Harry Harland Calkins (1866 - 1882)

Born 17 Aug 1866 in Fowlers Mill, Munson Township, Geauga, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Died 13 Feb 1882 at age 15 in Marshall, Calhoun Co., MI

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Biography

Harry was born in 1866. He was the son of Turner Calkins and Eliza Fowler. He passed away in 1882 at the age of 15 from "Black Diptheria" He was a devoted older brother to his sister Blanche. Blanche could not attend school until she moved to Marshall at the age of 9 - so Harry "patiently and kindly passed on to her all that he learned in the schoolroom" (1st hand account from Blanche Calkins MacDowell)

Sources

• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M627-VNX : 12 April 2016), Harry Calkins in household of Turner Calkins, Ohio, United States; citing p. 4, family 29, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,703.

• "Michigan Deaths and Burials, 1800-1995," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHZP-XVN : 9 December 2014), Harry H. Calkins, 13 Feb 1882; citing Marshall, Calhoun, Michigan, reference v 1 p 309; FHL microfilm 1,009,292.

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2W-5M6G : 13 December 2015), Harry Harland Calkins, 1882; Burial, Marshall, Calhoun, Michigan, United States of America, Oakridge Cemetery; citing record ID 65385954, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.