Posted on: Guernsey Co. Oh Obituaries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Oh/GuernseyObits?read=66 Surname: GRIMES, CLARK ------------------------- P.H. GRIMES DIED AT 6 O'CLOCK WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1916 AT HIS HOME, 309 SOUTH PEARL ST. PAOLA, KS.DURINGING THE EARLY FALL OF LAST YEAR HIS HEALTH BEGAN TO FALL, AND HIS AILMONT WOULD NOT RESPOND TO TREATMENT. AN EXAMINATION WAS MADE BY SPECIALISTS, WHO DETERMINED THAT HIS STOMACH WAS ULCERATED, AND FIVE WEEKS AGO HE WAS TAKEN TO A GERMAN HOSPITAL IN KANSAS CITY, WHERE AN OPERATION WAS PERFORMED, WHICH GAVE RELIEF, AND IT WAS FONDLY HOPED WOULD RESTORE HIM TO HEALTH. HE WAS ANXIOUS TO COME HOME, TO BE WITH HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS. AND TWO WEEKS AGO WAS BROUGHT HOME, STANDING THE TRIP WELL AND WAS GREATLY RELIEVED TO BE HERE WITH LOVED ONES. BUT THE MARK OF DEATH WAS UPON HIM, AND SURROUNDED BY THOSE TO WHOM HE HAD DEVOTED HIS LIFE HE ANSWERED THE LAST SUMMONS. DURING ALL OF HIS ILLNESS AND SUFFERING HE MADE NO COMPLAINT, BUT WAS ALWAYS CHEERFUL AND JOVIAL AND ALWAYS ANXIOUS TO GET WELL. PRESTON HOWARD GRIMES WAS BORN JUNE 13,1856 IN CAMBRIDGE,OHIO. HIS PARENTS WERE J.O. GRIMES AND MARY CLARK. HE WAS REARED AND EDUCATED AT CAMBRIDGE, AND IN 1876 CAME TO PAOLA, WHERE FOR NEARLY FORTY YEARS HE HAS BEEN ENGAGED IN THE DRUG BUSINESS. SOON AFTER COMING HERE HE ENTERED THE EMPLOY OF J W PRICE AS A PHARMACIST, IN WHICH PROFESSION HE WAS AN EXPERT, AND LATER SUCCEEDED MR PRICE IN THE OWNERSHIP OF THE STORE, IN WHICH HE CONTINUED TO HIS DEATH. HE HAD ONE OF THE LEADING ESTABLISHMENTS IN THIS LINE IN EASTERN KANSAS. HE WAS ALWAYS PROGRESSIVE AND UP TO DATE ALWAYS CONGENIAL, JOVIAL, CHEERFUL AND ACCOMMODATING, AND FEW MERCHANTS IN THIS COMMUNITY HAVE BEEN SO UNIVERSALLY POPULAR. NOVEMBER 11,1886, HE WAS MARRIED TO MISS MINNIE MCLAUGHLIN,A DAUGHTER OF O.F. MCLAUGHLIN.WHO SURVIVES HIM, WITH A DAUGHTER, MISS ELIZABETH. THEIR MARRIED LIFE WAS MOST CONGENIAL AND THE THOUGHT OF LEAVING HIS LOVED ONES WAS THE ANIMATING PURPOSE IN HIS LIFE DESIRE TO LIVE. HE ALSO LEAVES TWO SISTERS MRS FRED L ROSEMOND AND MISS JESSIE GRIMES OF CAMBRIDGE, OHIO, AND TWO BROTHERS ED GRIMES OF WASHINGTON D.C. AND WALTER GRIMES OF ASHVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA. HOWARD GRIMES WAS PHILOSOPHER, A STUDENT OF MEN, A MAN OF EXTENSIVE READING AND UNDERSTANDING, WITH A VOCABULARY, A CONGENIALITY AND FRIENDLINESS THAT FEW POSSESS AND WHICH MADE HIS FRIENDSHIP SOUGHT AND VALUED BY MANY. HE WAS THE OLDEST MERCHANT IN CONTINUOUS BUSINESS IN PAOLA. Copied from Miami Republican (Paola, Miami Co, KS Feb 4, 1916. (he is not relation to me, just poasted for future researchers)