Wilma Irene Balyeat

Notes:

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Name: Wilma Irene Balyeat
Gender: Female
Christening Date:
Christening Place:
Birth Date: 28 Jan 1881
Birthplace: Odessa, Ionia, Michigan
Death Date:
Name Note:
Race:
Father's Name: John Wesley Balyeat
Father's Birthplace:
Father's Age:
Mother's Name: Sarah C. Cramer
Mother's Birthplace:
Mother's Age:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C74301-1
System Origin: Michigan-ODM
GS Film number: 960503
Reference ID:
Collection: Wilma Irene Balyeat, "Michigan, Births and Christenings, 1775-1995"

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Name: Wilma I Balyeat
Titles & Terms:
Event: Census
Event Year: 1940
Event Place: Ward 2, Anderson, Anderson Township, Madison, Indiana, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 59
Marital Status: Single
Race (Original):
Race (Standardized): White
Relationship to Head of Household (Original):
Relationship to Head of Household (Standardized): Head
Birthplace: Michigan
Estimated Birth Year: 1881
Residence in 1935: Same Place
Enumeration District Number: 48-18
Family Number: 289
Sheet Number and Letter: 61A
Line Number: 10
NARA Publication Number: T627
NARA Roll Number: 1072
Digital Folder Number: 005459828
Image Number: 00663
Collection: Wilma I Balyeat, "United States Census, 1940"

Notes:

"Nurseryman of Ionia County, Michigan."

BALYEAT-GATES FAMILY BIBLE RECORD (THE HOLY BIBLE, American Bible Society, New York, 1859 ? Family Records located between the Old and New Testaments) - NOTE: I tried to duplicate the entries exactly as written?misspellings and all.

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FAMILY RECORD (MARRIAGES) ? Page 1 [Blank]

FAMILY RECORD (BIRTHS) ? Page 2

Jonathan BALYEAT was Borne Febury the 22, 1824

Margaret BALYEAT was Borne September the 20 ? 1826

Elizabeth Aacesta BALYEAT was Borne Decmber the 21, 1845

John Wesley BALYEAT was Borne March the 18, 1847

Catharine Jane BALYEAT was Borne September the 27, 1848

Ansavilla BALYEAT was Borne March the 19, 1850

Marion BALYEAT was Borne June the 16, 1852

Walter BALYEAT was Borne May the 15, 1854

Edward Alonzo BALYEAT was Borne August the 15, 1859

Frank BALYEAT was Born May the 10, 1861

AMILY RECORD (BIRTHS) ? Page 3

Marion BALYEAT Departed this life July the 31, 1879, aged 27 years


FAMILY RECORD (DEATHS) - Page 4

Marion BALYEAT son of Johnathan BALYEAT, Departed this life July the 31, 1879, aged 27 years and a few days

Jonathan BALYEAT Departed this life on March the 21, 1898, aged 74 and one Month

Margaret GATES BALYEAT Departed this life on Febuary the 11th, 1904, Aged 77 years four Months and 21 days

Ansavilla MEYERS died Dec. 24, 1928

Edmund Alonzo died June 1930

Walter R. BALYEAT, son of Margaret and Jonathan BALYEAT, Departed this life Dec. 15th, 1916, aged 62 year and five months.

Catherine Jane SCOTT departed this life Nov. 9, 1920, aged 72 yrs., 12 days. at Mt. Dora, Fla.

Elizabeth Aleesta BALYEAT departed this life Jul. 31, 1921 aged 75 yrs. 7 mo. + 9 days.

John Wesley died Oct. 23, 1931, National Military Home, Va.

Sara Catherine BALYEAT, Apr 1st 1941


This Bible was acquired at the Estate Sale of GORDON W. BALYEAT, M.D. (1911-2009) at 150 Morningside Dr. S.E., East Grand Rapids, MI 49506, on November 12, 2009.



(Research):
Census Listings:

1880 Federal Census
Not located

1900 Federal Census
Michigan, Ionia County, Odessa Twp, Lake Odessa Village, District 21, Page 33
Enumerated 23 to 27 June 1900
SD 52 ED 21 Sheet 17A Stamped 232A
414-429
Balyeat, John W Hd W M Mar 1847 53 M 24 Ohio Ohio Ohio Farmer
Balyeat, Sarah Wf W F July 1854 45 M24 2/2 Ohio Pa Ohio
Balyeat, Wilma I Dtr W F Jan 1881 19 S Mich Ohio Ohio School Teacher

1910 Federal Census
Indiana, Elkhart County, Middlebury, District 42, Page 18
Enumerated 9 May 1910
SD 13 ED 42 Sheet 9B
183-184
Balyeat, John Wesley Hd M W 63 M1 34 Ohio Ohio Ohio Farmer
Balyeat, Sarah Catherine Wf F W 56 M1 34 2/2 Ohio Pa Ohio


1920 Federal Census
Indiana, Elkhart County, Middlebury, District 29, Page 1
Enumerated 2 January 1920
SD 13 ED 29 Sheet 1A Stamped 212
5-3
Balyeat, John W Hd M W 72 M Ohio Pa Ohio Farmer
Balyeat, Sarah C Wf F W 66 M Ohio Pa Ohio
Balyeat, Wilma Irene Dtr F W 38 S Mich Ohio Ohio
Balyeat, Elecota E Boarder F W 74 S Ohio Pa Ohio

1930 Federal Census
Not located

John married Sarah Catherine Cramer on 7 Oct 1875. Sarah (daughter of Johannes "John" Cramer and Ann Eve Shaffner) was born on 16 Jul 1853 in Seneca County, Ohio; died on 1 Apr 1941. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Clarence E. Cramer shows she was also called "Mary Ann," and died young. Dean Cramer shows she died Apr 1941 in Van Wert County, Ohio. Unable to locate a death certificate on FamilySearch.Org for Ohio. As she was living with her daughter, Wilma, in Anderson, Madison Co., Indiana at the time of the 1940 census, it is possible she may have actually died in Indiana.

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Name: Sarah C Balyeat
Titles & Terms:
Event: Census
Event Year: 1940
Event Place: Ward 2, Anderson, Anderson Township, Madison, Indiana, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 86
Marital Status: Widowed
Race (Original):
Race (Standardized): White
Relationship to Head of Household (Original):
Relationship to Head of Household (Standardized): Mother
Birthplace: Ohio
Estimated Birth Year: 1854
Residence in 1935: Same Place
Enumeration District Number: 48-18
Family Number: 289
Sheet Number and Letter: 61A
Line Number: 11
NARA Publication Number: T627
NARA Roll Number: 1072
Digital Folder Number: 005459828
Image Number: 00663
Collection: Sarah C Balyeat in household of Wilma I Balyeat, "United States Census, 1940"

Notes:

Per BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF VAN WERT COUNTY (Ohio) "John Cramer was eighteen years of age when he accompanied his parents to Seneca County, Ohio, and had then finished his education. Until twenty-one years of age he remained on the home farm, and then engaged as a laborer in a saw-mill in Seneca County for two years, and then, in 1847, he married and bought eighty acres of land, on which he at once located and cultivated until 1864, when he came to Van Wert and bought 120 acres in Pleasant township, where he now resides and still owns 75 acres of finely improved land. The family all worship in the Methodist Episcopal faith, and in politics Mr. Cramer is a prohibitionist; he is a member of the grange No. 82, of which he was the treasurer for 14 years."

FindAGrave lists his date of birth as 9 Oct 1822, and date of death as 10 Jan 1912. A photo of an engraved double tombstone, with a second wife, Sarah J. Cramer, shows the dates as 6 Oct 1833 through 11 Jan 1912. Dean Cramer has an earlier date of death, 11 November 1905.

(Research):

Census Listings:

1850 Census
Ohio, Seneca County, Bloom Twp
Enumerated 28 Sept 1850
1305-1333
Martin and Rebecca Schaffner
1306-1334
John Cramer 28 M Laborer Pa
Ann Cramer 20 F Ohio

1860 Census
Ohio, Seneca County, Bloom Twp, PO Bloomville
Enumerated 28 Jun 1860
Page 79
600-567
John Cramer 36 M Farmer 2000 844 Pa
Anne E Crame4r 30 F O
William J Cramer 8 M O
Sarah C Cramer 6 F O
Frank A Cramer 4 M O
Irene H Cramer 3 F O
Anne E Cramer 1 F O
Charles W Cooly 17 M Laborer O

1870 Census
not located

1880 Census
Ohio, Van Wert County, Fourth Ward Van Wert
Enumerated 14 Jun 1880
Page 31 SD One ED 151
Cherry Street
3
Van Danig John B M 20 Laborer Mich Penn Oh
Cramer, John W M 57 Farmer Pa Pa Pa
Cramer, Ann W F 49 Wf Keeping House Oh Pa Pa
Cramer, Frank W M 24 Son Farmer Oh Pa Oh
Cramer, Irene H W F 23 Dtr Oh Pa Oh
Cramer, Annie W F 21 Dtr Oh Pa Oh
Cramer, Martin S W M 19 Son At School Oh Pa Oh
Cramer, Ralph A W M 14 Son At School Oh Pa Oh
Cramer, Charles W M 12 Son At School Oh Pa Oh

Johannes married Ann Eve Shaffner on 29 Dec 1847 in Seneca County, Ohio. Ann (daughter of Martin Shaffner and Ann E. Wirt) was born on 17 Sep 1830 in Crawford County, Ohio; died on 28 Mar 1901 in Van Wert County, Ohio; was buried in Woodland Union Cemetery, Van Wert, Van Wert County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Clarence E. Cramer writes that his baptismal sponsors were his maternal grandparents, Johann and Elisabetha Neidig. He was named in honor of Johann(es) Neudig. He indicated that after his marriage, he and Catharina lived near the Stone Church. He moved to Fostoria, Ohio sometime between 1837 and 1840...(with) printed records for each of these dates, as well as Family tales. (P. 57).

Edith Beard Cannon, in "Genealogical Reports for The Historical Society of York County, Vol. XXIX, p. 52, Evidence of the Cramer Families of York before the year 1850 REVISED" published 1843, cited the following deed:

(3A, 29) December 26, 1814. Johannes Cramer of Shrewsbury Township, yeoman; to John KOLLER: for $1.50: lot 18 in Shrewsbury town.

According to the "Biographical History of Van Wert County (Ohio), Volume II" John Cramer Sr came to Ohio in 1840 and settled on a farm in Seneca County, where he died June 29, 1856, his wife having departed September 16, 1854. They were both members of the German Lutheran Church, and in politics, Mr. Cramer was a democrat. He had served in the war of 1812 as a captain, and was an honored man in his community, where he left a fair fortune. (p. 154) In the book "Seneca County, Biographical Sketches" it says that John and Catherine (Slote) Cramer settled in Loudon Township, Seneca County, in 1838, and purchased 160 acres of land, most of which they cleared and improved and where they lived; here the father died in 1855, in his sixty fifth year; and the mother in 1854, in her sixty second year. (Loudon Township, p 893)

According to Dean Cramer, John donated some of his own land for the Cramer Cemetery in Fostoria, Ohio.

(Research):

Census Listings:

1850 Census
Ohio, Seneca County, Louden Twp
Enumerated 24 Sept 1850
Rome
85-85
John Cramer 59 M Farmer 3000 Pa
Cathrine Cramer 57 F Pa
Wm. Cramer 18 M Farmer
Sophis Cramer 16 F Pa
Sarah A Cramer 13 F Pa
John Hook 12 M Oh

Johannes married Catharina Schlott about 1816 in York County, Pennsylvania. Catharina (daughter of Johann Adam Schlott and Anna Maria Catharina Holder) was born on 20 Jul 1794 in York County, Pennsylvania; was christened on 21 Sep 1794 in Lower Windsor Twp, York County, Pennsylvania; died on 16 Sep 1854 in Seneca County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Settled in Crawford County, Ohio in 1829; both members of the Methodist Episcopal church. At the time of the 1850 census, a Martin and Rebecsa Schaffner were living next to Ann Shaffner and John Cramer in Bloom Township, Seneca County, Ohio. FindAGrave notes that "he became somewhat of a legendary person in the Shaffner genealogy, often noted for his "three wives and 21 children." In fact, he was widowed three times and married four times. He is also known to have had more than 125 grandchildren, many of whom were born after his death, even though he lived to be 83. He also had more than 300 great-grandchildren. "

Martin married Ann E. Wirt in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Ann was born on 10 Oct 1802 in Pennsylvania; died on 22 Sep 1831 in Crawford County, Ohio; was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bloomville, Seneca County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From FindAGrave:

Anna was Martin Shaffner's second wife. She bore him three children, one of whom, Levi Brice Shaffner, died in infancy. Anna died and was originally buried in Crawford County. Later she was re-interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery with Martin and his two other wives