Maxwell Easterly Coller (1910 - 1948)

Born 6 May 1910 in Tecumseh Township, Lenawee, Michigan, United States

Ancestors

Died 12 Dec 1948 at age 38 in Jackson, Jackson, Michigan, United States

Biography

The son of William Coller and Lena (Witherell) Rockwell, Max Coller was born in Tecumseh Township, Michigan in 1910.^{[citation needed]} He lived there with his family.^[1] His parents divorced in 1922 and Max and his siblings lived with their mother in Jackson, Michigan.^[2]

Max Coller married Ruth Elsa Groth (1912-1986), the daughter of Robert August Groth and Emma A. Kiesel, marrying in Saginaw, Michigan on September 3, 1933.^{[citation needed]} They made their home in Jackson, Michigan, where Max worked as a clerk at a retail grocery store.^[3] Their household in 1940 included Max's aunt and uncle, Bertha and Clarence Witherell, and Max's brother, William Coller, who also worked at the grocery store. Max Coller died at the age of 38, after his automobile struck a tree in Jackson,^[4] and he is buried at Roseland Memorial Gardens there.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZQW-Q1M : 2 February 2021), Maxwell Collin in entry for William L Collin, 1920.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQB4-SLH : accessed 6 June 2022), Maxwell E Coller in household of Lena S Coller, Jackson, Jackson, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 22, sheet 5A, line 44, family 130, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 996; FHL microfilm 2,340,731.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89M1-V3L4?cc=2000219&wc=QZX1-687%3A790103601%2C790102702%2C795318401%2C795324601 : accessed 6 June 2022), Michigan > Jackson > Jackson City, Jackson, Ward 2 > 38-17 Jackson City Ward 2, Breese Maternity Home > image 24 of 44; citing Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012.
4. ↑ "Michigan Death Certificates, 1921-1952," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KF3C-TQT : 13 March 2018), Maxwell Coller, 12 Dec 1948; citing Jackson, Jackson, Michigan, United States, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, Lansing; FHL microfilm 1,972,768.
5. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVY-DL43 : 16 December 2020), Maxwell Easterly Coller, Burial, Jackson, Jackson, Michigan, United States of America, Roseland Memorial Gardens. Find A Grave: Memorial #28310977