Alphonzo L Groves  [Sarah Elizabeth Sedgwick / Jonathan Groves]
b. February 22, 1871, Illinois7,2
d. July 4, 19267
bu Fannin County, Texas, Oak Hill Cemetery7
m. November 10, 1901, [Whitewright, Grayson, Texas?], Vinetta Net Pennington7

Vinetta Net Pennington [William Pennington / Elizabith Ann Sears]7
b. December 18, 1876, Texas7,2
d. June 4, 1974, [Whitewright? [Grayson, Texas?]7,8
bu Fannin County, Texas, Oak Hill Cemetery7

Census records:

1880 Illinois, Clark, Wabash Twp
1900 Texas, Grayson, Whitewright
1910 Texas, Fannin, Precinct 3
1920 Texas, Fannin, Leonard
cannot find her in 1930

Alpnonzo Groves taught at Grayson College at Whitewright, Texas. There he met Vinetta Pennington. They married, lived and died there, Aplhonzo dying at the young age of 55, and Nettie living until she was 97.

Children:

Jones Pennington Groves1h
  b. abt 1902, Texas2
  m. Pearl Price
Roy Harold Groves1h
  b. abt 1904, Texas2
Elizabeth Frankie Groves1h
  b. abt 1906, Texas2
  d. January 27, 1991, Dallas, Dallas, Texas1h
  m. Euwell Eugene Geer1h


Elizabeth Frankie Groves
m. abt 1942, Euwell Eugene Geer1h
descendants:1h
    Robert Geer, b. 1943
        Joseph Eugene Geer, b. 1974
            Morgan Elizabeth Geer, b. 2000


Sources and notes: (all sources for this project)

1. Records of descendants/researchers of this family
a. John Warren, descendant of Robert Sedgwick's daughter Margaret Ann
b. Rachel Sharp, descendant of Robert Sedgwick's daughter Margaret Ann
d. Peggy Alsobrook, ggdau of Jonathan Winfield Groves and Sarah Coryell
h. Robert "Bob" Geer, son of Elizabeth F. Groves and Euwell Eugene Geer

2. Census records, any of those indicated.

4. Illinois Marriages to 1850, Illinois Marriage Records, 1851-1900
two Ancestry.com databases
these records:
Husband Wife Marriage Date County ST
GROVES, JONATHAN CORYELL, SARAH 9 Mar 1848 Clark IL
GROVES, JONATHAN SEDGEWICK, SARAH E 29 May 1870 Clark IL

7. Grayson County TXGenWeb: Oak Hill Cemetery these records:
GROVES, A. L. 22 FEB.1871-4 JULY 1926 A MASON;
  HUSB. OF NETTIE WED 10 NOV.1901
GROVES, NETTIE PENNINGTON 18 DEC.1876-4 JUNE 1974
  WIFE OF A.L. DAU. OF BILL & BETTIE PENNINGTON

8. Texas Deaths, 1964-98
an Ancestry.com database
this record:
Groves, Nettie P, 04 June 1974, GRAYSON, F, WIDOWED