Winnie Estella Powers and George Grubb

GEORGE GRUBB was born May 9, 1877 in Kansas,²⁹⁷⁰ and died March 7, 1965.²⁹⁷⁰ He is buried in Nemaha County.²⁹⁷⁰

He married WINNIE ESTELLA POWERS on February 22, 1900 in Brown County, Kansas,^{4117, 4179} daughter of FRANCES HALL and WALTER CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS POWERS. She was born October 30, 1880 near Netawaka, Jackson, Kansas,⁴¹¹⁷ and died January 14, 1903.⁴¹¹⁷ She is buried in Netawaka Cemetery, Jackson County, Kansas.^{4117, 456}

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Children of WINNIE ESTELLA POWERS and GEORGE GRUBB:

LILLIAN VELMA GRUBB, b. February 25, 1901, Kansas;²⁹⁷⁰ m. ELTON MILBERT GARD on August 17, 1922 in Parsonage, Methodist Church, Manhattan, Riley, Kansas⁴¹⁸⁹; d. January 2, 1981, Alpena, Alpena, Michigan.²⁹⁷⁰

Lillian

Marriage Announcements and News

Brown County World, March 9, 1900⁴¹⁷⁹

WEDDINGS

Powers-Grubb.

At high noon, Feb. 22, 1900, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Powers, Rev. Mr. Becker, the minister that 27 years before had married both the fathers and mothers of the bride and groom, performed the ceremony that made George Grubb and Winnie Powers one, this making the seventh couple of the number present that he had joined in matrimony. The day chosen for this occasion being Washington's birthday, the room was very prettily decorated in flags and bunting. To the step of the wedding march, played by a cousin of the bride, the party entered the parlor. The attendants were Miss Ethel and Master Jay Powers, sisterand brother of the bride. Miss Ethel was becomingly gowned in soft gray wool with shirred yoke and trimmings of pink silk. The bride was charming in pure white silk trimmed in silk lace and watered silk ribbon. Natural orange blossoms were wreathed at her neck and in her hair. The groom was dressed in convent[ion]ial black and wore a bo[u]quet of natural rose buds. After this happy couple had received many congratulations all present were invited to the dining room where they partook of a deliciious dinner. The bride is the pretty daughter of her much honored and well respected parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Powers, who are well-to-do farmers of Brown county, and she is one of the most popular young ladies of the neighborhood. She is of amiable disposition and rare womanly graces which maker her attractive in the home as well as in society. The groom is the son of one of Powhatan's wealthiest and most respected farmers, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Grubb, and is one of the neighborhood's most respected and popular young man. He is a young man of splended physique and a model of manhood morally and intellectually. These young people have spent their lives in their beautiful country homes of Powhatan township, and both have many dear friends. Quite a number of the aunts and uncles of the bride and groom were present. They received numerous costly and useful presents. On the day following the wedding the cousins of Mr. and Mrs. Grubb gathered at George's home were they spent a day of joy and festive pleasure.

And now we wish them joy and happiness

From the depths of our heart,

And are glad that from our midst

They do not part.

May your lives be as pure as the dew on the rose,

While life's checkered journy you travel,

May each gather flowers to strew on the way,

As life's tangled web you unravel.

Your name is changed and your leave the old home

For the cottage just over the hill,

May you ever remember the friends of your youth,

But to us you will be Winnie, still.

Your friend HELEN.

Obituaries

Brown County World, January 30, 1903⁴¹¹⁷

Grubb.

Winnie Estella Powers was born October 30, 1880, four miles north of Netawaka. February 22, 1900, she was married to George Grubb, a young man of the same neighborhood, who had prepared a home one half mile south of her parents. On Christmas day she spent a merry time at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Powers. On December 26, 1902, she was taken ill, and after much suffering died January 14, 1903. Blood poisoning causing her death. The funeral services were held at the Powhatan church as 12 o'clock on Thursday, January 15, by Rev. E. L. Thomas, a former pastor, whom she had requested to preach the sermon. The remains were laid to rest in the Netawaka cemtery. Her husband and little daughter, 23 months old, survive her. Her request was that her funeral day be as near like her wedding day as possible and she was robed in a dress of white silk, which three years before had served as a bridal dress. She leaves many friends to mourn her death, for none were forgotten by her. She had a cheerful smile, a loving word and a kind deed for everyone and she was loved by all.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
March 1, 1885⁴¹⁷⁸	Powhattan, Brown, Kansas	Walter Christopher Columbus Powers Frances Hall Jay Preston Powers Ethel Powers Winnie Estella Powers
June 19, 1900³²³³	Powhattan, Brown, Kansas	George Grubb Winnie Estella Powers