U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Grose, John Andrew (1864-1943) ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Braxton County and Central West Virginia by John Davison Sutton Sutton, West Virginia, January, 1919 Pages 379-380 John Andrew Grose was born on the Grose home farm, one mile south of Summersville, Nicholas county, April 17, 1864. His father was John McDowell Grose, son of Samuel Grose, whose wife was an Oliver. Samuel's father, Jacob Samuel Grose, settling in Nicholas county, on Line Creek, soon after the Mexican war, in which he was a soldier, moving from Virginia. John Andrew's mother was Melvina Hamilton Grose, daughter of John McKee Hamilton and Rebecca Robinson Hamilton, whose mother was a daughter of James Robinson and Betsy Lemasters, the latter a daughter of Benjamin Lemasters. His mother died when he was eight years old and his father when he was fourteen years old. A very excellent stepmother, who, before marriage to his father, was the widow of Thomas McVey, she being a daughter of Jacob Koontz, remained with him and his younger brothers, William Rush Grose and David Oliver Grose, until the fall of 18S1 , when they "broke up" housekeeping. At this time he entered the Nicholas Chronicle office, where he began learning the printer's trade and the newspaper business, having attended the district schools previous to this. He came to Sutton in September, 1885, when he purchased an interest in the Braxton Democrat, then a 7-column folio, with 650 circulation. In one way or another he has been connected with this paper since that date, except from 1889 to May, 1893, when he resided in Nicholas, during which time he and his brother, D. 0. Grose, acquired the Nicholas Chronicle. The Democrat is now a 6-column quarto, with 2,450 circulation. In April, 1896, he and Dr. T. S. Wade established the Methodist Episcopal Advocate in the interest of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, the paper being known at present as the Advocate- Herald. He is manager and publisher of both the Braxton Democrat and Advocate-Herald, and is also associate editor. But I must not fail to mention his rather uncommon record as to marriages, as follows: To Miss Mattie Patterson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Patterson, May, 1888, who died January, 1890; to Miss Nannie Camden, daughter of Capt. and Mrs. E. A. Camden, April, 1892, who died September, 1898; to Mrs. Esther Peck, March, 1901; to Miss Lucy Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Smith, Sr., September, 1908, who died April, 1913; and to Mrs. Margaret E. Baxter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allen S. Berry, November, 1915 — all happy and congenial marriages, except that to Mrs. Peck, which ended unhappily for both in less than a year. One daughter, Bessie M. Grose, school teacher, Charleston, survives Mattie Grose. One daughter, Ruth N. Grose, school teacher, Charleston, and one son, Lieutenant John Edwin Grose, of the Regular Army, survive Nannie Grose; another son, Thomas Wade Grose, having died at the age of three and a half years — all having been born in Sutton, Braxton county, West Virginia. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Braxton County, WV #2546 FULL-NAME: John Andrew Grose BIRTH-DATE: April 17, 1864 BIRTH-PLACE: Nicholas County DEATH-DATE: February 16, 1943 DEATH-PLACE: Sutton, Holly District, Braxton County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Married (Maggie Grose) OCCUPATION: Newspaper Owner and Printer FATHER: John McDowell Grose MOTHER: Melvina Hamilton Grose CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Appoplexy BURIAL: Sutton Cemetery, Sutton, W.Va. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Braxton County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/braxton/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------