I am ttrying to lacate info on my fathers 1st wife. My father was Harry Willian Bernard Karicofe and he was B.18 may1898 in Detroit, MI., He married Treva Mae Farnum on the 19 of Feb.1916, She was [email protected] and they had a daughter Lillian Wyonne Karicofe the 7 Nov 1916, and devorced the16 March 1920. Treva`s Parents were Lewis J. Farnum and Eva Edbergh. I know the mother Treva and daughter Lillian lived in Kalamazoo MI. and dau. married George Clinton Thomas and had three children, 1 Treva Wyone thomas 2 William Lynn thomas 3 Linda Mae thomas. Treva and husband George are both dead and burried at Mountain Home Cem. in Kalamazoo. If anyone has info on the mothers other marriges or death I would love to hear from them. Thank you in advance Uretta .

Uretta, I would suggest that you go to the KVGS Kalamazoo Valley Genealogical Society website . Last year and also in the mid 1990s volunteers there did lookups for me. Last year I got curious about a 100 year old aunt telling me her first husband's name and that he had died back about 1930. It was pretty neat to learn more about her life before she married my uncle. In the mid-nineteen-ninetys working with the volunteer and with a wonderful person from Allegan the three way search between KVGS, Allegan and clues I found in an old ledger the three of us managed to find my 2nd great grandmother's burial place and her brief obituary in the Kalamazoo Gazette for 1885. Earlier I had called the county clerks office and no one with my gggrandmothers name had died on the date that was written in the old ledger. There was also no death recorded at the state level. Even stranger the only person the Kalamazoo county clerk had listed as dying that day was also listed in the cemetery records. The volunteer from Allegan used those records and when she went to the burial site the tombstone had my gggrandmothers real name birth and death dates plus her husbands name. To top it off all the burial sites in that plot held relatives. The volunteer also told me my ancestors were buried up on a hill , among beautiful full grown trees , overlooking the river. The information in the old ledger told exactly the same as the brief obituary. Our searches took two weeks of e-mailing information back and forth. Not bad for an event that took place in 1885. Good Luck.....Marilyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Uretta Mitchell" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:48 PM Subject: [MI-GENEALOGY] Fathers first wiife and mother of my half-sister >I am ttrying to lacate info on my fathers 1st wife. My father was Harry Willian Bernard Karicofe and he was B.18 may1898 in Detroit, MI., He married Treva Mae Farnum on the 19 of Feb.1916, She was [email protected] and they had a daughter Lillian Wyonne Karicofe the 7 Nov 1916, and devorced the16 March 1920. Treva`s Parents were Lewis J. Farnum and Eva Edbergh. > I know the mother Treva and daughter Lillian lived in Kalamazoo MI. and dau. married George Clinton Thomas and had three children, 1 Treva Wyone thomas 2 William Lynn thomas 3 Linda Mae thomas. Treva and husband George are both dead and burried at Mountain Home Cem. in Kalamazoo. > If anyone has info on the mothers other marriges or death I would love to hear from them. Thank you in advance Uretta . > ***************************** > The theme of this list is Michigan genealogy and research. Please respect others by keeping your postings to this theme. > MI-Genealogy Mail List Information > http://www.rootsweb.com/~migenweb/maillist.html > ***************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.21/1109 - Release Date: 11/4/2007 11:05 AM > >