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Week 12 Prompt: 12

This week’s 52 Ancestors theme is the number 12. My brain went to the year 1912, and I was curious to see who in my family died in 1912.

  • Emeline (Babcock) Webster – died 4 April 1912 in Royal Oak, Oakland, Michigan1
  • Thomas Deane Bradfield – died 18 October 1912 in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan2
  • Margaret (Farrell) Webster – died 22 August 1912 in Pontiac, Oakland, Michigan3
  • Mary (Ryan) Millett – died 29 December 1912 in Stroan, Kilfane Parish, County Kilkenny, Ireland4
  • Johann Schwartz – died 20 January 1912 in Aurora, Kane, Illinois5
  • Bridget (Shevlin?) Ward – died 19 July 1912 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois6
  • Clarence Taylor – died 16 June 1912 in New Baltimore, Macomb, Michigan7
  • Ernest Wojahn – died 2 April 1912 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois8
  • Octavia (Wright?) Webster – died 27 June 1912 likely in Page County, Iowa9

Sources

  1. Michigan Department of State, Division of Vital Statistics, death certificate 5 (1912), Emeline Webster; digital image, Archives of Michigan, “Death Records, 1897-1920,” Seeking Michigan (http://seekingmichigan.org : accessed May 21, 2009).
  2. Michigan Department of State, Division of Vital Statistics, death certificate 1313 (1912), Thomas Deane Bradfield; digital image, Archives of Michigan, “Death Records, 1897-1920,” Seeking Michigan (http://seekingmichigan.org : accessed June 9, 2010).
  3. Michigan Department of State, Division of Vital Statistics, death certificate 262 (1912), Margaret Webster; digital image, Archives of Michigan, “Death Records, 1897-1920,” Seeking Michigan (http://seekingmichigan.org : accessed September 24, 2010).
  4. Thomastown District, County Kilkenny, Ireland,  Death Records, 1912,  vol. 4:493, no. 187, Mary Millett; General Register Office, Dublin.
  5. Kane County, Illinois,  (Kane County Clerk, Geneva), death certificate no. 24678 (written), 1603 (stamped) (1912), John Schwartz; FHL microfilm 1,481,358.
  6. Cook County, Illinois,  (Cook County Clerk’s Office, Chicago), death certificate no. 29328 (written), 19196 (stamped) (1912), Bridget Ward; FHL microfilm 1,287,635.
  7. Michigan Department of State, Division of Vital Statistics, death certificate no number (1912), Clarence J Taylor; digital image, Archives of Michigan, “Michigan Death Certificates 1897-1920,” Seeking Michigan (http://seekingmichigan.org : accessed March 19, 2010).
  8. Cook County, Illinois,  (Cook County Clerk’s Office, Chicago), death certificate no. 9486 (1912), Ernest Wojahn; FHL microfilm 1,287,650.
  9. “Iowa Cemetery Records,” database, Ancestry (http://ancestry.com : accessed March 25, 2010), Octavia Webster, 1912.