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.
Lot 390, block P was purchased by Alice e. Miller on 29 April 1903, according to a printout at the Cadillac-Wexford Public Library.
Elden Lamont Brisbois and Miriam Miller Brisbois are related to my relatives. Although I did not have a direct connection, I photographed the graves.
Read about this series of posts, regarding items in a box originally owned by Belle (Lamunion) Fellows Tinker here. The cast of characters is located here. And, there is an accounting of people about whom I have little information here.
The numbering of these posts had been modified to signify that I am posting items from my archival book three, a three precedes the item number.
Christmas Greetings
Once again at Christmas time
It’s a pleasure to renew
“Auld acquaintance”< and be wishing
All the season’s joy to you,
With another wish as truly
for a happy New Year, too!
Mr & Mrs Miller
Miller is too common a name to make assumptions, but there were Miller families residing in Colfax township in both 1920 and 1930.
Read about this series of posts, regarding items in a box originally owned by Belle (Lamunion) Fellows Tinker here. The cast of characters is located here. And, there is an accounting of people about whom I have little information here.
Chart for Health
“Joy,
Temperance
and Repose
slam the door
on the doctors nose.”
This card is postmarked Grant, Nov 29, 1927 6PM. I can’t see the Michigan, but I know it is there somewhere. The addressee is:
Mr Charles Tinker
Mesick
Mich
Monday 29
We are same as when
you left Thanksgiving
over they were all here
and Lews folks was
up Sunday Lew drew
up poles all day so
charlie you must
come back for there
is more to cut up than
before how is George
any better and Sevtts?
folks I havnt heard
from Mrs Mc you took
her ??? ??? The Carters
havnt been up E Bisard
Elizabeth is writing faster than I can read, her thoughts might have filled a page or two, but it seems rushed and crowded on a card.
There was some wood cutting going on, not surprising in the fall in Michigan. Charlie Tinker build saw mills, so perhaps he also helped cut up poles for firewood.
Lew was Elizabeth and Franklin Bisard’s only child; Lew’s folks may have been his daughter Ione Bisard and her husband Lowell Mckinney, or perhaps Charles and Ida Miller, the parents of his late wife Sadie/Sarah. Sadie passed away in 1914 and Ione lived with her grandparents some, she was in their home at the time of the 1920 census.
I don’t know if George Lamunion, Elizabeth and Belle’s brother was sick in 1927. He passed away in 1932 at the age of 79.
To round out this post, here is a photo of Charlie and one of his saw mills. You can enlarge this to see a more detailed view.
This cemetery is directly West of Grant at the corner of 120th Street and Ferris Avenue.
A headstone on the Miller-Bisard lot.
Charles B. Miller
Ida M. Miller
Sarah (Sadie) Miller, wife of Lewis Franklin Bisard
Andrew Carter and wife Emily Lamunion Carter
Ferris Carter and wife Goldia Willbrandt Carter
Read about this series of posts, regarding items in a box originally owned by Belle (Lamunion) Fellows Tinker here.
The cast of characters is located here.
Item 28 is a card containing Easter greetings from Belle’s sister.
I can’t read the entire post mark, 9 p.m. 19?0, probably 1910, Michigan
Addressee: Mrs. Belle Fellows, Manton, Wexford Co Mich RFD.
Front:
Easter Greetings
Ashland 3.24
We are well and
hope you same
Frank was down to
Lewis yesterday but
they had gone to Detroit -.
E Bisard
Your sister.
This card was may have been written in 1901, at Easter. Lewis Bisard, son of Elizabeth Laumunion and Franklin Bisard, was living at home with his parents in 1900, according to the 1900 census of Ashland Township, Newaygo County, Michigan.
Sometime before November, 1902, when their daughter Ione was born, he married Sadie E. Miller, probably in Newaygo County. Sadie/Sarah Miller Bisard died in 1914, and was buried in Ashland Center Cemetery.
On the 1920 census of Ashland Township, Newaygo County, Michgian, the family of Charles Miller, 59; and his wife Ida, 58, also lists their granddaughter, Ione Bisard, age 15.
