Samuel Elisha GROVES

Birth:
11 Sep 1840
Adams, Illinois
Marriage:
10 Oct 1865
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Father:
Blocked
Mother:
Blocked
Notes:
                   B: Brooks say b.in Far West 14 Sep but does not give year.  IGI says year was 1839 but does not give day or month. IGI gives 11 Sept 1840 Adams Co., Ill.  TIB gives b. as 14 Sep 1840 Adams, Illinois.
Murland R. Packer: Elisha H. Groves History 1994 p. 26  "In the spring of 1840
Elisha moved his family to Madison, Hancock Co, Ill near Nauvoo.  It was here
that their third child was born September 14, 1840.  He was named after his
father.  Some records show him being born in Caldwell Co., Mo or Adams Co., Ill
Par: Elisha Hurd GROVES and Lucy SIMONS
Aka: Elisha Samuel GROVES
Bapt & End TIB GS 1262954.  Endow House 3499 Book E. p. 160.
SP: Anc File
SS: EH Book D p. 517.  The sealing of 10 Oct 1865 EH was cancelled by Heber J. Grant April 19, 1920.  TIB says all blessings were reconfirmed and ratified 12 Oct 1961.
Md: IGI has md: to Mary Lucretia Willis 10 Oct 1863 Cedar City, Iron, Utah.
Sealed 21 Nov 1989 JR.
Samuel's sister, Mary Leah Groves was the 15th wife of John D. Lee.  Samuel is styled as a brother-in-law in Lees Diaries.
Mary Lucretia WILLIS
Birth:
18 Mar 1837
McLeansboro, Hamilton, Illinois
Death:
11 Mar 1912
Kanarra, Iron, Utah
Sources:
1900 Census Kannara, Iron, Utah
Notes:
                   Mary Lucretia WILLIS left T. D. BROWN after one of his excommunications according to family lore.
Md: 2) IGI has two entries. #1 Marriage at Cedar City 10 Oct 1863 to Elisha Samuel Groves. #2 Sealing at Endowment House, Salt Lake 10 Oct 1965.  Endowment House Sealings, book D p. 517
Mary Lucretia Willis BROWN and son John William BROWN were found living at the Salt Lake Home of Thomas D. BROWN July 1860 (1860 census).
D: Parowan Stake Record of Deaths 1912.  Says died 11 Mar 1912 of stomach disorder
D: Kanarraville Headstones "Pioneer Mother" Mary Lucretia Willis Brown, March
18, 1837 to Mar 11, 1912. The Kanarraville cemetery has five headstones of her Groves children near Mary Lucretia Willis.
She was rebaptised Oct 19, 1874.  Confirmed by W. S. Berry.
Family records had an endowment date of 10 May 1855.  This would be before she was sealed to Thomas D. Brown.  The Endowment House records do not confirm this date.  The endownment record is at the date of her sealing to Samuel Elisha Groves.
Children
Marriage
1
Samuel Elisha GROVES
Birth:
20 Nov 1862
Kanarra, Iron, Utah
Death:
5 Aug 1888
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   Kanarra Ward Record #132  Film 26049
End: Done by RGL, Oakland Temple
SP: RGL & SHL Oakland Temple 18 Jun 1993
Ordained a Deacon on 4 Jan 1880, Teacher on 27 Dec 1885 and Elder on 4 Aug 1887.  He died of consumption on
5 Aug 1888.
2
Lemuel Warren GROVES
Birth:
20 Mar 1864
Kanarra, Iron, Utah
Death:
15 Sep 1864
Kanarra, Iron, Utah
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   Kanarra Ward Record #133
3
Lucretia Ann GROVES
Birth:
9 Jul 1866
Kanarra, Iron, Utah
Death:
22 Feb 1936
Provo, Utah, Utah
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   Kanarra Ward Record #134 says bapt: 29 Aug 1880  GS26049
D:Kanarra Ward Record #77
There is a Kanarraville headstone, Annis Groves 1866 - 1912
D: Utah Ceretificate of Death.  She died at Utah State Hospital, Provo of lobar pneumonia.
Bapt:  Rees Jones William ledger book says that she was baptised 29 Aug 1880 by John Stapely, confirmed by
   W. S. Berry.
4
Heber Alvin GROVES
Birth:
27 May 1868
Kanarra, Iron, Utah
Death:
20 Dec 1949
Cedar City, Iron, Utah
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   D: Deseret News Obit Dec 23, 1949 p. B-5 Index GS 321,142
B & Bapt:Kanarra Ward Record #135  GS26049
There is a headstone in Kannaraville cemetery for Alvin Groves 1865 - 1958.
Heber was ordained a Teacher 14 Jan 1901.
Md:  He never married
D: of cerebral Hem.  Utah Death Certificate
5
Margaret Lucy GROVES
Birth:
29 Mar 1870
Kanarra, Iron, Utah
Death:
4 Jan 1932
Los Angeles, California
Emanuel JACOBSEN 
Marr:
30 Jul 1896
Parowan, Iron, Utah 
Notes:
                   B & Bapt: Kanarra Ward Record #136  GS26049
D: California Death Index Margaret L. Jacobsen age 60, State File No. 1162
6
Wesley Tilman GROVES
Birth:
25 Mar 1873
Hamilton Fort, Iron, Utah
Death:
21 May 1932
Provo, Utah, Utah
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   Kanarra Ward Record #137  GS26049
D: Kanarra Ward Record #78
Bur: Headstone Kanarraville, Wesley Groves 1873 - 1932
Ordained a Teacher 3 Jan 1909.
D:  Utah Death Certificate.  Died in Utah State Hospital, Provo, of general disability and gastric enteritis.  Contributing cause feeblemindedness.
7
Lilly Josephine GROVES
Birth:
3 Jan 1875
Hamilton's Fort, Iron, Utah
Death:
26 Mar 1922
George Albert RICE 
Marr:
21 Jul 1897
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Uta 
Notes:
                   Kanarra Ward Record #138, some family records have her born at Kanarra.
D: see patron's sheets batch no. 8500003, sheet 00, film 1396168.
Bapt and End:  Ward record has both in May 1883.  She was confirmed by John W. Brown.
1920 census, a widow with four children living in Delta Pct., Millard Co., Utah. None of the children were located in the 1930 census.
8
Eliza Valeria GROVES
Birth:
13 Jun 1876
Kanarra, Iron, Utah
Death:
6 Mar 1929
Provo, Utah, Utah
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   Kanarra Ward Record #133 and #79 Film26049
End: Done by SHL, Oakland Temple
SP: RGL & SHL Oakland Temple 18 June 1993
D: Utah Death Certificate.  Died at Utah State Hospital, Provo.  Death due to pleurisy, empyema and embolism.  Contributatory cause, moron with psychosis.
9
Louis Merrill GROVES
Birth:
24 Apr 1882
Kanarra, Iron, Utah
Death:
26 Jun 1951
Cedar City, Iron, Utah
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   D: Deseret News Obits 27 June 1951 p. B-4; SL Tribune 28 June 1951 p. 23
Index GS 321---
Kanarra Ward Record #257
Bur: There is a headstone in Kanarraville: Louis Groves 1887 - 1951.
Ordained Deacon 16 Jan 1900 and Teacher 5 Jan 1908.  Never married.
D:  Utah Death Certificate.  Coronary occlusion.
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Samuel Elisha Groves - Mary Lucretia Willis

Samuel Elisha Groves was born at Adams, Illinois 11 Sep 1840.

He married Mary Lucretia Willis 10 Oct 1865 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah . Mary Lucretia Willis was born at McLeansboro, Hamilton, Illinois 18 Mar 1837 daughter of William Wesley Willis and Margaret Jane Willis .

They were the parents of 9 children:
Samuel Elisha Groves born 20 Nov 1862.
Lemuel Warren Groves born 20 Mar 1864.
Lucretia Ann Groves born 9 Jul 1866.
Heber Alvin Groves born 27 May 1868.
Margaret Lucy Groves born 29 Mar 1870.
Wesley Tilman Groves born 25 Mar 1873.
Lilly Josephine Groves born 3 Jan 1875.
Eliza Valeria Groves born 13 Jun 1876.
Louis Merrill Groves born 24 Apr 1882.

Mary Lucretia Willis died 11 Mar 1912 at Kanarra, Iron, Utah .