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Show JAN 1 4 1980 July 19,1854 to Nicholas and Elizabeth Thompson Groesbeck. His family came to Utah in 1854. Groesbeck worked with Utah Light and Power and Salt Lake Street Department. He married Eva Barton. The Groesbecks lived at 76 'H 1 Street until Hyrum's death. After Hyrum died, Eva moved back to this home with her parents. She was an LDS Relief Society worker. She was survived by two half sisters and a half brother, Nora Sparks, Gertrude Sperry and Paul Foster Barton. She died at 173 I B I Street. Belle, Barton, Eva's sister, also lived here. She was born Dec. 9,1868. She attended the University of Utah and received her BA in 1915. She taught at the Latter-day Saints College and in the department of home economics at the University of Utah from 1916 to 1926. She died in 1963. She was survived by two half sisters and one half brother Belle and Eva lived here until 1953 when the house was sold to Robert H. Barnes. Barnes has rented the house to Gaston Chappius and Flora Lake since then. Gaston Chappius was born January 8,1908 to Henry and Louise Habeggar Chappius He married Flora Lake on Feb. 17,1940 in Belguim. He served two IDS missions to France from 1936-1938 and 1939-1940. He was Sunday School Superintendent and Choir President in the LDS Eighteenth Ward after he came to Salt Lake. He was a member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. He was a handball champion and chess champion in Utah. He was a French translater at the IDS Church Historian's Office. He died in 1969. His wife Flora still rents the house. |
