Alice M. (Kline) See (1873 - 1910)

Born 27 Sep 1873 in Benton Co, IA

Wife of Charles Way See — married 6 Sep 1892 in Vinton, Benton Co, IA

Died 1 May 1910 at age 36 in Benton Co, IA

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Biography

All information from granddaughter, Carol Browning, though grandmother died 25 yrs. before Carol was born.

Alice Kline was daughter of Joseph and Eliza "Lizzie" (Backart) Kline. She was born 27 April, 1873 in Benton Co, IA. At the age of 19, she married Charles See and together had 4 children: Mabel, Vernon, Maude, and Donald. Alice died at the age of 36, leaving her husband to care for the children, the eldest 16, the youngest 1. Alice was buried with her parents in the Vinton Cemetery in Vinton, Benton Co, IA.

Benton Co Marriage Register F:576 License dated Sept 6, 1892. Affadavit made by Wm Kline: Marriage Sept 7, 1892 in index; Sept 6 in Marriage Register. Groom: Charles Way See: age 23, of Jackson Twp, Benton Co, IA - white, born Indiana, farmer. Father-David See; mother -Mary Linnin Bride: Alice M. Kline: age 19, of Vinton, white, born Iowa Father-Joseph Kline; mother-Lizzie Bockhart

Married Vinton, Iowa Sept 6, 1892 by N.W. Burtner MG; Witness W. Kline, Maggie Wallace. Benton Co., IA Marriage Records Bk 1:380.

Ed Hayes cites Benton Co Marriage Records 1: 380 listing Chas. Way See 23 of Jackson Twp to Alice M. Kline, age 19 of Vinton, 6 Sept. 1892, sworn to by Wm. See, the See parents given as David and Mary Lenon.

From Carol Browning: One thing that is very interesting is that Charles See/Alice Kline, Frank Rogers/Ada See, Wm. Farris/Junnette See, ALL went to the court house on Sept. 6, 1892 and got a marriage license. Must have been quite a happy group with the 6 of them plus witnesses...at least I vizualize them all going together! (Maybe not.) Chas and Alice married that same day, Frank and Ada, and Wm and Junnette married the following day! (though by different people and different witnesses.)

1895 IA census cedar twp: Kline, Charles 23 (Alice's brother) Kline, Margaret 18 See, Charles 30 (he was 26) See, Allace (Alice Kline) 21

From Carol Browning: On the Kline branch of my family, I found my Grandmother's sister, Florence & husband Arthur Green renting Joseph Klines place, directly across from Grandpa's (Charles) farm (from which he was now absent). I know the farm was left to Florence later when her father died. I suppose they were living there when Grandpa, Alice, Mable, Maude, Vern & Daddy moved back from Iowa in 1909. That would have been good support for the family when Alice died to have her sister close by. The sister, Florence & husband later moved out to Porterville, CA. That is where Mabel (SEE) and Emil Fisher moved to teach on the Indian reservation just outside Porterville. The Kline family in Vinton, was a big family, but pretty much died out except for a very few. I have tracked down one other relative still outside Vinton, and, of course, my Fisher cousins are related. thru Klines.

Headstone: Alice, wife of Charles W. See The other side of the stone has her parents name, KLINE, Joseph and Eliza Backart. This is the cemetery in Vinton, IA. This is the other side of Alice Kline See's grave stone in Vinton, her parents Joseph & Eliza Kline.

Letter to Carol Browning from Mabel See Fisher, dau of Charles See and Alice Kline: Jun 19, 1967 "I don't know too much about the Kline family. I think they came from Michigan, but I know they (were) farmers. Grandpa owned and live on the old farm, but I remember them as always living in Vinton, where he had retired and where we went to see them and Vern and I sometimes stayed, I stayed there about 5 months and went to high school during the time we were moving from Obrien Co after papa bought the old Kline farm.

Grandpa Kline was 94 when he died and grandma died several years before. I didn't know any of their folks. The children were Charles, Will, Joe, Eugene, Frank, Alice, Florence Green. Will was a farmer and they lived on the old farm and we lived on the other right close, That is the first home I remember, Charlie and Gene were carpenters and Frank worked in a mens' clothing store and died from T.B. when Everett was small. He and his wife Lela had lived a year or more in Mexico trying to cure him." Letter from Helen Rogers Raitt confirms siblings names.

Helen Rogers Raitt writes to Carol about her grandmother's death in 2 letters: fragment: "over the casket. She broke out all over. those days they dident have the drugs they have now

Sources

Information from Carol Browning, grandaughter of Alice Kline See.