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Living married . [Group Sheet]

1. Living

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Living married Living. [Group Sheet]

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• _FSFTID: KPH4-6ZK
• _UID: 2017F8897CBD4C4D936324F2B66EB596057B
• Residence: 1935, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan
• Residence: 1 Apr 1940, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan

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Obiturary:Edwin M. Strong, age 80, of Willoughby and formerly of western New York, passed away unexpectedly March 12, 2011, at The Cleveland Clinic.
He was born Sept. 1, 1930, in Battle Creek, Mich.
He graduated from Western Michigan University and was a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. He served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War and was a member of the American Legion Post 362 in East Aurora, N.Y.
He worked for many years for the Inmont Ink Corporation as a branch manager in Indianapolis, Ind., and Buffalo, N.Y.
He was a member of the Buffalo Club of Printing House Craftsman (President 1980) and was awarded Craftsman of the Year in 1978. He was an avid golfer, skier and enjoyed travel. In recent years, he served as vice president, treasurer and membership chairman of the Suburban Ski Club in Cleveland. He was loved and respected by all for his sense of humor and high spirits, and he will be dearly missed.
Survivors are his wife, Mary Ellen (nee Leuty); loving children, David A., Ronald S., Mark E., Lori A. (Bryan) McPherson; their mother, his first wife, Beverly J.; grandchildren, Moriah, Cara, Lineia, Gavin and Quinn; great-grandchild, Taliesin; brother, Frederick T. (Fran) Strong; brother-in-law, James Bates; and many nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Fred L. and Ruth T. Strong; and sister, Eleanor E. Bates.
Memorial services will be 2 p.m. Saturday, March 19, 2011, at Body of Christ Church, 38057 Erie Road, Willoughby, OH 44094.
In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to Body of Christ, Neighbor to Neighbor Outreach or The Holden Arboretum, 9500 Sperry Road, Kirtland, OH 44094.
Arrangements are being handled by Brickman Bros. Funeral Home in Willoughby.

Edwin married Living. [Group Sheet]

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• _UID: 926F8399D06F4DD4AA1B3B7EA55B74E756E4

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• _FSFTID: KWVQ-D3G
• _UID: 356FA384131444768ED008B999DEE23A5EE6
• Residence: 1900, Battle Creek City, Calhoun, Michigan
• Residence: 1910, Battle Creek Ward 5, Calhoun, Michigan
• Residence: 1917, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan
• Military: 21 Jun 1917
• Military: 2 May 1919; achieved the rank of 2nd lieutenant and was honorably discharge from duty after WW I
• Residence: 1920, Battle Creek Ward 14, Calhoun, Michigan
• Occupation: 1925, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan; Cashier
• Occupation: Between 1930 and 1940, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan; credit manager at the Battle Creek Sanitarium
• Residence: 1930, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan
• Residence: 1935, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan
• Residence: 1 Apr 1940, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan
• Occupation: Aft 1940
• Residence: 1942, Battle Creek, Michigan

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Fred like to listen to opera on the radio and play solitaire.

Military:
enlisted with the US Army and served in WW I, US Army Ambulance Service (with Italian Army) part of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)

Occupation:
employee with Eaton Manufacturing in the personnel office. He also had a small insurance business where he serviced clients from his father

Buried:
Memorial Park Cemetery, Plot T-147-3

Frederick married Ruth Thornton Martin on 25 Jun 1925 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan. Ruth (daughter of Samuel Blair Martin and Mary Melissa Morehead) was born on 26 Nov 1894 in Union City, Obion, Tennessee; died on 27 May 1999 in Portage, Kalamazoo, Michigan. [Group Sheet]

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• _FSFTID: LXS8-93J
• _UID: 8E0A78EBABAF40AC8E79E506044708E86E22
• Residence: 1900, Paducah City, McCracken, Kentucky
• Residence: 1910, Civil District 15, Madison, Tennessee
• Residence: 1920, Jackson Ward 4, Madison, Tennessee
• Occupation: 1925, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan; Dietician
• Occupation: 1925, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan; dietician at the Battle Creek Sanitarium
• Residence: 1930, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan
• Residence: 1935, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan
• Residence: 1 Apr 1940, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan

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Ruth Martin and her mother were on the last train out of Galveston on 8 Sep 1900 before the deadliest hurricane and flood ever to hit the United States. The loss of life from the storm and flood was estimated to be about 8000 people. Ruth lost her mother at a very young age, and was raised by a succession of relatives. She trained to be a dietician, working for a while in Texas, and then at the Battle Creek Sanitarium. After her children were raised she worked for some years for the American Red Cross. She retired with her husband to a country home near Augusta, Michigan, where she took great pleasure in her large yard and garden. - notes by Connie Hankins

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• _FSFTID: L553-JTV
• _UID: 197E1EA359A6403CB1B616FEF1318E434179
• Residence: 1910, Covert, Van Buren, Michigan; where he lived with his parents
• Residence: 1920, Covert, Van Buren, Michigan; where he lived with his parents
• Residence: 1930, Covert, Van Buren, Michigan
• Residence: 1 Apr 1940, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan

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Buried:
Kalamazoo, Michigan

Orlo married Aileen Esther Hempy on 2 May 1931 in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri. Aileen (daughter of Wilbur John Hempy and Nellie Esther Wolford) was born on 4 Apr 1908 in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri; died on 23 May 1998 in Carlsbad, San Diego, California; was buried in Kalamazoo, Michigan. [Group Sheet]

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• _UID: AB282670F6C444C19346004D286EF5D5AEDD
• Residence: 1910, Kansas Ward 10, Jackson, Missouri; where she lived with her parents
• Residence: 1920, Kansas City Ward 13, Jackson, Missouri; where she lived with her parents
• Residence: 1930, Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri; where she lived with her parents
• Residence: 1 Apr 1940, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan
• Residence: Between 1993 and 1998, Carlsbad, CA

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Buried:
in Mount Ever-Rest Memorial Park South Cemetery

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• _FSFTID: KWVQ-D3R
• _UID: EEC916CF58B94D04B982BAC7F16113CAE903
• Residence: 1870, Detroit Ward 5, Wayne, Michigan, United States
• Residence: 1880, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States
• Occupation: 1886, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan; Fireman
• Occupation: 1900, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan; railroad engineer
• Residence: 1900, Battle Creek City, Calhoun, Michigan
• Occupation: Between 1910 and 1920, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan; treasurer for the city
• Residence: 1910, Battle Creek Ward 5, Calhoun, Michigan
• Residence: 1920, Battle Creek Ward 14, Calhoun, Michigan
• Occupation: 1930, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan; insurance agent
• Residence: 1930, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan

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Buried:
Memorial Park Cemetery, Plot T-147-4

Charles married Charlotte Louise Van Buskirk on 11 Mar 1886 in Pontiac, Oakland, Michigan. Charlotte (daughter of Isaac Smith Van Buskirk and Eunice A. Caswell) was born on 18 May 1863 in Pontiac, Michigan; died on 18 May 1930 in Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan; was buried in May 1930 in Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan. [Group Sheet]

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• _FSFTID: KWVQ-D3T
• _UID: 62BAC7D221AF4D9AAD35A147085B0AF09348
• Residence: 1870, Pontiac Ward 2, Oakland, Michigan
• Residence: 1880, Pontiac, Oakland, Michigan
• Residence: 1900, Battle Creek City, Calhoun, Michigan
• Residence: 1910, Battle Creek Ward 5, Calhoun, Michigan
• Residence: 1920, Battle Creek Ward 14, Calhoun, Michigan
• Residence: Apr 1930, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan

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Buried:
Memorial Park Cemetery, Plot T-147-5

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• Occupation: printer, owning his own shop
• _FSFTID: KWVW-DX6
• _UID: 1E4502131DEC4240AF61D767D02375F0A901
• Residence: 1880, District 15, Madison, Tennessee
• Residence: 1900, Paducah City, McCracken, Kentucky
• Residence: 1910, Hattiesburg Ward 1, Forrest, Mississippi
• Residence: 1917, Hatttiesburg, Forrest, Mississippi; from sons draft card
• Residence: 1920, Hattiesburg Ward 1, Forrest, Mississippi
• Residence: 1930, Hattiesburg, Forrest, Mississippi

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Samuel Blair Martin lived in Madison Tennessee in 1880. Hi lived in McCracken, Kentucky in 1900. He lived in Hattiesburg, Mississippi from before 1910 until at least 1935 where he last appears in the city directory with thrid wife Robbie.

Buried:
in Hollywood Cemetery

Samuel married Mary Melissa Morehead on 10 Jan 1894 in Obion, Tennessee. Mary (daughter of Joseph H. Morehead and Susan Ann Lawson) was born on 26 Mar 1871 in Union City, Obion, Tennessee; died on 2 Jun 1901 in Paducah City, McCracken, Kentucky; was buried in Alexander Cemetery. [Group Sheet]

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• _FSFTID: KWVW-DXX
• _UID: 3EB1F4DF32094ED6A88F167AB9FC0E05B03F
• Residence: 1880, Union City, Obion, Tennessee
• Residence: 1900, Paducah City, McCracken, Kentucky

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Obituary: Mrs. Mary Martin, died in Paducah, Ky., Monday, and was brought to Union City,
and thence carried to the old Alexander homestead, this county, for burial. She was
an aunt of Mrs. Dr. Curlin, of this city, and a daughter of the late Jo Morehead. - Hickman Courier , June 7, 1901

Buried:
Fulton Co., Kentucky

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• _FSFTID: 9XSK-7ZN
• _UID: 0E2C2BB02047416B86E4C304DD943A7175BF
• Residence: 1880, Bangor, Van Buren, Michigan; where he lived with his parents and siblings
• Residence: 1900, Covert, Van Buren, Michigan; where he worked as a teacher
• Residence: 1910, Covert, Van Buren, Michigan; where he lived with his family and worked as a mail carrier
• Residence: 1918, Van Buren, Michigan; when he registered for the WWI draft
• Residence: 1920, Covert, Van Buren, Michigan
• Residence: 1930, Paw Paw, Van Buren, Michigan; where he worked as a county treasurer

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Obituary - The Hartford Day Spring, Wed. Oct. 19, 1938
Ex-County Treasurer John Swoap Ends Life
Wife Finds Covert Man’s Body In Auto
Had Been Prominent In Business and Politics and I. O. O. F. Grand Lodge
COVERT - John W. Swoap, 65, Van Buren county treasurer from 1928 to 1934, treasurer for the past eight years of the Michigan Grand lodge, I. O. O. F., and long a prominent resident of this community, ended his own life at his farm home northeast of this village Monday morning by using carbon monoxide fumes from the exhaust of his car.
His body was found in the fumes filled car at 6:30 by his wife, the former Miss Bertha Spainhower, to whom he was married in 1936. Ill health was the only known reason for his act.
Coroner Fern E. Calvin of South Haven attributed death to suicide, and no inquest was held. The body was taken to the Calvin mortuary in South Haven, where funeral rites will be held at 2:30 Thursday afternoon. The Rev. Karl Keefer of Gladwin, grand master of Michigan Odd Fellows and former Methodist pastor of Watervliet, will officiate and other I. O. O. F. grand lodge officers will attend. Masonic ceremonies will be conducted at the grave in Covert.
Mr. Swoap had long been prominent in both Odd Fellow and Masonic circles. He had been an officer of the I. O. O. F. grand lodge for fifteen years, and aside from serving as its treasurer the past eight years he had also handled the I. O. O. F. funeral benefits for the past three years. He was a 32nd degree Mason and was the first master of the Covert lodge. He also served Covert township for several years as supervisor and two years ago was an unsuccessful candidate for the state legislature.
In earlier life Mr. Swoap served as a city mail carrier in South Haven, until the death of his father-in-law, Sam Kenney of Covert, when he took over the Kenney dry goods and grocery store in Covert. His first wife, Edna Kenney Swoap, died in 1929. In 1936 he married his present wife, a former nurse in a New York state hospital, handling occupational therapy cases. They had retired to a recently purchased farm northeast of town.
On Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Swoap returned from a motor trip to Wichita, Kan. On Monday Mr. Swoap had planned to attend a meeting of I. O. O. F. grand lodge officers in Lansing, but ended his life before starting for that city.
Surviving him are his wife, a son, Orlo Swoap of Kalamazoo, formerly associated with him in business in Covert, and two grandchildren.

NOTE: Preceding obituary mentions wife as Bertha Spainhower whom he married in 1936 but John's death record and later legal papers mention her as Elizabeth S. Swoap. John Swoap was engaged to a Georgia Spainhower for approximately one year + until her death in March 1935 according to the News Palladium 26 Mar 1935. Which facts are correct?

Residence:
where he lived with his family and worked as a merchant in a general store. Edna's mother Carrie Kenney was also living in the household at this time

Buried:
in Covert Cemetery, Lot 282-2

John married Edna Browning Kenney on 1 Dec 1904 in Covert, Van Buren, Michigan. Edna (daughter of Samuel D. Kenney and Carrie Amanda Shattuck) was born on 7 Oct 1877 in Covert, Van Buren, Michigan; died on 13 Aug 1929 in South Haven, Van Buren, Michigan; was buried on 16 Aug 1929 in Covert, Van Buren, Michigan. [Group Sheet]

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• _FSFTID: 273W-WGF
• _UID: 5BA04C2113214CFB9F8E5B61D1A8DE8AAD62
• Residence: 1880, Covert, Van Buren, Michigan, United States; where she lived with her parents
• Residence: 1900, Covert, Van Buren, Michigan; where she lived with her parents and sister Ada
• Residence: 1910, Covert, Van Buren, Michigan; where she lived with her family and worked as a saleswoman at the family general store
• Residence: 1920, Covert, Van Buren, Michigan

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Residence:
where she lived with her family. Edna's mother Carrie Kenney was also living in the household at this time

Buried:
in Covert Cemetery, Lot 282-1

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• Occupation: as a machinist and inventor for Hempy-Cooper Mfg., Co. and Security Stove & Mfg. Co.
• _FSFTID: L6QN-H8H
• _UID: B85C8E43BB5A4356B53ADFE8BACDF87E4612
• Residence: 1870, Blanchard, Hardin, Ohio, United States
• Residence: 1880, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio
• Residence: 1 Mar 1885, Le Roy, Coffey, Kansas
• Residence: 1900, Iola City, Allen, Kansas
• Residence: 1906, Iola, Kansas
• Residence: 1907, Kansas City, Missouri
• Residence: 1910, Kansas Ward 10, Jackson, Missouri
• Residence: 1920, Kansas City Ward 13, Jackson, Missouri
• Residence: 1930, Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri

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U.S. Patents issued:
Corn Harvester, Pat. No. 511,268, Isaac Hempy, Wilbur J. Hempy and Thomas G. Hempy of LeRoy, Kansas, 19 Dec 1893
Convertible Vehicle Rack, Pat. No. 1,351,475, Wilbur J. Hempy, Ottawa, Kansas, 31 Aug 1920
Combination Ladle and Babbitting Jig, Pat. No. 1,351 247, Wilbur J. Hempy of Kansas City, Missouri aissignor to Hempy-Cooper Mfg. Co. of Missouri, 31 Aug 1920
Babbitting Jig, Pat. No. 1,380,380, Wilbur J. Hempy of Kansas City, Missouri aissignor to Hempy-Cooper Mfg. Co. of Missouri, 7 Jun 1921
Boring Machine, Pat. No. 1,407,031, Wilbur J. Hempy of Ottawa, Kansas, aissignor to Hempy-Cooper Mfg. Co. of Missouri, 22 Feb 1922
Combination Boring and Facing Machine, Pat. No. 1,426,987, Wilbur J. Hempy of Kansas City, Missouri aissignor to Hempy-Cooper Mfg. Co. of Missouri, 27 Dec 1919
Combination Boring and Facing Machine, Pat. No. 1,604,940, Wilbur J. Hempy of Kansas City, Missouri, 26 Oct 1926
Oil Strainer, Pat. No. 1,579,205, George W. Blakesley and Wilbur J. Hempy Kansas City, Missouri aissignors to the Security Stove & Mfg., Co. of Kansas City, MO, 6 Apr 1926
Expanding Mandrel, Pat. No. 1,689,484, Wilbur J. Hempy of Kansas City, MO, 30 Oct 1928

Buried:
Mount Moriah Cemetery

Wilbur married Nellie Esther Wolford on 4 Jul 1900. Nellie (daughter of Thomas Jefferson Wolford and Hannah Isabel Mace) was born on 24 Apr 1880 in Kansas; died on 6 May 1931 in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri; was buried in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri. [Group Sheet]

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• _FSFTID: L6QN-HQD
• _UID: 8B318AB638D14D3B9FA6F48C23C4AC7257A1
• Residence: 1880, Hawkeye, Osborne, Kansas
• Residence: 1900, Plumb, Wabaunsee, Kansas
• Residence: 1910, Kansas Ward 10, Jackson, Missouri
• Residence: 1920, Kansas City Ward 13, Jackson, Missouri
• Residence: 1930, Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri

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Obituary:
HEMPY - Nellie Esther, wife of W. J. Hempy passed away Wednesday, May 6, at her home, 3516 South Benton, at the age of 51 years. Besides the husband, she is survived by 1 daughter, Mrs. Aileen Hempy-Swoap; her son-in-law, Orlo F. Swoap of Covert, Mich.; also 5 sisters, Mrs. Susie Endsley, Los Angeles, Cal.; Mrs. Lucy Ray of Coffeyville, Kas.; Mrs. Rhoda Gillow of Iola, Kas.; Mrs. Lizzie Crawford of Strang, Neb.; Mrs. Phoebe Park, Bruning, Neb.; 3 brothers, Thomas H. Wolford and Chester A. Wolford, both of Alton, Kas.; Chancy O. Wolford of Eskridge, Kas. Funeral services at the home, 2516 South Benton, Friday, May 8 at 2 p.m., Dr. George McDonald, officiating. Interment in family lot, Mt. Moriah Cemetery. For further information call Mrs. C. L. Forster. - clipping from unknown newspaper

Buried:
Mount Moriah Cemetery