Bertha Catherine Buehrly

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Cass City Chronicle
Friday, March 13, 1953

Lifelong Resident of Cass City Dies

Funeral services are being held today (Friday) for Mrs. Burton ELLIOTT, 67, lifelong resident of Cass City. The remains are being brought from the Douglas Funeral Home to the Salem Evangelical U.B. Church at noon to lie in state until 2:00 p.m., the time of the service. Rev. S.R. Wurtz will officiate. Mrs. Elliott, who had been ill for three weeks in her home, was taken to the Pleasant Home Hospital Monday afternoon where she died Tuesday night. Mrs. Elliott was born March 7, 1886, near Cass City, the daughter of Mrs. Leonard BUEHRLY and the late Mr. BUEHRLY. On November 26, 1908, she married Mr. Burton ELLIOTT in Cass City. She was a member of the Salem U.B. Church. Surviving are her husband; two sons, Francis ELLIOTT of Cass City and Leonard ELLIOTT of Ubly; a grandson; her aged mother, Mrs. Catherine BUEHRLY; two sisters, Mrs. S. C. (Striffler) and Mrs. Walter (Elsie) ANTHES, and three brothers, Fred, Edward and Lawrence BUEHRLY, all of this vicinity. Burial will be in Elkland Cemetery.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, Spring 2007)

Bertha was one of the cousins of BonnieMargaret Jacobs who searched their Bibles and records and picture collections to provide information for Bonnie's 1981 unpublished manuscipt about the history of the Benkelman family.

Bertha married Burton A. Elliott on 25 Nov 1908 in Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan. Burton (son of David H. Elliott and Matilda Krapf) was born on 8 May 1883 in Tuscola County, Michigan; died on 5 May 1971 in Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan; was buried on 7 May 1971 in Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Francis supplied Art Peck the details of the 10 original Benkelman emigrants and many of their descendants in the late 1970's. He was also one of the cousins of BonnieMargaret Jacobs who searched their Bibles and records and picture collections to provide information for her 1981 manuscipt about the history of the Benkelman family.

Francis never married. He worked for the Mill End Store for more than 50 years, beginning in Cass City and later transferring to the Bay City location. He spent his weekend's in Cass City.

Art Peck also provided the following obituary for Francis, presumably from the Bay City newspaper. A nearly identical version of this obituary was published in the December 14, 1988 issue of the Cass City Chronicle, page 8.

In Memoriam Francis Wilber Elliott
July 31, 1911 -- December 11, 1988

Mr. Francis Elliott of Cass City died Sunday, December 11, 1988, at Saginaw General Hospital after a lenghty illness.

He was born July 31, 1911, in Novesta Township, Tuscola County, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Burton and Bertha (Buehrly) Elliott.

Mr. Elliott, a lifelong resident of Cass City, had been employed by the Mill End Store for over fifty years. He was a member of the Salem United Church of Cass City for over sixty-eight years.

He is survived by one sister-in-law, Mrs. Alice Elliott of Ubly; a nephew and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Robert and Nancy Elliott of Ubly; one uncle, Mr. Edward Buerhly of Cass City, and a number of cousins. Two special friends of Mr. Elliott's were Miss Annabelle and Maxine Read of Bay City.

Funeral Services for Mr. Elliott will be conducted Thursday at 1 p.m., from Little's Funeral Home, Cass City, with Reverend Clair Patton, pastor of the Salem United Methodist Church, officiating.

Interment will be in Elkland Cemetery, Cass City, Michigan.

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Cass City Chronicle
December 7, 1978

L. Elliott dies Friday in Bad Axe

Leonard Elliott, 62, of Ubly died Friday, December 1, at Huron Memorial Hospital in Bad Axe after a long illness. He was born May 13, 1916, in Kingston, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Burton Elliott. Mr. Elliott was married to Miss Alice BUEHRLY March 15, 1944 in Louisville, Kentucky. After their marriage, the couple made their home in Ubly. He was associated with and a distributor for the ST&H Oil Company of Bad Axe for the past 38 years. He was a member of the Salem United Methodist Church of Cass City.

Mr. Elliott is survived by his widow, Alice; son son, Robert Elliott of Ubly, and one brother, Francis Elliott of Bay City.

Funeral services were held at Salem United Methodist Church Sunday. Rev. Eldred Kelley, pastor, officiated. Burial was in Elkland Cemetery. Little's Funeral Home had charge of funeral arrangements.

David married Alice Mae Buehrly on 15 Mar 1944 in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. Alice (daughter of Fred Leonard Buehrly and Mary Elizabeth "Molly" Mark) was born on 24 Feb 1918 in Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan; died on 13 May 1993 in Bad Axe, Huron County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]