Charles Raudenbush Badman (1879 - 1948)

Born 1879 in Royersford, PA or Douglas Twp. Montgomery

Descendants

Died 27 Jul 1948 at about age 69 in Grand Rapids, Kent County , Michigan,

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Biography

Charles Raudenbush Badman.

Source: S1 Known by his grand children as Charlie Grampa because he really wanted them to call him by his first name. His mother died when he was young and when his father remarried he and his older brother did not like their new stepmother. When he 14 and his brother David was 16 they ran away from home to nearby Philadelphia. Upon arriving in the city they realized they couldn't understand the citizens. That's when they realized that everyone wasn't (German speaking) Pennsylvania Dutch. They returned home a short while later and when he was 16 he lied about his age and joined the US Army in 1895. He claimed to serve under Teddy Roosevelt and fought in the Cuban battle. He was eventually stationed at Ft. Sill, OK and he owned a white mule. A young woman (Bessie Cromer) from MI was living their with her older sister and her husband. They were there because the husband had tuberculosis and needed the dry air. Charles Badman started dating Bessie and when they saw him approaching from a long way off she had time to rush to her room and start making herself look beautiful for him. They eventually got married and had one daughter Iris. Bessie's sister and her husband had a daugter named Cordelia. Iris and Cordelia were very close and both families moved back to the Midwest. Charlie got out of the Army and he moved his family to Dayton, OH where he had a butcher shop and they lived in an apartment above the store. Iris remembers the flood of 1912 when she climbed out of the 2nd floor window into a boat. A short while later they moved to Muskegon, MI. Unfortunately Bessie got sick and died when Iris was 5-6, her uncle with T-B also died leaving her cousin Cordelia without a father. I suppose out of necessity and practicality Charlie and Bessies sister decided to marry making Cordelia and Iris sisters. They were both thrilled.

Notes

1948 Obituary C R Badman, Butcher, Dies on Fishing Trip Charles R Badman, 70, of 242 Rose-st., SW, Grand Rapids meat-man 24 years, died unexpectedly Tuesday from a heart attack at Cheboygan where he had gone on a fishing trip. Mr Badman was born in Flaleysville, Pa., Jan 9, 1878. He served three years in the Spanish-American war and was a member of Guy.... camp No. 3, United Spanish War Veterans. He is survived by his wife, Grace; two daughters, Mrs John C Champion and Mrs Harry J Mansnhum, and five grandchildren; all of Grand Rapids, and a bother, Harry of Royersford, Pa. The body is at the Clarence D Sullivan funeral home where services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Rev. Clarence A Lawton will officiate. Burial will be in Restlawn Memorial Park. G R Herald, July 29, 1948

Rest Lawn Memorial Park, Plot: Sec 9 Lot 2 Grave 2,

Sources

• Source: S1 Diana C. Leipprandt (Champion-2473)
• Charles R Badman Veteran's Application. 6192021 5:42:23 PM.
• 1948 Obituary