Arthur C. Yarger died on 5 Feb 1980. He married Fern Alma Gransden on 5 Sep 1938 in Angola Indiana.
Fern Alma Gransden [Parents] was born on 18 Nov 1921 in Edenville, Midland, Michigan, USA. She died on 9 May 2003 in Athens Alabama. She was buried on 14 May 2003 in New Edenville Cemetery. She married Arthur C. Yarger on 5 Sep 1938 in Angola Indiana.
Other marriages:Cottom, Harold
They had the following children:
M i Living F ii Living F iii Living F iv Living F v Living
Harold Cottom died on 20 Jun 1996. He married Fern Alma Gransden in 1989.
Fern Alma Gransden [Parents] was born on 18 Nov 1921 in Edenville, Midland, Michigan, USA. She died on 9 May 2003 in Athens Alabama. She was buried on 14 May 2003 in New Edenville Cemetery. She married Harold Cottom in 1989.
Other marriages:Yarger, Arthur C.
Young Swanton [Parents] was born on 29 Nov 1836 in Toronto, Canada. He died on 29 Apr 1888 in Edenville, Midland, Michigan, USA. He was buried in Edenville, Midland, Michigan, USA. He married Lucy J Mc Connell on 11 Apr 1859.
Other marriages:Kesler, Elizabeth
Married the second time to Elizabeth Kesler June 1 1881 who died 12 Mar 1884
Mrs Kesler was the widow of Alexander Kesler
Lucy J Mc Connell [Parents] was born on 15 Jun 1841 in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada. She died on 7 Aug 1880 in Edenville, Midland, Michigan, USA. She was buried in Edenville, Midland, Michigan, USA. She married Young Swanton on 11 Apr 1859.
They had the following children:
F i Etta Ann Swanton M ii Thomas Young Swanton M iii John See Swanton M iv George Emory Swanton was born on 6 Jan 1865 in Edenville, Midland, Michigan, USA. He died on 30 Jul 1866. He was buried in Edenville, Midland, Michigan, USA. M v Lafayette Swanton Doctor F vi Flora Belle Swanton M vii Sidney Adrian Swanton F viii Bertha Swanton
Young Swanton [Parents] was born on 29 Nov 1836 in Toronto, Canada. He died on 29 Apr 1888 in Edenville, Midland, Michigan, USA. He was buried in Edenville, Midland, Michigan, USA. He married Elizabeth Kesler on 1 Jun 1881.
Other marriages:Mc Connell, Lucy J
Married the second time to Elizabeth Kesler June 1 1881 who died 12 Mar 1884
Mrs Kesler was the widow of Alexander Kesler
Elizabeth Kesler died on 12 Mar 1884. She married Young Swanton on 1 Jun 1881.
Kessler was her former marriage name
John Swanton was born in 1807 in ,Ireland. He died in Mar 1847 in Pickering, Canada. He married Elizabeth Ann Aikens.
John Swanton and wife emigrated to Canada in 1819
Elizabeth Ann Aikens was born on 18 Nov 1814 in ,Ireland. She died on 2 Mar 1888 in Edenville, Midland, Michigan, USA. She was buried in Edenville, Midland, Michigan, USA. She married John Swanton.
Other marriages:Gransden, Thomas William
First married John Swanton
Came to Canada in 1819
Gransden, Elizabeth 1814 – 1888 - Edenville Cemetery
They had the following children:
M i Charles Swanton was born in ,Canada.
children Rena & HuldyF ii Matilda Swanton was born in ,Canada.
Lived in Detroit Michigan. Married name believed to be SteelM iii Young Swanton M iv John Simon Swanton F v Sarah A Swanton F vi Amelia Swanton
Reuben Perry Tigner was born on 10 Aug 1879 in ,Paulding, Ohio, USA. He died in 1957 in Farwell, Clare, Michigan, USA. He married Minnie Mina Gransden on 25 Dec 1904.
Minnie Mina Gransden [Parents] was born on 5 Apr 1889 in Edenville, Midland, Michigan, USA. She died in 1975. She married Reuben Perry Tigner on 25 Dec 1904.
John Frederick Smith [Parents] was born on 17 Mar 1906 in unknown. He died on 16 Sep 1978 in Newark, Nottingham Shire, England. He was buried on 19 Sep 1978 in Newark, Nottingham Shire, England. He married Miriam Margaret Stephens on 12 Feb 1932 in Inverness, Inverness-Shire, Scotland.
Other marriages:Living
He was sent to Scotland along with is sister Margaret, believed to be around 1926 or 27. There he married Miriam Margaret Stephens. The marriage ended in divorce. He later married Marjory Thompson in England and died in Newark on Trent, England. He worked with Balfour&Beattie while in Scotland and part of the time in Wales also England.
It is believed by the family of John F. Smith that after Frederick and Annie left Scotland they ended up in Texas and after Frederick died Annie remarried and that was when the children were returned to Scotland.
When John Frederick Smith was buried in Newerk it was under the name of John Alexander Smith.
One trait of John Frederick Smith as remembered by all his children was on Saturday before going to the pub,he would first go the the candy store and on Sunday morning there would be candy for the children in his jacket pocket.ADDED NOTE **** After searching the 1910 and 1920 Texas census there was no record of Frederick and Annie (Ross) Smith nor their children John Frederick Smith and Margaret Anne Sinclair Smith,and no record can be found as to who Annie married after Fred death.
Question ??? Where did the gun shot wound in the left shoulder of John Frederick Smith come from and when, and how about the anchor tattoo ??????????????????
Miriam Margaret Stephens [Parents] was born on 20 Aug 1912 in ,Pembroke Dock,South Wales. She died on 1 Aug 1985 in Newtonmore, Inverness shire, Scotland. She was buried on 3 Aug 1985 in Newtonmore, Inverness, Ccotland. She married John Frederick Smith on 12 Feb 1932 in Inverness, Inverness-Shire, Scotland.
Other marriages:Living
They had the following children:
F i Living M ii John Alexander Ross Smith was born on 8 Dec 1934 in Newtonmore, Scotland. He died on 26 Jan 1975 in Newtonmore, Inverness shire, Scotland. He was buried on 29 Jan 1975 in Newtonmore, Scotland.
John was a keen athlete from a young age. While in the Newtonmore Youth Club he developed an interest in ski-ing.During his National Service in the Cameron Highlanders he became the cross country ski champion of the British Army, in Austria in 1952, and then overall ski champion in Switzerland.
He became a ski instructor for the Army in 1953 and was picked for the 1956 Olympic Games.He won a total of seven silver medals. After he left the Army he resumed playing shinty in Newtonmore .
In 1959 he captained the Newtonmore team which won the Sir William Sutherland Cup, and completed an unbeaten season by beating Glen Urquhart in the Macgillivery League .F iii Living F iv Living M v Living
John Lynden Gransden [Parents] was born on 17 Oct 1897 in Edenville, Midland, Michigan, USA. He died on 19 May 1944 in Beaverton, Gladwin, Michigan, USA. He was buried on 1 Jun 1944 in Edenville, Midland Co. Michigan. He married Living on 20 Mar 1921.
John was a farmer all his life in the Beaverton area.
They had the following children:
Louise Emma Gransden [Parents] was born on 5 Jan 1907 in Edenville, Midland, Michigan, USA. She died on 27 Jul 1979. She married Living on 26 Jun 1943 in Midland Michigan.
Louise was the private secretary to Willard Dow of The Dow Chemical Co in Midland. She also worked with the Dow Foundation and also Alden Dow. She started with Willard Dow when he was a V P of Dow.
She retired from Dow in 1972.
They had the following children:
M i Living
William H Gransden [Parents] was born 1 on 14 Aug 1831 in Stockbury, Kent, England. He was christened 2 on 11 Sep 1831 in Stockbury Parish, Kent County, England. He died 3 on 15 Feb 1905 in Edenville, Midland, Michigan, USA. He was buried 4 on 19 Feb 1905 in Edenville, Midland, Michigan, USA. He married Mary Ann Elliott on 28 Apr 1859 in Walsingham, Ontario, Canada.
Other marriages:Coon, Jannett
Left England in 1837. Came to Canada, then in1859 came to Michigan to look for timber, He was sent by the Ingersoll lumber Co of Ingersoll Ontario, Canada. While in Canada William received his education. Some say he was a bookkeeper for the Lumber Co., { have no Proof of that.}
In 1853 he married Jannett Coon and they had one child Thomas M.(White Pine Tom) in 1854. After coming to Michigan he built a log house in section 14 and also ran a lumber camp/saw mill where he raised all of the family. He returned to Canada, met and married Mary Ann Elliott in a town called Walsingham. She was working in the hotel where he was staying. After their first child, named Catherine, he and Mary (1861) moved to Edenville (then called Jerome) settling on 40 acres in section 14. He paid $120.00 for the land. A deed was signed on Apr 10,1867 but not recorded untill May 9,1874. In 1896 he sold the forty acres to his son William Thomas Gransden. In 1914 the house was cut up and sold to the Edenville School for firewood by Lyle Gransden and Adrian Swanton. The forty acres to the south side was purchased by Mary Ann Gransden and later given to their son David, who paid $300.00 for it. The north forty was sold to Lyle Gransden in 1934 for $500.00
The land abstract indicates the names of William H. Gransden Sr. and William T. as William Gransden Jr.. The house was set on the northwest corner and had two driveways going out to what was called East River Road, later known as Water Road, which only came to Shearer Rd. The road followed the River, one drive went east and west the other went north and south to the road.
After a man was killed at one of his lumber camps {see paper clipping} William went to Chicago {see paper clipping} where he stayed until he returned to Edenville in 1890. His son David went to Chicago to bring him home. At that time he was in business selling coal and ice under the name of William Green (his mothers last name). After returning to Edenville he lived on the north forty, until the day of his death. He died when he went to the gully to cut a hole in the ice for the cows to drink water from and there suffered a heart-attack. He was found there by his wife Mary Ann. After the death of William, Mary moved in with David. William and his son William T. registered to vote when W. T. turned 21. It was noticed on May 9-1905 that William owned a yellow dog with a white ring around his neck and paid $1.00 for the dog license. In 1872 William took out his declaration of intention to become a US citizen.
Gransden, Wm. father 1832 – 1905 (b 2/19 73y)
Mary Ann Elliott [Parents] was born on 20 Mar 1839 in ,New York, USA. She died on 20 Mar 1926 in Freeland, Saginaw, Michigan, USA. She was buried on 21 Mar 1926 in Edenville, Midland, Michigan, USA. She married William H Gransden on 28 Apr 1859 in Walsingham, Ontario, Canada.
Second wife of William H Gransden
both father and mothers birth place listed as Ireland
spelling could be Ellott
Had sister Mrs Jane Wills of Millington Michigan
23 Dec 1926 P1 Midland Sun
They had the following children:
F i Catherine Kate Gransden M ii John E Gransden was born on 5 Jun 1862 in ,Canada. He died on 13 Nov 1881 in Edenville, Midland, Michigan, USA. He was buried in Edenville, Midland, Michigan, USA.
John E. died at his brother David's home at Wright Bridge, Shaffer & East River Rd, one mile south of Baker Road on the Tittabawassee river.M iii David Bradford Gransden F iv Emma Gransden was born on 31 Mar 1866 in Edenville, Midland, Michigan, USA. She died on 7 Apr 1866 in Edenville, Michigan. F v Elizabeth Jane Gransden F vi Sarah Ann Gransden M vii William Thomas Gransden F viii Caroline Gransden F ix Ada May Gransden was born on 1 Nov 1877 in Edenville, Midland, Michigan, USA. She died on 15 Sep 1895 in Edenville, Midland, Michigan, USA. She was buried in Edenville, Midland, Michigan, USA.
Noted in the American 1880 Census as Mary A. rather than Ada May.
Never married. Died at age 18 of TYPHOID FEVER (germ from drinking water or eating tainted food)