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Edward Helwig

Male 1877 - 1959  (82 years)


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  • Name Edward Helwig  [1, 2
    Birth 16 Feb 1877  Lancaster, Erie County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Christening Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 24 Aug 1959  Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Burial 27 Aug 1959  Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Notes 
    • Cass City Chronicle
      Cass City, Michigan, Nov. 25, 1921
      Page Five
      Thanksgiving Guests

      Mr. and Mrs. Edward Helwig and children, Clark and Marie, were guests a the Chas. Patterson home.

      Cass City Chronicle
      Thursday, August 27, 1959
      Page 12

      Services for Long Time Resident Today

      Funeral services for Edward Helwig were held today (Thursday) at 2 p.m. at the Evangelical United Brethren Church, Cass City. The Rev. Stanley Kirn of Columbiaville officiated.

      Mr. Helwig was born in Lancaster, New York, in 1877, son of the late George and Catherine Warner Helwig. He came to this community with his parents when a child and has been a member of the Cass City EUB church since. He served as Sunday School superintendent for 17 years.

      In 1906 he married Miss Mary Striffler in Cass City and following their marriage they made their home on a farm on Schwegler Road where they have lived since. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1956.

      Mr. Helwig had been in ill health for three years and died at his residence Monday.

      Surviving are his wife; son son, Clark, at home; three sisters, Mrs. Cora Klinkman and Mrs. Clara Bartle, both of Cass City, and Mrs. Russell (Minerva) Sherman of Caro; one brother, George Helwig of Buffalo, N.Y.; one grandchild, and one great-grandchild.

      Little's Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements and burial was in Elkland cemetery.

      (Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, January 2008)
    • (Research):
      1910 Census
      Michigan, Tuscola County, Elkland Twp
      Enumerated 15 and 16 of April 1910
      SD 8 ED 112 Sheet 1A Stamped 121
      12-12
      Helwig, Edward Head M W 33 M1 3 NY NY NY
      Helwig, Mary Wf F W 30 m1 3 0 Mich NY Germany/German
    Person ID I29076  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Aug 2014 

    Father George Wilhelm Helwig,   b. 1 Apr 1847, Lancaster, Erie County, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Jan 1917, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years) 
    Mother Catherine Warner,   b. 14 Jan 1851, Lancaster, Erie County, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Jan 1917, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years) 
    Marriage 10 Feb 1870  Lancaster, Erie County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Family ID F9386  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Pauline Striffler,   b. 11 Nov 1878, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Jan 1967, Caro, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years) 
    Marriage 26 Sep 1906  [4
    • Cass City Chronicle
      October 31, 1930

      Mr. and Mrs. Edward Helwig, and son Clark, have moved from the Geo. Bartle farm, 2 1/2 miles east of town, to the Harry Young farm, 8 miles north and 3 miles east of Cass City.

      The 1941 issue of the Striffler-Benkelman Broadcast showed that Mr. and Mrs. Edward Helwig would observed their 35th wedding anniversary on Sept. 26, 1941.
    Children 
     1. Clark Edward Helwig,   b. 22 May 1911, Elkland Township, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 May 1989, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)
    Family ID F9385  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 11 Sep 2007 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 16 Feb 1877 - Lancaster, Erie County, New York Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChristening - - Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 24 Aug 1959 - Tuscola County, Michigan Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 27 Aug 1959 - Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    Live Wire Bible Class of the Evangelical United Brethern Church Sunday School, Cass City Michigan, ca 1917
    Live Wire Bible Class of the Evangelical United Brethern Church Sunday School, Cass City Michigan, ca 1917
    FRONT ROW, l to r, Grant McConnell, class leader; UNKNOWN Clergyman, UNKNOWN class member, William Schwegler, Sam Helwig, George Burg
    SECOND ROW, l to r, Hattie Helwig McConnell, Janet "Jennie" Gardner Buehrly, Minerva Helwig Sherman, Mary Buehrly Striffler, Mary Mark Buehrly
    THIRD ROW; l to r, Alma Striffler Schenck holding her baby Ruth, Lena Helwig Jaus, Lillian Striffler Ricker, Minnie Jesse Benkelman, Mary Schwegler Jaus, Jacob Hiller.
    Note: Alma Striffler Schenck's three year old son, Donald, was said to be asleep in the Model T Ford just to the left of the group at the time this photo was taken
    FOURTH ROW: l to r, Elsie Buehrly, Mary Striffler Helwig, Cora Helwig Klinkman, Laura McConnell Hiller, Alice Ross Schwegler, Mary McLellan Joos, Ed Helwig
    FIFTH ROW, l to r, Art Ricker, Erwin Kercher, Ed Buehrly, Harvey Klinkman, UNKNOWN Class Member, Fred Buehrly, Fred Joos
    TOP ROW, l to r, Sol Striffler, Clayton Schenck, Fred Jaus, William Ackerman, Sam Jaus

    It appears that at least 33 of the 36 adults in this Sunday School class were directly related, through either blood or marriage, to the Striffler, Benkelman and Helwig families who emigrated together from Erie County, New York to Tuscola County, Michigan beginning in the 1860's.

    PLEASE HELP US IDENTIFY THE UNKNOWN INDIVIDUALS.

  • Sources 
    1. [S384] 1900 United States Federal Census [Ancestry.com database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004, (Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls. This database is an index to individuals enumerated in the 1900 United States Federal Census, the Twelfth Census of the United States. Census takers recorded many details including each person's name, address, relationship to the head of household, color or race, sex, month and year of birth, age at last birthday, marital status, number of years married, the total number of children born of the mother, the number of those children living, birthplace, birthplace of father and mother, if the individual was foreign born, the year of immigration and the number of years in the United States, the citizenship status of foreign-born individuals over age twenty-one, occupation, and more. Additionally, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to actual images of the 1900 Federal Census.), Michigan, Tuscola County, Elkland Twp, SD 8 ED 110 Sheet 5B (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S595] Striffler-Benkelman Broadcast, (Family Publication, published sporadically to record family milestones in connection with the annual Striffler-Benkelman Family Reunions, with Vol. 1, Number 1, published Sept. 7, 1936. Issues on file at the Rawson Memorial Library in Cass City, Michigan include Vol. 5 (1941), Vol. 7 (1944) and Volumes 8 (1945) through Vol. 28 (1968). Issues published from 1961 through 1964 were not assigned volume numbers, and 1963 appears to be missing. Xeroxes of the existing issues were also made by Melinda McLemore Strong in 2007. According to a article published by the Cass City Chronicle on August 6, 1981, commemorating the Fiftieth and Final Striffler-Benkelman Reunion, the final issue of the STRIFFLER-BENKELMAN BROADCAST appears to have been Volume 28, published in 1968.), Volume 22, September 7, 1959. (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S722] Elkland (Twp, Tuscola Co, MI) Cemetery Records ; http://elkland.rawson.lib.mi.us/.

    4. [S595] Striffler-Benkelman Broadcast, (Family Publication, published sporadically to record family milestones in connection with the annual Striffler-Benkelman Family Reunions, with Vol. 1, Number 1, published Sept. 7, 1936. Issues on file at the Rawson Memorial Library in Cass City, Michigan include Vol. 5 (1941), Vol. 7 (1944) and Volumes 8 (1945) through Vol. 28 (1968). Issues published from 1961 through 1964 were not assigned volume numbers, and 1963 appears to be missing. Xeroxes of the existing issues were also made by Melinda McLemore Strong in 2007. According to a article published by the Cass City Chronicle on August 6, 1981, commemorating the Fiftieth and Final Striffler-Benkelman Reunion, the final issue of the STRIFFLER-BENKELMAN BROADCAST appears to have been Volume 28, published in 1968.), Volume 5, September 1, 1941 (Reliability: 3).