor and children