MT. CARROLL BUSINESS & MFG GROVE & SONS A Large & Choice Assortment of Books - Pictures - Toys - Ornaments Gifts to Old and Young - Elegantly and Cheap Is The Immense Holiday Stock at Grove's They will be pleased to show Goods to all who desire to purchase Grove & Son, At the Upper Drug Store The Carroll County Herald December 28, 1878 Contributed by John Sharp HOLMAN & SCHICK Embalm Your Dead - The Popular Undertakers No Unsightly Ice Box Needed They have purchased the right o use Prof. E.H. Crane's Patent Process for the Preservation of Human Corpses Holman & SChick Also have in stock the best assorted and most elegant line of Coffins, Burial Caskets & Undertakers' Goods December 28, 1878 Carroll County Herald Contributed by John Sharp G.W. Ivey & Sons Monument Co. Phone 3034 This would be the business of George W. Ivey born 4 July 1858, died in Mt. Carroll 21 March 1940. First married to Mary J. They were the parents of six sons - J.W., Wesley, GeorgeJr., Preston were four of them. Married (2nd time) to Hettie Coleman 2 December 1912 in Iowa. Hettie was born 17 November 1863 in Boone Co IL. She was first married to Charles E. Horan. Hettie died 3 December 1927 and is buried in Belvidere, Boone Co IL. Article from the Mirror Democrat Ivey & Sons Monument Co Another article of interest Ivey & Sons Marble & Granite     JOE PETERSON CLOTHIER