Michael Allen Williams: Strong McLemore Ancestry

Generation: 1

1. Michael Allen Williams was born on 31 Oct 1984 in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida (son of Living and Living); died on 31 Oct 1984 in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida.

Generation: 2

2. Living
Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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1. Michael Allen Williams was born on 31 Oct 1984 in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida; died on 31 Oct 1984 in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida.

Generation: 3

4.	Frank Holcomb Williams, Jr was born on 18 Jul 1922 in Elmira, Chemung County, New York (son of Frank Holcomb Williams and Norma Louise Kilmer); died on 14 Apr 1995 in Palm City, Martin County, Florida. Frank married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Generation: 4

8. Frank Holcomb Williams was born before 1902.
Frank married Norma Louise Kilmer. Norma was born before 1904. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Norma Louise Kilmer was born before 1904.

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4. Frank Holcomb Williams, Jr was born on 18 Jul 1922 in Elmira, Chemung County, New York; died on 14 Apr 1995 in Palm City, Martin County, Florida.

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Eustace Thwaites Ball was born on 13 Nov 1899 in Burwell, Cambridgeshire, England; died on 21 May 1989 in Clearwater, Pinellas County, Florida.

Notes:

The son of Frederick Eustace Ball, a farmer of Knodihall Hall, Suffold, England, and his first wife, Jessie Bulloch Kemp. Graduate of Oxford University. He was an engineer at AT&T. The 1962 issue of the STRIFFLER-BENKELMAN BROADCAST reported that he had retired and was living in Farwell, Michigan in the summer, and during the winter he and Ruth lived in Pinellas Park, Florida, along with Mrs. Wilmot Carpenter (Mae Benkelman).

More on the Ball family of Hastings and Burwell can be found at this website:

http://ballfamilyrecords.co.uk/ball/I264.html

Eustace married Ruth Benkelman on 26 Jul 1924 in Berwyn, Cook County, Illinois. Ruth (daughter of Benjamin Franklin Benkelman, Sr. and Wilhelmina "Minnie" Johanna Friederika Jesse) was born on 26 Jul 1894 in St. Francis, Cheyenne County, Kansas; died on 31 May 1972 in Clearwater, Pinellas County, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Ruth Benkelman was born on 26 Jul 1894 in St. Francis, Cheyenne County, Kansas (daughter of Benjamin Franklin Benkelman, Sr. and Wilhelmina "Minnie" Johanna Friederika Jesse); died on 31 May 1972 in Clearwater, Pinellas County, Florida.

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Attended college at Mt. Pleasant Normal (now Central Michigan) and was a teacher. Met her husband at a church social in Berwyn, Illinois.

Volume 25 of the STIFFLER-BENKELMAN BROADCAST, published September 6, 1965, reported that "Mr. and Mrs. E.T. Ball (Ruth Benkelman) and Mrs. Wilmot Carpenter (Mae Benkelman) entertained Mr. and Mrs. F.A. Smiley (Margaret Striffler) and Mr. and Mrs. Amos Weaver (Laura Striffler) at their trailers in Pinellas Park, Florida, last winter. This is an annual event for them.

Cass City Chronicle
Thursday, June 15, 1972
Page Thirteen

Hold Rites in Florida for Mrs. Ruth Ball

Funeral services were held Saturday, June 3, for Mrs. Ruth Ball, 77, or Clearwater, Fla., who died the previous week. Burial was in Memorial Park Cemetery, Clearwater.

She was born in St. Francis, Kansas, to the late Ben F. and Minnie Benkelman, Sr. She spent her childhood in Cass City until her marriage to Eustis (sic) T. BALL.

Surviving are her husband, a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy WILLIAMS of Palm Beach, Fla.; two brothers, Harold L. of Caseville and Ben F. Jr. of St. Petersburg, Fla.; two sisters, Mrs. Mae CARPENTER of Clearwater and Mrs. Lois PEASE of La Grange, Ill., also three grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews.

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