Grover Cleveland Herman Behm was born on Wednesday, June 25, 1884 at 109 Pegg Street in Philadelphia. He was the son of Sophia Marie (Kempker) and Geroge W. Behm.

The 1900 census shows him living with his parents and siblings at 2023 N. Marshall Street in Philadelphia. He also lived there in 1910 and was employed as a "morocco hanger up" and a leather-worker.

On Wednesday, September 30, 1908, he married Elizabeth Mugrauer in Camden City, Camden County, New Jersey. They had three children.

  1. Louise Waltina Kempker (Behm) Richardson (1909-1995)

  2. Edward Gilbert Behm (1911-2006)

  3. Norman William Behm (1918-1998)

In 1918, Grover and Elizabeth lived at 36 Newkirk Place in Camden City. By then, he was employed at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden City. The 1920 census has the family still on Newkirk Place but Grover is working as a record maker for Victor Talking Machine Company (a forerunner of RCA).

The 1930 census shows the family living at 584 Line Street in Camden City. Grover was working as an inspector for Warren Webster. Elizabeth was a waitress in a restaurant.

He belonged to the Ottawa Tribe No. 15 (Improved Order of Redmen) in Camden City (see below).

Grover died on October 24, 1930 at 584 Line Street in Camden City. He was 46 years old an died of kidney disease. He was buried in the cemetery of St. James Lutheran Church in Folsom Borough, Buena Vista Township, Atlantic County, NJ.

His daughter, Louise, remembered that his body was taken from Camden to Folsom on the train along with all the mourners. When they reached Folsom they were met by a horse and wagon that transported the coffin down the road to the church followed by the mourners on foot while the church bell tolled.

Elizabeth was born on December 31, 1890 at Fishers Station, North Chesilhurst, Waterford Township, Camden County, NJ. After Grover's death, she married John Nelson on Saturday, October 16, 1943 in Camden County. On Saturday, November 14, 1959 at the age of 68, Elizabeth married Clifford Vandegrift Lane in Camden City. She was a charter member of Catherine Chalmers Chapter 272, Order of Eastern Star in Camden City.

She died on November 2, 1962 at 829 Olive Street in Camden City at the age of 71. She was buried at Chelton Hills Crematorium in Philadelphia.

New Jersey or Philadelphia history shows that the "Ottawa Tribe No. 15" was a local chapter (or "tribe") of the Improved Order of Red Men (I.O.R.M.). Instituted on June 2, 1868, in Camden, New Jersey, this was a white fraternal and benevolent society that borrowed Native American nomenclature and regalia. The chapters held "powwows" and served as social and mutual aid networks. You can read more about its historical footprint in the region via the Improved Order of Red Men archives.

In the Rehmann Family many events since the mid-19th century have occurred at two churches located at 1341 Mays Landing Road in Folsom, New Jersey. (Some sources list the address being in Hammonton, NJ.) There can be some confusion since names of these churches are spelled in slightly different ways depending on the date or the document.

Starting in 1848, the original church was established as St Jacobus Lutheran Church to serve the local German immigrants. It was located on a 12 acre plot of land which included a cemetery.

In 1853, conflicts over theological issues caused a split in the congregation. The land was divided into two six acre sites and one was used to construct what is now St James Lutheran Church, originally St James Evangelical Church. Charles Rehmann (1826-1892) was on the St. James committee. A second facility called Zion Evangelical & Reformed Church was founded at that time. It is sometimes listed as Zion's or Zions.

About 1998 around the 150th anniversary of the original church, the two congregations reunited into St James Lutheran Church. The cemetery is often referred to by either name, St. James or Zion.