Question

Does anyone know who was Uriah Groshong parents where?

Answer 1

Uriah was born in 1818, but not certain whether it was MO or WI as the 1860 and the 1870 US Census give conflicting birth states.

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN6V-DGB

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDK8-P3T

If Valentine Groshong is Uriah's brother, his parents are Sameul and Elizabeth. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRPB-59X

Do you have a death date for Uriah and a location, state, county and or city?

Answer 2

Are you descended from Uriah and Celia?  I have some research for you...

First of all, wikitree currently shows that Uriah Groshong was the husband of Celia Young, daughter of my ancestor William Young.  This is a mistake.  Uriah was actually the husband of Celia's first cousin Celia, daughter of William's brother Hiram Young.  The grandmother of the two Celias, Dempsey (Buckelew) Young, had a sister Elizabeth who married Samuel Groshong.  I am informed by a cousin that Samuel Groshong was the son of Jacob Grosjean, who was born 18 Dec 1725 at Fénétrange, Moselle, Lorraine, France.  Samuel Groshong had a brother Jeremiah Jefferson Groshong who died 17 May 1858 at Grant County, Wisconsin. As Uriah Groshong lived in Iowa County, Wisconsin before moving to California with the Hiram Young family, I'd look for a connection to Jeremiah's family.  Samuel and Jeremiah had a brother Jacob Groshong; see this wikitree profile: http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Groshong-19

Here are my notes on Hiram Young, father-in-law of Uriah Groshong:

Hiram Young was born 8 May 1807³⁹ in Christian County, Kentucky.  He died 5 Dec. 1873 in Sonoma County, California and is buried in the Young Family Cemetery on private property south of Santa Rosa.⁴⁰  He married his first cousin Sarah Lucinda Buckelew about 1827.  She was born 8 Sept. 1807⁴¹ in Christian County, Kentucky, daughter of Eliab Buckelew, who lived in Pike County, Missouri and later Adams County, Illinois.  See Appendix VII.  Sarah died 15 Apr. 1874 in Sonoma County, California.42 

Hiram Young appears in the 1830 census in Adams County, Illinois with two males under 10, 1 male 20-30, and 1 female 20-30. Hiram Young bought 80 acres of land in Adams Co., IL 5 Apr. 1832 from his cousin William Bean.⁴³ He appears on a May-June 1832 Illinois State militia roster for the Black Hawk War.⁴⁴ 

Hiram Younge appears in the 1840 census in Quincy, Adams County, Illinois (next to his brother-in-law Eliab Hughes) with two males 10-15, 1 male 30-40, 1 female under 5, 1 female 5-10, and 1 female 30-40. It appears that Hiram moved to Wisconsin after 1845, when his daughter Sarah was born in Illinois. On 1 Aug. 1849, Hiram Young received a patent for 40 acres of land in Iowa County from the federal land office at Mineral Point.  He received a patent for an additional 80 acres on 1 Nov. 1849, and on this same day Hiram and his brother William jointly received patents for two additional 40-acre tracts of land.⁴⁵ Hiram Young appears in the 1850 census in Mifflin twp., Iowa County, Wisconsin as follows: Hiram, 42, farmer, b. KY, real estate $500; Sarah, 42, b. Missouri (apparently a mistake), Henry, 22, b. MO; John, 20, b. IL; Seely [Celia], 17, b. IL; Rebecca, 12, b. IL; Sarah, 10, b. IL, Elizabeth, 5, b. IL. 

Hiram Young appears in the 1852 California census in Sonoma County, California as follows: Hiram, 45, farmer, b. KY, last residence WI; Henry, 24, farmer, b. MO; John, 22, farmer, b. IL; Jane, 12, b. IL; Sarah Ann, 9, b. IL; Elizabeth, 5, b. IL; Amos Perry, 1, b. WI; Sarah, 45, b. KY. Either in the same household or adjoining (the record isn't clear) appear Hiram's daughter Celia with her husband as follows: Uriah Groshong, 35, farmer, b. MO, last residence WI; Celia, 18, b. IL; Henry Y., 3, b. WI; Sarah E., 1, b. MO. 

Hiram Young appears in the 1860 census in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California as follows: Hiram, 53, farmer, b. KY, real estate $3000; Sarah, 52, b. KY.  On the next line, in his own household, appears Henry R. Young, 33, farmer, b. MO, real estate $1000.  On the following line appears John Young, 31, farmer, b. WI, real estate $800, b. WI [mistake], Elizabeth, 13, b. WI [mistake], and Amos, 9, b. IL [mistake]. Immediately below are listed Hiram’s daughter Sarah and husband as follows: Jasper McCracken, 24, farmer, b. IL, real estate $1000; Sarah Ann, 17, b. Iowa [mistake, but she had lived in Iowa COUNTY]; Y.B.(?), 1, b. CA.

Immediately following appears daughter Celia’s family as follows: Uriah Groshong, 42, b.WI [mistake], (no occupation given), real estate $2600; Celia, 27, b. MO; Henry, 11, b. CA; Sarah E., 9; Hiram, 6; Cornelius P.,  4; Quincy A., 2; Olive Jane, 1. 

Hiram Young appears in the 1870 census in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California as follows: Hiram, 63, farmer, b. Kentucky, real estate $3000, personal $1000; Sarah, 63, b.KY; Amos P., 19, b. WI; Louis Ney, 14, b. MA; S. Groshong, 19, b. CA.

Comments

John, that was sloppy work on my part. I've created a Celia Young, daughter of Hiram Young, and moved the Groshongs to her family instead of her aunt Celia (Hiram's sister).