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James Waite was born 13 June 1913, Port Huron, St. Clare, Michigan, and married 16 Oct 1935; Flint, Genesee, Michigan, Vera FRANCISCO, the daughter of James E. FRANCISCO and Estella CHARON. James Died August 1995 of Cancer in Tucson, Pima, Arizona.
James Waite McCOOK liked the house on Prospect Street. There was a barn behind the house where his Grandad ELWOOD kept a horse named Chimes, which he later gave to his grand children on the farm. Ernie ELWOOD only drove the horse when the weather was too bad to drive his car--a Dort touring car with side curtains for rainy weather.
Robert Elwood's girl friend Olive FRANCISCO'S sister Vera came down from Grand Rapids for a few days. Naturally, James Waite was asked to escort her, which was fine with him, and they've been going together ever since! Besides working at the Saitorium, Olive was a patient there. She was to have surgery on October 17, 1935, so Vera and James were married on the 16th! James W. remembers his sister JEAN took Vera to Howell to get the license, but he dosen't know who got the preacher. It was PEARSON from Oak Grove. Anyway it came out o.k... Chuck and Doris WEITOFF came up from Detroit.
Vera June and James W stayed on the farm. They made an apartment upstairs and lived for twelve years and then in the fall of 1946 Vera begain to be troubled with rheumatoid arthritis. When they took her to clinics in Ann Arbor and Detroit and when they weren't able to help her, they made the decision to move to Arizona.
In November of 1947, they had an auction sale on the farm and sold all of their household goods, plus the stock and tools. Dwain MEYERS was the auctioneer. They had about $5,000.00 and left after settling up with Robert A. and Eva. They went to Grand Rapids and bought a 1927 Goshen Cruiser trailer. They also looked in Lansing and other places. Several of the neighbors had a send-off for them. CAMPBELLS, STELZERS. Martha STELZER cried when they left. She just knew they'd never get to Arizona.
James W. and Vera were a long 10 days getting to Arizona pulling our new house trailer with our 11 year old Dodge, but we made it! I guess Rob thought we couldn't go it alone so he bought a trailer and we all left Michigan about the same time.
We had the hitch rebuilt in Sapulpa, Oklahoma. We stopped in Davenport, Iowa, to visit Russ ANDERSON and stayed overnight there. Rob and Olive met us there. They had to accept Russ' invitation to stay in the house as there was a convention in town and all the hotels were full. They left the next morning and arrived in Tucson 5 days ahead of us!
Vera began to feel better as soon as we crossed the Mississippi River.
We spent one or two nights in Missouri. One was Joplin. Two in Oklahoma. One at Hydro. In Roswell, New Mexico, we went to a show for Susie's birthday. We bought her some cowboy boots. After the show I couldn't remember where the trailer was parked but Mary Ann did so we wern't lost, after all! We saw a polo team cross the road at Roswell.
We spent Thanksgiving on the road. Had dinner at a greasy spoon restaurand in New Mexico. The cook was the waiter and got around on crutcches. He was big, fat, and dirty!
We came over the Organ Mountains east of Las Cruces. We went up in low gear and came down the west side in second gear doing about 50 mph. The old Dodge really screamed comming down! I think Deming was the last stop before Tucson. In Tucson we stayed at a Mobil station on the south side of town, (Park Ave. & I 10), We went to the Post Office the next morning and Rob left us a letter telling us where he was. They had parked their trailer at a new mobile home park called Crescent Manor. We pulled in and parked beside Rob and Olive and that was our home for the next three years. That was the only time I ever paid rent except for motels.
Olive was in bad shape. Rob didn't think she would live a week, but she fooled us! Sometimes every day!!
We had planned on going to Casa Grande and possibly going to work for Leo ROGERS, who married Earnestine TESCH. ut, since Rob and Olive were in Tucson, we stopped there.
Crescent Manor Trailor Park was a new court laid out in a double circle. Curr MOHLER and his brother Bob ran it. It was nearly full when we got there. The rent was about $21.00 per month.
I called Vern CASSIDY. Pauline SOLOMON had given us his address on the south side of town. I worked for him afew days and then went to work for a friend of his named Clare ORNBERG who was building a motel on the Benson Hiway. The Owl Metel.
The girls started school at Flowing Wells in December 1947. They had 150 kids there. Homer DAVIS was the principal and Iola FRANS was Susie's second grade teacher. Mary Ann was in fifth.
When Rob ran out of work I went to work for American homes for $1.86 per Hour, to make payments on our unsold houses. That was in the fall of 1948. There I met Clyde KARNOPP and Clare HOWE, who was married to Rose FLINT??FF from Howell.
Rob traded houses and moved to 2221 E. 1st Street around 1950. He got a partner named Joe ZIGGY. Joe was about 49. They built four houses on Beverly Street near 22nd Street and that ended the partenership. Joe went back to Detroit. JOE put up $100,000.00 in hard money. We could have built almost anything going on in Tucson at that time but Joe's youngest boy got an allergy and they wanted to leave.
In 1950 Rob got a fire job near Patagonia on the Oak Bar Ranch. We moved our trailer down there after school was out and stayed all summer. Tom COS was the caretaker on the ranch, and was good company. Pop WARNER came down and cut the rafters one day and Don TEWART helped some but mostly we hired help form Nogales across the line. We rode horse back that summer and swam in the pool after the owners left. Pete LEWIS was the owner. He was married to one of the Spreckles Shuar heirs.
When we took our trailer to the ranch that summer, it was a hot Sunday! Lynn VIGES came to see us from Phoenix. Our old 1941 Plymouth got hot so Lynn hooked his new Dodge on and pulled us a lot of the way.
We moved our trailer next to the house that had burned so I didn't have to travel to work all summer. It was a real nice job. I saved some money and Rob made some. He bought his first truck in the fall and towed the trailer home for us. VIGES came down later in the summer for a visit on a week-end. Once they stayed overnight, Lynn wasn't feeling too good. He only lived a few years after that. His doc lived across the street from him and was treating him for the wrong thing and he died. I don't remember what year but it must have been about 1956 or 1957. He built a few nice houses and the Masonic Hall in Mesa. He was a nice guy.
We had a bunch of people from the court down one Sunday. The FRY's and the folks; Wade and his family were there, I remember.
In 1950 we finished the job on the ranch, Vera and I bought two lots at the corner of Prince and Flowing Wells and moved there in the fall. We brougt everything over from the court.
There were three lots but I tried to jew the owner down. He wanted $1800.00 for all three. I offered $1500.00 and ended up giving $1500.00 for two.
We had an outside toilet for awhile. The folks bought the second lot from us that fall, for $750.00 and moved their trailer over from the court after we built a wash room and bathroom as a start on a house for them. They finished their two bedroom, two bath house in 1955. It was real pretty! Red brick with a firepolace. Rob drew the plansfree-hand on a piece of cardboard and we started the next day. It cost about $7,000.00 and took about 90 days.
Rob got work at FORT HUACHUCHA in about 1954 and we all joined the carpenter's union.
I went to Country Club Church of Christ a few Saturdays and gave my time. Susie was going there after she started going with Larry MANN.
They gave me a job for six weeks or so. This was in about 1955. After a few Saturdays, Harry MANN asked me if I wanted to work steady for a while. I did and I did. I worked with Thad Mc HOLLAND. Hollis COKER was around to oversee the job as well as Adrian HON. They worked for Mc Coy Construction Company.
Susie was baptised in 1955, and Vera June about a year later. I followed in 1964 about the time we built the Northside Church building, and Eva sometime after that. I was baptized the same year we went to France to see Dave
.My brother Rob died July 30, 1958. He had felt bad all summer. Dr. FARNESS had told him to be careful, which ment nothing. He had hired Dean DAVE as an estimator in the spring and wanted to get into big cement jobs.
When he died we had a road job going west of Casa Grande about 40 miles and a sewage plant at Eloy, another road job at Tombstone, plus an Artillery bunker at Fort Huachucha. All the jobs got finished but the company was broke. I think he worried himself to death.
We finished the Casa Grande road job a year after he died. Larry MANN and Johnny MORROW helped me on it. Pouring curb, etc. This was in 1959.
Dean worked for the company for about a year as an officer, vice president or something, then took a lot of the machinery to Albuquerque and went in with Ernst METZ. They lost their shirt and all the equipment.
I heard that METZ was in the hole $200,000.00 when they finished the project. All the books and records burned up as they were bringing them back to Tucson. Somewone threw out a cigarette and it landed in the file cabinet and everything burned up. R.E. McCOOK CONSTRUCTION was out several pieces of equipment.
Vera June, Eva, and I went to France to see Dave and Collette and the boys in August of 1964. Vera was working at the Flowing Wells water office. She started there in 1959 to help her mother out. As I remember. Stell only got $34.00 a month Social Security, and couldn't get by. When we got back, Vera's boss, Merle FURY, fired her for taking too long a vacation. It was o.k. as we wanted to go to Michigan the next spring anyway, I was working at the Arizona Sash and Door at that time. I worked there for two and a half years but quit when we got back from our trip to work out of the Union Hall again.
When we went on our trip we drove to Michigan and left our car at Jerry BELYEA's near Clinton, Michigan, and flew to New York and on to Paris where Dave met us. Collette's parents had an appartment in the same building where they lived and they let us stay in it as they were away on vacation. We nover got to meet the OURYS.
We took a trip to Amsterdam through Belgium and another to London while we were there. We went to church (Church of Christ) in Paris in a store building one Sunday.
When we got back to New York, we went to the World's Fair for a few hours, then flew to Detroit where my cousin Jerry picked us up. Aunt Hazel had driven clear across the state and picked up Stell (Vera's mother), in Grand Rapids, and suprised us!
We went to Grand Rapids every summer starting in 1965 except in 1970 when we built the rest of the building on Prince Road, the bakery and El Chico Restaurant which cost $25,000.00.
We gradually built our house on Flowing Wells around the corner from the folks and lived there too 1966. At that time the county took a strip fourteen feet wide off our lot to widen Flowing Wells Road. They also got fifteen feet off our lot on Prince Street and fifteen feet off Eva's frontage. They gave us $20,000.00 and Eva only 2,000.00. Ours was parking lot and theirs was only front yard. So we tore our house down to make parking for our building and moved into Eva's house. She moved into a new trailer in Frontier Trailer Court. We gave her $25,000.00 for her house and lived there till December 1969, when we bought the house at 1708 Root Lane. for $14,500.00.
Harry MANN loaned me $12,000.00 to build the first part of the building.
The first part of the building, the laundry, beauty shop and Doc's office cost about $12,000.00. When we built the restaurant and bakery, it cost about $24,000.00, ten years later.
We lived in the trailer house that we bought in Michigan till we finished the house completely. We paid $2,800.00 for it and sold it to Lynn VIGES brother-in-law for $400.00.
In February, 1970, we tore down the brick house at 1365 W. Prince Street (formerly Eva's house), to build the El Chico Restaurant, and the bakery. It (the house) had been up about fourteen years.
James Waite McCOOK died of Cancer 25 August 1995, Tuscon, Pima, Arizona, and Vera died 16 May 1997, Glendale, Maricopa, Arizona.
CHILDREN of James Waite McCOOK and Vera June FRANCISCO:
+ 5121. 1. MARY ANN b:
md: ; Ike WARNER.
5122. 2. SUSIE b:
md: ; Larry MANN.
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Robert Avery McCOOK, got his education at Oak Grove School. James W. McCOOK thinks Harry DURFEE was the teacher at that time. Robert A. worked at Ed PEAECE's grocery store till it burned in about 188l He, then, went to work in Detroit on the street car line. He gor hurt and had to quit for a time, then went home and worked for Lon FRISBEE, and on the railroad section gang. He went to Grand Rapids and worked on the street cars for a short time, then quit that and went to Big Rapids to school. James W. McCOOK still has an autograph book signed by D.M. Ferris DAVENPORT who started a business school in Grand Rapids, and others.
Ferris Institute was ouiginally started to give immigrants and lumberjacks an opportunity to learn to read and write.
Robert A. McCOOK's college education took about six weeks. When an opportunity came to take an exam for mail service, he took it and passed.
James W. doesn't know if his first job was in California but he went to San Francisco the year after the big earthquake. He stayed their for two years and returned to Michigan. Then went to work as a mail clerk on the Grand Trunk Railroad. He spent forty-three years on that railroad.
Robert A. had an unusual memory-almost unbelievable. He knew all the post offices in six states and four Canadian provinces, what railroad they were on and what terminals they lay between. The states were Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The Canadian Provinces were Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and Saskatchewan.
They had to take exams either twice every three years or three times every two years. James W. doesn't remember for sure. They had to pass these exams in the high 90's or take them over again. They also had to "throw" sixty pieces per minute. There would be a row of open sacks hanging on racks and the letters had to be sorted and placed in the right one at the rate of one per second.
Robert Avery McCOOK and Eva May ELWOOD were married on June 1 1910, in Flint, Michigan. Bruce BUCKNELL and his wife Mabel were at the wedding. They bought the house in Port Huron, Michigan on Wall Street where my brother, Robert Elwood McCOOK was born on August 5, 1911. James Waite was born 2 years later on June 13, 1913 on a friday. Robert A. wrote in his diary that "the poor little guy would never make it". Whatever "make it" means I don't know.
Robert A. and Eve sold the house in Port Huron and moved to Flint on Mary street. My Aunt Hazel, Eva's only sister, met and married Donald Belyea sometime in there. He was an engineer for St. Clair County for several years. Their only son, Jerry was born some 20 years after they were married.
James W. dosen't know how long there famly lived on Mary Street but they sold that house and lived with his grandparents Elwood on Prospect Street while they built a house on Walcott Street, two or three blocks away. Robert A. and his in-laws never got along very well and James W. thinks that there living in the same house with them may have had a direct bearing on their relationship.
Rob and James W. had the flu while they lived on Walcott Street and had to ware masks when they went outdoors to keep from spreading germs. That was the big influenza epidemic during WWI. (1917-1918)
David McCOOK was born on July 24, 1917, in the house on Walcott Street, which cost $2800.00. It had two bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs, and a big screened sleeping porch. James W. doesn't know just when they moved in, but he knows Dave was born there. The Doctor's name was McKENNA. Rob and James W. started school at Stevenson Street school.
James W. only went a few months in kindergarten till Robert A. sold out and we went to Oak Grove to live. That's when he bought the farm from his brother ROY who was a school teacher. Roy had buoght the farm from his brother-in-law, Ed HOUGHTALLING, who was his wife's brother.
Robert Avery McCOOK bought the farm from his brother Roy in 1918 just as the war was over. James W. can remember the false armistice a few days previous to the real one. Both times his familY got out dish pans and spoons and made a lot of noise. They were still living in Flint at the time. James W. can still see the U.S. Cavalry as they came charging down 3rd Ave, only to wheel and dash down into the sand pit, which was very deep, and then go charging back up again!
Robert A. moved in the Spring of 1919, to Oak Grove. Robert A. sold the house he had built on Walcott St. in Flint, for $2800.00, and moved into Uncle Earnie JUBBS' house in Oak Geove, two doors down from his father Robert McCOOK's house, for $15 per month. My sister Jean was born on June 22 and in August my mother broke her arm. I left my wagon in front of the back porch and when she went out after dark to empty the slop bucket, she fell over the wagon and her arm was broken at the elbow. Dr. HEFFERNAN, who was the local Dr., set it, but it was always stiff. She went to the hospital in Ann Arbor for a time but it never would straighten out all the way.
When Jean Adelaide McCOOK was born in June, 1919, Persia PEARCE went over to be their hired girl. Edith KEESLER was the nurse so they had a lot of excitig times that summer after Eva broke her arm! Persia was there for awhile but she had the job of teacher in the little two-room school (10 grades) that year in the fall so the children were on our own after school started. Their Grandmother ELWOOD came for a time while Eva was in the hospital. All this time my father Robert A. was working for the railroad. He was a mail clerk from Port Huron to Chicago, trains 14 and 17. His mail came to their Grandmother ELWOOD's house in Flint because a mail clerk was supposed to live in a town on the railroad where he worked. Every few days they had to call their Grandmother in Flint or she called them about Robert A's office mail.
Robert A. worked six days and then had six days off. He would make three round trips starting at Port Huron. One day to Chicago, sleep over, and back to Port Huron the next day. He spent a lot of time in the library when he was in Chicago and nearly always brought us books to read after we got old enough to be interested. Zane Grey, James Oliver Curwood, etc.
In 1921 or 1922 they were building the road or should I say improving it from a two-wheel track to a four-wheel track and putting gravel on it, but that winter it was a real mess! Cars were stuck everywhere! Nearly all the work was done with horses. A farmer could make $6.00 a day hauling gravel from the pit in Oak Grove on Guy HOSLEY's farm to wherever the grading crew happened to be. Each wagon carried one yard of gravel. The grading crew were other farmers with teams and plows and some with two wheeled scrapers with a long arm or lever to lift the load clear of the ground after the bucket was full. Clare WESSINGER got a broken arm when the lever flew up and the catch didn't hold. That ruined Clare's pitching arm. He had been Oak Groves best pitcher up to that time! The arm on thoes two-wheelers was about 10 feet long and stood about straight up while the bucket was being loaded. Then the loader, who was a tall, heavy, young guy, would climb up on the rig, grab the lever, and swing out and down to raise the bucket from the ground. Then the farmer, or teamster, would haul the dirt to wherever it was needed on the road bed. Slip scrapers were used for short hauls. There were probably 40 or 50 teams of horses working on the road past theMcCOOK's house. Lots of excitement!
There's was a state road. It was put in under what was called the Covert Road System. The property owners one mile on each side were supposed to be taxed for it; but the people on the Byron Road got up a petition to have their road rebuilt under the same system, so only a quarter mile wide was taxed for our road and the burden was real heavy for the McCOOK's for a few years. He had to raise over $300.00 for a few years in the 1920's. Ten years later, his taxes on 160 acres were only $55.00. The people on the Byron road dropped their petition after the tax base was established, so their road has never been paved 60 years later!
The secondary roads were township roads and a farmer could work out his road tax by working on them, but Robert A. never did. Gradually, the county took over all the roads except the interstate 96 and 59.
Charles READER and Aunt Grace lived on and worked Robert A's farm until March, 1921, when he bought the Claud THAYER farm in Oak Grove. Robert A. moved his family out to our farm in March, 1922, and hired Walt MORGAN as hired man to run it. After Walt came Percy PRICHARDS and Clarence BENNETT. Their farming operation left something to be desired with their father gone more than half the time. So, in the Spring of 1923, they bought their GranfarherMcCOOK's house in Oak Grove where Wade McCOOK was born on May 24, 1923. James W. was in the 4th grade then and Dave started school that year. (Mrs. Ira MERRILL was the little room teacher then and Alden, her son, taught the big room). Dave sat in a double seat with James W. and James helped Wade along by hitting him on the head a lot, so the teacher moved him.
Albert ABRAMSON moved on the farm that spring of 1923. He got off to a bad start by having appendicitis. The neighbors helped Robert A. get the crop in. In March 1924 we moved back to the farm.
Saturday evening, June 1st 1935 the members of the Kings Daughters Sunday School class with there husbands drove out to the pleasant farm home of Mr.and Mrs. Robert McCOOK with well filled baskets to remind them that they had been married 25 years. Guessing games were played and Mrs. PEARSON rendered several piano solos. An original poem dedicated to the bride and groom was given by Mrs. Chrystal GURNEE. The baskets were then opened and supper served. A beautiful silver wedding cake topped by a miniature bride and groom was presented by Mrs. M. A. Pearce. At a late hour the guests departed wishing Mr. and Mrs. McCOOK many more years of happiness.
Following is the original Poem as given by
Mrs. GURNEE:
Just twenty-five years today, Rob,
We walked down the aisle together
And heard the preacher say the words
That none but God can sever.
A happy smile was on my face
I wore a gown so fair,
And love was shrined within my heart
It seemed I walked on air.
And with the service over
A ringlet small of gold
You placed upon my finger
But Oh! how much it told.
Then down the years we started, Rob,
With hopes and visions bright,
It has not all been sunshine
There must be bitter night
But as I look back o'er the time
I can't say I regret
The step I took so long ago For
I'm your sweetheart yet.
Yes, twenty-five years ago, Eva
You were my happy bride
My face, too, wore a happy smile
As we stood there side by side
The years between have happy been
Tho marred sometimes by pain
For God has taught us plainly
Our loss may be our gain
Six children you have given me
we've nurtured them with care
And loved them each and every one
Those boys and maidens fair.
You've been a faithful wife to me
Tho' much we've been apart,
Within your eyes tonight I read
The love light in your heart
So let me change that ring of gold
To one of silver bright
For I can say with you my dear,
I've no regrets, tonight.
So friends we meet to celebrate
This silver wedding gay
That our good wishes may extend
To our Golden Wedding Day.
Robert A. used horses on the farm until 1935 when they bought a used Fordson from Dick BARRON in Howell, for $250.00. It came with a two bottom John Deere plow. Several of the neighbors already had Fordsons. They kept theirs about three years and then traded it in on a team of mules. They had a team of horses and farmed with two horses and two mules for a couple of three years til 1937 when we traded the mules to R. E. PECKENS for an Oliver 70 tractor, a plow with two 16 inch bottoms and a mower which James W. traded for a two row cultivator the next year. A seven foot mower could cut hay a lot faster then they could haul it! That got them way behind on the cultivating and it was too much trouble to change the machines back and forth on the tractor.
They kept the Oliver 70 till they sold out in 1947. They had tires put on in place of the steel wheels in 1939 for $135.00. They ordered them from Montgomery Ward in Owosso. James W. took it up and brought it back the same day.
PECKENS never took the muels away. He made a deal with Robert A. to leave the mules with them till he could sell them. Arlie BROWN finally bought them after about a month. He kept them a few months through the winter and grained them too much. Tom, the nigh mule, kicked at him one day so he wanted Robert A. to take them back. Arlie and Melvin, his dad, came one day and said somebody had to take mules as Art was afraid of them. James W. took the mules back and gave him our horses and two yearling heifers, as the mules were worth more and we wanted his good will.
PECKENS stayed out of the deal since he had never taken possession of the mules.
It all turned out o.k. Art and his family came to see us in Tucson in about 1965. He was troubled with arthritis and thought he might sell out and come to Arizona to live. James W took him to talk to Leonard WOODS (local dairyman), but the prices seemed too high to him. James W. thinks he would have done all right if he had come on out.
James W. bought a pair of Belgian colts from Ken PECKENS. Robert A. didn't like them. However they broke those colts and they were the best team we ever had! James W. drove them on the wagon the first day they were hooked together, and threshed oats at John LAYTON's. They weighed about a ton apiece-sorrel with manes and tails. Real Pretty!
James W's early education came in three periods. In Oak Grove, two years in Houghtalling School on the farm, then back to Oak Grove, and them to high school in Howell where he graduated on June 12 1930. He could claim to have graduated at 16 but he turned 17 the next day! All his brothers and sisters grduated from Howell High School. Robert in 1928, Myself in 1930, David in 1934, Jean in 1936, Wade in 1941 and Elizabeth in 1946.
Robert A. thanked Vern STELZER for being such a gentleman about the farm mortgage all those years. Vern got tears in his eyes. And a gentleman he was! When Robert A. bought the farm from Uncle Roy, Vern was still holding the mortgage on it. The mortgage amount was $6,500 plus a dollar a day interest, year around. When Robert A. got over loaded and was a little slow to pay, Vern never asked for any money. On one occasion, we sold a bunch of elm trees to a barrel company in Durand. When they began hauling them out, Vern came over to see about it. Robert A. gave him a thousand dollars of the money; he could have taken it all.
Robert A. and Eva had a little trouble selling the farm but finally did so in February of 1948. Charles WARD bought the place for $17,500.
They (and daughter Annie), came, [to Arizona] pulling a big luggage trailer full of their stuff as well as James W. and Robert E's. James W. and Rob were at Farmers Market and saw them go by and chased them down Miracle Mile. They bought a brown metal trailer and moved into Crescent Manor with the rest of the McCOOK's. The three of them lived next door to us for two and a half years.
Robert A. and Eva built 2 houses one in Flint, and one in Tucson. They owned the farm in Livingston county, Michigan for 24 years and then lived together in Tucson for 14 years.
Robert A. worked for his son Rob until 1952 or 1953. He quit than and worked at a small grocery store on Orical Road called Donlet'd market. He quit working for Rob at noon one day and went to work at the grocery store the next morning. They said he wasn't building up any Social Security working for his son. He worked at the store for six years. His mind was beginning to go before he left the store but his physical health was real good.
1955 was the year Robert A. and Eva made their first trip to France to see Dave and his family. They went over on the Queen Mary and back on the Queen Elizabeth.
When he was about 75 his memory began to fade and by the time he was 80 he didn't even know Eva, Once he carried a magazine around with a picture of a baby on the cover. He would talk to it and kiss it just as though it was a real child.
James W. and family took a trip to Bremerton, Washington, in 1961 to see his sister Jean and her husband Bud. Eva and Robert A. and James W. drove to Los Angeles and met Vera, who had taken the train that far. Then they all drove up the coast together. When Robert A. got tired of riding, he would say, "pull up over here and let me out, I want to walk"! Or he might say "I think I'll just go back home"! Sometimes when they stopped for gas he would take off up the street. When they stopped in Redwood City to see his youngest daughter Elezabeth Ann, he got lost and they found him wandering around by himself. He went to the house next door to Annie and Ray's and stepped behind the bushes in their front yard and took a leak against their house thinking he was hidden.
James W. wishes his father would have gone to church with them but his mind was pretty far gone by 1960. He tried to help James W. with the footing on the laundry, but he couldn't seem to get his mind on what James wanted done. He was 78 at the time. He lived two more years. He took long walks down by the railrad, up to Shamrock Dairy and up to Evergreen Cemetery, he always seemed to find his way home.
They had to put him in a nursing home when Eva got shingles and the doctors there over did his medicine and he died a month after we put him there. He was hard to control. He picked the walpaper off his room and the linolieum off the floor, so he did give them trouble. James W. and Vera had him buried in Evergreen Cemetery because he never liked the one on Grant road where Rob and Olive were buried. He was eighty.
The folks built two houses one in Flint, and one in Tucson. They owned the farm in Livingston county, Michigan for twenty-four years and then lived together in Tucson for fourteen years.
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Eva May Elwood McCOOK, was born on May 27, 1890, near Davidson, Michigan, on a farm. She had one sister Hazel, who was five years younger.
Her family left the farm when she was six or seven years old. They moved to Davidson and then on to Flint where her father worked as baggage man for the Grand Trunk Railroad, in both towns.
She went part way through high school and worked as a bookeeper for some fur-buyers. They could neither read nor write, but would tell her each night exactly what they had bought and sold all day.
One time on the farm when James W. was about 11, Rob and James W. were racing and Eva challenged them and beat them! She was about 34 at the time. It was about dark and she hiked up her skirts and fairly flew! They had no idea she could do things like that! She used to whip Rob and James W. regular for various infractions, but quit when Rob was about thirteen. One day he took the stick away from her and she cried. Robert A. never whipped any of them.
One time when they lived in Oak Grove across from the blacksmith shop, Spike REED and James W got to throwing apples from a tree in their yard across the street into the blacksmith shop. He shut the door, so James W. went over and opened it. This time he warned them to, "Cut that out!", and shut the door again. They threw a few more apples at the door and then James W. went over and opened it again. The Blacksmith was waiting inside and chased them all the way Home. Boy! was James W. scared! He was screaming for Ma with every jump and just made the back porch ahead of Old man MARSHALL. Eva heard him coming and came out the door just in time to save him. She backed old MARSHALL off the porch and he never even got a chance to tell his side of the story! I stayed on our side of the street for awhile.
Old MARSHALL had accused Rob and James W. of soaping his windows at Halloween and this all happened soon after. One day a package came to them at the Post Office which was in Sardis CAMPBELL's store. It was a bit to big for Rob and James W. to carry but Old John MARSHALL solved there problem by carrying it for them. Another enemy vanquished by kindness. His!
MARSHALL had a prety Collie dog that carried the mail in it's mouth from the Post Office. MARSHALL also had a cider mill behind the shop and every year the apples were awfully dry but John MARSHALL had cider to sell. They had two daughters. Vera was a school teacher at the Houghtalling School where the Mc COOK children went when they came to the farm the first time. She boarded at VANDERCOOK's just north of the school.
One day James W. was hoeing in the garden back of JUBB's garage when a fist came through the window! John MARSHALL and John STALEY were having an argument in the garage which was next to the blacksmith shop where John STALEY was having his car fixed. James W. never found out whose fist it was but STALEY had a black eye for awhile! The judge ruled no cause for action.
Robert A. and Eva both liked to travel. They went to the World's Fair in Chicago in 1932. They went to Muskogee, Oklahoma to see Wade in 1943 or 1944. They went to Europe twice, once in 1953 and again in 1957, to see Dave. Then she went with Vera and James W. in 1964. She came to Tucson, Arizona, to live in 1948. She took a trip to Michigan in 1958 and was there when her son Rob died. She and Robert A. made a trip through the east and saw several Civil War battlefields before WWII. Then they went to St. Lewis when Wade was killed in 1952.
Eva was a real good cook! James W. always thought their food tasted better than anybody's around the neighborhood when they went thrashing or filling silos. She was a good housekeeper but didn't ask perfection. Good was good enough!
She loved to read and would sit up way late at night with a magazine. One time one of the farmers-an Indian family-ran out of gas near the house and asked if somebody was sick becase there was always a light on late at night. It was Eva reading.
She bore six chileren and lost half of them before she died.
Eva died on January 24, 1981. She was 91 years old. She had a good life. She was a mother in every sense of the word. She raised a good family, and was a loved and respected grandmother and mother-in-law.
James W. think's that if we could ask her how she felt about it all, she'd say that, "It was good to have been here!"
CHILDREN of Robert Avery McCOOK and Eva May ELWOOD:
511. 1. ROBERT ELWOOD b: 5 Aug 1911; Port Huron, St. Clare, Michigan.
md: Jan 1935; Flint, Genesee, Michigan.
Olive FRANCISCO.
d: 30 Jul 1958; Tucson, Pima, Arizona.
+ 512. 2. JAMES WAITE b: 13 Jun 1913; Port Huron, St. Clare, Michigan.
md: 16 Oct 1935; Flint, Genesee, Michigan.
Vera FRANCISCO.
d: 25 Aug 1995; Tucson, Pima, Arizona.
513. 3. DAVID ERNEST b: 24 Jul 1917; Flint, Genesee, Michigan.
md: ; , , France.
Collette OURY
514. 4. JEAN ADELAIDE b: 22 Jun 1919; Flint, Genesee, Michigan.
md: ; Fred (Bud) STAUFFER.
d: Abt 1992;
515. 5. WADE b: 24 APR 1923; Cohoctah Twp., Livingston,
Michigan.
md: 10 May 1946; Lansing, Ingham, Michigan.
Mynetta SUTTON.
d: 1 Feb 1952; In the China Sea near Okinawa.
516. 6. ELIZABETH ANN b: 2 Feb 1929; Cohoctah Twp., Livingston,
Michigan.
md: 1951; Tucson, Pima, Arizona.
Ray De DOMENICO.
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James Waite McCOOK's earliest recollection of Robert was about 1920. He bought me an ice cream cone at Dick Hale's meat market in Oak Grove, Michigan. Robert was a small man, about 5 feet 4 inches, weighing about 140 pounds. He was bald and had a large mustache. He worked in the market some at that time.
A woman came in the market to buy meat one day and complained about the amount of fat and bone on some meat she had bought earlier. Robert, who was a real wit said, "Lady we've got just the thing for you"!, and got out a big chunk of liver.
Robert's brother Alexander was in the Civil War and died at New Orleans of Tyfus Marlaria. Robert was a bitter foe of the South all his life, as a result of his brother's death, and in politics he was a Democrat. The reason James W McCOOK knew this was that when he lived with them on the farm, he and his father, who was a Republican, and a great student of the Civil War, argued politics and people some.
Robert farmed before he came to Livingston County. He must have left Tecumseh to come to Oak Grove around 1894. James W. says he thinks his dad said "that he was twelve years old at the time they moved". Robert A. was the oldest of four children, two boys and two girls, each just two years apart. Robert Avery, Roy Waite, Rhita Mary, and Grace Louise, in that order.
Robert McCOOK had an auction sale and mada a down payment on a farm near Rose City, Michigan, then proceeded to drink up the rest or the money from the sale. I suppose when he sobered up, he decided he'd beter get busy and start supporting his family so he came to Oak Grove and went to work on the Ann Arbor railroad section gang for his brother-in-law, Alf WAITE, who was foreman of one of the two gangs out of Oak Grove at that time. The other gang was run by Charles MORGAN.
Robert was about 30 when he married in 1881, and came to Oak Grove in 1894. He aquired a house with a barn across the street, where he kept his horse Pedro and his farming tools. He also bought the island in the mill pond, about 7 acres or so, and a 5 acre piece of muck ground below the mill dam that we referred to as the flats where he raised garden stuff such as beans, corn, cabbage, and onions. James W. remembers helping him top onions in the fall one time. JAMES W. got a dime for helping. James W. did about a peck while cousin Earnie JUBB did a bushel or more, so Robert had a poor opinion of me as a hired hand. James W was about 6 at the time, and Earnie 10, or there abouts. Earnie lived on a farm about 5 miles away near Cohoctah and just came to visit from time to time. This placed him much more in favor with ROBERT since we lived just one house away and were some what of a nuisance to the old man. James W. can still rememmber going with him to the flats sonetimes and seeng those rows of vegetable, all straight with no weeds and the black soil between the rows. It makes a real picture in his mind.
Robert McCOOK was very praticular about his work. Everything was just so! All his tools were bright, shiny and sharp. Most of them were old, but good. You could almost see your face in the shovel blades and the mole board plow. He had one horse; Old Pedro He was a Bay with a white face and white feet. James W. thought Robert was quite rough on him the way he jerked the lines and hit him now and then, but later on he guesses he was worse.
There were two ways to get to the flats. One was around by the road and accross the mill dam. The other was by a footpath with a log for a bridge across the creek. He always cautioned his grand children not to look down at the water when they crossed, But, of course, James W. looked down at the water and fell in. The water was only about a foot and a half deep but he got good and wet and was scolded for not following instructions. Robert wasn't mean, he just didn't have a lot of time for small boys!
In the winter time he walked across the mill pond to cut wood on the island. James W. can still see him walkng along. He had a slight limp from a broken leg he got while working in a lumber camp near Petoski, Michigan. He had a habit of talking to himself out loud and would even stop walking and wave his arms for emphasis! One expression he used was "I, says I" "He says he" in repeating a conversation. He had a habit of cussing quite a bit which got him in bad with Earnie JUBB, aunt Rhita's husband. Uncle Earnie never swore and wouldn't allow it in his house so when Robert went to live with them after his wife died, he didn't stay long!
Anna Phenice WAITE was quite a large woman - taller than Robert and 50 pounds heavier. She seemed to be inclined to cry rather than fight with Robert. He seemed to enjoy these spats and would chuckle to himself about it. He would say something mean to her and she would say "Now! Rob!" and then start to cry. She had no teeth and her facial expressions were facinating as she puckered up to shed tears.
Robert McCOOK had a chair behind the kitchen stove where he smoked his pipe and looked out a window into the back yard and across the mill pond. From there he could watch the neighbors go by on the path outside, on their way to Myron TINDAL's. He had the only well on that side of the street for several houses. Myron also kept a cow and sold milk by the quart, at least to Robert's family and probably to others.
Robert McCOOK went to live with his son Robert A. the Winter of 1925. He liked sheep and we had a few, but he had a stroke that spring and died. He went down to work a small patch below the orchard by the river, and when he didn't come home to dinner, Robert A. and James went looking for him. They found him under an apple tree. Myron TINDAL was the mail carrier then and he drove his car down to where Robert McCOOK was and they brought him to the house where he died two days later. He was 73 years and 11 Months old, and buried at Stanford Cemetery near Oak Grove on Chase Lake Road.
CHILDREN of Robert McCOOK and Anna Phenice WAITE:
+ 51. 1. ROBERT AVERY b: 11 May 1882; Clinton Twp., Lenawee,
Michigan.
md. 1 Jun 1910; Eva ELWOOD.
d: 26 Aug 1962; Howell, Livingston,
Michigan.
52. 2. ROY WAITE b: 15 Mar 1884; Saline, Washtenaw,
Michigan.
md: 21 Nov 1909; Windsor, Essex,
Ontario, Canada.
Evangeline Rachel
HOUGHTALING.
d: 15 Dec 1946, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo,
Michigan.
53. 3. RHITA MARY b: 15 Jul 1886; Saline, Washtenaw,
Michigan.
md: 15 Jul 1908; Oak Grove, Livingston,
Michigan.
Henry Earnest JUBB.
d: Jan 1981; Howell Livingston,
Michigan.
54. 4. GRACE LOUISE b: 15 Mar 1888; Saline, Washtenaw,
Michigan.
md: 15 Jul 1908; Oak Grove, Livingston,
Michigan.
Charles H. READER.
d: 17 Nov 1851; Oak Grove, Livingston,
Michigan.
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Robert McCOOK was born between 1806 and 1815, as calculated from ages given in US Census records and death record, near Ballymena county Antrim, Ireland. He married Jane or Janet HANNAH about 5 January 1841 in Near Cromkill, county Antrim, Ireland. They left Ireland in the fall of 1848, during the potato famine. He settled in the area of Tecumseh, Lenawee, Michigan in the Irish Hills. He later moved to Clinton Township where he died 1 May 1889 at the age of 83. He is buried in the Riverside Cemetery, Clinton township, Lenawee, Michigan.
James Waite McCOOK's (512) Grandfather Robert McCOOK (5) said his grandfather had 40 tenants in Ireland. He never said why his father left the old country. He told about how he went with his father to get brick for a fireplacd and the oxen ran away with him and dumped the load. Another story about his father was how he was felling a tree and a dead limb broke off and hit him in the head. They put a poultice of fresh cow manure on it and he lived anyway.
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Jane Hannah McCOOK was born in Cromkill, Antrim, Ireland, and baptized into the Presbyterian Church at Connor 17 September 1821, as Janet HANNA the daughter of John HANNA and Jane KENNEDY. She became a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Tecumseh 15 April 1852, and several of her children were baptized there. She died 26 January 1897 age 74, in Clinton township, Lenawee, Michigan. In February 1892 she filed claim for a dependent mother pension from her son Alexander who died of Typhus Malaria, in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, while a private in the 6th Regiment of Michigan Infantry during the Civil War.
The following are exerts of interest from this pension file....
State of Michigan, County of Lenawee, ss;
On this Seventh day of December A. D. 1891; personally appeared before me a
Notary Public in and for the aforesaid Jane McCOOK aged 70 years,
a resident of the township of Clinton in the County of Lenawee and state of
Michigan,who being duly sworn according to law , declares that she is the
mother of Alexander McCOOK who enlisted under the name of Alexander McCOOK at Detroit Mich., on or about the 15th day of November 1863 in Private Comp. B 6th Regt Michigan Inf. Vols in the war of the rebellion, who died at New Orleans, La., on the twentieth day of October 1864 from the effects of Piles, Chronic Diarrhea, and Dropsy incurred at Vicksburg Miss. on or about the 15th day of June 1864. That said son left neither a widow, nor child under sixteen years of age, surviving. That she is without other present means of support than her own manual labor.
That she has never applied for a pension; the number of her application is ______. That she makes this declaration for the purpose of being placed on the pension roll of the United States under the prov
isions of the Act of June 27th 1890. She acts as her own atty. to prosecute her claim. That her post office address is Clinton County of Lenawee, State of Michigan. Claimant
Jane McCOOK
Soldier
Alexander McCOOK
Service
Priv. Co. B. 6th. Mich. Inf.
Address
Clinton, Lenawee county, Mich.
Filed by:
Claimant acting as her own Attorney
Also personally appeared Henry W STEMMS , residing at Tecumseh Michigan , and John MESSLER , residing at Tecumseh Michigan , persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit, and who, being duly sworn, say they were present and saw Jane McCOOK the claimant, sign her name (or make her mark) to the foregoing declaration; that they have every reason to believe, from the appearance that the claimant and an acquaintance with her of 45 , and 30 , years respectively, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be; and that they have no interest in the prosecution of the claim.
Henry W STEMMS
John MESSLER
Sworn to and subscribed before me this Seventh day of December , A.D. 189 1 and I hereby certify that the contents of the above declaration, &c., were fully made known and explained to the applicant and witnesses before swearing, including the words '4' -- Port Hudson La.' Charles BRIDGES Tecumseh Michigan erased, and the words ' on or about' Vicksburg Miss' she acts as her own atty. added; and that I have no interest, direct or indirect, in the prosecution of this claim.
Charles BRIDGES
Notary Public
State of Michigan, County of Lenawee, ss;
On this 28th day of September A. D. 1892; personally appeared before me a Notary Public in and for the aforesaid County duly authorized to administer oaths, Israel H SCHREDER aged 72 years, a resident of the township of Clinton in the County of Lenawee and state of Michigan whose post office address is Tecumseh Michigan Well known to me to be reputable and entitled to credit, and who, being duly sworn, declared in relation to aforsaid case as follows:
"I have been well acquainted with the Claimant Jane McCOOK during the 47, years last past, I was also well acquainted with her son Alexander McCOOK the deceased soldier from his boyhood until the time of his death. I lived in same vicinity in said township of Clinton with them for many years. The soldier always acknowledged the claimant as his mother, and claimant always acknowledged the soldier as her son, and they were always recognized as mother and son in the neighborhood in which they for years resided. The soldier when he was a boy worked for me on my farm in said town of Clinton many times before he enlisted in the service of the U. S. and he always spoke of and regarded the claimant as his mother and treated her as such. I was well acquainted with the soldier up to the time of his said enlistment and from such my acquaintance with him. I do declair that he left neither child nor children nor widow of his him surviving at his death having never married, that my acquaintance with the soldier during his lifetime was such that he could not have assumed the marriage relationship without my knowing the fact.
I was acquainted with Robert McCOOK deceased the father of the soldier & the husband of claimant. I was one of the appraisers on his estate. I was also one of the commissioners in partition on his estate & assisted in dividing the estate under commission from our Probate Court From such my acquaintance with the estate of said Robert McCOOK I do declair that his estate consisted of 80 acres of land but not personal property enough to pay his debts, that the land was in cumbard by mortgage & was divided under said mortgage, that claimants share was her dower or the use of 18 acres of land for her lifetime, that the annual income from said dower interest will not exceed $50.00 dollars, out of which & from which she has to have & pay her share of the interest of said mortgage also repairs and taxes leaving her a net income of not to exceed thirty dollars, that claimant is more than 70, years of age, of feeble health & strength, unable to work, and has no estate or income of her own except as above setforth, and is dependent on said income for her support. I further declair that I have no interest in said case and am not concerned in its prosecution."
Israel H SCHREDER
In the matter of the claim for pension of Mother No. 541919 of Alexander McCOOK Co. B 6th Regt. Mich. Vols.
On this 25th day of June A. D. 1892; personally appeared before me a Notary Public in and for the aforesaid County duly authorized to administer oaths, Agnes McILROY aged 65 years, a resident of the township of Clinton in the County of Lenawee and state of Michigan whose post office address is Tecumseh Michigan Well known to me to be reputable and entitled to credit, and who, being duly sworn, declared in relation to aforsaid case as follows: "I have known the Claimant Jane McCOOK during the 60, years last past, we were born and brought up in the same vicinity in County Antrim Ireland I was also well acquainted with the claimants husband Robert McCOOK from the time of his marriage with Jane McCOOK the claimant. I was also well acquainted with the deceased soldier her son Alexander McCOOK. Robert McCOOK and Jane McCOOK the claimant lived and co-habited together as husband and wife at Cromkill, Antrim county, Ireland, from about January 5th 1841, until their removal to the United States of America in the fall of 1848, and that during the time they so lived and co-habited together the deceased soldier Alexander McCOOK was born. The claimant always recognized and treated said Alexander McCOOK as her son, and as such brought him up and cared for him, and he always regarded her as his mother and they were regarded as mother and son in the neighborhood where they resided. I further declair that I have no interest in said case and am not concerned in its prosecution.
Agnes McILROY
Pensioner Dropped
U. S. PENSION AGENCY
Detroit, Mich.
Sept. 21 1897
Hon. H Clay EVANS ,
Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir:
I hereby report that the name of Jane McCOOK mother of Alexander, Pvt. B 6 Mich. Inf. who was a pensioner on the rolls of this agency, under Certificate No. 377283 and who was last paid at $12.00 to Dec. of 1896 has been dropped because of death, Jan'y 24 1897.
Very respectfully
O. A. JAMES
Pension Agent
CHILDREN of Robert McCOOK and Jane HANNA:
1. 1. ANNA JANE b: Nov 1844; Cromkill area, Connor, Antrum,
Ireland.
md: 29 Aug 1862; Milan T. WHEELER.
d: LIVING 1920; Coldwater, Branch,
Michigan.
2. 2. ALEXANDER b: 1845; Cromkill area, Connor, Antrum,
Ireland.
d: 20 Oct 1864; New Orleans, Orleans,
Louisiana.
3. 3. JOHN b: 1848; Cromkill area, Connor, Antrum,
Ireland.
chr: 6 Oct 1852; Tecumseh, Lenawee,
Michigan.
d: 12 Oct 1918; Clinton Twp., Lenawee,
Michigan.
4. 4. MARY b: Dec 1849; Tecumseh, Lenawee,
Michigan.
md: Feb 1870; John HAENEY
+ 5. 5. ROBERT b: 5 Jul 1851; Tecumseh, Lenawee,
Michigan.
chr: 6 Oct 1852; Tecumseh, Lenawee,
Michigan.
md: 22 Aug 1881; Saline, Washtenaw,
Michigan.
Anna Phenice WAITE
d: 15 May 1925; Oak Grove, Livingston,
Michigan.
6. 6. ELLEN b: Dec 1852; Tecumseh Twp., Lenawee,
Michigan.
chr: 30 Jun 1854; Tecumseh, Lenawee,
Michigan.
md: ; Frank R. MARSHALL
7. 7. ESTHER b: Aug 1856; Tecumseh Twp., Lenawee,
Michigan.
chr: 5 Oct 1856; Tecumseh, Lenawee,
Michigan.
md: ; Charles F. LARZALERE
8. 8. SARAH b: Dec 1859; Tecumseh Twp., Lenawee,
Michigan.
md: 1877; , Lenawee, Michigan.
John O'HARA.
d: 30 Dec 1936; , Lenawee, Michigan.
9. 9. JAMES M. b: 12 Dec 1863; Clinton, Lenawee,
Michigan.
md: Abt 1884: Ocella (Oea) WILKINS.
md: Abt 1916; Pearl CASTLE.
d: 30 Jul 1947; , , Michigan.
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CHILDREN of Paul CHARON and Della GERARD:
1. JOSEPH M. b: Oct 1883; , , Michigan.
+ 2. ESTELLA b: 24 Jun 1885; , , Michigan.
3. ROBERT L. b: Apr 1889; , , Michigan.
4. Mr. b: Abt 1891; , , Michigan.
d: Bef 1900; , , Michigan.
5. HUBERT b: Dec 1893; , , Michigan.
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George N. was born about 1834 in New York, and married about 1856, in Michigan, Caroline M. KING the daughter of William and Eliza KING. She was born about 1832 in New York and died 23 October 1879 in Oakland County, Michigan.
1860 Census Birch Run, Saginaw, Michigan, Page 789
Name
Nelson ELWOOD 26 M ---- Farmer $ 1,500 $ 0,250 New York
Caroline " 24 F ---- ---------- -------- -------- New York
Allison " 3 M ---- ---------- -------- -------- Michigan
1870 Census Vienna, Genesee, Michigan, Page 397
R Estate Personal Where
Name Age Sex Race Occupation Value Value Born
ELWOOD George N. 36 M W Farmer $ 3,100 $ 0,400 New York
ELWOOD Caroline M. 38 F W Dressmaker $ 0,500 -------- New York
ELWOOD Allison A. 12 M W ---------- -------- -------- Michigan
ELWOOD Inez E 9 F W ---------- -------- -------- Michigan
ELWOOD Earnest T 7 M W ---------- -------- -------- Michigan
EGGLESTON FRANKIE 18 F W Dressmaker Appr. -------- -------- Ohio
1880 Census Clio, Genesee, Michigan, ED 86 Page 34 Line 25
Marr | Place of Birth |
Name Race Sex Age Relation Stat Occupation |Self Father Mother|
ELWOOD George W M 44 -------- Wd --------------- N. Y. Eng. Penn.
" Inez W F 18 Daughter S Teaching School N. Y. N. Y. N. Y.
CHILDREN of George N. ELWOOD and Caroline M. KING:
1. ALLISON A. b: Abt 1858; , , Michigan.
2. INEZ E. b: Abt 1861; , , Michigan.
md: ; , , Michigan.
Mr. STUDY
+ 3. EARNEST THEODORE b: 3 Dec 1862; in , , Michigan.
md: 1889; Clio, Genesee, Michigan.
Adelaide Louise FORSHEE
d: 1927; , , Michnigan.
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Earnist Theodore was born December 1862 in Michigan, and married 1889 in Clio, Genesee, Michigan, Alelaide Louise FORSHEE the daughter of Norman FORSHEE and Margaret P. GORDON. She was born December 1866 near Milford, Oakland, Michgian. Earnist died in 1927.
1870 Census Vienna, Genesee, Michigan, Page 397
R Estate Personal Where
Name Age Sex Race Occupation Value Value Born
ELWOOD George N. 36 M W Farmer $ 3,100 $ 0,400 New York
ELWOOD Caroline M. 38 F W Dressmaker $ 0,500 -------- New York
ELWOOD Allison A. 12 M W ---------- -------- -------- Michigan
ELWOOD Inez E 9 F W ---------- -------- -------- Michigan
ELWOOD Earnest T 7 M W ---------- -------- -------- Michigan
EGGLESTON FRANKIE 18 F W Dressmaker Appr. -------- -------- Ohio
1880 Census Homer, Midland, Michigan, ED 217 Page 3 Line 25
Marr | Place of Birth |
Name Race Sex Age Relation Stat Occupation |Self Father Mother|
FLOWERS Miles W M 34 -------- M Blacksmith N. Y. Scot. Scot.
" Elma W F 26 Wife M Keeping House Mich. N. Y. N. Y.
EMORY Mary W F 14 Sister S ------------- Mich. N. Y. N. Y.
ELWOOD Ernest W M 17 -------- S Laborer Mich. N. Y. N. Y.
CHILDREN of Earnist Theodore ELLWOOD and Adelaide Louise FORSHEE:
+ 1. EVA MAY b: 22 May 1890; near Davidson, Genesee, Michigan.
md: 1 Jun 1910; Flint, Genesee, Michigan.
Robert Avery McCOOK
2. HAZEL P. b: 3 Mar 1895; near Davidson, Genesee, Michigan.
md: ; , , Michigan.
Donald BELYEA
d: Jun 1981; Herndon, Fairfax, Virginia.
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John was born 5 October 1801 in Forshee's Corner, Cayuga, New York, the son of David FORSHEE and Polly "Mary" WEAVER. He married 28 December 1828 in New York Elizabeth VAN GIESEN, the daughter of William VAN GIESEN and Elizabeth "Betsey" SPIER. She was born 16 March 1805 in New York, and died 6 January 1878. John died 20 March 1861.
CHILDREN of John FORSHEE and Elizabeth VAN GIESEN:
1. HENRY b: 16 Jan 1831; , , New York.
md: 16 Dec 1850;
Eliza Jane TIBBETTS.
d: 15 Jun 1910;
+ 2. NORMAN b: 29 Jul 1832; , , New York.
md: Margaret P. GORDON.
d: 23 Nov 1883; , Saginaw, Michigan.
3. SARAH ANN b: 2 May 1834; , , New York.
d: 7 Apr 1836; , , New York.
4. ORSON b: 5 Oct 1835; , , New York.
md: 3 Sep 1863;
Phebe Ann TIBBETTS.
d: 22 Apr 1912;
5. DAVID b: 14 May 1837; , , New York.
md: ; Eloise ALLEN.
d: 14 Mar 1899;
6. MARY b: 13 Dec 1839; , , New York.
md: Aug 1859;
Jason L. RIDER.
d: 29 Apr 1862;
7. ELIZABETH b: 13 Feb 1841; , , New York.
md: ; Cyrus PACKARD.
d: 25 Jul 1865;
8. THOMAS b: 23 Dec 1843; , , New York.
md: ; Carrie ALLEN.
9. LANY b: 25 May 1845; , , New York.
md: ; Hiram LEDYARD.
10. JOHN MILLER b: 14 Aug 1847; , , New York.
md: ; Mary ??
d: 26 Nov 1872;
11. WILLIAM ARUTHER b: 1 Jun 1850; , , New York.
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Norman was born 29 Jul 1832 in New York and married about 1854 Margaret P. GORDON. She was born September 1834 in Scotland. Norman died 23 November 1883 in Saginaw County, Michigan.
CHILDREN of Norman FORSHEE and Margaret P. GORDON:
1. HARMON b: Abt 1856; Plymouth, Wayne, Michigan.
md: 1 Jan 1880; , Tuscola, Michigan.
Josephine CURTIS.
2. HENRY b: Abt 1858; Plymouth, Wayne, Michigan.
3. HARRISON b: Abt 1861; Plymouth, Wayne, Michigan.
md: ; Mattie ??
+ 4. ADELAIDE LOUISE b: Dec 1866; near Milford, Oakland, Michigan.
md: 1889; Clio, Genesee, Michigan.
Earnist Theodore ELLWOOD.
5. ELMER b: Abt 1869; , Oakland, Michigan.
6. ANNA b: 9 May 1870, Frankenmuth, Saginaw, Michigan.
d: 13 Aug 1870; Frankenmuth, Saginaw, Michigan.
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Chauncey D. was born about 1829 in New York, and married, first about 1857 in New York Catherine _______. She was born about 1834 and died before 1868 as Chancey married second in about 1868, in New York, Helen THOMAS. She was born January 1849 in New York. Chauncey died before 1888, as Helen married 25 Dec 1888, in Forest Twp., Missaukee, Michigan, William H. MILLER.
CHILDREN of Chauncey D. FRANCISCO and Catherine _______:
1. ALICE b: Abt 1859: , Herkimer, New York.
CHILDREN of Chauncey D. FRANCISCO and Helen THOMAS:
1. WILLIAM L. b: Abt 1869; , , New York.
md: 16 Apr 1900; Lake City, Missaukee, Michigan.
Clara BRUNDAGE.
md: 14 Jun 1919; Big Rapids, Mecosta, Michigan.
Venna WHITNEY
+ 2. JAMES E. b: Abt 1873; , , New York.
md: 24 Nov 1902; Lake City, Missaukee, Michigan.
Estella CHARON.
md: 27 Aug 1835; Morey, Missaukee, Michigan.
Nancy J. BACON.
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James E. was born About 1873 in New York, and married 24 November 1902 in Lake City, Missaukee, Michigan, Estella CHARON, the daughter of Paul CHARON and Della GERARD, She was born 24 June 1885 in Michigan, and died 29 December 1984 in Tuscon, Pima Arizona. James died 20 March 1861.
Estella had married a Mr HATT previous to her marriage to James and the marriage to James must have ended in divorce since James married second Nancy J. BACON 27 August 1935. in Morey, Missaukee, Michigan.
CHILDREN of James E. FRANCISCO and Estella CHARON:
1. RAYMOND b: 8 Apr 1904; Forest Twp., Missaukee, Michigan.
d: Mar 1975; Portland, Ionia, Michigan.
2. ARDITH b: Abt 1906; Forest Twp., Missaukee, Michigan.
3. EVART b: Abt 1907; Forest Twp., Missaukee, Michigan.
+ 4. OLIVE b: 1909; Forest Twp., Missaukee, Michigan.
md: Jan 1835; , , Michigan.
Robert Ellwood McCOOK.
d: Jun 1960; Tuscon, Pima, Arizona.
+ 5. VERA JUNE b: 13 Jun 1910; , , Michigan.
md: 16 Oct 1935; Flint, Genesee, Michigan.
James Waite McCOOK.
d: 16 May 1997; Glendale, Maricopa, Arizona.
6. BASIL b: 8 Aug 1912; Boyne City, Charlevoix, Michigan.
md: ;
Margaret ??
d: 32 Oct 1988; Lake City, Missaukee, Michigan.
7. DANIEL b: Abt 1914; Boyne City, Charlevoix, Michigan.
8. HELEN b: Abt 1915; Boyne City, Charlevoix, Michigan.
9. DELLA b: Nov 1917; Boyne City, Charlevoix, Michigan.
10. EVYLENE b: Dec 1919; Boyne City, Charlevoix, Michigan.
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CHILDREN of Charles A. GERARD and Clarra "Carrie" OSIER:
+ 1. DELLA b: Oct 1869; , , Michigan.
md: Abt 1883; , , Michigan.
Paul CHARON.
2. HERBERT b: Jan 1872; , , Michigan.
3. GERTRUDE b: Abt 1876; , , Michigan.
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John was born between 1795 and 1800 in Canada and married first Larose _______ about 1835 in Canada. She was born about 1804 in Canada, and died before 1865, in Michigan. John married second Thersa _______, about 1865, in Michigan. She was born about 1816 in Michigan.
There may be other children as I can only go by the census records that name these children.
starting with the 1850 census.
CHILDREN of John GERARD and Larose _______:
1. MOIS b: Abt 1836; , , Canada.
2. JOSEPH b: Abt 1839; , , Michigan.
md: Abt 1867; , , Michigan.
Ellen ??.
3. ARILLI b: Abt 1840; , , Michigan.
md: ; Mr. CARMER.
4. WILLIAM b: Abt 1845; , , Michigan.
+ 5. CHARLES A. b: Nov 1847; , , Michigan.
md: Abt 1867; , , Michigan.
Clara "Carrie" OSIER.
CHILDREN of John GERARD and Tharsa _______:
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John B. was born about 1834 in Ontario, Canada, the son of John and Charlotte OSIER and married about 1853 in Potsdam, St. Lawrence, New York Juliett _______. She was born about 1838 in Ontario, Canada.
CHILDREN of Jphn B OSIER and Juliett _______:
+ 1. CARRA "CARRIE" b: Abt 1854; Potsdam, St. Lawrence, New York.
md: Abt 1867; , , Michigan.
Charles A. GERARD.
2. EDDIE b: Abt 1856; , St. Lawrence, New York.
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Abel Ambrose was born 17 April 1794 in Becket, Berkshire, Massachusetts, the son of Abel PASCO and Sarah Ferguson. He married about 1830 probably in Ira, Cayuga, New York Anna BARNES the daughter of John Coon BARNES and Johanna MALORY. She was born 10 Febuary 1800 in Semproneus, Cayuga, New York and died 25 January 1885 in Augusta, Washtenaw, Michigan. Abel died 7 September 1874, in Augusta, Washtenaw, Michigan.
I can trace this family from Becket, Massachusetts, to Washington, County, New York, to Ira,Cayuga, New York, to White Pigion, Michigan, then Monroe County, Michigan. In each census from 1800 to 1840 they are obviously living as one large family with Able PASCO Sr. as the head and all of his family listed together so it has been hard to know how many or the names of the members of the individual families of Abel Ambrose and his brothers. The correct order of birth is unknown at this time.
CHILDREN of Abel Ambrose PASCO and Anna:
+ 1. ARMINDA ADELINE b: 23 Mar 1831; Ira, Cayuga, New York.
md: 1852; , Monroe, Michigan.
James WAITE.
d: 23 Nov 1861; Azalia, Monroe, Michigan.
2. ELECTA b:
3. SARDINUS b:
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James was born 10 Mar 1777 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut the son of Richard WAITE and Lucy Marvin GRISWOLD. He married 24 Jan 1803, in Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont, Phenice WILDER the daughter of Joshua WILDER and Margery DUNSTER. She was born 5 May 1784 in New Fane, Windham, Vermont, and died in New London, Monroe, Michigan. Their death dates are unknown and they were both buried on their farm family buriel plot the location of which is unknown today.
James WAITE was the town clerk of Fayston, Chittendon Co., Vermont from its founding in 1804 to 1811 when he moved to Le Roy Genesee, New York. His brother Lynde WAITE was the moderator of the town counsil and his brother-in-law Joseph WILDER was a member of the town council. All the first inhabitants of Fayston were either WAITE's or related to them. Fayston was a break off of Waitesville where more of this family lived.
CHILDREN of James WAITE and Phenice WILDER:
1. MISS b: 8 Mar 1804; Fayston, Chittendon, Vermont.
d: 8 Mar 1804; Fayston, Chittendon, Vermont.
2. PHEBE b: 28 Sep 1808; Fayston, Chittendon, Vermont.
d: 1812; Le Roy, Genesee, New York.
3. SETH b: 11 Jun 1811; Fayston, Chittendon, Vermont.
4. JAMES II b: 1815; Le Roy, Genesee, New York.
d: Bef 1823; Le Roy, Genesee, New York.
5. SUSANNA b: 1817; Le Roy, Genesee, New York.
6. MARY b: 25 May 1821; Le Roy, Genesee, New York.
+ 7. JAMES Jr. b: 13 Mar 1823; Le Roy, Genesee, New York.
md: 1852; , Monroe, Michigan.
Arminda Adeline PASCO.
md: 1863; , Monroe, Michigan.
Charity.
d: ; Azalia, Monroe, Michigan.
8. JOSHUA b: 20 May 1826; Le Roy, Genesee, New York.
9. PHEBE b: 10 May 1828; Le Roy, Genesee, New York.
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James was born 13 Mar 1823 in Le Roy, Genessee, New York the son of James WAITE and Phenice WILDER. He married 1852 in Monroe County, Michigan, Arminda Adeline (Mary) PASCO, the daughter of Abel Ambrose PASCO and Anna. She was born 23 March 1831/1832 in Ira, Cayuga, New York, and died 23 Nov 1861 in Azalia, Monroe, Michigan. James Married second about 1863 Charity in Monroe County, Michigan. She was born about 1843 in New York. James died in Azalia, Monroe, Michigan.
CHILDREN of James WAITE and Arminda Adeline PASCO:
+ 1. ANN PHENICE b: 14 Sep 1853; London Twp., Monroe Michigan.
md: 22 Aug 1881; Saline, Washtenaw, Michigan.
Robert McCOOK.
d: 26 Mar 1921; Cohoctah, Livingston, Michigan.
+ 2. ALFRED SARDIUS b: 28 Nov 1854; London Twp, Monroe, Michigan.
md: 1881; , Monroe, Michgian.
Allison Story TURNBULL.
d: 13 Aug 1941; Lake Charles, Calcasieu,
Louisiana.
3. LOOUISA. b: 1857; London Twp, Monroe, Michigan.
4. JAMES III b: 1859; London Twp, Monroe, Michigan.
CHILDREN of James WAITE and Charity HUNPHREY:
1. IDA b: Jun 1863; London Twp, Monroe, Michigan.
2. ELBERT b: Aug 1867; London Twp, Monroe, Michigan.
3. ALICE b: Sep 1870; London Twp, Monroe, Michigan.
4: ELLA b: 1877; London Twp, Monroe, Michigan.
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