Show AT REST BROTHER NICHOLAS PASSES AWAY on saturday about the middle of the day a NEWS repeater ter asked of sheriff john A groesbeck the condition of his fathers health the latter having been confined to ills lits his sons house honse for several days with a very serious attack of nervous prostration the tha answer was that he was thought thou ht by his physicians to be doing nal nicely 1 and hopes were entertained for h his bis ta recovery later on we were Unformed f from rom the same source a sudden change chang for the worse was apparent and this continued until twenty tive nive minutes past 7 last nig big night ht when the sufferer passed away I 1 many of his friends visited his bedside during his closing hours and at the time he died all his children save one were present this was sister josephine smith now with her husband apostle john henry smith in england ile he died at the residence of his son john where he has been kept during his final week of illness the causa cause of his death as stated above was nervous prostration a general physical collapse the natural winding up of a career noted for its unceasing activity and energy brother Groe groesbeck aeck has not been really well since his wife died last december the loss of his beloved partner was a heavy blow to him and one from which he did not Te recover cover about six or seven weeks ao ago he complained of a severe pain in Ms ils head which deprived him of sleep but his indomitable will would not leu lel him be convinced that he was not well enough to be out and he kept on until a week ago when he was seized with a fainting spell and has since been confined to his bed ile he had the best of care and attention but his hour had evidently come ills his vital force was exhausted and the busy wheels of life stood still nicholas Nichol groesbeck was the son of harmon groesbeck and mary bovee and was born at buskirk bridge ren county new york september ath 1819 ills liis grandmother grandm otner other was a van which family his natly n e county was probably named and on that side alde at least if not on his fathers also he was of german descent ile he was baptized into the tile church of jesus christ of latter day saints in march 1837 by elder swett and afterwards moved to springfield field illinois where he met and married marbled on march 25 1841 miss elizabeth thompson his companion for so ganv years and whom ee he survived but six months thile living at springfield he went on the bond of the prophet joseph Smith who was tried there on a trumped up charge in the year 1842 he never lived at nauvoo but paid frequent visits to that city ile he was engaged there therein in coal minin mining and contracting he emigrated from springfield in 1856 1836 arriving here on the ad of october ills his earliest experience in and while on the way to utah was in the managing of the BY express ile lle helas was conducting a train of goods over the plains plains when he passed a di division of johnstons tons army then on the march westward to exterminate the mor mons 11 brother groesbeck got his train through in safety though he had to cache some of his goods in order to do so Ile he filled a mission to england upon which he started in 1860 1866 and not long after lie he got back was called on another mi mission assion to the united states from which he returned in 1869 ile he was a member at the time of his death of the quorum of seventies he was engaged here here in ing in and mining to some extent but acquired kuke suke his wealth ii mainly in the ike pun purchase e improvement and rental of real estate lie lle helas was an eccentric man in some re respects but kindhearted charitable conscientious and uarl upright ht in his de dealings alinga his predominant characteristic was his great energy and it was no doubt his hardworking hard working habits that tended to shorten his life surrounded by affluence he was strict strictly lv temperate and frugal in his habits and though given to the acquisition of wealth he administered to the poor and needy with an open heart and an unsparing hand ile he was held in esteem by a wide circle of friends was true to his god and his religion and lived and died universally respected ted the funeral services will take place from the seventeenth ward assembly rooms booms tomorrow to morrow tuesday at 4 p m the friends of the family arc invited to attend |