-97- October 2000 ISSN 0146-0269 Volume 23, Number 137 THE GRAVES FAMILY NEWSLETTER Official Publication of the Graves Family Association For all families of Graves, Greaves, Grave, and other spelling variations everywhere top of the address label on the newsletter CONTENTS envelope. If it says "Exp. Dec. 2000", that Membership Renewals Due................73 means it is time to renew. Graves Family News...........................73 Anyone who wants to renew for more than Address Changes ...............................76 one year can do so by paying the regular Membership Directory Updates ..........76 annual rate times the number of years desired. Questions and Information..................76 Checks should be made payable to Graves Descendants of Richard Hardin Graves Family Association. and Berilla Myrtle of MO .................77 Descendants of Robert Grieve and Mary Irving of Scotland & Ontario, GRAVES FAMILY NEWS Canada ...........................................79 Descendants of Lois Graves and Silas Mrs. Larry Spurgin, 3470 Carlsbad Blvd., Rice/Royce of Rockingham, VT ......82 Carlsbad, CA 92008-3225, wrote that her Descendants of Jan Graves and father Robert Boynton Dozier (#1641 in the Barbara Boonen of Utrecht, Rear Adm. Thomas Graves book) celebrated Netherlands.....................................83 his 98th birthday on 3 May 2000. The Possible and Probable Connections to weekend before that, he attended Pomona Capt. Thomas Graves of VA ...........86 College Alumni Day in Claremont, CA, where Descendants of Samuel Graves and he represented his class of 1923. Not Eleanor Wilson of NC, SC & TN......88 surprisingly, he was the oldest member at a Descendants of Thomas Graves and gathering of his fraternity brothers. Mary Bradshaw of TN .....................93 He had a small stroke in June 2000 but is getting along well. He has now moved to the assisted living area of a retirement community. MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS DUE She also sent several newspaper articles. The following one is from The San Diego The next issue of the newsletter will be the Union-Tribune, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2000, page last for 2000. Since all Association E5. Does anyone know which family these memberships and newsletter subscriptions are people are part of? by calendar year, if you have not already Graves 50th Anniversary joined for 2001, you should send your renewal Ed and Mary Graves celebrated their 50th now. Renewing now will prevent any delay in wedding anniversary on September 9, 2000 receiving your newsletter issues. with a party at Bob's on the Bay at the Chula If you are not sure of the status of your Vista Marina. Attending were their two membership, you can tell by the date at the -98- daughters, six grandchildren, family, and Hosts for the evening were their daughters, friends. Renee Bardwell and Diana Graves. Ed and Mary were married on September 9, 1950 at Saint Rose of Lima in Chula Vista. They have enjoyed being life-long friends. Memberships: They are deeply loved by their daughters, Regular (U.S. & Canada) $20/year family, and friends. Congratulations! Other countries (air mail) $30/year Sustaining (U.S. & Canada) $40/year Other countries (air mail) $50/year CHARLES RAYMOND GRAVES Life (U.S./Canada, 62 and older) $600 one time June 27, 1942-April 27, 2000 Foreign memberships must be paid by money Charles Raymond Graves, 57, of San order in U.S. dollars. All back issues (1976- Diego died April 27. He was born in present) are available at current price. Shamrock, Okla. Mr. Graves worked as a Newsletter only available to individuals as part of roofer, and had served in the Marine Corps. Graves Family Association membership. No Survivors include his sisters, Joyce Johnson charge for queries. of Austin, Texas, Ladonna Pollard of Rosman Published by: and Bonnie Vining of Princeton, Texas; and THE GRAVES FAMILY ASSOCIATION brother, Benjamin Graves of San Diego. 20 Binney Circle, Wrentham, MA 02093, USA Services: 11 a.m. Tuesday, Fort Rosecrans Internet Web Site: http://www.gravesfa.org National Cemetery, Point Loma. Donations: Newsletter Editor: Kenneth Vance Graves Shiloh Temple Apostolic Church Inc. 20 Binney Circle, Wrentham, MA 02093 Arrangements: Balboa Cremation Services. (508)384-8084 (From The San Diego Union-Tribune, [email protected] Sunday, May 7, 2000, page B-10, County Treasurer: Sarah J. Graves, Wrentham, MA Obituaries.) [email protected] Director, Internet Web Site: Kenneth Vance Graves (From The San Diego Union-Tribune, Graves Online List Manager: Marjorie Ferris, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2000, page B9.) Rialto, CA, [email protected] Dr. Harley Greaves, 78; family Research Coordinators Graves of Cambridgeshire, England: Nedra physician for nearly 40 years Dickman Brill, CG, 2410 NE 58th Ave., By Jack Williams, Staff Writer Portland, OR 97213-4002 [email protected] Even after an arduous day that found him Rear Admiral Thomas Graves of Charlestown, treating 100 flu-ridden patients, Dr. Harley C. MA and his Greaves family of Stepney, Greaves knew that he was in the right London, England: Raymond C. Flesher, 313 profession. West Lehow Ave., #24, Englewood, CO 80110-6744, [email protected] "His only love, outside family, was Charles Newton Graves (Descended from Rear medicine," said his wife, Ralphine. "That's Admiral Thomas Graves of Charlestown, why he worked at it day and night." MA): Janet Craw, HC 4, Box 23B, Payson, AZ 85541-9531, [email protected] Dr. Greaves, a retired family physician who Samuel Graves of Lynn, MA: Carol Kenney practiced in San Diego nearly 40 years, died Graves, 4121 North Koerner Rd., Peoria, IL Oct. 15 at his Point Loma home. He was 78. 61615, [email protected] He had suffered from multiple illnesses and © Graves Family Association, 2000 had lost his vision and hearing, his wife said. Nine years ago, impaired vision forced him to close his practice. "He could never say no -99- to a patient," his wife said. "He continued to brother, Dr. Keith Greaves of Salt Lake City; make house calls until he retired." and three grandchildren. Dr. Greaves was a founding member in Private services were Saturday in Preston, 1958 of the former Doctors Hospital and Idaho. Donations are suggested to MITE Inc., became its chief of staff in 1963, a decade 1365 N. Johnson Ave., El Cajon, CA 92020, after beginning his practice in the Point Loma or to a charity of choice. area. For 30 years, he shared an office with the late Dr. Ralph L. Coleman, serving From The San Diego Union-Tribune, generations of Point Loma and Ocean Beach Friday, Jan. 14, 2000: residents. James Fremont Graves "One day in the late 1950's he saw 100 May 21, 1921-Jan. 9, 2000 patients during a flu epidemic," his wife said. James Fremont Graves, 78, of San Diego "If a patient couldn't pay, he didn't charge died Sunday. He was born in Kankakee, Ill. them." Mr. Graves was retired after working as a Dr. Greaves also provided free services over carpenter, and had served in the Navy. the years to Mormon missionaries and athletic Survivors include his wife, Ann V. Graves; teams, his wife said. daughters, Roseann Buchner of Eureka, Linda A career in medicine was the culmination of Hrenko and Mary Kingsley of San Diego; a childhood ambition for Dr. Greaves. A sons, Timothy, Peter, Daniel, James, Joseph, skillful oboe player, he turned down music and Thomas Graves of San Diego; sisters, scholarships to pursue his medical studies at Donna Wolfe of Chebanse, Ill. And Rosemary George Washington University. Roberts of Clifton, Ill.; brother, Michael After earning his medical degree in 1947, he Graves of Glenview, Ill.; and 20 received an appointment to an obstetrical grandchildren. society. He then served a residency at Ventura Services will be private. Donations: James County Hospital. Graves memorial fund, arts & crafts center, c/o In 1952, Dr. Greaves became a flight Voluntary Services at the VA Medical Center. surgeon in the Air Force and served in Arrangements: Clairemont Mortuary. Northern Africa during the Korean War. He left the Air Force as a captain in Austin, Texas, and moved to Point Loma to begin his Mrs. Larry Spurgin also sent information medical practice. For 35 years he served on about "The Castle" in Virginia City, Nevada. the staff of Doctors Hospital, which opened as a 62-bed facility in Loma Portal. "The Castle was one of the finest mansions of the West when it was built in 1868 by In 1981, Sharp HealthCare bought the Robert N. Graves, a mine superintendent of hospital and renamed it Sharp Cabrillo the Empire Mine. The immense prosperity in Hospital. the mining towns of the time is apparent in the Dr. Greaves was born and raised in Preston, Castle's rich, elaborate furnishings, imported Idaho, where he met his future wife at 13. He from all over the world. earned his bachelor's degree at the University Built after a castle in Normandy, the house of Idaho before being accepted at George is now owned by the McGuirk family, third Washington's medical school. owners, and remains precisely as it was built "Because medicine was his life, he never and furnished during the Virginia City boom. had any hobbies in retirement," his wife said. Entering the Castle, once referred to as the Survivors include his wife, Ralphine; sons, "House of Silver Door Knobs," a visitor passes Craig and Terry, both of Point Loma; a through a front door made of black walnut -100- from Germany. The two oval glass panels at the top of the door are monogram etched. Just QUESTIONS AND INFORMATION inside are the butler and footman niches, integral parts of early mansions... MISCELLANEOUS GRAVES FAMILIES Stepping into the living room and parlor, Mrs. Judy Gray, 4840 Las Floras Ct., immediately noticeable are the hand-cut Elkton, FL 32033 ([email protected]), is Czechoslovakia rock crystal chandeliers, over looking for the ancestry of her husband’s 150 years old.