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- Son of Elias & Harriet Grube. Age at death 45 years, 1 month & 28 days.
From Find A Grave contributor Denise Witwer Lahr:
Lititz Record, Thurs., Oct. 30, 1913, p. 1:
Farmer's Sudden Death
JOHN B. GRUBE DIES WHILE ASTRIDE A MULE
John B. Grube, tenant on the farm of G. B. Long, near Neffsville, died very suddenly at noon on Monday in the village of Neffsville. In addition to his occupation as a farmer the deceased had done jobs of wood-sawing for farmers in his vicinity, and in the morning he and a twenty-year-old son, Elias, had hauled their gasoline engine and saw to the residence of Frank Kopp, in Neffsville, where they had a contract to saw a quantity of wood.
The men stopped at the noon hour and unhitched their mules, preparatory to going home for dinner, the elder Grube taking two of the animals in charge and the younger man riding the other. In front of the residence of John B. Witmer, the men stopped and the elder Grube engaged in a conversation over the contemplated sale of a pair of mules. The conversation having been concluded, the Grubes rode off, but had not proceeded very far until Mr. Witmer, upon turning around, saw that the elder man had dropped from his seat on one of the mules and was lying in the roadway. He hurried toward him and found the man apparently unconscious, but in reality dead.
Dr. E. H. Witmer, deputy coroner, was hurriedly summoned and he ascertained that the death had been caused by a blood clot in the heart and that the man had died before he fell from his seat on the animal he was riding.
The deceased, who was 45 years of age, was a native of Rothsville and had been a tenant on the Long farm for three years. He was a member of the Brethren church. His wife and seven children, Andrew, Elias, Harry, Jacob, John, Mary, and Martin, all at home, survive. Two brothers also survive. They are Martin, of Oregon, and Samuel B. Grube, of Denver. The funeral was held today, with services and interment at Rothsville.
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1868 - 1913 (45 years)
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