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Addie May Williams

Female 1877 - 1960  (82 years)


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  • Name Addie May Williams  [1
    Birth 1 Jun 1877  Wakarusa, Indiana Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Death 23 Mar 1960  Hillsdale, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Lake View Cemetery, Hillsdale, MI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4188  Carl
    Last Modified 20 May 2012 

    Father John Henry Williams,   b. 30 Sep 1855, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Mar 1937, Portland, MI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years) 
    Mother Samantha Harriet Lammond,   b. 15 Jun 1857, St. Marys, OH Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Sep 1936, Portland, MI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years) 
    Marriage 27 Nov 1875  Elkhart County, Indiana Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1306  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • written by Georgia Haines

      BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION:

      Addie was born in Wakarusa, Indiana. Her parents and two brothers, Guy and Harry moved from there to Hillsdale, MI, but may have lived also at Litchfield and Homer, MI. This is according to a letter from her daughter, Dorothy to Clela William s Van Amburg. In her adult life Addie was a clerk. Her husband, George Beck, was a salesman for Prudential and a nursery man. At some unknown date they were divorced, and she married Frank Perkins. After his death she married again to someon e with last name, McGee. After his death she again took the name of Beck.

      She lived at 90 N. Norwood Ave. in Hillsdale and is buried in Lake View Cemetery in Hillsdale next to her grandparents, Andrew J. and Harriet Hannah Huggins Williams. Clyde and Dorothy Aker are buried in the same area, as well as two Shoemake r men (one, Henry, a Civil War veteran). These men, Henry and William (Billy) were called uncle by Addie. They are step brothers of her grandfather, Andrew. Andrew was born in 1832 and in 1834 his mother, Mary Coy Williams, married John Shoema ker in Trumbull County, Ohio. Dates of birth on the graves of Henry and William are 1841 and 1849 respectively, however in the 1850 census in Portage County, Ohio William is listed as age 5.

  • Sources 
    1. [S245] GEDCOM file imported on 18 Oct 2003.


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