Powers - It's In The Cards

Names of Prisoners Found In The Index Cards At The Archives of Michigan

Note:  The card files where the prisoner information are no longer readily accessible.

Power(s) Calvin W.
Power, John D. From Alger Forgery
Power, John D., From Gogebic ca 1937
Powers, Carl, sent 2-20-1933 Genesee Co. RA
Powers, Charles, Wayne Co. RA 2-11-33
Powers, Clayton, Departed To Canada Kent Co. Bank Robbery

Peter Seabury Schuyler At New Madrid

Source (Document 12)

59-14

OVS, 51

Folder 12, Doc 12

At New Madrid, MO, while on General Granger's Staff...

From My Heritage:
Peter Seabury Schuyler, 1826 - 1879
...born to Anthony Dey Schuyler and Sarah Schuyler (born Ridg).
Anthony was b. October 18, 1785, in Point Pleasant, Ocean County, NJ.
Sarah was b. ca 1788, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
11 siblings: Mary Ridg Montgomery (born Schuyler), William Ridg Schuyler and 9 other siblings.
Peter m. Sarah Thompson Schuyler (born Hayes)...1855..MI
Sarah was born on January 15 1835, in Marshall, MI.
They had 2 sons: Andrew Livingston Schuyler and one other child.
Peter passed away on month day 1879, at age 52 at death place, Michigan.

FindAGrave Memorial (middle name differs).

Odell Howe's Probate

Michigan Probate Records, Arenac Probate packets 1900-1901:

Howe, Odell

Arenac County, Michigan

Probate File# 81 [Image 99]

Odell Howe died 7 October 1900 (Death Record held at the Archives of Michigan)

Memorial at FindAGrave here

Census 1880

Onondaga, Ingham, Michigan, United States

Ara W Howe Self M 60 New York, United States

Martha E Howe Wife F 48 New York, United States

Odell N Howe Son M 25 Michigan, United States

Edward E Howe Son M 18 Michigan, United States

Carrie E Howe Daughter F 16 Michigan, United States

Annie E Howe Daughter F 8 Michigan, United States

Ara W Howe Son M 6 Michigan, United States

Alexander MacGee's Probate File

Wayne County, Michigan

Probate File# 24131

Alexander MacGee

Image 618 Cover Sheet

McGee/MacGee, Alexander
Supposed Dead (Missing for 20 years)
Formerly from Romulus, Michigan

A person missing and supposed to be dead
1898

Coates, Catherine (sister) - General Administratrix - Ypsilanti, Washtenaw, Michigan
McGee, Jenks (brother) - Residence Unknown (Wisconsin)
Liscomb, Jane (sister) - Charlevoix County, Michigan
MacGee, William (brother) - Wayne County, Michigan
Bird, Peter C. - Special Administrator

MacGee, Jenks
Probate File #24132
Image 638

Find A Grave Index

Name Jenks McGee

Event Type Burial

Event Date 1903

Wyocena, Columbia, Wisconsin, United States of America

Birth Date Oct 1861

Death Date 01 Dec 1903

Affiliate Record Identifier 70460878

Cemetery County Home Cemetery

Census 1870

Event Place Michigan, United States [Romulus, Wayne]

Patrick Mcgee M 67 Ireland

Jane Mcgee F 47 Ireland

Alexander Mcgee M 24 Michigan

William Mcgee M 15 Michigan

Jinks Mcgee M 11 Michigan

Mary Clement's Probate File

Michigan, Probate Records...Wayne Probate packets 1899...:

Wayne County, Michigan

Probate File# 26214

Image 10 [Coversheet]

Mary S. Clement

Died: 6 June 1899

Of Detroit, Wayne, Mich.

Will dated 17 April 1899

Heir of Caroline Clement Estate

*Rice, Mary C., daughter, of Detroit, Wayne, Michigan

Clement, Guy M., son, of Buffalo, New York

Wilkinson, Carrie, daughter, of Syracuse, New York

Wilkinson, Alonzo F., Executor, "   "  "

Clement, Caroline R., deponent, of Worcester, Mass.

Alfred Rice and Guy Clement, Witness to Mary Clement's Will

Mary Clement's death record at the Archives of Michigan.  Stated she was the daughter of Able Simmons and was born in New York, in 1835.

*Died 16 July 1908 in Genesee County, Michigan (Daughter of Moses Clement and Mary Simmons)

Census 1880

Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States

Moses Clement Self M 50 Massachusetts, United States

Mary S Clement Wife F 43 New York, United States

Sarah Clement Daughter F 24 New York, United States

Lusciona Clement Son M 22 New York, United States

William Clement Son M 21 New York, United States

Carrie Clement Daughter F 16 New York, United States

Mary Clement Daughter F 7 New York, United States

Guy Clement Son M 3 New York, United States

Mary Manion Other F 40 Ireland

Court Martial Of Joseph M. Cramer

The charge of desertion of April 20, 1862...against Joseph M. Cramer, as of Co. B 2nd Regiment, Michigan Cavalry, has been removed from his record in this Department...discharge certificate as of the day he left the service, May 29, 1862, has been issued to him.

Court Martial

Mary E. Evans

Michigan, Probate Records...Wayne Probate packets 1899...:

Wayne County, Michigan

Probate File# 26217

Mary E. Evans

Incompetent (Epilepsy)

Image 49

Romulus, Mich.

30 years old

Hall, Susie E., sister, 52 years old, Romulus, Mich.
Hale, Millie E., sister, 33 years old, Ypsilanti,, Mich.
Quick, Myra, niece
Rose, Nita (Nina), niece
Rice, Eva, sister, deceased
Evans, Clarence, nephew son of Joseph Evans, deceased, Almont, Mich.
Bush, Mabel, niece, daughter of Elmer Evans, deceased
Croff (Carll), Ethel, niece "    ", Romulus
Sundburg, Clifford, nephew, son of Myra Sundburg, deceased, Romulus
Evans, Harriet E., mother, deceased (died 10 September 1906), Romulus
Rice, Hiram N., guardian, April 25, 1907
Evans, Joseph, brother, 47 years old
Evans, Elmer, brother, 45 years old
Sundburg, Myra, sister, 39 years old
Evans, Joseph E., father, deceased

Mary Evans died 30 April 1949.

John MacDonald's Probate Contested In Court

From The American probate reports: containing recent cases of general value ..., the case of 
John MacDonald, who died in Windsor, Ontario, January 15, 1870....

John MacDonald's Will: Isabella MacDonald, wife; children James Sherman and William John MacDonald; ....wife and said (William) Hannah of the City of Detroit, executors...

MacDonald was engaged in the business of manufacturing tobacco.  March 3, 1870 she [the widow] sold the business...after paying debts, etc., brought money to Detroit and converted it to American money... .  After her marriage to Mr. Barnard, they moved to L'Anse, Michigan, where the complainants grew up and then left home.

Census 1880

L'Anse, Baraga, Michigan, United States

John L Barnard Self M 48 New York, United States

Isabella Barnard Wife F 38 Ohio, United States

Sherman Barnard Son M 6 Michigan, United States

Mary Bell Barnard Daughter F 4 Michigan, United States

Eliza W Barnard Daughter F 3 Michigan, United States

Annie M Barnard Daughter F 1 Michigan, United States

James Macdonald Stepson M 17 Michigan, United States

William J Macdonald Stepson M 15 Canada

Joseph P Bray Other M 26 England

N H Hayden Other M 24 Michigan, United States

Annie Handly Other F 17 Michigan, United States

Adelia Hall Other F 20 Michigan, United States

Isabella McKendrick MacDonald Barnard died in 1926.

John Shehen's Estate

Michigan Probate Records,Wayne Probate...:

Wayne County, Michigan, Probate

John Shehen, Deceased

Redford Township

Date of Death: 25 December 1899

Estate's Claimants

File# 26379 [Image 902]

6 February 1900, Catherine Shehen, Appointed Administratrix

Census 1900

Redford township, Wayne, Michigan

HOUSEHOLD

Catherine Shehen Head F 42 Michigan

John Shehen Son M 17 Michigan

Iona Shehen Daughter F 11 Michigan

Frank Shehen Son M 7 Michigan

Nancy Shehen Sister-in-law F 58 Michigan

Death Certificate at SeekingMichigan (State of Michigan Archives).

Squier At 4 Mile Creek

59-14 Ovs 50 Folder 21 

Second Michigan Cavalry: Monthly Returns, 1864

59-14 Ovs 50 Folder 21 Doc 8

59-14 Ovs 50 Folder 21 Doc 11   

"In pursuit of Forrest near Tullahoma, Tenn."

Lieutenant Martin Squier, et al, 2nd Michigan Regiment of Cavalry 

September, 1864

Civil War McCoys

Civil War Mural (Jim's Photo Collection(

McCoy, David, Washtenaw County. Enlisted in company H, Fourteenth

Infantry, Feb. 19, 1862, for 3 years. Mustered April 11, 1862. Discharged

at Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 18, 1863.

McCoy, William, Washtenaw County. Enlisted in company H, Fourteenth

Infantry, April 2, 1862, at Ypsilanti, age 25. Mustered April 11, 1862.

Died at Miamiville, Ohio, June 29, 1862. Buried in Spring Grove

Cemetery, near Cincinnati, Ohio.

[Source]

Luther Byron Baker Lectured About Booth's Capture

Photo Included L.B. Baker (Above) And Two Others

Undated Lecture Notes by Luther Byron Baker (MS 87-148: Baker-Yull-Cooley collection ) mentioned at the Archives of Michigan.  Description Undated lecture notes written and delivered by Luther Byron Baker regarding his experience in the pursuit, capture, and death of assassin John Wilkes Booth.

Memorial Report (Ingham County, Michigan), for Luther B Baker, who died May 24, 1896:

Source

The lieutenant's story : Luther Byron Baker address (information from the Lincoln Collection).

Title supplied by cataloger from cover letter.; Luther Byron Baker, a cousin of La Fayette C. Baker, was an officer of the U.S. Secret Service during the Civil War, and later a resident of Lansing, Michigan.; Address describing the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. The lecture was given in the states of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. The cover letter is typed on Michigan Millers Mutual Fire Insurance Co. letterhead, dated October 4, 1948 and was sent by Baker's son, Arthur D. Baker, to the Lincoln National Life Foundation director and gives information about the speech.

See another photo at Luther B. Baker's Memorial At FindAGrave.

Buried In A National Cemetery

Source (National Cemetery in Chattanooga, Tennessee)

Harville, James, Hickman, Tenn. Enlisted in company F, Fourteenth Infantry [Michigan], Feb. 2, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., for 3 years, age 18. Mustered Feb. 2, 1864. On duty with Sixteenth Illinois Infantry March 24, 1864. Died at Chattanooga, Tenn., May 2, 1864. Buried in National Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tenn.Grave No. 1154. [Source]

John A. Vincent Of Springfield, Illinois

Michigan Probate Records...Wayne Packet index...:

Image 4724

Vincent, John A.

Wayne County, Michigan, Probate File# 26909

Springfield, Illinois

Father of Estate

Edward Vincent was killed 4 May 1900.

Fowlers From Michigan In The Civil War

Library Of Michigan

Lee Allen Backus, WWI "Census"

World War I "Census" - At The Archives of Michigan (from what I remember, participation in this endeavor was voluntary and the results were compiled on index cards).

Backus, Lee Allen

Iosco Co., MI

son of Floren & Ida Backus

Pinckney, MI

Livingston Co. File page 14

Washtenaw Co. File

Source

John Reuter's Probate File

Wayne County, Michigan

Probate File# 25543

Image 154

John Reuter

6 November 1895

19 Years And 2 Months When He Died

Death caused by an explosion in a building owned by Helen Newberry

Mother: Elizabeth Reuter
Father: Peter Reuter
Brother: Peter J. Reuter

All 3 at 586 St. Antoine, Detroit

Charles McMillan In Antrim Probate

Michigan Probate Records, 1797-1973  Antrim...:

Charles McMillan

File 43

Source [Image 136]

Petitioner, Lewis Pulver, of Grand Traverse County, f-i-l of late Charles McMillan...
Charles McMillan, late of Des Le Plain, Greene County, Arkansas
Died: 25 August 1878
No Last Will And Testament

*Etta E. McMillan, widow, residing in Whitewater, Grand Traverse [Michigan]
**Lewis McMillan, son,          "                       " 7 years old
Melvina McMillan, daughter, "   " 5 years old
Reuben McMillan, son,         "    3 years old
Mary McMillan, daughter,   "  "  1 years old

 *Ettie E. Cain's death record (died 29 April 1918; Lewis McMillan, informant)

Census 1900
Traverse city Ward 1, Grand Traverse, Michigan
Ettie Cain Head F 50 New York
Elmer G Cain Son M 15 Michigan
Benjamin H Cain Son M 11 Michigan
Charles A Cain Son M 9 Michigan


**[Charles] Lewis McMillan's memorial at FindAGrave.

Marion Rennie's Probate

Michigan, Probate Records, 1797-1973 Wayne Probate packets 1900...:

Image 988

Probate File# 27256

Marion Rennie

Died: 6 August 1900 

Census 1900

Detroit city Ward 4, Wayne, Michigan

HOUSEHOLD

Mary Rennie Head F 46 New York

Robert H Rennie Son M 20 Canada Eng

Daisey E Rennie Daughter F 15 Michigan

Jeaneth M Rennie Daughter F 10 Michigan

See death record at SeekingMichigan

Pardon Me In Michigan

Report of Proceedings, By Michigan. Advisory Board of Pardons

Ugas Layman was a widowed merchant when he died in 1934.