Individual Notes

Note for: Elizabeth Burns, 11 MAY 1857 - 22 FEB 1936 Index

Burial:
Place: Holy Sepulchre Cemetary, Southfield, Oakland, MI

Individual Notes

Note for: Louis John Donakowski, 2 JUL 1905 - 17 AUG 1977 Index

Alias: /Louis/

Individual Notes

Note for: William Melanchthon Johnston, 5 APR 1855 - 27 MAR 1945 Index

Burial:
     Place:   Rush Creek Cemetery, Osseo, Minneapolis, MN

Individual Note:
     Died in his sleep of old age. Stopped eating while living with daughter, Emily. When she said he needed to eat, he replied, "Don't you know I am past eating." Emily found him dead in bed the next morning. Was healthy enough to care for self until he died.

Helped build train depot at Fergus Falls, MN (1892)

Did all the cabinet works in expensive homes on Lowry Hill (Minneapolis, MN) in early 1900s)

Build log cabins in Wisconsin

Commentaries from William Midlothian Johnston ( born 4/5/1855, died 3/27/1945] sometime before 1881:

        "Adley Hemphill was born in Ireland County Tyrone about 1730 and died June 25, 1805 aged about 77 years. His wife's Christian name was Mary who died at one o'clock in the morning, February 12, 1824, aged 88 years and ten months in the house of her son-in-law, John Anderson, four miles west of Bedford. They were the parents of nine children (six however as near as I can learn) died before they came to America. Some of them on the way over with smallpox. Leaving three that came to this country, namely, Robert (my father's grandfather on his mother's side) Rebekah and Christiana. Robert married a girl named Nancy Carson. They had six children Samuel, Mary, Adley, Nancy, Rebekah & Martha. He died young (being only 50 years of age) thyphoid fever March 25, 1813. Samuel his oldest son died three years after his father aged between 20 twenty and 30 thirty, about 26, in the town of Louisville, Kentucky - Jefferson County (now a city). As his uncle John Anderson expresses it, 'he was hired with a merchant to make great gain' and it is reported he was quite rich and rode in a tandem gig before death caught him.
        Mary, my grandmother on my father's side, married James Johnston in December 20th near Christmas in 1808 and was the mother of 14 children whose names and times of birth are recorded in an old volume of Henry's commentaries. Grandfather died August 26, 1857. (He was 77 years old). I was then a little over two years and mind something of him. Grandmother died July 22, 1867 in her 83rd year of age. We lived in Washington at the time, but were all there at the time of her death except father who went to preach somplace and did not get back till she was buried. He saw her however, six years afterward when they took her up the time the stone which is there now was put down. She just looked as she always did. All their children are dead now except John, Richard & Josiah, my father. Three deaths are also down in Henry commentaries. Rebekah Hemphill, Robert wife & seven children (Mary, Robert, Samuel, Rebekah, Ann or Agnes, Sarah & William). Do not know when she died (Rebekah). Her daughter married George Johnston, my grandfather's brother, Tuesday, February 6th about two o'clock 1827 in her mother's house by Mr. Gareheart(?). She had one child, Mary Ann & died in 1845; (her daughter died in 1860) aged 22 years; her husband died June 28, 1860.
        Adley Hemphill Junior married and lived in Iowa till his death about a year ago. He was about 92 years old. Nancy Hemphill married Abner Rogers and lived near Johnstown & died the 31st of December, 1822 aged 30 of comsumption. Leaving a husband very sickly who died a few months after about middle age and three children.
        Rebekah Hemphill married William Slick and also lived in Johnstown they had four or five children I think. I only know three, Will Frank & George, Martha the youngest and the only one living married Ben Miller and lives in Wooster, Ohio. The have seven children. I believe I am going to see them and maybe can learn more of the family connections. Christiana Hemphill, daughter of Adley Hemphill senior, was born in Ireland County Tyrone on the 31st of March 1773 and married John Anderson in her father's house by William Proctor, Bedford Township on the 1st of December, 1795 and was the mother of 12 children: Elizabeth, David, William, Mary, John, Christiana, Rebekah, (Rachel and Samuel twins), Hanna, James and Jean and died October 16th 1852 of dropsy on the chest, aged 79 year 6 months and 16 days at 11 o'clock a.m. Previous to this, her husband John Anderson died July 4th 1836 aged 68 years 9 months and 10 days about half past four in the evening. I got a good deal of this from his daughter, Jean,the reason it is so explicit about himself.
        John Johnston came to this country from Dublin. He was about 14 years old and was kidnapped. His father was dead (think his name was Robert or Richard). He married a girl by the name of Henry and had 9 children that grew up namely: Elizabeth, some child ?, infant ?, dead between & then James my grandfather, Margaret, William, John, Sarah, George, Jane, & Richard. Elizabeth married Arthur Taylor. (?) Margaret married William Dennison. (William married Sarah Bolyn and had 8 children: Mary, Elizabeth, John, Catherine, William, Jane, Margaret, & Richard.) John died when he was between 20 & 30 and was not married.
        Sarah married a man by the name of Tolin a d-d paddy whack as her brother George called him. Richard married Elizabeth George had no children..."

Individual Notes

Note for: Frances Victoria Laundrie, 8 MAY 1864 - 22 SEP 1932 Index

Alias:   Victoria Francis /Landry/

Burial:
     Date:   24 SEP 1932
     Place:   Rush Creek Cemetery, Osseo, Minneapolis, MN

Individual Note:
     Also known as Frankie Dursham and used last name of LaBonne (unknown if this is maiden name)
Also known as Victoria Francis Landry

Died at the home of daughter Emily Martin.

Individual Notes

Note for: William Bernard Boone, 13 APR 1874 - 2 AUG 1960 Index

Individual Note:
According to a letter to Sandra Lowe from her grandmother, Adah Beatrice Boone, her father William Bernard Boone was a student at Spring Arbor Seminary, Michigan. A Free Methodist Minister, a school teacher (Josephine attended when he taught), later a painter, floor sander and finisher, owner of Wayne Floor Sander. Had wonderful gardens and animals, raised chickens and rabbits.

Boones are English, French, Indian.

Individual Notes

Note for: George Orpheus Boone, 2 FEB 1845 - 1918 Index

Occupation:
     Place:   Michigan Farmer

Individual Note:
     Alleged to be the cousin of Daniel Boone, the American frontiersman who opened the Kentucky territory.

Letter to Adah Boone Johnstone from Anna Boone Bater:
"The Boone Family Tree:
Jake Boone and Grandpa George Orpheus Boone came from Syracuse NY with oxen and cart and Daniel Boone, a cousin, went to Kentucky. Grandpa George Orpheus Boone stayed at Quincy, Mich. and Jake Boone went on to Boone, Iowa about 15 miles from Ames, Iowa. He started with a saloon. Grandpa Boone stopped at what was later Boone school and house on hill east of school 2 miles and half east of Quincy. Later he met and married Emily Morehouse and went to live with her parents-was later called Boone farm.

Individual Notes

Note for: Charles Henry Bullock, 1856 - Index

Occupation:
     Date:   1881
     Place:   Laborer

Residence:
     Date:   1881
     Place:   At time of census, Cartwright, Durham West, Ontario

Religion:
     Date:   1881
     Place:   Methodist Canada

Individual Notes

Note for: Viola Amelia Clizbe, 10 MAY 1853 - 4 AUG 1937 Index

Occupation:
Place: A seamstress, musician, historian of Branch County, MI

Individual Notes

Note for: Abbie Viola Clizbe Boone, 22 SEP 1897 - 18 MAY 1985 Index

Burial:
Place: Lakeview Cem Coldwater, Branch Co., MI

Individual Notes

Note for: Stanley C. Potter, 18 MAR 1898 - 3 AUG 1985 Index

Burial:
Place: Lakeview Cem Coldwater, Branch Co., MI

Individual Notes

Note for: Mary Hazel Boone, 28 OCT 1901 - 25 JUN 1983 Index

Burial:
Place: Lakeview Cem Coldwater, Branch Co., MI