Adjie Jameson

Adjie married Harry Waldo Davidson on 21 Nov 1936 in Saginaw County, Michigan. Harry was born on 27 Apr 1903 in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio; died on 7 Jul 1960 in Saginaw County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Adjie and Harry were the parents of Letha Charlotte and Harry Waldo Davidson, III.

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A son of A. N. JAMESON and Maraby MOTT

Ferris married Ethel L. Craw on 26 Jun 1906 in Caro, Tuscola County, Michigan. Ethel (daughter of Adjet Jay Craw, D. V. M. and Elizabeth Catherine Kolb) was born on 2 Jun 1880 in Caro, Tuscola County, Michigan; died on 28 Sep 1954 in Saginaw County, Michigan; was buried in Indian Fields Township Cemetery, Caro, Tuscola County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Art Peck instead has her date of death as September 28, 1954.

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Cass City Chronicle
May 13, 1904
Local Items, Page 10

Ferris R. Jameson of Akron and Miss Ethel Craw of Caro spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Albert Striffler.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, Summer 2007)

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Name: Ferris R. Jameson
Race (Original):
Age (Expanded): 25 years
Birth Year: 1881
Birthplace: Michigan
Spouse's Name: Ethel L. Craw
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Spouse's Age (Expanded): 26 years
Spouse's Birth Year: 1880
Spouse's Birthplace: Michigan
Event Date: 26 Jun 1906
Event Place: Caro, Tuscola, Michigan
Father's Name: A. N. Jameson
Mother's Name: Maraby Mott
Spouse's Father's Name: A. J. Craw
Spouse's Mother's Name: Elizabeth Kolb
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GS Film number: 2342675
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Digital Folder Number: 4209085
Image Number: 576
Reference ID: v 5 p 155 rn 121
Collection: Ethel L. Craw, "Michigan, Marriages, 1868-1925"

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Cass City Chronicle
Local Happenings
June 17, 1927
Page Three

Quite a number from Cass City attended the funeral of A. Craw at Caro Monday.

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Census Listings:

1880 Census
Michigan, Tuscola County, Almer
Enumerated 9 Jun 1880
Page 12 SD 3 ED 395
105-109
Craw, Adjet W M 23 Farmer Mich NY NY
Craw, Elizabeth F 20 Wf Keeping House Wisc

Adjet married Elizabeth Catherine Kolb on 1 Jul 1879 in Tuscola County, Michigan. Elizabeth (daughter of George Anthony Kolb and Maria Catharina Benkelman) was born on 26 Mar 1860 in Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin; died on 30 Nov 1947 in Bay City, Bay County, Michigan; was buried in Indian Fields Township Cemetery, Caro, Tuscola County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Cass City Chronicle
Friday, December 5, 1947
Page 10

Mrs. A.J. Craw died in Bay City on Sunday

Mrs. A.J. Craw, 87, passed away Sunday, November 30, in the house of her daughter, Mrs. Ferris R. Jameson of 317 N. Sheridan Street, Bay City, after an illness of six weeks.

Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon in the Jameson residence by Rev. E. Ray Willson and the remains were interred in the Caro Cemetery.

Elizabeth Kolb was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, March 26, 1860. In 1879 she was united in marriage with Mr. Craw who passed away in 1927. She has made her home with her daughter, her only child, since the death of her husband. She was a sister of the late John and George Kolb of Cass City.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong)

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Name: Adjet E. Craw
Birth Date: 1857
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Age: 22
Spouse's Name: Elizabeth Kolb
Spouse's Birth Date: 1860
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Spouse's Age: 19
Event Date: 01 Jul 1879
Event Place: Tuscola,Michigan
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M51882-1
System Origin: Michigan-ODM
GS Film number: 983816
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Collection: Adjet E. Craw, "Michigan, Marriages, 1822-1995"

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Lived for 6 years in Anendorf, Guzzengen before he came to America on 19 March 1852. He had been studying to be a doctor but to avoid being drafted into the Army, he used his fathers passport and emigrated to America, settling in Greenfield, Wisconsin, where he met Catherina Benkelman. They moved to Cass City in 1864, and made their homestead on an 80 acre farm, 3 miles east and 1 1/2 miles north of Cass City. He was Elkland Township treasurer in 1867. They lived on their homestead until they lost everything they had in the "great fire" of 1881. They only saved their lives by staying in the sorghum fields and the Cass City river that ran behind the house. One son, George Henry, had taken up homesteading across the road from his parents, but sold his land to pay for his mothers funeral in 1883. (Courtesy of Janet Wright of DeFord, MI, September, 1996) BonnieMargaret Jacobs also wrote of George using his father's papers to emigrate, citing correspondence with Mrs. Thoams R. Harvey of Aldan, PA, a descendant of George and Catherine's.

Cass City Enterprise
January 8, 1903, Page 1

George Kolb, an old and respected resident of Caro and a pioneer of Tuscola County, died Monday afternoon at four o'clock, aged seventy-one years. Deceased was born at Wurteburger, Germany, October 7, 1831, and came to this country when twenty years of age, settling in New York state where he lived for two years. He then moved to Wisconsin, where he was united in marriage to Miss Catherine Benkelman. In 1865 they moved to Tuscola county where he has since resided. His wife died in 1893, leaving nine children, one of whom, Henry, died in 1899. The surviving children are George and John of Cass City; Mrs. WAGNER of Fremont; Mrs. BURK, Mrs. HOYT, Mrs. DON, Miss Lydia KOLB and Mrs. A.J. CRAW, of Caro. Short services were held Wednesday afternoon at four o'clock at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. A.J. CRAW, after which the remains were taken to Cass City, where funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at four o'clock, the remains being laid to rest in the Cass City cemetery. - Caro Journal

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong)

BonnieMargaret Jacobs wrote, in her 1981 unpublished manuscript, that in addition to farming, George was in itinerant preacher, doctor and undertaker, it being often said of him that "he got people coming and going"...bringing people into the world, ministering to them while they were here, and finally laying them to rest." (p. 141).

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Census Information:

1880 Federal Census
Census Place: Elkland, Tuscola, Michigan Source:FHL Film 12
54607 National Archives Film T9-0607
Page 97A
RelationSexMarrRaceAgeBirthplace
George A. KOLB Self M M W 49 WERTENBERG Occ: Farmer Fa: WERTENBERG Mo: WERTENBERG
Catherine KOLB Wife F M W 49 WERTENBERG Occ: Keeping House Fa: WERTENBERG Mo: WERTENBERG
Lydia KOLB Dau F S W 8 MI Occ: At Home Fa: WERTENBERG Mo: WERTENBERG
Henry KOLB Son M S W 7 MI Occ: Farmer Fa: WERTENBERG Mo: WERTENBERG

George married Maria Catharina Benkelman on 6 Dec 1854 in Greenfield, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Maria (daughter of Johann Leonhard Benkelmann and Maria Dorothea St?hle) was born on 16 Aug 1831 in Schneiderhof, Waldhausen Parish, Welzheim, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany; died on 9 Dec 1883 in Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan; was buried in Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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German Parish records show "ist 1853 ausgewandert" (left for America) in 1853.

On the Oberant Welzheim Emmigrants list, 1818-1891, She is listed as Maria Catharina, g. d. 16t. August 1831 ledig, and travelling in a party headed by her mother, Maria Dorothea, the widow of Johann Leonhard Benkelmann, a farmer of Schneiderhof. Three of her sisters were on this journey as well.

BonnieMargaret's full source citation was: Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg, "Verzeichnis der Auswanderung aus dem Oberamt Welzheim 1818-1891" F 214 B?schel 91 Fortlaufende Number 42 [or possibly 47] ).