Jennifer Michele Casey

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• Name: Mike

Michael married Carol George. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1940 - 12061 Mettetel Street, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan
Charles C. was a sergeant in the US Army during WWII and in Korea.

Charles married June Marie Bessette on 5 Jul 1946 in Garret Methodist Church, Allen county, Indiana, USA. June (daughter of Lester "Cal" Davis and Mildred Bass, daughter of Horace-Leonidas Bessette and Mildred Bass) was born on 6 Jun 1924 in Garrett, DeKalb County, Indiana; died on 25 Jul 2005 in Melvindale, Wayne, Michigan, USA; was buried on 5 Aug 2005 in Parkview Memorial Cemetery, Livonia, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lived in Venice, California when she went to kindergarten (age 5), 1929.
In Sept 1929 Mildred and June was going to Leo in High River Alberta from California. This record states that June was born in Detroit. Later in October 1929 Leo, Mildred and June are headed from Long Beach California to Alberta and again they say that June is born in Detroit. She attended first grade in Kansas (age 6) and at age 7 (2nd grade) she was in a protestant school in Montreal, where she lived until she was 21. After attending the Rapid Shorthand College in Montreal, she took various clerical positions, including one in The Montrealer in 1941, at the sales audit office at Eaton's Department Store 1941-1944 and at Williams and Wilsons. From 1944 she was at Bell Telephone.

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Married:
Charles lived in Detroit, June in Dearborn at the time of the wedding.

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In 1910 he is living with Laura in a rented home om 1830 A North 21st St, St Louis, Missouri, reporter for a newpaper. In October of the same year they are at 1517 Cora Avenue in St Louis.
In 1912, 1166 4th Ave, clerk.
In 1915 he was living at 149 Campbell Avenue in Detroit, his occupation was organizer.
In 1920 and 1927 he was living at 4730 McGraw in Detroit.
The 1930 census says he was a business excecutive. He was living on Sturtevant Ave. in Detroit, with Eloise and Charles Claude jr., and had a housekeeper named Eva S. Graves.
1935 and 1940 4356 Sturtevant Ave, Detroit.
The 1936 marriage record of his son CC states he was a sales manager in Detroit.
The 1942 WWII Draft Registration Cards for CC states he was born in Nashville, Indiana. He was then a work organizer specialist in Detroit.

Published in Detroit Free Press, Detroit MI Feb 45 1952 Tuesday page 21---An office equipment manufacturer, Mr. Casey, 67, died Saturday at his home 4356 Sturtevant.
He was owner and general manager of the Sorter Graf CO and president of Work Organizers Speciality Corp. Born in Bicknell Indiana, Mr. Casey came to Detroit in 1910 as assistant advertsing manager of the Burroughs Adding Machine CO.
He was a member of First Church of Christian Scientist. He is survived by his wife Claire; a son Charles C Casey Jr; and five daughters, Mrs. Carl F Craig, Mrs. Agnes L Smith. Mrs. Donald Hollister . Mrs. Donald Dimitry and Jeanne Chapman.
Services will be at 2:30 pm Wednesday at William R. Hamilton Co Funeral Home. There will be a private service at Evergreen Cemetery.

Charles married Lydia A. Shoemaker in 1911 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA. Lydia (daughter of Dilon Ewing "Dellie" Shoemaker and Orpha Lozetta McAfee) was born on 10 Jun 1886 in Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA; died on 14 Dec 1915 in Pontiac State Hospital, Oakland, Michigan; was buried in Eastlawn cemetary, Detroit, MI, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Liddie

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1900 census of Center township, Muncie city, Delaware Co., Indiana:
Dilon Shoemaker and Orpha L Shoemaker. Census has Lydia born Jun 1885 (not 86) and younger sister Mary born Aug 1887.
1904 in Anderson, Indiana, 334 W 5th St.
1906 stenographer in Terre Haute living with her father and sister at 116 Gilbert Ave.
1910 census of Wabash Ward 2, Wabash, Indiana, has Lydia at home with her parents, now age 23, member of the United Methodist Church.
1910 census for Detroit Ward 5, Lydia is a boarder and stenographer at Wholesale Drug Co.
1910 City directory of Wabash Indiana, Lydia, Stenographer, 174 W Maple.
At the Dec 14, 1915 death of Lydia in Pontiac State Hospital, Oakland county, Michigan parents are mentioned as D.E. Shoemaker and Orpha Macafee. She had been hospitalized for 21 days, sick for 28, and died of exhaustion and sepsis.

Died:
Lydia died of septicemia (blood infection following birth) and baby Carleton died of influenza according to the death certificates. There was a big flu epidemic that year in Detroit. Lydia's parents are also buried at Eastlawn cemetary, Detroit.

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DNA matched.

Lester married Mildred Bass. Mildred (daughter of William Calvin "Will" Bass and Nancy Elizabeth Simmons) was born on 12 Nov 1903 in Abesville, Stone, Missouri, USA; died on 28 Nov 1991 in Wayne, Wayne, Michigan; was buried in Spokane Cemetary, Christian Co., MO. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mildreds parents lived in Tauria, Missouri when she was born.

Mildreds aunt Myrtle Bass was married to William L. Welch. Their nephew Lester Davis (mother Laura Welch m. Fish Davis) was the father of Mildreds daughter, the couple were to get married at one point, unknown why it did not happen. Mildred was sent to a home for wayward mothers in Detroit. She would never talk about the father, but it was common knowledge in the large families that they were courting. Now DNA matched.

1945, Ontario
1960, Hillsdale, Michigan