This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Buhl Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5687 Message Board Post: Born: 23 Feb 1908 Wayne, Romulus, Michigan Died: 7 Aug 1994 Kent, Grand Rapids, Michigan

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kFB.2ACE/5683.1.1.1 Message Board Post: This family does not appear in the 1930 Michigan census.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5683.1.1 Message Board Post: Emma Brundl, her daughter Barbara Loretta Brundl. unsure of Emma's husband's name. I think they came from around Grand Rapids, MI. I believe that Barbara wa about 2 in 1920. thanks for your reply, I am not having to much luck even with this odd name!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5686.2 Message Board Post: Hello In the obituary index in the Grand Rapids Press there are two obits listed Esther Badgerow 29 Mar l937 Grand Rapids Herald Oliver Badgerow l8 Oct l943 Grand Rapid Press. In the West Michigan Society database this is listed Oliver Badgerow married Ester Youngblood marriage book 8 page 4 l883-l886 I can get you the obits but it is going to be a week or more as i just got to close to a post today and wrecked the driver side door of my car and it will be in the shop for at least a week. If you would like to look at the Badgerow obit list go to www. wmgs.org and click on Data bases. I am not related. Helen Ringer Kent co Mich.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kFB.2ACE/5683.1 Message Board Post: Need some first names, where were they born? I'm not related to this family.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kFB.2ACE/5686.1 Message Board Post: I'm not related to this family. 1900 census - Name: Mary Badgerow Home in 1900: Sparta, Kent, Michigan Age: 16 Birth Year: Jan. 1884 Birthplace: Michigan Relationship to head-of-house: Servant 1900 census - Name: Oliver Bayeroo [NOTE SPELLING] Home in 1900: Sparta, Kent, Michigan Age: 51 Birth Year: Sept. 1849 Birthplace: Canada French Relationship to head-of-house: Head Spouse's name: Ester Ester Bayeroo 34, b. Jan. 1866, Mi., she has had 7 children and 5 are living Mary Bayeroo 15, b. Dec. 1884, Mi Ellie Bayeroo 12, b. Aug. 1887, Mi Emma Bayeroo 9, b. July 1890, Mi Jessie Bayeroo 5, b. July 1894, Mi., son Thomas Youngblood 69, father-inlaw, widowed, b. June 1830, Mi Sharlot Bayeroo 3, b. Nov. 1896, Mi 1910 census - Name: Oliver Badgerow, day laborer Age in 1910: 65 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1845 Birthplace: Canada English Relation to Head of House: Head Father's Birth Place: Canada English Mother's Birth Place: Canada English Spouse's name: Ester Home in 1910: Sparta, Kent, Michigan Ester Badgerow 40, b. Mi., she has had 7 children and 5 are living, married 25 yrs. Mary Badgerow 21, b. Mi Emma Badgerow 18, b. Mi Jessie Badgerow 15, b. MI Charlott Badgerow 13, b. Mi 1920 census - Name: Oliver Badgrow {NOTE SPELLING} [Oliver Badgerow] Home in 1920: Sparta, Kent, Michigan Age: 75 years Estimated Birth Year: abt 1845 Birthplace: Canada Relation to Head of House: Head Spouse's name: Esther Father's Birth Place: New York Mother's Birth Place: Canada Marital Status: Married Race: White Sex: Male Home owned: Own Year of Immigration: 1856 Able to read: Yes Able to Write: Yes Esther Badgrow 55 Ella Badgrow 24 1920 census - Jesse, son Name: Jesse T Badgerow [Jesse j Badgerow] Occupation: Apprentice shipping clerk Home in 1920: Lansing Ward 8, Ingham, Michigan Age: 25 years Estimated Birth Year: abt 1895 Birthplace: Michigan Relation to Head of House: Head Spouse's name: Mabel A Father's Birth Place: Canada Mother's Birth Place: Michigan Mabel A Badgerow 32, b. Indiana Julia L Badgerow 2 5/12, b. Mi William E Badgerow 6/12, b. Indiana 1930 census - Name: Oliver D Badgerow Home in 1930: Sparta, Kent, Michigan Age: 88 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1842 Birthplace: Canada Relation to Head of House: Head Spouse's name: Ester L., 67, no grandchildren or children at home 1930 census - Name: Jesse T Badgerow; city repairman Home in 1930: Lansing, Ingham, Michigan Age: 35 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1895 Birthplace: Michigan Relation to Head of House: Head Spouse's name: Mabel A Mabel A Badgerow 42, b. Indiana Julia L Badgerow 12, b. Mi William E Badgerow 10, b. Indiana David C Badgerow 8, b. Mi Earl L Badgerow 2, b. MI Also try - Social Security Death Index = FREE, Searchable http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/

I don't know. I do know that his father was Wm. Ring, and that he, Edmund (1826 - 1919) was a very important man in the Alton community for many years. I would really like to find a descendant who may be able to tell me more about him. Thanks for any help, Shantell ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 9:15 PM Subject: Re: [MIKENT] Ed Ring from Alton/Vergennes township Is it possible Edmond's ancestors were Dutch and the family name was Reingoud> Ringold>Ring? Jean In a message dated 10/12/06 7:41:24 PM, [email protected] writes: > Hi, > I am looking for ancestors or researchers of Edmund Ring, blacksmith and > entrepreneur who lived in Alton for many years. He is buried in the Smyrna > cemetery. I am researching Alton. > Thanks for any help anyone can offer! > Shantell Ford > > ------------------------------- 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

Is it possible Edmond's ancestors were Dutch and the family name was Reingoud> Ringold>Ring? Jean In a message dated 10/12/06 7:41:24 PM, [email protected] writes: > Hi, > I am looking for ancestors or researchers of Edmund Ring, blacksmith and > entrepreneur who lived in Alton for many years.   He is buried in the Smyrna > cemetery.   I am researching Alton.   > Thanks for any help anyone can offer! > Shantell Ford > >

Hi, I am looking for ancestors or researchers of Edmund Ring, blacksmith and entrepreneur who lived in Alton for many years. He is buried in the Smyrna cemetery. I am researching Alton. Thanks for any help anyone can offer! Shantell Ford

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kFB.2ACE/5686 Message Board Post: Looking for information on the Badgero, Badgerow family from Sparta, MI. Oliver Badgerow was born in Canada, 1854. His wife's name was Esther, and she was born in Michigan. If anyone has any information on who their children were, or any other information, please contact me. My email is [email protected] Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Diane

To person looking for the marriage of Frela Brown I checked the marriage index at the WMGS site. It is Frela S. Brown and Alverda Sherk Vol 12 Pg 309 (This marriage took place between 1896-1900) ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 1:00 AM Subject: MIKENT Digest, Vol 1, Issue 11 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Robert Termolen, obit, 1975 ([email protected]) > 2. Stevens from NY to MI ([email protected]) > 3. Female Marriage Records ([email protected]) > 4. Re: Female Marriage Records ([email protected]) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: 11 Oct 2006 07:16:06 -0600 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MIKENT] Robert Termolen, obit, 1975 > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5677.1.1 > > Message Board Post: > > A Million Thank You for the information! > > Ah, I remember the downtown parking, hasn't improved in the last 23 years > I see. > > If you ever need any Texas help just holler. > > Barbara > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: 11 Oct 2006 09:28:23 -0600 > From: [email protected] > Subject: [MIKENT] Stevens from NY to MI > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Stevens, Armstrong > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5685 > > Message Board Post: > > Researching the following individuals: Winnie (or Minnie) Stevens and > Sarah Stevens (probably sisters, have old family photo of them); Gilbert > Stevens and his sister Mary Stevens Tuttle (plainfield twp, 1880 census). > Trying to figure out how these individuals may be related to my Stevens > line. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:48:55 EDT > From: [email protected] > Subject: [MIKENT] Female Marriage Records > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > I cannot figure out how to check on the Kent Marriage Records. The ones > I > see show the groom. Where is the list for the brides? > I am looking for Frela Brown from Brownsville or Alaska, born 1875. Can > anyone help? > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 01:19:55 +0000 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MIKENT] Female Marriage Records > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <10122006[email protected]comcast.net> > > Content-Type: text/plain > > Hi: > > When you enter the last name on the WMGS death or marriage pages, she > should show up. Problem is that not all marriages are available through > this search engine > > Ed. > > -------------- Original message -------------- > From: [email protected] > >> I cannot figure out how to check on the Kent Marriage Records. The ones I >> see show the groom. Where is the list for the brides? >> I am looking for Frela Brown from Brownsville or Alaska, born 1875. Can >> anyone help? >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the MIKENT list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the MIKENT mailing list, send an email to > [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > 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 > email with no additional text. > > > End of MIKENT Digest, Vol 1, Issue 11 > ************************************* >

Hi: When you enter the last name on the WMGS death or marriage pages, she should show up. Problem is that not all marriages are available through this search engine Ed. -------------- Original message -------------- From: [email protected] > I cannot figure out how to check on the Kent Marriage Records. The ones I > see show the groom. Where is the list for the brides? > I am looking for Frela Brown from Brownsville or Alaska, born 1875. Can > anyone help? > > ------------------------------- > 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

I cannot figure out how to check on the Kent Marriage Records. The ones I see show the groom. Where is the list for the brides? I am looking for Frela Brown from Brownsville or Alaska, born 1875. Can anyone help?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stevens, Armstrong Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5685 Message Board Post: Researching the following individuals: Winnie (or Minnie) Stevens and Sarah Stevens (probably sisters, have old family photo of them); Gilbert Stevens and his sister Mary Stevens Tuttle (plainfield twp, 1880 census). Trying to figure out how these individuals may be related to my Stevens line.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5677.1.1 Message Board Post: A Million Thank You for the information! Ah, I remember the downtown parking, hasn't improved in the last 23 years I see. If you ever need any Texas help just holler. Barbara

Just to add to your interesting post. Fountain Street Church still exists but it is no longer Baptist. In 1877, the only high school in Grand Rapids was Central which was on Ransom Ave back then. The Union Benevolent Hospital was a fore-runner of both Blodget Hospital (Spectrum East) and Mary Free Bed Hospital. The site of the UBH is now occupied by Fountain Elementary School which used be around the corner on Fountain Street where Central High School is now. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 10:32 AM Subject: [MIKENT] Photo - SCHUYLER COLFAX GRAVES (1858-1941),Grand Rapids Physician > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: BALDWIN, BOWMAN, COLFAX, DRYDEN, EDDY, GRAVES, SCHUYLER > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5684 > > Message Board Post: > > There is currently on eBay a Cabinet Card photograph of Grand Rapids, MI, > physician, SCHUYLER COLFAX GRAVES (1858-1941). This item is eBay item > #180037209631 and the auction runs until MONDAY Evening, OCTOBER 16th, > 2006. > > This photograph came from the photograph album of fellow physician, DR. > REYNOLD J. KIRKLAND (1856-1930), and Schuyler Graves has written on the > reverse of the mount, “Remember your old chum of happy High School and > College years. - Schuyler C. Graves, Ann Arbor, May 5, 1879." Both men > were in the Medical Department of the University of Michigan at that time. > > DR. SCHUYLER COLFAX GRAVES, of Grand Rapids, was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., > March 6, 1858, a son of SAMUEL and MARY (WILLIAMS-BALDWIN) GRAVES. > > REV. SAMUEL GRAVES, D.D., father of the subject, was born in New Hampshire > March 25, 1820, was educated at Madison university (now Colgate), > Hamilton, N.Y., and in early manhood entered the ministry of the Baptist > church. For about seven years he was in charge of a congregation at Ann > Arbor, Mich., and was then called to the Greek chair at Kalamazoo college, > and it was during his incumbency of this professorship that his son, Dr. > Schuyler C. Graves, was born. Rev. Samuel Graves was called from > Kalamazoo to the pastorate of the Central Baptist church of Norwich, > Conn., where he officiated from 1859 to 1869, and in that city the boyhood > days of young Schuyler C. were passed. The Rev. Samuel Graves next > accepted a call to Grand Rapids, Mich., built the Fountain Street Baptist > church, and was its pastor from 1870 until 1885, and was called to the > presidency of the Atlanta Baptist Seminary at Atlanta, Ga., an institution > for the education of colored boys in theology and the li! > beral arts. For nine years Dr. Graves acted as the president of, or > professor of theology in, this institution, and then returned to Grand > Rapids in the fall of 1894, and here, on January 17, 1895, ended his long > and useful career in life. > > MRS. MARY GRAVES, relict of Rev. Dr. Samuel Graves, is a direct descendant > of the Schuylers and Colfaxes of New Jersey and is a member of the order > of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Her family consists of two > sons and two daughters. Of these, the eldest is MRS. HENRY H. BOWMAN, > whose husband is a banker of Springfield, Mass.; the next in order of > birth is MRS. LAWRENCE P. EDDY [MARY B.], whose husband is a prominent > lawyer of Grand Rapids; the third is DR. SCHUYLER C., the subject proper > of this article, and the youngest is WILLIAM COLFAX, one of the editors of > the Chicago Tribune. Mrs. Graves, the mother of this family, is passing > her declining years at the home of her son, Dr. Schuyler C. > > Dr. Schuyler C. Graves came to Grand Rapids with his parents in > January, 1870, and here graduated from the high school in 1877. He then > entered the literary department of the university of Michigan, took the > freshman year, then entered the medical department and completed a > three-year course of studies in 1881. He was at once appointed assistant > demonstrator of anatomy in the university, but resigned his position at > the close of a year to enter upon the general practice of his profession > at Charlevoix, Mich., where he enjoyed a good practice form 1882 to 1885, > and was for a portion of this period surgeon for the Delaware copper mine, > Lake Superior, and part of the time coroner of Charlevoix county. > > In 1885, Dr. Graves came to Grand Rapids, and here for ten years > devoted his attention exclusively to surgery. The year 1896 was passed by > Dr. Graves abroad in visiting clinics, particularly those in London and > Germany, and upon his return to America he took special courses in surgery > in Philadelphia, and also under Dr. Charles McBurny, in New York city. > June 4, 1898, he was appointed, by President McKinley, as major and > brigade surgeon, to serve, during the recent war with Spain, in the First > brigade, Third division, Fourth army corps, on the staff of Brig-Gen. > Jacob Kline, and did duty at Tampa and Fernandina, Fla., and at > Huntsville, Ala., and then, hostilities having come to a lull, was granted > a leave of absence, after which he was honorably discharged from service. > > Dr. Graves is one of the surgeons employed by the Michigan Central > Railroad company; he has served two terms as county physician of Kent > county; was professor of surgery in the Grand Rapids Medical college, but > resigned at the close of the year 1898; is visiting surgeon to the Union > Benevolent Association hospital, and has been lecturer on anatomy at the > Union Benevolent Association hospital for training nurses ever since its > establishment in 1887. The doctor has also served as president of the > Grand Rapids academy of Medicine, and is a member of the local, the State > and the National Medical societies; is also an honorary member of the > Grand River Valley Medical association, the Detroit, Eaton and Barry > county Medical associations, and the Northern Tri-State Medical society, > to all of which he has contributed many valuable papers on the science and > practice of medicine. He is also a member of the Alpha Delta Phi > Peninsular chapter, and of the Sons of the American Rev! > olution. He is, beside, the author of the medical chapter in the History > of Grand Rapids recently published by Albert Baxter, as well as of many > interesting contributions to medical magazines and the public press. The > doctor was also elected chairman of the surgical section of the Michigan > State Medical society, and to the oratorship on surgery in the same. > > Dr. Graves was united in marriage October 9, 1883, at St. Louis, Mo., > to Miss ANNIE M. DRYDEN, youngest daughter of Hon. JOHN D.S. DRYDEN, > ex-supreme court judge of the state of Missouri. After eighteen months of > married life, he had the misfortune to lose his bride, who left behind, to > grieve her sad departure, beside himself, an infant daughter—ANNIE > DRYDEN--now a charming miss of fifteen years and an attendant at school in > Grand Rapids. > > The doctor's religious membership is with the church of which his > father was the pastor for so many years--the Fountain street Baptist. In > politics he is a stanch republican. --Taken from The City of Grand Rapids > and Kent County, Mich., A.W. Bowen & Co., 1900. Pgs. 190-191 > > In the 1860 U.S. CENSUS for NORWICH, NEW LONDON CO., CT, is shown, SAMUEL > GRAVES, 40, Baptist Clergyman (Born in NH) and MARY B., 36 (Born in NJ), > with children: ELIZA B., 11 (Born in NY); MARY L., 9 (Born in MI) and > SCHUYLER C., 2 (Born in MI). They have a domestic, Mary Rhine, 18 (Born > in Ireland), living with them. > > In the 1870 U.S. CENSUS for GRAND RAPIDS (Ward 3), KENT CO., MI, is shown, > SAMUEL GRAVES, 50, Clergyman (Born in NH) and MARY, 45 (Born in NJ), with > children: LIDA, 21 (Born in NY); MARY, 18 (Born in MI); SCHUYLER, 12 > (Born in MI) and WILLIE, 8 (Born in CT). They have a domestic, Christine > Muckler, 25 (Born in Prussia), living with them. > > According to the CALIFORNIA DEATH INDEX, 1940-1997 Record, SCHUYLER C. > GRAVES, born 6 Mar 1858, in Michigan, died 14 Jul 1941, Los Angeles, CA. > His mother’s maiden name was BALDWIN. > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.1/470 - Release Date: 10/10/2006

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5679.1 Message Board Post: In the Grand Rapids library there are films done by the Mormon Church of the indexes of the death records. not the record only the index. on the film for l898-l902 there are 3 Mary wilson recorded Mary Helen Wilson record is in book 5 page lll Mary J. Wilson is in book 5 page 240 Mary E Wilson is in book 5 page 274 I did not find any obit listed for her in a record of early obits. I guess you would almost have to look at each record in the county building to see who each lady is. I generally do not go to the county bldg. so I can not help there. Maybe someone else does. I do not know. They will look it up for you but there is a fee attached. Helen Ringer Kent Co Mich.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5677.1 Message Board Post: Hello Sorry for taking so long but I like to go to the library on Sat or sun when the parking is free and too much was going on lately to insure a place to park. But I went today and got your obit. got in and out on the free parking for l hour. Robert Termolen= Robert chad Termolen aged 8 weeks passed away at Butterworth Hospital Sat morn Mar 22, l975. He is survived by his parents Robert and Pamela Termolen of 5540 Madison St Hudsonville and 4 brothers and l sister; Bill, Todd, John and Jim and Amy all living at home. The Grandparents mr. and Mrs. John Lemmen of Hudsonville, Mrs. Margaret Termollen of Grand Rapids and John Termolen of Comstock Park. Funeral services will be Mon at l.30 pm at Vanderlaan Funeral home Hudsonville. The Rev. John DeJong offic. Internment in Floral View Memorial Gardens. Friends may meet the fam Sat. 7-9 Sunday 2-4 and 7-9. Helen Ringer Kent co Mich

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BALDWIN, BOWMAN, COLFAX, DRYDEN, EDDY, GRAVES, SCHUYLER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/5684 Message Board Post: There is currently on eBay a Cabinet Card photograph of Grand Rapids, MI, physician, SCHUYLER COLFAX GRAVES (1858-1941). This item is eBay item #180037209631 and the auction runs until MONDAY Evening, OCTOBER 16th, 2006. This photograph came from the photograph album of fellow physician, DR. REYNOLD J. KIRKLAND (1856-1930), and Schuyler Graves has written on the reverse of the mount, “Remember your old chum of happy High School and College years. - Schuyler C. Graves, Ann Arbor, May 5, 1879." Both men were in the Medical Department of the University of Michigan at that time. DR. SCHUYLER COLFAX GRAVES, of Grand Rapids, was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., March 6, 1858, a son of SAMUEL and MARY (WILLIAMS-BALDWIN) GRAVES. REV. SAMUEL GRAVES, D.D., father of the subject, was born in New Hampshire March 25, 1820, was educated at Madison university (now Colgate), Hamilton, N.Y., and in early manhood entered the ministry of the Baptist church. For about seven years he was in charge of a congregation at Ann Arbor, Mich., and was then called to the Greek chair at Kalamazoo college, and it was during his incumbency of this professorship that his son, Dr. Schuyler C. Graves, was born. Rev. Samuel Graves was called from Kalamazoo to the pastorate of the Central Baptist church of Norwich, Conn., where he officiated from 1859 to 1869, and in that city the boyhood days of young Schuyler C. were passed. The Rev. Samuel Graves next accepted a call to Grand Rapids, Mich., built the Fountain Street Baptist church, and was its pastor from 1870 until 1885, and was called to the presidency of the Atlanta Baptist Seminary at Atlanta, Ga., an institution for the education of colored boys in theology and the li! beral arts. For nine years Dr. Graves acted as the president of, or professor of theology in, this institution, and then returned to Grand Rapids in the fall of 1894, and here, on January 17, 1895, ended his long and useful career in life. MRS. MARY GRAVES, relict of Rev. Dr. Samuel Graves, is a direct descendant of the Schuylers and Colfaxes of New Jersey and is a member of the order of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Her family consists of two sons and two daughters. Of these, the eldest is MRS. HENRY H. BOWMAN, whose husband is a banker of Springfield, Mass.; the next in order of birth is MRS. LAWRENCE P. EDDY [MARY B.], whose husband is a prominent lawyer of Grand Rapids; the third is DR. SCHUYLER C., the subject proper of this article, and the youngest is WILLIAM COLFAX, one of the editors of the Chicago Tribune. Mrs. Graves, the mother of this family, is passing her declining years at the home of her son, Dr. Schuyler C. Dr. Schuyler C. Graves came to Grand Rapids with his parents in January, 1870, and here graduated from the high school in 1877. He then entered the literary department of the university of Michigan, took the freshman year, then entered the medical department and completed a three-year course of studies in 1881. He was at once appointed assistant demonstrator of anatomy in the university, but resigned his position at the close of a year to enter upon the general practice of his profession at Charlevoix, Mich., where he enjoyed a good practice form 1882 to 1885, and was for a portion of this period surgeon for the Delaware copper mine, Lake Superior, and part of the time coroner of Charlevoix county. In 1885, Dr. Graves came to Grand Rapids, and here for ten years devoted his attention exclusively to surgery. The year 1896 was passed by Dr. Graves abroad in visiting clinics, particularly those in London and Germany, and upon his return to America he took special courses in surgery in Philadelphia, and also under Dr. Charles McBurny, in New York city. June 4, 1898, he was appointed, by President McKinley, as major and brigade surgeon, to serve, during the recent war with Spain, in the First brigade, Third division, Fourth army corps, on the staff of Brig-Gen. Jacob Kline, and did duty at Tampa and Fernandina, Fla., and at Huntsville, Ala., and then, hostilities having come to a lull, was granted a leave of absence, after which he was honorably discharged from service. Dr. Graves is one of the surgeons employed by the Michigan Central Railroad company; he has served two terms as county physician of Kent county; was professor of surgery in the Grand Rapids Medical college, but resigned at the close of the year 1898; is visiting surgeon to the Union Benevolent Association hospital, and has been lecturer on anatomy at the Union Benevolent Association hospital for training nurses ever since its establishment in 1887. The doctor has also served as president of the Grand Rapids academy of Medicine, and is a member of the local, the State and the National Medical societies; is also an honorary member of the Grand River Valley Medical association, the Detroit, Eaton and Barry county Medical associations, and the Northern Tri-State Medical society, to all of which he has contributed many valuable papers on the science and practice of medicine. He is also a member of the Alpha Delta Phi Peninsular chapter, and of the Sons of the American Rev! olution. He is, beside, the author of the medical chapter in the History of Grand Rapids recently published by Albert Baxter, as well as of many interesting contributions to medical magazines and the public press. The doctor was also elected chairman of the surgical section of the Michigan State Medical society, and to the oratorship on surgery in the same. Dr. Graves was united in marriage October 9, 1883, at St. Louis, Mo., to Miss ANNIE M. DRYDEN, youngest daughter of Hon. JOHN D.S. DRYDEN, ex-supreme court judge of the state of Missouri. After eighteen months of married life, he had the misfortune to lose his bride, who left behind, to grieve her sad departure, beside himself, an infant daughter—ANNIE DRYDEN--now a charming miss of fifteen years and an attendant at school in Grand Rapids. The doctor's religious membership is with the church of which his father was the pastor for so many years--the Fountain street Baptist. In politics he is a stanch republican. --Taken from The City of Grand Rapids and Kent County, Mich., A.W. Bowen & Co., 1900. Pgs. 190-191 In the 1860 U.S. CENSUS for NORWICH, NEW LONDON CO., CT, is shown, SAMUEL GRAVES, 40, Baptist Clergyman (Born in NH) and MARY B., 36 (Born in NJ), with children: ELIZA B., 11 (Born in NY); MARY L., 9 (Born in MI) and SCHUYLER C., 2 (Born in MI). They have a domestic, Mary Rhine, 18 (Born in Ireland), living with them. In the 1870 U.S. CENSUS for GRAND RAPIDS (Ward 3), KENT CO., MI, is shown, SAMUEL GRAVES, 50, Clergyman (Born in NH) and MARY, 45 (Born in NJ), with children: LIDA, 21 (Born in NY); MARY, 18 (Born in MI); SCHUYLER, 12 (Born in MI) and WILLIE, 8 (Born in CT). They have a domestic, Christine Muckler, 25 (Born in Prussia), living with them. According to the CALIFORNIA DEATH INDEX, 1940-1997 Record, SCHUYLER C. GRAVES, born 6 Mar 1858, in Michigan, died 14 Jul 1941, Los Angeles, CA. His mother’s maiden name was BALDWIN.

Is there anyway that anyone can get me the following obit? I know I can go thru the Western Genealogy network -- but it just takes so long and I am hoping for a quicker response. Abbie M. [Fisher] Wagner 23 July 1968 Grand Rapids