Joe Grace | |
Fullname: | Joseph Patrick Grace |
Birth Date: | 9 October 1878 |
Birth Place: | Richmond, Victoria |
Death Place: | Perth, Western Australia |
Statsend: | 1900 |
Years1: | 1900 |
Games Goals1: | 2 (0) |
Joseph Patrick Grace (9 October 1878 – 5 September 1919) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy.[1]
The son of Thomas Grace, and Julia Grace, née O'Callaghan, Joseph Patrick Grace was born in Richmond, Victoria on 9 October 1878. He was the brother of Fitzroy footballers Jim Grace and Mick Grace.
He married Annie Jane Smith (1879-1951) in 1905. She later remarried, becoming Mrs. Joseph McCormick. She died at Manly, New South Wales on 16 April 1951.[2]
Employed as an insurance agent, he died in Perth Hospital on 5 September 1919.[3]
Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim, The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.), Bas Publishing, (Melbourne, Victoria), 2014. .