Charles W. Glover Obituary

Charles W. Glover

Manistee News Advocate-Manistee Daily Advocate, (Manistee, Manistee, Michigan), 13 October 1927, page 3, column 2 and 3, microfilm; Manistee Public Library, Manistee, Michigan.

EX-BEAR LAKE POSTMASTER DIES

CHARLES W. GLOVER PASSES AWAY IN CADILLAC OF ULCERS OF STOMACH

Charles W. Glover, former Bear Lake postmaster and for many years a resident of that village, died at Mercy hospital, Cadillac, early today after a two weeks illness with ulcers of the stomach.  Mr. Glover left Bear Lake about three years ago to accept a position in the state highway department's branch office at Cadillac.  At the time of his death he was employed by the Wexford County Road Commission.

A cripple since childhood, and seriously handcapped(sic) by that misfortune, Glover won many friends through his cheerful demeanor and his willingness to serve where-ever and whenever he was needed in public or in private life.  Beside having held the office of postmaster at Bear Lake for many years he had also served in several township and village offices.  He was a member of Bear Lake Lodge No. 416 F. and A. M., and of Mayflower Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mattie Glover.  There are no other immediate relatives.  Funeral services have not yet been arranged but will probably be held at Bear Lake and under Masonic auspices. 

Manistee News Advocate-Manistee Daily Advocate, (Manistee, Manistee, Michigan), 15 October 1927, page 3, column 2, microfilm; Manistee County Historical Museum, Manistee, Michigan.

Last Rites for Charles Glover Tomorrow at 2

BEAR LAKE, Oct. 15-Funeral services for Charles W. Glover, former Bear Lake postmaster who died at Cadillac Thursday morning will be held at the Baptist church here tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock with Rev. Nelson Hilborn officiating.  The services will be under the auspices of Bear Lake lodge No. 416 F. and A. M.  Burial will be in Fairview cemetery.

(Charles W. Glover was the oldest son of Samuel Stillman Glover, Jr. and Adeline Dyer Glover.) 



11 for 11 Progress -Motivation Monday

It is hard to believe the year is almost half over.  I decided to check up on how I was doing with my 2011 goals so I could plan my summer genealogy projects and stay motivated. 

My 2011 genealogy goals are:

1. Scan pictures!  This is going very well.  There are always more pictures to scan.
2. Work on my brickwall, Daniel Fenn.  I worked on this for awhile, but put it aside as it frustrates me and I believe a visit to Vermont is needed.
3. Make a concentrated effort to source every fact as I add it to my software program.  This is one I am doing very well on; it doesn't go into my software without a source.
4. Visit Miami County, Indiana to research Casper and Mary Graf further.  I thought I would do this during the summer, but our summer seems to be filling up.  I guess I will have to make this a priority in August.
5. Obtain my grandfather's, Otto August Fredrick, obituary.  Completed.
6. Attend a genealogical conference.  Almost completed, I am registered for FGS in September.  Hope to see you there.
7. Start researching my son-in-law's ancestry.  Since I wrote 'start researching', this is completed.  I have researched his father's side and am working on his mother's.
8. Talk to my mother and find out about family heirlooms in her possession.  Completed, now she brings me stuff she thinks I might like to have from my aunt and others.
9. Carve out a regular research time. This is the one I still struggle with.  I feel I could do better.  I have been having some thyroid troubles which causes me to be unmotivated at times, so I will attribute it to that! 
10. Make contact with newly discovered cousins and share information.  Continuing to do this, and hope to continue discovering more cousins.
11. Research myself! Add my personal facts to my genealogical software.  Completed

I feel very good about 8 of the 11 goals.  Number 2, I know, will not be completed.  Number 4 needs to be scheduled and then I will get it done.  And, number 9 is one I think I will continue to struggle with, but as long as I keep researching I don't think it matters if I do it on a regular basis or not. 

This was my first year of setting goals.  I have learned a lot.  I think some of my goals were too general.  I will set yearly goals again, as it truly motivates me and gives me a focus in my research.  This isn't the only research I have done.  So far 2011 has been a good genealogy year.

Diana by Paul Anka-52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy and History

Week 26:  Songs.  What was the #1 song during the week of your birth?  Enter your birth date at This Day in Music (http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/birthdayno1) and find out.

"Diana" by  Paul Anka was the number one song on the day of my birth, just a few years ago!  Paul Anka was a teen idol at the time.  Here are the lyrics:

   I'm so young and you're so old

This, my darling, I've been told

I don't care just what they say

'Cause forever I will pray

You and I will be as free

As the birds up in the trees

Oh, please stay by me, Diana



Thrills I get when you hold me close

Oh, my darling, you're the most

I love you but do you love me

Oh, Diana, can't you see

I love you with all my heart

And I hope we will never part

Oh, please stay with me, Diana



Oh, my darlin', oh, my lover

Tell me that there is no other

I love you with my heart

Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh

Only you can take my heart

Only you can tear it apart

When you hold me in your loving arms

I can feel you giving all your charms

Hold me, darling, ho-ho hold me tight

Squeeze me baby with-a all your might

Oh, please stay with me, Diana

Oh, please, Diana

Oh, please, Diana

Oh, please, Diana

"Diana" by Paul Anka

Memorial Park Cemetery Devastated by Storm

One month ago I visited Memorial Park Cemetery in Battle Creek, Michigan for the first time.  I was looking for the grave sites of my great aunt and uncle, Victor and Adeline (Glover) Tyson.  I thought it was one of the most beautiful cemeteries I had ever visited.  There are lots of trees, a lake, and a waterfall.  There is a chapel mausoleum on the premises, too.  Each section is marked with names, mostly garden related:  Garden of Tranquility, Garden of Grace, Garden of Hope, Sunrise Garden, etc.

I had checked the Memorial Park Cemetery website before going and printed off a map and the plot numbers for my ancestors.  You can use the Burial Record Search for the names of those interred there.  The search function provides the garden letter and plot number.  You can access the map with all the gardens and their letters on the website by clicking the products and services tab, then the property pricing tab and the view map link.  There is an office at the entrance on West Territorial Road and I stopped in to ask where I might find the plots, but could have done it on my own with the map I had.  The very helpful women gave me a bigger map with all the plots laid out on it and circled the one I was looking for.  It was a very easy cemetery to look through. 

I easily found what I was looking for and decided to drive through the cemetery.  It is located on a very busy corner in Battle Creek, Michigan, (Helmer Road and W. Columbia Ave.) but you wouldn't know it.  It was very peaceful and quiet.  I loved all the huge trees.  Imagine my dismay, after a recent storm, when I saw the mess left from the storm.

Battle Creek, Michigan was hit with wind shears and tornadic swirls at a recent storm in late May.  I was on my way to the Meijer grocery store, which is across the street from the cemetery, and saw so much damage to the cemetery I was in disbelief.  Trees crashed into the fence, signs were blown into the cemetery from nearby businesses, and gravestones damaged.  Luckily, my ancestors gravestones weren't damaged.  Battle Creek is still cleaning up from the storm.  Here are a few pictures of the damage to the cemetery.  I am not sure the pictures truly depict the devastation to the back half of this cemetery.

Adeline E. Glover Tyson McKie and Victor Tyson-Tombstone Tuesday

Adeline E. Glover

(Daughter of Frank H. Glover and Hattie L. Fenn)

Birth:  17 February 1898, Frankfort, Benzie, Michigan, United States

Death:  16 August 1993 Sarasota, Sarasota, Florida, United States

(Second Marriage in 1946 to Leonard McKie) 

Victor Tyson

(Son of Edward Tyson and Matilda Steele)

Birth:  21 January 1897, Gosforth, Cumberland, England

Marriage (Adeline E. Glover):  25 February 1922, Marquette, Marquette, Michigan, United States

Death:  16 August 1944, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan, United States

Burial:  Memorial Park Cemetery, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan.

Adeline E. Glover Tyson McKie is my great aunt.  I am a little embarrassed to say it wasn't until about a month ago that I went to visit her grave, only two miles from my house.  We have lived in Battle Creek since 1988.  I never knew she lived here until a few years ago when my dad looked up his cousin who was still living here.      

"It's a Beautiful Day in The Neighborhood" 52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy and History

Week 25:  Neighbors-Who were your childhood neighbors?  Have you kept in touch with any of them?  Do you feel the concept of 'neighbors' has changed since then?

I grew up in two, small towns: one with a population of about 900 (Deckerville, Michigan) and the other with 2500 people (Harbor Beach, Michigan).  Everyone knew everyone, which could be good or bad.  Mostly though, it was good.  In Deckerville, there were kids to play with across the street and down the block.  We would go back and forth to each other's houses and play, usually outdoors.  Sometimes we were allowed in the house to play.  We played house, tag, jump rope, and baseball.  I haven't kept in touch with any of my neighbors from there.  I am still in touch with a couple of school friends who lived in the 'country' though.

 

I was ten when we moved to Harbor Beach, Michigan and the first weekend we moved in I met the girl across the street, Sharlene.  We became friends and reconnected on Facebook, recently.  Another friend, Ann, lived across the creek from me.  We would hang out at each other's houses.  In high school, we use to double date.  We have remained friends.  I only have good memories of neighbors in both the small towns I lived in.

 

We have lived in our current house about 20 years and I have noticed a change in those twenty years.  At first, everyone was friendly and talked across the fence.  I took my neighbor to the store if I was going and she shared fresh tomatoes with me.  Lately, our neighborhood has had an influx of new, younger people.  I find that the newer neighbors stay to themselves more.  I think society has changed and people aren't as trusting as they use to be.  I find I stay more to myself, too.  We still chat with those who were here when we moved in and I always say 'hi' or wave to my neighbors.  Of course, living in a city with a population of 55,000 is a little different from the 900 people from years ago.

Moses Poor Killed at Battle of Bunker Hill

Bunker Hill Day is observed on June 17th each year in parts of Massachusetts.  My fifth great grandfather, Moses Poor died at the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775.  He served under Captain Elisha Woodbury's Company in Colonel John Stark's regiment, the 1st New Hampshire.

There is a Bunker Hill Monument that was built to commemorate the Battle of Bunker Hill.  It can be found in Charlestown, Massachusetts.  Moses Poor's name is inscribed on this monument.

(Source:   Pay Roll of Captain Elisha Woodbury's Company..., Vol. XIV; p.53, August 1775; State Papers; New Hampshire State Papers Volume 1-40; Archives and Record Management, Concord, New Hampshire.)

The payroll of Captain Elisha Woodbury's Company lists Moses Poor and next to his name it says, killed June 17.  Other information provided includes:

• Rank-Private
• Time of Entry-April 23
• Time in Service-2 months
• Whole Wages-4
• Number of Miles Travel-36.3
• Coat and Blanket-1.16
• Whole Amount-5.19
• Wages Received-2
• Coat and Blanket Received-1.16
• Whole Stopages-3.16
• Balance Paid by S. Hobart Esq.- (left blank)

Moses Poor was born 10 March 1743 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, the son of Enoch Poor and Bethiah West.  He married Hannah Sinclair (Santclare) on 31 March 1767.  He died at the age of 32.

Why I Miss My Children-Wordless Wednesday