10 MAR 1824 in Falmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Independence Reporter
Independence, Kansas
Thursday, April 24, 1902
Page 2
J.W. Grew Dead
Venerable and Well Known Citizen Passed Away at 7:40 o'clock - Something of His Eventful Life.
J.W. Grew died at his home at 400 N. Thirteenth street at 7:40 o'clock this morning. His last illness was due to a neuralgic affection of the heart, although he has been an invalid for a number of years and a sufferer from palsy. He has fought disease with the courage born of an indomitable will, but last Sunday was compelled to take to his bed.
The deceased passed the allotted period of three-score-and-ten by eight years. He was born at Wood's Hole, Mass., March 10, 1824. At the age of 18 he went to sea as a petty officer on a whaler, following the life for a number of years, during which time he circumnavigated the world several times, quitting the sea as first mate of a vessel to come west.
This he did in 1858, coming to Lawrence, Kansas, just in time to get thoroughly mixed up in the slavery troubles that were then involving the state. He went through the Quantrell raid as one of the defenders of Lawrence and later served with the state troops that drove Price out of the state.
He and Mrs. Grew were married in Fitchburg, Mass., October 16, 1851. They came to Independence in 1869, Mr. Grew taking a claim of 160 acres on the north side of Drum creek, at the junction of the creek with the Verdigris river. This farm is now owned by Samuel Bowlby.
More than fifty years ago Mr. Grew joined the Congregational Bethel at Honolulu, a mission church of that denomination. He never transferred his membership.
The funeral will take place from the residence of the deceased Saturday at 10 o'clock. The services will be conducted by Rev. Ira Holbrook, pastor of the Congregational church, and the interment will take place in Mt. Hope cemetery.
Mr. Grew was one of those modest characters who seldom spoke of himself, and it is only through intimate family connections that we have been able to record what little we have appertaining to his life. Since he has resided in Independence he has been a carpenter and a cabinet maker and had the reputation of being the best workman in the latter line ever in the city.
Independence Reporter
Independence, Kansas
Thursday, April 24, 1902
Page 2
J.W. Grew Dead
Venerable and Well Known Citizen Passed Away at 7:40 o'clock - Something of His Eventful Life.
J.W. Grew died at his home at 400 N. Thirteenth street at 7:40 o'clock this morning. His last illness was due to a neuralgic affection of the heart, although he has been an invalid for a number of years and a sufferer from palsy. He has fought disease with the courage born of an indomitable will, but last Sunday was compelled to take to his bed.
The deceased passed the allotted period of three-score-and-ten by eight years. He was born at Wood's Hole, Mass., March 10, 1824. At the age of 18 he went to sea as a petty officer on a whaler, following the life for a number of years, during which time he circumnavigated the world several times, quitting the sea as first mate of a vessel to come west.
This he did in 1858, coming to Lawrence, Kansas, just in time to get thoroughly mixed up in the slavery troubles that were then involving the state. He went through the Quantrell raid as one of the defenders of Lawrence and later served with the state troops that drove Price out of the state.
He and Mrs. Grew were married in Fitchburg, Mass., October 16, 1851. They came to Independence in 1869, Mr. Grew taking a claim of 160 acres on the north side of Drum creek, at the junction of the creek with the Verdigris river. This farm is now owned by Samuel Bowlby.
More than fifty years ago Mr. Grew joined the Congregational Bethel at Honolulu, a mission church of that denomination. He never transferred his membership.
The funeral will take place from the residence of the deceased Saturday at 10 o'clock. The services will be conducted by Rev. Ira Holbrook, pastor of the Congregational church, and the interment will take place in Mt. Hope cemetery.
Mr. Grew was one of those modest characters who seldom spoke of himself, and it is only through intimate family connections that we have been able to record what little we have appertaining to his life. Since he has resided in Independence he has been a carpenter and a cabinet maker and had the reputation of being the best workman in the latter line ever in the city.
10 MAR 1824 in Falmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Independence Reporter
Independence, Kansas
Thursday, April 24, 1902
Page 2
J.W. Grew Dead
Venerable and Well Known Citizen Passed Away at 7:40 o'clock - Something of His Eventful Life.
J.W. Grew died at his home at 400 N. Thirteenth street at 7:40 o'clock this morning. His last illness was due to a neuralgic affection of the heart, although he has been an invalid for a number of years and a sufferer from palsy. He has fought disease with the courage born of an indomitable will, but last Sunday was compelled to take to his bed.
The deceased passed the allotted period of three-score-and-ten by eight years. He was born at Wood's Hole, Mass., March 10, 1824. At the age of 18 he went to sea as a petty officer on a whaler, following the life for a number of years, during which time he circumnavigated the world several times, quitting the sea as first mate of a vessel to come west.
This he did in 1858, coming to Lawrence, Kansas, just in time to get thoroughly mixed up in the slavery troubles that were then involving the state. He went through the Quantrell raid as one of the defenders of Lawrence and later served with the state troops that drove Price out of the state.
He and Mrs. Grew were married in Fitchburg, Mass., October 16, 1851. They came to Independence in 1869, Mr. Grew taking a claim of 160 acres on the north side of Drum creek, at the junction of the creek with the Verdigris river. This farm is now owned by Samuel Bowlby.
More than fifty years ago Mr. Grew joined the Congregational Bethel at Honolulu, a mission church of that denomination. He never transferred his membership.
The funeral will take place from the residence of the deceased Saturday at 10 o'clock. The services will be conducted by Rev. Ira Holbrook, pastor of the Congregational church, and the interment will take place in Mt. Hope cemetery.
Mr. Grew was one of those modest characters who seldom spoke of himself, and it is only through intimate family connections that we have been able to record what little we have appertaining to his life. Since he has resided in Independence he has been a carpenter and a cabinet maker and had the reputation of being the best workman in the latter line ever in the city.
Independence Reporter
Independence, Kansas
Thursday, April 24, 1902
Page 2
J.W. Grew Dead
Venerable and Well Known Citizen Passed Away at 7:40 o'clock - Something of His Eventful Life.
J.W. Grew died at his home at 400 N. Thirteenth street at 7:40 o'clock this morning. His last illness was due to a neuralgic affection of the heart, although he has been an invalid for a number of years and a sufferer from palsy. He has fought disease with the courage born of an indomitable will, but last Sunday was compelled to take to his bed.
The deceased passed the allotted period of three-score-and-ten by eight years. He was born at Wood's Hole, Mass., March 10, 1824. At the age of 18 he went to sea as a petty officer on a whaler, following the life for a number of years, during which time he circumnavigated the world several times, quitting the sea as first mate of a vessel to come west.
This he did in 1858, coming to Lawrence, Kansas, just in time to get thoroughly mixed up in the slavery troubles that were then involving the state. He went through the Quantrell raid as one of the defenders of Lawrence and later served with the state troops that drove Price out of the state.
He and Mrs. Grew were married in Fitchburg, Mass., October 16, 1851. They came to Independence in 1869, Mr. Grew taking a claim of 160 acres on the north side of Drum creek, at the junction of the creek with the Verdigris river. This farm is now owned by Samuel Bowlby.
More than fifty years ago Mr. Grew joined the Congregational Bethel at Honolulu, a mission church of that denomination. He never transferred his membership.
The funeral will take place from the residence of the deceased Saturday at 10 o'clock. The services will be conducted by Rev. Ira Holbrook, pastor of the Congregational church, and the interment will take place in Mt. Hope cemetery.
Mr. Grew was one of those modest characters who seldom spoke of himself, and it is only through intimate family connections that we have been able to record what little we have appertaining to his life. Since he has resided in Independence he has been a carpenter and a cabinet maker and had the reputation of being the best workman in the latter line ever in the city.
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