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A NOTE FROM OUR PRESIDENT …
The Osceola Genealogy Website Update
We are continuing to build up the website. It will
constantly being added to with links to other helpful websites and indexes that have been compiled
over the years.
If you would like to see something added to our
Genealogy website, let us know so we can make it
helpful for all members and other users.
You can email us at:
[email protected]
We are saving quite a bit of money by sending out
the newsletter through the email. We have about
47 members in our society and we currently have
31 members with email addresses. That is a
$13.64 savings just in stamps. This also saves in
printing costs. So if you have not given us your
email address please do so we can save even more
on costs.
REMEMBER:
As expected the dates set aside for
working on the 1884 and 1894 census
records at the Courthouse were
among the worst of the winter, so no
one showed up.
In March and early April, we will
need some help at the Museum in rearranging and straightening up the
genealogy archives. Please contact
me to set up a day and time that will
work for a you. Since the room is
rather small only a few can work at a
time. ANY help is appreciated.
Please see the future calendar for up
coming events, and let me know if
there is something you would like to
see presented in the near future.
You can contact me at 231-832-9525
Thank you,
Betsy Randall
See you at the meetings!!
You can find us on the web at:
www.ocgs.info
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T HE O SCEOLEAN
O FFICERS OF THE OCGS...
Google for Genealogists
President:
Betsy Randall
Vice-President
Dianne Phelps
Do you think you know every trick of the trade
Secretary:
Theresa Harvey
when you are using Google for genealogical
Treasurer Membership:
Marilyn Hoogerhyde
research? You might be surprised by how
Obituary Chairman:
Judy Hulliberger
many new techniques you can learn by watch-
Computer Chairman:
Elna Wilder
ing the 1 1/2 hour long webinar titled Google
Newsletter Editor and Webmaster:
Debra Miller-Tossey
Delegates to Mich Genealogical Council:
Ted Rinness
Alternate Delegates:
for Genealogists. It can be accessed for free at :
http://www.millenniacorp.com/_videos/webin
ars/2011ars/2011-0101-0505-google/2011google/2011-0101-0505google.html.
Aloha Hodges
This site allows you to download and print a
Theresa Harvey
handout as well as view the webinar on your
computer.
For those of you who do not know what an
webinar is, think of if as a seminar over the
internet on your computer.
Source: West Michigan Genealogy Society Newsletter.
M EMBERSHIP D UES S TATUS
As most of you know January 1st saw
an increase to our membership dues. If
you paid before January 1st 2011 you
were given last years rate. However
some of our members have not paid
their dues and these are now due at the
higher rate. Other societies have higher
rates and we are trying to keep our
costs down, but everything does go up.
Our rates are as follows:
Individual—$10
Family—$15
Lifetime—$150 (this is new!)
Thank you for members who have paid
lifetime dues. If you have not paid your
dues please see the back page for information. Thank you
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From the Evart Review June 3, 1927
OSCEOLA CO. 8™ GRADE EXERCISES
Held at Evart School Auditorium
Saturday, June 4, 1927 10:00
Eastern Time
ADDRESS BY WEBSTER A. PIERCE
Class March, High School Orchestra
Invocation
Reverend W.J. Atkinson
Music
Boys' Quartet
Address of Welcome
Geo. A. Glerum
President Evart Bd. of Education
Violin Solo
Doris Eleanor Poland
Address
Music
Webster A. Pearce
Supt. Public Instruction Elect
Sextette, High School Girls
Presentation of Diplomas
Commissioner O.J. Heber
Afternoon 1:30 O'clock
County Track Meet at Fair Grounds
Graduates are guests of the County Athletic Association
1927 OSCEOLA COUNTY
EIGHTH GRADE GRADUATES
The following 138 are the names of those who passed
the Eighth grade examination and are to be given
their diplomas at the exercises to be held at the
School auditorium, Evart, tomorrow.
POST OFFICE ADDRESS, EVART
Sidney Shore, Chas. P. Sherlock, Lincoln
Owen, Celia Gibson, Jean McLachlan, Lloyd Gugel,
Rollin Rueffer, Kenneth Kirkwood, Lolo Grinnell, Lola
McCarn, Geo. Golombisky, Cecil Lambert, Nola
Kushmaul, Theodore Collins, Virgie F. Booher, Esther
Heinbecker, James Irwin, Frank Marlatt, Elmer
Mooney, Frances Visser, Leona Buzung, Mary Clark,
Irwin McDonald.
POST OFFICE ADDRESS, SEARS
Emma Kurts, Percy 0. Thomas, Richard Cox, Roy Gehring, Marie M. Wymer, Marjorie Brooks, Dora
Youngs, lone Lloyd, Ruth Sherlitz, Edith Radabaugh,
Wava Ward, Martha Struble, Elaine Barber, Rolland
McNeilly, Elwin White, Wyland Barber
POST OFFICE ADDRESS, HERSEY
Clare Thrasher, Malcolm McKay, Ralph W. Loker, Erma
Morris, Jaunita Spielberger, Evelyn Johnson, Carolyn
Woodward, Raymond Spitzer
POST OFFICE ADDRESS, MARION
Earl Lee, Marie Grice, Harold Grice, Homer Harding,
Leonard Preston, Fred Mendendorp, Jeanette Dodde,
Elizabeth Bos, Dorothy M. Stone, Erwin Heimboldt, William Kotje, Robt. VanPolen, William Hansen, Lela Johnson, Peter Broomstra, Clayton Miller, Anna Bell Lehman,
Eva M. Patterson, Frank Mitchell, Marjorie Orvis, Rex
McCrimmon, Rudolph Eberhardt, Joseph Lux, Willard
Wylston, Delton Bigford, Wm. Hotchkiss, Lillie Hotchkiss,
Walter Richardson, Henry Howes, Joseph Perro, Delbert
Cook, Florence VanderWoude, Winnnifred Brooks, Margaret Hopkinson.
POST OFFICE ADDRESS, DIGHTON
Roy Worst, Ardath McDonald, Mary Julia Updike.
POST OFFICE ADDRESS, TUSTIN
Basil Moored, Robt. 0. Johnson, Ethel Kenyon, Leo
Hoglund, La I. Whittum, Harry Gunnett, Claude Rock,
Dorothy Loomis, Devere A. Drenzel, Roy Brehm, Edith
Johnson, Violet Anderson, Elmer Stenman, Marshall Oils,
Fred Meyer, Edith M. Hammond, Beatrice Rowley, Signe
V. Johnson, M. Lucile Samuelson, Edna M. Malstrom,
Maxine Robertson, John R. Beckstrom.
POST OFFICE ADDRESS, LeROY
Grace L. Prosch, Andrew Mulder, Ralph L. Johnson, Walter Decker, Florence K. Hillis, Mildred L. Rose, Olaf Johnson, Nels Alstermark, Mary Parker
POST OFFICE ADDRESS, REED CITY
Glenn Heil, Kenneth Cardinal, Elsie M. Steig, Preston Vincent, Aileen White, Nellie Minier, Ila L. Kinney, Doris E.
Poland, Roy Heilman, Vern Heilman, Marshall Gingrich,
Ethell. Erler (Paris Rt.l) Mabel Vincent, Elsie Hettel,
Esther Gerber, Esther Erbes, Arnold Gabel, Willis Roth,
Helen McGregor, Vivian Roggow, Benjamin Roggow.
Marie M. Wymer averaged 97 per cent on the examination with the highest average in the county.
The State Fair winner was James Irwin, of District
No. 1 Sylvan township. Alternate, Elmer Stenman, of
Sherman No. 6.
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Future Calendar:
Saturday April 16th, 10 am The Old Rugged Cross Museum
We will share the results of our winter research and plan our programs for the rest of the 2011 year
Saturday May 21st, 10 am Evart library/Museum (Carpool from Reed City museum at 9:30)
Demonstration of their new “ScanPro” machine. This machine is a digital microfilm and microfiche
reader that includes a printer. Come see what the Evart Library has to help in your family research.
Saturday June 18th, 10 am (location T.B.D.)
Program yet to be announced. Watch your email or check our website for an announcement.
No meetings for July and August and December
Place and programs for September, October and November to be announced
If there is something you want to see presented at our meetings email us or call Betsy at 231-832-9525
Don’t forget to check out our website WWW.OCGS.INFO for up-to-date events
M ORE INFORMATION AVAILABLE VIA INTERNET ...
More newspapers Online...
The website http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov is a
project sponsored by the National Endowment for
the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
It’s goal is to digitize, index and publish American
newspapers on the internet.
Newspapers from Arizona, California, Washington
D.C., Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia
and Washington are currently available to search
and view.
Source: West Michigan Genealogy Society Newsletter.
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F ACT ABOUT E LLIS I SLAND ...
Yes, There Was A Fire!
June 15, 1897 - fire broke out in the main building on Ellis Island these original immigration buildings had been built of Georgia pine
in the early 1890's.
Immigration records dating back to Castle Garden were completely
burned. The fire spread to other buildings and led to the Ellis Island
facility being rebuilt with steel and stone, as it appears in restoration today. (So, your ancestor could have entered through New York
and/or Ellis Island and there is no record).
Most immigrants, starting in about 1855, entered through New
York, the largest port of entry. Their destination, Castle Garden,
was located on a rocky outcropping just off the Bowery on Lower
Broadway in Manhattan.
Residents of the city were upset with this arrangement, and the government, eventually, decided to build on the Ellis Island site. On
April 18, 1890, the last two ships dropped passengers at Castle Island. A makeshift immigration depot was set up at the Barge Office
until the original wooden buildings on Ellis Island were completed.
Source: AMERICAN PASSAGE - THE HISTORY OF ELLIS ISLAND, by Vincent J. Cannato, 1st ed., 2009, Harper Collins Publisher. NY. (available at the Reed City Public Library).
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Holy Cross “Old Catholic” Cemetery, Evart, Mi
Joyce Mayer, of Evart, took on a project of documenting the forgotten
graves of the Holy Cross Cemetery of Evart in Osceola County Michigan.
The cemetery was overgrown with brush and many of the tombstones were
missing due to vandals. Joyce spent many, many hours researching newspaper archives at the Evart Library/Museum to obtain many of the names
of the people buried in the cemetery. She knows that there are more
there but have been unable to find their names. Here is the list she
compiled so far.
ACETO, SAVERIO 1902
KELLY, EDWARD 1878
SULLIVAN, HUMPHREY M. 1910
ALBERT. CHRISTOPHER 1905
MURINGER, MARY 1898
SULLIVAN, HUMPHREY 1936
ALBERT, GEORGE 1889
MURPHY, JAMES 1903
SULLIVAN, JAMES 1879
ALBERT, GEORGE E.
MURPHY, MRS. JOHN 1875
SULLIVAN, JOHN J. 1891
ALBERT, ADAM 1879
MURPHY, MARGRETTE 1887
SULLIVAN, MARGARETE 1891
ALBERT, PETER 1919
ALBERT, STILLBORN 1883
MURPHY, MICHAEL 1897
SULLIVAN, MARY 1916
MURPHY, PHILLIP 1886
SULLIVAN, WILLIAM C. 1882
BRAZIL, MARY 1886
McCONVILLE, JOHN 1902
SULLIVAN, WILLIAM J. 1918
BODIN, PHILOMINA 1887
MCDONALD, ANNIE 1874
VAN ASSCHE, STILLBORN1911
BALENGER, MARY LIA 1880
MCDONALD, INFANT 1880
BELANGER, MARGUERITE 1881
CLARK, PETER 1881
WHITE, JOSEPH 1880
MCDONALD, MARY 1890
WHITE, MARY 1929
COLLINS, MAURICE 1901
COLLINS ABBIE 1911
COLLINS, JAMIE 1892
CREVIA, JOHN 1904
CREVIA, JOSEPH 1904
CARMICHAEL, JAMES 1883
DEACY, MRS JAMES (Emma)
DUFORD, CATHERINE 1930
DUFORD, JOHN 1933
DURANCO, GEORGE 1882
DUFFY, MRS. FRANK(ABBIE)
ECHERT, WILLIAM 1918
FARLEY, ANNIE 1890
FARLEY, INFANT 1890
GRILL, JOSEPH 1889
HILLEN, JULIA 1910
HILLEN, NED 1900
HUGHS, JOHNNY 1876
HUGHS, THOMAS ---KINNY, JOHN 1894
MCDONELL, ALEXANDER 1881
ZAMAITES, INFANT 1908
McGILLIS, DANIAL 1884
McGILLIS, DANIAL INFANT
McKINSEY, BELLE 1924
In question:
McMANUS, SETH 1896
ZAMAITES, AGNES 1906
McVEIGH, JAMES 1888
HILLEN, PETER 1919
NEVILLE, CELIA 1890
HILLEN, MAGGIE 1882
NEVILLE, ELIZA 1894
ALBERT, HARRY 1906
NEVILLE.MAGGIE 1882
ALBERT, SALINA A. 1871
NEVILLE, MICHAEL 1884
DUFFY, INFANT 1888
NEVILLE, THOMAS 1905
MCDONALD, CARRIERS
PRIER, FRANKIE 1880
MURINGER SON OF VINCENT 1903
PRIER, MARY 1881
BELLANGER, INFANT 1881
PALEDO, JOSEPH 1901
PETER, ROSS 1879
SCHUMAKER, NICHOLAS 1886
SIMS, JAMES 1900
SOBETA, JOSEPH 1927
SULLIVAN, FLORANCE 1879
SULLIVAN, GEORGE 1884
Thanks for all your
hard work Joyce!
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The War of the Rebellion Civil War Vets – Luther Area
Compiled by Peter “Pete” J. Loucks
Names listed in order of arrangement
in the book.
WATSON, DeWitt C.
GRAY, Isaac M.
STOBER,Wilson S.
COLBY, Francis M.
SAWEY, John
SMITH, George
BEEM, Joseph C.
TEMPLE, George
HARDING, Daniel
SHARP, Nelson
CROWELL/CROEL,Walter Alanson
MUMA, Henry
GRICE, John
HAYS, Samuel
SUTTON, James H.
ALMY,William
GRAGG,Walter H.
FERRIS, Alfred
WILLIAMS, Charles R.
HARRIS, George W.
NICHOSON, John W.
NICHOSON, Ernest
CADWELL, Harry H.
SISCO, Oliver
MCQUAIG, Duncan
FENTON, John Samuel
SULLIVAN, JamesW.
MATTHEWS, Arthur J.
TOMPKINS, Giles
COOPER, Ottiwell W.
This book is available for viewing at
the Old Rugged Cross Museum in
Reed City.
Thank you Pete, for all the hard work
and research you put into creating this
book!
LEWIS, Charles E.
Chase Public Library needs your help…
The Chase Public Library needs your help in building up their HISTORY room.
If you have any photos of the Chase, Yates, Pinora and Cherry
Valley townships stories of the area or family trees you can provide the library call 231-832-9511 to find out how you can help.
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G ENEALOGICAL S OCIETY
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4918 Park Street
Reed City, Mi 49677
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