William Edwin Grover
Mornington Memorial to the fifteen young men
lost
in the "football Disaster"
William Edwin Grover, the son of Joseph Grover, drowned in May 1892 when The Football Disaster occurred.
His wife, Ellen Eva (neé Adams) - known as ‘Nell’ - died in Melbourne in 1938 aged 69 years.
Nell and William had one child Lillie Grover, who was born 4th Feb, 1891.
Lillie Grover married John Alexander McColl in 1938.
Nell Grover, and her brother James Smith Adams
(circled),
pictured with the first
Mornington Orchestra, pre 1896.