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An Investigation Into The Grove Park Inn's Ghost: The Pink Lady
- Heath Towson
- 4 days ago
- 20 min read
Asheville, North Carolina holds a strong oral tradition, containing stories of locals and their ghosts. If you’ve visited one of Asheville’s oldest resorts, the Grove Park Inn, you may have heard the tale of the Pink Lady. Coming up on its 113th birthday, the Grove Park Inn has hosted its share of celebrities and political figures. The ghost of the “Pink Lady” has become one of its more beloved guests, who has supposedly never checked out.
The Grove Park Inn was opened to the public in July of 1913, destined to be one of Asheville’s finest resorts. It was financed by Edwin Wiley Grove, a pharmaceutical magnate who made his fortune selling Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic, which proved to be a popular remedy for the symptoms of Malaria. Dr. Grove had pioneered a technique to extract quinine crystals, making them taste less bitter, which was the effective ingredient in his tonic. His company, The Paris Medicine Company had grown exponentially with the development of his tonic and moved from his hometown of Paris, Tennessee to St. Louis, Missouri.
While developing the first quinine tablet, he met an up-and-coming chemist at the Parke Davis company in Detroit, named Fred Seely. Seely, impressed Grove enough that he was offered a job to run Grove’s new quinine tablet processing company in Asheville, North Carolina. Grove and Seely partnered on several different business ventures including The Paris Medicine Company, a newspaper called The Atlanta Georgian and later The Grove Park Inn.
Grove had been visiting Asheville for years, to relax and recover from chronic Bronchitis and hiccups related to respiratory illness, which were aggravated by the polluted air of St. Louis and his factory. He had begun developing real estate in Asheville and was encouraged by local businessmen to build a resort hotel, that would anchor his Grove Park neighborhood, as well as retain visiting wealthy guests who might want to buy a winter home in Grove’s neighborhood.
It was during this period of rapid expansion and growth at the Grove Park Inn that one of the inn’s oldest ghost stories was to take form. In the book, Haunted Asheville, author and Asheville local Joshua Warren recounts the tragic end to a spurned lover in the Grove Park Inn. Warren’s account imagines a young woman, perhaps in the 1920s period, peering over the edge of the fifth floor down to the lobby of the Palm Court Atrium of the Grove Park Inn. Music is wafting from the grand lobby as she contemplates her end. This unknown figure is said to have long, blonde hair and is wearing a beautiful pink ball gown. Joshua speculates that she may be attending a debutante ball at the inn or has just realized the end of clandestine love affair, which causes her deep sadness. A powerful force causes her to inch further and further over the half wall of the 5th floor of the Inn’s Palm Court until it’s too late and she falls to her death on the hard slate floor, two levels down.
Over the years, the story of the Pink Lady has continued to evolve. Searching the newspaper archives of the Asheville Citizen-Times, there are no mentions of ghosts or paranormal activity at the Grove Park Inn until December 1994, when a reporter for the Greensboro, North Carolina News and Record mentions that maybe the ghost of Zelda Fitzgerald or her husband F. Scott who stayed at the hotel during the summers of 1936-1937 perhaps inhabit the suite he stayed in, room 441 and 443. This seems to be more of a tongue-in-cheek reference and does not describe a paranormal experience the author had.
After searching for the Pink Lady story by decades on the Asheville Citizen-Times archive on newspapers.com starting in 1920, the story does not appear to surface until October 30,1996, when Joshua’s book Haunted Asheville was released. The Asheville Citizen-Times states that Warren was hired by hotel management in December of 1995 to do a paranormal investigation of the hotel, due to concerns of unusual activity staff reported experiencing. The article says, “Just in time for Halloween, officials at the Grove Park Inn are taking off the wraps of their ghost, known over the past five decades as “The Pink Lady.” A press conference is scheduled Wednesday night to release to the world the findings of a study started last December by Asheville ghost researcher, Joshua Warren.” The Hotel media relations director, Dave Tomsky was quoted as saying “If we thought it was a negative story, we wouldn’t be researching it or telling it.”
When Warren began his investigation at the Inn, he was a 20-year-old sophomore at UNC-Asheville and was writing his book of Asheville ghost stories, Haunted Asheville. The article states that he had spent hundreds, if not thousands of hours researching the ghost by pouring over hotel records, police records, newspapers and death certificates trying to find out the young woman’s identity. Warren did not believe the ghost’s identity to be Zelda Fitzgerald, as she did not stay with her husband at the hotel, but rather was in a nearby sanitarium (Highland Hospital), where she would later die in a tragic fire on March 10,1948.
While investigating the Pink Lady, Warren was granted access to interview employees of the hotel and stay in various rooms. He states that he stayed in the hotel multiple nights, maybe 10-12 nights.
While conducting his investigation, he did not encounter much, if any activity in the former F. Scott Fitzgerald suite of rooms 441 and 443. Several guests have cited odd encounters while staying in this suite, including knocking on the doors, the phone ringing with no answer and moaning sounds coming from the wall in the middle of the night. F. Scott Fitzgerald did not die in this room, but did experience a turbulent time in his life while staying here, which is chronicled in the book “After the Good Gay Times” by Tony Buttieta. F. Scott did try to commit suicide by shooting himself in the room, but was so inebriated, he shot a hole through the ceiling of the room and was promptly asked to leave.
During his investigation, Warren encountered large fields of electrical energy around room 545 with an electromagnetic field detector. An EMF detector is a tool commonly used by ghost hunters and electricians to detect large spikes in electrical energy. These spikes in electrical energy are often attributed to the presence of a ghost. Warren deduced that perhaps because of this large spike in electrical energy around room 545, maybe it had something to do with the story. From here the story grew and hotel marketing staff stated as a fact that the woman had been meeting her lover in room 545 and she must have leapt to her death from the 5th floor to the third floor of the Palm Court. Other than finding the presence of fluctuations in electro-magnetic energy, Warren does not report that room 545 was the location of a murder or that hotel staff lore cited this location in Haunted Asheville. Several GPI employees stated in Haunted Asheville and various newspaper articles that they were uncomfortable entering either the F. Scott Fitzgerald suite of rooms 441 and 443, as well as room 545 for no apparent reason. During Warren’s investigation of ghostly activity and all the interviews of staff, he never found anyone who knew this mysterious woman’s name.
Although the story of the Pink Lady’s death is attributed to the Palm Court, staff and guests never seem to report actually seeing her in the Palm Court. Most encounters with the Pink Lady seem to be reported in the newest guest wing of the hotel, in the Vanderbilt Wing. The majority of employee stories seem to reference a pink puff of smoke in Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar in the Vanderbilt Wing or a full-bodied apparition of a young woman in a pink gown, with long blonde or sometimes brown hair who tries to speak, but no sound comes out of her mouth. She is also reported to be seen around the office for Accents on Asheville in the Vanderbilt Wing.
In the Asheville Citizen-Times article that reported the story in 1996, several employees were interviewed who stated they had experienced the Pink Lady ghost:
“Pat Franklin, manager of the resort’s nightclub, Elaine’s said the ghost, or something, has paid a visit to the club once or twice a year for the past six years. “It’s kinda like a puff of smoke of pinkish, grayish color. It just floats through the room. I don’t know if it’s a ghost or not,” she said. “It’s not something I’m afraid of.”
“Sharon Ponder, a former photographer at the hotel, said she has had six or seven encounters with the specter, ranging from a firm tap on her shoulder in the photography lab to seeing the ghost’s reflection in the window near her desk, only to see no one when she whirled around. Ponder said she has seen the apparition three times. “I was never afraid of her. I tried to communicate with her, but she would never say anything.”
There was an older portion of the original Inn on this portion of the property that was demolished when the Vanderbilt wing was constructed in 1989. I was not able to find what was originally housed in this part of the hotel. Presumably it was other guest rooms during this era.
Several guests reported playful encounters with the Pink Lady like the feeling of being tickled on their feet in the night or even the feeling of someone sitting down on the edge of the bed. These didn’t seem to be linked to any particular room in the accounts published in the Asheville Citizen-Times. Some guests reported when they had left a child alone in an adjoining room, their child later asked them where the nice lady in pink went.
Joshua did not have any sightings of the Pink Lady himself during his various stays at the hotel. He states that he was not able to locate any guest registers in the hotel archives indicating guests who might have stayed in room 545 or manager reports of someone dying from a fall in the hotel. Fred Seely, the first manager of the hotel was known for being very meticulous and established many strict management policies. If something had happened like a person dying in his hotel, he would have known about it and would have reported it. It is possible that her death could have occurred while Seely was absent from the hotel though. Seely would typically spend the winter in Miami, Florida. The Pink Lady’s death is said to have taken place during a colder month, as sightings of the Pink Lady seem to happen during the colder months. They are also said to increase in activity when construction is occurring.
As time went on, the details around the Pink Lady story kept being added. It was later said that no account could be found of her because she was a guest of a guest at the hotel and would not have been registered on a guest log. It has also been speculated that Fred Seely covered up the death, to keep scandal out of his hotel. However, at the time of her supposed death in the 1920s, several deaths were reported in the period of 1917 to 1929 at the Grove Park Inn in the Asheville Citizen-Times, ranging from all walks of life.
Looking to debunk the theory that Seely was paying off the Asheville Citizen-Times or using his political influence to cover up any stories of death at the Inn, I went to the Asheville Citizen-Times microfilm archive on newspapers.com to try several different strategies to find people that died at the Grove Park Inn.
Using the search key words of “died at the Grove Park Inn” or “death Grove Park Inn,” I found several prominent older male guests of the hotel that died from complications of disease or heart attack while at the hotel. A waiter named Spencer Sims died in the basement of the hotel, from what was believed to be poisoning by lye or other poisonous substances in whiskey. The case was suspicious enough that it went to trial. Several coworkers reported Sims complaining of feeling ill during the day prior to later finding him dead. However, I did not uncover any reports of a young female dying from falling off the balcony of the Grove Park Inn.
I then decided to search for death at other hotels in Asheville to see if possibly a real-life story could have been transposed from another location, almost like in the game of telephone. There was a story that had very similar details to the Pink Lady story at another Grove owned hotel, The Battery Park Hotel in downtown Asheville.
On September 6, 1925, Anita Wentworth of Greenville, South Carolina received minor injuries when she fell from the mezzanine floor of the Battery Park Hotel into the elevator shaft onto the top of the elevator, three or four feet below. The Asheville Citizen-Times reported that she received a slight cut on her cheek and a minor injury to a leg but otherwise suffered no injuries according to their reports. Somehow, the door to the elevator shaft was stuck open, which was not noticed by the elevator operator. The paper notes that she was not a guest of the hotel and was taken to Mission Hospital for treatment.
Later that same year on December 23, 1925, Bud May – a 17-year-old elevator boy at the Battery Park Hotel fell down the elevator shaft. The cause of how May fell down the elevator shaft was not determined at the time of writing. An employee heard moaning in the elevator shaft and discovered May. May was taken to the hospital and died about an hour and a half after falling. It was the opinion of the hotel doctor that May had fallen two or three stories and supposed he stepped into the shaft believing the elevator was behind the door. In addition to the Battery Park Hotel and the Grove Park Inn, Edwin Grove also owned The Manor Inn on Charlotte Street. I did not find any reports of suicides or death by fall at this hotel either.
The fall in the Palm Court said to be made by the Pink Lady is 27 feet from the 5th floor to the 3rd floor. It is possible someone could survive this fall, presuming that you didn’t land on your head. After uncovering these accidental falls at the Battery Park Hotel, I wondered if there were any deaths related to suicide at a hotel in Asheville during this era?
Close to the Battery Park Hotel, there was a death ruled to be suicide. On Saturday, May 3rd 1930, 51-year-old Philip H. Krebs jumped from the roof of the George Vanderbilt hotel on Haywood Street at 8:40am. He was cited to be suffering from a nervous breakdown aggravated by stock market losses and other financial problems. Krebs was visiting from Louisville, Kentucky. The Asheville Citizen-Times reported a number of suicide deaths among residents and non-residents following the onset of the Great Depression in 1930, but none that I could find at the Grove Park Inn or other hotels during the 1920s.
Even if Seely was able to keep reporting of death at The Grove Park Inn out of the paper, there would be several other paper trails. If the Police suspected foul play, it would most likely be reported in the local paper. An investigative report and issuance of a death certificate would also follow. It is difficult to search for early police records in Buncombe County, as many of these were purged in the 1970s and 1980s and do not exist anymore. It was reported to me that no police records from the 1920s exist by Asheville Police historian, Hannah Silberman.
Searching for a death certificate of a young woman in the 1920s who may have died from blunt force trauma to the head, I went to the Buncombe County Register of Deeds office to search their vital records database for a death certificate. Register of deeds Drew Reisinger and a team of six volunteers searched all the female deaths between ages 19 to 50 in Buncombe County during the year 1920 (the year of death cited by former GPI marketing manager Tracey Johnston-Crum in a 2016 article for the Mountain Xpress, as well as the hotel display dedicated to the myth). No records surfaced of a woman who had died from blunt force trauma to the head. Most deaths at this time were related to tuberculosis, influenza or pneumonia.
While searching videos on YouTube for more tales of the Pink Lady, one video from a local ghost tour guide reported that The Pink Lady was a young woman who had won a local beauty pageant and was at the hotel trying to land a beau from a higher economic status than her and was killed by a potential suitor she was having an affair with. There were many dances and formal functions that would be held at the Grove Park Inn over the years. Although the guide was not specific in his account of the story, he said the name “The Pink Lady” stemmed from an award she had received in the beauty pageant named for the mountain flower “The Pink Lady’s Slipper,” which is a type of orchid. Was it possible he was referring to Asheville’s Rhododendron Festival, which culminated in a debutante ball at the Inn?
Asheville’s Rhododendron debutante pageant debuted in 1928, with the inaugural ball held at the Grove Park Inn. Awards for the debutante court were named after various varieties of flowers found in Western North Carolina. One of the awards was titled “Countess Pink Lady’s Slippers”, named after the Pink Lady’s Slippers orchid, which is native plant in Western North Carolina.
The winner of the Pink Lady’s Slippers award in 1928 was a local Asheville socialite named Miss Edith Sinclair, from the Lakeview Park neighborhood surrounding Beaver Lake. She did not meet her demise at the Grove Park Inn and went on to live a long life. She won the Countess Pink Lady’s Slippers title two years in a row. Her appearance does seem to match some of the accounts of the Pink Lady sightings, but nothing else seems to match up with the story. It seems unlikely that any females attending a debutante ball at the Grove Park Inn could have died without a trace, as they all were well known in society (local and out of town) and most attendees at these functions came with their family.
By the late 1920s due to family disagreement over Edwin Grove’s will, Fred Seely was no longer the manager of the hotel as of 1929. Because so many accounts describe the Pink Lady in the Roaring Twenties, it seems most likely that her death occurred somewhere during 1920-1927 when Grove and Seely were involved at the Inn. Many of the details around the legend of the Pink Lady mimic The Great Gatsby or another F. Scott Fitzgerald style story. Although Fitzgerald’s Gatsby does mention Asheville, no other details tie into the Pink Lady Story.
Asheville is not the only city with a Pink Lady ghost story. In 1960, the Bismark Tribune reported the story of a Pink Lady Ghost in London, England at an old manor home. There is also a similar Pink Lady story in San Luis Obispo, California that is still being told as of 2019. The details of these stories involve a woman leaping to her death in a pink ball gown at a large manor home balcony.
In 2011, historian Bruce Johnson wrote a historical fiction account of the Pink Lady story called “An Unexpected Guest” that tells the story of a young woman who is pushed to her death from a man she is having an affair with at the hotel. When Seely discovers the body, he has it moved to various locations of the hotel, until he is able to sneak it down to the unfinished portion of the Inn’s basement, where he then buries the body in a shallow grave. From there, the story only gets more complicated. It is an entertaining read, but it is the work of Johnson’s imagination. Readers of this story may have grafted the details of his fictional account on to the ever-evolving tale of the Pink Lady.
Almost 29 years after Warren debuted his account of the Pink Lady in Haunted Asheville, the story is still being circulated. In late 2024, Joshua Warren revisited the tale of the Pink Lady investigation on his podcast, Strange Things, on the Coast-to-Coast Paranormal Network. He revealed that when he presented his findings to the Grove Park Inn management in 1996, he presented several different possibilities. The story about a woman accidentally falling to her death from room 545 in the Palm Court was theory A, the woman being pushed by a lover or committing suicide due to overwhelming sadness was theory B, but there was another theory C he says GPI management would not allow him to present. Warren states that he was threatened with a lawsuit if he published theory C, which was left out of his book, Haunted Asheville.
Warren’s unpublished theory recounted on his recent podcast was that perhaps the story surrounding the Pink Lady’s death had to do with an inappropriate affair between hotel founder, Edwin Grove and a young woman. Later in this podcast, Warren recalled seeing something unusual while reviewing Edwin Grove’s will during his 1995 investigation. Warren vaguely recalled that he thought while viewing Grove’s will that Grove left a substantial amount of money to a young girl, who he thought was unrelated to the family. Warren did not reveal this girl’s name, as he wasn’t sure if she could possibly still be alive. He speculated in no certain terms that perhaps Grove had an illicit affair with this young woman’s mother, and something unfortunate may have happened to her after the discovery of a love-child.
Upon reviewing Grove’s will, I did find the naming of a life-time income of $500 per month, granted to a young woman named Marjorie Lucille Grove. The only Grove daughter I was aware of was Evelyn Grove Seely (Fred Seely's wife), Grove’s daughter from his first marriage to Mary Louisa Moore, who sadly died at a young age. After reviewing the Citizen-Times articles of the era, it was revealed that Marjorie Grove was Edwin and Gertrude Grove’s adopted daughter (Gertrude being Grove’s second wife). She was born in 1901, so she was not a little girl as Warren thought at the time of Grove’s death in 1927. It is not clear how they came to adopt this young woman, but it is thought that she was a distant family member that came to live with them due to economic circumstances. The timeline of her age and the timeline of the Warren’s theory do not align as she wasn’t a baby or child at the time the story takes place in the 1920s.
Edwin Grove Jr. (Edwin Grove’s son by second wife Gertrude) led a very colorful past and often speculated that his father had taken lovers at different points in his life. It is these accounts by Grove Jr. which may be the origin of Warren’s speculation about a love child with Grove and another woman. In 1927 after his father’s death, Edwin Grove Jr. was sued for slander by Edwin Grove Sr.’s nurse, Rubie Dellinger, for $100,000. The Asheville Citizen-Times reported the following from Rubie Dellinger:
“She alleges Grove had her forcibly removed from a Philadelphia hotel, where she had a bedroom adjoining that of E.W. Grove, Sr., Asheville millionaire, who was ill. “False and defamatory statements, accusing her of misconduct, followed, she alleged.
The nurse said that for months she was shadowed by private detectives. In November, 1926, she alleges E.W. Grove Jr., registered at the hotel under an assumed name. Later Grove and a detective took her from her bedroom, she says, accompanied her to a railroad station and saw to it that she left the city.
Soon afterwards, her petition states, “a manuscript or writing prepared by him (E.W. Grove Jr.) or under his instruction, pretending to be a report of what the defendant had seen while using a “peep hole” through which his father’s room was watched,” was circulated.”
In 1932 Grove Jr. was involved in another lawsuit with 24-year-old divorcee Sadie Thompson when she sued him for $500,000. She charged that Grove under the assumed name of C.C. Long promised to marry her and broke his promise. Grove was married at the time of this lawsuit with three children. He would die in 1934 from pneumonia and heart disease according to his obituary. In 1927, he inherited two thirds of his father’s estate, which was valued at $10-15 million dollars, according to the Asheville Citizen-Times.
Warren and others have speculated that perhaps the death of the woman in the Pink Lady story had to do with a dispute over Edwin Grove’s will. In 1926, Edwin Grove’s son-in-law Fred Seely sued Grove for $5,000,000, over a dispute related to Grove’s will. In his statement to the press, Seely states the following “The facts are in 1902 the business of the Paris Medicine Company was a small one when I entered the firm and became manager. At that time, my father-in-law made an agreement with me, embodying it in his will, that if I remained with him and built up the business, I could have at his death either the business or other property that he might have, equaling in value that of the medicine company.” Seely mentioned after the work he did to increase the rapid expansion of the Paris Medicine Company, Grove insisted he (Grove) return to control of the Paris Medicine Company, removing Seely from senior management. Seely believed his father-in-law destroyed his original will later. Grove died in 1927, and things only got messier as Edwin Grove Jr. and Getrude Grove (who deeply disliked Seely) continued the fight over Grove’s will in court. Seely later dropped the suit against the Grove Estate.
There doesn’t seem to be any connection to the suit between Grove and Seely with the Pink Lady, or Marjorie Grove. In the classic trope of many murder mysteries, there is usually an unknown heir who inherits the vast majority of a family fortune, whereas ungrateful family members inherit little to nothing. Warren seems to be using this trope as an alternative theory, but it does not pan out with Grove’s will, which was very public and published in several newspapers. In this case, Grove’s immediate family inherited the majority of his 10–15-million-dollar fortune while Marjorie, along with another cousin of hers and even several domestic employees of Grove’s were included in the will inherited very small sums.
With 112 years of history in the walls of the Grove Park Inn, there are almost undoubtedly spirits remaining on the premises. Because the myth of the Pink Lady primarily seems to center around the Seely/Grove history of the Inn, that leaves a relatively short time frame of 1913-1927 (14 years) for this potential cold case to occur. Although the Buncombe County vital records of 1920 have been searched with no results of a real-life Pink Lady, it is possible she is still out there in the records from 1921-1927. The story seemed to have no record of circulation until Warren’s book Haunted Asheville debuted in 1996 and has typically resurfaced when hotel management changes. Currently, there is a display dedicated to the story with a pink dress in the style she was believed to have worn in the Vanderbilt wing of the Grove Park Inn, which also advertises pink lady t-shirts available in the Marketplace Gift Shop. There is always the possibility The Pink Lady is still out there, just waiting for us to discover her.
Sources:
Websites:
Books:
-Johnson, Bruce (2011) An Unexpected Guest
-Johnson, Bruce (2012) Tales from the Grove Park Inn
-Warren, Joshua (1996) Haunted Asheville, 1st Edition
Newspaper Articles:
Asheville Citizen-Times. (October 30, 1996). The Pink Lady Grove Park Inn Story debuts 1996. Newspapers.com. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/asheville-citizen-times-the-pink-lady-gr/169888804/
The Asheville Times. (May 5, 1929). Debutante Ball Grove Park Inn. Newspapers.com. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-asheville-times-debutante-ball-grove/169548751/
News and Record. (December 25, 1994). Ghosts at Grove Park Inn. Newspapers.com. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/news-and-record-ghosts-at-grove-park-inn/169549017/
The Asheville Times. (May 4, 1930). Death at George Vanderbilt Hotel. Newspapers.com. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-asheville-times-death-at-george-vand/169550838/
The Asheville Times. (June 23, 1929). Rhododendron Ball Grove Park Inn Debutantes. Newspapers.com. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-asheville-times-rhododendron-ball-gr/169552702/
The Asheville Times. (June 23, 1929). 1929 Rhododendron Ball Grove Park Inn. Newspapers.com. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-asheville-times-1929-rhododendron-ba/169552863/
Asheville Citizen-Times. (March 18, 1928). Edith Sinclair - Ms. Pink Lady Slippers Rhododendron pageant. Newspapers.com. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/asheville-citizen-times-edith-sinclair/169553049/
The Asheville Times. (December 5, 1927). Seely-Grove Suit. Newspapers.com. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-asheville-times-seely-grove-suit/169596861/
The Bismarck Tribune. (August 9, 1960). The Pink Lady - London (Grove Park Inn). Newspapers.com. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-bismarck-tribune-the-pink-lady-lon/169887831/
The Tribune. (November 6, 2019). The Pink Lady Ghost - California (Grove Park Inn). Newspapers.com. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tribune-the-pink-lady-ghost-califo/169888040/
The Asheville Times. (December 5, 1927). Seely's Suit against Grove - 1927. Newspapers.com. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-asheville-times-seelys-suit-against/169893020/
St. Louis Post-Dispatch. (July 15, 1926). Deposition against Seely - Grove Suit. Newspapers.com. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-deposition-again/169893397/
The St. Louis Star and Times. (December 3, 1927). Grove, Edwin Jr slander suit The St Louis Star and Times, 03 Dec 1927 p 3. Newspapers.com. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-st-louis-star-and-times-grove-edwi/169894465/
The Kansas City Times. (October 8, 1932). EW Grove Jr lawsuit from divorcee. Newspapers.com. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-times-ew-grove-jr-lawsui/169894665/
The St. Louis Star and Times. (May 31, 1934). Obituary for EDWIN W. GROVE JR.. Newspapers.com. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-st-louis-star-and-times-obituary-fo/169895937/
Asheville Citizen-Times. (February 5, 1927). Grove, Edwin will details ACT 05 Feb 1927 p1 pt1. Newspapers.com. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/asheville-citizen-times-grove-edwin-wil/169896170/
Asheville Citizen-Times. (February 5, 1927). Grove, Edwin will details ACT 05 Feb 1927 p2 pt2. Newspapers.com. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/asheville-citizen-times-grove-edwin-wil/169896424/
St. Louis Globe-Democrat. (August 14, 1923). Marriage of Grove / Wood. Newspapers.com. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-globe-democrat-marriage-of-gro/169896760/
Asheville Citizen-Times. (August 25, 1929). Death at Grove Park Inn. Newspapers.com. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/asheville-citizen-times-death-at-grove-p/170967797/
Brooklyn Eagle. (March 9, 1917). Death at Grove Park Inn. Newspapers.com. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.newspapers.com/article/brooklyn-eagle-death-at-grove-park-inn/170967929/
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