Sep 08

Maple Hill Cemetery, Cadillac, Wexford, Michigan – Block 1 Lot 27

This entry is part 34 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.

On one of my many cemetery visits, I was accompanied by a third cousin, who is a Long descendent. Some of her family is included in my photographs, although I am not connected to them. The space for the owner of this lot was empty in the cemetery records. There may be one unmarked grave on this lot, that of Mary Alice Largent, 1860-1939. The records aren’t entirely clear.

Beatrice E. (Ash) Largent, 1904-1989, and Webster Clay Largent, 1895-1972.
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Nola M. (Towers) Largent, first wife of Webster C. Largent, whose death record is here. A “premature birth” is listed as a contributory factory in her death. If that baby is buried here, I did not find the marker.
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The death record of this child gives his name as Franklin F. Largent, and his parents as Leeland and Freda (Nickerson) Largent.
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Sep 05

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

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.

yearnd lot mem day 2009

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.

Sep 04

Maple Hill Cemetery, Cadillac, Wexford, Michigan – Block 2 Lot 49

This entry is part 32 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 8 March 1920, according to the cemetery records.

Dorothy Warren, 19 March 1905 – 5 March 1920. Dorothy was Papa’s aunt.
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Edward Isaac Warren, 30 Dec 1880 – 10 Jan 1962; and Susan Amelia Foreman , 21 Nov 1884 – 24 May 1956, Papa’s paternal grandparents.
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Sep 03

I Did It! (Almost)

Remember the box, and the resolution to enter all the data into my genealogy database? On June 6th, I checked how I was doing, and found that I had fallen miserably short on the data entry end of things.

When I assessed my progress on August 2th, I was feeling a little better about the progress I had made.

Today, my pile looks like this:
missing pile
Right, it is GONE. Sorry to yell, but this is a big deal to me. I finished entering all the data from my pile. Nothing left but dust. I was about to declare myself a big winner, and have a drink:
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But, then I realized that the filing is not complete:
to file

I think I can do the filing in one day, and I have chosen tomorrow to do that.

I won’t be celebrating for too long, I have a ways to go before I can really declare myself a winner. The next problem is the data entry from the files on my computer. I just looked at the computer folder which contains results from numerous trips. I have been to courthouses, libraries, cemeteries, even Salt Lake City, and my results are stored neatly in folders with the date and the place I visited. There are notes, transcriptions, and pictures. The pictures are of deeds, of graveyards, and of pages in books, and there are photos of microfilm boxes showing the number of the film, and of microfilm screens, showing data about some person of interest.

The fact that it is all neatly organized into folders is some consolation, but not a lot. The parent folder is massive: 4.63 Gb, 79 sub-folders, 4984 files. I’m not sure how long it will take me look at, evaluate, transcribe (if necessary) and enter the data I have collected in those 79 folders. I also have some hand written notes that go with some of the files:
to do

The top of the report looks like this:
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Darn. Well, I’m having a drink anyway. Then, after the filing is complete, I will tackle my pile of notes and start the process. Maybe next week.

Sep 02

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

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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Sep 01

Maple Hill Cemetery, Cadillac, Wexford, Michigan – Block 18 Lot 22

This entry is part 31 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 Lamb family’s lot is close to those of my grandparents and father, so I often see their graves when I am at the cemetery. In the course of my research, I found that one of the Lambs was married to one of my cousins, specifically, a second cousin, once removed. Not a close relationship, and I don’t remember meeting the lady, although I may have when I was very young.

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Fred S. Lamb was born, according to his marriage record, in St. Johns, Michigan in 1862. He immediately preceded my grandfather as probate judge in Wexford County, and I was fascinated by the scales of justice on his footstone when I first saw it.

Delia J. (Cook) Lamb, 1862-1956, wife of Fred.

Fred H. Lamb, 1905-1988, a son of Fred S.

Ruth E Lamb, 1903-1970, wife of Fred H.

Morris S. Lamb, 1900-1983. Morris was another son of Fred S. and Delia J. Morris and my family belonged to the same church, First Congregational. He was there nearly every Sunday, and I saw him often. His wife, Mary Cecelia Long, 1904-1988, was the cousin I mentioned. She is buried in Mt. Carmel, the Catholic cemetery across the street.

Althea D. (Lamb) Olsson, 1898-1987, was the oldest child of Fred S. and Delia. She was another faithful member of First Congregational, and often sat in the same pew with her brother, Morris. I remember being slightly surprised when she mentioned “my brother”, and I realized the two were siblings.

James L. Olsson, 1889-1959, Althea’s husband. I don’t remember him at all, I would have been eight when he died.

Aug 31

The Lilac

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.

Aug 29

SNGF – Ancestors I Have Met

Time for this week’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun, hosted by Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings.

Here is your challenge for tonight (or whenever you read this):

  1. Write down which of your ancestors that you have met in person (yes, even if you were too young to remember them).
  2. Tell us their names, where they lived, and their relationship to you in a blog post, or in comments to this post, or in comments on Facebook.

This will be a very short list for me, perhaps that is part of the reason I spend much time searching for information on my family.

Marjorie Helen (Herrington), 1926-2007, my mother. I knew her from my birth till her death, just over 55 years. She was born in Troy, New York and lived in a variety of places across the US. Her last home was in Rochester Hills, Michigan.

James Austin Yearnd, 1927-1971, my dad, a resident of Cadillac, Michigan for his entire life; except for a short tour in the US Marines and his time in college.

Winnie Alice (Kaiser) Yearnd, 1885-1957, my paternal grandmother. She lived in Cadillac, Michigan for her entire life. I called my grandma sweetie, and she called me sweetie. I remember visiting her house when I was small. I remember the many empty Bufferin bottles in the basement fruit cellar. I didn’t understand about the arthritis for which she used the medication until I was much older.

Since this is such a short list, I will add a picture of Sweetie, not as I remember her, but as she was well before I arrived on the scene.

Winnie’s mother died when she was just two and a half years old, I wonder if that is the reason for the faraway stare in her eyes?

Winnie Kaiser #2

Aug 29

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

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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Aug 28

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

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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