Joseph Grue

  Research Notes:

1. US WW 1 Draft Registration

- laborer with the Great Northern Railway Co, Parkdale, Tumuli Twp, Otter Tail Co, MN
- medium build and height, blue eyes, light brown hair, not balding

2. Fergus Falls Daily Journal, Obit, 14 Aug 1954, and funeral write-up, 23 Aug 1954

- suffered from a heart ailment for some time
- burial in St Cloud - (wife was from that area)

obit is also posted on findagrave id 148414774 [20 Nov 2022]
[ his obit, and others, are currently located on flashdrive, Kingston Blue/Silver...genealogy resources...Grue family tree General...PDF from Otter Tail County Historical Archives AND on My Computer, C-drive...Grue Family Tree...John T Grue...John J Grue [sub-folder]. 4 Jan 2022 ]


3. 1930 US Census - not indexed on Ancestry [ 8 Apr 2012 ]

1940 US Census, St Paul, Ramsey Co, MN; ED 90-169; Sheet 2A; 537 Como Ave, dw 537
Joseph Grue, age 49 b in MN; same house, Apr 1935; section labor, railroad
wife Esther, age 36 b in MN
[brother in law, but should be brother to head of household], Edwin Grue, age 36 b in MN, single
Apr 1935 - rural Otter Tail Co, MN; section labor, railroad




4. Ancestry.com Public Member Trees [ 8 Apr 2012 ]

'Anderson Family Tree owner steven anderson' (last log in 8 Apr 2012 ]

- Steven Anderson database - his father was Arthur Anderson, a son of Andrew Anderson who was Ethel Brown's father

- indicates Esther Manthy [ spelled Manthie] was born in 1906 in ND and died in 1900 in MN
- no source information\\

5. familysearch.org Minnesota Deaths and Burials, 1835-1990," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FDDN-DWQ : accessed 21 April 2012), Joseph Grue (1954).

- place of death as Perham, Otter Tail Co

6. US military Headstone Application

- enlisted - 24 Feb 1918; honorable discharge, 26 May 1919
- serial # 2152091; Pvt 1st Class, Co K, 132 Infantry, 33rd division
- application by Mrs Ester E Grue, 16 Aug 1954

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Military Service: 1917-1918: Otter Tail Co, Minnesota, United States. ^2400,2401

2. Residence - 1920, 1 Jan 1920, Tumuli Twp, Minnesota, United States. ²³⁰⁰ John J Grue household

3. Residence 1940, 1 Apr 1940, St Paul, Ramsey Co, Minnesota, United States. ²⁴⁰² Joseph Grue, head of household, age 48 born in MN, grade 8, worked 48 hours last week of Mar as a Section laborer with Railroad, worked 52 weeks in 1939 earning $1000, rents home, lived in the same place in Apr 1935. Esther, wife, age 36 <1904> born in MN, grade 8. Also recorded is Edwin Grue age 36 born in MN, grade 8, works as a Section laborer with Railroad, worked 23 weeks in 1939 earning $425, lived in rural Otter County in Apr 1935. Recorded as a brother-in-law to head of household [this would be incorrect, since Joseph was his brother].

Joseph married Esther Manthey on 26 Oct 1927 in St Cloud, Minnesota, United States.²³⁹⁹ (Esther Manthey was born on 28 May 1903 in Owatonna, Steele County, Minnesota, United States,²⁴⁰² died on 22 Jul 1966 in Benton Co, Minnesota, United States and was buried in North Star Cemetery, St. Cloud, Stearns Co, Minnesota, United States.)