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Winnie Kaiser Yearnd Wedding Book – 3

October 6th, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Granny's Ancestors - (2 Comments)
This entry is part 3 of 10 in the series Winnie Kaiser Yearnd Wedding Book

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This page lists wedding gifts. I sure wish it had told who gave what, but some things are left for me to imagine.
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Dining Table
Set of Dishes
Two Rocking Chairs
Cut Glass Berry Bowl
Cut Glass Celery dish
Two sets cut Glass Creamer & Sugar
Cut Glass Water Glasses and Pitcher
Sherbet Dishes
Cut glass Comport Jelly dish
Knives and forks
Table Spoons
Desert Spoons, Four Plates, Bullion Spoons, Vinegar Cruet, Embroidered towel & pillow cases, Carving Set, Berry spoon, Butter Knife, cream ladle and sugar spoon, Gravy ladle, Tooth pick holder, cut glass olive dish, fruit knives, Jelly knife, card dish, Hall chair, Three pictures, Meat Fork, Salad Bowl. Hemstiched table cloth.

Written in the same handwriting but added on with a different colored pen, Rocking chairs. I don’t know if rocking chairs were given twice, or if they were just listed twice.

Some of these items have survived, and I will post pictures of them later.

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Winnie Kaiser Yearnd Wedding Book – 2

October 5th, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Granny's Ancestors - (0 Comments)
This entry is part 2 of 10 in the series Winnie Kaiser Yearnd Wedding Book

I am posting all the pages in the book, even though some have no genealogical information. You may click on the thumbnails if you wish to read the poems or look a the books wonderful illustrations.

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Finally, more information is listed on the seventh scan. The family issued verbal invitations to the wedding.

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Winnie Kaiser Yearnd Wedding Book – 1

October 4th, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Granny's Ancestors - (0 Comments)
This entry is part 1 of 10 in the series Winnie Kaiser Yearnd Wedding Book

I have been lucky enough to inherit my grandparents wedding register book. Although both of my grandparents were involved in the wedding, I think of this as my grandmother’s book. This is because I never knew my grandfather, who was died before I was born. I have memories of visiting my grandmother, I called Sweetie. She passed away on December 11, 1957 when I was exactly six years and one month old. The other significant thing about December 11 is that our youngest daughter was born on that day. Here is the cover of the book.
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You may enlarge the images by clicking on them, if you need to. I believe my grandmother wroth this, but I can’t be sure. Dr. A. W. Johnstone was the pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Cadillac, Wexford, Michigan.

E.G. Rice and Mildred Rice, the witnesses to the marriage, were and aunt and uncle of Winnie. Amelia “Millie” Kaiser was the youngest child of William Kaiser, 1837-1909, and Elizabeth Long, 1834-1921, and a sibling of Winnie’s father, William Kaiser, 1862-1940.

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Mount Carmel Cemetery, Cadillac, Wexford, Michigan – Lot

September 22nd, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Cemeteries | Granny's Ancestors - (0 Comments)
This entry is part 47 of 60 in the series Cemeteries

This cemetery is just inside the city limits on the south. It is on the west side of U.S. 131 (also Mitchell Street) as you enter the town.

This is one of two cemeteries that a cousin and I visited in 2002. She is a Long descendent, and some of these graves are people who are unrelated to “my” family; they are probably related to her.

All underlined names are linked to photos. Use your browser’s back button after viewing a picture.

Garvin
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Roy W. Garvin, 1885-1950. Roy was my first cousin, once removed, the son of Mary Ann Kaiser and John Garvin.

Sadie (Brisbois) Garvin, 1885-1979, Roy’s wife.

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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – Ahnentafel Roulette

September 19th, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Granny's Ancestors | Tools and Information - (0 Comments)

Randy says, “It’s Saturday Night – time for some Genealogy Fun (even though I’m stuck in Santa Cruz without Internet access)”.

Here are the instructions, look below for my answer.

1) How old is your father now, or how old would he be if he had lived? Divide this number by 4 and round the number off to a whole number. This is your “roulette number.”

2) Use your pedigree charts or your family tree genealogy software program to find the person with that number in your ahnentafel. Who is that person?

3) Tell us three facts about that person with the “roulette number.”

4) Write about it in a blog post on your own blog, in a Facebook note or comment, or as a comment on this blog post.

5) If you do not have a person’s name for your “roulette number” then spin the wheel again – pick your mother, or yourself, a favorite aunt or cousin, or even your children!

  • My father was born July 20, 1927, so he would be 82 if he were living today. 82/4 = 20.5, rounded up to 21.
  • Generating a pedigree chart, #20 is my 2nd great-grandfather, William Kaiser.
  • Three facts about William Kaiser:
    1. William was a taxable resident on the E 1/2 of lot 24, concession 12 in Grey Township, Huron County, Ontario, Canada from 1870-1876. In 1877 he purchased lot 33 in concession 13, Grey, Huron, Ontario, Canada. He was a taxable resident there until 1885 when he immigrated to Michigan.
    2. In 1896, William became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
    3. On the 1900 census of Cadillac, Wexford County, Michgan, his occupation was given as “forester”, however the city directory that year said he worked in a saw mill.

I have spent quite a bit of time on this family lately, finding some Canadian records, and searching for more information about them. I believe he was a follower, coming to Michigan after several of his children, but exact records are hard to find.

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Mount Carmel Cemetery, Cadillac, Wexford, Michigan – Lot E-3

September 17th, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Cemeteries | Granny's Ancestors - (0 Comments)
This entry is part 42 of 60 in the series Cemeteries

This cemetery is just inside the city limits on the south. It is on the west side of U.S. 131 (also Mitchell Street) as you enter the town.

This is one of two cemeteries that a cousin and I visited in 2002. She is a Long descendent, and some of these graves are people who are unrelated to “my” family; they are probably related to her.

All underlined names are linked to photos. Use your browser’s back button after viewing a picture.

Caulkins

Clyde Conway Caulkins, 1888-1905. Clyde was the son of Marie Conway Caulkins. Maria was a sister Delia Conway Kaiser, my 2nd great-grandfather’s second wife.

Maria Conway Caulkins, 1860-1937. Maria was Clyde’s mother, and a sister of Delia Conway Kaiser.

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Delia Conway Kaiser, 1862-1930. She married William Kaiser on 27 November 1889 and was my grandmother’s step-mother.
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Austin William Kaiser, 1896-1920, was the son of Delia and William Kaiser, a half-sibling of my grandmother, Winnie A. Kaiser Yearnd.
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Elizabeth Long Kaiser’s name is listed on the lot card, with a question mark after it, as if she might be buried on this lot. St. Ann Church also maintains an log of all funerals conducted. On page 13, of the book marked, “Record of Interments”, line one says: Date of death & Burial: 7/19/1921 – 7/21/1921; Names of Persons Interred: Elizabeth Kaiser; Place of Birth: Alsace, France; Age: 85 yrs; Disease: Old Age; Priest: E. A. Lef??ne; Cemetery: City; Remarks: column blank. Although Elizabeth remained faithful to her Catholic religion throughout her life, it appears that she was buried with her husband in Maple Hill Cemetery where I found her marker.

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Maple Hill Cemetery, Cadillac, Wexford, Michigan – Block 18 Lot 7

September 5th, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Cemeteries | Granny's Ancestors - (0 Comments)
This entry is part 33 of 60 in the series Cemeteries

Maple Hill is a larger city cemetery, located on the south side of Cadillac, Michigan. I have collected a number of photographs from this cemetery and will post my photographs by lot number.

This lot was purchased 29 July 1936, probably by my grandparents. They must have been planning ahead, no death occurred in the family until my grandfather’s in 1948.

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James Austin Yearnd, 1927-1979, my father.

William Henry Yearnd, 1883-1948, my grandfather.

Winnie Alice (Kaiser) Yearnd, 1885-1957, my grandmother.

Marion Augusta Yearnd, 1912-1969, William and Winnie’s daughter, my aunt.

William Henry Yearnd, Jr., 1917-1992, William and Winnie’s son, my uncle.

(Margaret) Jane (Yearnd) Devereaux, 1910 – 2002, William and Winnie’s daughter, my aunt.

Leo Edward Joseph Devereaux, 1906-1981, Jane’s husband, my uncle.

The Fath family is linked to the Yearnd family by marriage.

Albert G. Fath, 1889-1914

Edna K. (Koetter) Fath, 1891-1969

Anita C. Fath, 1913-1982

I took this overview shot in 2007, after we planted the Memorial Day flowers.
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The marker in the foreground is one of the Fath burials. The footstones, in order from left to right: William, Jr., James, Winnie, Marion, Jane, Leo.

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Maple Hill Cemetery, Cadillac, Wexford, Michigan – Block 3 Lot 41

September 2nd, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Cemeteries | Granny's Ancestors - (0 Comments)

Maple Hill is a larger city cemetery, located on the south side of Cadillac, Michigan. I have collected a number of photographs from this cemetery and will post my photographs by lot number.

John Alfred Phillips was born in Canada 12 March 1865 and died in Cadillac Michigan 26 February 1950.
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Anna “Annie” (Kaiser) Phillips was born 12 March 1865 in Canada and died in Cadillac 26 Feb 1950. She was another of the Kaiser siblings, a sister of my great-grandfather William, and a daughter of my 2nd great grandparents. She married John Phillips 23 April 1888 in Cadillac.
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Their son, William Adlem Phillips, 1891-1951 ,and his wife, Edna (Harris) Phillips, 1889-1971, are also buried on this lot.
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The Lilac

August 31st, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Cemeteries | Granny's Ancestors - (1 Comments)
This entry is part 30 of 60 in the series Cemeteries

There are many surprising moments in life, and I had one this spring. M-in-L, Papa and I spend a day or so visiting cemeteries on Memorial Day weekend each year. Last year, Papa and I went back to Maple Hill Cemetery to water our flowers.

Since it was just the two of us, and we had a few minutes, I wanted to look at some family lots I hadn’t see in several years. One of those is block B lot 60, where my great-grandparents are buried.

I was amazed to find this.

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That knurly old lilac has been on the lot as long as I can remember, I have no idea who trimmed it the way is is. Most lilacs in the area are clumped bushes, not single larger trunks. I had never seen this one blooming before in the entire 35 or so years I have visited this cemetery. It is planted next to the marker for William, Jennie and Cecelia Kaiser, which you can just see in the foreground.

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Maple Hill Cemetery, Cadillac, Wexford, Michigan – Block T Lot 459

August 28th, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Cemeteries | Granny's Ancestors - (0 Comments)
This entry is part 28 of 60 in the series Cemeteries

Maple Hill is a larger city cemetery, located on the south side of Cadillac, Michigan. I have collected a number of photographs from this cemetery and will post my photographs by lot number.

This lot is close to the lot containing the burials of the George and Lucy (Kaiser) Johnston families, Block T, Lot 461. Interestingly, some of the grave markers are the same style. The southwest portion of this lot was purchased on either 13 or 11 October 1909 by Elizabeth Kaiser

Elizabeth (Long) Kaiser, 1834-1921,  was my second great-grandmother. I do not know the date of her marriage to William Kaiser, but they married in Canada. Since the first several children in their family claim a birth place of Vaughan, Ontario, it is likely they married somewhere near the Kaiser’s historic residences in Vaughan. The area was referred to as “Kaiserville”, and today, is the home to an authentic historic village.
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William Kaiser, 1837-1909, Elizabeth’s husband, my 2nd great-grandfather.
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Elbert “Bert” G. Rice, 872-1945. Rice was the husband of another child of Elizabeth Long and William Kaiser, Amelia/Mildred.
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Mildred (Kaiser) Rice, 1878-1963. “Aunt Millie”, is what we called this lady, the youngest sibling in the family of William and Elizabeth (Long) Kaiser. Her name was “Amelia” on the 1881 census in Canada, when she was a 3-year old. She was Mildred in volume 2, page 120, record 1637 of Wexford County, Michigan, marriage records, where her 1 May 1900 marriage was recorded.
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