Fred
1900 Census Frederick E Grass Home 1900: Fawn Creek Montgomery Kansas Age:16 Birth Date: Feb 1884
Birthplace: Kansas Race: White
Gender: Male Relationship head-of-house:Son
Father Name: Samuel Grass Father Birthplace: Ill
Mother Name: Alice Grass Mother Birthplace:Ill
Single
Household Members: Name Age
Samuel Grass 39
Alice Grass 36
Lawrence C Grass 17
Frederick E Grass 16
Goldie A Grass 11
Alfred H Grass 6
1910 Census about Fred Grass Age 1910: 26
Est birth year: abt 1884 Birthplace:Kansas
Relation to Head of House:Roomer
Home 1910: Linn, Washington, Kansas
Single Race: White Gender: Male
Household Members: Name Age
Henry Chesnut 68 1842 Ireland widowed immigrated 1860
Lottie J Chesnut 23 1887 dau KS single mother b KS
Ray L Chesnut 21 1889 son KS single
Fred Grass 26 roomer
+1Zadia Pierson Pearson Ross 1905 B Jan 28 1885 D Jan 22 1959 Pierce Co WA bur Puyallup Wa dau of Dionysius Ross and Sally Pearson. They had 1 dau Lelah
1917--WW1 Draft card shows Frederick Elmer Grass
b 4/Feb/1884 (he doesn't state where born)school teacher living Olympia Thurston Co Wash 9/12/1918.
Nearest relative was Zaida Grass.
Fred Grass Home 1920:Tacoma Ward 8, Pierce Wash
Age: 35 Est birth year: ABT 1885 Birthplace:Kansas
Relation Head of House: Self Spouse name:Zaida
Father Birth Place:Ill Mother Birth Place: Ill
Married race: White Sex: Male Home: Rent
Able to read: Yes Able to Write: Yes
Household Members: Name Age
Fred Grass 35 KS ILL ILL merchant
Zaida Grass 34 1886 KS OH KS
Lela Grass 9 1911 KS KS KS only dau/child born
Census Fred E Grass Home 1930: Bald Hills Thurston Wash Age: 46 Est birth year: ABT 1884 Birthplace:Kansas Relation Head of House:Head Spouse name:Zaida Race:W
Household Members: Name Age
Fred E Grass 46
Zaida Grass 45
Lelah Grass 19
Fred and Zaida had one daughter
Lelah Grass B Oct 24 1910 Montgomery Co KS
d Dec 23 2005 Spanaway WA [mother was cremated at her wishes-a marker is at Fir Lane Cem Spanaway Wa.
(not a stone marker)mrd 4x; 1-Robert Ike Cooper
2-Mick Ames 3-Morris Brecellis 4-Elmo Southworth
Leah had 3 kids; 2 w/Cooper, 1 w/Ames
Fred +2Iva Edith Parent abt 1960 Drumright OK
b Sep 6 1886 Geneseo KS d Jan 31 1986 Stillwater OK
bur North Cem Drumright Creek Co OK - no kids
IVA E GRASS From the "News Journal," Mannford, Oklahoma, February 5, 1986
Obit-Iva E. Grass, age 99, died January 31, 1986 in the Stillwater Nursing Home. Mrs. Grass was born Sept. 6, 1886 in Jenosee, Kansas and had made her home in Drumright for seventy years before moving to Stillwater six years ago. Iva was a longtime member of the First Baptist Church in Drumright where she had served as a Sunday school teacher for a number of years.
Iva is survived by her childrenfrom lst marr
she +1Harry Wesley Purcell abt 1900 OK b 1882 KS d 1958 OK 9 kids
Hazel Morefield, Stillwater; b 1916
Earl Purcell, Stillwater; b 1923
Betty Goddard, Pampa, Texas; b 1922
Evelyn Philpott, Plano, TX.; b 1912
Gerry Scott, Port LaVoca, TX.; b 1918 Geraldine
Leroy Purcell, Tulsa; b 1925
Harry Purcell, Key Largo, Florida b 1921
Jack Foster, Gonzalas, Louisiana. b 1930
Twenty grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren and other relatives and friends.
Graveside services were held at the North Cemetery in Drumright, Monday, February 3rd, 1986 at 10 a.m. Rev. Chris Tecmire officiated with funeral arrangements under the direction of the Don Smith Funeral Home.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kinfolkkorner/LYLE_ANN_SHULTS/OBITUARIES/las_obits_g.html
--------Letter written at Vinton La.-----fr Coop
this is a letter that my grandfather wrote to Lelah
(my Mother) ------at top of page is this---Your grandfather is now married to Iva Holland and living in Drumright Ok
I don't know wheather I answered your letter or not but we are visiting Walter and Jerry Scott, the ones you met last May when driving us to Fla. We are both well and enjoying the weather. We, Jerry's daughter and family will all go fishing next week up in Marshall Texas--power boat and all the picnic supplies furnished--rest of letter on weather etc. and here is where he has found more info on Grass family--I think grandfather visited his brother Lewis who was alive and living in Fla. ?? But here again Iva had kids living in Fla.---I have no idea who Walter and Jerry Scott are but does mention this Jerry drove quite a few miles on this trip (took over for grandfather). Iva Edith Parent & lst husband Harry Wesley Purcell are parents of Jerry Scott.
---our family was quite surprised when after my grandmothers death my grandfather loaded up his old 51 studebaker and headed for Drumright Ok. where abt a year later he married Ida ? I lost all contact with him after this and my mother did not hear from him that much either----to this day we do not know if we had family in that area or why he went or wound up in Drumright Ok.
except now we do know he got married again. Coop
)))))))))))))))
Letter from Fred Grass to his daughter Lelah
"The 91st after being captured by Morgan, later traded
back and my grandfather, (Alfred Grass), joined with
Grant. He had to resign his commission and returned to Illinios where he taught school before coming to Kansas
1869. He took up a homestead where I remember living
until the age of 7, then my folks moved to Jefferson
Kansas where your mother was born. She got to see
Grandpa's old cabin and visited the cemetery on his
place where he and grandma Grass are buried. He died in 1873, she in 1908. I saw her but not Grandpa but Goldie
has his picture in civil war uniform. Dick and Floye are 8th generation."
Remembrances of Frederick Grass (1884-1968) - - - - -
"Raymond Grass told me of letters he had received from Frederick Grass in which he states he had visited the graves of Alfred & Belinda Grass before the Gov't took
over the whole community and Fred & his siblings did not know where the graves had been moved.
Frederick Grass b 1884 d 28 Sept 1968 was buried
Drumright, Okla.Both Alfred and Belinda Grass were
buried on the home place Cherryvale, KS.
Fred told Raymond Belinda Grass smoked a clay pipe
most of her life.
Fred also remembered visiting grandparents in Springfield, MO when, as children, Sam & Ida took them there by wagon. Samuel moved with his family to the Acom (Akim) farm near Deering, KS. in 1891.
Frederick moved from Cherryvale, KS as a youngster with
his parents to Deering, KS. Fred started teaching school
at Bates High School 1903 when he was 19 years old.
He taught school for 40 years and retired in 1961.
Fred remembered being in Coffeeville, KS 1892 when the Daltons tried to rob 2 banks. He also remembered the opening of the Cherokee Strip into Indian Territory in 1893. He told in a letter of a visit in 1889 when Sam & family went to Missouri to visit an aunt of Fred's,
Mrs.E. M. Snyder and the cousin of Fred's who was Alfred Snyder of Springfield, Mo. He mentioned he (Fred) had
other cousins in Kansas by the name of Lowman on his mother's side of the family. Fred visited his brother
Lewis in Florida March 1968. Fred was 21 years older
than Lewis."
IN MEMORIAM/ FRED E GRASS
Mr. Fred E Grass was born in Cherryvale Kansas Feb 4 1884. He died in Drumright Oklahoma Sept. 28 1968 at age of 84. He moved to Washington State in 1906 and resided here until 1962. His survivers include his wife, Iva of Oklahoma, his daughter Mrs. Lelah Southworth of Spanaway, grandchildren, Richard L Cooper and Mrs. Floye Devore both of Spanaway and Mrs. Don Anderson of Shelton. He leaves 6 Great grandchildren, a sister Goldie Holland Ft Smith Arkansas and brother Louis Jackonville Florida. Those who knew him know of his full active, fruitful life. His keen sense of humour and abiity to relate his many class-room experiences will long be remembered. He had lived in Oklahoma for a period of 7 years prior to this he lived and worked in Midland and Spanaway Wa. Mr Grass was a PIONEER TEACHER having taught grades 1 thru 8 in small schools in a area near Rochester Wa. He had 18 students, 3 who could not speak the English language. In Yelm he taught the John Longmier school. Later on called back in the area to teach at Lacamas School, he served as a custodian, bus driver, teacher and coach all in one. He has left a Document of his 43 years of teaching. I know many here today have shared some of these with him. In early years he had as students a brother, sister and brother in law, later his daughter and two grand-children. Students respected him and loved him. He was their teacher in the classroom and their play mate on the play ground. He coached a number of teams to the county championships. He started teaching school at the age of 19 in Kansas and concluded at age 77 in Tokeland Wa. A record still stands today with 43 years of teaching and being absence from his classroom only 3 days!!
SSDI FRED GRASS 4 Feb 1884 Sep 1968 74030
Drumright Creek OK xxx-xx-8111 Washington
1900 Census Frederick E Grass Home 1900: Fawn Creek Montgomery Kansas Age:16 Birth Date: Feb 1884
Birthplace: Kansas Race: White
Gender: Male Relationship head-of-house:Son
Father Name: Samuel Grass Father Birthplace: Ill
Mother Name: Alice Grass Mother Birthplace:Ill
Single
Household Members: Name Age
Samuel Grass 39
Alice Grass 36
Lawrence C Grass 17
Frederick E Grass 16
Goldie A Grass 11
Alfred H Grass 6
1910 Census about Fred Grass Age 1910: 26
Est birth year: abt 1884 Birthplace:Kansas
Relation to Head of House:Roomer
Home 1910: Linn, Washington, Kansas
Single Race: White Gender: Male
Household Members: Name Age
Henry Chesnut 68 1842 Ireland widowed immigrated 1860
Lottie J Chesnut 23 1887 dau KS single mother b KS
Ray L Chesnut 21 1889 son KS single
Fred Grass 26 roomer
+1Zadia Pierson Pearson Ross 1905 B Jan 28 1885 D Jan 22 1959 Pierce Co WA bur Puyallup Wa dau of Dionysius Ross and Sally Pearson. They had 1 dau Lelah
1917--WW1 Draft card shows Frederick Elmer Grass
b 4/Feb/1884 (he doesn't state where born)school teacher living Olympia Thurston Co Wash 9/12/1918.
Nearest relative was Zaida Grass.
Fred Grass Home 1920:Tacoma Ward 8, Pierce Wash
Age: 35 Est birth year: ABT 1885 Birthplace:Kansas
Relation Head of House: Self Spouse name:Zaida
Father Birth Place:Ill Mother Birth Place: Ill
Married race: White Sex: Male Home: Rent
Able to read: Yes Able to Write: Yes
Household Members: Name Age
Fred Grass 35 KS ILL ILL merchant
Zaida Grass 34 1886 KS OH KS
Lela Grass 9 1911 KS KS KS only dau/child born
Census Fred E Grass Home 1930: Bald Hills Thurston Wash Age: 46 Est birth year: ABT 1884 Birthplace:Kansas Relation Head of House:Head Spouse name:Zaida Race:W
Household Members: Name Age
Fred E Grass 46
Zaida Grass 45
Lelah Grass 19
Fred and Zaida had one daughter
Lelah Grass B Oct 24 1910 Montgomery Co KS
d Dec 23 2005 Spanaway WA [mother was cremated at her wishes-a marker is at Fir Lane Cem Spanaway Wa.
(not a stone marker)mrd 4x; 1-Robert Ike Cooper
2-Mick Ames 3-Morris Brecellis 4-Elmo Southworth
Leah had 3 kids; 2 w/Cooper, 1 w/Ames
Fred +2Iva Edith Parent abt 1960 Drumright OK
b Sep 6 1886 Geneseo KS d Jan 31 1986 Stillwater OK
bur North Cem Drumright Creek Co OK - no kids
IVA E GRASS From the "News Journal," Mannford, Oklahoma, February 5, 1986
Obit-Iva E. Grass, age 99, died January 31, 1986 in the Stillwater Nursing Home. Mrs. Grass was born Sept. 6, 1886 in Jenosee, Kansas and had made her home in Drumright for seventy years before moving to Stillwater six years ago. Iva was a longtime member of the First Baptist Church in Drumright where she had served as a Sunday school teacher for a number of years.
Iva is survived by her childrenfrom lst marr
she +1Harry Wesley Purcell abt 1900 OK b 1882 KS d 1958 OK 9 kids
Hazel Morefield, Stillwater; b 1916
Earl Purcell, Stillwater; b 1923
Betty Goddard, Pampa, Texas; b 1922
Evelyn Philpott, Plano, TX.; b 1912
Gerry Scott, Port LaVoca, TX.; b 1918 Geraldine
Leroy Purcell, Tulsa; b 1925
Harry Purcell, Key Largo, Florida b 1921
Jack Foster, Gonzalas, Louisiana. b 1930
Twenty grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren and other relatives and friends.
Graveside services were held at the North Cemetery in Drumright, Monday, February 3rd, 1986 at 10 a.m. Rev. Chris Tecmire officiated with funeral arrangements under the direction of the Don Smith Funeral Home.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kinfolkkorner/LYLE_ANN_SHULTS/OBITUARIES/las_obits_g.html
--------Letter written at Vinton La.-----fr Coop
this is a letter that my grandfather wrote to Lelah
(my Mother) ------at top of page is this---Your grandfather is now married to Iva Holland and living in Drumright Ok
I don't know wheather I answered your letter or not but we are visiting Walter and Jerry Scott, the ones you met last May when driving us to Fla. We are both well and enjoying the weather. We, Jerry's daughter and family will all go fishing next week up in Marshall Texas--power boat and all the picnic supplies furnished--rest of letter on weather etc. and here is where he has found more info on Grass family--I think grandfather visited his brother Lewis who was alive and living in Fla. ?? But here again Iva had kids living in Fla.---I have no idea who Walter and Jerry Scott are but does mention this Jerry drove quite a few miles on this trip (took over for grandfather). Iva Edith Parent & lst husband Harry Wesley Purcell are parents of Jerry Scott.
---our family was quite surprised when after my grandmothers death my grandfather loaded up his old 51 studebaker and headed for Drumright Ok. where abt a year later he married Ida ? I lost all contact with him after this and my mother did not hear from him that much either----to this day we do not know if we had family in that area or why he went or wound up in Drumright Ok.
except now we do know he got married again. Coop
)))))))))))))))
Letter from Fred Grass to his daughter Lelah
"The 91st after being captured by Morgan, later traded
back and my grandfather, (Alfred Grass), joined with
Grant. He had to resign his commission and returned to Illinios where he taught school before coming to Kansas
1869. He took up a homestead where I remember living
until the age of 7, then my folks moved to Jefferson
Kansas where your mother was born. She got to see
Grandpa's old cabin and visited the cemetery on his
place where he and grandma Grass are buried. He died in 1873, she in 1908. I saw her but not Grandpa but Goldie
has his picture in civil war uniform. Dick and Floye are 8th generation."
Remembrances of Frederick Grass (1884-1968) - - - - -
"Raymond Grass told me of letters he had received from Frederick Grass in which he states he had visited the graves of Alfred & Belinda Grass before the Gov't took
over the whole community and Fred & his siblings did not know where the graves had been moved.
Frederick Grass b 1884 d 28 Sept 1968 was buried
Drumright, Okla.Both Alfred and Belinda Grass were
buried on the home place Cherryvale, KS.
Fred told Raymond Belinda Grass smoked a clay pipe
most of her life.
Fred also remembered visiting grandparents in Springfield, MO when, as children, Sam & Ida took them there by wagon. Samuel moved with his family to the Acom (Akim) farm near Deering, KS. in 1891.
Frederick moved from Cherryvale, KS as a youngster with
his parents to Deering, KS. Fred started teaching school
at Bates High School 1903 when he was 19 years old.
He taught school for 40 years and retired in 1961.
Fred remembered being in Coffeeville, KS 1892 when the Daltons tried to rob 2 banks. He also remembered the opening of the Cherokee Strip into Indian Territory in 1893. He told in a letter of a visit in 1889 when Sam & family went to Missouri to visit an aunt of Fred's,
Mrs.E. M. Snyder and the cousin of Fred's who was Alfred Snyder of Springfield, Mo. He mentioned he (Fred) had
other cousins in Kansas by the name of Lowman on his mother's side of the family. Fred visited his brother
Lewis in Florida March 1968. Fred was 21 years older
than Lewis."
IN MEMORIAM/ FRED E GRASS
Mr. Fred E Grass was born in Cherryvale Kansas Feb 4 1884. He died in Drumright Oklahoma Sept. 28 1968 at age of 84. He moved to Washington State in 1906 and resided here until 1962. His survivers include his wife, Iva of Oklahoma, his daughter Mrs. Lelah Southworth of Spanaway, grandchildren, Richard L Cooper and Mrs. Floye Devore both of Spanaway and Mrs. Don Anderson of Shelton. He leaves 6 Great grandchildren, a sister Goldie Holland Ft Smith Arkansas and brother Louis Jackonville Florida. Those who knew him know of his full active, fruitful life. His keen sense of humour and abiity to relate his many class-room experiences will long be remembered. He had lived in Oklahoma for a period of 7 years prior to this he lived and worked in Midland and Spanaway Wa. Mr Grass was a PIONEER TEACHER having taught grades 1 thru 8 in small schools in a area near Rochester Wa. He had 18 students, 3 who could not speak the English language. In Yelm he taught the John Longmier school. Later on called back in the area to teach at Lacamas School, he served as a custodian, bus driver, teacher and coach all in one. He has left a Document of his 43 years of teaching. I know many here today have shared some of these with him. In early years he had as students a brother, sister and brother in law, later his daughter and two grand-children. Students respected him and loved him. He was their teacher in the classroom and their play mate on the play ground. He coached a number of teams to the county championships. He started teaching school at the age of 19 in Kansas and concluded at age 77 in Tokeland Wa. A record still stands today with 43 years of teaching and being absence from his classroom only 3 days!!
SSDI FRED GRASS 4 Feb 1884 Sep 1968 74030
Drumright Creek OK xxx-xx-8111 Washington
Fred
1900 Census Frederick E Grass Home 1900: Fawn Creek Montgomery Kansas Age:16 Birth Date: Feb 1884
Birthplace: Kansas Race: White
Gender: Male Relationship head-of-house:Son
Father Name: Samuel Grass Father Birthplace: Ill
Mother Name: Alice Grass Mother Birthplace:Ill
Single
Household Members: Name Age
Samuel Grass 39
Alice Grass 36
Lawrence C Grass 17
Frederick E Grass 16
Goldie A Grass 11
Alfred H Grass 6
1910 Census about Fred Grass Age 1910: 26
Est birth year: abt 1884 Birthplace:Kansas
Relation to Head of House:Roomer
Home 1910: Linn, Washington, Kansas
Single Race: White Gender: Male
Household Members: Name Age
Henry Chesnut 68 1842 Ireland widowed immigrated 1860
Lottie J Chesnut 23 1887 dau KS single mother b KS
Ray L Chesnut 21 1889 son KS single
Fred Grass 26 roomer
+1Zadia Pierson Pearson Ross 1905 B Jan 28 1885 D Jan 22 1959 Pierce Co WA bur Puyallup Wa dau of Dionysius Ross and Sally Pearson. They had 1 dau Lelah
1917--WW1 Draft card shows Frederick Elmer Grass
b 4/Feb/1884 (he doesn't state where born)school teacher living Olympia Thurston Co Wash 9/12/1918.
Nearest relative was Zaida Grass.
Fred Grass Home 1920:Tacoma Ward 8, Pierce Wash
Age: 35 Est birth year: ABT 1885 Birthplace:Kansas
Relation Head of House: Self Spouse name:Zaida
Father Birth Place:Ill Mother Birth Place: Ill
Married race: White Sex: Male Home: Rent
Able to read: Yes Able to Write: Yes
Household Members: Name Age
Fred Grass 35 KS ILL ILL merchant
Zaida Grass 34 1886 KS OH KS
Lela Grass 9 1911 KS KS KS only dau/child born
Census Fred E Grass Home 1930: Bald Hills Thurston Wash Age: 46 Est birth year: ABT 1884 Birthplace:Kansas Relation Head of House:Head Spouse name:Zaida Race:W
Household Members: Name Age
Fred E Grass 46
Zaida Grass 45
Lelah Grass 19
Fred and Zaida had one daughter
Lelah Grass B Oct 24 1910 Montgomery Co KS
d Dec 23 2005 Spanaway WA [mother was cremated at her wishes-a marker is at Fir Lane Cem Spanaway Wa.
(not a stone marker)mrd 4x; 1-Robert Ike Cooper
2-Mick Ames 3-Morris Brecellis 4-Elmo Southworth
Leah had 3 kids; 2 w/Cooper, 1 w/Ames
Fred +2Iva Edith Parent abt 1960 Drumright OK
b Sep 6 1886 Geneseo KS d Jan 31 1986 Stillwater OK
bur North Cem Drumright Creek Co OK - no kids
IVA E GRASS From the "News Journal," Mannford, Oklahoma, February 5, 1986
Obit-Iva E. Grass, age 99, died January 31, 1986 in the Stillwater Nursing Home. Mrs. Grass was born Sept. 6, 1886 in Jenosee, Kansas and had made her home in Drumright for seventy years before moving to Stillwater six years ago. Iva was a longtime member of the First Baptist Church in Drumright where she had served as a Sunday school teacher for a number of years.
Iva is survived by her childrenfrom lst marr
she +1Harry Wesley Purcell abt 1900 OK b 1882 KS d 1958 OK 9 kids
Hazel Morefield, Stillwater; b 1916
Earl Purcell, Stillwater; b 1923
Betty Goddard, Pampa, Texas; b 1922
Evelyn Philpott, Plano, TX.; b 1912
Gerry Scott, Port LaVoca, TX.; b 1918 Geraldine
Leroy Purcell, Tulsa; b 1925
Harry Purcell, Key Largo, Florida b 1921
Jack Foster, Gonzalas, Louisiana. b 1930
Twenty grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren and other relatives and friends.
Graveside services were held at the North Cemetery in Drumright, Monday, February 3rd, 1986 at 10 a.m. Rev. Chris Tecmire officiated with funeral arrangements under the direction of the Don Smith Funeral Home.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kinfolkkorner/LYLE_ANN_SHULTS/OBITUARIES/las_obits_g.html
--------Letter written at Vinton La.-----fr Coop
this is a letter that my grandfather wrote to Lelah
(my Mother) ------at top of page is this---Your grandfather is now married to Iva Holland and living in Drumright Ok
I don't know wheather I answered your letter or not but we are visiting Walter and Jerry Scott, the ones you met last May when driving us to Fla. We are both well and enjoying the weather. We, Jerry's daughter and family will all go fishing next week up in Marshall Texas--power boat and all the picnic supplies furnished--rest of letter on weather etc. and here is where he has found more info on Grass family--I think grandfather visited his brother Lewis who was alive and living in Fla. ?? But here again Iva had kids living in Fla.---I have no idea who Walter and Jerry Scott are but does mention this Jerry drove quite a few miles on this trip (took over for grandfather). Iva Edith Parent & lst husband Harry Wesley Purcell are parents of Jerry Scott.
---our family was quite surprised when after my grandmothers death my grandfather loaded up his old 51 studebaker and headed for Drumright Ok. where abt a year later he married Ida ? I lost all contact with him after this and my mother did not hear from him that much either----to this day we do not know if we had family in that area or why he went or wound up in Drumright Ok.
except now we do know he got married again. Coop
)))))))))))))))
Letter from Fred Grass to his daughter Lelah
"The 91st after being captured by Morgan, later traded
back and my grandfather, (Alfred Grass), joined with
Grant. He had to resign his commission and returned to Illinios where he taught school before coming to Kansas
1869. He took up a homestead where I remember living
until the age of 7, then my folks moved to Jefferson
Kansas where your mother was born. She got to see
Grandpa's old cabin and visited the cemetery on his
place where he and grandma Grass are buried. He died in 1873, she in 1908. I saw her but not Grandpa but Goldie
has his picture in civil war uniform. Dick and Floye are 8th generation."
Remembrances of Frederick Grass (1884-1968) - - - - -
"Raymond Grass told me of letters he had received from Frederick Grass in which he states he had visited the graves of Alfred & Belinda Grass before the Gov't took
over the whole community and Fred & his siblings did not know where the graves had been moved.
Frederick Grass b 1884 d 28 Sept 1968 was buried
Drumright, Okla.Both Alfred and Belinda Grass were
buried on the home place Cherryvale, KS.
Fred told Raymond Belinda Grass smoked a clay pipe
most of her life.
Fred also remembered visiting grandparents in Springfield, MO when, as children, Sam & Ida took them there by wagon. Samuel moved with his family to the Acom (Akim) farm near Deering, KS. in 1891.
Frederick moved from Cherryvale, KS as a youngster with
his parents to Deering, KS. Fred started teaching school
at Bates High School 1903 when he was 19 years old.
He taught school for 40 years and retired in 1961.
Fred remembered being in Coffeeville, KS 1892 when the Daltons tried to rob 2 banks. He also remembered the opening of the Cherokee Strip into Indian Territory in 1893. He told in a letter of a visit in 1889 when Sam & family went to Missouri to visit an aunt of Fred's,
Mrs.E. M. Snyder and the cousin of Fred's who was Alfred Snyder of Springfield, Mo. He mentioned he (Fred) had
other cousins in Kansas by the name of Lowman on his mother's side of the family. Fred visited his brother
Lewis in Florida March 1968. Fred was 21 years older
than Lewis."
IN MEMORIAM/ FRED E GRASS
Mr. Fred E Grass was born in Cherryvale Kansas Feb 4 1884. He died in Drumright Oklahoma Sept. 28 1968 at age of 84. He moved to Washington State in 1906 and resided here until 1962. His survivers include his wife, Iva of Oklahoma, his daughter Mrs. Lelah Southworth of Spanaway, grandchildren, Richard L Cooper and Mrs. Floye Devore both of Spanaway and Mrs. Don Anderson of Shelton. He leaves 6 Great grandchildren, a sister Goldie Holland Ft Smith Arkansas and brother Louis Jackonville Florida. Those who knew him know of his full active, fruitful life. His keen sense of humour and abiity to relate his many class-room experiences will long be remembered. He had lived in Oklahoma for a period of 7 years prior to this he lived and worked in Midland and Spanaway Wa. Mr Grass was a PIONEER TEACHER having taught grades 1 thru 8 in small schools in a area near Rochester Wa. He had 18 students, 3 who could not speak the English language. In Yelm he taught the John Longmier school. Later on called back in the area to teach at Lacamas School, he served as a custodian, bus driver, teacher and coach all in one. He has left a Document of his 43 years of teaching. I know many here today have shared some of these with him. In early years he had as students a brother, sister and brother in law, later his daughter and two grand-children. Students respected him and loved him. He was their teacher in the classroom and their play mate on the play ground. He coached a number of teams to the county championships. He started teaching school at the age of 19 in Kansas and concluded at age 77 in Tokeland Wa. A record still stands today with 43 years of teaching and being absence from his classroom only 3 days!!
SSDI FRED GRASS 4 Feb 1884 Sep 1968 74030
Drumright Creek OK xxx-xx-8111 Washington
1900 Census Frederick E Grass Home 1900: Fawn Creek Montgomery Kansas Age:16 Birth Date: Feb 1884
Birthplace: Kansas Race: White
Gender: Male Relationship head-of-house:Son
Father Name: Samuel Grass Father Birthplace: Ill
Mother Name: Alice Grass Mother Birthplace:Ill
Single
Household Members: Name Age
Samuel Grass 39
Alice Grass 36
Lawrence C Grass 17
Frederick E Grass 16
Goldie A Grass 11
Alfred H Grass 6
1910 Census about Fred Grass Age 1910: 26
Est birth year: abt 1884 Birthplace:Kansas
Relation to Head of House:Roomer
Home 1910: Linn, Washington, Kansas
Single Race: White Gender: Male
Household Members: Name Age
Henry Chesnut 68 1842 Ireland widowed immigrated 1860
Lottie J Chesnut 23 1887 dau KS single mother b KS
Ray L Chesnut 21 1889 son KS single
Fred Grass 26 roomer
+1Zadia Pierson Pearson Ross 1905 B Jan 28 1885 D Jan 22 1959 Pierce Co WA bur Puyallup Wa dau of Dionysius Ross and Sally Pearson. They had 1 dau Lelah
1917--WW1 Draft card shows Frederick Elmer Grass
b 4/Feb/1884 (he doesn't state where born)school teacher living Olympia Thurston Co Wash 9/12/1918.
Nearest relative was Zaida Grass.
Fred Grass Home 1920:Tacoma Ward 8, Pierce Wash
Age: 35 Est birth year: ABT 1885 Birthplace:Kansas
Relation Head of House: Self Spouse name:Zaida
Father Birth Place:Ill Mother Birth Place: Ill
Married race: White Sex: Male Home: Rent
Able to read: Yes Able to Write: Yes
Household Members: Name Age
Fred Grass 35 KS ILL ILL merchant
Zaida Grass 34 1886 KS OH KS
Lela Grass 9 1911 KS KS KS only dau/child born
Census Fred E Grass Home 1930: Bald Hills Thurston Wash Age: 46 Est birth year: ABT 1884 Birthplace:Kansas Relation Head of House:Head Spouse name:Zaida Race:W
Household Members: Name Age
Fred E Grass 46
Zaida Grass 45
Lelah Grass 19
Fred and Zaida had one daughter
Lelah Grass B Oct 24 1910 Montgomery Co KS
d Dec 23 2005 Spanaway WA [mother was cremated at her wishes-a marker is at Fir Lane Cem Spanaway Wa.
(not a stone marker)mrd 4x; 1-Robert Ike Cooper
2-Mick Ames 3-Morris Brecellis 4-Elmo Southworth
Leah had 3 kids; 2 w/Cooper, 1 w/Ames
Fred +2Iva Edith Parent abt 1960 Drumright OK
b Sep 6 1886 Geneseo KS d Jan 31 1986 Stillwater OK
bur North Cem Drumright Creek Co OK - no kids
IVA E GRASS From the "News Journal," Mannford, Oklahoma, February 5, 1986
Obit-Iva E. Grass, age 99, died January 31, 1986 in the Stillwater Nursing Home. Mrs. Grass was born Sept. 6, 1886 in Jenosee, Kansas and had made her home in Drumright for seventy years before moving to Stillwater six years ago. Iva was a longtime member of the First Baptist Church in Drumright where she had served as a Sunday school teacher for a number of years.
Iva is survived by her childrenfrom lst marr
she +1Harry Wesley Purcell abt 1900 OK b 1882 KS d 1958 OK 9 kids
Hazel Morefield, Stillwater; b 1916
Earl Purcell, Stillwater; b 1923
Betty Goddard, Pampa, Texas; b 1922
Evelyn Philpott, Plano, TX.; b 1912
Gerry Scott, Port LaVoca, TX.; b 1918 Geraldine
Leroy Purcell, Tulsa; b 1925
Harry Purcell, Key Largo, Florida b 1921
Jack Foster, Gonzalas, Louisiana. b 1930
Twenty grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren and other relatives and friends.
Graveside services were held at the North Cemetery in Drumright, Monday, February 3rd, 1986 at 10 a.m. Rev. Chris Tecmire officiated with funeral arrangements under the direction of the Don Smith Funeral Home.
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--------Letter written at Vinton La.-----fr Coop
this is a letter that my grandfather wrote to Lelah
(my Mother) ------at top of page is this---Your grandfather is now married to Iva Holland and living in Drumright Ok
I don't know wheather I answered your letter or not but we are visiting Walter and Jerry Scott, the ones you met last May when driving us to Fla. We are both well and enjoying the weather. We, Jerry's daughter and family will all go fishing next week up in Marshall Texas--power boat and all the picnic supplies furnished--rest of letter on weather etc. and here is where he has found more info on Grass family--I think grandfather visited his brother Lewis who was alive and living in Fla. ?? But here again Iva had kids living in Fla.---I have no idea who Walter and Jerry Scott are but does mention this Jerry drove quite a few miles on this trip (took over for grandfather). Iva Edith Parent & lst husband Harry Wesley Purcell are parents of Jerry Scott.
---our family was quite surprised when after my grandmothers death my grandfather loaded up his old 51 studebaker and headed for Drumright Ok. where abt a year later he married Ida ? I lost all contact with him after this and my mother did not hear from him that much either----to this day we do not know if we had family in that area or why he went or wound up in Drumright Ok.
except now we do know he got married again. Coop
)))))))))))))))
Letter from Fred Grass to his daughter Lelah
"The 91st after being captured by Morgan, later traded
back and my grandfather, (Alfred Grass), joined with
Grant. He had to resign his commission and returned to Illinios where he taught school before coming to Kansas
1869. He took up a homestead where I remember living
until the age of 7, then my folks moved to Jefferson
Kansas where your mother was born. She got to see
Grandpa's old cabin and visited the cemetery on his
place where he and grandma Grass are buried. He died in 1873, she in 1908. I saw her but not Grandpa but Goldie
has his picture in civil war uniform. Dick and Floye are 8th generation."
Remembrances of Frederick Grass (1884-1968) - - - - -
"Raymond Grass told me of letters he had received from Frederick Grass in which he states he had visited the graves of Alfred & Belinda Grass before the Gov't took
over the whole community and Fred & his siblings did not know where the graves had been moved.
Frederick Grass b 1884 d 28 Sept 1968 was buried
Drumright, Okla.Both Alfred and Belinda Grass were
buried on the home place Cherryvale, KS.
Fred told Raymond Belinda Grass smoked a clay pipe
most of her life.
Fred also remembered visiting grandparents in Springfield, MO when, as children, Sam & Ida took them there by wagon. Samuel moved with his family to the Acom (Akim) farm near Deering, KS. in 1891.
Frederick moved from Cherryvale, KS as a youngster with
his parents to Deering, KS. Fred started teaching school
at Bates High School 1903 when he was 19 years old.
He taught school for 40 years and retired in 1961.
Fred remembered being in Coffeeville, KS 1892 when the Daltons tried to rob 2 banks. He also remembered the opening of the Cherokee Strip into Indian Territory in 1893. He told in a letter of a visit in 1889 when Sam & family went to Missouri to visit an aunt of Fred's,
Mrs.E. M. Snyder and the cousin of Fred's who was Alfred Snyder of Springfield, Mo. He mentioned he (Fred) had
other cousins in Kansas by the name of Lowman on his mother's side of the family. Fred visited his brother
Lewis in Florida March 1968. Fred was 21 years older
than Lewis."
IN MEMORIAM/ FRED E GRASS
Mr. Fred E Grass was born in Cherryvale Kansas Feb 4 1884. He died in Drumright Oklahoma Sept. 28 1968 at age of 84. He moved to Washington State in 1906 and resided here until 1962. His survivers include his wife, Iva of Oklahoma, his daughter Mrs. Lelah Southworth of Spanaway, grandchildren, Richard L Cooper and Mrs. Floye Devore both of Spanaway and Mrs. Don Anderson of Shelton. He leaves 6 Great grandchildren, a sister Goldie Holland Ft Smith Arkansas and brother Louis Jackonville Florida. Those who knew him know of his full active, fruitful life. His keen sense of humour and abiity to relate his many class-room experiences will long be remembered. He had lived in Oklahoma for a period of 7 years prior to this he lived and worked in Midland and Spanaway Wa. Mr Grass was a PIONEER TEACHER having taught grades 1 thru 8 in small schools in a area near Rochester Wa. He had 18 students, 3 who could not speak the English language. In Yelm he taught the John Longmier school. Later on called back in the area to teach at Lacamas School, he served as a custodian, bus driver, teacher and coach all in one. He has left a Document of his 43 years of teaching. I know many here today have shared some of these with him. In early years he had as students a brother, sister and brother in law, later his daughter and two grand-children. Students respected him and loved him. He was their teacher in the classroom and their play mate on the play ground. He coached a number of teams to the county championships. He started teaching school at the age of 19 in Kansas and concluded at age 77 in Tokeland Wa. A record still stands today with 43 years of teaching and being absence from his classroom only 3 days!!
SSDI FRED GRASS 4 Feb 1884 Sep 1968 74030
Drumright Creek OK xxx-xx-8111 Washington
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