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Belle’s Box – 85

December 13th, 2008 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)
This entry is part 87 of 342 in the series Belle's Box

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.

Best
Wishes For
A Happy
Thanksgiving

85f

MICH
3 PM
1914
Mrs Chas Tinker
Manton
Michigan

85b

Onaway Mich
Nov 23 – 1914
Dearest friend
Just a Card
to let you know
I am in the City
found Allie and
the children all well.
it is awful cold up
here and quite a
lot of snow. I am
feeling quite well
but I am not at
home. Your
friend Mrs. Smith

All I can say about this card is that Belle’s friend Mrs. Smith was visiting Allie and children in Onaway.

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Belle’s Box – 56

November 11th, 2008 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)
This entry is part 58 of 342 in the series Belle's Box

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.

“Wishing You Well
Splendid health I wish for you
Congenial friends kind and true
The kind of work that makes you glad
And each new day the best you’ve had”

56f

Card postmarked Mesick Mich, April 13, 1927 5 p.m.
Addressee:
Mrs Chas Tinker
Escanaba
Mich
First Ave South.

56b

Dear Mother
Recived your letter
Today Hie has
Been plowing
We sure have
Had a nice spring
Eunice

Eunice and Hiram Smith were Belle’s daughter and son-in-law. Charlie Tinker did travel around working on roads, and also in the woods, perhaps he had traveled to Escanaba to work. April seems a little early to be plowing in northwestern lower Michigan; it must have been an early spring.

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Belle’s Box – 53

October 30th, 2008 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)
This entry is part 55 of 342 in the series Belle's Box

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.

“Christmas Greetings”

53f

Postmark is 28 Nov 1913, Mich. The city is illegible, and the stamp is ripped off. Addressed to:

Mrs. Belle Fellows
Manton
Mich

53b

Dear Mother
and all at home
if it don’t
storm will
be home
Sunday.
?? are well
Eunice

Eunice Fellows married Hiram Smith in 1909, and they lived for some time near Fife Lake, Grand Traverse County. Perhaps they were visiting for a Sunday afternoon.

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Belle’s Box – 50

October 27th, 2008 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)
This entry is part 52 of 342 in the series Belle's Box

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.

“Making up Bunks, Ordnance Training Center, Aberdeen, Maryland

50f

Postmark, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD October 13 6 p.m. 1941. Addressed to: Mr & Mrs Charley Tinker, Manton Michigan R # 1

50b

“Pub by ordnance training center, Aberdeen, Maryland”
“Made only by Tichnor Bros., Inc. Boston, Mass”

Dear Grandfolks:

I am feeling fine and hope
you are the same. Things
are about the same as
ever. We are soon going
to start school I hope
We have been out on
the pistol range and
had a few shots. I have
a little cold but not much.
well write or have
mother write for you.
yours
Henry Z Smith

Henry Zachariah Smith, 1918-1986 was the son of Eunice Fellows and her husband Hiram H. Smith. This is the second card from the collection that was written by him to his grandparents Belle and Charlie Tinker

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Belle’s Box – 49

October 26th, 2008 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)
This entry is part 51 of 342 in the series Belle's Box

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 front of this photo card contains a number in the lower left corner: 6090/5

49f

The addressee is:
Mrs Belle Fellows
Manton
Mich
R-1

The stamp is missing, and the postmark is illegible.

49b

Dear Friend. We are all
well. Al??? has gone to
Grand Rapids. Abie’s
baby had an operation. I heard
you have a new girl.
We wish you much joy.
We have been looking for you
over. Did you here that Mrs George
Wilson is dead. Well let us here from you

4-21-14 (or perhaps 1911 or 1912) Mary Whitney

I know of no granddaughters of Belle that were born in 1914. The granddaughters that I know of were: Dorothy Featherly, daughter of Mary (Mert) Fellows and Eugene Featherly b 27 April 1901; infant girl b 29 January 1911 to Hiram and Eunice Fellows Smith, and died young; Laura May, b 10 Oct 1910 to Ross Edna Fellows Fenton, Rachel Belle, b 23 Feb 1916 to Alfred (Andy) and Hazel Fellows Burgess; and Luella born and died on 9 Feb 1915.

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Belle’s Box – 33

September 19th, 2008 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)
This entry is part 27 of 342 in the series Belle's Box

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.

Number 33 is a cute card, a man in a dog house, while the dog looks on from the end of a rope. “Having a “Doggone” Good Time Here!”

33f

Post marked Kalamazoo, Mich, July 10, 1941
Addressed to Charles Tinker, Manton Michigan R#1

Dear Grandfolks:
I’min the army now. Ill write from Fort Custer
Let the folks know
your grandson
Henry Smith

33b

Wow! Can you imagine entering the army, and then letting your parents know by asking your grandparents to tell them? Perhaps everyone already knew why Henry left, and he had time or money to send only one card.

Henry Z. Smith was born in 1918, the son of Eunice Fellows and Hiram A. Smith. He was their only living child, a daughter died as an infant.

Henry ended up living in Colfax Township, Wexford County, Michigan; near his family, after his service.

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Belle’s Box – 48

September 15th, 2008 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)
This entry is part 20 of 342 in the series Belle's Box

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.

A Christmas Card:

Merry Christmas

48f

This one is very faded, and the stamp has been pulled off. I can read the postmark: Manton, 4 Dec 1907 or 1909 12 p.m.
The addressee is:

Mrs ??????
Manton Mich
RFD 1

48b

Written on an angle, the message:

hoping to here
from you soon
Eunice

Eunice Fellows, Belle’s sixth child and third daughter, married Hiram H. Smith on 20 April, 1909. Hiram and Eunice were counted on the 1910 census of Fife Lake, Grand Traverse County, Michigan, where he was a laborer for the railroad.

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Belle’s Box – 7

August 29th, 2008 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)
This entry is part 9 of 342 in the series Belle's Box

You can read about Belle Lamunion, 1864-1848, and her amazing box of family memories here. Belle married Henry H Fellows, 1858-1905 in 1879 in Ashland Township, Newaygo County, Michigan.

This series of posts will center around the approximately 405 items in the box which are in my possession. I scanned the items one at at time as they were picked up from the box, in no particular order; and so the scans are not arranged by date or any other method. The posts will be numbered according to the order of the scanned item in my files. It may be that the posts will not appear in number order, especially if extra investigation is needed regarding a given item. So, just to be clear, the cards, clippings, photos and other items that were in the box will be described one at a time, and titled with the file number of the item’s scan.

You can read about the characters whose names appear in the box in Cast of Characters . If you are related to this family, please contact me.

This card is addressed to Mrs. Belle Tinker, Escanaba, Mich. I can’t read the postmark, other than 9 a.m. The front: “A very Happy Birthday with every kind wish for your continued success and happiness.”

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Dear ____ We are all alive and fine. Ross work up to camp for a while untill (sic) the Rye is ready to cut. Eunice and Hi (sic) were here yesterday. uncle Geo was here last night Laura has piece your block box next time Hope you are OK

Edna

“uncle Geo” was George Lamunion, Belle’s brother. Edna and Ross Fenton, and Eunice and Hi Smith were two of her daughters and their husbands. This card had to be sent after the date of Belle’s marriage to Charlie Tinker in 1913. I have no idea why Belle was in Escanaba. The “camp” that Ross Fenton was working at would be one of the lumber camps in the area.

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