Orleans County VT Archives Obituaries.....GROUT, Ellen BLACK 1924
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11-1-04
 
Newport Express & Standard - Nov. 7, 1924 - Page one.
 
ELLEN BLACK GROUT
 
MRS. GROUT died at 560 West 180th St., New York City, Saturday morning, Oct. 26,
1924, from heart failure, after a lingering illness of over three years which
confined her to the house. The body was taken to Newport, her old home, and buried
from ST. MARK'S Church, Tuesday afternoon, the REV. R.H. TRILL, rector of the
church, conducting the service, and making interesting and appropriate remarks on
the life and character of the deceased. The interment was in the GROUT family lot,
Newport East main Street cemetery, REV. MR. TRILL reading the committal service.
MAYOR LINDSAY, City Clerk SPEAR, FRANK R. SHERMAN, E. J. PROUTY, CHARLIE BROWN,
HENRY BLANCHARD, old time friends and neighbors, acted as bearers. The choir sang
"Lead Kindly Light: and other favorite hymns
of  the deceased.
 
ELLEN A. BLACK GROUT, the subject of this article, was born in Galveston, Texas,
July 11th, 1852.  She was the daughter of CHARLES and MARY (STUBBS) BLACK. Her
parents were among the early settlers of Galveston and both are buried in the old
city cemetery at Galveston. After the death of MRS. GROUT's parents in 1869 she
lived and made her home with the REV. WM. C. SOMERVILLE and wife, then of Houston,
Texas.  MRS. SOMERVILLE, (Note: JUDITH ADELINE SLEEPER) whose first husband's name
was SMITH, was an early settler of Galveston and had been well acquainted with the
deceased and the BLACK family, for many years. In 1870 MR. SOMERVILLE, then pastor
of the first Presbyterian church of Houston, Texas, obtained a leave of six months,
and accompanied by his wife and MRS. GROUT, then MISS BLACK, came to Stanstead and
Coaticook, P. Q., to visit her relatives. During this time the Congregational church
at Newport, Vermont, was without a pastor, and REV. MR. SOMERVILLE supplied the
pulpit, and became the regular pastor of the Newport church, May, 1871, and with his
wife and MISS BLACK boarded at the old Memphremagog House, Newport. On the 25th day
of November, 1873, MISS BLACK was married to THEOPHILUS GROUT, then a lawyer at
Newport, where they made their permanent home until 1901, when they sold their home
on School Street with spacious grounds to the Newport School District, on which lot
the present Newport high school building now stands.
 
During the thirty or more years that MR. and MRS. GROUT lived in Newport, she was an
untiring active zealous worker in organizing and building Saint Mark's Episcopal
church at Newport. MRS. GROUT with the other brave and courageous women of the
Episcopal faith took the ground that an Episcopal church could be built and paid for
and maintained in Newport, and if the fainthearted husbands could not see their way
clear to build it, the women would undertake the task. This was too much for the
men, and by the unanimous request of all interested THEOPHILUS GROUT drew up the
following articles of association, which was the real beginning of the beautiful
little SAINT MARK's church and rectory house on Second St.  "Articles of Association
of the Mission of SAINT MARK's Church, Newport, Vermont.  "We the undersigned
citizens of the town of Newport, county of Orleans, state of Vermont, do hereby
associate ourselves together as a religious society, under the laws of the state of
Vermont, to be known and called as the mission of SAINT MARK's church, Newport.  "We
associate for the purpose of maintaining the worship of Almighty God, according to
the provisions of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States, in its
liturgy, canons and usages, and for doing whatever else may be necessary in
promoting the main purpose:  "We do hereby adopt, receive and promise entire
conformity to the constitution and Canons of the Diocese of Vermont.
"Signed at Newport, Vermont, November 8th, A. D. 1879.
 
NAMES  "THEOPHILUS GROUT, ELLEN A. GROUT, VICTORIA GROUT, ROBERT J. WRIGHT, M. T.
HAMILTON, FREDERICK CHATFIELD, MRS. L. B. CLEVELAND, MRS. M. T. HAMILTON, MRS. W.
FULLER, MRS. R. J. WRIGHT, MRS. F. P. DAVIS, MRS. F. CHATFIELD.
"Town clerk's office, Newport, Dec. 11th, A.D. 1879. Received for record at ten
o'clock a. m., and recorded in Vol. one, page 20, of Newport records in town.
Attest: H. S. ROOT, Town Clerk."
Immediately after the signing and recording of the foregoing articles of
association, the Episcopal ladies formed a guild known as "The Ladies Guild of SAINT
MARK's Church, Newport," and the good work commenced.  The first year the Ladies'
Guild cleared about $800 and within three years had realized around $2000, and a lot
was purchased and paid for.  On the 5th day of October, 1882, the cornerstone of
SAINT MARK's church was laid, with imposing ceremonies by the Right REV. W. H. A.
BISSELL, then bishop of Vermont, assisted by BISHOP NILES of New Hampshire, and a
large number of visiting clergy and laity from Vermont, Canada and New Hampshire. It
was a
beautiful and imposing service.  In January, 1884, the church was completed and
opened for services, with a small debt left on it.  Before September, 1884, this
debt was paid off and SAINT MARK's church was consecrated to the worship of Almighty
God according to the constitution and canons of the Protestant Episcopal church of
the United States and the diocese of Vermont.  At this beautiful and imposing
service the late BISHOP BISSELL of Vermont presided, assisted by BISHOP NILES of New
Hampshire, and many clergymen and laity
from Vermont, New Hampshire and Canada. BISHOP NILES preached the dedicatory
sermon.  Soon after SAINT MARK's church was consecrated it was deeded to the
trustees of the Diocese of Vermont, a corporation chartered by the legislation of
Vermont, to be by them held in trust forever, to be used only for church purposes,
and never to be diverted to any other use or purpose.  A few years after SAINT
MARK's church was thus consecrated and deeded to the trustees of the Vermont
Diocese, it received from MRS. FULLER of Chicago,
Illinois, aunt of MRS. M. T. HAMILTON of Newport, a legacy of $5000, which was put
into the hands of the trustees of the Diocese of Vermont to be held by them in trust
forever, the income thereof only to be used for the support of SAINT MARK's church. 
At the time this legacy of $5000 was paid over to the trustees as before mentioned,
about $1300 interest had accrued, and this was used to help build the
present rectory house, no one played a more important part than ELLEN A. GROUT, the
subject of thiect of this sketch. She loved the little church she had helped to
build, thought it beautiful and homelike, and desired to be buried from it, and her
requests have been carried out.
 
She leaves to mourn her departure her husband, THEOPHILUS GROUT, a son, CHARLES T.
GROUT, a daughter, ADDIELOU GROUT ROSEBERY, a granddaughter, ROSANNA GROUT, and two
grandsons, WILLIAM W. GROUT and GROUT ROSEBERY, and daughter-in-law, ALICE CANON
GROUT, wife of CHARLES T. GROUT.
 
She was a woman of many accomplishments whom everbody loved. She was a beautiful
character, richly endowed by nature, cultured, amiable and refined, a noble
Christian wife, mother and grandmother.  She has fought a good fight and kept the
faith, and gone to her home in heaven, there to receive a crown of righteousness
form her Lord and Saviour.  Peaceful be thy rest, and a tender goodbye, dear heart,
until we meet again, in that land where the Lord God giveth eternal light.
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See website: http://www.riverbendvt.com/history.html
 
BRIEF HISTORY OF ST. MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH - Newport VT for more on ELLEN (BLACK)
GROUT
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