Missing Grave of Birt S. Beers Around 1945.
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Missing Grave of Birt S. Beers Around 1945.
| beers1950 (View posts) | Posted: 5 May 2008 4:48PM GMT |
Classification: Query
Surnames: Beers Manney Manning Sisco Lamphear
from: beers1950@yahoo.com
to: anyone with info.
I have a great-grandfather in Michigan who probably died around 1945. I do not know where he died or date. His name is Birt S. Beers: born in Middlebury, Elkhart County, Indiana 1869. His parents moved from Romulus, Cayuga County, New York and married in 1862. Their names, Jonas Beers and Rosetta Lamphear. My missing ancester, Birt, had an older sister, Lottie and a younger sister, Cora. Jonas' wife, Rosetta, dies giving birth to Cora in 1873. No other marriage occurred after she passed away.
Birt Beers moved to Michigan, probally Kalkaska or Antrim Counties, around 1893 and married Clara Jane Manney (Manning). Her parents are from Elk Rapids, Antrim County, Michigan. They had four children and after the 1900's Clara divorced Birt; she remarries an Alex Holton (probably 1910-1914) and has a child together: Doris Edna Holton.
As a child, I heard stories about him, whether true or not I don't know. Birt was an excellent shot and hunted deer for the Michigan deer hunters during season up in that neck-of-the-woods. He made some money helping those who wanting to secure game. I also know that he might of been either Amish or Mennonite (so was his father, Jonas, when living in Indiana). Birt own some land that would be in the back of some woods, I think, in Kalkaska County and, as far as I know, lived there until he died (but I don't really know that that is true either).
I assume that there are many grave sites across America that are unmarked or sites that families barried loved ones on their own property. I'm posting this for you, but hoping others might read and respond. Thanks.
to: anyone with info.
I have a great-grandfather in Michigan who probably died around 1945. I do not know where he died or date. His name is Birt S. Beers: born in Middlebury, Elkhart County, Indiana 1869. His parents moved from Romulus, Cayuga County, New York and married in 1862. Their names, Jonas Beers and Rosetta Lamphear. My missing ancester, Birt, had an older sister, Lottie and a younger sister, Cora. Jonas' wife, Rosetta, dies giving birth to Cora in 1873. No other marriage occurred after she passed away.
Birt Beers moved to Michigan, probally Kalkaska or Antrim Counties, around 1893 and married Clara Jane Manney (Manning). Her parents are from Elk Rapids, Antrim County, Michigan. They had four children and after the 1900's Clara divorced Birt; she remarries an Alex Holton (probably 1910-1914) and has a child together: Doris Edna Holton.
As a child, I heard stories about him, whether true or not I don't know. Birt was an excellent shot and hunted deer for the Michigan deer hunters during season up in that neck-of-the-woods. He made some money helping those who wanting to secure game. I also know that he might of been either Amish or Mennonite (so was his father, Jonas, when living in Indiana). Birt own some land that would be in the back of some woods, I think, in Kalkaska County and, as far as I know, lived there until he died (but I don't really know that that is true either).
I assume that there are many grave sites across America that are unmarked or sites that families barried loved ones on their own property. I'm posting this for you, but hoping others might read and respond. Thanks.