Grenard - David
DAVID GRENARD
Source: Crawfordsville Journal-Review Crawfordsville, Montgomery County Indiana Tuesday, 25-Jun-1957 p 1
Waynetown -- - David Rusk (Buck) Grenard, retired Montgomery County farmer and lifelong Democrat, who cast his first vote for Tilden in 1876, died Monday night in the home of a daughter, Mrs. Homer Goff, in the Elmdale neighborhood at the age of 102. He had been ill one week. Mr. Grenard, who was one of the oldest residents in West-Central Indiana, was proud of his party affiliation. He recalled only recently the vote he cast in 1892 for Grover Cleveland and Adlai Stevenson I. He cast his last presidential ballot in 1956 for Adlai Stevenson II grandson of the man he admired so much. Born November 14, 1854, in Coal Creek Township, two miles south of Wingate, Mr. Grenard, who was known to his friends and associates as Buck Grenard, was the son of Simeon and Abigail Rusk Grenard. He was married April 22, 1883, to Raschel Ann Swank at Waynetown. His wife died June 3, 1928. A life resident of Montgomery County, Mr. Grenard was a farmer and livestock buyer most of his life. He was a member of the Primitive Baptist Church, and the last of a family of nine children. Surviving, besides the daughter with whom he had made his home since 1950, are a son, Lloyd Grenard of Indianapolis; eight granddaughters; one grandson; 17 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild. He was preceded in death by a son, Emerson Grenard, who died in 1929; a daughter, Eva Irvin, who died in 1948, and two grandchildren. The body was taken to the Servies Funeral Home in Waynetown where services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday. Burial will be at Oakland Cemetery, near Elmdale. Rev. John R. Servies will be the officiating minister. Friends may call at the funeral home.
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