Emma’s Family after Riley’s Passing
Family of Riley’s Daughter Carrie Bell Page
Family of Riley’s Son George Hudson Page
Family of Riley’s Son Charles Orlando Page
Family of Riley's Brother William H. Page, Jr.
In Search of Riley....
Excerpts from the journal of Charles Paige regarding a 1977 trip from
Monday, October 3rd
"Dad and I hoo
"We stopped at a KOA camp that night. Its water was so hard that, when we showered, we couldn't get the soap out of our hair. As we left the next day, with our hair glued down as if with lard, Dad mentioned the condition to the franchise owners. They were aware of the problem but either would or could do nothing about it."
Tuesday, October 4th
"We drove on through
"After lunch we drove into
"Dad and I both scoured local history books and microfilms at the
library, but the only clue found led to a dead end. Then I went to the county
historian's office at the library. Here, it was reported, was the original book
containing the 1850 federal census report for
"The historian gave the Batzings a call, and
Richard's wife answered. Mrs. Batzing was interested
in the fact that Dad's grandfather originally came from Webster, and she helped
by setting up an appointment for us to meet with her husband that evening. So
Dad and I found our way to Webster and located the town hall shortly before Mr.
Batzing was to hold a meeting of the Webster
Historical Society. Richard gave me a few books on local history to look
through while he conducted the meeting, and several slips of paper indicated
places in them where he thought I might find something of interest. (One of the
markers was in a book entitled "Webster . . . Through the Years," by
Esther A. Dunn, 1971. In it Riley Page was mentioned as having had a shoe
repair shop in the
"The meeting adjourned, and we tal
"We finally left Webster and headed back to our trailer par
Wednesday, October 5th
"Dad and I awoke at a reasonable hour and showered to get the Canadian
goop out of our hair. As usual I coo
"Dad and I went to Webster in the early afternoon, where we chatted with a few cemetery keepers before proceeding to the town hall. At the hall the clerks broke the news that their records had all been taken by the County Health Bureau. The Bureau had only wanted the birth records, but since births were mixed together with the marriage registers, everything was taken.
"We knew that finding anything at the Bureau was next to impossible.
Then I as
"Armed with the name and date of marriage, Dad and I drove to our
nemesis, the Monroe County Health Bureau. I had been told that they could look
up records if I knew specific names and dates. I tal
"I was excited when I met Dad at the car. Besides the marriage certificate's listing of R. P.'s parents (whose names I already knew from the 1850 federal census), it also showed his mother's maiden name, where R. P. was born, and what his profession was.Of course, it also gave information about his hitherto unknown bride Emma Wright. Sure enough, Riley was listed as a "shoemaker."
"By this time it was getting to be late in the afternoon. Since we were
planning to leave for
"Neither Dad nor I could believe the luck (or Divine intervention). After we took some pictures of the photograph, Richard said they personally knew the current owners of the house: Mr. and Mrs. Steepee. He then tried calling the Steepees, but nobody answered. Richard gave us the address and phone number and said to call the Steepees later. Thanking the Batzings for their great help, we finally said goodbye.
"On our way through Webster, heading back to
"I as
Thursday, October 6th
"Dad and I woke early and carried out our routine. Then we showered,
prepared the trailer for travel, and hitched it to the car. We first drove into
"The Steepees were on their front porch and
had already made a copy of the appropriate page of the abstract. I took pictures of the house and yard
(including the old buggy shed—now—garage, with its preserved horse
stall and hay loft) and saw the stream that still ran along the length of one
side of the back yard. Then we than
"It was hard to leave, both Dad and I remarking on how we wouldn't mind
living in a place like Webster. When we did leave, we carried away fond
memories as well as an assortment of photographs (including a picture of Irondequoit Bay, located between
The Life of Riley
I always thought of Great Grandpa Riley Preston Page, usually referred to as "R.P.," as an enigmatic figure from the snippets of information about him received in my youth. In later years I unraveled much of his story during several years of research on the Pages and other of my relatives. (My father, another enigmatic person, changed the spelling of our last name to "Paige.") More recently I discovered additional information about his first wife, children, his time in Michigan prior to marrying Great Grandma Sarah Keyes, and his life after moving back to New York state. Consequently, the following is an updated version of his story.
Riley was born in Macedon, Wayne County, New York
Household of Wm. H. Page, from the 1840 Federal census of Macedon, Wayne Co., NY:
Males: Females:
1 under 5 years 2 between
15-20 years
1 between 5-10 years 1 between
40-50 years
1 between 10-15 years
1 between 15-20 years
1 between 20-30 years
1 between 40-50 years
[Chloe's brother Aldrich Thayer (b. 1800) married Huldah Alcott (b. 1802), and they were the parents of Preston Thayer (b. 1820), a prominent citizen of Webster. Aldrich would ultimately sire thirteen children: eight by Huldah and five by his second wife Mary Ann McKee (b. 1825].
Riley spent much of the early and latter parts of his life in or near Webster.
During his later years he would become a shoemaker and have his own shop on
Riley
STATE OF
This certifies that on the 23rd day of Fe
In presence of John Redfield of Burr Oak & M. A. Doray of Burr Oak
Dated
Filed
Riley's first marriage was to Elizabeth Adelaide, a daughter of William and Adelaide Hollenbeck or Holenbeck, b. August 23, 1842 in New York, d. July 26, 1871 at Bethel, Branch Co., Michigan, by whom he would have three children: Carrie Bell, b. August 23, 1860 at Bronson, Branch County, Michigan, d. August 20, 1928 at Kalamazoo County, Michigan: George Hudson, b. January 30, 1864 at Webster, Monroe Co., New York, d. May 13, 1946 at Charlotte, Eaton County, Michigan; and Elsie Adelaide, b. June 20, 1868 in Branch Co., Michigan, d. September 9, 1879 at Climax, Kalamazoo County, Michigan. Riley’s new family was listed in the 1860 Federal census as living at Matteson, Branch County. His parents, and his brother's family, were living in the same county, at Bronson. Also in 1860, after the census was taken, his and Elizabeth’s daughter Carrie was born.
Riley and William's parents both died in 1862: Chloe on January 13 and
William, Sr., on January 17. From the birth locations of George and Elsie it
appears the family returned to
In 1870 when the Federal census was taken, 31-year-old "Reyley" Page was living at
On December 24, 1873, at Charlotte, Eaton County, Michigan,
thirty-four-year-old Riley P. Page of Charlotte married as his second wife
eighteen-year-old Sarah M. Keyes (b.
Riley and Sarah would have three children: Bernice May (b. November 23, 1874, at Comstock, Kalamazoo County, Michigan; d. August 29, 1879, at Comstock, Kalamazoo County, Michigan), Harvey Judson "Juddie" (b. September 3, 1876, at Galesburg, Kalamazoo County, Michigan; d. August 28, 1879, at Kalamazoo County, Michigan), and Charlie Orlando (b. July 31, 1878, at Climax, Kalamazoo County, Michigan; d. September 18, 1941, at Jackson, Jackson County, Michigan). The Pages were living in Charlotte when the 1880 Federal census was taken. Shortly before, in 1879, a diphtheria epidemic had taken the lives of Bernice, Juddie and Elsie, so the household now included only Riley, Sarah, George and Charlie. During this part of his life, Riley was a sewing machine salesman.
Riley and Sarah were divorced sometime between 1880 and 1890. By 1896 Riley had returned to
Sarah M. (Keys) Page married Harvey Olmstead Cline August 7, 1890. They were united in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, by N. J. Cogshall, Clergyman. Witnesses were Rev. C. C. McCabe of New York City and Rev. J. C. Floyd of Albion, Calhoun County, Michigan. Harvey's occupation was listed as “clerk” at time of marriage, and he was a resident of LaGrange County, Indiana. He was a son of Samuel and Mary A. (Olmstead) Cline of Indiana and was often just called “H.O.” The new Cline family, including Sarah’s young son Charles Orlando Page and H.O.’s two sons by his first wife Fanny (Aldrich), settled at Angola, Steuben County, Indiana, where they lived during most or all of the decade. Sarah operated a successful millinery shop. The Clines would later settle in Ingham County, Michigan, where H.O. would be twice elected as sheriff of the county as well as being involved in store keeping, farming, and real estate.
The Shoemaker
Now without wife or children (Carrie and George had married and Charlie was with his mother), Riley Preston Page returned to Coldwater, Branch County, Michigan—part of the area where he had spent more than a decade earlier in life. His brother William Henry Page, Jr. and family were still living there. His niece Chloe B. Page was living with her parents and was involved in the profession of shoe stitching. It appears she taught Riley her trade. Mid-decade Riley returned to Webster, Monroe County, New York, where, on April 1, 1897, he would purchase the house at 316 West Main Street belonging to his half sister Chloe Ann (Robinson) Smith, widow of Henry Smith and then in her 70s. Upon his return to Webster, a blurb in the Webster section of The Monroe County (NY) Mail newspaper for Thursday, August 27, 1896, announced, “R. P. Page of Coldwater, Mich., formerly of this place, will soon open a boot and shoe store in Robert Corey's harness shop. He will make his home with his sister, Mrs. Chloe Smith.”
Riley set up his shoe repair shop just down the street from his home and placed the following ad in a number of local newspapers, including The Record, Sodus, N.Y., Friday, June 3, 1898: “R. P. PAGE Repairs Harnesses of all kinds and Boots and Shoes on short notice, in first-class shape. Women's and Children's a specialty. Also deals in all kinds of Harnesses. Prices as cheap as the cheapest. Hotel Block, Webster, N.Y.” From the house he either could walk to his little shoe repair shop in the village or take the electric streetcar, which passed in front of both the house and shop. At the time of the 1900 Federal census, he owned the house free of mortgage. Living with him were Chloe, born in 1821, and Sarah Kilton, a servant who was born in 1840. Riley claimed to be a widower.
Riley's shoe repair shop on
"A stone building, present site of the Village Hall, was built in 1825
by the
"The building was..used for McKay's flour and feedmill (a boiler exploded and pieces were blown 200 feet);...."
Riley's establishment was open to diversification. In June, 1900, a branch office of the Singer Sewing Machine company was located in R. P.'s shoe shop, and in April, 1902, L. J. VanAlstyne moved in with R. P. and ran a bicycle repair business.
R. Preston Page was married to Emma C. (Conant) Wright, age 54, on September 2, 1905 in Webster. He was then 66 years old. Emma had been born at Perinton, Monroe Co., New York, to parents Cornelius B. and Sally (McFarlin) Conant, and she had been residing in Rochester prior to the marriage. Each had been married twice before, although Riley claimed only one prior marriage. Emma’s first husband had been George W. Finkle, by whom she had a son Myron C. Finkle in 1869, before their marriage ended about a year later. Both George and Emma remarried shortly thereafter. George married Margaret, by whom he had two daughters--Minnie and Nellie. (Minnie died young and Nellie married Lillon B. Boyce, had one child Norman, and lived until 1965.) Emma married Fred Wright, by whom she had one daughter, Elizabeth. Myron was living with the Wright family in Hopewell, Ontario Co., NY, at the time of the 1880 Federal census. His name was listed as Myron C. Wright. His name later appeared as Myron C. Finkle, and he remained close to Emma over the years. He would marry twice: the first time to Hanna "Fannie" Knatt, by whom he had two daughters and a son-- Myra, Georgia, and Victor. Fannie’s sudden death occurred in 1906, and in 1913 Myron married Hattie (Sigaby), the widow of William Spencer.
The Monroe County (NY) Mail, Thursday, December 11, 1902
WEBSTER NEWS
Frederick B. Wright died at his home in this place, Tuesday morning, at 1:30, aged fifty-nine years, after an illness of seven months of heart trouble and dropsy. Deceased was born in Penfield, where he resided until manhood. He married Emma Conant of Rochester, in 1873. They removed to Canandaigua, where they lived for twenty years, and then came to this place, where they have since resided. Deceased is survived by a widow and one daughter, Mrs. Frank McMillan, and one granddaughter, Alice McMillan, all of this place. Funeral will be held this morning from the home, at 11 o’clock. Rev. G. A. Beers officiating. The remains will be laid to rest in the North cemetery. [Later renamed the Webster Rural Cemetery.]
Emma and her second husband had been living a short distance west of Webster at the time of his death in 1902. Emma then went to stay in Rochester with her daughter Elizabeth until marrying Riley in 1905. Elizabeth had been married to Frank O. McMillan since 1896. In the McMillan household, at the time of the 1905 New York census, was Frank McMillan, Elizabeth, their daughter Alice, Frank’s widower father Edwin, Elizabeth’s widowed mother Emma Wright, and Miss Shucraft, a roomer and hay seed clerk. Frank and Elizabeth’s only other child, a son Victor Edwin McMillan, had died in 1900, at age 18 months, from “the grip.” [La Grippe.]
Frank O. McMillan, often referred to as F. O., was renowned as a banjo player and received numerous write-ups in newspapers both in advertising and in the reporting of his numerous gigs. He often performed along with George Mowers, who accompanied Frank on guitar. However, he began going astray around the turn of the twentieth century and was frequently arrested and tried for theft of property, including banjos belonging to Frank Minor and Merton L. Dennis, and multiple charges of grand theft leveled by the company for whom he worked--E. Gateley & Co., installment dealers. During one such occurrence Frank suffered heart failure, as reported in the following excerpt from The Daily News. Batavia, N.Y., Thursday Evening, August 16, 1900:
Arrested on Another Charge of Larceny—
Pawned Frank Minor's Banjo.
The multiplicity of charges against Mr. McMillan upset him and he suffered a slight attack of heart failure, to which he said he was subject, in the courtroom. Sheriff Pixley proceeded with him to a physician's office and he recovered after restoratives had been administered. At his request, the matters were ordered held open until 6 p.m. today to await the arrival of his parents. [Earlier, the article reported Frank as saying “his father and mother, who are well-to-do people in Canandaigua, would come to Batavia this afternoon and became sureties for him.”] Manager Van Reypen said he did not want to see the young man locked up in jail, so he paid Sheriff Pixley $3 to cover the expense of having McMillan kept in custody by an officer. McMillan's wife and child are with her parents in Webster.
After Elizabeth and Frank were divorced, Elizabeth would marry at least two more times during Emma’s life. The second marriage, in 1912, was to the pharmacist Ellsworth G. Merrill, variously called “Colonel” or “C. E.,” or Colonel Merrill. After the Colonel’s death in 1927, Elizabeth married Burton L. Black in 1928. Elizabeth was always close to her mother and step-father Riley, but none of her own children would survive to adulthood.
Emma and Riley lived at the West Main Street address until the spring of 1907. In January of that year they bought what was known as the George Brown house and lot at Ontario Center in Wayne County. After selling the West Main Street house to Lillian M. Witmer on March 29, 1907, they moved to the Ontario Center house the first of April. At the time of the 1910 Federal census Riley, age 70, was working in a shoe shop that he owned, and the Pages were living in a house free of mortgage.
The following squibs were taken from assorted newspapers and other local publications:
(Fairport NY) Monroe County Mail, Thursday, July 2, 1908
ONTARIO CENTER
Mrs. R. P. Page is entertaining her granddaughter of Webster.
[The granddaughter would appear to have been Georgia Finkle from son Myron’s first marriage, since the Finkles were then residing in Webster.]
(Fairport NY) Monroe County Mail, Thursday, April 15, 1909
ONTARIO CENTER
Ontario Center will soon have a trolley station again. We understand it is to
be located at R. P. Page’s.
(Fairport NY) Monroe County Mail, Thursday, March 17, 1910
ONTARIO CENTER
R. P. Page and wife, who have spent the past three months at Battle Creek, Mich.,
Buffalo and Rochester, have returned to their home.
(Fairport NY) Monroe County Mail, Thursday, May 26, 1910
ONTARIO CENTER
R. P. Page and wife entertained friends from Buffalo, Rochester and Webster,
Friday.
(Fairport NY) Monroe County Mail, Thursday, September 15, 1910
ONTARIO CENTER
Mrs. R. P. Page is entertaining Mrs. Leonard Struck, Mrs. Frank McMillan and
Miss Alice McMillan of Rochester, for a few days.
Climax Cereal (Kalamazoo Co., MI), Thursday October 20, 1910
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Wheeler have returned from their visit with Mr. and Mrs. Riley Page of Ontario Center, N.Y.
[The Wheelers were Riley’s firstborn daughter Carrie (Page) and her third husband Elmer Wheeler of Climax, MI.]
(Fairport NY) Monroe County Mail, Thursday, January 5, 1911
ONTARIO CENTER
R. P. Page and wife are spending two weeks with her daughter at East Rochester.
(Fairport NY) Monroe County Mail, Thursday, June 29, 1911
ONTARIO CENTER
Jesse Harrison and wife of Charlotte, Mich., are visiting R. P. Page and wife.
[Elsie May (Page) Harrison was the only child of Riley’s son and daughter-in-law George Hudson and Mary (Reed) Page.]
(Fairport NY) Monroe County Mail, Thursday, August 17, 1911
The Misses Alice McMillan and Georgia Finkle of East Rochester, are visiting their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Page.
The Monroe County (NY) Mail, Thursday, October 31, 1912
C. E. Merrill and Mrs. Elizabeth McMillan, both of this village, were married at Buffalo, Wednesday evening, October 23rd.
(Fairport NY) Monroe County Mail, Thursday, December 12, 1912
ONTARIO CENTER
Mrs. R. P. Page has been entertaining Mrs. L. Struck of Rochester.
Oswego (NY) Daily Times, Thursday Evening, February 13, 1913
Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Page are making a two months’ visit among relatives and friends in Michigan.
Oswego (NY) Daily Times, Tuesday Evening, June 24, 1913
ONTARIO
Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Page have returned from Michigan.
The Monroe County (NY) Mail, Thursday, August 14, 1913
C. E. Merrill has his new house on East Avenue completed and expects to move into it this week.
The Fairport (NY) Herald, Wednesday, August 13, 1913
EAST ROCHESTER
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Merrill moved into their new house on East Ave. W., Tuesday.
From the WAYNE COUNTY FARM DIRECTORY 1914
ONTARIO TOWNSHIP
(Population, 2,672.)
“Page, Riley P. (Emma) shoe repairer O H&L Ontario Center H37.”
[“O H&L means owns house and lot.” “H37” means highway 37.]
From: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywayne/townships/ontario.html :
“Ontario, (p.v.) in the S. E. part, contains a church, steam sawmill, furnace, and 25 houses; Ontario Center, 2 mi. W., a church and 20 houses...”
Per the Rochester (NY) Daily Record dated Thursday, March 25, 1915, Emma and Riley P. Page deeded property to Myron C. Finkle and wife that year.
(Fairport NY) Monroe County Mail, Thursday, December 23, 1915
ONTARIO CENTER
Myron Finkle and family and Riley Page and wife will spend Christmas in East
Rochester.
The Monroe County (NY) Mail, Thursday, January 13, 1916
Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Page of Ontario Center have been spending the past three weeks with their daughter, Mrs. C. E. Merrill.
NOTE: It may have been that Elizabeth (Wright) McMillan Merrill’s daughter Alice was always sickly, as appears from the following article:
The Monroe County (NY) Mail, Thursday, October 22, 1903
WEBSTER
Alice McMillan, the little daughter of F. O. McMillan, was taken to the hospital in Rochester, Tuesday. The little one has never been able to run about as other children, and has been taken to the hospital in the hopes that an operation will remedy the trouble, which is keeping her a helpless prisoner. We all unite in best wishes for a successful operation.
(Fairport NY) Monroe County Mail, Thursday, February 15, 1917
ONTARIO
Friends in this vicinity were shocked to hear of the death of Miss Alice
McMillan of East Rochester. She is about sixteen years of age and is well known
here, as she has spent much time with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R. P.
Page.
(Fairport NY) Monroe County Mail, Thursday, December 13, 1917
Mrs. Eugene Ford and son, of Rochester, have been visiting at Mrs. R. P. Page’s.
[Emma’s eldest granddaughter Myra Catherine Finkle was married to Eugene Carl Ford in 1912. She had been living at Ontario Center, presumably with her Page grandparents, and was only 16 years old, requiring her father’s consent. The groom claimed to be 21 but was actually about 19. He was the youngest of 13 children (12 surviving) born to James C. and Sarah S. (Paul) Ford of Knoxville, Tioga Co., PA. Eugene and Myra had at least one child, Robert, born about 1916 in PA. Eugene enlisted in the army in 1917 and was discharged in 1918. He died in 1951 and was buried at the Riverside Cemetery near Rochester, NY.]
(Fairport NY) Monroe County Mail, Thursday, March 21, 1918
We learn that Mrs. R. P. Page, who is spending the winter with her daughter, Mrs. Merrill at East Rochester, fell recently, spraining her arm and injuring herself otherwise so that her condition is quite serious.
(Fairport NY) Monroe County Mail, Thursday, June 19, 1919
Miss Georgia Finkle, who had been employed as clerk in B. J. Fryatt's, died of acute Bright's disease, in a Rochester hospital, last Wednesday. Funeral Services were held at her late home, Friday at 2 p.m. Burial was made in Webster cemetery.
(Fairport NY) Monroe County Mail, Thursday, August 5, 1920
Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Page, who have been visiting in Scotts and Charlotte, Mich., arrived at the home of Mrs. Page’s daughter, Mrs. C. E. Merrill, last week.
Riley developed a chronic heart disease (myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart) in 1910 that would plague him for the rest of his life, and he retired sometime between 1914 and the taking of the 1920 Federal census. By 1920 he and Emma were living with Emma’s daughter Elizabeth (Wright) and son-in-law Ellsworth G. a.k.a. “Colonel” Merrill at 126 East Avenue, East Rochester, Pittsford Township, in Monroe County.
Ellsworth was a son of Pulaski and Melissa (Gilman) Merrill. Pulaski and Melissa were living in Clarendon, Orleans County, New York, at the time of the 1860 Federal census. Pulaski’s occupation was “Sawyer.” They were living in the village of Lawrence, Van Buren County, Michigan, at the time of the 1870 Federal census, where Pulaski was working as a “lumberman.” By 1875 the family was back in Orleans County, New York, where Pulaski ran a stave and heading-mill on the creek at Oak Orchard, hamlet of Kenyonville, Town of Carlton.
The first officer casualty of the Civil War was a Colonel Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, close friend of the Abraham Lincoln family and especially of their children. Col. Ellsworth was shot May 24, 1861, by a Confederate sympathizer after he removed a large Confederate flag from an inn called the Marshall House across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. It appears Ellsworth Merrill was named after Colonel Ellsworth, who died shortly before Ellsworth Merrill was born. Ellsworth sometimes went by the name “Colonel” rather than Ellsworth, at least when censuses were taken.
In 1920 Ellsworth, listed as “Colonel Merrill” in the census, was a druggist working for wages at a drug store, and Elizabeth was a dressmaker working own accounts, meaning she was self employed.
The Herald, Fairport, N.Y., Wednesday, March 14, 1923
Mr. and Mrs. C. E Merrill have sold their house on East avenue W. to Mr. Wilson from Canada, and intend to move to California.
The Fairport (NY) Herald, Wednesday, May 9, 1923
EAST ROCHESTER
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Merrill of this place have planned what promises to be a very enjoyable overland trip to California this summer says the Realities. They are having their Ford sedan equipped with a bed and other camping attachments including a tent which fastens to the car and they expect to leave about June 1 for an overland trip across the continent with California, where they expect to spend the coming winter, as their goal. Although Mr. and Mrs. Merrill's many East Rochester friends regret that they expect to take up their residence elsewhere (having sold their residence property on East Avenue W. to Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Wilson, who are already occupying their new home) they feel like congratulating them upon the prospects of so delightful a trip as their overland journey as planned will be.
The Fairport (NY) Herald, Wednesday, May 9, 1923
Pleasant Social Affair
The Art Booth of the Presbyterian church at East Rochester were entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Rochville on Friday evening, May 4, there being about thirty-six in attendance. The occasion was in honor of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Merrill, who are planning an over land trip to California, where they expect to take up their residence. At 6:30 a chicken pie supper was served, the tables being very beautifully and artistically decorated with artificial peach blossoms and pink roses, with large centerpieces to represent Spring.
After the bountiful supper the evening was spent with games, stunts and music.
The president, Mrs. W. C. Douglas, presented to Mrs. Merrill a gift as a slight token of love and esteem of the members of the club of which she has been for several years an active member.
The evening was declared by all present to have been a most delightful affair.
NOTE: Mrs. Merrill had relatives in California. Elizabeth’s mother Emma had McFarlin relatives living there from her mother Sally’s side of the family. However, the California venture did not result in a permanent relocation, and upon return to New York state they settled in Fairport in 1924.
The Monroe County (NY) Mail, Thursday, March 27, 1924
C. E. Merrill, who was employed in Bramer's drug store and left about a year ago to go to California, has returned east and will resume his position with Mr. Bramer Monday. His friends here will be glad to see him back. His home was formerly in East Rochester.
The Herald Mail, Fairport, N.Y. Thursday, September 24, 1925
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Merrill will move from Clinton place into Mrs. Baker's .house the first of October.
Ellsworth died in March of 1927 at their home in Fairport. One obituary claimed he died on Sunday the 27th and the below account claimed it was on Monday the 28th.
The Herald Mail, Fairport, N.Y. Thursday, March 31, 1927,
Colonel E. Merrill
Colonel E. Merrill, for the past three years a resident of Fairport, a pharmacist in the employ of the Bramer drug store, passed away at his home, 33 West street, early Monday morning after a week's illness with pneumonia.
Mr. Merrill had made many friends during his residence here by his affable, courteous and gentlemanly manner, and his death brings sorrow to all who knew him. For 12 years previous to coming here he was a pharmacist in the Fryatt store at East Rochester, and there he had hosts of friends.
He was born at Waterport July 19, 1862, thus being almost 65 years at his passing. Before coming to East Rochester he was in the drug business in Rochester many years. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, and by one niece, Mrs. Leonard Quinn, of Brockport. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon, and the remains were taken to Byron for interment. Rev. F. O. Scurrah, of the East Rochester Presbyterian church, and Alex. Mackenzie, of the East Rochester Baptist church, officiated.
In his passing from our community, Fairport loses not only a fine man but a good pharmacist, and one of the most obliging salesmen we ever met. In this case, as so often, we keep our words of encouragement and praise until it is too late. Words are vain unless our actions prove our words. In all walks of life this is true, whether it is a friendly or business relationship. Mr. Merrill was a very courteous and painstaking gentleman in our acquaintance.
On June 1, 1927, the widow Elizabeth Merrill moved back to East Rochester, to 87 South Union Street, with plans to open a “rooming house.” It was here that Riley died at 6:20 p.m. on Monday, April 16, 1928, age 88 years, 9 months and 27 days.
Rochester, Monroe, NY
Democrat & Chronicle
Wed Apr 18, 1928
PAGE - Riley P. PAGE passed away at his home, No. 87 South Union Street, Monday, April 16, 1928. He is survived by his wife Emma; one daughter, Mrs. Carrie WHEELER, of Scotts, Michigan; two sons, George, of Charlotte, Mich., and Charles, of Jackson, Mich.; three grandchildren.
--The body has been removed to No. 301 Main Street, East Rochester, from where funeral will take place, Wednesday, April 18th at 2 o’clock. Interment at Ontario, N.Y.
Riley was interred at a cemetery near Ontario, Wayne County, New York, on April 18. He had, at various times, listed his occupation as farm laborer, painter, sewing machine agent, traveling salesman, and finally, shoemaker and shoe repairer. Although he had been an enigmatic figure to his Michigan family (who remained in the dark regarding his whereabouts for many years), he had stayed married to Emma (who survived him by at least two years) for more than twenty-two years, living near the many relatives that had remained in the area.
Emma’s Family after Riley’s Passing
Riley’s death occurred on the cusp of the Great Depression. His wife Emma lived long enough to see it develop, as her daughter Elizabeth forged ahead in the wake of her husband “Colonel” Ellsworth G. “C. E.” Merrill’s death. It was only a short time after Riley’s death that Elizabeth married for the third time, Burton Lorenzo Black. Emma’s son Myron C. Finkle died April 12, 1928, just days before Riley’s passing, so it must have been an especially trying time for her.
Emma’s grandson Victor Finkle appears to have been back from serving his stint in the U.S. Navy by 1927. He had enlisted in 1921 and had attended the U.S. Navy’s Pharmacist School. In the 1930s he was still living at home in East Rochester and was listed in the local directory as a nurse. In January 1962 and later editions of the Avon (NY) Herald News, Victor Finkle of Geneseo [in Livingston Co., NY] was listed as a male attendant and part of the Livingston County Welfare Department staff at the Livingston County Home. About 1965 his position at the Home was downgraded from salaried to hourly. Eugene C. Ford, husband of Victor’s sister Myra, was said to be living in Jersey Shore, Lyoming Co., PA, at the time of his brother Ernest Ford’s death in 1925.
At the time of the 1930 Federal census Emma was living with her daughter and new son-in-law Elizabeth and Burton L. Black at 130 West Avenue, East Rochester Village, Pittsford Township, in Monroe County. That year Elizabeth listed no form of employment and her husband of two years was shown as a painter in a steam railroad car shop. He would report the same occupation at the time of the 1940 Federal census. In 1930 their house was worth $6,500.
It was Burton’s second marriage. His first had been to Daisie (Jopson a.k.a. Jobson) Beam, the former wife of Burton’s first cousin Loring John Beam a.k.a. Loren. The Beam marriage apparently ended in divorce as “Loren” remarried on June 3, 1935, at Penn Yan, Yates County, to Mrs. Rosie J. (Harris) Yonge, widow of Amasa B. Yonge of Branchport, Yates County. Rosie was for several years the town clerk of New Jerusalem, Yates County. “Loren” and Rosie both died in Penn Yan, Rosie on June 16, 1951, and Loren on January 22, 1964.
Loring J., a.k.a. “Loren,” son of Smith A. and Hester A. (Black) Beam, and Daisie Bell Jopson, daughter of Mark and Hannah (Appleton) Jopson a.k.a. Jobson, had been married in March 1894 at Centerfield, Ontario County, New York. Daisie and Burton L., son of Dexter J. and Emma A. (Crandall) Black, were married April 9, 1906, at Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York. Their marriage ended with Daisie’s death June 17, 1927.
Burton’s spinster sister Ada E. Black lived a number of years with their brother Frank and his wife Anna in Perinton, Monroe County, New York. Frank and Anna had one child, Dexter, born in 1894. Later, Frank and Anna were divorced and both remarried. Anna remarried to a Richard Coffey or Cuffey. They moved to Racine, Wisconsin, taking Anna’s son Dexter with them, while Frank remained in Monroe County with occasional visits by Dexter. In Wisconsin Richard soon died, though Anna and Dexter continued to reside at Racine. By the time Burton’s wife Daisie had died, Ada had moved in with him at East Rochester, Monroe County, where she continued until her death from pneumonia November 18, 1927. Burton was the executor of her estate. Ada had property in East Rochester on East Avenue deeded to her March 28th, 1912. As executor, Burton deeded this property to his new wife Elizabeth (Wright) Merrill Black on June 25th, 1928. Apparently Ada’s estate wasn’t settled until September. (NOTE: F. H. was Bruton’s brother Frank, and D. B. was Burton’s nephew Dexter of Racine.)
The (Rochester, NY) Daily Record, Thursday, Sept. 27, 1928
(In column 1, appeared the following)
Business Papers Recorded
Deeds
Black, Ada, by executor, to Elizabeth Black, 87 S. Union st, prop in Pittsford,
$5000.
Black, F. H. and wife to Elizabeth Black, 87 S. Union st, prop in Pittsford.
$1.
Black, B. L. to Elizabeth Block, 87 S. Union st. prop in Pittsford, $1.
Black, D. B. and wife to Elizabeth Black, S. Union st, prop in Pittsford, $1.
(In the same paper, column 2, appeared the following under “Mortgages”)
Black, Elizabeth to First National Bank of East Rochester, prop in Pittsford, $3000.
Rochester (NY) Daily Record, Friday, October 25, 1929
In column marked “Judgments, Etc.”
Burton L. Black and Frank J. Cotton in favor of First National Bank of East Rochester, $3,205.80.
Rochester (NY) Daily Record, Wednesday, February 27, 1935
In column marked “Mortgages”
Black, Burton L. and wife to Home Owners Loan Corp. [HOLC] prop in Pittsford, $3220.
Rochester (NY) Daily Record, Tuesday, July 18, 1939
Articles of Co-partnership
Gordon W Underhill and Burton L. Black agree to become partners in the business of painting and decorating under the name of Underhill & Black, in East Rochester.
At the time his 1940 Federal census was taken on April 6, Burton L. Black was still living at the West Avenue home, now worth about $4,000. Although he was shown as married, neither Elizabeth nor Emma Page was listed as living with him. However, there were three male "roomers" in the household. Elizabeth was still living at this time but it is not known whether Emma was still alive.
Rochester (NY) Daily Record, Wednesday, May 15, 1940
Foreclosure Sales
STATE OF NEW YORK--COUNTY COURT--COUNTY OF MONROE.
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation [HOLC], Plaintiff, vs. Burton L. Black, Elizabeth Black, his wife, and W. Verness Merwin, as Receiver of the First National Bank of East Rochester, Defendants,
In pursuance of a judgment of foreclosure and sale,
duly granted in the above entitled action, and entered in Monroe County Clerk’s
office on the 14th day of May, 1940. I, Benjamin J. Farber, the undersigned
referee in said judgment named, will sell at public auction at the front vestibule
of the Monroe County Court House in the City of Rochester, County of Monroe,
New York, on the
3RD DAY OF JULY, 1940
AT 11:00 O’CLOCK A.M.
Daylight Saving Time, the premises described in said judgment, as follows,
viz.:
All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Pittsford, County of Monroe, and State of New York, known and designated as Lot Thirty-two (32) in Block 56, as shown on a map of the lands of the Vanderbilt Improvement Company, filed in Monroe County Clerk’s office in Liber 10 of Maps at page 35.
Said lot 32 fronts forty (40) feet on the southerly side of East Avenue, is the same width in rear and one hundred and twenty (120) feet deep, as shown on said map.
Being the same premises conveyed to Ada E. Black by deed dated March 28th, 1912, and recorded in Monroe County Clerk’s office in Liber 876 of Deeds at page 410, and subject to the covenants and restrictions therein set forth and referred to.
Also, being the same premises conveyed to Elizabeth Black by the Executor of Ada E. Black, deceased, by deed dated June 25th, 1928, and recorded in said Clerk’s office in Liber 1475 of Deeds at page 15.
The premises will be sold subject to any state of facts an accurate survey may show; covenants and restrictions of record; easements of record; subject to the lien of any unpaid taxes, assessments, or water rates as of the date of sale.
Dated at the City of Rochester, New York, on this
14th day of May, 1940.
Benjamin J. Farber, Referee.
Myer Braiman, Plaintiff’s Attorney,
Office and P.O. Address, 305-306 Wilder Building
Rochester, New York
NOTE: Another notice, appearing in the Thursday, June 13, 1940, edition of the same newspaper moved the foreclosure sale date up to June 27, same time of day. The following was reported on June 28, the day after the sale, under column titled “Deeds”: “Black, Burton L. et al, by ref, to HOLC, prop in Pittsford, $500.”
The Daily Record (Rochester, NY) Wednesday, July 19, 1950
DEATHS
(Furnished by Rochester Health Bureau)
July
14—Burton L Black, 95 Alexander
Burton Lorenzo Black died at age 76-1-16 and was buried at the Pittsford Cemetery and Annex, Pittsford, Monroe County. His first wife Daisie's name is included on his headstone/monument. Find A Grave Memorial# 73738000 at http://www.findagrave.com. Daisie’s Memorial# 73296896. Burton’s sister Ada’s Memorial# 73296717, all in the same cemetery.
Final information about Elizabeth (Wright) Merrill Black or her mother, Emma (Conant) Wright Page, has yet to be discovered.
Family of Riley’s Daughter Carrie Bell Page
It wasn’t known by this researcher that Carrie Page even existed until the 1870 Federal
census record for “Reyley” Page was
discovered. Because of the odd spelling of his given name, the 1870 record
eluded research for many years. Then it took a number of additional years to
discover what became of Carrie, and not until a query was placed on the
Internet message board for
Descendants of Carrie Bell (Page) and Theodore Dudley Richards
Generation
No. 1
1. CARRIE BELL3 PAGE (RILEY PRESTON2, WILLIAM HENRY1) was born 8-23-1860 in Bronson, Branch Co., MI, and died
Notes for CARRIE BELL PAGE:
Carrie had one child, a
daughter, which was by Theodore Richards.
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Obituary from
"MRS. ELMER WHEELER,
SCOTTS, DIES AT 67
"SCOTTS: Aug. 21--Mrs. Carrie Wheeler, 67, wife of
Elmer Wheeler, resident of this place, died Monday after a long illness. She is
survived by her husband, her daughter, Mrs. Lola DeForest,
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Burial was near Theodore
Richards at
Notes for THEODORE DUDLEY "DORR" RICHARDS:
Kalamazoo County Clerk’s
Death Record Book 2, page 150, #1627. Theodore RICHARDS; age 41 yrs 3 mos 28 days; DOD 15 Dec 1893; POD Climax; POB Climax; occ Laborer; cause Cancer of face; father William RICHARDS;
mother Julia RICHARDS. (Posted [on
Burial
near Carrie at
Marriage Notes for CARRIE PAGE and THEODORE RICHARDS:
Kalamazoo County
Clerk’s Marriage Record Book 4, page 209, #3129. Groom Theodore RICHARDS;
age 25; occ Farmer; res
Climax, Mich; POB Climax, Mich. Bride Carrie B. PAGE;
age 16; res Climax; POB Bronnson(sic),
Mich. DOM 15 Aug 1877; POM Galesburg, Mich; official
Lewis M. Hunt, Pastor of Cong'l Church Galesburg;
wits Louisa A. Hunt of Galesburg & Annie Boyden
of Ypsilanti. (Posted [on
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Carrie and Theodore were
living at Climax, Kalamazoo Co., MI, at the time of the 1880 Federal census. In
the household were: Theodore Richards,
28 years old, a laborer, born in MI; and wife Carrie, 19 years old, born in MI.
They were neighbors of Carrie's step-grandmother Lucinda Keyes.
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THEODORE RICHARDS and CARRIE PAGE:
Marriage:
Notes for FREDERICK HARRISON SOULE:
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From: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~maizeblue6/index3l.html
a Web page authored by Scott Duncan:
"(15.9.2) Frederick
Harrison Soule was born on
"Best regards-Scott, "
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The following notice and
obituary are taken from the
Another Pioneer Gone
Another pioneer has passed
from our midst, Frederick Soule died at his home in
Scotts,
Obituary - same newspaper
Frederick Soule was born
Marriage Notes for CARRIE PAGE and FREDERICK SOULE:
Carrie and Fred were living
on a farm free of mortgage at Climax Twp., Kalamazoo Co., MI, at the time of
the 1900 Federal census. In the household were:
Frederick, 64 years old, no occupation listed, born in OH; wife Carrie,
39 years old, born in MI; and Fred's son George T., 33 years old, born in MI.
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The following squibs are
taken from the
(1) Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Milliman and Helen, and Mrs. Fred Soule
attended the funeral of a relative, Wm. Simpson, in
(2) Mrs. Fred Soule and Helen Milliman spent
last week among relatives in Wakeshma township.
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Blurb from
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Page
and daughter of
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FREDERICK SOULE and CARRIE PAGE:
Marriage:
Notes for ELMER WHEELER:
Kalamazoo County
Clerk’s Death Record Book 1936, page Climax Twp. 4. Elmer WHEELER; age 87
yrs 1 mo 27 days; DOD 6 Sept 1936; POD Climax Township; POB Ohio; marital
status Widowed; spouse Carrie SOULE; occ Farmer for
70 yrs; cause Arterio Sclerosis, senility; father
Unknown; mother Lucy BARNES born New York; burial 9 Sept 1936 at Cook's
Cemetery (Pavilion Township) by Rupert Funeral Home, Vicksburg, Mich; informant Mrs. H. E. Fisher of Scotts, Mich. (Posted
by a VOLUNTEER-NO family connection)
Marriage Notes for CARRIE PAGE and ELMER WHEELER:
Marriage announcement from
"Married
on the 18th instant at the Methodist parsonage by the Rev. Mershon,
Mrs. Carrie Soule to Elmer Wheeler. Their many friends wish them much joy."
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Carrie and Elmer were
living on a farm free of mortgage at Climax Twp., Kalamazoo Co., MI, at the
time of the 1910 Federal census. In the household were: Elmer, 59 years old, living on own income,
born in OH; and wife Carrie B., 49 years old, born in MI.
It was Elmer's second
marriage and Carrie's third marriage. Carrie's only child was still living, and
they were next door to her daughter Lola and granddaughter Helen Milliman.
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The following squib is
taken from the
Elmer Wheeler has had the
misfortune to lose a $50.00 cow, caused by choking on a potato.
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The following squib is
taken from the
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Wheeler
have returned from their visit with Mr. and Mrs. Riley Page of
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Carrie and Elmer were
living on a farm free of mortgage at Pavillion Twp.,
Kalamazoo Co., MI, at the time of the 1920 Federal census. In the household
were: Elmer, 70 years old, a farmer; and
wife Carrie B., 59 years old.
Elmer's first wife, the
former Elisabeth More, had 6 children by her first husband Henry Thompson.
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ELMER
WHEELER
and CARRIE PAGE:
Marriage:
Child of CARRIE PAGE and THEODORE RICHARDS is:
2. i. Lola Mae4
Richards, b. 4-17-1882, Climax Twp., Kalamazoo Co., MI; d. 11-23-1944, Oneida,
Knox Co., IL.
Generation
No. 2
2. LOLA MAE4 RICHARDS (CARRIE BELL3 PAGE, RILEY PRESTON2, WILLIAM HENRY1) was born
Notes for LOLA MAE RICHARDS:
THE CLIMAX CEREAL
Every Thursday
CLIMAX
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
Entered at the postoffice
at
igan, as second class mail matter.
It is with regret that we
announce the retirement of Mr. D. F. Stearns as editor and manager of the
Scotts department of the Cereal, which position he has held ever since the
paper started with the exception of a couple of years spent in Kalamazoo. The
burning of the Hawkins House where he made his home, and his failing health,
compelled him to give up the correspondence. He has gone to
Mrs. Lola Milliman, who has been assistant
to Mr. Stearns for the past few years, will succeed him as editor and business
manager. Anyone having any items of a news nature will greatly assist by
handing them to her. She will also accept your money on subscriptions.
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NOTE: The Climax Cereal (continued as the
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Obituary from
MRS. L. B. DEFOREST,
Mrs. L. B. DeForest, a resident of
Mrs. DeForest,
the former Lola May Richards, was born near Scotts,
She was active in the Macabees and Pythian Sisters
while a resident in
In October, 1916 she was
married to the late LaVergne B. DeForest
of
The only survivors are her
daughter, Mrs. Walter H. Forbes, and a stepdaughter, Mrs. Dwight Metcalf,
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Lola was buried at the
Notes for JOSEPH BURCHARD MILLIMAN:
Joseph was buried at
Marriage Notes for LOLA RICHARDS and JOSEPH MILLIMAN:
Lola and Joseph were living
in a house they owned at Pavillion Twp., Kalamazoo
Co., MI, at the time of the 1900 Federal census. In the household were: Jos. B.
Millman, 24 years old, a muck processor (sic), born
in MI; wife Lola M., 18 years old, born in MI; daughter Helen E., 1 year old,
born in MI; and divorced mother Theresa, 56 years old, born in OH.
Joseph and Lola had been
married 2 years, and their 1 child was still living. Both of Theresa's 2
children were still living.
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The following squib is
taken from the
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Milliman and Helen, and Mrs. Fred Soule
attended the funeral of a relative, Wm. Simpson, in
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Lola Milliman
was renting a house at Climax Twp., Kalamazoo Co., MI, at the time of the 1910
Federal census. In the household were: widow Lola M.,
27 years old, living on own income; daughter Helen E., 11 years old; and
widower father-in-law Whitford, 70 years old, a farmer,
born in NY.
Lola's husband had died
that year. Their only child was still living, and Lola's household was next
door to her mother and stepfather Carrie B. and Elmer Wheeler.
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The following squibs are
taken from the
(1) Messrs. and Mesdames
John Hamilton, Charles Bentley, Harvey Snyder, Mrs. J. B. Milliman,
Misses Leona Snyder and Helen Milliman, Messrs. Whitford Milliman and Lewis
Hamilton attended campmeeting at
(2) Rev. Jesse D. O. Powers
of
(3) George Page of near
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The following squib is
taken from the
Mr. and Mrs. George Page of
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The following squib is
taken from the
Mr. and Mrs. George Page
returned to their home in
More About
JOSEPH
MILLIMAN and LOLA RICHARDS:
Marriage:
Marriage Notes for LOLA RICHARDS and LAVERGNE DEFOREST:
Kalamazoo County
Clerk’s Marriage Record Book 8, page 268, #16264. Groom LaVergne B. DEFOREST; age 64; occ
Grain merchant; res
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LaVergne and Lola were living on a farm they owned in the 1st
Ward of Oneida, Knox
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The widow Lola DeForest was living with her daughter and son-in-law Helen
and Harry Shafer at Oneida, Knox Co., IL, at the time of the 1930 Federal
census. In the household were: Harry N.
Shafer, 36 years old, manager of a fund-raising campaign, born in OH; wife
Helen E., 31 years old, born in MI; and mother-in-law Lola M. DeForest, 47 years old, born in MI.
More About
LAVERGNE DEFOREST and LOLA RICHARDS:
Marriage:
Child of LOLA RICHARDS and JOSEPH MILLIMAN is:
i. Helen Elizabeth5
Milliman, b. 3-26-1899, Pavillion
Twp., Kalamazoo Co., MI; d. 9-19-1992, Galesburg, Knox Co., IL; m. (1) Harry
Niles Shafer, 6-2-1915, Scotts, Kalamazoo Co., MI; b. 8-29-1893, Pavillion Twp., Kalamazoo Co., MI; d. 1-26-1931; m. (2)
Karl Kenneth Krans, Aft. 1931, Peoria, Peoria Co.,
IL; b. Abt. 1900, IL; m. (3) Walter Howard Forbes,
7-6-1941, Galesburg, Knox Co., IL; b. 1-23-1897, Cameron, Warren Co., IL; d.
8-10-1946, Galesburg, Knox Co., IL.
Notes for Helen Elizabeth Milliman:
The following squib is taken
from the
Mrs. Fred Soule and Helen Milliman spent
last week among relatives in Wakeshma township.
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The following squib is taken
from the
Miss Helen Milliman left Monday to spend a few weeks with her uncle
and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. George Page of
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Name: Helen E. Forbes
SSN: 361-05-0898
Last Residence: 61401
Born:
Died:
State (Year) SSN issued:
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Obituary from
HELEN E. FORBES
She was born
Surviving are one nephew,
Sam Metcalf,
She wor
She was a member of Oneida
American Legion Post Auxiliary and 40 & 8 Voiture
*,
Cremation rites will be
accorded. Burials will be later in
Memorials may be made to the
American Legion Post auxiliaries in
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Notice from
"MEMORIAL SERVICE SET
FOR EX-KALAMAZOOAN HELEN M. FORBES
A memorial service has been
planned Saturday for former
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* 40 & 8 Voiture:
"More popularly known
as the "Forty and Eight," we are an independent Veterans organization
whose membership is drawn solely from the ranks of American Legionnaires in
good standing. We were founded in 1920 as a fun and honor society of
Legionnaires and draw our origin from World War I when young Americans were
transported on the narrow gauge railroads of
Marriage Notes for Helen Milliman and Harry Shafer:
Helen and Harry were living
in a house they owned, worth $5,500, at Oneida, Knox Co., IL, at the time of
the 1930 Federal census. In the household were:
Harry N. Shafer, 36 years old, manager of a fund-raising campaign, born
in OH; wife Helen E., 31 years old, born in MI; and widowed mother-in-law Lola
M. DeForest, 47 years old, born in MI.
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Harry Shafer and Helen Milliman:
Marriage:
Notes for Karl Kenneth Krans:
The name has also been found
as "Karl Kenneth Kraus."
From the online Knox County
Honor Roll 1917-1919 Service Record, "Karl Kenneth Kranz"
served during WWI from Altona, Knox Co., IL.
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Name: Kranc,
Kenneth K.
Date:
Source Information:
John Stoddard, comp.
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Karl Krans and Helen Milliman:
Marriage: Aft. 1931, Peoria,
Peoria Co., IL
Notes for Walter Howard
Forbes:
From the online Knox County
Honor Roll 1917-1919 Service Record, "Walter H. Forbes" served during
WWI from Cameron, Knox Co., IL.
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Walter and his brother
Arthur were living with their parents William and Catherine (Fox) Forbes at the
time of the 1920 Federal census.
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Obituary[?] from
WALTER H. FORBES
Military services for Walter
H. Forbes were conducted in connection with funeral rites this afternoon held
at 2:30 o’clock at the Hinchliff and Wilson
funeral chapel with Rev. G. Christie Swain of the First Presbyterian Church
presiding. Miss Murial Snell presided at the pipe
organ.
Pallbearers, members of the
Fourth Division association in which Mr. Forbes was active for years, were W.
H. Harris, Alex Johnson, O. M. Sloan, Leonard Nelson, William Duncan and E. W.
Munson.
The American Legion post of
Abingdon officiated at military rites with a firing squad, bugler and color
guard. A color guard also represented the Veterans of Foreign War post. Burial
was at Abingdon.
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Walter Forbes and Helen Milliman:
Marriage:
Family of Riley’s Son George Hudson Page
Howard
Oswald Page/Paige had many fond memories of his visits to George and Mary
Page’s home at
Descendants of George Hudson Page
Generation
No. 1
1. GEORGE HUDSON3 PAGE (RILEY PRESTON2, WILLIAM HENRY1) was born
Notes for GEORGE HUDSON PAGE:
George was buried at the
More About
GEORGE
HUDSON
PAGE:
Comment 1: His wife, Mary,
was an invalid for nearly
Comment 2: ten years before
she died
Ethnicity/Relig.:
Occupation: Wor
Residence: For many years
in house on
Notes for MARY A. REED:
Mary was buried at the
More About
MARY
A. REED:
Comment 1: An invalid most
of her last ten years
Occupation: homemaker
Marriage Notes for GEORGE PAGE and MARY REED:
George Hudson Page was born
at Webster, Monroe Co., NY, on
George was in his teens
when his father and stepmother Sarah were divorced, and he did not return to
Webster with his father. In 1885, George married Mary A. Reed, a daughter of
George Reed, born in NY, and Mary (Naldrett), born in
George and Mary Page had
one child, Elsie May, born on
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George and Mary were living
in the 4th Ward of Battle Creek, Calhoun Co., MI, at the time of the 1910
Federal census. In the household were:
George H. Page, 46 years old, a farmer; wife Mary A., 40 years old;
daughter Elsie M. Harrison, 23 years old; and son-in-law Jesse S., 25 years
old, also farming, born in MI.
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The following squib is
taken from the
George Page of near
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Eventually, George and Mary
bought a house on
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The following squib is
taken from the
Mr. and Mrs. George Page of
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The following squib is
taken from the
Miss Helen Milliman left Monday to spend a few weeks with her uncle
and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. George Page of
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The following squib is
taken from the
Mr. and Mrs. George Page
returned to their home in
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George and Mary were living
at
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George and Mary were living
at
Allan Reed was Mary Page's
brother.
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"I've been trying to
recall memories of Uncle George and Aunt Mary, and daughter Elsie. They were
all kindly, loving, considerate people. Uncle George had a big handlebar
mustache, and I believe he wor
"Our visits there were
always in warm weather and on Sunday. Everyone would be working on weekdays.
The men would sit around and smoke cigars and visit. Very few people drove cars
in the winter in those days.
"Aunt Mary had cancer
of the spine, I believe it was. She was in a wheelchair all day, and Uncle
George had to lift her any time she left the chair. I heard the affliction
lasted nearly ten years, and Uncle George met her needs faithfully.... Aunt
Mary was a real saint. I never heard church mentioned among them, but love and
commitment were the rule of that household.
"Daughter Elsie
married a
"There was not much
for a pair of lively boys to do while the old folks visited, so we rolled down
the banks and wal
"Unc
(H. O. Cline) was most always along when we went to
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Elsie May Harrison died on
The Pages' nephew Howard O.
Paige held their memory with great endearment. Many years later he exclaimed to
one of his sons, "Everybody should have an Uncle George and Aunt
Mary."
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GEORGE
PAGE
and MARY REED:
Marriage: 5-1885
Child of GEORGE PAGE and MARY REED is:
i. Elsie May4
Page, b. 8-25-1886, Roxand, Eaton Co., MI; d. 1-31-1938,
Charlotte, Eaton Co., MI; m. Jessie S. Harrison, 8-1905; b. 1884, MI; d.
10-1-1966, Charlotte, Eaton Co., MI.
Notes for Elsie May Page:
Born May Elsie Page, in usage her first and middle names were transposed. "Elsie" was buried at the
Notes for Jessie S. Harrison:
Jesse was buried at the
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Jessie S. Harrison:
Occupation: Wor
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Jessie Harrison and Elsie Page:
Marriage: 8-1905
Family of Riley’s Son Charles Orlando Page
Additional information about the marriage, married years, divorce, and post-divorce years of Charles Orlando Page and Maude Annabelle (Castner) Page can be found at Castner_Family_p4.html and Sarah_Keyes.html.
Additional information about Charles Orlando Page’s life can be found at Sarah_Keyes.html and Castner_Family_p4.html, including his marriage to Florence (Peck) Squier, at Charles_and_George_Page.html.
Additional information about Maude Annabelle (Castner) Page can be found at Castner_Family_p4.html, Sarah_Keyes.html, including her marriage to Ira Arthur Moore at Castner_Family_p5.html.
Descendants of Charles Orlando and
Maude Annabelle (Castner) Page
Generation
No. 1
1. CHARLES ORLANDO3 PAGE (RILEY PRESTON2, WILLIAM HENRY1) was born
Notes for CHARLES ORLANDO PAGE:
Charles, at one year old,
came down with diphtheria during an 1879 epidemic that took the lives of his
siblings Bernice and Juddie, and half-sister Elsie,
yet he surmounted.
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Charles was the proprietor
of his own cigar store in 1910 when the family lived at Mason, Ingham Co., MI.
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Charles registered for the
draft
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Charles was working as a
salesman at a paint company when the 1920 Federal census was taken of the 4th
Ward of Jackson,
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Charlie Page never made a
lot of money, but neither was he poor. He enjoyed reading, and had a sizable
collection of books. One book was given by his mother in 1892, when Charlie was
14 years old. "Perfect Jewels" is dressed in an expensive binding,
and is described as containing:
"A
collection of the choicest things in the Literature of Life, Love and Religion,
to which is added the music of home, country and Heaven. Beautifully illustrated by the best
American and European artists."
The book states--
"No home is a real
home without the divine influences of poetry and music,--music, and poetry,
which carries the mind beyond and above the beaten, dusty, weary walks of
ordinary life, to lift it into a pure element and to breathe into it more
profound and generous emotion. It reveals to us the loveliness of nature,
brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple
pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the spring-time of our
being, strengthens our love of our fellow man, and through the brightness of
its prophetic visions helps faith to lay hold of future life."
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There was always music in
Charlie's married life:
"Your mention of music
starts a train of memory, but is quite vague outside of our family. My earliest
memory was of hearing Dad sing, and Maudie played
piano and sang ....
"Maudie
sang alto in the First Methodist choir for years, and wor
"Margaret learned to
play the ukulele, and we put on a Hawaiian play--mostly music--at a Consumer's
carnival party, where each department had to plan a booth and put on some sort
of contribution. I played a small accordion in the Hawaiian show.
"
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"Looking back on the
early days of my home environs, I see my dad, we
called him Papa, as a quiet, friendly, patient and good-natured man, devoted to
his home and family. My brother and I sat out on the front lawn watching for
him to come walking home from work so we could run and grab his hand and walk
the rest of the way home with him. He seemed capable to handle any job that
suggested itself whether as a carpenter, a mechanic, a plumber or whatever. He
enlarged the MI basement to accommodate a fruit cellar with shelves for canned
food and a large bin to hold a winter supply of potatoes. He built cupboards
and tool cabinet in the garage with a lock to give him control of the contents.
Later, when he got his first car (a Briscoe Roadster), it was his Sunday
delight to tinker with it to assure it would run OK for a whole week. I don't remember hearing him raise his voice
in anger at any time, if he did he kept it private.
"The
"garage" was originally a barn for a horse and buggy. On top of the
slanting roof was a wren house up on a stick invariably loaded with wrens. In front of the barn was the largest tree in the
area, we called it a poplar but it could have been a cottonwood. Downtown, up
in the Reynolds building, you could see the top of it above all others. The
avalanche of leaves each fall provided all the delight (and raking) any boy
could ask for. In back of the barn between the barn and cemetery fence was a
large willow tree, swell for one to perfect his tree climbing ability.
"Us
kids learned a trick of taking a thread spool, cutting notches around the edge,
then winding string around the spool and running a nail through the middle for
an axle. We could hold it against a window and pull the string and hear such a
noise that would scare the daylights out of the most stalwart person. Dad
always sat by the living room lamp and read his weekly Colliers and smo
"I remember visiting
Dad on the job when he was clerking in a dry-goods store called "Fletcher
& Alderman." He was selling yard goods which people bought to make
dresses, etc. The next place he wor
[Charles Page fell while
painting and suffered a grievous injury.
While still bedridden with this malady he died of arteriosclerosis
[The "
More About
CHARLES
ORLANDO
PAGE:
Cause of Death: arterio sclerosis
Occupation: Cigar maker,
painter
Personality/Intrst:
Residence: Cremated after
death
Notes for MAUDE ANNABELLE CASTNER:
Maude stayed in
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Maud listed her mother Franky's birthplace as having been
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Maudie had little money during her first sixty years. She
had to work hard to make ends meet. It wasn't until after her second marriage
that Maudie could begin living the way she wanted.
Then she also began salting money away to safeguard against a penniless old
age, destitution being a problem she had seen time and again in her own family.
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"No boy ever had a
more-loving, devout, seemingly tireless mother. A true
homemaker who would always put her family first ahead of all else. When
money was short she took on dressmaking for some of the elite women in town to
earn and help keep the family going. I can still see her bending over the
weekly washboard with a bar of Fels-Naptha
soap in her hand doing the family washing. There was a woodshed built on the
back of our house and under the floor about 2 feet down was a deep cistern into
which rainwater from the roofs was piped for use in washings where
"soft" water was needed. It was quite dirty and smelly but served
nicely for the purpose. There were no washing machines in those days and no
water softeners except some powders such as Borax sold for that purpose. The
cistern, covered with boards, was a deep spooky mystery to us kids.
"
"Mom and Dad separated
when I was about 14, and she took a job selling shoes first at Stillman’s, then at the Walkover Shoe store, which
was later taken over by Rackleys. Ed Rackley wor
"Later in life Mom met
and married Ira A. Moore, an assistant steward at the Jackson Prison. They
built a new home on
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After Maudie's
first marriage ended in about 1923, she and the children continued on
temporarily in the house at
Both Maudie's
father and first husband died in 1941. Also that year she met Ira Moore, who
would eventually become the head chef for
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Maudie's shock and grief over the losses of both her mother
and her husband Ira in 1964 dulled her mind, and the next years were spent in a
post-trauma daze. The death of her niece Laronge in
1965 added another weight. A poem she wrote expresses how Maude reconciled the
long years of awaiting death with the transcendental joy of expecting new life:
-To Ira-
To what far distant land
He has taken his way?
Pack the shadows of night--
There has dawned a new day.
And this be my comfort
Through
grief hard to bear.
That far country is 'home,'
And he waits for me there
In memory of poor Ira, who
wanted to stay and look after me.
Maude
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THE AFTER YEARS
"I always sensed Maudie and Margaret in a different world .
. .. more spiritual might partially describe
it. I even felt part of Maudie's world--can't hardly describe the feeling.... Margaret, Maudie and myself were egotistical perhaps in some ways
more vital, more mentally intense, less anchored to solid acceptance, more
inclined (on my part at least) to enjoy wandering up and down mental
frontiers." H. O. Paige's letter of August 1981
Maudie had never been particularly religious, although she
and daughter Margaret had sung in the choir at
Maudie was in no hurry to live in the New Moon--she could
have felt that the new residence was a step away from her secure world and
toward one of oblivion in a nursing home. She would go out occasionally to
"visit" the trailer, but didn't stay long. In the meantime, her sons
kept things in order at her house. However, her independence was reduced by a
fall she had in the mid-1960s. Maudie was over 80
years old when she slipped on the grass at her
The fall hurt Maudie's back, and she was admonished by her doctor against
doing such strenuous work in the future. She was told to wear a special garment
to help the back condition. But stubbornly she refused to wear it except on
certain occasions, and then only if coerced. As the years passed her height mar
Maude now had to spend more
time at the New Moon so Esther could look after her. But where Maudie was, so was the ouija
board. Her bouts with the occult grew more frequent. She used the information
divined to explain things happening around her. All attempts by Howard and
Marshal to separate her from the board failed. Then one day, in a fit of
terror, she burned it.
A neighbor girl used to
come over to be with Maudie in the afternoons and
evenings she spent on
As the new decade of the
1970s dawned, it found Maudie in her waning years.
She was more frequently bedridden. And it became apparent that she wouldn't
duplicate her mother's life span. On
And this be my comfort
Through
grief hard to bear.
That far country is 'home,'
And he waits for me there.
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Maude's obituary appeared in the
"Mrs. Maude Moore
"Mrs. Maude A. Moore,
91, of 210 E. Palmer, died Thursday at the home of her son, Marshall Page of Norvell, where she had lived for the past eight months. She
made her home in
More About
MAUDE
ANNABELLE CASTNER:
Occupation: Store
salesperson, seamstress
Residence:
Marriage Notes for CHARLES PAGE and MAUDE CASTNER:
Maud A. Castner and Charles O. Page, both of Lansing, were married by Samuel B. Chase, Minister. Witnesses were Frank Cline and Mrs. E. Castner, both of Lansing. Maud's mother Franc’s maiden name was listed as Gargett.)
They
stayed for a short while with Charles' mother and stepfather, Sarah and Harvey
Cline. The Clines moved to Mason after Harvey's election as Sheriff of Ingham
County, MI. The Pages also moved to Mason by the time of the 1910 Federal
census of the 2nd Ward of Mason, Ingham Co., MI, where they were living on
Lansing Street. Maude assisted Sheriff Cline when it was necessary to transport
female prisoners. After H.O. left office in 1911, the Pages moved to Jackson,
MI. After H.O. left office in 1911, the Pages moved to
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Blurb from
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Page
and daughter of
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The following squib is
taken from the
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Page
and children, Margaret and Howard, and Mrs. H. O. Cline of Mason, Mrs. Louisa
Powers, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rambow were
entertained Tuesday of the past week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Powers
in honor of the eighty-second birthday of Mrs. Lucinda Keyes. Dinner was served
at
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The following squib is
taken from the
Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Page and
children Margaret and Howard of Battle Creek and H. O. Cline of
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"I don't remember too
much about the divorce between Mom and Dad (we called him 'Pop'). Mom seemed
never quite satisfied with the money available and did sewing on the side for
well-to-do customers.
"Because there was
talk, and accusations were made at divorce time, some of it hearsay, the whole
true picture is not clear. Dad (apparently) wanted to go to CA (with possibly
questionable reasons), and Mom (so she says) tied him up in divorce so he
couldn't leave. There were three of us kids, my older sister, Margaret, would
have been about 18, I was about 14 and Marshal about 12 when the divorce was granted.
"Mom went to work in Stillman's shoe department, and I wor
"Dad would come to
Grandma's house on
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The family, including
Charles, was living at
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The family, excluding
Charles and Howard, was still living at
More About
CHARLES
PAGE
and MAUDE CASTNER:
Divorce: 1921
Marriage:
Notes for
After Florence and Glenn
were divorced, Florence went to live with her mother, 66-year-old widow Luella
Peck at 129 Mitchell Street in Jackson, where she was living at the time of the
1930 Federal census of the 5th Ward of Jackson, Jackson Co., MI. Luella owned
the house and a radio set but had no occupation.
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After Charles O. Page died,
"Big Betty," as
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According to Cathy D.
Barry,
http://www.rootsweb.com/~migenweb/fgs/lapeer/Glenn_Squier.htm
Marriage Notes for CHARLES PAGE and
Charlie's second wife and her daughter both played the piano. He met
"Big Betty had a small
combo, and Dad took tickets. Jennie and I would find another couple and go
foursome, when we had a Saturday night off. They held dances at Gillitt's lake summers, and though we really never learned
to dance, we would get a pint of illegal booze at $1.25 and dance 50¢ per, and
after about one drink it didn't matter if we could dance or not ...."
Howard O. Paige's letter of
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".... we had Dad Page over for dinner. He said if we'd like to
rent a house, and he could live with us, he'd pay the rent and telephone (up
until then we didn't have one- he'd put it in h.s
name)....
"With an offer like
that, who could say no? . . .
"We rented a house at
"Dad Page lived with
us until he married 'Betty' Squier. When he left he
gave me an ironing board and table cloth. He said his own daughter couldn't
have treated him nicer. He and Betty rented a house next door to where R. D.
and Neva Crippen lived, on
"This was during the
Depression, and Howdy was the only one in our family with a steady job. Dad
Page lost his job, and he as
"We had lots of fun
while they were there, and we all got along really well. Betty would do the
ironing on Tuesday morning (in those days we always washed on Monday) except Howdy's shirts. When she'd come to Charlene's little
dresses, sprinkled and rolled-up, she'd call them 'surprise packages.'"
Jennie Paige's letter of July, 1981
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Big Betty gradually built a
wall separating herself, with Charlie, from the rest of the world. Even her
daughter was left on the outside. The unkind feelings she harbored for Little
Betty were neither merited nor explained, and found their expression in many
ways. Memories of those days still baffle the daughter.
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It was after Charlie and
the two Bettys moved to
More About
CHARLES
PAGE
and
Marriage: Aft. 1930
Children of CHARLES PAGE and MAUDE CASTNER are:
i. Margaret Frances4
Page, b. 8-1-1905, Lansing, Ingham Co., MI; d. 9-22-1937, Jackson Co., MI; m.
Fred Elden Foster, 5-1933; b. 5-26-1904, NY; d. June 1963, Jackson,
Jackson Co., MI.
Notes for Margaret Frances Page:
"Margaret was a very
talented person in the direction of music and was meticulous in everything she
did. Mom taught her to sew, and as she wore a dress to work at her Consumers
Power Co. bookkeeping job, she would come home and alter the same dress so that
the next day it would appear as a new dress. She and Mom spent considerable
money training her beautiful soprano voice. She sang lead soprano in the choir
of the
"Her natural beauty
brought her a supply of suitors. It was in the development and rendition of the
theater play "The Student Prince" that she met and wor
[Fred had a great sense of
humor. In Marshal and Esther Page's
outhouse was a series of close-up pictures taken of Fred's face making
expressions of surprise and shock, staring at the person sitting on the
toilet.]
More About
Margaret Frances Page:
Cremated after
death
ii. Howard Oswald Paige, b. 12-3-1909, Mason,
Ingham Co., MI; d. 5-1-1994, Jackson, Jackson Co., MI; m. (1) Jennie Louise
Barnes, 9-27-1927, Toledo, Lucas Co., OH; b. 5-27-1908, Chicago, Cook Co., IL;
d. 8-19-2003, Spring Arbor, Jackson Co., MI; m. (2) Marilee Lawrence, 4-2-1965;
b. 6-11-1919, MI; d. 2-18-1991, Jackson, Jackson Co., MI; m. (3) Rosalie
Virginia Baker, 4-14-1991, Leoni, Jackson Co., MI; b.
3-29-1921; d. 2-5-1994, Jackson, Jackson Co., MI.
Notes for Howard Oswald Paige:
Howard was born with the
last name "Page," changing it to "Paige" in 1926 because
the spelling loo
Howard wor
Howard received Christ in
November, 1972, through the guidance and inspiration of his friend, the
Reverend Bert Cole. Howard then became a minister through ordination at the
Howard spent most of his
life in Jackson County, MI, except for the few years of his childhood in Mason,
Howard's last home was on
Howard's life is told in a
compilation entitled "Glimpses into the Life of the Reverend Howard O.
Paige" 1994.
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Following is an obituary for
Howard, appearing in the Jackson Citizen Patriot newspaper for
Of
Mr. Paige was a member of
the Masonic Lodge in
Services will be conducted
from the funeral home Thursday,
The family suggests that any
memorials be directed to the Jackson Interfaith Shelter. The family will
receive friends at the funeral home Wednesday
More About
Howard Oswald Paige:
Cause of Death: pulmonary
edema
Event 2: 12-1960, Bought
farm as hobby while still working full time.
Medical Information: Heart
disease, No Stroke, Cancer, No Addictions, No Alzheimer's, No Mental illness,
No Diabetes
Personality/Intrst: Strong willed, spiritual,
intelligent, loved playing music especially keyboards.
Notes for Jennie Louise
Barnes:
During the terrible
influenza epidemic in the fall of 1918, Jennie was the only member of her
immediate family to catch the dread disease that would kill half a million
Americans and 20 million people worldwide.
As of May, 1997-
Jennie found Christ early on
and has been very active with friends, family, church and the community, while
pacing herself to get the most out of life. When Howard died, though he and
Jennie had been divorced since April, 1965, and he had remarried twice, Jennie
was there to fulfill her place in the family as the first Mrs. Paige.
Jennie's life is told in a
compilation entitled "The Life and Times of Jennie Louise Barnes
Paige," 2004.
Some of Jennie’s
Memberships Over Her Lifetime:
--St. Stephen's
--Horton Methodist Episcopal
Church
--
--
--
--
--Women's Society of
Christian Service (WSCS) through the
--United Methodist Women
(UMW), which replaced the WSCS
--The Shellhouse
Guild (Mrs. Anna Shellhouse was a Sunday School
teacher for some years at Haven Methodist Church and was idealized by some of
her girl students, including Neva Porter (later Crippen-deceased
1993), Wilma Clement (later Smith-deceased 1997), Sue Pemberton (later
Allen-deceased) and Jennie Barnes (later Paige), who established a club, or
guild, in her honor.)
--The Birthday Club,
including Audrey Denton, Dora Rowan, Hilma Barnes
(deceased), Mary Packard Waters (deceased), Helen and Clyfford
Leggett (deceased), Wilma Smith (deceased), Neva Crippen
(deceased) Donna Clellen (deceased),
--Phillips 66, a
church-related organization
--The Eastern Star (lifetime
member; through her father's Masonic membership); was active in
--Retarded Children's
Society of Jackson Inc. (co-founder with husband and nine other couples)
--The Board of
--Both the National and
--On membership committee at
the
--
----Chairperson of the
Circle 2 women's group for over 20 years; the group disbanded when she was no
longer able to chair
----On the church membership
committee since 1976, meeting Mondays
----Member of "Young at
Heart" church social activities group
----Member of "Focus
Group" for churchwomen without husbands
--Volunteered for projects
in
--AARP (American Association
of Retired People)
--Senior Citizens
--Volunteered in Emergency
at
--Besides faithfully tithing
at church, Jennie contributed to a number of charities, including Disabled
Veterans and Feed the Children.
A list of Jennie’s
Memoir Contributions to the genealogical book "The Coming Together, Volume
Two: Yesterday Today
and Tomorrow"
--Memories of Long Ago
--Mrs. Shellhouse
--Marriage of Howard and
Jennie
--Places where the family
lived, and other information
--Fences make friends
There were also many other
memory/information contributions made which were used to advantage in other
genealogical essays and accounts, and always heartfelt moral support given to
the efforts of family history preservation. It was through Jennie and her
sister Helen's persuasion that their father Will Barnes wrote down the Barnes
and Hood family history, to preserve information into the future that would
otherwise have been lost. Both sisters were also very helpful with obtaining
data for "The Barnes and Related Families Abridged Genealogical
RECORD" project: 1974-1977.
Jennie has spent most of her
life in Jackson County, MI, except for the first ten years of her childhood in
Jennie spent several months
at the
On Thanksgiving Day, 2000,
Jennie's son "Bud" and his son-in-law Dan VanSumeren began working on
her house in preparation for receiving vinyl siding. Two of the windows were
already replaced before the family's Thanksgiving celebration occurred at the
Jennie did return to her
house on a few occasions, thanks to her daughter and son-in-law Charlene and
Bob Garrett, but they were always short stays. The longest was when she was
treated to a back yard party at her house, to which friends and neighbors were
invited. Over the next years, Jennie's desire to return to her house waned, to
be replaced by a sense of community at the
Jennie's obituary:
"PAIGE, JENNIE B. Aged
95, of
Though Jennie gave her body
to
Marriage Notes for Howard
Paige and Jennie Barnes:
Howard and Jennie met in
Latin class at
1927-28 at Howard's mother's/grandmother's house on
alternately at
Jennie's parents' house on
in
1928 on
1929 to 1937 on
door to Howard's
mother and grandmother),
1937 to 1939 on
1939 to 1941 on
1941 to 1949 on
1949 to 1960 on
Mid-1950s bought the cottage on
as
recreational home
1960 to 1965 on Wooster Rd, Jackson Co., MI (which Howard
kept
until 1984)
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The family was living at
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When they moved back to
The following article appeared
in the Jackson Citizen newspaper around 1951:
"Jacksonia.
"For years handicapped
children in this community have been provided with special educational
facilities to meet their particular needs so that they would not be deprived of
advantages available to normal youngsters. Now provision also has been made to
educate cerebral palsy children, the parents of 10 such youngsters having
established regular classes in the Kerr school. It is
a commendable project."
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Howard and Jennie bought a
cottage on
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Jennie and Howard were
divorced in 1965, at which time Jennie moved into the house at
More About
Howard Paige and Jennie Barnes:
Divorce: 4-1965,
Marriage:
Notes for Marilee Lawrence:
PAIGE, MARILEE L.-
Went to be
with her Lord
More About
Howard Paige and Marilee Lawrence:
Marriage:
More About
Rosalie Virginia Baker:
Ethnicity/Relig.: Mormon and/or undecided
Event 1:
Residence: Apartment house
downtown
Marriage Notes for Howard
Paige and Rosalie Baker:
Married at
More About
Howard Paige and Rosalie Baker:
Divorce:
Marriage:
iii. Marshal Harvey Page, b. 10-26-1911, Jackson,
Jackson Co., MI; d. 12-26-1978, Chelsea, Jackson Co., MI; m. Esther Louise Rubert, 5-11-1933, Bowling Green, OH; b. 12-16-1909,
Jackson, Jackson Co., MI; d. 9-25-1995, Jackson Co., MI.
Notes for Marshal Harvey Page:
"Through our earlier
years we played together constantly, making up games if necessary as we went
along. He spent several summers at Boy Scout Camp and played the bugle. He
later played the trumpet and to some extent the piano. He had a good singing
voice and with Margaret’s husband Fred sang with the police quartet in
"Marshal (mostly called
Mutt) had a very warm personality and made deep and lasting friendships. In
1932 he married Esther Rubert, a neighbor and school
friend. They had one adopted daughter, Gayle Marie, who married and moved into
the
[Marshal and Esther took
almost exclusive care of Maudie during her declining
years, so they received the bulk of her estate per Dad's consent at the
time. After her death, Marshal took
early retirement from the railroad so that he and Esther could more fully enjoy
their home on
"Marshal li
[The son at the time of this
accident was Charlie, unless Dad dumped Marshal's bike two different times.]
"Marshal wanted a
basement where he could do woodworking in the winter time. Most of the year the
basement floor would be below water level, being so near the lake, but we
managed to keep it pumped out enough to get a wall laid and waterproofed during
the least wet part of the year, ending up with a nice place for him to work. He
later made me a nice drop-leaf stand for my parlor; it is still here as a
memorial of his craftsmanship. In later years when I moved to the farm he
assembled an air-compressor for me and it has been almost indispensable, even
now being used every few days to pump up tires and to blow out dirty equipment.
"Marshal introduced ice
fishing into my sports and gave me some special insulated clothes and a
gasoline lantern all to be used in low temperature fishing. We enjoyed many
hours fishing together on his lake and lakes in his area around
"He accepted Christ as
his Savior several years before his demise. He lost the battle with cancer,
first in the lungs and later in the lymph system. The burial took place at
Marshal was interred at the
Though Marshal and Esther's
daughter Gayle Page was adopted, she was still interested in the family's
history, soliciting genealogical information from her adoptive grandmother,
Maude (Castner) Page Moore, during the days before
anyone else was interested in the topic. The information Gayle gleaned has been
very useful to the current effort.
The following obituary was
provided for Marshal:
"PAGE, MARSHAL H.
(MUTT)--
"Of
"The family will received friends at Patience Montgomery,
"Contributions may be
made to the
More About Marshal Harvey
Page:
Cause of Death: Lung Cancer
Residence: Interred at
Notes for Esther Louise Rubert:
Esther was active, with her
sister Margaret, at the
Esther fell and broker her
hip, then had a heart attack and stroke, all in early September, 1995. Memorial services were conducted at the
More About
Esther Louise Rubert:
Cause of Death: Stroke and
Heart Attack
More About
Marshal Page and Esther Rubert:
Marriage:
Family of Riley's Brother William H. Page, Jr.
Riley's brother William (b. 1833 d. 1906) remained in Branch County for many years. He and English-born wife Mariah Patch (b. 1837 d. 1912) would have nine children: six girls and three boys. The only of their sons to have children, Jay D. Page (b. 1855 d. 1912), removed his young family from Michigan to a farm at Three Rivers in Clay Township, Onondaga County, New York, shortly after the turn of the 20th century. He soon opened the Jay D. Page & Co. feed and liquor store in a street shop of the Mowry Hotel in nearby Syracuse. His widow, Virginia-born Susie Virginia Chappell (b. 1870 d. 1943), later moved to Washington, D.C., and then Arlington, Virginia, with their two daughters Eleanor E. (b. 1888 d. 1951), who never married, and Genevieve (b. 1895 d. 1961), who married botanist Russell Byron Clapper, a plant pathologist for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Jay and Susie’s only son Robert Emerson Page (b. 1889 d. 1964) became a wealthy building contractor at Syracuse. He and wife Ruth Steinwald Kuntzsch (b. 1892 d. 1982) had one daughter Doris Ruth "Jody" (b. 1918 d. 2009).
Descendants of William Henry and Mariah (Patch) Page
Generation No. 1
1. William Henry2 Page (William Henry1) was born 23 Oct 1833 in Macedon, Wayne Co., NY, and died 21 Nov 1906 in Sturgis, St. Joseph Co., MI. He married Mariah Patch Abt. 1854 in NY. She was born 19 Mar 1837 in England, and died 13 Feb 1912 in Jamestown, Chautauqua Co., NY.
Notes for William Henry Page:
William was born 10-30-1833 per his death certificate and 10-23-1833 per most other records.
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William H. Page frequently went by the name of "Henry," including at the time of the 1870 Federal census of Bronson, Branch Co., MI. At the time of the 1880 Federal census, he went by the name of "Wm. H. Page."
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According to Crisfield Johnson's "History of Branch county, Michigan, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers," Philadelphia: Everts & Abbott, 1879, William H. Page was the Commissioner of Highways for Ovid, Branch Co., MI in 1872.
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William was listed as a "Farmer" when his son Thomas was born in 1872, then as "Carpenter" when his son Frank was born in 1873 and "Carpenter Joiner" when daughter Chloe was born in 1875 and Nellie in 1877.
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William was listed as a carpenter at time of death.
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William H. Page, Jr. was buried in the New Part of Oak Grove Cemetery, on the west side of Coldwater, Branch County, Michigan. In the Oak Grove Cemetery book: Page, William H., b NY, d Sturgis 21 Nov 1906, age 73y 1m 22d, male, married, (Mrs. William {Marie} Page), Lot 108, Section 2, Volume 2-32. (Rootsweb Message Board for Bronson County, per Mary Bickford in Coldwater 19 October 2006.)
More About William Henry Page:
Cause of Death: pneumonia
Notes for Mariah Patch:
Per the 1900 Federal census, Maria(h) had immigrated to the United States in 1854.
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Widow Maria was living on a farm at Girard, Branch Co., MI at the time of the 1910 Federal census. She was living with the family of her daughter and son-in-law Chloe and Harry Lee. The household was near that of Maria's daughter and son-in-law Hattie and Perry Harris.
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Maria died at Jamestown, NY after a two-month illness. She was staying at the house of her daughter Mrs. W. G. Purdy.
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Mariah’s obituary in the Courier newspaper, Coldwater, Branch Co., MI, dated February 16, 1912:
MRS. W. H. PAGE DEAD
Word was received here yesterday of the death at Jamestown, N.Y., of Mrs. W. H. Page, a former resident of Girard and well known here. Mrs. Page passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. G. Purdy, at 8:10 Tuesday morning, February 13, 1912, after an illness of two months. She was nearly 80 years of age.
Mr. Page died three years ago and at that time they were residents of Sturgis. Afterward she made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Harry Lee, then living at Girard, until her removal to Jamestown last September.
Mrs. Page is survived by eight children, J. D. Page of Syracuse, N.Y., Thomas Page of Boyne City, Mich., Mrs. Lillie Gregge of Elmira, Mich., Mrs. Lizzie Haybarger of Alberta, Canada, Mrs. Harry Lee and Mrs. W. G. Purdy of Jamestown, N.Y., Mrs. W. H. Gilson of Chicago and Mrs. Hattie Harris of this city.
The funeral was held at Jamestown at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon and the remains arrived in Coldwater today. A brief service was held at the chapel at Oak Grove by Rev. Geo. E. Barnes, and the remains placed in the receiving vault to await burial.
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Maria/Mariah/Marie was buried in the New Part of Oak Grove Cemetery, on the west side of Coldwater, Branch County, Michigan, on 16 Feb 1912. In the Oak Grove Cemetery book: Page, Marie, b England, d Coldwater [Jamestown, NY] 13 Feb 1912, age 74y 10m 25d, female, widowed, (Thomas Page, informant), Lot 108, Section 2, Volume 2-48. (Rootsweb Message Board for Bronson County, per Mary Bickford in Coldwater 19 October 2006.)
Marriage Notes for William Page and Mariah Patch:
When William and Mariah's son Thomas was married, his mother's maiden name was listed as Mariah Patch.
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William Henry and Maria Page were living at Bronson, Branch Co., MI, at the time of the 1860 Federal census. In the household were: Henry, 26 years old, a farmer with real estate valued at $700 and personal estate valued at $400, born in NY; Maria, 22 years old, born in England; Jay D., 4 years old, born in NY; and Hattie, 6 months old, born in MI.
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From the Branch County directory and historical record: containing a complete list of residents ... business directory of Coldwater, Quincy, Union City and Bronson; also a concise history of the county / comp. by Stevens & Conover, 1870-71. 315 p. Ann Arbor : Courier Steam Printing House, 1871.
Page 263: BRONSON VILLAGE. 263 Nichols, R., farmer, east Chi. Nott, N. A., laborer, Lincoln. Nott, Henry, carpenter, Lincoln. 0 O'Donnell, A., merchant, Matteson. I, Pixley, Augustus, clerk dry goods. POWERS, CHARLES, GENERAL MERCHANT, Matteson. POWERS, H., GENERAL MERCHANT, Chicago. Patterson, John, carpenter, east Chicago. Peller, Jacob, milkman, Ft. Wayne. Porter, Charles, farmer, east Chicago. Palmer, Mrs., east Chicago. Pixley, I. F., carpenter, Railroad. Fixley, A., clerk, Chicago. Powers, B. H., insurance agent, Matteson. Page, Henry, carpenter,...
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1870 Federal census of Bronson, Branch Co., MI:
Occupation Real Personal Birthplace
Page, Henry 34 M W Carpenter 2700 500 NY
Maria 32 F W Eng
J. D. 14 M W At home NY
Hattie 10 F W MI
Lillie 7 F W MI
Lizzie 5 F W MI
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1880 Federal census of Ovid, Branch Co., MI:
Marital Father's Mother's
Name Relation Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occu. Birthplace Birthplace
Wm. H. PAGE Self M Male W 51 NY Farmer ENG MA
Mari PAGE Wife M Female W 38 ENG Keeping House ENG ENG
J. D. PAGE Son S Male W 23 NY Farm Laborer NY ENG
Hattie PAGE Dau S Female W 20 MI At Home NY ENG
Lilly PAGE Dau S Female W 18 MI At Home NY ENG
Lizie PAGE Dau S Female W 15 MI At Home NY ENG
Maud PAGE Dau S Female W 10 MI NY ENG
Tom PAGE Son S Male W 8 MI NY ENG
Frank PAGE Son S Male W 6 MI NY ENG
Chloe PAGE Dau S Female W 4 MI NY ENG
Nellie PAGE Dau S Female W 2 MI NY ENG
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William and Maria(h) Page were renting a house in the city of Coldwater, 1st Ward, Branch Co., MI, at the time of the 1900 Federal census. William was working as a carpenter but had been unemployed for 6 months. Also in the household were their daughter "Cloie" and son Frank and his wife Frances.
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William and Maria(h) moved to Sturgis, St. Joseph Co., MI, where William H. died in 1906. "Mrs. William Page" reported the death. Her address was listed as "Sturgis." Afterward she made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Harry Lee, then living at Girard, until her removal to Jamestown in September 1911. In Jamestown she made her home with her daughter Lela Maude and son-in-law William G. Purdy.
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Per the 1910 Federal census of Girard, Branch Co., MI, Maria was a widow and 1 of her 9 children had died. (That would have been son Frank.)
Children of William Page and Mariah Patch are:
+ 2 i. Jay D.3 Page, born Jun 1855 in Webster, Monroe Co., NY; died 31 Mar 1912 in Syracuse, Onondaga Co., NY.
3 ii. Hattie I. Page, born Dec 1859 in Bronson, Branch Co., MI; died Bet. 1930-1944. She married Perry R. Harris 20 Jan 1883 in Bronson, Branch Co., Michigan; born 02 Feb 1856 in Branch Co., MI; died 31 Aug 1911 in Girard, Branch Co., MI.
Notes for Hattie I. Page:
Hattie was widowed and working as a private family nurse for an 83-year-old English woman named Deborah Greenwood, at the time of the 1920 Federal census of the 3rd Ward, Coldwater, Branch Co., MI. By the 1930 census Hattie had gone to live with her sister Chloe and brother-in-law Harry Lee in Charlotte, Chautauqua Co., NY.
More About Perry R. Harris:
Cause of Death: carcinoma of prostate
Marriage Notes for Hattie Page and Perry Harris:
At the time of the 1910 Federal census of Girard, Branch Co., MI, Perry and Hattie were living on a farm they owned but with a mortgage near Hattie's sister and brother-in-law Chloe and Harry Lee and mother Maria Page. The Harris's had been married 27 years but had never had any children.
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In the 1912 obituary for Hattie's brother Jay D. Page, "Mrs Perry Harris" was said to be "of Cold Water, Mich."
+ 4 iii. Lillie M. Page, born 27 Apr 1862 in Bronson, Branch Co., MI; died 14 Feb 1920 in Coldwater, Branch Co., MI.
+ 5 iv. Elizabeth Bella "Lizzie" Page, born Jun 1865 in Bronson, Branch Co., MI; died 16 Dec 1948 in Coquitlam, BC, Canada.
+ 6 v. Lena Maude Page, born 13 Sep 1870 in Bronson, Branch Co., MI; died in 1941.
7 vi. Thomas J. Page, born 05 Apr 1872 in Bethel, Branch Co., MI; died 14 May 1944 at Kalkaska Twp., Kalkaska Co., MI. He married Blanch(e) Ancara DePuy 22 Oct 1898 in Kalkaska Co., MI; born 20 Jul 1878 in Muskegon, Muskegon Co., MI; died 20 Sep 1944 in Kalkaska.
Notes for Thomas J. Page:
Thomas was an employed trainmaster for the railroad at the time of the 1900 Federal census of Burdell, Osceola Co., MI. He was listed as a station agent for the railroad at the time of the 1910 Federal census of the 3rd Ward of Boyne city, Evangeline Twp., Charlevoix Co., MI, and as a traveling auditor for the railroad at the time of the 1920 Federal census for the 3rd Ward of Grand Rapids, Kent Co., MI.
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Obituary:
THOMAS J. PAGE, RETIRED RAILROAD MAN DIES SUNDAY. Thomas J. Page, 72, passed away suddenly at his home early Sunday morning. Mr. Page was born April 5, 1872, in Ovid, Branch County, Michigan and departed this life May 14, 1944. He was the son of William H. and Maria Page, was one of a family of ten children, and is survived besides his wife, Blanche A., by one sister, Elizabeth Haybarger, of Vancouver, B.C. Mr. Page’s early life was spent on a farm, and after finishing his schooldays began the study of railway station work. His first assignment was at Elmira, Mich., as relief agent. His ability and efficiency were soon recognized and he was station master at many of the important places on this division. His faithful service was rewarded by rapid promotion from station work to traveling auditor, which resulted in his occupying the position of assistant auditor of the Pennsylvania system, in Philadelphia, Pa., which position he occupied until his reitrement from service in 1937. Mr. Page was united in marriage to Blanche O. DePuy, Oct. 1898, who survives him. He was a loving husband an honored and upright citizen and greatly respected by all who knew him, and due to his passing will be greatly missed by those who knew him. He was a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Shrine in Grand Rapids. Funeral services were held at the Berg Funeral Home Wednesday at 2:30. Burial was in Evergreen cemetery. Six members of the local F. & A. M. acted as pall bearers. Rev. A. R. Ellis of South Boardman officiated at the service. - The Leader and the Kalkaskian, 1944
Information courtesy Leader and Kalkaskian, www.upnorthpub.com
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Thomas was buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in Kalkaska Twp., Kalkaska Co., MI, beside his wife Blanche. He is in Lot 28, Plot 6.
Notes for Blanche Ancara DePuy:
The name “Mary” was used for Blanch’s mother’s given name at the time of Blanch’s marriage to Thomas Page. However, her mother’s name was actually Nancy Susan (Letart). Blanche’s father Charles Henry DePuy had the distinction of being a recipient of a Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor.
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Blanche was listed as a clerk for the railroad at the time of the 1910 Federal census of the 3rd Ward of Boyne city, Evangeline Twp., Charlevoix Co., MI.
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Obituary:
Mrs. Page Passes After Long Illness
Mrs. Blanche A. Page, 65, wife of the late Thomas Page, passed away at her home Tuesday night following an illness of several years duration.
Mrs. Page was born in Muskegon, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Chas. DePuy. She moved with her parents to Kalkaska, where she spent her girlhood. In Oct. 1898, she was united in marriage to Thomas Page, who passed away May 14, 1944.
She made her home with her husband in Philadelphia, Pa. until his retirement from the railway, when they returned to Kalkaska in 1937.
Surviving are a niece, Mrs. Ruth Freburg, of Carlton, Minn., and several cousins.
Funeral services will be held at the Berg Funeral Home at 2:30 Sunday afternoon. Interment will be in Evergreen cemetery beside her husband.
The Leader and the Kalkaskian, September 21, 1944
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Blanch(e) has also been said to have been born in Manistee, MI, and her middle name has also appeared as “Aurora.”
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Blanche died of lobar pneumonia and was buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in Kalkaska Twp., Kalkaska Co., MI, near her husband Thomas, parents Charles and Nancy, and brother Will Newell DePuy. She is in Lot 28, Plot 7.
Marriage Notes for Thomas Page and Blanche DePuy:
The family was renting a house at Tustin village, Osceola Co., MI, at the time of the 1900 Federal census. There were not yet any children as of the 1910 Federal census of the 3rd Ward of Boyne city, Evangeline Twp., Charlevoix Co., MI, where they were renting a house. Both were working for the railroad.
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In the 1912 obituary for Tom’s mother, and brother Jay D. Page, the Pages were said to be “of Boyne City, Mich.”
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Thomas and Blanche were renting an apartment at 401 Sheldon Avenue in the 3rd Ward of Grand Rapids, Kent Co., MI, at the time of the 1920 Federal census. Thomas was notated as being a traveling auditor for the railroad, and Blanche was no longer working. Blanche hadn’t had any children.
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Tom and Blanche were living at 314 Third Street in Kalkaska, Kalkaska Co., MI, at the time of the 1940 Federal census. In 1935 they had been living at Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA. Neither was employed nor seeking employment, and they were receiving an income.
8 vii. Frank Page, born 19 Aug 1873 in Bethel, Branch Co., MI; died 17 Jul 1900 in Coldwater, Branch Co., MI. He married Frances Himebaugh 21 May 1898 in Coldwater, Branch Co., MI; born 14 Oct 1869 in Orlando, Steuben Co., IN; died 25 Jul 1928 in Branch Co., MI.
Notes for Frank Page:
Frank was listed as a baker at time of death. The certificate claims his birth year was 1874 but the gave as 36 years, 10 mos, and 29 days confirms 1873 as the birth year.
More About Frank Page:
Cause of Death: consumption (tuberculosis), exhaustion, la grippe
Marriage Notes for Frank Page and Frances Himebaugh:
Frank and Frances were living with William and Maria(h) Page in the city of Coldwater, 1st Ward, Branch Co., MI, at the time of the 1900 Federal census. Frank was a baker but had been unemployed for 8 months. He and Frances had had a baby but it hadn't survived, and there would be no surviving children from this marriage. Soon after the census was taken, Frank died. A couple of years later Frances married Joseph Gunthorpe, a farmer in Bronson Twp., and they had two children by 1910. Joseph died February 12, 1940.
+ 9 viii. Chloe Bertrius Page, born 18 Jul 1875 in Bethel, Branch Co., MI; died 1932.
10 ix. Nellie G. Page, born 19 Jun 1877 in Bethel, Branch Co., MI; died 05 Oct 1939 in Coldwater, Branch Co., MI. She married William H. Gilson Abt. 1895; born 06 Aug 1871 in Bronson, Branch Co., MI; died 03 Jan 1952 in Toledo, Lucas Co., OH.
Notes for Nellie G. Page:
Nellie was buried in the New Part of Oak Grove Cemetery, on the west side of Coldwater, Branch County, Michigan, in Lot 108, Section 2. (According to Mary Bickford in October 2006 there is no tombstone for Nellie.) "Nellie M. Gilson, b Bethel Twp., d Coldwater 5 Oct 1939, age 62, female, married, (William Gilson, informant), Lot 108, Sec 2, Vol 2-127." (Additional information from Mary Bickford.)
Notes for William H. Gilson:
William was buried in the New Part of Oak Grove Cemetery, on the west side of Coldwater, Branch County, Michigan, in Lot 108, Section 2. "William H. Gilson, b Bronson, d Toledo, OH. 3 Jan 1952, age 80y 4m 27d, male, married, (Ethel May Gilson, informant), Lot 12, Sec 6. Vol. 3-8." (According to Mary Bickford in October 2006)
Marriage Notes for Nellie Page and William Gilson:
Nellie and William were living in the 1st Ward of New Albany, Floyd Co., IN, at the time of the 1900 Federal census. In the household were: William H. Gilson, 28 years old, a compositor, born in MI; and wife Nellie G., 22 years old, born in MI.
Nellie and William had been married 2 years and had no children.
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Nellie and William were renting at 2319 Osgood Street in the 24th Ward of Chicago, Cook Co., IL, at the time of the 1910 Federal census. In the household were: William H. Gilson, 38 years old, a printer for a newspaper; and wife Nellie G., 32 years old.
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In the 1912 obituary for Nellie's mother, and brother Jay D. Page, the Gilsons were said to be "of Chicago, Ill."
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Nellie and William were renting at 3222 Sunnyside Avenue in the 27th Ward of Chicago, Cook Co., IL, at the time of the 1920 Federal census. In the household were: William H. Gilson, 48 years old, a typesetter for a newspaper; and wife Nellie G., 42 years old.
Generation No. 2
2. Jay D.3 Page (William Henry2, William Henry1) was born Jun 1855 in Webster, Monroe Co., NY, and died 31 Mar 1912 in Syracuse, Onondaga Co., NY. He married Susan "Susie" Virginia Chappell 07 Mar 1887 in Sturgis, St Joseph Co., MI, daughter of Oliver Chappell and Eleanor Broughton. She was born 07 Mar 1870 in Price, Prince William Co., VA, and died 24 Jun 1943 in Arlington, Arlington Co., VA.
Notes for Jay D. Page:
Jay was employed as an "operator teleg" or telegraph operator at the time of the 1900 Federal census but was farming when the 1910 census was taken. His J. D. Page & Co. business was in operation as early as 1905, when it was included in “Table IV. Analyses of Commercial Feeds—Concluded,” part of the 1906 “Connecticut Experimental Station Report,” public document #18, published at Hartford by the General Assembly. “J. D. Page & Co. of Syracuse, NY” was listed in the "Brand" column, and in the "Retail Dealer" column for Yantic (New London Co., Connecticut, part of Norwich), was A. R. Manning. A later report, the “Bulletin,” published in 1910 by the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, listed the company among “Distillers of Dried Grain Sampled” at “Enosburg Falls, Bellows Falls, Randolph.”
An earlier J. D. Page & Co. was started around 1860 by John Dennison Page, born at Manchester, Hartford Co., Connecticut Jan. 10, 1816. (Manchester was later renamed East Hartford.) The first company by that name was engaged in the manufacture of paper at Lisbon, CT, but was sold by John in 1863. It is not known at this time whether Jay's company was the result of an evolution of that paper manufacturing company or a completely new entity. Also, no connection has been established between John and Jay. John and both his parents were born in Connecticut according to the 1880 Federal census, whereas Jay's grandfather Page was born in England and hadn't come to America until 1829, at which time he had settled in New York state.
Source for information about John Dennison Page and the first J. D. Page & Co.: "Illustrated Popular Biography of Connecticut - 1891," Compiled and Published by J. A. Spalding, Hartford Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, 1891
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Obituary for Jay D. Page from the Syracuse (NY) Post Standard newspaper, Monday Morning, April 1, 1912:
J. D. PAGE SUCCOMBS TO LINGERING ILLNESS
Well-known Feed and Liquor Dealer Obliged to Retire from Business Year Ago
Jay D. Page, 55, who retired from the wholesale feed and liquor business about a year ago because of failing health, died at 8 o'clock yesterday morning at his home, No. 621 Park Avenue, of hardening of the arteries. He had been confined to his bed only five days.
Mr. Page was born at Webster, N.Y., and had lived in this city twelve years. Before coming to Syracuse he was passenger agent at Cold Water, Mich., for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad. He entered the feed business here, and after four years added a wholesale liquor business under the name of Jay D. Page & Co. Mr. Page lived in Syracuse winters and had a summer home at Three Rivers.
Besides his widow he is survived by three children, Robert, Eleanor and Genevieve. He also leaves one brother, Thomas Page of Boyne City, Mich., and six sisters, Mrs. William __ Gilson of Chicago, Ill.; Mrs. Harry Lee of Jamestown, N.Y.; Mrs. Frank Gregg of Elmira, Mich.' Mrs. Perry Harris of Cold Water, Mich.; and Mrs. Abraham Haybarger of Fort Saskatchewan, Canada. [Fort Saskatchewan is on the North Saskatchewan River about 25 files northeast of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. /C.W. Paige]
The funeral will be hald privately at 8:00 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Mr. Page's late home in Park Avenue.
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Obituary for Jay D. Page from The Syracuse Herald newspaper, Monday Evening, April 1, 1912:
JAY D. PAGE DEAD
Arteriole Sclerosis Fatal to Wholesale Feed Dealer
Jay D. Page, 55 years old, died last evening at his home, No. 521 Park Avenue, after an illness of one year. Death was due to hardening of the arteries. Mr. Page was well known as feed and liquor dealer, having conducted a wholesale feed and liquor store in Syracuse for a number of years, under the name of J. D. Page Company. Besides his widow, he is survived by three children, Robert, Eleanor and Genevieve Page; one brother, Thomas Page of Boyne City, Mich., and six sisters, Mrs. William Gilson of Chicago, Ill., Mrs. William Purdy of Jamestown, N.Y., Mrs. Frank Gregg of Elmira, Mich., Mrs. Perry Harris of Cold Water, Mich., Mrs. Harry Lee of Jamestown, N. Y., and Mrs. Abraham Haybarger of Saskatchewan, Can. The funeral will be private from the family home tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o’clock.
Notes for Susan "Susie" Virginia Chappell:
Susie's parents and family were living at Manassas, Prince William Co., VA at the time of the 1870 Federal census. In the household were: Oliver P., 42 years old and born in NY; Eliza, 36 years old and born in OH; William, 12 years old and born in IN; Addie, 10 years old and born in IL; an infant girl, 2/12 of a year old and born in VA; and boarder Joseph S. Torrey, 48 years old and born in ME. Oliver was a lumber manufacturer and Joseph was a carpenter.
Susie's parents were divorced by 1880. Susie and her mother Eliza were living at Wauseon, Fulton Co., OH when the 1880 Federal census was taken, where Eliza was making a living as a dressmaker.
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Eliza CHAPPELL Self D Female W 46 OH Dressmaking PA VT
Susan V. CHAPPELL Dau S Female W 10 VA NY OH
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The Syracuse (NY) Journal Thursday, July 21, 1904
REAL ESTATE
J. Chafee Meldram [or Meldam] to Susie V. Page, lot 12, block 313, city: consideration $1.
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Susie was listed as a patient at the Geneva Sanatorium, 1st Ward of Geneva, Ontario Co., NY, when the census was taken 23 April 1910. On May 12 of the same year, when the census was taken of Clay Twp., Onondaga Co., NY, she was listed as living at home with Jay D. and family, possibly indicating she had been released between the two dates.
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The Post-Standard newspaper, Syracuse, N.Y., Friday Morning, December 6, 1912
PAGE COMPANY INCORPORATED
The Robert E. Page Company has been incorporated, the capital size being [$9,000 (sic)]. The company will deal in grain, seed, [distilled goods, etc. (sic)]. The directors are Robert E., Susie V., and Eleanor Page. Mr. Page is a son of the late Jay D. Page, who was in the same business.
[On the same page as the above article was an advertisement for the Page Family Liquor Store, 476 South Salina Street.]
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Syracuse (NY) Journal Tuesday, Fe bruary 29, 1916
GETS FINE FARM
Negotiations for the purchase of the James L. Decker farm at Clay, a tract consisting of 93 acres, also an adjoining tract of 45 acres, were completed yesterday by Frank N. Decker. The entire tract of 140 acres was the original Decker farm which has been owned by the Decker family since the close of the Civil War. Mr. Decker buys the interest of other heirs and takes back the 45 acres which were sold eight years ago to Susie V. Page. All of the buildings on the place are in the best of condition and the entire tract with the exception of two acres is under cultivation. Mr. Decker will engage in the cattle business. The property is valued at $10,000.
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Obituary appearing in the Washington Post newspaper, 26 June 1943 edition:
Page, Susie Virginia
On Thursday, June 24, 1943 at her residence 1213 Fort Myer Drive, Arlington, Va. Susie Virginia Page, wife of the late J.D. Page and mother of Eleanor E Page, Mrs. Genevieve Clapper and Robert E. Page of Florida. She is also survived by three grandchildren. Remains resting at the Ives Funeral home 2847 Wilson Blvd., Arlington Va., where services will be held on Saturday, June 26 at 10:30 a.m. Interment Syracuse, NY. Please omit flowers.
* Misinformation In the Susie obit -- Genevieve Clapper was not living in Florida in 1943. Florida residence just refers to Robert E Page. (Gail Palmer, gpalmer667@gmail.com)
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Obituary appearing in the Syracuse (New York) Herald Journal newspaper, 25 June 1943 edition:
Mrs. Susie V. Page, 73, a former Syracusan, died Thursday in Arlington,Va. Widow of John (sic) D. Page. she is survived by a son, Robert E. of Miami, Fla.; Two daughters, Miss Eleanor E. Page and Mrs. Russell Clapper; three grandchildren and one great grandchild. She was a member of the Arlington Chapter O.E.S.** The funeral will be conducted Saturday at Arlingon. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse.
** Order of the Eastern Star. (C. W. Paige)
Marriage Notes for Jay Page and Susan Chappell:
Jay and Susie were married by Wallace W. Weatherly, Justice of the Peace. Witnesses were Eliza B. Chappell of Sturgis and Elizabeth Boughton of Quincy, Branch Co., MI. At time of marriage, Jay listed his birth location as Wayne Co., NY, although in later years his obituary listed it as Webster [Monroe Co.,] NY.
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The family was renting a house in Nelson Twp., Cedar Springs village, Kent County, MI at the time of the 1900 Federal census. Jay and Susie had been married 13 years and all 3 of their children were still living.
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The Mowry Hotel Fire of 1907
The family moved to Syracuse, NY, in 1900 and before 1909 would also purchase a farm in Clay Township, Onondaga Co., NY. Their liquor store in Syracuse, owned by Jay D. Page & Co. a.k.a. J. D. Page & Co., was destroyed in the spectacular Mowry Hotel fire that started in the hotel's boiler room the night of February 10/11, 1907. An extensive account of the fire was reported in the Syracuse (NY) Herald newspaper, Vol. 79, Monday Morning, February 11, 1907.
"When the fire burst into Henry Hughes cafe and the liquor store of J. D. Page & Co. on the South Salina Street side Mr. Hughes, with his bartender, Thomas Eagan, and his chef, H. D. Le May were inside. Mr. Hughes turned a hand extinguisher on the flames, but in less than five minutes all three were obliged to flee for their lives...
"Chief Engineer Quigley said last night that when he turned into Onondaga Street on his way to the fire the flames were shooting high over the roof of the hotel. Just as he dashed into South Salina Street the fire burst out of Page's liquor store. Shortly afterwards the interior of Andrews, Loomis & Andrews' store on the Onondaga street side of the Mowry Building was all ablaze, and the plate windows crashed out...
"Andrews, Loomis & Andrews have a loss of $20,000, principally covered by insurance, J. D. Page & Co. had a stock valued at [unreadable] with [unreadable] insurance. Mr. Page said last night that he thought possibly [unreadable] or $10,000 worth of the stock in the cellar, which was valued at [unreadable] might be saved..."
One of the more illustrious guests, William S. Waudby, special agent of the Bureau of Labor of the Department of Commerce and Labor at Washington, had been asleep on the fifth floor. "One of the most serious losses was that of the manuscript of a book upon which he had been working twenty years, entitled "The Conciliation of Labor and Capital." This had been passed upon by the editor of The Arena, and was about to be published."
William recently had been injured during a crazed man's shooting spree at Bowling Green, KY, and had requested "...room No. 33 on the fifth floor of the Mowry, because he thought it would be quiet there." He barely escaped, carrying only a picture of his wife and, unconscious, had to be carried down a ladder by a fireman. Among important projects Mr. Waudby had worked on were:
--writing an article, “Mutual Relief and Benefit Associations in the Printing Trade,” for Washington's "Bulletin of the Department of Labor," pp. 829-51, 1898,
--involvement in investigating child labor in Pennsylvania's silk mills, 1900,
--involvement in the Pennsylvania anthracite coal strike of 1902.
The list of reported losses totaling more than $202,000 included:
Mowry Building and contents, $80,000
Property of guests staying at Mowry Hotel, $50,000
Andrews, Loomis & Andrews, $25,000
J. D. Page & Co., $16,000
Andrews Building, $15,000
C.T. Blansett, wholesale liquors, $4,500
Lessing Lodge I.O.O.F., $3,000
Smith Premier Company’s old building, $2,000
Imperial Order of Tycoons, $1,000
Henry J. Hughs café, $1,000
F. E. Norton, bicycles and phonographs, $1,000
Franklin Hotel, $1,000
Armory Lodge I.O.O.F., $750
Premier Hotel, $500
Charles H. Miller, jeweler, $500
Syracuse Ornamental Company, $500
Smith Premier Typewriter Company, $800
Goody & Edmund, machine shop, $200
Pneumelectric Machine Company, $100
C.N. Cousins Candy store, $100
There were several injuries of hotel guests, firemen, etc., but none was serious. Miraculously there were no known deaths as of the article’s publication. However, the hotel’s register was burned, so a complete list of guests would be difficult to establish.
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Fire notwithstanding, Jay D. Page & Co. was back in business within three months as attested by the following advertisement in the Post-Standard Syracuse NY newspaper’s Wednesday morning edition for May 1, 1907.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Saturday, May 4, 1907, Jay D. Page & Co., Inc. will open for inspection the largest and finest furnished family wine and liquor store between Buffalo and New York. Souvenirs to every customer. Formerly the Mowry Liquor Store.
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The following squib was taken from the Syracuse Herald newspaper’s Saturday evening edition for March 27, 1909.
PERSONAL
Miss Doris G. West is spending the weekend with Miss Eleanor Page on the Page farm at Three River Point.
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The family owned a farm, with a mortgage, at the time of the 1910 Federal census of Clay Twp., Onondaga Co., NY, on 12 May 1910. Only 3 of Susie's 4 children had survived. Susie was also listed that year as a patient at the Geneva Sanatorium, 1st Ward of Geneva, Ontario Co., NY, taken 23 April 1910.
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The following ad was taken from the Syracuse Herald newspaper’s Wednesday evening edition for November 22, 1911.
THE HOUSE OF PURITY
In wines and liquors for the home. Phone for any quantity, delivered to your door free. Jay D. Page & Co., Inc., wholesale and retail dealers in only the best foreign and domestic brands, 476 S. Salina St.--Adv.
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In the 1912 obituary for Jay's mother, "J. D. Page" was said to be "of Syracuse, N.Y."
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The following ads appeared after Jay's death, showing the business continued.
In the Thursday Evening, May 29, 1913 edition of The Syracuse Herald newspaper there was an ad for "Page's Family Liquor Store," advising to "Prepare For The Holiday Outing," operated by "Jay D. Page Co." at "476 South Salina Street, Tel. Warren 358, No Bar, Free delivery to all parts of the city." In the Wednesday Evening, August 25, 1915 edition of the same newspaper there was an ad at the same telephone number and address for "Saratoga Vichy Water" distributed by "Jay D. Page Co., Agents, Private Auto Delivery."
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From The Farm Journal Illustrated Rural Directory of Onondaga County 1917. Philadelphia: Wilmer Atkinson Co., 1917, pp. 301-378.
LIQUORS
SYRACUSE-Altman, A. V., & Son; American Malting Co.; Bartels Brewing Co.; Brown, C. H.; Congress Beer Brewery; Curtis', Geo. H., Son; Cushing Co., The; Diamond, A.; Fayette Supply Co.; Flesher, Harris; Garafalo, Frank; Green, Fred. J.; Greenway Brewery; Haberle Crystal Spring Brewing Co.; Hartnetts Prov. Co.; Higgins, Importer, Inc.; Hoffman Family Liquor Store; Longcoy, H. S.; Loos, Kaufmann, & Co.; Lowery, J. J.; Lukaske, Geo. E.; McCarthy, M.; Moore & Quinn; National Brewing Co.; O. F. C. Importing Co.; PAGE, JAY D., & CO.; Ryan, Thomas, Consumers' Brewing Co.; Salina Supply Co.; Salzman, M., Co.; Schlitz Beer Agency; Schuck, Fred'k A.; Siegelman, M., Co.; Slocum, Adelbert; Smingler, Henry; Strong, Fred W.; Zett, Geo., Brewery, The
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The widow "Sussie" V. Page was renting an apartment at 1821 18th Street N. W. at the time of the 1920 Federal census of the 8th Precinct of Washington, District of Columbia. Living with her was daughter Genevieve Clapper. Genevieve was a government stenographer and Sussie was not working. Genevieve's husband Russell B. Clapper was renting a room elsewhere in DC.
Susie V. Page owned a $10,000 house on Military Road at the time of the 1930 Federal census of Radnor Heights, Arlington, Arlington Co., VA. Living with her was daughter Eleanor E., employed as a hospital bookkeeper. The family owned a radio set.
Children of Jay Page and Susan Chappell are:
11 i. Eleanor E.4 Page, born Mar 1888 in MI; died 14 Sep 1951 in Arlington, Arlington Co., VA.
Notes for Eleanor E. Page:
The Post-Standard newspaper, Syracuse, N.Y., Friday Morning, December 6, 1912
PAGE COMPANY INCORPORATED
The Robert E. Page Company has been incorporated, the capital size being [$9,000 (sic)]. The company will deal in grain, seed, [distilled goods, etc. (sic)]. The directors are Robert E., Susie V., and Eleanor Page. Mr. Page is a son of the late Jay D. Page, who was in the same business.
[On the same page as the above article was an advertisement for the Page Family Liquor Store, 476 South Salina Street.]
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Syracuse (New York) Journal, Friday May 29, 1914
NO DAMAGES FOR THIS AUTO CRASH
Because Miss Eleanor Page was out on a pleasure trip when the automobile she was driving hit George B. White’s car on the Long Branch road, Judge Ryan released the Robert E. Page Company, Inc., from all liability. Mr. White sued the corporation which owned the car.
Miss Page, who is secretary and treasurer of the corporation, was returning from a picnic when she attempted to pass a farmer’s wagon. As she turned out to avoid the wagon she collided with Mr. White’s car and damaged it slightly. A new coat of paint and minor repairs were valued at $78 by him.
Judge Ryan held the accident was due to Miss Page’s negligence and not that of the corporation, therefore Mr. White will have to sue her to recover his repair bill. The company filed a $30 counter claim, but the same ruling prevented them from recovering damages. Wright & Scully represented the corporation.
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The following article was taken from the Syracuse Herald newspaper’s Friday evening edition for August 14, 1914.
SUES MISS PAGE FOR DAMAGE TO AUTOMOBILE
George B. White Asks $78 as Result of Collision on Country Road.
George B. White to-day described an accident on the road between Baldwinsville and Long Branch in which he said his automobile was struck by one driven by Miss Eleanor E. Page and asks that she pay him $78 damages for injuries to his car. Judge Ryan and a jury heard the suit in municipal court.
White said he turned out to the road to avoid striking a farmer’s wagon when Miss Page came along in her automobile with a party of friends and ran into his car. The mud-guard and front axle were damaged and the tire and its shoe were torn.
The automobile driven by Miss Page was owned by the Robert E. Page company, of which she is said to be a director. She was represented by William F. Quinn, who tried the suit for Miller & Matterson, her attorneys. H. A. Robinson and Louis J. Bedell appeared for White.
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The Post-Standard newspaper, Syracuse, N.Y., Saturday Morning, August 15, 1914
GETS $15 DAMAGES IN SUIT FOR AUTOMOBILE COLLISION
George B. White Wins Verdict by Municipal Court—Asks $78 for Injury to Car
George B. White obtained a verdict against Miss Eleanor E. Page for $15 in Municipal Court yesterday afternoon. The case was brought following an automobile collision on the Syracuse-Baldwinsville state road August 14, 1913. Mr. White asked for $78 damages to his car. He claimed that he turned out to avoid striking a farmer’s wagon and as he did so Miss Page, in a roaring car, crashed into his machine. Miller & Matterson appeared for Miss Page and Ray R. Smith for the plaintiff.
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Eleanor E. was employed as a hospital bookkeeper at the time of the 1930 Federal census of Radnor Heights, Arlington, Arlington Co., VA. She was living with her mother Susie V. Page in a house on Military Road.
The hospital where she worked was the Children's Hospital of Washington, D.C., where she was the assistant treasurer. On Thursday July 31, 1930, Eleanor was robbed of her payroll monies.
Friday Aug 1 1930
The “Evening Independent,” Massillon, Ohio
Washington D.C., Aug 1 -- As she was about to enter the Children's hospital, Miss Eleanor Page, assistant treasurer, was robbed of a $7,000 pay roll by an unmasked thief, who jumped in an auto operated by a confederate, and escaped.
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Saturday Aug 2, 1930
Frederick "Post"
Washington, Aug 1 -- Forced into an automobile by bandits, Gilbert Hyatt, 24-year-old messenger for the Mount Vernon Savings Bank was kidnapped at Fifteenth and M streets today and driven to Rock Creek Park, where he was robbed of $4,000 in cash and a number of bonds, and thrown out of the machine.
Hyatt left the bank at 11 o'clock to go to the Union Insurance Company at Fifteenth and M streets with the money. At 12 o'clock the bank received an anonymous telephone call that a messenger of the bank had been thrown out of a machine by bandits. A hurried check showed that Hyatt was the only missing runner.
The hold up took place on a busy corner in the downtown business area and was the second of a similar nature in two days.
Yesterday at almost the same hour two bandits threw MISS ELEANOR PAGE, cashier of the Children's Hospital, to the sidewalk just in front of the hospital and escaped with a $7,000 pay roll.
After today's robbery the bandits started off in the direction of Silver Spring, Montgomery county. County and local officers were notified at once....
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The following article mainly concerns a New York City robbery, where Miss Elsie Ingalls was robbed of the payroll meant for employees of the Orthopaedic Dispensary and Hospital, 420 East Fifty-ninth Street. Buried inside the article was a reference to Eleanor Page's recent incident, which is excerpted below:
Sunday August 3, 1930
The New York "Times"
BANDITS GET $6,000 IN HOSPITAL HOLD-UP
Posing as Patients, 3 Gunmen Hold Up Girl Cashier and Flee With Orthopaedic Payroll
"A similar hold-up occurred in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, when Miss Eleanor Page, assistant treasurer of the Children's Hospital there, was robbed of a $7,000 payroll as she entered the hospital. The thief in this case, unmasked and unarmed, jumped into an automobile operated by a confederate and escaped."
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From email sent by Gail Clapper Palmer 03-04-08:
"I remember I had an Aunt Eleanor, who would have been Genevieve's sister. I don't believe she married. She had a dusty old house with all the family treasures."
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Obituary appearing in the Washington Post newspaper, 16 Sept 1951 edition:
Eleanor E. Page
On Friday September 14, 1951 at her residence, 1213 Fort Myer Dr., Arlington, Va. Eleanor E Page, beloved sister of Mrs. Genevieve Clapper of Lake City, Fla., and Robert Page of Miami Fla. She is also survived by two nephews, Robert P. Clapper and Russell B. Clapper Jr. and one niece, Mrs. G. Ben Turner. Friends may call at the Ives Funeral Home, 3847 Wilson Blvd., where funeral services will be held on Monday Sept. 17 at 10 a.m. Interment Syracuse, NY.
+ 12 ii. Robert Emerson Page, born 30 Nov 1889 in Athens, Calhoun Co., MI; died Aug 1964 in Dade Co., FL.
+ 13 iii. Genevieve Page, born Dec 1895 in IN; died Mar 1961 in Fort Myers, Lee Co., FL.
4. Lillie M.3 Page (William Henry2, William Henry1) was born 27 Apr 1862 in Bronson, Branch Co., MI, and died 14 Feb 1920 in Coldwater, Branch Co., MI. She married Frank P. Gregg Abt. 1880, son of Jacob Gregg and Margaret Green. He was born 28 Apr 1852 in MI, and died 23 Apr 1910 in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw Co., MI.
Notes for Lillie M. Page:
Lillie was buried in in the New Part of Oak Grove Cemetery, on the west side of Coldwater, Branch County, Michigan, in Lot 108, Section 2. (From picture taken of Lillie M. Gragg's tombstone by Mary Bickford in October 2006.)
Notes for Frank P. Gregg:
Frank died at the University of Michigan hospital.
Frank was buried at the Maple Hill Cemetery in Elmira Twp., Otsego Co., MI, as was his daughter Hazel.
More About Frank P. Gregg:
Cause of Death: diabetes mellitus
Marriage Notes for Lillie Page and Frank Gregg:
Frank and Lillie were living at Elmira Twp., Otsego Co., MI, at the time of the 1900 Federal census. In the household were: Frank P., 48 years old, a farmer, born in MI; wife Lillie M., 38 years old, born in MI; daughter Allice, 18 years old, born in MI; son Harsie (sic), 8 years old, born in MI; daughter Hazel, 2 years old, born in MI; and boarder William Walters, 43 years old, a farm laborer, born in MI.
Frank and Lillie had been married 20 years, and all 3 of their children were living.
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Lillie was living at Elmira Twp., Otsego Co., MI, at the time of the 1910 Federal census. In the household were: widow Lillie M., 47 years old; son Harsy (sic), 17 years old, a farmer; and daughter Hazel, 12 years old.
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In the 1912 obituary for Lillie's mother, and brother Jay D. Page, the former stated "Mrs. Lillie Gregge" and the latter stated "Mrs. Frank Gregg," was "of Elmira, Mich."
Children of Lillie Page and Frank Gregg are:
14 i. Allice4 Gregg, born Jun 1882 in MI; died Unknown.
15 ii. Hassie Gregg, born May 1892 in MI; died Unknown.
16 iii. Hazel G. Gregg, born Jun 1898 in MI; died 1937 in Elmira, Otsego Co., MI.
Notes for Hazel G. Gregg:
Hazel is buried at the Maple Hill Cemetery in Elmira Twp., Otsego Co., MI, as was her father Frank.
5. Elizabeth Bella "Lizzie"3 Page (William Henry2, William Henry1) was born Jun 1865 in Bronson, Branch Co., MI, and died 16 Dec 1948 in Coquitlam, BC, Canada. She married Albert Monroe Haybarger 19 Apr 1884 in Fawn River, St. Joseph Co., MI, son of John Haybarger and Susan Haybarger. He was born Oct 1861 in Erie Co., PA, and died 12 Sep 1924 in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Notes for Albert Monroe Haybarger:
At the time of the 1880 Federal census of Lima, Lagrange Co., Indiana:
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
John J. HAYBARGER Self M Male W 52 PA Farmer PA PA
Susan HAYBARGER Wife M Female W 49 PA Keeping House PA PA
Sylvester H. HAYBARGER Son S Male W 20 PA Farm Laborer PA PA
Albert M. HAYBARGER Son S Male W 18 PA Farm Laborer PA PA
Anna WARMBREAD Other S Female W 16 PA Servant SWI SWI
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Source Information:
Census Place Lima, Lagrange, Indiana
Family History Library Film 1254290
NA Film Number T9-0290
Page Number 312C
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Albert and both his parents were born in Pennsylvania. His father was listed as a son of John and Maria (Long) Haybarger at Fairview Twp., Eric Co., PA when the 1850 Federal census was taken. At the time of the 1900 Federal census of Coldwater, 2nd Ward, Branch Co., MI, Albert had been unemployed for one month.
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In the 1912 obituary for Albert's brother-in-law Jay D. Page, "Mrs. Abraham Haybarger" was said to be "of Saskatchewan, Can." [Albert had an Uncle Abram Haybarger who was about eight years younger than Albert's father.]
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From Alberta Homestead Records 1870-1930:
HAYBARGER, Albert M
Section 7 Township 60 Range 19 Meridian 4*
Film # 2129 in Accession # 1970.313 at Provincial Archives of Alberta
File # 1921227
* The fourth meridian (actually the 110th meridian of longitude) is the Alberta-Saskatchewan border.
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City of Vancouver, British Columbia, Mountain View Cemetery
Deceased Date of Death Location
HAYBARGER, Albert Sep-12-1924 1919/*/C/056/0006 (burial Sep-15-1924)
Marriage Notes for Elizabeth Page and Albert Haybarger:
Lizzie B. Page and Albert M. Haybarger were married by George D. Lee, Minister of the Gospel. Witnesses were notated as Albert Haybarger and Lucy Haybarger, both of Fawn River, MI. Albert M. was said to be of Sturgis, MI, and Lizzie of Lima, IN. [Correction: obviously Lizzie was of Sturgis and Albert was of Lima. /C.W.Paige]
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The family moved to Lagrange Co., IN, before the children were born. By the time of the 1900 Federal Census the family had moved to a farm they owned but had a mortgage in the 2nd Ward of Coldwater, Branch Co., MI. Lizzie was notated as having had 5 children, 4 of which were still living.
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The family was #292 living in District 17, Sub-district 12, of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, at the time of the 1906 Canadian census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. They were located in Section 14, Township 53, Range 20, Meridian 4, and had 3 horses and 4 cows. In the household were A. M. Haybarger, 45, Lezie, 41, Chas, 21, Ila, 14, Everette, 12, and Alden, 9. They were all born in the USA and had immigrated to Canada in 1903. [Their postal address appears to be Partridge. C. W. Paige]
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In the February 1912 obituary for Lizzie's mother, the Haybargers were said to be "of Alberta, Canada," and in the April 1, 1912, obituaries for Lizzie's brother Jay D. Page, the Haybargers were said to be "of Fort Saskatchewan, Can." and "of Saskatchewan, Can." [Fort Saskatchewan is on the North Saskatchewan River about 25 files northeast of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. /C.W. Paige]
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Albert, Elizabeth, Charles, Ila and Alden were living in District 36, Subdistrict 6, at Township 60, Range 19, Meridian 4, Municipality Sprucefield in Edmonton East, Alberta, at the time of the 1916 Canadian census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. Albert was a farmer and claimed to have immigrated to Canada in 1904 and been naturalized in 1913, and was Lutheran. Elizabeth was Presbyterian and claimed to have immigrated in 1911. Charles was Presbyterian and claimed to have immigrated to Canada in 1911 and been naturalized in 1913. Ila and Alden both were Presbyterian and immigrated in 1911. Albert claimed to be Dutch and Elizabeth claimed to be English.
In the same census, Everette was single and living in District 36, Subdistrict 6, at Township 59, Range 19, Meridian 4, Municipality Sprucefield. He was a farmer, Methodist, and claimed to have immigrated to Canada in 1911 and been naturalized in 1914.
In the same census, Ila was also listed as a maid for the family of Charles R. and Clara Mitchell, single, and living in District 34, Subdistrict 2B, at Township 10018, Range 114, Meridian St, Municipality Edmonton city, Edmonton West, Alberta. She claimed to be a Methodist and to have immigrated to Canada in 1910.
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Albert and Charles P. entered the USA from Canada in 1919 through the port of Noyes, Kittson Co., MN, on their way to Farmville, Prince Edward Co., VA. They were not going to visit friends or relatives according to the form they were required to fill out on the List Or Manifest Of Alien Passengers Applying For Admission To The United States From Forgeign Contiguous Territory, "Required by the regulations of Secretary of Labor of the United States under the Immigration Act." Both men were farmers. Albert was 5' 7" tall and had medium complexion. Charles was 5' 8" and had dark complexion. Both had brown hair and blue eyes and claimed Dutch descent. Date of landing and examination was April 10, 1919. (Lizzie remained in Edmonton.)
Nellie Haybarger and daughter Eileen entered the USA from Canada in 1919 through the port of Winnipeg, Manitoba, on their way to Greensboro, Guilford Co., NC. They were going to meet up with Nellie's husband Charles P. Haybarger. Date of landing and examination was July 28, 1919.
Children of Elizabeth Page and Albert Haybarger are:
+ 17 i. Charles Page4 Haybarger, born 31 May 1885 in Lima, Lagrange Co., IN; died 19 Sep 1966 in New Westminster, BC, Canada.
18 ii. Ila Gualden Haybarger, born 12 Dec 1891 in Lima, Lagrange Co., IN; died 29 May 1972 in Maple Ridge, BC, Canada. She married George Bruce; born 10 Jan 1884 in PA; died 07 Nov 1955 in New Westminster, BC, Canada.
Notes for Ila Gualden Haybarger:
Ila was single and living in District 34, Subdistrict 2B, at Township 10018, Range 114, Meridian St, Municipality Edmonton city, Edmonton West, Alberta, at the time of the 1916 Canadian census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. She was a maid for the family of Charles R. and Clara Mitchell, Methodist, and claimed to have immigrated to Canada in 1910. She was also classified as a "general servant."
In the same census Ila was also listed with her parents who were living in District 36, Subdistrict 6, at Township 60, Range 19, Meridian 4, Municipality Sprucefield in Edmonton East, Alberta.
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Ila was listed as "Mrs. George Bruce" in her brother Everett's 1955 obituary and was said to be living in Vancouver, B.C.
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Ila's middle name is sometimes spelled "Gueldon" and has even appeared as "Florence."
+ 19 iii. Everett Munroe Haybarger, born Mar 1893 in IN; died 29 Sep 1955 in Edson, Alberta, Canada.
20 iv. Henry Alden Haybarger, born Nov 1897 in IN; died 06 Dec 1948 in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
6. Lena Maude3 Page (William Henry2, William Henry1) was born 13 Sep 1870 in Bronson, Branch Co., MI, and died in 1941. She married William G. Purdy 26 Jun 1890 in Coldwater, Branch Co., MI, son of Edward Purdy and Melissa Mott. He was born Jan 1866 in MI, and died in 1946.
Notes for Lena Maude Page:
Usually just called "Maude."
Marriage Notes for Lena Page and William Purdy:
William and Maude were living in the 1st Ward of Jamestown, Chautauqua Co., NY, at the time of the 1900 Federal census. In the household were: William G. Purdy, 34 years old, a grain broker, born in MI; wife Maude L., 29 years old, born in MI; son Rob R., 8 years old, born in MI; and daughter Lillian M., 6 years old, born in MI.
Maude and William had been married 10 years and both of their children were still living.
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In the 1912 obituary for Maude's mother, and brother Jay D. Page, the Purdys were said to be "of Jamestown, NY."
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William and Maude were living at 166 Forest Avenue in the 6th Ward of Jamestown, Chautauqua Co., NY, at the time of the 1920 Federal census. In the household were: William G. Purdy, 52 years old, retail and wholesale flour and feed; and wife L. Maude, 49 years old.
Children of Lena Page and William Purdy are:
21 i. Robert Ray4 Purdy, born Apr 1892 in MI; died Unknown.
22 ii. Lillian M. Purdy, born Dec 1893 in MI; died Unknown.
9. Chloe Bertrius3 Page (William Henry2, William Henry1) was born 18 Jul 1875 in Bethel, Branch Co., MI, and died 1932. She married Harry A. Lee 28 Oct 1900 in Coldwater, Branch Co., MI, son of G. Lee and Martha Meade. He was born 1876 in IN, and died in 1933.
Notes for Chloe Bertrius Page:
Chloe was listed as a "shoe stitcher" in the 1900 Federal census. She was living with her parents and her brother Frank and his wife in the city of Coldwater, 1st Ward, Branch Co., MI. She had been unemployed for 10 months.
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Chloe was buried in the New Part of Oak Grove Cemetery, on the west side of Coldwater, Branch County, Michigan, in Lot 108, Section 2. (From picture taken of Chloe B. Lee's tombstone by Mary Bickford in October 2006.)
Notes for Harry A. Lee:
Harry had been married before according to the 1910 Federal census of Girard, Branch Co., MI. He was making his living as a farmer. After the family moved to Charlotte, Chautauqua Co., NY, Harry became a dealer in feed and coal per the 1920 Federal census.
By the 1930 Federal census of Charlotte, Harry was a coal dealer at a coal yard which he owned.
Marriage Notes for Chloe Page and Harry Lee:
The family was living on a farm they owned at Girard, Branch Co., MI at the time of the 1910 Federal census. Also living with the family was Chloe's widowed mother Maria. The household was near that of Chloe's sister and brother-in-law Hattie and Perry Harris.
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In the 1912 obituary for Chloe's mother, and brother Jay D. Page, the Lees were said to be "of Jamestown, NY."
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By 1913 the family had moved to Charlotte, Chautauqua Co., NY, where they were living at the time of the 1920 and 1930 Federal censuses. By 1930, Wilbur had married and left home. Besides Harry and Chloe, the household included son William and Chloe's widowed sister Hattie Harris. The Lees owned their home and owned a radio set.
Children of Chloe Page and Harry Lee are:
+ 23 i. Wilbur D.4 Lee, born Abt. 1906 in MI; died Unknown.
24 ii. William A. Lee, born 1913 in NY; died Unknown.
Notes for William A. Lee:
William was driving a truck for wages at a coal yard (most likely his father's yard) at the time of the 1930 Federal census of Charlotte, Chautauqua Co., NY.
Generation No. 3
12. Robert Emerson4 Page (Jay D.3, William Henry2, William Henry1) was born 30 Nov 1889 in Athens, Calhoun Co., MI, and died Aug 1964 in Dade Co., FL. He married Ruth Steinwald Kuntzsch 28 Jun 1916 in Syracuse, Onondaga Co., NY, daughter of William Kuntzsch and Magdalena Steinwald. She was born 06 Jul 1892 in Syracuse, Onondaga Co., NY, and died 27 Jan 1982 in Miami, Dade Co., FL.
Notes for Robert Emerson Page:
The Post-Standard newspaper, Syracuse, N.Y., Friday Morning, December 6, 1912
PAGE COMPANY INCORPORATED
The Robert E. Page Company has been incorporated, the capital size being [$9,000 (sic)]. The company will deal in grain, seed, [distilled goods, etc. (sic)]. The directors are Robert E., Susie V., and Eleanor Page. Mr. Page is a son of the late Jay D. Page, who was in the same business.
[On the same page as the above article was an advertisement for the Page Family Liquor Store, 476 South Salina Street.]
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Syracuse (New York) Journal, Wednesday September 29, 1915
AUTO SPEEDER IS SCORED IN COURT
Justice Shove in fining Robert E. Page of E. Fayette at $50 for running 46 miles an hour in S. State St. early Wednesday morning told the offender against the speed laws that he could not see what he was thinking about to run at such a rate of speed at the present time when so many automobile accidents were occurring. Page was arrested by Motorcycle Officer Holden after complaints had been received from his neighbors that he was one of the fastest drivers in his section.
The officer said that his motorcycle was obliged to run 56 miles an hour to catch up with the flying car and that his speedometer showed that Page was going at the rate of 46 miles an hour in S. State St.
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From The Farm Journal Illustrated Rural Directory of Onondaga County 1917. Philadelphia: Wilmer Atkinson Co., 1917, pp. 301-378.
FLOUR AND FEED
SYRACUSE-American Milling Co.; Armstrong, E. W.; Barker, H. Allen, Est.; Brown & Co.; Brown, F. E.; Consolidated Flour & Feed Co.; Doctor, Gabriel; Drescher, P., & Sons; Elstein, Hyman; Farrington Bros.; Gray, H. H.; Harvest Milling Co.; Hemmer, Michael; Hoffman & Co.; Kelley, Jno., & Son; Livshin, S.; Meager, John E.; Mich, G. M., Milling Co.; Onondaga Grain Co.; PAGE, ROBT. E., CO.; Parker, Harry W.; Pillsbury Flour Mills Co.; Porter Bros.; Russell-Miller Milling Co.; Smith Bros.; Smith, A. B.; Standard Milling Co.; Syracuse Milling Co.; Van Antwerp, Henry; Ward, J. H.
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Robert registered for the draft on June 8, 1917 under name Robert Emerson Page. He specified his birth date as November 30, 1889, and location as Athens, MI. He was then living at 3023 S. Salina Street in Syracuse, NY, and was proprietor of a business as dealer in grain.
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Robert was Commodore of the Syracuse Yacht and Country Club in 1931 according to the Sunday morning edition of the Syracuse Herald newspaper, May 3, 1931, in an article titled: "Yacht and Country Club Will Observe Ladies' Day on May 6." A subtitle goes on to say: "300 Attend Formal Opening Dinner Dance With Several Large Parties."
Notes for Ruth Steinwald Kuntzsch:
Ruth's father William J. Kuntzsch was a successful real estate agent at the time of his death in 1934.
Marriage Notes for Robert Page and Ruth Kuntzsch:
The following article was taken from the Syracuse Herald newspaper’s Sunday morning edition for October 29, 1911.
FOR MR. AND MRS. WATERS
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Kuntzsch entertained Tom Waters, leading comedian of the Pink Lady Company, and Mrs. Waters at dinner last Sunday evening at their home. On Tuesday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Waters, Mr. and Mrs. Kuntzsch, Miss Ruth Kuntzsch, Robert E. Page and Raymond House had a delightful automobile trip around the county, with dinner at Cicero, after which Mr. Waters gave a theater party in the evening at the Empire Theater, at which the above were his guests. Later a supper at The Onondaga was given by Mr. Waters.
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The following article was taken from the Syracuse Herald newspaper’s Sunday morning edition for June 11, 1916.
PARTIES FOR JUNE BRIDE
Mrs. William Quinn entertained delightfully at bridge on Tuesday afternoon in honor of Miss Ruth Kuntzsch who will be one of the June brides. The decorations were in blue and white, the favors being blue nut baskets. A basket of spring flowers garnished the attractive table. In addition to the guest of honor were: Miss Eleanor Page, Miss Genevieve Page, Mrs. Arthur Goodfellow, Mrs. Roy Billington, Mrs. Robert Legget, Mrs. Daniel Kuntzsch, Mrs. William Kuntzsch, Mrs. Charles Fox, Mrs. Maurice Murphy, Mrs. J. D. Page, Mrs. Martin Fisher, Mrs. John Hewes, Mrs. Frank Stonewall, Mrs. Otto Johnson and Mrs. Caroline Stonewall.
On Thursday afternoon Mrs. Raymond F. Kotz was the hostess at a dinner bridge party at Endres, entertaining in honor of Miss Ruth Kuntzsch. Mrs. Kotz extended her hospitality to Mrs. William Kuntzsch, Mrs. J. D. Page, Miss Eleanor Page, Mrs. Alfred Hymas, Miss Florence Worth, Mrs. Arthur Johnson, Mrs. Robert Vroman, Mrs. Emil Kotz, Miss Genevieve Page, and Miss Florence Waidle.
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Syracuse (NY) Daily Journal, Monday June 26, 1916:
On the list of couples receiving marriage licenses today were "Robert E. Page of 134 E. LaFayette and Ruth S. Kuntzsch of 3023 S. Salina."
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Syracuse (NY) Daily Journal, Wednesday June 28, 1916:
To Wed This Evening
Miss Ruth S. Kuntzsch and Robert Emerson Page will be married this evening at 7:00 o'clock at the home of the bride's parents Mr. and Mrs. William H. Kuntzsch at 3023 S. Salina St. The Rev. William F. Bauer will officiate. Miss Eleanor Page will be the maid of honor, and the bride's cousin Carlton F. Stonewall of Cleveland, O., will act as best man. Miss Ruth Fisher and Miss Arlene Van Lengen will be flower girls, and Mrs. Raymond F. Kotz will play the wedding march. A wedding supper will follow the ceremony. Mr. Page and his bride will spend their honeymoon on a two weeks' automobile trip, going to Atlantic City and Washington, and returning through the Berkshires. [The Berkshires are a range of hills near Pittsfield, MA, not far from the MA border with NY. /C.W. Paige]
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The family was living in a house they owned with a mortgage at 3023 South Salina Street at the time of the 1920 Federal census of the 19th Ward of Syracuse, Onondaga Co., NY. In the household were: Robert E. "Paige," 30 years old, born in MI; wife Ruth, 27 years old and born in NY; daughter Doris R., 1 year 4 months old and born in NY; and father-in-law William J. Kuntzsch, 50 years old, a widower, and born in NY. Robert was a merchant in the flour & feed business. William was a mail clerk on a railroad train.
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The family was living in a $30,000 house they owned at 209 Sedgewick Dr. at the time of the 1930 Federal census of the 4th Ward of Syracuse, Onondaga Co., NY. In the household were: Robert E., 40 years old, born in MI; wife Ruth S., 36 years old and born in NY; daughter Doris R., 11 years old and born in NY; and servant Irene Williams, 20 years old, single, and born in NY. Robert was a building contractor and was an employer rather than worker. The household owned a radio set.
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The following article was taken from the Syracuse Herald newspaper’s Tuesday evening edition for September 10, 1933.
PERSONAL MENTION
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Page and daughter, Miss Doris Ruth Page of Sedgwick Drive, have returned home after passing the summer aboard their yacht, Dorubob, at the Syracuse Yacht and Country Club at Oneida Lake. During the summer, they took a cruise on Lake Ontario and Lake Champlain stopping at Thousand Islands, Montreal, Burlington, VT, and Albany.
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From email sent by Gail Clapper Palmer 03-04-08:
"I forgot in the first message that Robert E. Page was quite wealthy. We went to visit him and wife Ruth back in the 1950s in Coral Gables. As I remember they had a yacht. Don't know yet what he did for a living. I would think his obit would have made a splash in the Miami papers, but I haven't gone there yet. Mom said he may have been a stockbroker."
Child of Robert Page and Ruth Kuntzsch is:
25 i. Doris Ruth5 Page, born 24 Jun 1918 in Syracuse, Onondaga Co., NY; died 11 May 2009 in Franklin, Williamson Co., TN. She married Benjamin Worcester Turner 25 Nov 1939 in Coral Gables, Dade Co., FL; born 26 Jun 1912 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., PA; died 06 Apr 1983 in Dade Co., FL.
Notes for Doris Ruth Page:
The following article was taken from the Syracuse Herald newspaper’s Sunday morning edition for June 28, 1925.
PARTY GIVEN FOR DORIS RUTH PAGE
Mrs. Robert Page of 209 Sedgwick Drive entertained a party of the friends of her little daughter, Doris Ruth Page in honor of her seventh birthday anniversary on Wednesday. The children played games and a birthday luncheon was served. The table was centered with a yellow Jack Horner pie which was surrounded by yellow balloons.
The little girls who helped the small hostess to celebrate her anniversary were Mary Kerr, Elizabeth Smith, Katherine Edwards, Betty Marsellus, Eleanor Larned, Helen Barnes, Emilou Johnson, Katherine Louise DeLong, Jean Brown and Sue Brown.
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The following was taken from an article in the Syracuse Herald newspaper’s Sunday morning edition for June 11, 1933.
"MRS. ROBERT PAGE GIVES PARTY AT YACHT CLUB AND CRUISE ON LAKE
"Mrs. Robert Page entertained at a dinner dance recently at the Syracuse Yacht and Country Club in honor of her daughter Miss Doris Page. A cruise on Oneida Lake on the Page yacht Dorubob preceded the dinner.
"The guests included Betty June Marsellus, Jean Caldwell, Virginia Santos, Dorothy Kincaid, Jean Schenck, Laura Belle Stacy, Patricia Bell _________, Carol Lewis, Phyllis Cahill, Nancy De Mello..." [The list continued but much of it was unreadable. C.W.P.]
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The following excerpt was taken from the Syracuse Herald newspaper’s Monday evening edition for June 25, 1934.
ANNUAL AWARDS ARE PRESENTED AT GRADUATION
At the 48th annual commencement exercise of Goodyear-Burlingame School conducted recently at the ballroom of the Onondaga Hotel, the following scholastic honors were awarded… [Among the awards given out, Miss Doris Page received honors in Latin and geometry. C.W.P.]
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According to Becky Parham Shelley in her submission to Doris's obituary guest book dated May 18, 2009, Doris was a founding member of the University of Miami (at Coral Gables, FL) sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma, Delta Kappa.
[The sorority was founded in 1938 and as of 2009 was still active. /C.W. Paige]
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http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tennessean/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=127205481
Doris Ruth Page "Jody" Turner
TURNER, Mrs. Doris Ruth Page "Jody"Age 90 of Coral Gables, FL and Franklin, TN. Passed away peacefully in her sleep of old age, May 11, 2009. Jody's life consisted of three grand phases. Childhood in Syracuse, NY, where she was the consummate tomboy; sailor, ice hockey player, horsewoman and all around competitor. Then her college and married life in Coral Gables, FL, where she was a University of Miami Kappa Kappa Gamma, P.E.O. member, sports mom of three sons, bridge player, party goer and bodacious green thumb with a specialty in orchids. Her lifelong teams in their glory years were the University of Miami Hurricanes and the Miami Dolphins. After the untimely death of her attorney husband, she relocated to Franklin, TN to be close to her children, where she continued to garden and live independently in her own home until two weeks before her passing. Jody was preceded in death by her infant son, Richard Emerson Turner; her parents, Robert Emerson Page & Ruth K. Page; by her loving husband, Benjamin Worcester Turner; and by her wonderful granddaughter, Page Virginia Turner. She is survived by her three sons, Robert Hunter (Sharon) Turner, Benjamin Worcester (Ruth) Turner, Jr. & Douglas Page Turner; also by her four grandchildren, Jonathan Emerson (Elaine) Turner, Daniel McClain (Deana) Turner, Stuart Marshall Turner & Benjamin Fouche Turner; and two great-grandchildren, Sophia Grace Turner & Jackson McEuen Turner. Memorials may be made to Alex's Lemonade Stand, a non-profit organization to research childhood cancer. Memorial services will be conducted 1 p.m. Thursday, May 14, 2009 at Hillsboro Presbyterian Church, Dr. Nancy McCurley officiating. Visitation will be 5-8 p.m. Wednesday at Hillsboro Presbyterian Church, Nashville, TN. WILLIAMSON MEMORIAL FUNERAL HOME, (615) 794-2289. Published in The Tennessean on 5/12/2009
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http://www.vanorsdelfuneralchapels.com/visitations/View.php?id=175
Name: Doris Ruth Page Turner
Date: June 24th, 1918 - May 11th, 2009
Obituary:
TURNER, Doris Ruth Page "Jody" Age 90 of Coral Gables, Florida and Franklin, Tennessee. Passed away peacefully in her sleep of old age May 11, 2009. Jody's life consisted of three grand phases. Childhood in Syracuse, New York, where she was the consummate tomboy; sailor, ice hockey player, horsewoman, and all around competitor. Then her college life in Coral Gables, Florida, where she was a University of Miami Kappa Kappa Gamma back in the day when it was the "Cardboard College" and where she met her husband in the cafeteria. This period includes her married Gables life on Granada Boulevard; CG Garden Club, CG Country Club, Riviera Country Club, Coral Reef Yacht Club and P.E.O. member, sports mom of three sons, bridge player and bodacious green thumb with a specialty in orchids. With Ben, her regular participation in the life of Coral Gables First, Key Biscayne and Granada Presbyterian Churches. Her lifelong teams in their glory years were the University of Miami Hurricanes and the Miami Dolphins. After the untimely death of her attorney husband, she relocated to Franklin, Tennessee, close to her children, where she continued to garden and live independently in her own home until two weeks before her passing. Jody's main churches in her final years were Hillsboro Presbyterian of Nashville and the televised services of Woodmont Baptist. Jody was preceded in death by her infant son, Richard Emerson Turner; by her parents, Robert Emerson Page and Ruth K. Page; by her loving husband Benjamin Worcester Turner; and by her wonderful granddaughter, Page Virginia Turner. She is survived by her three sons, Robert Hunter (Sharon) Turner, Benjamin Worcester (Ruth) Turner, Jr., & Douglas Page Turner. Also by four grandchildren, Jonathan Emerson (Elaine) Turner, Daniel McClain (Deana) Turner, Stuart Marshall Turner & Benjamin Fouche Turner; and two great grandchildren Sophia Grace Turner & Jackson McEuen Turner. Memorials may be sent to Alex's Lemonade Stand, a non-profit organization to research childhood cancer. Memorial Services will be conducted 1:30 pm Wednesday May 20th at Granada Presbyterian Church, Coral Gables, Florida with a private family interment to follow at Woodlawn Park Cemetery. Visiting can take place after the service or whenever possible for friends of Jody. Cemetery: Woodlawn Park North, 3260 S.W. 8 Street, Miami, FL 33135
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http://www.williamsonherald.com/obituaries?id=64512
Obituaries for May 14
By wherald
Doris “Jody” Turner
Doris Ruth Page “Jody” Turner, age 90 of Coral Gables, Fla. and Franklin died May 11, 2009.
She is survived by her three sons, Robert Hunter (Sharon) Turner, Benjamin Worcester (Ruth) Turner Jr. and Douglas Page Turner; four grandchildren, Jonathan Emerson (Elaine) Turner, Daniel McClain (Deana) Turner, Stuart Marshall Turner and Benjamin Fouche Turner and two great grandchildren, Sophia Grace Turner and Jackson McEuen Turner.
Memorial services will be conducted 1 p.m. Thursday, May 14, 2009 at Hillsboro Presbyterian Church, Dr. Nancy McCurley officiating. Arrangements were handled by Williamson Memorial Funeral Home.
5/14/09 Williamson Herald
Notes for Benjamin Worcester Turner:
Benjamin Turner was an attorney by profession, practicing in Dade Co., FL.
Marriage Notes for Doris Page and Benjamin Turner:
The following article was taken from the Syracuse Herald-American newspaper’s Sunday edition for November 26, 1939.
DORIS RUTH PAGE IS BRIDE IN CORAL GABLES
Syracuse Girl Has Wedding in Florida Church
In the Congregational Church in Coral Gables, Fla., yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock Miss Doris Ruth Page, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Emerson Page, of Coral Gables, Fla., and Syracuse, became the bride of Benjamin Worcester Turner, son of Dr. and Mrs. Hunter Heiner Turner, of Pittsburgh, PA. The Rev. Leslie Barnette officiated. The church was decorated with palms and the alter was set with white chrysanthemums. Large white urns of white gladioli and fern formed the background behind the altar. The kneeling bench was white and there were white wrought iron candelabra on either side holding tall tapers. On each pew was a white gladioli tied with satin ribbon. Joseph Tarpley gave a program of organ music during the seating of the guests and played traditional wedding music at the entrance of the bridal party. Mrs. Evan R. Roser sang “Liebestraum” and “O Promise Me.”
The bride was attended by Miss Bab Feltyberger of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Coral Gables, Fla., as maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Miss Dorothy Ashe, Miss Mary Kimball, Miss Peggy Price and Miss Mary Elizabeth Moore of Philadelphia, Pa., and Miami Beach, Fla. Dr. Oliver E. Turner was his brother’s best man. Ushers included James E. Hunt, John Hanley Yates, Randolph E. Bell and Dr. John M. Larimer of Pittsburgh, Pa.
The bride, who was given in marriage by her father, wore a gown of heavy white duchess satin. There were insets of old Chantilly lace set in the shoulders and in the waist. The bodice was caught in tiny pleats with a V neckline. The short puffed sleeves had long, detachable mitts which were held in place by a row of tiny buttons. Tiny buttons extended down the back of the dress to below the hips, the skirt and in the four-yard train. The bridal veil was of tulle with three tiers of Chantilly lace bordering it. It was fastened to an imported tiara of hand-set seed pearls and rhinestones which tied in a little bow in the back. The bride wore white satin slippers and carried large white California calla lilies.
The bride’s attendants were gowned alike in taffeta, the maid of honor being in gold and the bridesmaids in various colors with gold accessories. Miss Moore was in Louisiana red, Miss Kimball in aqua, Miss Ashe in soiree rose and Miss Price in periwinkle blue. The gowns were made with slender waistlines, the pointed bodices having tiny, short-sleeved boleros. The skirts were bouffant with a tiny back fullness. The boleros of the bridesmaids were trimmed with gold kid. Their headdresses were small, heart-shaped tiaras of matching taffeta, caught in back with three small flowers in contrasting colors, and long streamers to the waist. The bouquets of the bridesmaids were gold chrysanthemums and the maid of honor carried bronze chrysanthemums.
Mrs. Page, mother of the bride, wore a formal gown of white crepe entirely covered with tiny rows of white fringe. The fitted fringed jacket had a high neckline and short sleeves and the skirt extended into a slight train. Her bouquet was of fuchsia orchids. Mrs. Turner, the bridegroom’s mother, was attired in peach lace with a matching jacket. It had a tight bodice and a square neckline and she wore pearl clips. Her bouquet was of purple orchids.
A reception at the home of the bride’s parents, 2814 Granada Boulevard, was attended by 200 guests. White chrysanthemums and white gladioli were placed in baskets around the rooms. The entrance was adorned with potted palms and smilax. The mantelpiece, in front of which the receiving line greeted guests, was decorated with a large floral piece of white orchids and lilies of the valley. Green maidenhair fern was twined throughout the marble staircase. Punch bowls, the base surrounded with flowers, stood on each porch. The bridal table was centered with a cake in the form of a large wedding bell topped with a satin bow. Engraved in the icing on each side of the bell were the initials of the bride and bridegroom. Napkins with the names “Doris” and “Ben,” marked in gold, were used. White tapers completed the table. Assistants at the reception, besides the attendants, included Miss Ruth Diestelhorst, Mrs. Sam Millard, Miss Betty Johnson, Miss Valerie Howitt and the Misses Betty and Catherine Louise DeLong.
Mr. and Mrs. Turner left on the wedding trip to St. Simon and Sea Island, Ga. After Dec. 10 they will be at home at 935 Catalonia Avenue, Coral Gables. For her going away costume the bride wore a brown and white dotted silk dress with a row of tiny buttons extending to the waist in front and a matching sheer wool coat fitted princess style with a fox fur collar. Her accessories were brown and she had a bouquet of white orchids.
The engagement of Miss Page and Mr. Turner was announced last May. The bride graduated from the Goodyear-Burlingame School in Syracuse, and from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and Nu Kappa Psi honorary society. She also belongs to the Syracuse Yacht and Country Club and the Miami Biltmore Country Club.
Mr. Turner attended Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, and the University of Pittsburgh and graduated from the University Miami Law School where he was a member of the Beta Gamma, Kappa Kappa Psi fraternity. He belongs to the [unreadable] Country Club in Pittsburgh. He is a practicing attorney in Miami.
13. Genevieve4 Page (Jay D.3, William Henry2, William Henry1) was born Dec 1895 in IN, and died Mar 1961 in Fort Myers, Lee Co., FL. She married Russell Byron Clapper Abt. 1920. He was born 18 Nov 1892 in Monticello, White Co., IN, and died 15 Dec 1973 in Fort Myers, Lee Co., FL.
Notes for Genevieve Page:
The following article was taken from the Syracuse Herald newspaper’s Sunday morning edition for July 29, 1917.
STENOGRAPHER RESIGNS
Miss Genevieve Page, who has been a stenographer at the Chamber of Commerce for two years, has resigned to go with the Ferguson Steel company.
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From email sent by Gail Clapper Palmer 03-04-08:
"I have done little on Genevieve because it seems there is a wealth of stuff and will be easy. She was a member of the DAR, so she must have been able to trace her ancestry back to the revolutionary war. I have seen in One World Tree it goes back to Stephen Hopkins, of the Mayflower and Mayflower Compact signatory. I personally have not researched this yet."
Notes for Russell Byron Clapper:
The Indianapolis Star
Publication: 2 Jul 1911 - Indianapolis, Indiana
Classified
Situation wanted male
Wanted-- Position in garage by young man not afraid to work. Address Russell B. Clapper, Monticello, Ind.
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From email sent by Gail Clapper Palmer 03-04-08:
Russell (Sr.) was a botanist working for the USDA in Beltsville Md. He was working on a blight-resistant chestnut tree and developed one that is named after him, the Clapper chestnut. Cultivars of it are still used to develop blight-resistant trees today. He also wrote, "A Glossary of Plant Genetics," which he self published. Not a lot of call for that info, I guess.
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-Article appearing in the Tampa Tribute August 24, 1964-
Fort Myers’ Clapper
CHESTNUT TREE EYED BY NAMESAKE
CARTERVILLE, ILL. (UPI)—Russell B. Clapper, 72, Fort Myers, Fla., stood proudly under a spreading chestnut tree at the Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge Friday.
THE TREE, a hybrid developed by Clapper from the American and Chinese chestnut trees, was named “Clapper chestnut” earlier this year in honor of its developer.
It was Clapper’s first look at the 50-foot tall tree with a seven-inch diameter since it was named for him. He retired 11 years ago as a plant pathologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The tree was planted on a test plot at the refuge in 1948 in an experiment to produce a strain to resist a blight which virtually laid low the American chestnut in the 1930s.
CLAPPER CROSSED American and Chinese chestnuts and then back crossed the hybrid with an American chestnut.
The Clapper chestnut apparently has grown faster and more luxuriantly than any of the other test plantings in the U.S., Clapper said.
Clapper, a former resident of Arlington, Va., is a native of Monticello, Ind.
Marriage Notes for Genevieve Page and Russell Clapper:
Genevieve was living with her mother Sussie V. Page, who was renting an apartment at 1821 18th Street N. W. at the time of the 1920 Federal census of the 8th Precinct of Washington, District of Columbia. Genevieve was employed as a government stenographer. Russell was renting an apartment at 1331 Vermont Avenue in the 2nd Precinct and employed as a US government typist. (Most of the other tenants at 1331 Vermont Avenue were also government workers.) Russell and Genevieve had not been married long.
The Clapper family owned a $6,000 home on Klondyke Street at the time of the 1930 Federal census of Radnor Heights, Arlington, Arlington Co., VA. In the household were: Russell B., 37 years old and born in Indiana; Genevieve, 34 years old and also born in Indiana; and their sons 6-year-old Russell, Jr. and 9-year-old Robert, both born in the District of Columbia. Russell, Sr. was employed in "scientific work" for the US government. The family owned a radio set.
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From email sent by Gail Clapper Palmer 03-04-08:
"Genevieve died in Fort Myers Florida in 1961 of heart problems and leukemia, which was pretty much a death sentence then. Russell in 1973 in Fort Myers. I remember them both as very dignified and reserved. Genevieve was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star and loved to play solitaire. She also collected stamps. Toward the end of his life, Russell was researching for a book on comparative religions. Quiet people, never heard them raise their voices.
"A story I've heard is that my dad didn't want to go to college, so my grandfather invested the money in Florida real estate, which really paid off for him. Mostly unimproved lots in Fort Myers and Fort Myers Beach. They lived on the beach during Hurricane Donna in 1960, which pretty well wiped out their trailer. It had about 8 inches of sand in it after the tidal surge abated. They stayed in town with us during the storm and Genevieve was very sick.
"The line from Russell and Genevieve pretty well runs out with my kids, who are 40 and 37 and don't look like they'll be having children. I was an only child and my dad's (Robert Page Clapper) brother (Russell Byron Clapper Jr.) and his wife Josephine had no children. Both brothers died very young, my dad at 55 and his brother a year later at about 51."
Children of Genevieve Page and Russell Clapper are:
26 i. Robert Page5 Clapper, born 09 Nov 1920 in Washington, District of Columbia; died 21 Mar 1976 in Fort Myers, Lee Co., FL. He married Vera Jane Teasdale 1941; born 06 Jul 1924 in Brownsville, Fayette Co., PA; died 18 Apr 2010 in Estero, Lee Co., FL.
Notes for Robert Page Clapper:
From email sent by Gail Clapper Palmer 03-04-08:
"...my dad was a land surveyor and civil engineer."
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From Vera Jane's 2010 obituary"
"Bob worked as a surveyor and civil engineer for Carl Johnson in Fort Myers and Cap Prewitt in Clewiston...."
Notes for Vera Jane Teasdale:
VERA JANE CLAPPER RICHTER Obituary
Published in The News-Press, Fort Myers, Florida, on April 20, 2010
VERA JANE CLAPPER RICHTER
Longtime Lee County resident Jane Richter, 85, of Estero, was freed from her struggle with Alzheimer's disease on April 18, 2010. She was born July 6, 1924 to Maurice and Elizabeth Stover Teasdale in Brownsville, Pa.
Jane will be remembered for her feistiness tempered by cheery good humor.
She was always up for adventure. In the 1960s, Jane, her mother and her daughter could be found at 2 a.m. hanging off the "wooden bridge" angling for snook with cane poles. Few snook were caught, but much beer was drunk.
Janie married "the boy next door," Bob Clapper, in 1941 in Arlington, Va. They made it through the war years and, like everyone else, started a family. By 1951, they were ready for sunshine and fishing. After a brief stay in the Koreshan trailer park in Estero, they settled in Fort Myers. Bob worked as a surveyor and civil engineer for Carl Johnson in Fort Myers and Cap Prewitt in Clewiston and Jane dived into community activities.
She taught local Red Cross first aid classes, was Lee County Chairman of the Gray Ladies and worked with Veronica Shoemaker in the first Head Start program in Dunbar.
Her pride and joy was her Girl Scout Troop 29, which she led from Brownies in 1954 until the girls graduated from Fort Myers Senior High School in 1965. She taught them outdoors skills and wilderness survival. Protective of her girls, she once used a flashlight to fight off a wild hog that tried to take over their Fisheating Creek campsite. The hog fled squealing back into the woods.
After Bob's death, she pursued her dream of investing in real estate, buying and managing several rental properties, then married Clarence Richter, a retired federal air traffic controller, in 1983. She and "Ric" were active in the local chapter of the National Association of Retired Federal Employees and Save Estero. Ric died in 2005.
She was a friend of Bill W. for more than 30 years and will be remembered by the oldtimers at YANA.
She'll also be remembered by her pals on Memory Lane at Park Club assisted living, her home for the last few months, for her sweet helpfulness, lovely singing voice and fashion flair. On her, even at 85, a paper sack looked like Prada.
Jane was predeceased by her two sisters, Ginny and Dorothy. She is survived by her daughter Gail Palmer (Bob) of Estero, grandson Mike Pastula of Estero and grand-daughter Tara Warfield (Mick) of Fort Myers, both of whom helped care for her in her later years.
Cremation arrangements by Harvey Engelhardt Metz.
Marriage Notes for Robert Clapper and Vera Teasdale:
From email sent by Gail Clapper Palmer 03-04-08:
"The line from Russell and Genevieve pretty well runs out with my kids, who are 40 and 37 and don't look like they'll be having children. I was an only child and my dad's (Robert Page Clapper) brother (Russell Byron Clapper Jr.) and his wife Josephine had no children. Both brothers died very young, my dad at 55 and his brother a year later at about 51."
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From email sent by Gail Clapper Palmer 03-05-08:
"I remembered one fact about my family's move to Florida: It was made possible by dad's Aunt Eleanor. She died and left him an inheritance, $3,000 sticks in my mind, so he got us out of the D.C. area immediately. He was working as a draftsman for the Army Map Service. He'd been a cartographer and aerial photog in the Philippines in the war. We were living in post-war, booming Silver Spring, Md., and he couldn't wait to get out. He wanted to live where he could fish after work every day. And he did. Fished before, after and during, I think. A good thing because he didn't have that many years left to do it. We were like pioneers down here, before good roads, air-conditioning and mosquito control. Because of the way the railroad lines were set up, New Yorkers went to Florida's east coast and Midwesterners came to the west coast. We just drove and the west coast was less crowded and had better small-boat fishing."
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From Vera Jane's 2010 obituary"
"Janie married "the boy next door," Bob Clapper, in 1941 in Arlington, Va. They made it through the war years and, like everyone else, started a family. By 1951, they were ready for sunshine and fishing. After a brief stay in the Koreshan trailer park in Estero, they settled in Fort Myers. Bob worked as a surveyor and civil engineer for Carl Johnson in Fort Myers and Cap Prewitt in Clewiston and Jane dived into community activities."
27 ii. Russell Byron Clapper Jr., born 05 Jan 1924 in Washington, District of Columbia; died Feb 1977 in Vienna, Fairfax Co., Virginia. He married Josephine Catherine Barnes Private; born Private.
17. Charles Page4 Haybarger (Elizabeth Bella "Lizzie"3 Page, William Henry2, William Henry1) was born 31 May 1885 in Lima, Lagrange Co., IN, and died 19 Sep 1966 in New Westminster, BC, Canada. He married Helen "Nellie" Finnen in Prob. St. Paul, Ramsey Co., MN, daughter of James Finnen and Bridget Conaughton. She was born 08 Jan 1896 in St. Paul, Ramsey Co., MN, and died 19 Sep 1988 in Maple Ridge, BC, Canada.
Notes for Charles Page Haybarger:
From Alberta Homestead Records 1870-1930:
HAYBARGER, Charles
Section 2, Township 54, Range 20, Meridian 4*
Film # 2788 in Accession # 1970.313 at Provincial Archives of Alberta
File # 1457042
HAYBARGER, Charles Page
Section 18, Township 60, Range 19, Meridian 4*
Film # 2126 in Accession # 1970.313 at Provincial Archives of Alberta
File # 1921223
* The fourth meridian (actually the 110th meridian of longitude) is the Alberta-Saskatchewan border.
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In his brother Everett's 1955 obituary he was said to be living in Vancouver, B.C.
Notes for Helen "Nellie" Finnen:
Her name appeared as "Ellen" in the 1900 Federal census of Graceville Village, Big Stone Co., MN.
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"We knew her as Nellie, but her given name was Helen, the birthdate was January 8th, I know her fathers name to be James Finan and her mother we believe was Mary Mcnaughton? I know she had relatives in Minnesota that my mother visited in later years. From what my mother said, they moved from Edmonton to South Carolina when she was quite young, then back to Winnepeg, Manitoba, and then on to B.C. I do remember Nellie telling me that her mother died when she was very young, and her father died of the flu shortly after. She lived with cousins in Minneapolis until she answered a personals ad and met Charles, so I believe they were married wherever he lived at the time. The other thing was she said they had a homestead, and she had to learn the farming ways, as she was a spoiled city girl."
-Linda
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"Just got some more info on Charles and Helen, they were married in St. Paul Minnesota, not sure of the year, Nellie was about 19 years old. Her mothers maiden name was Cannaughton, so I guess that was the cousin she was living with at the time they married." -Linda
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Vital Event Death Registration
Name: Helen Haybarger
Event Date: 1988 9 19 (Yr/Mo/Day)
Age: 92
Gender: female
Event Place: Maple Ridge
Reg. Number: 1988-09-016408
B.C. Archives Microfilm Number: B17116
GSU Microfilm Number: 1709264
Marriage Notes for Charles Haybarger and Helen Finnen:
"Just got some more info on Charles and Helen, they were married in St. Paul Minnesota, not sure of the year, Nellie was about 19 years old. Her mothers maiden name was Cannaughton, so I guess that was the cousin she was living with at the time they married." -Linda
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Albert and Charles P. Haybarger entered the USA from Canada in 1919 through the port of Noyes, Kittson Co., MN, on their way to Farmville, Prince Edward Co., VA. They were not going to visit friends or relatives according to the form they were required to fill out on the List Or Manifest Of Alien Passengers Applying For Admission To The United States From Foreign Contiguous Territory, "Required by the regulations of Secretary of Labor of the United States under the Immigration Act." Both men were farmers. Albert was 5' 7" tall and had medium complexion. Charles was 5' 8" and had dark complexion. Both had brown hair and blue eyes and claimed Dutch descent. Date of landing and examination was April 10, 1919. (Lizzie remained in Canada.)
Nellie Haybarger and daughter Eileen entered the USA from Canada in 1919 through the port of Winnipeg, Manitoba, on their way to Greensboro, Guilford Co., NC. They were going to meet up with Nellie's husband Charles P. Haybarger. Date of landing and examination was July 28, 1919.
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Charles, Nellie, and Eileen Haybarger of Edmonton entered the USA from Canada in 1921 through the port of Sweetgrass, Toole Co., MT, on their way to Spokane, Spokane Co., WA. They were not going to visit friends or relatives according to the form they were required to fill out (see prior entry). Charles was an auto mechanic, was 5' 8" tall, had fair complexion and a scar on his left cheek. Nellie was 5' 4", had medium complexion, a large scar on her lower neck, and a goiter. All three of them had brown hair and blue eyes. Charles claimed Dutch descent and Nellie claimed Irish. Date of landing and examination was June 21, 1921.
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"At the time of Charles death, they lived on a farm in Ioco B.C., I stayed there a lot as a kid, riding the bulldozer, the tractor, and of course the horses...he taught me a lot, including the "bad words" that I got my mouth washed out with soap for saying. He sure laughed at me getting into trouble a lot. I remember him giving me a puff on his pipe...too funny, we got caught by grandmother, and were in big trouble..both of us. He used to sit outside after dinner and have his smoke, then he would pick up his "fiddle" and play for me to dance for him, them he'd change to the banjo...we did have fun together. I always thought it too bad he didn't like the other grand kids around, but then again, they weren't interested in visiting them, but I was!" -Linda
Children of Charles Haybarger and Helen Finnen are:
28 i. Eileen5 Haybarger, born 14 Jul 1917 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; died 09 Feb 2002 in Maple Ridge, BC, Canada. She married Samuel Willey; born 15 Aug 1918; died 10 Nov 2001.
Notes for Eileen Haybarger:
Border crossing in 1919 coming from Canada to the USA.
Name: Eileen Haybarger
Arrival Date: Aug 1919
Arrival Port: Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Age: 2
Estimated Birth Year: 1917
Birth Date:
Birthplace: Edmonton,
Birth Country: Canada
Gender: Female
Race: Irish
NARA Publication Title: Manifests of Passengers Arriving in the St. Albans, VT, District through Canadian Pacific and Atlantic Ports, 1895-1954
NARA Publication Number: M1464
NARA Roll Number: 376
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(02/11/02 obituary)
WILLEY _ Eileen peacefully on February 9, 2002 in Maple Ridge, BC at age 84
years. Predeceased by her loving husband Samuel, she is survived by her
loving family, 2 daughters Sammy (Reg) Nelligan and Linda (George) Venator;
1 son David (Faye) Willey; 8 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; also 2
sisters Dolores Boileau and Shirley Stinson. Funeral prayers will be held
Tuesday, February 12th at 5 P.M. followed by a Funeral Mass on Wednesday,
February 13th at 10:30 A.M. at St. Luke's Catholic Church, 20285 Dewdney
Trunk Road, Maple Ridge, Father A. Abundo celebrant. In lieu of flowers,
donations to the Multiple Sclerosis Society. Garden Hill Funeral Chapel,
Maple Ridge, 604-463-8161
29 ii. Dolores Haybarger, born in BC, Canada; died 21 Feb 2002. She married Robert Boileau Private; born Private.
30 iii. Shirley Haybarger, born Private. She married Orin Stimson Private; born 03 Nov 1922; died 21 Oct 2007 in Yuma Co., AZ.
Notes for Orin Stimson:
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-OBIT/2007-11/1194212213
Date of obituary:
STIMSON, Orin "Red"; 84; Bellingham WA>Yuma AZ; Bellnghm H (WA); 2007-10-28
19. Everett Munroe4 Haybarger (Elizabeth Bella "Lizzie"3 Page, William Henry2, William Henry1) was born Mar 1893 in IN, and died 29 Sep 1955 in Edson, Alberta, Canada. He married Beatrice (nee ?) Haybarger. She died Unknown.
Notes for Everett Munroe Haybarger:
Everette was single and living in District 36, Subdistrict 6, at Township 59, Range 19, Meridian 4, Municipality Sprucefield in Edmonton East, Alberta, at the time of the 1916 Canadian census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. He was a farmer, Methodist, and claimed to have immigrated to Canada in 1911 and been naturalized in 1914.
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http://users.rootsweb.com/~canab/digital/lhb/lhbindex.html
In the Alberta, Canada genealogical index of indexes for local history books, an Everett and Alice Haybarger are listed in the index for "An Era In Review" published in St. Paul. Probably but not known for sure if same Everett. Title: "An Era In Review, A History of Owlseye - Ashmont Abilene, Boscombe, Cork, Boyne Lake, Anning and Area (Near St. Paul, Alberta, Canada."
[St. Paul, Alberta, Canada is located about 150 miles northeast of Ft. Saskatchewan, where Everett's parents were said to be living in 1912. /C.W. Paige]
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The following is recorded on the Junior Chamber of Commerce International (JCI) Canada website. This may or may not be in relation to THIS Everett Haybarger:
LAST NAME FIRST NAME SENATE # STATUS
HAYBARGER Everett A 4785 DECEASED
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Last Name First Name Burial Date Cemetery Section Block Plot
HAYBARGER EVERETT 10/03/1955 MOUNT PLEASANT 0G 0186 0001
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Obituary published in the Edmonton Journal September 29, 1955, page 32:
HAYBARGER--On September 29, aged 61 years, Everett Munroe Haybarger of 7924 82 Ave., passed away at Edson, Alberta. He is survived by his wife: two sons, Everett and Harry both of Edmonton; one daughter, Verna of Edmonton; one brother, Charles of Vancouver, B.C.; one sister, Mrs. George Bruce of Vancouver, B.C.; also two grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held on Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Howard and McBride's Chapel. Rev. Dr. Edwin J. White will officiate, and interment will take place in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Howard and McBride, Funeral Service.
Children of Everett Haybarger and Beatrice Haybarger are:
31 i. Everett5 Haybarger, born Private.
32 ii. Harry Haybarger, born Private.
33 iii. Verna Haybarger, born Private.
23. Wilbur D.4 Lee (Chloe Bertrius3 Page, William Henry2, William Henry1) was born Abt. 1906 in MI, and died Unknown. He married Florence M. (nee ?) Lee Abt. 1926 in NY. She was born Abt. 1908 in NY, and died Unknown.
Notes for Wilbur D. Lee:
Wilbur was employed as a bookkeeper for the Borden Company.
Marriage Notes for Wilbur Lee and Florence Lee:
The family was renting a house at Charlotte, Chautauqua Co., NY, at the time of the 1930 Federal census. They owned a radio set.
Children of Wilbur Lee and Florence Lee are:
34 i. Robert E.5 Lee, born Private.
35 ii. Berdett H. Lee, born Private.
Copyright 1982, 2013 Charles W. Paige
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