Granny's Genealogy

Antioch Township Cemetery, Wexford County Michigan

December 31st, 2008 | Posted by Granny Pam in Uncategorized - (0 Comments)

This entry is part 1 of 60 in the series Cemeteries

The cemetery is located northwest of Cadillac, Michigan on M-115 about 12 miles to 19 road. Turn right on 19 road and drive 1.5 miles to the intersection with 16 1/2 road. The cemetery is on the left.

Section A, Lot 30, Owner Milton Frederick

Alice Thelma Ferris (Ferries) Lamunion

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Section C, Lot 20, owner Scott Lamunion.

Merritt Winfield Lamunion AKA Scott Lamunion and his wife, Emma A. Widger Lamunion

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Jack H. Lamunion (son of Scott and Emma)

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Miscellaneous

Emma I. Ford, wife of Leroy Ferries

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Leroy Ferries

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Antioch Twp Wexford Co MI, Cemetery, Ferries, Ferris, Lamunion

Ashland Center Cemetery, Ashland Township, Newaygo County, Michigan

January 1st, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Uncategorized - (3 Comments)

This entry is part 2 of 60 in the series Cemeteries

This cemetery is directly West of Grant at the corner of 120th Street and Ferris Avenue.

A headstone on the Miller-Bisard lot.
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Charles B. Miller
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Ida M. Miller
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Sarah (Sadie) Miller, wife of Lewis Franklin Bisard
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Andrew Carter and wife Emily Lamunion Carter
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Ferris Carter and wife Goldia Willbrandt Carter
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Ashland Twp Newaygo Co MI, Bisard, Carter, Cemetery, Lamunion, Miller, Willbrandt

Beaver Cemetery, Beaver Pennsylvania

January 2nd, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Cemeteries | Papa's Ancestors - (2 Comments)

This entry is part 3 of 60 in the series Cemeteries

This cemetery is downtown in Beaver, Pennsylvania. It is pleasant, and many people walk or jog through it.

Section D, Lot 15. Owner, Warren, Catharine. Date: May 4, 1878, Deed 117. The deaths of two individuals buried here pre-date the date of the lot card. They may have been moved to this cemetery, or perhaps the lot card was made up after the first burials. The one we viewed was typed, and looked like it was created after the fact from a log book. These burials were made on this lot with no markers, it is unclear if the date is the interment date, or the death date.

Catharine Warren, July 17, 1877 (wife of the elder Isaac Warren)
Ethel Warren Wick, February 6, 1956
Wilmer L. Ward, Jan 24, 1970
Hilda N. Ward (Nee Wick), Oct 7, 1984

Catherine Warren Baker –half sibling of Isaac Warren
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Isaac Warren ca 1791 – 1870. This uncle of Catharine (Warren) Baker and Isaac Warren raised the children from a young age. According to the cemetery records, the elder Isaac’s wife Catharine is also buried on the lot, but there is no marker on her grave. The lot card says: “First Soapmaker from Canterbury England – 5th Generation Soapmaker”
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There are several babies who were descendants of Catharine Warren Baker also buried on this lot.

Section 4, Lot 93

Isaac Warren and Emily Cowling Warren his wife. These are Papa’s great-grandparents.

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Also on this lot with no marker, Mary (Molly) Warren Malone (moved from Grove Cemetery, New Brighton). Mary, a daughter of Emily and Isaac was born about 1865 and died in 1910.

Baker, Beaver Cemetery, Cowling, Ward, Warren, Wick

Greenwood Township Cemetery, Wexford County, Michigan

January 3rd, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Cemeteries | Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)

This entry is part 4 of 60 in the series Cemeteries

Greenwood Township Cemetery is three miles north of M-42 in Section 36, Greenwood township. M-42 was recently reclassified as a Wexford County road, 16 mile road, rather than a State highway. Some of these burials are distant cousins of Papa, some may be distant cousins, and some just names that seemed important when I visited the cemetery.

BURDICK

George M. Burdick
George Mark Burdick was the son of Harrison H. Burdick and Martha A. Martin. Although many of the Burdicks that originated in New York are related, I have not documented any relationship of this family to Papa.

Harrison H. Burdick, born in New York and died in Wexford County. The first Michigan record I’ve found for him is in Constantine Township, Cass County, Michigan. He later resided in Lagrange County Indiana; Porter Township, Cass County, Michigan; Colfax Township, Wexford County, Michigan; and finally in Greenwood Township.

Harry Burdick, wife Jesse B. Burdick, and baby Gracie. This was Harrison R. Burdick, son of Harrison and Martha. He married Jessie Babcock; Jessie married Harry’s brother, George M. Burdick, after Harry died.

Harry L. and Vernice Burdick. Harry LaVille Burdick, 1890 – 1965, was Papa’s first cousin, once removed.

Helen Burdick Johns and husband F. Russell Johns. Helen was the daughter of Harry L. Burdick and Vernice, Papa’s second cousin, once removed.

Martha A. Martin Burdick, wife of Harrison R. Burdick, no documented relationship.

Gordon Russell Johns, Papa’s third cousin. He was a son of Helen M. Burdick and F. Russell Johns.

KETCHAM an older large stone. I took the “Ketcham” photos because a cousin of Papa’s has Ketcham’s in her tree. We have no relationship to these people, and she may or may not.

Ada Ketcham

Jane and Eugene Ketcham

William

Burdick, Johns, Ketcham

Greenwich Cemetery, Greenwich New York

January 4th, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Cemeteries | Granny's Ancestors - (15 Comments)

This entry is part 5 of 60 in the series Cemeteries

Lot AC 326 in this cemetery contains the remains of some members of the Martin L. Herrington (or Harrington) family.

Only 2 of the burials have markers. One of the two was placed in the 1990′s by my mother on the grave of her father, David Henry Herrington. In 1950 this lot was owned by Julia Harrington, probably the Julia that was a sister of David. The burials, with links to photos of the two stones:

Ross V. died 1923 age 41, space 1, brother of Phineas and David, son of Kate and Martin. (sorry about the legs, had to block the sun!)
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Martin, died 1926 age 72, space 4-this is Granny’s 2nd great-grandfather.

David Henry, died 1931, age 38 space 2 -this is Granny’s great-grandfather, the marker was purchased by my mother.
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Kate, died 1936 age 69, space 3. This is Kate Knapp, wife of Martin Herrington and also Granny’s great-grandmother.

Phineas died 1941 age 60, space 8, a brother of David and Ross, son of Kate and Martin.

Greenwich Washington Co NY, Harrington, Herrington, Knapp

Grace Cemetery, Harmony, Pennsylvania

January 5th, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Cemeteries | Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)

This entry is part 6 of 60 in the series Cemeteries

This cemetery is located just outside Harmony. It is adjacent to the old Mennonite meeting house, and was the burial place for a number of the Mennonite community in Harmony. The cemetery is sometimes called the Old Mennonite Cemetery

Here is view of the older portion of the cemetery.
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A restoration project was underway when we visited, but many of the markers in the old section appeared to be beyond repair.

Emanuel Bixler. Emanuel was a great-grand uncle of Papa
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Fred H. Foreman and wife Adaline Hall. Frederick Henry Foreman was the son of Isaac Foreman and Elizabeth Bixler Foreman; a sibling of Papa’s Grandmother, Susan Amelia Foreman.
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Isaac Foreman and wife Elizabeth Bixler, Papa’s great-grandparents.
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Mary Ziegler Foreman, wife of John Foreman. John S. Foreman married Mary Pauline “Polly” Ziegler about 1852. Polly was a daughter of Andrew Shelly Ziegler and his wife Anna “Nancy” Ziegler. John and Polly were the parents of at least eight children. John remarried after Polly’s death. MaryZieglerForeman

Bixler, Butler Co PA, Foreman, Grace Cemetery, Hall, Old Mennonite Cemetery, Ziegler

Evergreen-Sparling Cemetery, Kingsley, Michigan

January 6th, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Cemeteries | Papa's Ancestors - (3 Comments)

This entry is part 7 of 60 in the series Cemeteries

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This cemetery just west of Kingsley, Grand Traverse County, Michigan on M113, on the south side of the road. I consulted a cemetery transcription which resided in the Kingsley Library. Some photos are thumbnails will open a larger view in a new window, you can close it to continue.

The owners for plot #69 are listed as “Fenton-Thurston”. This photo is an overview of that plot. The large stone says “Thurston”, the smaller two stones in the background near the tree are Eliza John Fenton Thurston, and her second husband, Alfred L. Thurston.

Eliza John married John Fenton, on 19 December 1849, in Clark County Ohio. She was his second wife. John Fenton and Eliza John were Papa’s second great-grandparents. Eliza remarried after Fenton’s death, to Alfred Lorraine Thurston on 10 October 1873.

Lane Fenton is listed as the owner of plot #891, which is in a newer section.

The stones in the foreground are Dr. George Lane Fenton and his wife Anna May Fenton Baier. George Fenton was a great grand-uncle of Papa, a sibling of John P. Fenton.

Here are 2 views of the marker for Allen Lane Fenton, his first wife Gladys D. Saunders and his second wife Zennah May Rawllings.

Allen, Baier, Evergreen-Sparling Cemetery, Fenton, John, Kingsley MI, Rawlings, Thurston

Fairveiw Cemetery, Manton, Michigan

January 7th, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Cemeteries | Papa's Ancestors - (5 Comments)

This entry is part 8 of 60 in the series Cemeteries

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Fairview cemetery is in the city of Manton,Michigan. A transcription which resides in the Cadillac-Wexford Library, Cadillac Michigan says Gertie W. Burdick is the oldest burial found in the cemetery.

On lot 373, section 1, owner L.T. Fenton, according to the book, the remains of Papa’s earliest Michigan ancestors are interred. The lot was probably owned by Allen Lane Fenton, son of the John.

Gertie W. Burdick was the infant daughter of George Washington Burdick and Mary Jane Abbott. She would be a great grand-aunt of Papa, a sister of his great-grandmother, Susie Melissa Burdick. This is a thumbnail, you may see a larger view by clicking.

“John Fenton 1802-1872, A Kind Neighbor, Indulgent Father an Affectionate Husband, a Perfect Christian.” This transcription is in the book at the library. The stone was somewhat readable when I visited and photographed it in September, 2003.

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Irving W. and Ethel M. Fenton were children of John P. Fenton and his wife Susie Burdick. Of the Fenton’s five known children, three survived to adulthood. The stone has been repaired. This is a thumbnail, click for a larger view.

Burdick, Fairview Cemetery Manton MI, Fenton, Wexford Co MI

Hillside Cemetery, Grant Township, Newaygo County, Michigan

January 8th, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Cemeteries | Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)

This entry is part 9 of 60 in the series Cemeteries

This cemetery is East of Grant, MI. Take 128th east from US 31 about 2 miles. The cemetery is on the south (right) side of 128th.

The Fellows family graves are listed in order they are placed, from north to south.

Two babies. One is probably Claud Fellows, son of Belle and Henry, 1890-1890. The other is probably Erastus Fellows, born and died 20 December 1886. The cemetery transcription isn’t clear.

Peter Fellows, 1886-1891, was another child of Belle Lamunion and Henry Fellows who didn’t live long.

Charles E. Tinker, second husband of Belle Lamunion

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Henry Fellows, older stone, two views.

Henry Fellows, newer stone apparently placed with that of Belle and Charlie Tinker.

Fellows, Grant Twp Newaygo Co MI, Lamunion, Tinker

Daniel Erlin Kaiser

January 14th, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Cemeteries | Granny's Ancestors - (0 Comments)

This entry is part 10 of 60 in the series Cemeteries

Daniel Erlin Kaiser, born May 1806, York Township, York County, Ontario, Canada was my 3rd great-grandfather. His wife was Hannah Fisher, and they had at least eight children, including my ancestor, William Kaiser, 1837-1909.

Daniel is buried in the cemetery at the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Vaughan, Ontario.

The Church and a sign, click for a larger view.

An overview of the burial area.

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Here are the stone and the inscription (click for a larger view):

Holy Bible
In Memory of Daniel Kaiser
who died
June 6, 1872
66 yrs. 1 mo.

and then below:

Friends or physicians could not save, This mortal body from the grave. Nor can the……….(broken: rest is embedded in the ground)

All photographs and the transcript of the inscription are courtesy of Mark Kaiser, (address for personal use), digital copies in files of Pamela Warren.

Thanks, Mark!

Fisher, Kaiser, Vaughan Ontario, Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church