When Joseph Ward Groseclose was born on 12 January 1851, in Schuyler, Missouri, United States, his father, George Groseclose, was 25 and his mother, Odyssey B. Lloyd, was 24. He married Mary E. Snider on 11 August 1886, in Lancaster, Schuyler, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 25 February 1924, in Fabius Township, Schuyler, Missouri, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Schuyler, Missouri, United States.
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