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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.

Kaiser

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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Mount Carmel Cemetery, Cadillac, Wexford, Michigan – Lot C-15

September 16th, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Cemeteries | Granny's Ancestors - (0 Comments)
This entry is part 41 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.

We reviewed the lot card for this lot in the St. Ann Church records. Bernard J. Long is listed as the owner of this lot.

Long

Bernard Joseph Long, 1876-1954 and his wife Valeria Thibeaut Long, 1882-1959. Bernard Joseph was a nephew of my 2nd great-grandmother, Elizabeth Long Kaiser, and my first cousin, 3 times removed.

Rosalie, 1914-1914

Margarete Long, 1903-1907

Mitchell

Della Thibeaut

Pomeroy

Beverly Ann, 12/5/1929 age 3 weeks, according to the cemetery lot card. It is impossible to tell if the date is a burial date or a death date.

Eugene Francis, 11/11/1928, age 1 month according to the cemetery lot card. Again, I could not tell if the date was a burial date or a death date.

Bernard Long, with a date of 27 February 1913 is also listed on the front of the lot card, but not on the back, which shows the grave locations. Bernard Long, also known as Benjamin, died on 27 February 1913 in Cadillac, Wexford, Michigan. He was my cousin’s grandfather, my 2nd great grand-uncle. My cousin related that her mother said the family had promised him he would be buried with his wife in Ontario, Canada when they convinced him to come to Cadillac, Michigan after she died.

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Maple Hill Cemetery, Cadillac, Wexford, Michigan – Block T Lot 473

September 14th, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Cemeteries | Granny's Ancestors - (2 Comments)
This entry is part 37 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.

The cemetery printout does not list an owner for this lot. William J. Long was my second cousin, twice removed.

William J. Long, 1902-1969
Gayle E. (Sylvester) Long, 1905-1979

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Maple Hill Cemetery, Cadillac, Wexford, Michigan – Block 3 Lot 52

September 12th, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Cemeteries | Granny's Ancestors - (0 Comments)
This entry is part 38 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.

No owner is listed in the printout at the library for this lot. Bernard J. Long, whose family is buried on the lot was my second cousin, twice removed.

Bernard J. Long, 1893-1974
Hazel E. (Barrons) Long, 1896-1970

George E. Barrons, 1871-1950
Rose M. (Elmer) Barrons, 1875-1933
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Maple Hill Cemetery, Cadillac, Wexford, Michigan – Block T Lot 459 Southeast

August 29th, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Cemeteries | Granny's Ancestors - (4 Comments)
This entry is part 29 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.

The southeast portion of Block T, lot 459 was purchased by “Joseph Long” on 5 May 1909, according to the cemetery print-out in the local library. I found three gravestones on the lot.

Joseph Long, 1832-1909, was my second great-grand uncle, a sibling of Elizabeth Long. The parents of the Long siblings were (surprise!) Joseph Long and Mary. I have several last names for Mary, and I won’t bore you with that problem right now. Joseph was predeceased by his wife and five of his seven children according to his death certificate. Two of his children were living in Cadillac at the time of his death, Joseph Long, 1877-1944, and Henrietta Long Kelly, 1873-1949; so they may have been his only surviving children.
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Joseph and Alice (Gibbs) Long are also buried on this lot. This Joseph was a son of the Joseph who died in 1909. Joseph and Alice were married in Wexford County, Michigan on 26 June 1902. This Joseph, 1877-1944, was probably the purchaser of the lot, where he first buried his father.
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Alice (Gibbs) Long was born in 1875 and died in 1960.
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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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Knox Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Huron County, Ontario — Kaiser

August 11th, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Cemeteries | Granny's Ancestors - (0 Comments)
This entry is part 13 of 60 in the series Cemeteries

The Church

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The cemetery, out my car door, and across the hood.

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The cemetery is located at Cranbrook, Concession 11, Grey Township. When I arrived at this place in May of 2001, it was truly a spiritual experience.

It was satisfying to stand at the graves of both sides of my grandmother’s family. I later found that a cousin had visited during his lifetime, but that was 40 or 50 years previous to my visit. I had no idea of what I would find, and the discovery of my ancestor’s names in the indices in Goderich and the subsequent trip to the cemetery was very exciting.

This post will show the Kaiser side of my Grandmother’s family. My 2nd great grandfather, William Kaiser, and his family resided in Grey, Huron, Ontario, Canada from at least 1870 forward. I do not know the exact date the family arrived in the area. The three children of William Kaiser and Elizabeth Long who died while the family resided in Grey Township are buried here. There is one stone which had been broken off and subsequently repaired.

kaiser childrens grave

The transcription from the cemetery record in Goderich reads:

In Memory Of
Joseph
Died Feb. 7, 1876;
Aged 18 Years
6 Mo’s & 7 D’s
Cecelia
Died Apr. 17, 1876;
Aged 8 Years
9 Mo’s & 17 D’s
Sarah
Died Aug 19, 1870
Aged 3 Mo’s & 19 D’s
Children of Wm & Elizabeth Kiser
4 line verse illegible

The verse is now completely missing, but the top portion of the marker was saved, and cemented to prevent tipping. Here are some close ups:

Joseph
JosephKaiser

Cecelia
ceceliakaiser

Sarah:
sarahkaiser

The cemetery was well kept and neat. Although I have no idea when the Kaiser marker was damaged and repaired, I am grateful that it remained for me to see and photograph.

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