#4 Louis Luman

  Michigan Probate Records, 1797-1973  Roscommon Probate packets 1874-1917...:

#4

Louis Luman

Image 143

Davis Haven Probate

Genesee County, Michigan

Probate File #1004 (Also this link)

Davis Haven, Deceased

McMinnville, Warren, Tennessee Reference [Image 20]

19 September 1870

Indenture Between

Nancy E. Hinkley

And

Mary A. Haven (widow of Davis Haven)

Davis Haven died 8 February 1869

In Chicago, Illinois

Census 1850

Shalersville, Portage, Ohio

HOUSEHOLD

Davis Haven M 45 New York

Julia Haven F 47 Connecticut

Mary Haven F 20 Ohio

Augustus Haven M 17 Ohio

Cynthia Haven F 13 Ohio

Martha Haven F 9 Ohio

Warren Haven M 6 Ohio

Oliver A Tillotson M 13 Connecticut

Elisha M Haven M 78 Massachusetts

Polly Haven F 80 Massachusetts

Mary Adams F 65 Connecticut

Augusta Adams F 25 Ohio

Lucela Tillotron F 20 Connecticut

George Woodford M 43 New York

Louisa Woodford F 41 Connecticut

William S. Powers' Group Sheet

William and Addie (More) Powers
My Paternal Great-Grandparents

William Seldon Powers married Addie More 25 April 1888 in Lapeer County, Michigan.  He immigrated to Michigan from Grimsby, Ontario, Canada, about 1880 give or take a year.  Addie became an alien and had to be naturalized when she married William (a Canadian and alien) even though she was born and raised in Lapeer County, Michigan, USA.

Source - William S. Powers When He Was Still An Alien

Newspaper items regarding Powers's in Lapeer County.

Naturalization papers for William in 1931.

1934 Flint City Directory

Allen, Wm R (Mae A) rail opr Eastern Mich Rys r 1701 E. Hamilton

Powers, Marion G. (Marian J) autowkr  h 1530 Colorado

Powers, Ralph (Beatrice) bodywkr  r 1661 Beach

Powers, William S. (Addie M) carp  h 1530 Colorado

William S Powers

[Burial] Place Dryden, Lapeer, Michigan

Birth Date 27 Aug 1859

Death Date 10 Jul 1939

Cemetery Thornville Cemetery

Name Addie More Powers

Event Type Death

Event Date 21 May 1947

Gender Female

Father's Name Moore

Mother's Name Richmond

[Buried in Thornville Cemetery]

See her obituary in the Flint (Mich.) Journal here.

A brief history of our Powers family written by Marion Garrison Powers.

William S. Powers entry at Wikitree.

Miranda W. Allen's Probate

Michigan Probate Records...Oakland Packet index...:

Miranda W. Allen

File# 4053

53-379 [Image 539]

Petition For Probate Of  Will

Petition of William Allen, son and Mary Anne Allen, daughter-in-law, the

heirs of Oscar Allen, all of Oakland County

Tirza Scovell, Sarah S. Golden, and Jemima Bardwell, daughters of said deceased, and all

of Genesee County, Mich., and William (Willard) B. Allen, a son of

Delmore, McPherson County, Kansas

11 July 1879

Will of Miranda W. Allen [Image 541]

Widow of Isaac Allen, deceased, late of Burton, Genesee, Michigan

Daughter-in-law Louise, wife of my son Oscar Allen......

Census 1870

Michigan, United States

Isaac Allen M 61 New York

Miranda Allen F 55 New York

James B Scott M 20 New York

Census 1860

Burton, Genesee, Michigan, United States

Isaac Allen M 51 New York

Maranda Allen F 44 New York

Oscar Allen M 19 New York

Hiram Bardwell M 21 Michigan

Jemima Bardwell F 18 Michigan

Berone Bardwell M 60 New York

Miranda's memorial at FindAGrave.

Davison Patron's Directory

Source (1889)

Sue Kinney's Grandparents

Farwell News, 19 June 1969:

Source

Pearson Farrar's Probate File

Genesee County, Michigan

Probate File# 1075

Heirs Image 299

Addie Mae (Powers) Allen

Addie Mae Powers, daughter of William S. and Addie (More) Powers, married William Roy Allen as his second wife. Their children were William, Elizabeth Jane, and Marion George Allen.

Name Addie May Powers

Gender Female

Christening Place Calhoun, Michigan

Birth Date 28 Feb 1898

Birthplace Battle Creek, Calhoun, Mich

Father's Name Wm. S. Powers

Mother's Name Addie M. Powers

Census 1900

Battle Creek city Ward 1, Calhoun, Michigan

William S Po??S Head M 41 Canada Eng

Addie M Po??S Wife F 36 Michigan

Na?? S Po??S Son M 7 Michigan

Ralph N Po??S Son M 4 Michigan

Addie M Po??S Daughter F 2 Michigan

Cynthia Moor Mother-in-law F 71 New York

Mary F Greene Servant F 29 Ohio

Census 1900
Allegan, Michigan, United States
Robert Reid Head M 73 Ireland
Jennie Reid Wife F 54 Ohio
William Allen Servant M 14 Michigan
Mildred Martin Servant F 18 Indiana
[The Reids were in-laws of William's aunt, Ida Shepard - Ida lived next door]

 March 1, 1906 (Oregon Twp) in the Lapeer Clarion newspaper:
Willie Allen leaves for Douglas on March 5th to work for the summer.  On Wednesday evening 20 or more of his young friends gave him a surprise.  The evening was spent playing Flinch and other games and at a late hour they departed for their several homes wishing Willie God speed in his absence. [Douglas, Allegan County, Michigan]

William R. Allen married 1st, Mildred Wooley, February 1909; she and their infant child died in 1916.

Census 1910
Saugatuck, Allegan, Michigan
William R Allen Head M 24 Michigan
[fruit farm manager]
Mildred E Allen Wife F 27 Michigan
William Coxford Hired man M 23 Canada

Census 1910

Dryden, Lapeer, Michigan

William S Powers Head M 50 Canada

Adda M Powers Wife F 45 Michigan

Ward S Powers Son M 16 Michigan

Ralph N Powers Son M 13 Michigan

Adda M Powers Daughter F 12 Michigan

Cynthia J Powers Daughter F 9 Michigan

Marion G Powers Son M 3 Michigan

[All of the children who became adults were listed in this census]

Addie Powers' marriage to William Roy Allen:

Name Wm R Allen

Age (Expanded) 30 years

Birth Year 1887

Birthplace Lapeer

Spouse's Name A Mae Powers

Spouse's Age (Expanded) 18 years

Spouse's Birth Year 1899

Spouse's Birthplace Lapeer Co.

Event Date 13 Jan 1917

Event Place Flint, Genesee, Michigan

Father's Name Wm S Allen

Mother's Name Emily Sheppard

Spouse's Father's Name Wm Powers

Spouse's Mother's Name Addie Moore

Name William Roy Allen

Draft Registration

 Date 1917-1918

Flint City no 1, Michigan

Birth Date 07 Mar 1881

Birthplace , , United States

[1205 S. Saginaw Street]

[2nd finger right hand off at 1st joint]

Census 1920

Flint Ward 3, Genesee, Michigan

[336 W. Twelfth Street, Flint]

William R Allan Head M 33 Michigan

Annie May Allan Wife F 21 Michigan

William R Allan Son M 1 Michigan

Elizabeth Jane Allan Daughter F 0 Michigan

1920 Flint City Directory
Allen, Wm R (Addie) mtrmn, res: 336 W. 12th

1924 Flint City Directory
Allen, Wm R. (A. May) mtrmn h 221 W. 13th

Census 1930

Flint, Genesee, Michigan

[Rented 2001 Dwight Ave, $25]

William R Allen Head M 43 Michigan

[street car operator]

Addie M Allen Wife F 33 Michigan

W Ralph Allen Son M 11 Michigan

E Jane Allen Daughter F 10 Michigan

M George Allen Son M 5 Michigan

1934 Flint City Directory

Allen, Wm R (Mae A) rail opr Eastern Mich Rys r 1701 E. Hamilton

Census, 1940

Flint City, Genesee, Michigan

[Owned Home @ 1701 Hamilton Ave; valued $3300]

  William Allen M 54 Michigan

[trolley coach driver]

Addie Allen F 42 Michigan

William R Allen M 21 Michigan

Elizabeth Allen F 20 Michigan

Marion G Allen M 15 Michigan

California, Death Index, 1940-1997

name: Addie Mae Allen

event: Death

event date: 03 Feb 1981

Los Angeles, California, United States

birth date: 28 Feb 1898

birthplace: Michigan

gender: Female

father: Powers

mother: Moore

See two letters by Marion George Allen here and here.

Before The Grocery Store Belonged To Grandma

Wenn's Grocery Served Area's Needs Despite Depression:

Swartz Creek News - 23 April 2000

...a lot of customers would walk across Corunna Road from Kelly Airfield located south of the gas station....
....Wenns sold the store in 1933

Dad And Grandma At The Store Entrance

The note that was added indicated that there is still a gas station there.  Well, yes, but in the interim my grandmother's store (attached to the family home) was at that location. During the 1960's (and probably most of the 1950's) there were no gas pumps and the storefront was vacated (it made an awesome playroom for us), but the house was still intact.  Some time after my grandfather's death, my grandmother sold the property to a gas company.  It was then that the house was bulldozed and a new gas station was built.  A car dealership is currently across the street (a field of corn was there during my childhood).

Note: Posted on Grandma's Birthday (July 4, 1900)

Crapo's Farm And A Native American Cemetery

Source of Genesee County, Michigan, Map of Townships

Governor Henry Howland Crapo bought Gaines Township land in 1860 according to Wikipedia.

Diverse group shares goal: Save burial ground (an article by Elizabeth Shaw, published in the Flint Journal, Monday, May 3, 2004)

GAINES TWP. ...Today, Friends and Descendants of Native American Cemeteries is breathing new life into a decades-long effort to save a well-known but long-neglected American Indian burial ground.

Swartz Creek Area Historical Society records indicate the burial ground existed long before 1860, when former Michigan Gov. Henry Crapo founded a dairy empire outside what had been Miller's Settlement. 

Mary Eno Died In Prison

Biennial Report of the Board of Control and Officers of the Michigan State ..., By Michigan State Prison (transcript on message board):

Source

8. Mary Eno, 23, Genesee, 1852, Died, 1858

...Plymouth Pilot, Volume 1, Number 43,Plymouth, Marshall County, 12 November 1851

"That the said Peter Eno came to his death upon the 15th day of October, 1851, ' at Flint, in the county aforesaid, by means of poison administered to him by Mary Eno his wife, and William East-man." 

November 26, 1858, The New York Times...

Two life convicts in the State Prison of Michigan have died...[one] known as " Mackinaw," and Mrs. Mary Eno both incarcerated for the crime murder. [snip] Mrs. Eno was sent from Genesee County, some six years served, for the murder of her husband. We believe her accomplice, a hired man, w as also sent at the same time, and is still an inmate of the solitary prison.

Name: Mary Eno

Census 1850

Flint, Genesee, Michigan

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace

Peter Eno M 34 England

Mary Eno F 33 England

Robert Eno M 0 Michigan

Goddard Minors

Michigan Probate Records...Genesee Estate files 1857-1883...:

Source

Image 264

File #1019

Goddard minors

Sarah Allen, mother, of Flushing, Michigan

Also mentioned: John F. Allen

Seth Goddard, age 16

William Goddard, age 13

Freddie Goddard, age 9

13 May 1869

Census 1860

Flushing, Genesee, Michigan, United States

William Godard M 42 England

Sarah Godard F 28 Vermont

Hannah Godard F 9 Michigan

Seth Godard M 7 Michigan

William H Godard M 4 Michigan

Fred M Godard M 0 Michigan

Name John Allen

Age (Expanded) 56 years

Birth Year 1812

Birthplace Michigan

Spouse's Name Sarah J. Calwell Goddard

Spouse's Age (Expanded) 36 years

Spouse's Birth Year 1832

Spouse's Birthplace  Canada

Event Date 22 Jun 1868

East Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan

Gardner Odell's Minor Children

Michigan, Probate Records...Genesee Estate files 1857-1883...:

Image 273

File# 1020

Mtter of William G. Odell

Gardner Odell, dec'd, late of Calhoun Co.

Margaret E. Sinnott of Genesee County has 3 minor children in said county:

John Charles F. Odell, age 12

Cynthia M. Odell, age 10

William G. Odell, age 6

15 May 1869

Also mentioned: Solyman Carpenter

Name Egerton Willson

Age (Expanded) 52 years

Birth Year 1841

Birthplace Canada

Spouse's Name Cynthia O'Dell Mccallum

Spouse's Age (Expanded) 34 years

Spouse's Birth Year 1859

Spouse's Birthplace  Flint, Michigan

Event Date 18 Oct 1893

Event Place Cadillac, Wexford, Michigan

Father's Name John Willson

Mother's Name Margaret Lawrence

Spouse's Father's Name Gardner O'Dell

Spouse's Mother's Name Margaret Wheaton

Census 1860

Athens, Calhoun, Michigan, United States

Gardner Odell M 39 New York

Margaret Odell F 26 New York

Charles Odell M 4 Michigan

Cynthia Odell F 1 Michigan

See Margaret's Widow's Pension from Gardner Odell's Civil War service here.

Marion G. And Marian (Ribarchik) Powers

A brief history of our Powers family written by Marion Garrison Powers.

Census 1910

Dryden, Lapeer, Michigan

William S Powers Head M 50 Canada

Adda M Powers Wife F 45 Michigan

Ward S Powers Son M 16 Michigan

Ralph N Powers Son M 13 Michigan

Adda M Powers Daughter F 12 Michigan

Cynthia J Powers Daughter F 9 Michigan

Marion G Powers Son M 3 Michigan

Census 1920

Flint, Genesee, Michigan

William S Powers Head M 60 Canada

Addie M Powers Wife F 55 Michigan

Ward S Powers Son M 26 Michigan

Ralph Powers Son M 23 Michigan

June Powers Daughter F 20 Michigan

Marion G Powers Son M 13 Michigan

Census 1930

Flint, Genesee, Michigan

[Rents @ 224 W. Thirteenth Street $40]

William S. Powers Head M 70 Canada

Addie M. Powers Wife F 65 Michigan

Marion G. Powers Son M 23 Michigan

Marian J. Powers Daughter-in-law F 22 Pennsylvania

Ward D. Powers Grandson M 2 Michigan

Jocelyn M. Powers Granddaughter F 0 Michigan

1934 Flint City Directory

Powers, Marion G. (Marian J) autowkr  h 1530 Colorado
Powers, William S. (Addie M) carp  h 1530 Colorado

Census 1940

Flint City, Genesee, Michigan

[Rented 1712 Montana Avenue; $30]

Marian G Powers Head M 33 Michigan

[shipping clerk at automobile actory]

Mary J Powers Wife F 32 Pennsylvania

[speedometer assembly at automobile factory]

Ward Powers Son M 12 Michigan

Jocelyn Powers Daughter F 10 Michigan

Addie Powers Mother F 75 New York [born in Michigan]

POWERS, Marion G. Of Flint, age 91, died on Thursday, April 9, 1998... .
Interment at Evergreen Cemetery in Grand Blanc. Mr. Powers was born in Metamora, Michigan on September 30,1906, and lived his entire life in the Flint area. He was united in marriage to Marian J. Ribarchik and the couple celebrated their 71st wedding anniversary on July 2. He was a member of Holy Rosary Catholic Church. For over 30 years he was employed at General Motors and retired from Plant #12 at Buick.  [ (04/98/11) Flint Journal]

                                     

Marion G. Powers' memorial at FindAGrave.  

Aunt Marian Powers (and Mary Anne Powers)
Davison, Michigan
June 1970

Also see Marian Powers' FindAGrave memorial.

You Can't Go Home Again

That was then....

Dad In The Dining Room
 At The House On Baxter Road In Davison, Michigan
1970

This is now....

Sugarbush Golf Club
Approximate Location Of Where The House Formerly Stood
2017

Beatrice And The Most Handsome Man In Flint

Beatrice Cameron and her friend Suzanne met "the most handsome man in Flint*" at a local fair some time before May 29, 1924, Beatrice's wedding day.  

In 1923, Beatrice was a machine operator at the Marvel Carburetor Company and lived at 609 Warren Avenue in Flint, Michigan.  Beatrice's future husband, Ralph N. Powers, was an auto worker who lived on South Saginaw Street, right in the heart of the City of Flint,   

When Beatrice was born on July 4, 1900, in Arenac County, Michigan, Ralph was almost four years old and living in Battle Creek.  

*Ralph N. Powers - as related to me by his daughter, who quoted an in-law of Ralph's sister Cynthia June (Powers) Brown.  

What Happened To George F. Brooks?

Photo Taken In Lapeer County, Michigan

George Brooks' marriage to Clara Powers was April 19, 1882, in Lapeer County.  He was listed as working on the railroad. Both were living in Dryden, Michigan.  Rena Davis and Daniel C. Bacon, both of Dryden, Lapeer County, Michigan, were the witnesses.

Name George Brooks

Age (Expanded) 45 years

Birth Year 1837

Birthplace England

Spouse's Name Clara Powers

Spouse's Age (Expanded) 24 years

Spouse's Birth Year 1858

Spouse's Birthplace Ontario

Event Date 24 Mar 1882

Event Place Dryden, Lapeer, Michigan

In the 1894  State of Michigan Census taken in Lapeer County, George Brooks' birth year was listed as 1830; the marriage record indicated 1837. "Harriet's" [Clara?] birth year was 1865 whereas the marriage record listed Clara's birth year as 1858, which matched other documents for Clara.  The girls are Clara's daughters.

1894 MI Census - Lapeer Co., Village of Dryden

Brooks, George, 64, husband, ENG ENG ENG 11 yrs in MI; U.S.

Brooks, Harriet, 29, wife, 3children/2living, CAN CAN CAN 13 yrs in MI; U.S.

Brooks, Lucy, 9, daughter, MI ENG CAN

Brooks, Cornelia, 6, daughter, MI ENG CAN

By November of 1896, Clara was still Mrs. Clara E. Brooks, though living in the adjacent county of Genesee.

The 1899 Flint City Directory included the following entry:  BROOKS, Clara E. (wid George F.), res 150(0) Fenton.

George Brooks' death record was not found in the 1897-1920 Michigan death records.

Clara (Powers) Brooks and Allen Sincerbeaux applied for a marriage license (which was uncompleted and crossed out, stating "am unable to make/use this license) on 23 Oct 1899, in Flint, Genesee Co., Michigan. When and where did they actually get married -- or did they? Was George Brooks still alive, making the license invalid?

Cornelia Brooks was listed as Allen Sincerbeaux's step-daughter, and "Carrie E. (Clara) as his wife in the 1900 census.

Lucy Brooks was living as a boarder in a household where Lola Sincerbeaux (Allen's daughter) was a servant in 1900.   In November of 1900 Lola Sincerbeaux married Clara's brother, John Powers.

Clara (Powers) Brooks Sincerbeaux's obituary indicated that she was survived by two daughters (Lucy and Cornelia).

David Isaac Fowler Probate

New York, Probate Records, Livingston Wills 1845-1861 vol 3:

Livingston County, New York

3-447

10 October 1852

David I. Fowler

Image 437

...Elting J. Fowler, the Executor named in the Last Will and Testament of David J. Fowler, late of the town of Nunda...

Last Will and Testament

David I. Fowler, of Covington, Wyoming, New York

Wife: Jemima

Son: Elting J. Fowler

Daughter: Mary Ann Alsdorf

Mentioned: Hannah Warner, wife of Eben Warner

Daughter: Hannah Childress???

Mentioned: David Alsdorf

From the "Gazetteer and biographical record of Genesee County, N.Y., 1788-1890":

"Dr. J. D. Fowler was a son of Deacon David J. Fowler, one of the pioneer settlers of Covington, Wyoming County. He studied medicine with his brother-in-law. Dr. Eben Warner, was graduated, and began the practice of his profession in Byron. He became a member of the Genesee County Medical Society in 1841 and died two years later from the poison received in  post mortem examination. He was a young man of great promise, and his early death was much regretted by all who knew him."

Ralph N. Powers' 4 Generation Chart

Ralph Newman Powers' profile at Wikitree and the dynamic tree view here.  He's my paternal grandfather.

Ralph N. Powers

Ralph N. Powers was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1896.  Why his parents moved there is a mystery to me.  Ralph's mother, Addie More, was born (1864) and raised in Lapeer County, Michigan. Although she died at the home of her daughter, Addie Mae (Powers) Allen, in California (1947), she was buried in Thornville Cemetery in Lapeer.

William S. Powers was born in Grimsby, Ontario, Canada (1859).  He and Addie More married in Lapeer on 25 April 1888. Their (adult) children were Ward, Ralph, Addie Mae, Cynthia June, and Marion Garrison Powers.  After William's death (1939), his widow continued to live with her youngest son, Marion, in Flint, Michigan.

John Powers (born in 1834 in Canada or possibly Ireland) married 1st Mary Agnes Kennedy (1834-1908), of Ontario, Canada.  They were the parents of Clara Estelle, William, John E., James A.,  and Harry G. Powers, who were all born in Canada, Harry being the possible exception.  John married again; that record provided the names (Michael Powers and Mary McGovern) of John's Irish parents who moved to Canada.

Mary Agnes and John Powers

Mary Agnes was the daughter of David Kennedy and Ann Howard.  The Kennedy's children also included Wilber, Melissa, Howard, and probably others.  Ann was the daughter of William Howard and Mary (LNU).  I don't know the identity of David Kennedy's ancestors.

Addie (More) Powers was the daughter of James More and Cynthia Richmond.  Other More children included John Frank, James Levi, Ward B., Charles Austin, and Mary. James was born in Scotland about 1815 and died in Lapeer in 1870.  James' parents were William More and Margaret Norrie according to family tradition.  Cynthia (1829-1912) was the daughter of Thomas P. Richmond and Laura Backus. Cynthia's known siblings were Almina and Emory.

From POW To Tawas Lighthouse Keeper

Lighthouse Stairs [Not Tawas Bay Lighthouse]

From the Patriot War:

Excerpts from the narrative above: "Chauncey Sheldon, a Macomb County farmer, joined the fray and was taken prisoner in Canada.  Saved from execution by flashing a Masonic sign, he was transported to Van Diemen's Land instead.  After his return to Michigan he became a lighthouse keeper at Tawas Bay.  He then lived with his daughter, Mrs. Daniel Duncan in Macomb County, Michigan.  Mr. Sheldon died in Genesee County, Michigan, about 1855."

Source - Tawas Bay