Find-a-Grave
Charlevoix was saddened Sunday by the death of Mrs. Herman Burns, one of the most beloved and reverenced of our community.
Minnie Martin Burns, daughter of Phillip and Margaret Martin, and wife of Rev. Herman Burns, D. D., was born at Lockport, New York, February 3rd, 1859, and died at Charlevoix, Michigan, February 12th 1928.
She was graduated from the academy at Lockport in June, 1877, and the following August 22nd, was married to Herman Burns of Lewiston, Niagara county, New York.
One son, Herman M., and a daughter, Mrs. M. H. Gilbert of Detroit, survive besides her husband.
In the early spring of 1881, they migrated to Northern Michigan, locating at Harbor Springs, whre they remained until the spring of 1884, when Mr. Burns was persuaded to enter the Baptist ministry, and they began their life's work at Ashland Center, Newaygo County. While they were located at Harbor Springs she dedicated herself to work with children of primary grades, and for more than forty-five years she continued in this line of religious work. Years before the public schools had adopted what is known as kindergarten methods of instrution she had employed them in her work in the Sunday school. During those years thousands of children have received their first and perhaps their best impressions of Spiritual things under the skillful leading of this Godly woman.
Rev. and Mrs. Burns came to Charlevoix October 21st, 1922, and left the following spring, spending a year and a half at their home in Cassapolis and then returned to take up the work which Mrs. Burns was compelled to lay down by a complete nervous collapse, from which she never fully reovered. In November she had a second attack from which she has just passed away. For more than three months she had been a great sufferer, during which time the neighbors and friends have shown their sympathy for her in every way kindness could suggest. A
Find-a-Grave notesSon of Jacob Hamilton & Fanny Bridge Chilson. He married Rose Ella Hyland 1 Jan 1885 in Plainfield, Will, Illinois at the home of her parents. Children: Corte Hamilton, Caroline M. (b 14 Feb 1891 & died 1 Nov 1899 both in Fairbury, Jefferson, Nebraska), and Daniel Budd.
He was quite a character - the Buffalo Bill Cody-type! He was one of the picturesque characters of the early days who loved the flavor of the old west, but was practical in those days of community progress. He was a farmer and stockman, but devoted most of his time to auctioneering and gained the name "Cowboy Auctioneer."
He was first married to Mary B. Fouser on 29 Aug 1876 in Will Co., IL. Between their marriage and the 1880 census, they moved to Lincoln, NE. However, the story goes that he left for further west. He reached Montana in 1880 engaging in the livestock business. He was there almost 5 years. Mary didn't go, and at some point she divorced him. In 1884, he returned to Plainfield,Illinois, where he married his first cousin, Rose.
They stayed in Plainfield a couple of years. Then in 1887 they moved to Fairbury, NE, where they lived 13 years and the children were born. Shortly after the death of their daughter Carrie, they moved to Shell Creek, WY in 1899. In company with P.M.Gallaher, he started and first settled on the Z Bar ranch; then he moved to the Douglass place in 1905. In 1912 moved to Greybull. Always had goats, loved goats milk. He never really settled until his sixties; the family moved to Idaho, Plainfield, IL, Garden City, KS, back to Wyoming, where he eventually settled into Greybull. He continued to call auctions and work on ranches well into his seventies.
In addition to ranching, his main occupation was auctioneer. It was in Nebraska, before he went to Wyoming, that the "hustling auctioneer" acquired the title of "Colonel." The term is given to auctioneers after they have cried 500 sales. When he removed to Wyoming in 1900 "he started to build up a pioneer sales business in the county. He had his first sale at Lovell."
Find-a-Grave"May" was the daughter of Jesse Lee Linn and Catherine Virginia "Jennie" Murray. At the time of her birth, her parents were living in Eureka Twp. Mitchell Co., KS. However, early on (by 1885), she was living with her maternal grandparents, John & Elizabeth Murray, in Iowa. She might have been left with her grandparents when her mother, Jennie, spent the winter with them at the time of her fourth child's birth in 7 years. As a result of being raised by her grandparents, May got full schooling. Being the only Linn child to be so schooled, she was the envy of her siblings. When she was 5, she and her grandparents went to visit her father in Wyoming. She attended normal school in IA to get her teaching certificate. She was a straight A student. She then taught school several years. After graduating from school, she moved to Hilgard, MT to teach and was the first teacher of her cousin Estella's oldest daughter. She left Hilger to return to Chariton and taught school there in May 1907. She was back in Kendall, MT by Nov 20, 1907,teaching school and living with her sister Maud and Lee Hilliard in 1908. By Sept 1908, May was in Greybull, WY. She received a temporary license to teach on September 24th, 1908; it was valid until Nov.30, 1908.
On 1 June 1909 in Basin, Big Horn, Wyoming, she married Corte Hamilton Cropsey; she became a hardworking farm wife. In 1916, while living and working on the Carter Ranch, she was struck by lightening and it caused her hair to turn gray overnight. Buying their own place in 1917, she sold milk and cream from their herd of shorthorns. Her niece, Lola Ruble helped her one summer separating milk and cream and sterilizing bottles. She said May had a great sense of humor and was a lot of fun to be around.
They have 5 children: Jesse Budd, Linn Bracke, Thelma Virginia, Harry Hamilton and a Living Daughter. May died from complications of child birth, she bled to death.
Find-a-GraveDaniel was the son of Col. William Budd & Rose Ella Hyland. He served in World War I for the U.S. Navy.
On 7 February 1919 in Powell, Jefferson, Nebraska, he married Mary Jane Herring. To this union were born Marie Patience, Clarence Daniel, Mary Eizabeth, and James Edwin.He worked on the farm until WWI, afterwords he had a farm and dairy. He became an auctioneer following in his father's footsteps in 1920. Cried his first auction in 1923. Was also a wool buyer for WY Woolgrowers. County commissioner; school board member. American Legion.
His second marriage was to Lillian Anderson Coons 22 Aug 1941 in Greybull, Big Horn, WY.
unknown newspaper
Flora I. White, 6087 Wardsworth. Mother of Margaret Grover and Hazel Stuart, both of Los Angeles, Calif.l Robert F. White, Arvada, Colo.; sister of Herrick Gould, Pueblo, Col., also seven grandchildren .
unknown newspaper
Harry White, 7087 Wadsworth. Husband of Flora White, Arvada; father of Hazel Stuart, Los Angeles, Margaret Grover, Glendale, Calif., and Maj. Robert F. White, Ogden, Utah.
The Seattle Times (WA)
April 28, 1995LAWYER VERNON GOULD SQUEEZED A LOT OF GOOD WORK INTO A LONG LIFE
Vernon Gould had wanted to be a lawyer since he could remember. The tall, honest young man born in a snowstorm to a South Seattle family would achieve his dream, which sprang from a desire to help others. He would achieve it with honors, often working for free in his general practice when hurting clients couldn't pay him. "He was always empathetic, very involved emotionally with clients," said attorney Richard Satterberg.
But Mr. Gould would not fulfill his dream before a lot of life - World War I, the Depression, a new family to support - intervened. A guy had to earn a living. Mr. Gould earned it in a variety of jobs that increased his empathy with people ranging from blue-collar workers to journalists. He worked on the Oregon farm where his parents moved. He roasted coffee and made maple flavoring for Crescent Manufacturing Co. here. He unloaded mail and produce from railway cars at the King Street Station, and heated rivets before they were hammered into ship hulls. Such jobs built a strong work ethic and body that endured until Saturday when he died after a fall. He was 93.
The jobs also reinforced his hopeful outlook, his tendency to see the humor in things. Or his ability to create humor where none existed - like the bug-in-a-spoon that he sprang on unsuspecting children, or the rubber worm he hid in his brother's restaurant salad.
It was as if Mr. Gould couldn't get enough out of life.Before graduating from the University of Washington Law School in 1939 he published a community newspaper, ran a real-estate and insurance firm, and was elected a justice of the peace. After 1939 he also ran a newspaper in Wyoming. Finding it not to his liking, he returned to open a furniture store in South Seattle.
In World War II he joined the Coast Guard. In the 1950s he served as intelligence and legal officer for the 13th Coast Guard District, headquartered in Seattle. After the war he joined a White Center law firm, then opened his own practice.
His love for people led him and his first wife, Elizabeth, who died in 1967, to open their home to exchange students from the Foundation for International Understanding Through Students.
He kept in touch with the people and traveled abroad to visit them, becoming especially fond of New Zealand.
Through it all, he was active in the Seattle Bar Association and Rotary Club and served on the King County Planning Commission. Only in the 1980s did he begin to slow down: He retired from law. But he pursued painting, carving, beachcombing, agate-polishing and gardening with a passion. "He loved life," said his wife Glenna Gould of Seattle. "He would have loved to live another 100 years."
Survivors include his daughters Joanne Mitchell of Kent, and Virginia Senger and her husband Earl Senger, Monroe; step-children Carol Buchmiller, North Bend, and Mike Mihelich, Port Orchard; three grandchildren, two step-grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Ohio Soldiers in WWI
Name: Kenneth L. Gould
Age: 21
Race: White
Birth Date: 3 Apr 1897
Birth Location: Grand Junction, Colorado, USA
Enlistment Date: 9 Oct 1918
Enlistment County:Cleveland
Enlistment State: Ohio
Enlistment Division: National Army
Discharhed: 4 Feb 1919
Cass City Chronicle
March 11, 1976Mrs. Striffler Dies March 2 in Caro
Funeral services were held Friday for Mrs. Rose Striffler, 91, of Cass City, who died Tuesday, March 2, at the Tuscola County Medical Care Facility in Caro, where she had lived the past three years.
She was born Nov. 4, 1884, in New York, daughter of the late Clark and Elizabeth Underdonk Bixby.
She married Calvin J. Striffler Jan. 30, 1907, in Syracuse, N.Y. Following their marriage, they made their home in Cass City. He died March 16, 1961.
Mrs. Striffler was a member of Salem United Methodist church for 70 years.
She is survived by one brother, Edward Bixby of Syracuse, N.Y., and one step-brother, Wallace Laurie of Gagetown; two half-sisters, Mrs. Veda Montgomery and Mrs. Hazel Melick, both of Bad Axe, and several nieces and nephews. Two brothers and one stepbrother preceded her in death.
Cass City Chronicle
March 23, 1961Calvin J. Striffler Dies Thursday
Funeral services were held Sunday at 2 p.m. at Little's Funeral Home for Calvin J. Striffler. Rev. S.R. Wurtz officiated and burial was in Elkland Cemetery. Mr. Striffler died in Hills and Dales Hospital Thursday evening. He had been in ill health the past three years.
Mr. Striffler was born in Cass City May 1, 1885, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Striffler. He married Rose Bixby January 3, 1907, in Syracuse, New York.
He had held the office of Justice of the Peace of Cass City for a number of years and was the present city assessor.
He was also a member of the Evangelical United Brethren Church.
Survivors are his wife; four sisters, Mrs. Ida Nique and Mrs. Lillian Ricker, both of Cass City, Mrs. F.A. (Margaret) Smiley of Drayton Plains, Michigan, and Mrs. A.W. (Laura) Weaver of Flint.