Frank Groh
Marriages
Mary Shidler - November 29, 1890
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page p 1 - April 24, 1942
FRANK GROH , OLDEST PIONEER LEFT IN COUNTY DIED IN GLENWOOD LAST FRIDAY —HAD BEEN IN COUNTY SINCE 1879 .
Western Colorado lost one of its earliest pioneers and , until his death , probably the oldest living pioneer of Eagle county , when , Frank Groh died at a Glenwood hospital last Friday , April 17 . Mr . Groh was born at Grosse Isle , Mich ., August 22 , 1858 , and at the age of 10 , in 1877 , came to Leadville . He became a teamster , hauling ore from the Tin Cup mine to the smelter in Leadville , and for a time was a freighter beteween Ladville and Aspen over Haggerman Pass , before the railroad reached the later mining camp . He had a good memory and his tales of experiences of those days were moat interesting . He made occasional trips to his old Michigan home , and then in 1879 he went into Routt county where he was employed for a time with a cattle company . Shortly afterward he came to Eagle county , taking land near McCoy and engaged in the cattle business on his own account , For many years he was one of the leading cowmen of northwestern Eagle county , until his
retirement a few years ago . He made McCoy his home continuously from that time . For the past four years he has spent the winter * in Eagle , hut each summer returned to McCoy near the scene of the most active and happy years of his life . For the past two years he has been in failing health , and a few weeks ago it was decided beat to remove him to a hospital in Glenwood , where he passed away from a heart stroke . November 29 , 1890 , he was united in marriage to Mary Shidler of McCoy . Thi » was a very happy union , and the tteath jpf hjs beloved helpmeet some twenty ^ odd years ago , was a severe blow to Mr . Groh . To this union three children were born . One daughter , Mrs . Olive Brooks of Eagle ; two sons , Harry Grab , a merchant at McCoy , and Frank iGroh , & i Tucon , 4 * iz . Two grand daughters , Mrs . Winifred Lewis and Helen Brooks , of Eagle , two great grandchildren , Diane and Douglas Lewis alssurviye the deceased 1 . o
Funeral services were conducted from the McCoy Community church at 2 : 30 o clock Tuesday afternoon , wjth Dr .- Q . Franklin Archer , pastor of the Eagle Methodist church , delivering the funeral discourse . A large concourse gathered to pay their last respects to a beloved neighbor and friend . The body was laid to reat in the McCoy cemetery , beside , the body of his beloved wife .
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