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Jan Smit

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• Parentage:^1,1
• Population Register, 1880-1900: between between 1 January 1880 and 4 May 1880, Zuiderstraat, Sappemeer, Groningen, NetherlandsO+, household of father, Albert Smit.
  Jan Smit, male, son, born 8 Feb 1880 in Sappemeer²
• Birth: about 9 February 1880, Sappemeer, Groningen, NetherlandsO+.³
• Population Register, 1870-1890: between between 10 May 1880 and 1 January 1890, Zuidbroek, Groningen, NetherlandsO+, household of father, Albert Smit.
  Jan Smit, male, son, born 8 Feb 1880 in Sappemeer, no occupation⁴
  

  Albert Smit household, population register entry, 1880
• Population Register, 1890-1900: between between 1 January 1890 and 19 May 1890, Zuidbroek, Groningen, NetherlandsO+, household of father, Albert Smit.
  Jan Smit, male, son, born 8 Feb 1880 in Sappemeer, no occupation⁵
• Population Register, 1890-1900: between between 4 April 1891 and 30 May 1892, Zuidbroek, Groningen, NetherlandsO+, household of father, Albert Smit.
  Jan Smit, male, son, born 8 Feb 1880 in Sappemeer, no occupation⁶
• Population Register, 1880-1900: between between 30 May 1892 and 28 January 1895, Slochteren, Groningen, the NetherlandsO+, household of father, Albert Smit.
  Jan Smit, male, son, born 8 Feb 1880 in Sappemeer, no occupation⁷
• Occupation: about 1903, milk deliveryman.⁸
• Residence: 1903, Sappemeer, Groningen, NetherlandsO+.¹
• Jan Smit died on 31 August 1903 in Zuidbroek, Groningen, NetherlandsO+, at age ~23. at two o'clock in the morning¹
• He was the victim of a homicide. According to his grandniece, Mary Ann Smith, he was robbed and murdered. It occurred the night of a festival, when he told the family he would meet them at home later. His body was eventually found floating in the Winschoterdiep canal, after a short period during which he had been missing. His hat had been discovered in the vicinity before the discovery of his body. His sister, Antje, recounted that water continued to ooze from his body and dripped on the floor of the parlor after he had been brought home. His brother, Siert, told their mother that he knew who was responsible, and it is said that his threats to this person (or persons) precipitated his flight from Holland to America.^8,9

• Last Edited: 16 January 2022

Citations

1. [S4846] Zuidbroek, Groningen, Netherlands, "Overlijden 1883-1912," overlijde (death), Jan Smit, vol. 1903, no. 34 (3 September 1903); FHL microfilm 1300720.
2. [S5743] Sappemeer, Groningen, Bevolking Wijk B-C 1880-1900 Bk 2, p. 380, line 1, population register, Albert Smit household entry, 1880, arranged by district; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/72751 : accessed 1 Mar 2022) > DGS 8976867 > image 385 of 465; imaged from FHL digital film 8976867.
3. [S2079] Tienjarige Tafels, Compiler Address: Sappemeer, Groningen, the Netherlands, Volume: 1843-1882, Film: 0235283
4. [S5797] Zuidbroek, Groningen, Bevolking Wijk A-D Namen N-Z 1870-1890, p. 691, line 1, population register, Albert Smit household entry, 10 May 1880, arranged roughly alphabetically; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/100497 : accessed 2 May 2022) > DGS 8977170 > image 143 of 372; imaged from FHL digital film 8977170.
5. [S5522] Zuidbroek, Groningen, Bevolking Wijk A-D Namen S-Z 1890-1900, p. 874, line 1, population register, Albert Smit household entry, 1890, arranged roughly alphabetically; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/100497 : accessed 27 Apr 2021) > DGS 8977174 > image 52 of 380; imaged from FHL digital film 8977174.
6. [S5523] Zuidbroek, Groningen, Bevolking Wijk A-D Namen S-Z 1890-1900, p. 874, line 1, population register, Albert Smit household entry, 30 Jun 1891, arranged roughly alphabetically; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/100497 : accessed 27 Apr 2021) > DGS 8977174 > image 52 of 380; imaged from FHL digital film 8977174.
7. [S5744] Slochteren, Groningen, Bevolking Wijk B, K, D 1880-1900, p. 156, line 1, population register, Albert Smit household entry, 11 Jun 1892, arranged by district; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/85502 : accessed 1 Mar 2022) > DGS 8976839 > image 446 of 541; imaged from FHL digital film 8976839.
8. [S5915] "Conversations with Mary Ann (Smith) Grant," Between 1971 and 2001 by T. L. Cunningham, any extant notes in possession of interviewer, Seattle, Washington, written notes.
9. [S3842] "Binnenlandsch Nieuws, Sappemeer, 5 Sept.," Nieuwe Veendamer (Groningen) Courant, 5 Sep 1903, p. 3, col. 3; image, Delpher (https://www.delpher.nl : accessed 2 Jun 2019.)

Sam Smith

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• References: Buried at Riverside Cemetery (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

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Biography

• Parentage:^1,1
• Birth: 7 March 1883, Zuidbroek, Groningen, NetherlandsO+, "Siert Smit." He was born at eleven o'clock at night.¹
• Population Register: between between 7 March 1883 and 1 January 1890, Zuidbroek, Groningen, NetherlandsO+, household of father, Albert SMIT.
  Siert Smit, son, born 7 March 1883 in Zuidbroek, no occupation, recorded in register 8 March 1883²
• Population Register, 1890-1900: between between 1 January 1890 and 19 May 1890, Zuidbroek, Groningen, NetherlandsO+, household of father, Albert Smit.
  Siert Smit, male, son, born 8 Mar 1883 in Zuidbroek, no occupation³
• Population Register, 1890-1900: between between 4 April 1891 and 30 May 1892, Zuidbroek, Groningen, NetherlandsO+, household of father, Albert Smit.
  Siert Smit, male, son, born 8 Mar 1883 in Zuidbroek, no occupation⁴
• Population Register, 1880-1900: between between 30 May 1892 and 28 January 1895, Slochteren, Groningen, the NetherlandsO+, household of father, Albert Smit.
  Siert Smit, male, son, born 8 Mar 1883 in Zuidbroek, no occupation⁵
• Military Induction: 10 March 1903, Groningen, NetherlandsO+, 1st Regiment, Infantry.⁶
• Biography: before 1 April 1905. His older brother, John, was murdered shortly before his immigration to the U.S. The story has been told that Siert told his mother he knew who had killed his brother, and shortly thereafter a 'gendarme', who was a friend of the family, came to their house to advise his mother that he should flee before anything happened to him. Apparently, Siert had either threatened or actually harmed the person he held responsible for his brother's death. The implication was that he was either at risk of arrest now, or at least under some threat of harm from the person or persons who had killed his brother.⁷
• Emigration Ship Departure: 1 April 1905, from the port of Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, the NetherlandsO, to the port or New York, aboard the S.S. Potsdam. He was accompanied by his younger cousin, Wilhelmus Nuijen. He had resided in Sappemeer, Groningen before leaving for America. He had $50 and paid his own passage. He was travelling on to the home of his uncle, Thomas Nuyen, in Kalamazoo, Michigan.⁸
• Emigration Ship Arrival: 12 April 1905, at the port of New York, aboard the.⁸
• His death certificate states that he was a not a citizen of any foreign country, which indicates that he was naturalized at some time⁹
• Court: 1906, arrested for drunken behavior and paid a $5 fine.¹⁰
• Occupation: 1910, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO, laborer doing odd jobs.¹¹
• Census: 30 April 1910, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO, federal census of 15 April 1910, household of brother-in-law, Jerry Boelman.¹¹
• Military Draft Registration: 12 September 1918, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO. According to this registration, Sam was of medium stature and build with dark hair and blue eyes. Moreover, it noted that he was "sound." Whether this refers to body, mind or both is unclear. It further states that he resided at 316 Sarah Street. It also noted that he was an undeclared alien who worked as a laborer for the Standard Paper Company. He reported that his mother, Marie Smith, lived on North Pitcher Street.¹²
• Occupation: 1920, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO, laborer in a paper mill.¹³
• Census: 9 January 1920, 316 Sarah St., Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO, federal census of 1 January 1920, household of mother, Marianne Nuijen.¹³
• Occupation: between 1921 and 1944, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO, Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Co.¹⁴
• Census: 12 April 1930, 1924 North WestnedgeO, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO, federal census of 1 April 1930, head of household, enumeration district 39-18, sheet 17A, dwelling 391, family 414, home owned, value $3000, no radio.
  Sam Smith, head, male, white, age 47, single, did not attend school, able to read and write, born Holland, parents born Holland, spoke Dutch before coming to U.S., immigrated 1905, first papers, speaks English, shipping room, paper mill, employed worker, not a veteran
  Marion Smith, mother, female, white, age 65, widowed, did not attend school, unable to read or write, born Holland, parents born Holland, spoke Dutch before coming to U.S., immigrated 1906, alien, does not speak English, no occupation
  Arlene Smith, niece, female, white, age 6, single, did ont attend school, born Michigan, father born Michigan, mother born Holland, no occupation¹⁵
• Census: 3 April 1940, 222 E. Patterson St., Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO, federal census of 1 April 1940, head of household, ward 1, enumeration district 39-17, household 8, house rented for $20.
  Sam Smith, head, male, white, age 56, single, finished 8th grade, born Holland, has first papers for naturalization, lived in same place in 1935, employed for pay as loader at paper mill, worked 40 hours previous week, 50 weeks worked in 1939, $1100 income in 1939, no other income
  Mary Anne Smith, mother, female, white, age 76, widowed, finished 6th grade, born Holland, alien, lived in same place in 1935, not working or seeking work, housework, 0 weeks worked in 1939, no income in 1939, no other income
  Mary Ann Smith, niece, female, white, age 16, single, not attending school, finished 8th grade, born Michigan, lived in same place in 1935, not working or seeking work, housework, 0 weeks worked in 1939, no income in 1939, no other income¹⁶
• Alien Registration: 14 September 1940, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO, "Samuel Smith," residence 222 East Patterson Street. He indicated that he had previously filed his first papers for citizenship, however at an unknown date, and it was noted that that application had never been received or recorded.
  
  He was described as 5'7", 170 pounds, and with brown hair and blue eyes.
  
  At the time of his registration, he was a mill worker and was employed as a shipper for K.V.P. (Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment). He also reported having served in the infantry in Holland between 1903 and 1904.¹⁰
• Military Draft Registration: 27 April 1942, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO, "Sam Smit," age 59.
  Serial No.: U2011
  Local Board No. 2, Kalamazoo County
  Residence: 222 E. Paterson St., Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan
  Mailing Address: Same
  Birth: 8 March 1883, Groningen, Netherlands
  Person who will always know address: Marian Smit, same address
  Place of Employment: Parchment Paper Company, Shipping Department, Parchment, Kalamazoo, Michigan
  Description: white, 5'6", 170 lbs., blue eyes, brown hair, ruddy complexion, upper jaw is scarred at right
  
  4th registration, also known as "Old Man's Draft," for men born between 28 April 1877 and 16 February 1897¹⁷
  

  Sam Smit, World War II draft registration card (back), 27 April 1942
  

  Sam Smit, World War II draft registration card (front), 27 April 1942
• Death: 5 June 1944, age 61, Bronson Hospital, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO.
  He died at 6:30 in the evening on Monday, June 5, as that is how it was reported in the local paper from June 6, although his death certificate recorded, more likely erroneously that he died on June 6. He died from lung carcinoma, which he had been diagnosed with 8 months earlier. His grandniece, Mary Ann Smith, said he died of "spider cancer", which probably indicates that his cancer had metastasized to other areas of his body. Both Mary Ann Smith and her husband, Robert Grant, reported that he never smoked, and his doctor, Benjamin Nibbelink, stated that his cancer was unrelated to his occupation. He was treated by Dr. Nibbelink from 2 January 1944 until his death.^9,18
• Burial: about 7 June 1944, Riverside CemeteryO, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO.¹⁹
  

  Sam Smith Tombstone, Riverside Cemetery, Block II, Lot 68, Grave 10

• Last Edited: 2 January 2025

Citations

1. [S4360] Zuidbroek, Groningen, Netherlands, "Geboorten, 1883-1892," geboorte (birth), Siert Smit, vol. 1883, no. 18 (8 March 1883); FHL microfilm 0444616.
2. [S5797] Zuidbroek, Groningen, Bevolking Wijk A-D Namen N-Z 1870-1890, p. 691, line 1, population register, Albert Smit household entry, 10 May 1880, arranged roughly alphabetically; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/100497 : accessed 2 May 2022) > DGS 8977170 > image 143 of 372; imaged from FHL digital film 8977170.
3. [S5522] Zuidbroek, Groningen, Bevolking Wijk A-D Namen S-Z 1890-1900, p. 874, line 1, population register, Albert Smit household entry, 1890, arranged roughly alphabetically; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/100497 : accessed 27 Apr 2021) > DGS 8977174 > image 52 of 380; imaged from FHL digital film 8977174.
4. [S5523] Zuidbroek, Groningen, Bevolking Wijk A-D Namen S-Z 1890-1900, p. 874, line 1, population register, Albert Smit household entry, 30 Jun 1891, arranged roughly alphabetically; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/100497 : accessed 27 Apr 2021) > DGS 8977174 > image 52 of 380; imaged from FHL digital film 8977174.
5. [S5744] Slochteren, Groningen, Bevolking Wijk B, K, D 1880-1900, p. 156, line 1, population register, Albert Smit household entry, 11 Jun 1892, arranged by district; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/85502 : accessed 1 Mar 2022) > DGS 8976839 > image 446 of 541; imaged from FHL digital film 8976839.
6. [S5639] Sappemeer, Groningen, Nationale Militie Lotings-Register, year 1903, lottery number 25, national military registration, Siert Smit entry, 10 Mar 1903, arranged by lottery number; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/18188 : accessed 15 Nov 2021) > DGS 8869776 > 79 of 716; imaged from FHL digital film 8869776.
7. [S5915] "Conversations with Mary Ann (Smith) Grant," Between 1971 and 2001 by T. L. Cunningham, any extant notes in possession of interviewer, Seattle, Washington, written notes.
8. [S4453] Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957, National Archives and Record Administration microfilm publication T715, roll 558, arranged chronologically by arrival date of vessel; SS Potsdam, Rotterdam to New York, arriving 12 Apr 1905, entry for Siert Smid, group 63, list 16, line 16.
9. [S4853] "Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952", database with images, Ancestry (https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60872&h=2334290: accessed 20 Sep 2020), certificate image, Sam Smith, filed 9 Jun 1944, no. 13918045, local file no. 355, image 448 of 822; citing "Death Records (Certificates, 1921-1944, 237: Kalamazoo (Kalamazoo City), 1943-1944), Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, Lansing, Michigan."
10. [S6563] Samuel Smith alien registration form (1940), no. 2203912, 14 September 1940, Kalamazoo, Michigan; Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturlization Service : Record Group 566; National Archives, College Park, Maryland.
11. [S3644] 1910 U.S. census, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, population schedule, city of Kalamazoo, 2nd ward, enumeration district (ED) 134, sheet 19A, dwelling 428, family 433, Jerry Borlman household; image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 654.
12. [S5471] "WWI Draft Registration Cards," database with images, Fold3 (https://www.fold3.com/image/563491150 : accessed 15 Feb 2021), card for Samuel Smith, order no. 3008, serial no. 353, Local Draft Board No. 21-7-7, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan; citing World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, National Archives microfilm publication M1509, record group 163.
13. [S3635] 1920 U.S. census, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, population schedule, city of Kalamazoo, precinct 8, 2nd ward, enumeration district (ED) 153, sheet 9B, dwelling 201, family 217, Mary Smit household; image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 775.
14. [S6477] "Sam Smith," obituary, The Kalamazoo (Michigan) Gazette, 3 September 2002, p. B4 col. 4; image, GenealogyBank, https://www.genealogybank.com : 12 June 2024.
15. [S4050] 1930 U.S. census, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, population schedule, city of Kalamazoo, ward 2, enumeration district (ED) 18, sheet 17A, dwelling 391, family 414, Sam Smith household; image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 998.
16. [S4426] 1940 U.S. census, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, population schedule, city of Kalamazoo, ward 1, enumeration district (ED) 39-17, sheet 1A, dwelling 8, Sam Smith household; image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9M1-VHD2 : accessed 24 Jan 2020); citing NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 1770.
17. [S5871] Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, WWII Draft Registration Cards for Michigan, 1942, serial no. U2011, draft registration, Sam Smit entry, 27 Apr 1942; imaged in "U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1002/ : accessed 15 Aug 2022) > Michigan > Porter, Chester Smith - Trebilcock, John Alfred > Smiglaski, Anthony Joseph - Smith Hayden Artell > 313-4 of 5728; from original records housed at "World War II Draft Cards (4th Registration) for the State of Michigan, Records of the Selective Service System, group 147, National Archives at St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri."
18. [S4179] "Sam Smith," obituary, Kalamazoo (Michigan) Gazette, 6 Jun 1944, p. 22, col. 6.
19. [S3941] Riverside Cemetery (Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan), Sam Smith marker, section II, lot 68; personally read by T. L. Cunningham and Robert E. Grant, 1995.

Annie Smith

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Annie Smith (1889-1974)

• References: Buried at Riverside Cemetery (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

Parents

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• Parentage:^1,1
• Population Register, 1870-1890: between between 10 May 1880 and 1 January 1890, Zuidbroek, Groningen, NetherlandsO+, household of father, Albert Smit.
  Antje Smit, daughter, born 22 May 1889 in Zuidbroek, no occupation, recorded in register 22 May 1889²
  

  Albert Smit household, population register entry, 1880
• Annie Smith was born on 23 May 1889 in Zuidbroek, Groningen, NetherlandsO+. at four o'clock in the morning¹
• Population Register, 1890-1900: between between 1 January 1890 and 19 May 1890, Zuidbroek, Groningen, NetherlandsO+, household of father, Albert Smit.
  Antje Smit, female, daughter, born 21 May 1889 in Zuidbroek, no occupation³
• Population Register, 1890-1900: between between 4 April 1891 and 30 May 1892, Zuidbroek, Groningen, NetherlandsO+, household of father, Albert Smit.
  Antje Smit, female, daughter, born 2 May 1889 in Zuidbroek, no occupation⁴
• Population Register, 1880-1900: between between 30 May 1892 and 28 January 1895, Slochteren, Groningen, the NetherlandsO+, household of father, Albert Smit.
  Antje Smit, female, daughter, born 2 May 1889 in Zuidbroek, no occupation⁵
• Emigration Ship Departure: 7 April 1906, from the port of Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, the NetherlandsO, to the port or New York, aboard the S.S. Nieuw Amsterdam, in the company of her mother.
  She was also accompanied by her younger sister, Jantje.⁶
• Emigration Ship Departure: 19 April 1906, from the port of to the port of New York, aboard the S.S. Nieuw Amsterdam.⁶
• 
  
  Arend William Longjohn and Annie Smith
  Marriage: 15 July 1908, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO. by J. Keizer, Minister of the Gospel, and the ceremony was witnessed by Mr. and Mrs. A. Dozeman of Kalamazoo⁷
• Witness - Marriage Registration: 11 September 1909, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO, Jerry Boelman and Jennie Smith.⁸
• Census: 29 April 1910, 1823 North West Street (now North Westnedge Avenue)O, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO, federal census of 15 April 1910, household of spouse, Arend William Longjohn.⁹
• Annie Smith witnessed the adoption of John Longjohn about 1923 in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO.¹⁰
• Family Event - marriage of niece: 27 March 1923, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO, Donald Nicholas and Marie Smith, "Donald Nicholas and Marion Smith," by Marin Luther Fox, clergyman. She and her husband were witnesses to the marriage of the daughter of her brother, Geert.^11,12
  

  Donald Nicholas and Marion Smith, marriage, 27 March 1923
  

  Gladys Nicholas v. Donald Nicholas, divorce, 22 April 1922
  ¹³
• Census: 14 April 1930, Milham Park Road South, Portage Township, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO, federal census of 1 April 1930, household of spouse, Arend William Longjohn, enumeration district 39-48, sheet 8B, dwelling 183, family 190, home owned, farm, value $3500, no radio, farm schedule 52.
  Annie Longjohn, wife, female, white, age 40, married at age 19, did not attend school, able to read and write, born Holland, parents born Holland, spoke "Holland" before coming to U.S., immigrated 1906, naturalized, speaks English, no occupation¹⁴
• Census: 14 April 1950, 4908 Lovers Lane, Portage, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO, federal census of 1 April 1950, household of spouse, Arend William Longjohn.
  Her grandniece and foster daughter, Mary Ann, also lived in the house along with her husband, Robert Grant, and their two daughters.
  
  Annie Longjohn, wife, white, female, age 61, married, born Holland, naturalized, housework, no work last week, not looking for work, no job or business¹⁵
  

  Arend Longjohn household, 1950 U.S. Census
• Death: 21 May 1974, age 84, Borgess Hospital, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO.¹⁶
• The cause of her death was. arteriosclerotic heart disease¹⁶
• Burial: 23 May 1974, Riverside CemeteryO, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO.¹⁶
  

  Annie and Arend W. Longjohn Tombstone, Riverside Cemetery, Block II, Lot 68, Graves 7 and 8

• Last Edited: 16 January 2022

Citations

1. [S4336] Zuidbroek, Groningen, Netherlands, "Geboorten, 1883-1892," geboorte (birth), Antje Smit, vol. 1889, no. 37 (22 May 1889); FHL microfilm 0444616.
2. [S5797] Zuidbroek, Groningen, Bevolking Wijk A-D Namen N-Z 1870-1890, p. 691, line 1, population register, Albert Smit household entry, 10 May 1880, arranged roughly alphabetically; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/100497 : accessed 2 May 2022) > DGS 8977170 > image 143 of 372; imaged from FHL digital film 8977170.
3. [S5522] Zuidbroek, Groningen, Bevolking Wijk A-D Namen S-Z 1890-1900, p. 874, line 1, population register, Albert Smit household entry, 1890, arranged roughly alphabetically; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/100497 : accessed 27 Apr 2021) > DGS 8977174 > image 52 of 380; imaged from FHL digital film 8977174.
4. [S5523] Zuidbroek, Groningen, Bevolking Wijk A-D Namen S-Z 1890-1900, p. 874, line 1, population register, Albert Smit household entry, 30 Jun 1891, arranged roughly alphabetically; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/100497 : accessed 27 Apr 2021) > DGS 8977174 > image 52 of 380; imaged from FHL digital film 8977174.
5. [S5744] Slochteren, Groningen, Bevolking Wijk B, K, D 1880-1900, p. 156, line 1, population register, Albert Smit household entry, 11 Jun 1892, arranged by district; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/85502 : accessed 1 Mar 2022) > DGS 8976839 > image 446 of 541; imaged from FHL digital film 8976839.
6. [S4457] Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957, National Archives and Record Administration microfilm publication T715, roll 695, arranged chronologically by arrival date of vessel; SS Nieuw Amsterdam, Rotterdam to New York, arriving 19 Apr 1906, entry for Marianna Smith family, group 63, list 10, lines 10-12.
7. [S5283] Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Marriage Records, liber 7 : 43, no. 9975, 15 Jul 1908, entry for Arend Wm. Longjohn and Annie Smith; Kalamazoo County Clerk's Office, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
8. [S5286] Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Marriage Records, liber 7 : 91, no. 10702, 11 Sep 1909, entry for Jurjen Boelman and Jantje Smith; Kalamazoo County Clerk's Office, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
9. [S3993] 1910 U.S. census, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, population schedule, city of Kalamazoo, ward 2, enumeration district (ED) 136, sheet 17A, dwelling 351, family 377, William Langegan household; image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 654.
10. [S5915] "Conversations with Mary Ann (Smith) Grant," Between 1971 and 2001 by T. L. Cunningham, any extant notes in possession of interviewer, Seattle, Washington, written notes.
11. [S5956] Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Marriage Registers, p. 11, no. 22029, marriage record, Donald Nicholas and Marion Smith entry, 27 Mar 1923, recorded 27 Mar 1923; imaged in "Michigan, U.S., Marriage Records, 1867-1952," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9093/ : accessed 29 Jan 2023) > Registers, 1887-1925 > 1921-1925 > 1923 Genesee-Kalkoska > image 499 of 565; from original records housed at "Michigan Department of Community Health, Division of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Lansing, Michigan."
12. [S5958] Wexford County, Michigan, Divorce Records, record no. 2268, Kathleen Hyde v. Eugene Hyde entry, 3 Dec 1921, recorded 22 Apr 1922; imaged in "Michigan, U.S., Divorce Records, 1897-1952," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9092/ : accessed 29 Jan 2023) > 1897-1923 > 1922 Wayne - 1923 Menominee > image 274 of 653; from original records housed at "Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, Lansing, Michigan."
13. [S4645] Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Circuit Court Docket 21, no. 458, Marion Nicholas v. Donald Nicholas, "Bill of Complaint," 19 Oct 1925; digital images, "Chancery docket, ca. 1847-1932; Files, ca. 1847-1939; Index, ca. 1831-1944," FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-L3J3-897R-D : accessed 28 Jun 2020), image 3046-7 of 3107.
14. [S4043] 1930 U.S. census, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, population schedule, Portage Township, enumeration district (ED) 48, sheet 8B, dwelling 183, family 190, Aaron Longjohn household; image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 998.
15. [S5758] 1950 U.S. census, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Portage, enumeration district (ED) 39-72, sheet 1, line 18, Arend W. Longjohn household; digital image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHK-9QHW-593V-R : accessed 2 Apr 2022) 2 of 22; citing NARA microfilm publication T628.
16. [S4710] Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Death Records, vol. 3 : 578, 22 May 1974, Anna Longjohn entry; Kalamazoo County Clerk's Office, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Arend William Longjohn

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Arend William Longjohn (1884-1961)

• References: Buried at Riverside Cemetery (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

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• Parentage:^1,1
• Birth: 14 August 1884, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO.¹
• Arend William Longjohn was.²
• 
  
  Arend William Longjohn and Annie Smith
  Marriage: 15 July 1908, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO. by J. Keizer, Minister of the Gospel, and the ceremony was witnessed by Mr. and Mrs. A. Dozeman of Kalamazoo³
• Witness - Marriage Registration: 11 September 1909, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO, Jerry Boelman and Jennie Smith.⁴
• Census: 29 April 1910, 1823 North West Street (now North Westnedge Avenue)O, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO, federal census of 15 April 1910, head of household.⁵
• Arend William Longjohn witnessed the adoption of John Longjohn about 1923 in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO.²
• Family Event - marriage of niece: 27 March 1923, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO, Donald Nicholas and Marie Smith, "Donald Nicholas and Marion Smith," by Marin Luther Fox, clergyman. He and his wife were witnesses to the marriage.^6,7
  

  Donald Nicholas and Marion Smith, marriage, 27 March 1923
  

  Gladys Nicholas v. Donald Nicholas, divorce, 22 April 1922
• Census: 14 April 1930, Milham Park Road South, Portage Township, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO, federal census of 1 April 1930, head of household, enumeration district 39-48, sheet 8B, dwelling 183, family 190, home owned, farm, value $3500, no radio, farm schedule 52.
  Aaron Longjohn, head, male, white, age 45, married at age 23, did not attend school, able to read and write, born Michigan, parents born Holland, speaks English, farmer, celery farm, works on own account
  Annie Longjohn, wife, female, white, age 40, married at age 19, did not attend school, able to read and write, born Holland, parents born Holland, spoke "Holland" before coming to U.S., immigrated 1906, naturalized, speaks English, no occupation
  John Longjohn, son, male, white, age 7, single, attended school, able to read and write, born Michigan, father born Michigan, mother born Holland, able to speak English
  Mary Smith, mother-in-law, female, white, age 66, married at age 18, did not attend school, able to read and write, born Holland, parents born Holland, spoke Dutch before coming to U.S., immigrated 1906, not naturalized, does not speak English, no occupation
  Mary Smith, niece, female, white, age 6, single, did not attend school, able to read and write, born Michigan, father born Connecticut, mother born Holland⁸
• Census: 14 April 1950, 4908 Lovers Lane, Portage, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO, federal census of 1 April 1950, head of household.
  Arend W. Longjohn, head, white, male, age 65, married, born Michigan, doing something else most of last week, did some work last week, worked 20 hours last week, farmer, farm, private employer
  Annie Longjohn, wife, white, female, age 61, married, born Holland, naturalized, housework, no work last week, not looking for work, no job or business
  John Longjohn, son, white, male, age 28, never married, born Michigan, working most of last week, worked 45 hours last week, farm laborer, farm, private employer, lived in same house last year, father born U.S., mother born Holland, attended 1st grade, but didn't finish, no school this year, worked 52 weeks last year, earned $365 last year as an employee, no other income, family earned no wage income last year, family earned $543 from farm last year, no service in armed forces
  Robert Grant, lodger, white, male, age 27, married, born Michigan, doing something else most of last week, did not do any work last week, not looking for work, has job or business
  Mary A. Grant, lodger, white, female, age 25, married, born Michigan, housework, no work last week, not looking for work, no job or business
  Charlene M. Grant, lodger, white, female, age 7, never married, born Michigan
  Kitty A. Grant, lodger, white, female, age 3, never married, born Michigan
  Harold Morrison, lodger, white, male, age 16, never married, born Michigan, doing something else most of last week, no work last week, not looking for work, no job or business⁹
  

  Arend Longjohn household, 1950 U.S. Census
• Death: 5 August 1961, age 76, 6248 Lovers Lane, Portage, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO.¹
• The cause of his death was. cerebral hemorrhage¹
• Burial: 8 August 1961, Riverside CemeteryO, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO.¹
  

  Annie and Arend W. Longjohn Tombstone, Riverside Cemetery, Block II, Lot 68, Graves 7 and 8

• Last Edited: 2 April 2022

Citations

1. [S4711] Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Death Records, 1 : 103, 1961, Arend William Longjohn entry; Kalamazoo County Clerk's Office, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
2. [S5915] "Conversations with Mary Ann (Smith) Grant," Between 1971 and 2001 by T. L. Cunningham, any extant notes in possession of interviewer, Seattle, Washington, written notes.
3. [S5283] Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Marriage Records, liber 7 : 43, no. 9975, 15 Jul 1908, entry for Arend Wm. Longjohn and Annie Smith; Kalamazoo County Clerk's Office, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
4. [S5286] Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Marriage Records, liber 7 : 91, no. 10702, 11 Sep 1909, entry for Jurjen Boelman and Jantje Smith; Kalamazoo County Clerk's Office, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
5. [S3993] 1910 U.S. census, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, population schedule, city of Kalamazoo, ward 2, enumeration district (ED) 136, sheet 17A, dwelling 351, family 377, William Langegan household; image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 654.
6. [S5956] Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Marriage Registers, p. 11, no. 22029, marriage record, Donald Nicholas and Marion Smith entry, 27 Mar 1923, recorded 27 Mar 1923; imaged in "Michigan, U.S., Marriage Records, 1867-1952," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9093/ : accessed 29 Jan 2023) > Registers, 1887-1925 > 1921-1925 > 1923 Genesee-Kalkoska > image 499 of 565; from original records housed at "Michigan Department of Community Health, Division of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Lansing, Michigan."
7. [S5958] Wexford County, Michigan, Divorce Records, record no. 2268, Kathleen Hyde v. Eugene Hyde entry, 3 Dec 1921, recorded 22 Apr 1922; imaged in "Michigan, U.S., Divorce Records, 1897-1952," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9092/ : accessed 29 Jan 2023) > 1897-1923 > 1922 Wayne - 1923 Menominee > image 274 of 653; from original records housed at "Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, Lansing, Michigan."
8. [S4043] 1930 U.S. census, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, population schedule, Portage Township, enumeration district (ED) 48, sheet 8B, dwelling 183, family 190, Aaron Longjohn household; image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 998.
9. [S5758] 1950 U.S. census, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Portage, enumeration district (ED) 39-72, sheet 1, line 18, Arend W. Longjohn household; digital image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHK-9QHW-593V-R : accessed 2 Apr 2022) 2 of 22; citing NARA microfilm publication T628.

John Longjohn

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John Longjohn (1921-1973)

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• Birth: 7 February 1921.¹
• Adoption: about 1923, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO.²
• Census: 14 April 1930, Milham Park Road South, Portage Township, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO, federal census of 1 April 1930, household of parents, enumeration district 39-48, sheet 8B, dwelling 183, family 190, home owned, farm, value $3500, no radio, farm schedule 52.
  John Longjohn, son, male, white, age 7, single, attended school, able to read and write, born Michigan, father born Michigan, mother born Holland, able to speak English³
• Census: 14 April 1950, 4908 Lovers Lane, Portage, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO, federal census of 1 April 1950, household of parents.
  His cousin and foster sister, Mary Ann, also lived in the house along with her husband, Robert Grant, and their two daughters.
  
  John Longjohn, son, white, male, age 28, never married, born Michigan, working most of last week, worked 45 hours last week, farm laborer, farm, private employer, lived in same house last year, father born U.S., mother born Holland, attended 1st grade, but didn't finish, no school this year, worked 52 weeks last year, earned $365 last year as an employee, no other income, family earned no wage income last year, family earned $543 from farm last year, no service in armed forces⁴
  

  Arend Longjohn household, 1950 U.S. Census
• Death: March 1973, age 52.¹

• Last Edited: 23 August 2020

Citations

1. [S2803] Social Security Death Index, Subject: Unknown subject, Series: Family Search, File Number: no. ? (Family History Library, Salt Lake City), The SSDI component of Family Search is drawn from the Social Security Death Benefits Index of the U.S. Social Security Administration
2. [S5915] "Conversations with Mary Ann (Smith) Grant," Between 1971 and 2001 by T. L. Cunningham, any extant notes in possession of interviewer, Seattle, Washington, written notes.
3. [S4043] 1930 U.S. census, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, population schedule, Portage Township, enumeration district (ED) 48, sheet 8B, dwelling 183, family 190, Aaron Longjohn household; image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, roll 998.
4. [S5758] 1950 U.S. census, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Portage, enumeration district (ED) 39-72, sheet 1, line 18, Arend W. Longjohn household; digital image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHK-9QHW-593V-R : accessed 2 Apr 2022) 2 of 22; citing NARA microfilm publication T628.

Shirley Edith Rolfe

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• Birth: 28 October 1922, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO.¹
• 
  
  Daniel Joel Grant and Shirley Edith Rolfe
  Marriage: 8 June 1940, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO.²

• Last Edited: 22 October 2020

Citations

1. [S3953] Muryl H. Grant, compiled Grant family history, Charles Grant Descendancy Chart; supplied by Grant, Honoraville, Alabama, 1996; this chart does not supply any sourced citations for the information supplied.
2. [S5059] "Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952", database with images, Ancestry (https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=9093&h=2198476: accessed 22 Oct 2020), record image, Mr Daniel J Grant and Shirley Edith Rolfe, filed 8 Jun 1940, no. 32268 (county file), state file no. 39 8210, image 4802 of 9223; citing "Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952 (Certificates 1926-1944, Kalamazoo (1932-1944), roll 104), Michigan Department of Community Health, Division of Vital Records and Health Statistics, Lansing, Michigan."

Doris Ardella Aman

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Doris (Aman) Grant, c. 1982

• References: Recent Edits

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• Birth: 19 October 1932, Aberdeen, Brown County, South DakotaO.¹
• Marriage: to Muryl Harvey Grant, 26 October 1957, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO, age 25.¹
• Death: 9 January 2013, age 80.²
• Burial: Spring Creek Cemetery, Butler County, AlabamaO.
  Grave: Doris A. Aman Grant, Oct. 19, 1932 - Jan. 9, 2013²
  

  Doris A. Grant, grave marker, Spring Creek Cemetery (photo by "Rick & Kat," 2018

• Last Edited: 4 May 2025

Citations

1. [S3953] Muryl H. Grant, compiled Grant family history, Charles Grant Descendancy Chart; supplied by Grant, Honoraville, Alabama, 1996; this chart does not supply any sourced citations for the information supplied.
2. [S6648] Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103382904/doris_a-grant : 2 May 2025), "Doris A. Grant" (19 October 1932-9 January 2013) memorial, maintained by "Green" with tombstone image by "Rick & Kat"; citing Spring Creek Cemetery, Butler County, Alabama.

Sidney Earl Greenwalt

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• Parentage:^1,2
• Birth: 4 September 1944.
• At least one document indicates he may have been born on 5 September 1944 in IndianaO. death record¹
• Marriage: to Kitty Ann Grant, 4 December 1965, age 21.³
• Death: 1 June 1996, age 51, Los Angeles County, CaliforniaO.^3,1
• Burial: Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CaliforniaO.³

• Last Edited: 5 August 2018

Citations

1. [S2286] California Death Records, 1940-1997, Url: http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi (California Department of Health Services, Office of Health Information and Research, Vital Statistics Section, Sacramento, CA)
2. [S4105] "Max B. Greenwalt," obituary, The Goshen (Indiana) News, 11 Oct 2010; transcription, GenealogyBank (https://www.genealogybank.com : accessed 11 Mar 2017.)
3. [S5911] "Conversations with Kitty Ann (Grant) Boodt," Between 1971 and 2022 by T. L. Cunningham, any extant notes in possession of interviewer, Seattle, Washington, written notes.

Charles Grant

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• References: Common Ancestor Chart - Charles Grant and Esther McWilliams
  Descendants of Charles Grant and Esther McWilliams

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• Birth: about 1810.
  A great deal of mystery continues to surround Charles, his origins, and his outcome. While he likely was born in the early 1800's, even this cannot be known with certainty. As to where he was born, this is again a mystery. It could be that he was born in Canada, but then again he may have been born in the fledgling United States or in Europe. What we do know of him is signified more by his absence. Nevertheless, as in all things, the simplest explanation is usually the most probable one. Putting aside the whereabouts of his birth, we can look to King Township in York County (formerly the Home District) of Ontario as the scene of at least a very important portion of his life.
• Names: Charles Grant; Charles Collins Grant; C. C. Grant
  The reference to Esther Grant's husband, "C. C. Grant," on her tombstone in Goshen, Indiana, seems to lend weight to the possibility that our Charles Grant is the same as Charles Collins Grant named in Charles Grant Senior's will as the younger of his two sons.¹
• Parentage: Charles Grant.
  Examination of records in King Township in the mid-1800's reveals a Charles Grant who died in 1847, leaving a will made out in 1845. In this will he names his wife, Christiana, as his executrix, and two sons, Charles and Charles Collins Grant, to each of whom he leaves a shilling. It seems entirely possible that our Charles is one of these two sons. As this has been the working presumption since the finding of this probate record, I will hereinafter refer to these three (Charles and his two sons) as Charles Senior, Charles Junior, and Charles Collins, in order to lessen the confusion.
  
  There is less certainty as to who his mother may be. Christiana Mills, who married his putative father, Charles Grant Senior, on 20 May 1813 in Sandwich, Essex County, Upper Canada (now Windsor, Ontario), might be his mother or more likely his stepmother given the date of the marriage.
  
  More mysteries surrounding Charles Senior and his boys are raised by the probate record of Christiana Grant, wife of Charles Senior. Dated 28 Nov 1850 and apparently written while Christiana was residing in Vaughan Township, York County, Ontario, she left her entire estate, which consisted of 30 pounds still owed to her by Thomas Beynon, some unclear remainder of the debt owed by Rowland Burr, and household goods valued at 5 pounds, to Sarah "Sally" Lawrence, wife of James Lawrence, of Vaughan Township. She further named Mr. Lawrence as one of her executors. No mention is made of either Charles Junior or Charles Collins in the will. However, the record indicates that there existed some question as to the veracity of the will, such that several people were called to make affidavits that she was indeed of sound mind when it was made. Among these affidavits there is mention made of an earlier will, although its contents are not revealed. More importantly, one witness reports that Christiana had a "drunken, worthless" stepson, and that she intended to leave him nothing. This suggests that at least one of Charles Grant Senior's sons was a stepson to her.^2,3,4,5
  

  Excerpt from Charles Grant, will, 15 December 1845
• Family Event - marriage of father: 6 June 1813, Sandwich, Essex County, Upper CanadaO, Charles Grant and Christiana, "Charles Grant and Christiana Mills," by Rev. Lollard.³
  

  Charles Grant and Christiana Mills, marriage, 20 May 1813
  

  Charles Grant and Christiana Mills, marriage, 6 June 1813
• Marriage: to Esther McWilliams, after 1830.
  No record has been found of the marriage of Esther McWilliams to Charles Grant. Most likely it occurred between 1830 and 1833, but may have been as early as 1827. Following Charles' apparent early death, she was left alone to raise their five children, which must have been quite a challenge for a woman who was far from wealthy. No record has been found indicating that she ever remarried. The only direct evidence of their marriage is her tombstone inscription indicating that her husband was C. C. Grant. Peter Grant's 1909 death certificate names Charles Grant and Esther MacWilliams as his parents. Peter's younger sister, Mary Ann, provided the information for his death certificate. James Grant's 1904 death certificate names Charles Grant and Esther McWitten as his parents.^1,6,7
• Family Event - birth of child: 14 August 1833, parent of Peter Grant.⁸
• Family Event - birth of child: 11 August 1835, parent of James Grant.⁹
• Family Event - birth of child: about 1838, parent of Mary Ann Grant.⁸
• Family Event - birth of child: about 1845, parent of Charlotte Grant.^10,11
• Family Event - birth of child: September 1848, parent of John Grant.¹²
• Death: before 1851.
  As stated earlier, Christiana Grant's will made no mention of any children or stepchildren, but an affidavit provided at the probate of her will after her death stated that she had a "drunken, worthless" stepson to whom she would leave nothing. No other children were mentioned, and whether the "drunken stepson" referred to Charles Grant Junior or Charles Collins Grant is uncertain, but it does leave the implication that at least one of the two sons of Charles Grant Senior had died sometime between their father's 1845 will and Christiana's 1850 will.
  
  Further evidence that he had died in the early 1850s or earlier comes from the 1854 tax assessment records in King Township, showing his wife as a landowner but not him.^13,14,5

• Last Edited: 13 April 2025

Citations

1. [S3929] Oak Ridge Cemetery (Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana), Esther Grant marker; personally read by T. L. Cunningham and Robert E. Grant, 1996.
2. [S5948] York County, Canada West, Surrogate Court probate records, R.G. 22, Series 6-2, no. G-9, will and affiliated documents, Charles Grant entry, recorded 9 Oct 1847; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/219352 : accessed 16 Jan 2023) > DGS 8130814 > images 972-984 of 1125; imaged from FHL digital film 8130814.
3. [S5579] Sandwich, Essex County, Upper Canada, St. John's, Anglican, 1802-1827, Register of baptisms, marriages, and burials, marriage records, vol. 2, pp. 17-18, Charles Grant and Christiana Mills entry, 6 Jun 1813; imaged in "Ontario Marriages, 1800-1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1810408 : accessed Apr 2010) > Film # 008131524 > images 244-245 of 1081; imaged from FamilySearch digital film 8131524.
4. [S6625] York County, Canada West, Surrogate Court case file R.G. 22, Series 6-2, no. G-9, Christiana Grant (1849), inventory of estate, 14 January 1851; imaged, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSV5-R79G-H : accessed 13 April 2025); citing "Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Canada."
5. [S6623] York County, Canada West, Surrogate Court case file R.G. 22, Series 6-2, no. G-9, Christiana Grant (1849), depositions of David Bridgeford, John J. Bridgeford, and William Slaney, 5 April 1851; imaged, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSV5-RQ1Z-Z : accessed 13 April 2025); citing "Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Canada."
6. [S3959] "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-68X9-66M: accessed 21 May 2014), death registration image, Peter Grant, 17 Sep 1909, page Peter's parents are listed as Charles Grant and Esther MacWilliams., no. 47606, registration no. 17, image 2795 of 3052, Certificates of death, 1908-1953, index 1908-1911, FHL microfilm 1927185; citing "Ohio, deaths, 1908-1953, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio."
7. [S4236] "Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011", database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/60716/45232_356088-00843: accessed 2017), certificate image, James Grant, filed 10 Jan 1904, p. This record indicates that James' parents were Charles Grant and Esther McWitten., no. 197, image 844 of 2799; citing "Indiana State Board of Health, Death Certificates, 1900-2011, Indiana Archives and Records Administration, Indianapolis, Indiana."
8. [S3959] "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953", FamilySearch, death registration image, Peter Grant, 17 Sep 1909, no. 47606, registration no. 17, image 2795 of 3052.
9. [S4236] "Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011", Ancestry, certificate image, James Grant, 10 Jan 1904, no. 197, image 844 of 2799.
10. [S5961] "Indiana, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1798-1999," Esther Grant entry, 1 Jan 1881, recorded 19 Nov 1881, database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9045/images/007663137_00361 : accessed 7 Feb 2023; Elkhart County, Indiana Probate Court, "Will Records," vol. 3, pp. 72-73; citing FHL microfilm 7663137.
11. [S5534] Elgin County, Canada West, Marriage Registers, schedule 192, pp. 333-4, Jeremiah Annett and Charlotte Grant entry, 4 Dec 1863; imaged in "Ontario, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2568642 : accessed 26 Apr 2021) > Elgin > 1858-1863, vol 7 > image 185 of 200; imaged from FamilySearch digital film 7859247; from original records housed at "Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario."
12. [S3950] Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Deaths, Liber 4 : 264, record no. 296, 5 May 1915, John Grant entry; Kalamazoo County Clerk's Office, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
13. [S5884] King Township, York County, Canada West, Tax Assessment Rolls, assessment, no. 310, Esther Grant entry, recorded 1854; imaged in "Canada, Ontario Tax Assessment Rolls, 1834-1899," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/4130007 : accessed 25 Sep 2022) > DGS 8200482 > image 76 of 492; imaged from FamilySearch digital film 820048.
14. [S6621] York County, Canada West, Surrogate Court case file R.G. 22, Series 6-2, no. G-9, Christiana Grant (1849), last will and testament of Christiana Grant, 28 November 1850; imaged, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSV5-RQ1H-B : accessed 13 April 2025); citing "Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Canada."

Esther McWilliams

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• References: Descendants of Ephraim Wheeler
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• Birth: 27 January 1810, King Township, York County, Ontario, CanadaO. Esther may have been one of the several children of Caleb McWilliams and Hepsabet Wheeler, who were early settlers in King Township.¹
• Parentage: Caleb McWilliams and Hepsabet Wheeler.
  Esther was likely one of the several children of Caleb McWilliams and Hepsabet Wheeler, who were early settlers in King Township.²
• Marriage: to Charles Grant, after 1830.
  No record has been found of the marriage of Esther McWilliams to Charles Grant. Most likely it occurred between 1830 and 1833, but may have been as early as 1827. Following Charles' apparent early death, she was left alone to raise their five children, which must have been quite a challenge for a woman who was far from wealthy. No record has been found indicating that she ever remarried. The only direct evidence of their marriage is her tombstone inscription indicating that her husband was C. C. Grant. Peter Grant's 1909 death certificate names Charles Grant and Esther MacWilliams as his parents. Peter's younger sister, Mary Ann, provided the information for his death certificate. James Grant's 1904 death certificate names Charles Grant and Esther McWitten as his parents.^1,3,4
• Family Event - birth of child: 14 August 1833, parent of Peter Grant.⁵
• Family Event - birth of child: 11 August 1835, parent of James Grant.⁶
• Family Event - birth of child: about 1838, parent of Mary Ann Grant.⁵
• Family Event - birth of child: about 1845, parent of Charlotte Grant.^7,8
• Family Event - birth of child: September 1848, parent of John Grant.⁹
• Tax Paid: 1854, King Township, York County, Canada WestO, 50 acre plot comprising southwest quarter of concession 3, lot 12. The value of the lot was assessed at 100 pounds without any additional personal property valuation. Next door on the northwest quarter was Susan McWilliams, suspected to be either a sister or sister-in-law of Esther's, and that property had the same valuation.
  
  William Wood owned a 50 acre plot on the same lot, noted to be the "east quarter," presumably meaning either the northeast or southeast quarter. This lot was assessed at 200 pounds, 175 comprising real estate, and the 25 for the personal estate.
  
  John Ferguson owned the other 50 acre plot on the same lot. There was no specification for which portion of the lot this would have been, but must have been either the northeast or southeast quarter. This real estate was assessed at 150 pounds. He also owned another lot comprising 58 acres on concession 3, lot 10, valued at 500 pounds with an additional 50 pounds of personal estate.
  
  The further implication of this record, given that she is listed as the land owner, is that her husband had died before the time of this assessment.¹⁰
• Tax Paid: 1859, King Township, York County, Canada WestO, 50 acre plot comprising southwest quarter of concession 3, lot 12.
  She was listed as a freeholder. The value of the lot was assessed at 500 pounds without any additional personal property valuation. Next door on the northwest quarter was John Campbell, age 35. He was listed as a householder rather than freeholder, and the 50 acre property valued at 500 pounds as well.
  
  Robert Norman, age 40, lived as a householder on the east half of concession 3, lot 12. The 100 acre property was owned by Thomas Fergussion, the real estate valued at 1500 pounds, and personal estate valued at 200 pounds.¹¹
• Census: 14 January 1861, King Township, Home District, Canada WestO, Canada West census of 13 January 1861, head of household, p. 21.
  Esther Grant, no occupation listed, born Upper Canada, Episcopal Methodist, age 47, female, widowed
  John Grant, no occupation listed, born Upper Canada, Episcopal Methodist, age 13, male, single, attended school¹²
• Land Transaction - Grantor: 16 January 1867, King Township, York County, Canada WestO, "Esther Grant to John Grant," southwest quarter of lot 12, 3rd concession, comprising 50 acres.^13,14
• Land Transaction - Borrower: 30 April 1867, King Township, York County, Canada WestO. Esther and her son took out a three year mortgage from John Ferguson, “yeoman of King Township,” for $260 with interest to paid at 8% per annum. Thomas Scott, a farmer of King Township, and John Campbell were witnesses to this.¹⁵
• Land Transaction - Grantor: 29 October 1867, King Township, York County, Ontario, CanadaO, "Esther Grant to John Grant," 10 acres of original 50 acre lot. Esther sold her son John 10 acres of this parcel outright for $12. John Ferguson witnessed this sale, and immediately following the young John Grant then sold the parcel to Ferguson for $300. John Edward McNally, a merchant of Aurora, and John Allison, a smith of Whitchurch Township, witnessed this transaction. Three days later the previous mortgage taken by John and his mother from John Ferguson was discharged.^16,17,18
• Family Event: 7 October 1868, Toronto, York County, OntarioO.
  The Chancery Court decreed that her son, John Grant, was “absolutely debarred and foreclosed of and from all right, title, and equity of redemption” of any of the 50 acre property he had earlier purchased from her, and title of that land should revert wholly to her. Shortly thereafter a judgment was made on 15 January 1869 that the remaining 40 acre property was to revert wholly to Esther's ownership as well.^19,20,21
• Census: 25 June 1870, Ross Township, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO, federal census of 1 June 1870, head of household, page 5, dwelling 34, family 34.
  Esther Grant, age 58, female, white, born Canada
  John Cotton, age 22, male, white, born Canada, male citizen
  
  Next door lived Peter Grant and his family. It is not known who John Cotton was, and his last name might be John Colbon or Cotbon.²²
• Census: 7 June 1880, Main Street, Goshen, Elkhart County, IndianaO, federal census of 1 June 1880, head of household, page 18B, enumeration district 40, dwelling 189, family 189.
  Ester Grant, white, female, age 70, widowed, housekeeping, cannot write, born Canada, father born Scotland, mother born New York²³
• Will: 1 January 1881, Goshen, Elkhart County, IndianaO. The will was witnessed by Aaron S. Zook and Noah Hoyt. Her will named her son, James Grant, executor of her estate. To him, she left a debt owing to her by one John Furgeson of Ontario, Canada. The debt was in the amount of $600 plus annual interest and was secured by mortgage and left in care of one Walter Scott of Ontario, Canada. This debt, she stated, should become payable upon her death. From her description of this debt, it appears that she had been the owner of some piece of land in Ontario which she had sold to John Furgeson. The remainder of her personal estate she left to her children, John Grant and Charlotte Annett, to be divided between them equally. She does not specifically refer to them as her children, however the fact that they are named in her will strongly suggests just that. There is no mention at all of her son, Peter Grant, or her daughter, Mary Ann (Grant) Elliott.⁷
• Family Event - death of daughter: 3 November 1881, Goshen, Elkhart County, IndianaO, death of Charlotte Grant, age ~36.²⁴
• Death: 11 November 1881, age 71, Goshen, Elkhart County, IndianaO.^1,25
• Burial: 13 November 1881, Oakridge CemeteryO, Goshen, Elkhart County, IndianaO.
  Grave: Esther, wife of C. C. Grant, born in Tp. of King, Ont. Canada Jan 27, 1810, died in Goshen Nov 11. 1881, aged 71 y, 9 m, 16 d^1,25,26
  

  Esther Grant, grave marker, Oakridge Cemetery (Robert Ashton, 2017)

• Last Edited: 2 May 2025

Citations

1. [S3929] Oak Ridge Cemetery (Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana), Esther Grant marker; personally read by T. L. Cunningham and Robert E. Grant, 1996.
2. [S3089] King Township Records, 1809-1844, Record Type: township records, Film: 0207880
3. [S3959] "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-68X9-66M: accessed 21 May 2014), death registration image, Peter Grant, 17 Sep 1909, page Peter's parents are listed as Charles Grant and Esther MacWilliams., no. 47606, registration no. 17, image 2795 of 3052, Certificates of death, 1908-1953, index 1908-1911, FHL microfilm 1927185; citing "Ohio, deaths, 1908-1953, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio."
4. [S4236] "Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011", database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/60716/45232_356088-00843: accessed 2017), certificate image, James Grant, filed 10 Jan 1904, p. This record indicates that James' parents were Charles Grant and Esther McWitten., no. 197, image 844 of 2799; citing "Indiana State Board of Health, Death Certificates, 1900-2011, Indiana Archives and Records Administration, Indianapolis, Indiana."
5. [S3959] "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953", FamilySearch, death registration image, Peter Grant, 17 Sep 1909, no. 47606, registration no. 17, image 2795 of 3052.
6. [S4236] "Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011", Ancestry, certificate image, James Grant, 10 Jan 1904, no. 197, image 844 of 2799.
7. [S5961] "Indiana, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1798-1999," Esther Grant entry, 1 Jan 1881, recorded 19 Nov 1881, database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9045/images/007663137_00361 : accessed 7 Feb 2023; Elkhart County, Indiana Probate Court, "Will Records," vol. 3, pp. 72-73; citing FHL microfilm 7663137.
8. [S5534] Elgin County, Canada West, Marriage Registers, schedule 192, pp. 333-4, Jeremiah Annett and Charlotte Grant entry, 4 Dec 1863; imaged in "Ontario, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2568642 : accessed 26 Apr 2021) > Elgin > 1858-1863, vol 7 > image 185 of 200; imaged from FamilySearch digital film 7859247; from original records housed at "Archives of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario."
9. [S3950] Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Deaths, Liber 4 : 264, record no. 296, 5 May 1915, John Grant entry; Kalamazoo County Clerk's Office, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
10. [S5884] King Township, York County, Canada West, Tax Assessment Rolls, assessment, no. 310, Esther Grant entry, recorded 1854; imaged in "Canada, Ontario Tax Assessment Rolls, 1834-1899," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/4130007 : accessed 25 Sep 2022) > DGS 8200482 > image 76 of 492; imaged from FamilySearch digital film 820048.
11. [S5885] King Township, York County, Canada West, Tax Assessment Rolls, assessment, no. 135, Ester Grant entry, recorded 1859; imaged in "Canada, Ontario Tax Assessment Rolls, 1834-1899," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/4130007 : accessed 25 Sep 2022) > DGS 8200482 > image 301 of 492; imaged from FamilySearch digital film 820048.
12. [S4439] "1861 Census of Canada," King Township, York County, population schedule, district 2, p. 21 (stamped), lines 37-38, Esther Grant household; digital images, image 1248 of 9549, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1570/4108434_00533 : accessed 2 Feb 2020); citing "Census Returns for 1861, microfilm no. C-1088, Library and Archives Canada Ottawa, Ontario."
13. [S5661] King Township, York County, Ontario, Land Records, vol. 9, pp. 28-29, instrument no. 3901, indenture, Esther Grant to John Grant entry, 16 Jan 1867, recorded 24 Jan 1867; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/494356 : accessed 29 Nov 2021) > DGS 8199921 > image 21 of 401; imaged from FHL digital film 8199921; from original records housed at "North Registrar's Office, Newmarket, Ontario."
14. [S5662] King Township, York County, Ontario, Land Records, vol. 9, pp. 29-31, instrument no. 3902, indenture, John Grant to Esther Grant, mortgage entry, 16 Jan 1867, recorded 24 Jan 1867; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/494356 : accessed 29 Nov 2021) > DGS 8199921 > images 21-22 of 401; imaged from FHL digital film 8199921; from original records housed at "North Registrar's Office, Newmarket, Ontario."
15. [S5663] King Township, York County, Ontario, Land Records, vol. 9, pp. 247-248, instrument no. 4382, mortgage, Esther Grant et al to John Ferguson entry, 30 Apr 1867, recorded 7 Jun 1867; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/494356 : accessed 29 Nov 2021) > DGS 8199921 > images 134-135 of 401; imaged from FHL digital film 8199921; from original records housed at "North Registrar's Office, Newmarket, Ontario."
16. [S5665] King Township, York County, Ontario, Land Records, vol. 9, pp. 365-7, instrument no. 4694, indenture, Esther Grant to John Grant entry, 29 Oct 1867, recorded 5 Nov 1867; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/494356 : accessed 29 Nov 2021) > DGS 8199921 > images 196-7 of 401; imaged from FHL digital film 8199921; from original records housed at "North Registrar's Office, Newmarket, Ontario."
17. [S5666] King Township, York County, Ontario, Land Records, vol. 9, pp. 367-9, instrument no. 4695, indenture, John Grant to John Ferguson entry, 29 Oct 1867, recorded 5 Nov 1867; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/494356 : accessed 29 Nov 2021) > DGS 8199921 > images 197-8 of 401; imaged from FHL digital film 8199921; from original records housed at "North Registrar's Office, Newmarket, Ontario."
18. [S5664] King Township, York County, Ontario, Land Records, vol. 9, p. 365, instrument no. 4693, discharge of mortgage, John Ferguson to Esther and John Grant entry, 1 Nov 1867, recorded 5 Nov 1867; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/494356 : accessed 29 Nov 2021) > DGS 8199921 > image 196 of 401; imaged from FHL digital film 8199921; from original records housed at "North Registrar's Office, Newmarket, Ontario."
19. [S5667] King Township, York County, Ontario, Land Records, vol. 10, pp. 193-4, instrument no. 121, chancery decree, Esther Grant v. John Grant entry, 7 Oct 1868, recorded 13 Feb 1869; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/494356 : accessed 30 Nov 2021) > DGS 8199922 > images 103-4 of 441; imaged from FHL digital film 8199922; from original records housed at "North Registrar's Office, Newmarket, Ontario."
20. [S5668] King Township, York County, Ontario, Land Records, vol. 10, pp. 194-5, instrument no. 122, indenture, Esther Grant to John Ferguson entry, 8 Feb 1869, recorded 13 Feb 1869; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/494356 : accessed 30 Nov 2021) > DGS 8199922 > image 104 of 441; imaged from FHL digital film 8199922; from original records housed at "North Registrar's Office, Newmarket, Ontario."
21. [S5669] King Township, York County, Ontario, Land Records, vol. 10, pp. 196-7, instrument no. 123, indenture, John and Margaret Ferguson to Esther Grant entry, 8 Feb 1869, recorded 13 Feb 1869; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/494356 : accessed 30 Nov 2021) > DGS 8199922 > image 105 of 441; imaged from FHL digital film 8199922; from original records housed at "North Registrar's Office, Newmarket, Ontario."
22. [S3711] 1870 U.S. census, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, population schedule, township of Ross, p. 5 (penned), p. 343 (stamped), dwelling 34, family 34, Esther Grant household; image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 680.
23. [S3951] 1880 U.S. census, Elkhart County, Indiana, population schedule, Goshen, enumeration district (ED) 40, p. 18 (penned), dwelling 189, family 189, Esther Grant household; image, FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org; citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 275.
24. [S3804] "County and Neighborhood," death notice of Mrs. Jerry Annett, Goshen (Indiana) Times, 10 Nov 1881, p. 3; image, NewspaperArchive (https://newspaperarchive.com : accessed 1 Aug 2014.)
25. [S3952] "County and Neighborhood," Esther Grant death notice, The Goshen (Indiana) Times, 17 Nov 1881, p. 3, col. 2; image, Newspaperarchive.com (https://newspaperarchive.com/goshen-times-nov-17-1881-p-3 : accessed 20 Oct 2019.)
26. [S6652] Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8954115/esther-grant : 2 May 2025), "Esther Grant" (1810-11 November 1881) memorial, maintained by "Just Us" with tombstone image by "Robert Ashton"; citing Oakridge Cemetery, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.

James Grant

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• References: Common Ancestor Chart - Charles Grant and Esther McWilliams
  Descendants of Charles Grant and Esther McWilliams
  Descendants of Ephraim Wheeler
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• Biography: FROM ABT 1860 TO 1904. As previously noted, James spent most of his adult life working in the profession of a stone and brick mason. In fact, he eventually was a member of the Masons.
  
  We are in luck to know a fair amount about James' chosen occupation. The first hint of his occupation as a mason came from his grandnephew, Robert Grant, grandson of John Grant. Robert related numerous times that John used to work with his brother, James, in Goshen, "pouring sidewalks." Eloquent confirmation of this came in the discovery of the work of Poor Pat Prodpen of Parry Sound, A.K.A. James Elliott, brother-in-law of James Grant.
  
  Wholly deaf and nearly blind, nevertheless Mr. Elliott penned several short, amusing works, among them, Glimpses of Life, and Sketches of Character in Canada. It is in this tiny book that he mentioned the work of his brother-in-law, James. After waxing poetic about sidewalks and how their upkeep indicates the characters of their respective custodians, he notes, "It is to James Grant of 513 South 7th Street, manufacturer of cement tile, sewer pipe, window sills and concrete pavements that the good citizens of Goshen are indebted for the largest and the best constructed portion of the admirably good sidewalks that add to the manifold attractions of their model city." He further relates, "No one understands and attends to this most important part of this particular business better and more carefully than James Grant, and he is not only a remarkably clever and skilful [sic] mechanic, with a thoroughly practical knowledge of the most minute details of the several branches of his profession, but he is a conscientiously honest and honourable gentleman, and as a consequence he is at times under quite a pressure of business engagements, not only in Goshen, but in neighbouring towns and cities, so that he is at times obliged to employ quite a number of men. One special branch of his profession is the making of cement or artificial stone vaults for graves, and in this line his services have been called into requisition for scores if not for hundreds of Goshen's most respected citizens who are now sleeping their last long sleep in the beautiful Oakwood cemetery in the north-western suburbs of the city, near the softly murmuring waters of the smoothly flowing Elkhart river."^1,2,3
• Birth: 11 August 1835, King Township, York County, Ontario, CanadaO.^4,5,6,7,1
• Parentage: Charles Grant and Esther McWilliams. "Charles Grant and Esther McWitten" They were named in his death certificate, said to have been born in Canada, and the information presumably provided by his wife.⁷
• Census: 12 January 1852, King Township, York County, Canada WestO, 1851 Canada West census conducted 12 January 1852, enumeration district 1, p. 25, lines 15-25.
  James appears to be living with the Sylvester family in a one and a half story log house, and he is the only member of the household not said to be a member of the family.
  
  Samuel Sylvester, shoemaker, born Ireland, Wesleyan Methodist, age 37, male, married
  Eliza Sylvester, born Ireland, Wesleyan Methodist, age 33, female, married
  Richard Sylvester, labourer, born Canada, Wesleyan Methodist, age 17, male, single
  John Sylvester, labourer, born Canada, Wesleyan Methodist, age 12, male, single
  Elizabeth Sylvester, labourer, born Canada, Wesleyan Methodist, age 15, female, single
  Mary Sylvester, labourer, born Canada, Wesleyan Methodist, age 10, female, single
  William Sylvester, labourer, born Canada, Wesleyan Methodist, age 8, male, single
  Edward Sylvester, labourer, born Canada, Wesleyan Methodist, age 6, male, single
  Samuel Sylvester, labourer, born Canada, Wesleyan Methodist, age 2, male, single
  Hannah Sylvester, labourer, born Canada, Wesleyan Methodist, age 1, female, single
  James Grant, labourer, born Canada, Wesleyan Methodist, age 17, male, single⁸
• Biography: 1859. When James actually emigrated from Ontario to the United States is unclear. While one census enumeration suggests he first immigrated to the United States in 1846 at the age of 11, this is almost certainly incorrect. The earliest we've been able to find him in any American records is 1859 when he married Sarah in Kankakee, Illinois. What he was doing in Illinois remains a mystery, although given James' later trade as a mason, it seems very possible that he was acting as an apprentice of some sort during this time. It may be that James immigrated to the United States in 1856 rather than 1846. What is certain is that he left Ontario sometime after 1851 and before October 1859.
• Marriage: to Sarah J. Paulus, 31 October 1859, Kankakee, Kankakee County, IllinoisO, age 24, "James Grant and Sarah Pawlis," by Rodney Ashley, Justice of the Peace.^1,9
  

  James Grant and Sarah Pawlis, marriage, 31 October 1859
• Family Event - birth of child: 1864, parent of Dawson Grant.¹⁰
• Family Event - birth of child: about 1864, parent of William H. Grant. William is identified as the adoptive son of James Grant in the 1880 census.⁵
• Census: 12 July 1870, Goshen, Elkhart County, IndianaO, federal census of 1 June 1870, head of household, ward 3, p. 2, dwelling 15, family 15.
  James Grant, age 35, male, white, stone mason, real estate value $1200, personal estate value $200, born Canada, parents of foreign birth, male citizen
  Sarah Grant, age 33, female, white, keeps house, born Ohio
  Mary Sonder, age 7, female, white, born Indiana, attended school
  Cora Sonder, age 4, female, white, born Indiana
  Wm. Grant, age 4, male, white, born Indiana
  J. Castleman, age 31, male, white, stone mason, born Canada, male citizen
  John Paulus, age 63, male, white, blacksmith, born Pennsylvania, male citizen
  Cathern Paulus, age 64, female, white, born Pennsylvania¹¹
  

  James Grant household, 1870 U.S. census
• Occupation: between 1878 and 1904, Goshen, Elkhart County, IndianaO. James apparently began his work as a contractor in 1878, and he continued in that business until the time of his death.¹
• Census: 9 June 1880, Seventh Street, Goshen, Elkhart County, IndianaO, federal census of 1 June 1880, head of household, enumeration district 39, p. 20D, dwelling 170, family 184.
  James Grant, white, male, age 44, married, stone mason, born Canada, parents born Canada
  Sarah J. Grant, white, female, age 42, wife, married, keeping house, born Ohio, parents born Pennsylvania
  William Grant, white, male, age 15, adopted son, single, at school, born Indiana⁵
  

  James Grant household, 1880 U.S. census
• Family Event - Will: 1 January 1881, Goshen, Elkhart County, IndianaO, named as an heir in the will of Esther McWilliams. James was also named as executor of his mother's will. His siblings, John and Charlotte, were also named as heirs, but siblings, Peter and Mary Ann, were not included.¹²
• Family Event - death of sister: 3 November 1881, Goshen, Elkhart County, IndianaO, death of Charlotte Grant, age ~36.¹³
• Family Event - named as survivor: 10 November 1881, obituary of Charlotte Grant, Goshen Times (Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.) He was named as her brother in the brief obituary of his sister.¹³
• Family Event - death of mother: 11 November 1881, Goshen, Elkhart County, IndianaO, death of Esther McWilliams, age 71.^14,15
• Biography: 18 March 1884, Goshen, Elkhart County, IndianaO, patent approved 20 May 1884.
  He filed a patent for "certain and new and useful improvement in Tile-Molds." He went on to describe his invention as such:
  
  The present invention has relation to that class of molds for forming sewer, drain, water, or other cement pipe wherein a collapsible core is employed for rendering it easily and readily withdrawn after the pipe has been molded.
  
  The object of the invention is to improve the construction of the above-mentioned class of cores, whereby the method of producing the pipe is greatly facilitated, the core readily and quickly removed, and adapting the mold for producing one, two, or more pipes at the same time with the male and female portions at their respective ends.¹⁶
  

  James Grant, tile mold patent application, 20 May 1884 (page 2)
  

  James Grant, tile mold patent application, 20 May 1884 (page 3)
  

  James Grant, tile mold patent application, 20 May 1884 (page 1)
• Biography: 31 December 1887, Goshen, Elkhart County, IndianaO, patent approved 3 July 1888. Three years later on 31 December 1887 he applied for a second patent, this time for a "certain new and useful Improvements in Brick-Molds."¹⁷
  

  James Grant, brick mold patent application, 3 July 1888 (page 1)
  

  James Grant, brick mold patent application, 3 July 1888 (page 2)
  

  James Grant, brick mold patent application, 3 July 1888 (page 3)
• News Article: 3 October 1890, Goshen Daily News, (Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.)
  James and William Grant, and helpers, George Shuster and Sam Jackson, have returned from LaPorte where they have been putting down cement walks. Next week they go to Martnsville to do a lot of work.¹⁸
• Census: 7 June 1900, 513 S. 7th St., Elkhart Township, Elkhart County, IndianaO, federal census of 1 June 1900, head of household, enumeration district 22, sheet 8B, dwelling 194, family 203.
  James Grant, head, white, male, born August 1835 in Canada (English), age 64, married 40 years, father born New York, mother born Canada, immigrated 1846, 54 years in U.S., brick mason, 0 months unemployed, able to read and write, able to speak English
  Sarah J. Grant, wife, female, born August 1837 in Ohio, age 62, married 40 years, mother of no children, parents born Pennsylvania, able to read and write, able to speak English
  
  Recorded in the same house as Charles and Martha Freyberg family. Martha was James' niece, daughter of his sister, Mary Ann Elliott. Charles and Martha rented part of the same house, and lived there with their daughters, Irene H. and Helen L.⁶
• Illness: between 1901 and 1904. He suffered from kidney disease during the last several years of his life.¹
• Death: 10 January 1904, age 68, 513 South Seventh Street, Goshen, Elkhart County, IndianaO. He died at 8 o'clock in the morning from kidney disease, otherwise known as Bright's disease at the time, and he was confined to his bed for the last six weeks of his life.^4,7,1
  

  James Grant, death certificate, 10 January 1904
• Obituary: 11 January 1904, Goshen Daily News-Times (Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.)
  Mortuary Record
  
  Visitations by the Death Messenger in Goshen and Vicinity
  
  James Grant, the cement contractor died at his home, 513 South Seventh street, at 3 o'clock Sunday morning of Bright's disease. He has suffered with kidney trouble for several years and for the past six weeks has been confined to his bed. The deceased was born in King township, near Toronto, Ontario, on August 11, 1835. In 1860 he moved to Indiana and in 1861 moved into the residence on Sourth Seventh street, where he died. He was married to Sarah J. Paulus in 1859 at Kankakee, Ill. He was a stone and brick mason by trade, but for the past 25 years has been a contractor, making a specialty of concrete walks. He leaves his wife and one adopted son, W. H. Grant, of Goshen. He is also survived by his brother, Peter Grant, residing in Michigan, and a sister, Mrs. James Elliott and half brother, John Grant, both of Goshen. The remains may be viewed from 2 to 4 o'clock, Tuesday afternoon at the home. The funeral will be Wednesday, leaving the house at 2 o'clock, the services being held at the First Christian church and the interment in Oak Ridge cemetery. Rev. W. G. Parker will officiate and the funeral will be under the direction of the Masonic lodge, of which he was a member.¹
• Burial: 13 January 1904, Oakridge CemeteryO, Goshen, Elkhart County, IndianaO. The Reverend W. G. Parker officiated at his funeral, which was performed under the direction of the Masonic lodge.
  
  Grave: GRANT, James Grant, 1835-1904, his wife Sarah J., 1837-1914, at rest^19,7,1,20
  

  James Grant, grave marker, Oakridge Cemetery (photo by Robert Ashton, 2017)
• Obituary: 13 January 1904, Goshen Democrat (Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.)
  James Grant Dead
  
  Pioneer Cement Contractor Expires at His Home
  
  James Grant, aged about 69 years and the pioneer cement walk contractor of Goshen, died Sunday morning at 7 o'clock at his home, 513 South Seventh street, after a six weeks' illness with Bright's disease.
  
  Mr. Grant was born in King township, Canada, Aug. 11, 1835. He left there when 16 years of age and on Oct. 31, 1859, was united in marriage with Miss Sarah J. Paulus. In 1800 he located in Goshen and since 1861 has lived in the house in which he died.
  
  During the early part of his career Mr. Grant was a stone work contractor. Later on he became a cement walk builder, about the first in Goshen. He has put down many miles of walk. Mr. Grant was widely known as an honorable businessman and had a host of warm friends. Surviving him are his wife, one brother, Peter Grant of Mich., one sister, Mrs. Mary Ann Elliott of Goshen, and one half brother, John Grant of this city.
  
  Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. at the First Christian church on South Main street. The Masons will have charge of the funeral. The remains may be viewed from 2 to 4 o'clock Tuesday. Interment will be made in Oak Ridge cemetery.²¹
  

  James Grant, obituary, 13 January 1904

• Last Edited: 20 May 2025

Citations

1. [S4101] "James Grant," obituary, Goshen (Indiana) Daily News-Times, 11 Jan 1904, p. 5.
2. [S2637] Elliott, James, Glimpses of Life and Sketches of Character in Canada: by Old Gabriel Gossip, of Goshen, and Poor Pat Prodpen of Parry Sound (Parry Sound, Ontario, 1889), 6-7
3. [S5913] "Conversations with Robert Earl Grant," Between 1971 and 2004 by T. L. Cunningham, any extant notes in possession of interviewer, Seattle, Washington, written notes; Robert was born several years after the deaths of both James and John Grant, but his father, Daniel had known both of them, having been 16 when his uncle James died and 27 when his father died.
4. [S3953] Muryl H. Grant, compiled Grant family history, Charles Grant Descendancy Chart; supplied by Grant, Honoraville, Alabama, 1996; this chart does not supply any sourced citations for the information supplied.
5. [S3767] 1880 U.S. census, Elkhart County, Indiana, population schedule, Goshen, enumeration district (ED) 39, p. 20 (penned), dwelling 170, family 184, James Grant household; image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 275.
6. [S3686] 1900 U.S. census, Elkhart County, Indiana, population schedule, city of Goshen, enumeration district (ED) 22, sheet 8B, dwelling 194, family 203, James Grant household; image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 369.
7. [S4236] "Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011", database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/60716/45232_356088-00843: accessed 2017), certificate image, James Grant, filed 10 Jan 1904, no. 197, image 844 of 2799; citing "Indiana State Board of Health, Death Certificates, 1900-2011, Indiana Archives and Records Administration, Indianapolis, Indiana."
8. [S5380] "1851 Census of Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia," King Township, population schedule, district 42, subdistrict 403, enumeration district York County, p. 25, line 15, Samuel Sylvester household; digital images, image 25 of 306, Ancestry (https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1061&h=2171008 : accessed 3 Jan 2021); citing "Census of 1851 (Canada East, Canada West, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia), microfilm no. C-11760, Library and Archives Canada Ottawa, Canada."
9. [S4963] Kankakee County, Illinois, Marriage Records, liber B, p. 13, record 304 (9 Nov 1859), James Grant and Sarah Pawlis entry; Kankakee County Courthouse, Kankakee, Illinois.
10. [S3930] Oak Ridge Cemetery (Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana), Dawson Grant marker; personally read by T. L. Cunningham and Robert E. Grant, 1996.
11. [S3713] 1870 U.S. census, Elkhart County, Indiana, population schedule, city of Goshen, 3rd ward, p. 2 (penned), dwelling 15, family 15, James Grant household; image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 311.
12. [S5961] "Indiana, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1798-1999," Esther Grant entry, 1 Jan 1881, recorded 19 Nov 1881, database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9045/images/007663137_00361 : accessed 7 Feb 2023; Elkhart County, Indiana Probate Court, "Will Records," vol. 3, pp. 72-73; citing FHL microfilm 7663137.
13. [S3804] "County and Neighborhood," death notice of Mrs. Jerry Annett, Goshen (Indiana) Times, 10 Nov 1881, p. 3; image, NewspaperArchive (https://newspaperarchive.com : accessed 1 Aug 2014.)
14. [S3929] Oak Ridge Cemetery (Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana), Esther Grant marker; personally read by T. L. Cunningham and Robert E. Grant, 1996.
15. [S3952] "County and Neighborhood," Esther Grant death notice, The Goshen (Indiana) Times, 17 Nov 1881, p. 3, col. 2; image, Newspaperarchive.com (https://newspaperarchive.com/goshen-times-nov-17-1881-p-3 : accessed 20 Oct 2019.)
16. [S5187] "U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patents, 1790-1909," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1314/images/31082_18842988-47002 : accessed 26 Oct 2020), images, James Grant of Goshen, Indiana, tile-mold, patent file no. 298,847 (20 May 1884), image(s) 147-149 of 315; citing "USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database, United States Patent and Trademark Office."
17. [S5188] "U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patents, 1790-1909," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1314/images/31082_18883855-52002 : accessed 26 Oct 2020), images, James Grant of Goshen, Indiana, brick-mold, patent file no. 385,552 (3 Jul 1888), image(s) 194-196 of 374; citing "USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database, United States Patent and Trademark Office."
18. [S6243] "Untitle news item," Goshen (Indiana) Daily News, 3 Oct 1890, p. 1, col. 2; image, Storied.com (https://storied.com : accessed 3 Jul 2023.)
19. [S3932] Oak Ridge Cemetery Office (Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana), plat record.
20. [S6651] Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8954105/james-grant : 2 May 2025), "James Grant" (11 August 1835-10 January 1904) memorial, maintained by "Just Us" with tombstone image by "Robert Ashton"; citing Oakridge Cemetery, Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.
21. [S4401] "James Grant Dead," obituary, Goshen (Indiana) Democrat, 13 Jan 1904, p. 1, col. 2; image, NewspaperArchive (https://newspaperarchive.com : accessed 13 Jan 2017.)

Walter Annett

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  Descendants of Charles Grant and Esther McWilliams
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Parents

Biography

• Birth: 24 September 1873, IndianaO.^1,2
• Parentage: Jeremiah Paul Annett and Charlotte Grant.³
• Census: 7 June 1880, Goshen, Elkhart County, IndianaO, federal census of 1 June 1880, household of parents, enumeration district 40, page 18, dwelling 197, family 97.
  Walter Annett, white, male, age 6, single, at school, born Canada, parents born Canada⁴
• Family Event - death of mother: 3 November 1881, Goshen, Elkhart County, IndianaO, death of Charlotte Grant, age ~36.⁵
• Family Event - death of father: 13 April 1883, Goshen, Elkhart County, IndianaO, death of Jeremiah Paul Annett, age ~41.⁶
• Marriage: to Mary McClain, 25 June 1898, Lee Township, Allegan County, MichiganO, age 24, by Justice of the Peace William H. Evans.
  Witnesses: William and Bertha Heath of Lee, Michigan³
• Walter Annett and Mary McClain were licensed to wed on 25 June 1898 in Ganges, Allegan County, MichiganO.¹
• Family Event - birth of child: , parent of Loyd Ernest Annett.⁷
• Census: 1 June 1900, Valley Township, Allegan County, MichiganO, federal census of 1 June 1900, head of household, "Walter Annett household," dwelling 87, family 89, house rented.
  Annett, Walter, head, white, male, born September 1873 Indiana, age 26, married 2 years, father born Ireland, mother born Ireland, farm laborer, 0 months unemployed
  Annett, Mary, wife, white, female, born October 1881 Michigan, age 18, married 2 years, mother of 0 children, 0 living, father born Ohio, mother born Ohio
  Annett, Ernest L., son, white, male, born Mar 1900 Michigan, age 3 months, father born Indiana, mother born Michigan⁸
• Family Event - birth of child: , parent of Pearl Annett.^9,10
• Divorce Filing: by Mary McClain, 25 April 1916, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO+, "Mary E. Annett v. Walter Annett,", on the grounds of extreme cruelty.¹¹
• Divorce granted: from Mary McClain, 28 October 1916, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO+, age 43, Mary E. Annett v. Walter Annett.¹¹
  

  Mary E. Annett v. Walter Annett, divorce, 28 October 1916
• Census: 21 January 1920, Portage Township, Mackinac County, MichiganO, federal census of 1 January 1920, head of household, "Walter Annett household," dwelling 14, family 14, home ownership unknown.
  Walter Annett, male, white, age 46, divorced, able to read and write, born Indiana, parents born Canada (Irish), speaks English, laborer, common labor, worker
  Loyd E. Annett, male, white, age 19, single, did not attend school, able to read and write, born Michigan, father born Indiana, mother born Michigan, speaks English, laborer, paper mill, worker¹²
• Occupation: 1937, teamster.²
• Death: 24 August 1937, age 63, the Kalamazoo County Infirmary, Comstock, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO. He died from pernicious anemia, which he had suffered from for two years.²
• Obituary: 24 August 1937, Kalamazoo Gazette (Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan.)
  Walter Annette, Route 3, Expires
  
  Walter Annette, 63, resident of Kalamazoo County for 34 years, died at his home on Route 3, this city, at 11 Tuesday morning, after a lingering illness. He was born in Ontario, Canada.
  Surviving are the son, Lloyd Annette, Kalamazoo; a daughter, Mrs. Pearl Novak, Milwaukee, Wis., and one grandchild.⁹
• Burial: 26 August 1937, Riverside CemeteryO, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MichiganO.²

• Last Edited: 21 April 2025

Citations

1. [S5082] Allegan County, Michigan, Marriage Records, liber 6 : 245, no. 3624, no. 3624, 25 Jun 1898, entry for Walter Annett and Mary McClain; Allegan County Clerk's Office, Allegan, Michigan.
2. [S4471] "Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1952", database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/60872/44471_355400-01587: accessed 3 Apr 2020), certificate image, Walter Annett, filed 1 Sep 1937, Certificates, 1921-1944, volume 228: Kalamazoo, 1933-1941, no. 27, state file no. 39 5326, image 1588 of 3020; citing "Death Records, Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, Lansing, Michigan."
3. [S5082] Allegan Co., Mich., Marriage Records, liber 6: 245, no. 3624, 1898, entry for Walter Annett and Mary McClain.
4. [S3763] 1880 U.S. census, Elkhart County, Indiana, population schedule, Goshen, enumeration district (ED) 40, p. 18 (penned), dwelling 197, family 197, Jerry Annett household; image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 275.
5. [S3804] "County and Neighborhood," death notice of Mrs. Jerry Annett, Goshen (Indiana) Times, 10 Nov 1881, p. 3; image, NewspaperArchive (https://newspaperarchive.com : accessed 1 Aug 2014.)
6. [S3803] "Laconics," death notice of Mr. Jeremiah Annett, The Weekly Independent (Goshen, Indiana), 21 Apr 1883, p. 1.
7. [S4432] Michigan, delayed birth certificate no. 28269, sheet no. 3 (issued 1941), Loyd Ernest Annett; Michigan Department of Health, Bureau of Records and Statistics, Lansing, Michigan.
8. [S3673] 1900 U.S. census, Allegan County, Michigan, population schedule, township of Valley, enumeration district (ED) 29, sheet 4A-4B, dwelling 87, family 89, Walter Annett household; image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 698.
9. [S3806] "Walter Annette, Route 3, expires," Kalamazoo (Michigan) Gazette, 24 Aug 1937, p. 5, col. 4.
10. [S5068] "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NQ9Y-PKC: accessed 7 Feb 2009), record image, Aloysious Novak and Pearl Annett, filed 17 Apr 1923, volume 7, no. 15386, image 106 of 575; citing "Marriage Records (1923 -- Monroe (cont.) to St. Clair counties, FHL film 2342757), Secretary of State, Department of Vital Records, Lansing, Michigan."
11. [S5965] Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Divorce Records, docket no. 16-344, Mary E. Annett v. Walter Annett entry, 25 Apr 1916, recorded 28 Oct 1916; imaged in "Michigan, U.S., Divorce Records, 1897-1952," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9092/ : accessed 7 Feb 2023) > 1897-1923 > 1915 Wayne - 1916 Roscommon > image 197 of 653; from original records housed at "Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, Lansing, Michigan."
12. [S4002] 1920 U.S. census, Mackinac County, Michigan, population schedule, Portage Township, enumeration district (ED) 211, sheet 1B, dwelling 14, family 14, Walter Annett household; image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T625, roll 783.

Sarah J. Paulus

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Biography

• Birth: August 1837, OhioO.¹
• Parentage: Catherine and John Paulus.^2,2
• Marriage: to James Grant, 31 October 1859, Kankakee, Kankakee County, IllinoisO, age 22, "James Grant and Sarah Pawlis," by Rodney Ashley, Justice of the Peace.^3,4
  

  James Grant and Sarah Pawlis, marriage, 31 October 1859
• Family Event - birth of child: 1864, parent of Dawson Grant.⁵
• Family Event - birth of child: about 1864, parent of William H. Grant. William is identified as the adoptive son of James Grant in the 1880 census.⁶
• Census: 12 July 1870, Goshen, Elkhart County, IndianaO, federal census of 1 June 1870, household of James Grant, ward 3, p. 2, dwelling 15, family 15.
  Sarah Grant, age 33, female, white, keeps house, born Ohio²
  

  James Grant household, 1870 U.S. census
• Census: 9 June 1880, Seventh Street, Goshen, Elkhart County, IndianaO, federal census of 1 June 1880, household of spouse, James Grant, enumeration district 39, p. 20D, dwelling 170, family 184.
  Sarah J. Grant, white, female, age 42, wife, married, keeping house, born Ohio, parents born Pennsylvania⁶
  

  James Grant household, 1880 U.S. census
• Census: 7 June 1900, 513 S. 7th St., Elkhart Township, Elkhart County, IndianaO, federal census of 1 June 1900, household of spouse, James Grant, enumeration district 22, sheet 8B, dwelling 194, family 203.
  Sarah J. Grant, wife, female, born August 1837 in Ohio, age 62, married 40 years, mother of no children, parents born Pennsylvania, able to read and write, able to speak English¹
• Family Event - death of spouse: 10 January 1904, 513 South Seventh Street, Goshen, Elkhart County, IndianaO, death of James Grant, age 68.^7,8,3
  

  James Grant, death certificate, 10 January 1904
• Family Event - named as survivor: 11 January 1904, obituary of James Grant, Goshen Daily News-Times (Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.)³
• Family Event - named as survivor: 13 January 1904, obituary of James Grant, Goshen Democrat (Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.)⁹
  

  James Grant, obituary, 13 January 1904
• Will: 2 June 1914, Goshen, Elkhart County, IndianaO.¹⁰
• Death: 14 October 1914, age 77.⁷
• Burial: 15 October 1914, Oakridge CemeteryO, Goshen, Elkhart County, IndianaO.¹¹
• News Article: 23 October 1914, Goshen Democrat, (Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.)
  Sarah Jane Grant Will
  
  Filed for Probate in Circuit Court This Morning
  
  The will of Sarah Jane Grant, who died here October 14, was filed for probate in the circuit court this morning. John A. Bickel and Jacob C. Leidner are named as executors in the document, which bears date of June 2, 1914. Two codicils, dated June 2, 1914, are incorporated in the instrument. It is estimated that Mrs. Grant possessed about $600 at the time of her demise. She directs that $50 shall be paid the person who cared for her in her last sickness. Mabel Grant Rensberger, wife of Roy Rensberger, daughter of Mrs. Grant's foster son, William H. Grant is bequeathed $100, a gold watch and chain and a sewing machine. One hundred dollars is willed to Charles Grant, son of the late William H. Grant. Household effects are given to Mary E. Grant-Strong of Norman, Okla., Jane Rockwell of Kempton, Ill., and Rose Aust and Ethel Baker, nieces, of Goshen, excepting the sideboard, which goes to Nora Aust of Goshen. James Grant, son of the late William H. Grant, is to receive $5, Lawrence Grant $25 and Ardath Louise Grant $25. Ella Grant, widow of William H. Grant, is bequeathed $25. Similar bequests are made to Owen Aust, George Aust of Paragould, Ark., and Mary E. Grant-Strong. The First Christian church of Goshen is to receive $100 from the estate. Personal effects, pictures etc.. are willed to the children already mentioned in the will. One codicil directs the burial of Mrs. Grant's body beside that of her husband in Oak Ridge cemetery and the other provides that if any balance is found after the payment of bequests specified it shall go to the First Christian church.
  
  The will is not drawn with strict conformity to legal requirements and was evidently written after only partly following form. Many of the figures bear evidence of being incorrect. As there is so little involved, there is no probability of any contest.¹²

• Last Edited: 3 January 2024

Citations

1. [S3686] 1900 U.S. census, Elkhart County, Indiana, population schedule, city of Goshen, enumeration district (ED) 22, sheet 8B, dwelling 194, family 203, James Grant household; image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 369.
2. [S3713] 1870 U.S. census, Elkhart County, Indiana, population schedule, city of Goshen, 3rd ward, p. 2 (penned), dwelling 15, family 15, James Grant household; image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 311.
3. [S4101] "James Grant," obituary, Goshen (Indiana) Daily News-Times, 11 Jan 1904, p. 5.
4. [S4963] Kankakee County, Illinois, Marriage Records, liber B, p. 13, record 304 (9 Nov 1859), James Grant and Sarah Pawlis entry; Kankakee County Courthouse, Kankakee, Illinois.
5. [S3930] Oak Ridge Cemetery (Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana), Dawson Grant marker; personally read by T. L. Cunningham and Robert E. Grant, 1996.
6. [S3767] 1880 U.S. census, Elkhart County, Indiana, population schedule, Goshen, enumeration district (ED) 39, p. 20 (penned), dwelling 170, family 184, James Grant household; image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 275.
7. [S3953] Muryl H. Grant, compiled Grant family history, Charles Grant Descendancy Chart; supplied by Grant, Honoraville, Alabama, 1996; this chart does not supply any sourced citations for the information supplied.
8. [S4236] "Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011", database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/60716/45232_356088-00843: accessed 2017), certificate image, James Grant, filed 10 Jan 1904, no. 197, image 844 of 2799; citing "Indiana State Board of Health, Death Certificates, 1900-2011, Indiana Archives and Records Administration, Indianapolis, Indiana."
9. [S4401] "James Grant Dead," obituary, Goshen (Indiana) Democrat, 13 Jan 1904, p. 1, col. 2; image, NewspaperArchive (https://newspaperarchive.com : accessed 13 Jan 2017.)
10. [S5962] "Indiana, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1798-1999," Sarah Jane Grant entry, 2 Jun 1914, recorded 16 Oct 1914, database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/581503:9045 : accessed 7 Feb 2023; Elkhart County, Indiana Probate Court, "Will Records," vol. 8, pp. 568-569; citing FHL microfilm 7663139.
11. [S3932] Oak Ridge Cemetery Office (Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana), plat record.
12. [S6242] "Sarah Jane Grant Will," Goshen (Indiana) Democrat, 23 Oct 1914, p. 7, col. 7; image, Storied.com (https://storied.com : accessed 3 Jul 2023.)