Lexington Intelligencer, February 13, 1904
Another Pioneer Dead
George W. Grubb, one of the pioneers of Lafayette county, died at his home in Odessa Friday night, January 29, 1904, after a brief illness of congestion of the bowels. He and his daughter, Miss Alma, moved from the farm northeast of Oak Grove to Odessa last autumn. Having working hard all his life he rented his large farm and decided to retire from active business. The news of his sudden death was a shock to his many friends here. He was a man whom everyone liked. The funeral services were held at Pleasant Prairie church Sunday. It was preached by Rev. E.H. Gardner of Pink Hill, after which the interment occurred in the cemetery nearby.
Mr. Grubb was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, Feb. 2, 1831. He had been a farmer all his life. In 1852 he came with John W. Conard to Missouri and settled in Lafayette county. The two came by land in wagons and were forty-two days on the road.
Mr. Grubb remained in Missouri until 1853, when he returned to Virginia, and on Feb. 23, 1854, he was united in marriage to Miss Jane A. Conard. His wife was born in Loudoun county, Va., August 18, 1832. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Grubb, four of whom are living, viz: Mary E.M., wife of A.D. Neer; Lucelle J.E. Fishback; Sterling Lee Grubb and Miss Alma Beatrice Grubb.
In May, 1854 Mr. Grubb and his bride returned to Missouri. They came on the train from their home to Wheeling, West Virginia, at which place they took passage on a steamboat and came by way of the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri rivers to Wellington, Lafayette county.
He purchased a farm three miles south of Napoleon from Major Bryant Sanders and James U. Ewing. In an early day, Napoleon was called Lisbon. That place and Wellington were great shipping points for the Lafayette county farmers who grew hemp extensively and shipped it on steamboats to the St. Louis and New Orleans markets. But very little of the land was under fence and people traveled to their neighbors on a straight line instead of having highways as in the present day. The mail was carried on horseback once or twice a week from Lexington to Independence. Mr. Grubb very often sold cattle to the freighters who used them as oxen to haul goods across the plains.
Mr. Grubb was not in the army during the civil war, but his sympathies were with the South from start to finish, and two of his brothers were killed while fighting for the Southern cause. During the was he was taken to Lexington along with several of his neighbors and made to take the oath of allegiance to sustain the union and then they returned to their farms and were not molested during the remainder of the unpleasantness.--Oak Grove Banner.
Another Pioneer Dead
George W. Grubb, one of the pioneers of Lafayette county, died at his home in Odessa Friday night, January 29, 1904, after a brief illness of congestion of the bowels. He and his daughter, Miss Alma, moved from the farm northeast of Oak Grove to Odessa last autumn. Having working hard all his life he rented his large farm and decided to retire from active business. The news of his sudden death was a shock to his many friends here. He was a man whom everyone liked. The funeral services were held at Pleasant Prairie church Sunday. It was preached by Rev. E.H. Gardner of Pink Hill, after which the interment occurred in the cemetery nearby.
Mr. Grubb was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, Feb. 2, 1831. He had been a farmer all his life. In 1852 he came with John W. Conard to Missouri and settled in Lafayette county. The two came by land in wagons and were forty-two days on the road.
Mr. Grubb remained in Missouri until 1853, when he returned to Virginia, and on Feb. 23, 1854, he was united in marriage to Miss Jane A. Conard. His wife was born in Loudoun county, Va., August 18, 1832. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Grubb, four of whom are living, viz: Mary E.M., wife of A.D. Neer; Lucelle J.E. Fishback; Sterling Lee Grubb and Miss Alma Beatrice Grubb.
In May, 1854 Mr. Grubb and his bride returned to Missouri. They came on the train from their home to Wheeling, West Virginia, at which place they took passage on a steamboat and came by way of the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri rivers to Wellington, Lafayette county.
He purchased a farm three miles south of Napoleon from Major Bryant Sanders and James U. Ewing. In an early day, Napoleon was called Lisbon. That place and Wellington were great shipping points for the Lafayette county farmers who grew hemp extensively and shipped it on steamboats to the St. Louis and New Orleans markets. But very little of the land was under fence and people traveled to their neighbors on a straight line instead of having highways as in the present day. The mail was carried on horseback once or twice a week from Lexington to Independence. Mr. Grubb very often sold cattle to the freighters who used them as oxen to haul goods across the plains.
Mr. Grubb was not in the army during the civil war, but his sympathies were with the South from start to finish, and two of his brothers were killed while fighting for the Southern cause. During the was he was taken to Lexington along with several of his neighbors and made to take the oath of allegiance to sustain the union and then they returned to their farms and were not molested during the remainder of the unpleasantness.--Oak Grove Banner.
Lexington Intelligencer, February 13, 1904
Another Pioneer Dead
George W. Grubb, one of the pioneers of Lafayette county, died at his home in Odessa Friday night, January 29, 1904, after a brief illness of congestion of the bowels. He and his daughter, Miss Alma, moved from the farm northeast of Oak Grove to Odessa last autumn. Having working hard all his life he rented his large farm and decided to retire from active business. The news of his sudden death was a shock to his many friends here. He was a man whom everyone liked. The funeral services were held at Pleasant Prairie church Sunday. It was preached by Rev. E.H. Gardner of Pink Hill, after which the interment occurred in the cemetery nearby.
Mr. Grubb was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, Feb. 2, 1831. He had been a farmer all his life. In 1852 he came with John W. Conard to Missouri and settled in Lafayette county. The two came by land in wagons and were forty-two days on the road.
Mr. Grubb remained in Missouri until 1853, when he returned to Virginia, and on Feb. 23, 1854, he was united in marriage to Miss Jane A. Conard. His wife was born in Loudoun county, Va., August 18, 1832. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Grubb, four of whom are living, viz: Mary E.M., wife of A.D. Neer; Lucelle J.E. Fishback; Sterling Lee Grubb and Miss Alma Beatrice Grubb.
In May, 1854 Mr. Grubb and his bride returned to Missouri. They came on the train from their home to Wheeling, West Virginia, at which place they took passage on a steamboat and came by way of the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri rivers to Wellington, Lafayette county.
He purchased a farm three miles south of Napoleon from Major Bryant Sanders and James U. Ewing. In an early day, Napoleon was called Lisbon. That place and Wellington were great shipping points for the Lafayette county farmers who grew hemp extensively and shipped it on steamboats to the St. Louis and New Orleans markets. But very little of the land was under fence and people traveled to their neighbors on a straight line instead of having highways as in the present day. The mail was carried on horseback once or twice a week from Lexington to Independence. Mr. Grubb very often sold cattle to the freighters who used them as oxen to haul goods across the plains.
Mr. Grubb was not in the army during the civil war, but his sympathies were with the South from start to finish, and two of his brothers were killed while fighting for the Southern cause. During the was he was taken to Lexington along with several of his neighbors and made to take the oath of allegiance to sustain the union and then they returned to their farms and were not molested during the remainder of the unpleasantness.--Oak Grove Banner.
Another Pioneer Dead
George W. Grubb, one of the pioneers of Lafayette county, died at his home in Odessa Friday night, January 29, 1904, after a brief illness of congestion of the bowels. He and his daughter, Miss Alma, moved from the farm northeast of Oak Grove to Odessa last autumn. Having working hard all his life he rented his large farm and decided to retire from active business. The news of his sudden death was a shock to his many friends here. He was a man whom everyone liked. The funeral services were held at Pleasant Prairie church Sunday. It was preached by Rev. E.H. Gardner of Pink Hill, after which the interment occurred in the cemetery nearby.
Mr. Grubb was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, Feb. 2, 1831. He had been a farmer all his life. In 1852 he came with John W. Conard to Missouri and settled in Lafayette county. The two came by land in wagons and were forty-two days on the road.
Mr. Grubb remained in Missouri until 1853, when he returned to Virginia, and on Feb. 23, 1854, he was united in marriage to Miss Jane A. Conard. His wife was born in Loudoun county, Va., August 18, 1832. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Grubb, four of whom are living, viz: Mary E.M., wife of A.D. Neer; Lucelle J.E. Fishback; Sterling Lee Grubb and Miss Alma Beatrice Grubb.
In May, 1854 Mr. Grubb and his bride returned to Missouri. They came on the train from their home to Wheeling, West Virginia, at which place they took passage on a steamboat and came by way of the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri rivers to Wellington, Lafayette county.
He purchased a farm three miles south of Napoleon from Major Bryant Sanders and James U. Ewing. In an early day, Napoleon was called Lisbon. That place and Wellington were great shipping points for the Lafayette county farmers who grew hemp extensively and shipped it on steamboats to the St. Louis and New Orleans markets. But very little of the land was under fence and people traveled to their neighbors on a straight line instead of having highways as in the present day. The mail was carried on horseback once or twice a week from Lexington to Independence. Mr. Grubb very often sold cattle to the freighters who used them as oxen to haul goods across the plains.
Mr. Grubb was not in the army during the civil war, but his sympathies were with the South from start to finish, and two of his brothers were killed while fighting for the Southern cause. During the was he was taken to Lexington along with several of his neighbors and made to take the oath of allegiance to sustain the union and then they returned to their farms and were not molested during the remainder of the unpleasantness.--Oak Grove Banner.
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