Alva Franklin Hoel (1885 - 1967)

Born 5 Apr 1885 in Darke, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Adaline Eve (Maffett) Hoel — married 3 Feb 1907 in Mercer, Ohio, United States

Descendants

Died 17 Jul 1967 at age 82 in Missaukee, Michigan, United States

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Biography

Alva was born in 1885. He was the son of John Swisher Hole (1840-1911) and Lydia Margaret Finkbone (1845-1932).

He married Adaline Eve Maffett in 1907.^[1] They were the parents of the following children (per Alva's granddaughter as well as FamilySearch):

1. Alda Mae Hoel (born before 1906, possibly in OH, died at 18 months, buried in Sheridan, MI)^[2]
2. Opal Gladys Hoel 1908-1985 m1 Jack Chaffee m2 Roland Jacobson
3. William Delbert Hoel 1911-1995 m Mozelle Alice Ryckman
4. John Nelson Hoel 1913-1989 m Alice Elizabeth Grover
5. Myrtle Esther Hoel 1916-1987 m Arthur Hilbrands
6. Mark Hoel 1921-1996 m Mary Nixon

His granddaughter wrote:

Mom (Myrtle Esther) recalled that she was in third grade (mid 1920s) when Alva changed the spelling of the name from Hole to Hoel because “Uncle Will changed his”. Her grandmother (Lydia Margret Finkbone Hole) did not change her name as she was concerned that it might affect her Civil War pension.

Alva and Addie moved to Michigan when his parents moved there.

Alva Hoel was a millwright, so the family moved with the lumber boom towns around Lake City, Arlene and Jennings, Michigan. One of his early jobs, however was as millwright to the prison factory in Ionia Michigan, where juveniles built furniture. I don't know how long he worked there, but his draft papers for WWI list that he was employed by the State of Michigan at Ionia in 1918. After the big lumber companies around Lake City moved on, the Hoels bought a 500 acre plot of land near his parents' farm. Although they grew potatoes and other crops, Alva continued working in lumber, running a portable sawmill for smaller land owners and moving houses from lumber ghost towns.

Opal and Mark stayed in Michigan. After WWII, Delbert moved to Arizona. Myrtle's family moved several times: Oregon, Arizona, Guam, Palau, Guam, Oregon. John moved to Arizona in the 1970s.

Name, residence, occupation

1900 Census: Alvah Hole, 15, Jefferson, Mercer, OH; at school

1920 Census: Alva Hole, 34, Missaukee, Lake, MI; laborer at saw mill

1930 Census: Alva Hoel, 44, Kalkaska, MI; carpenter

He passed away in 1967. He and Addie are buried in Bloomfield Township Cemetery, Missaukee, MI.

Notes

Still need 1910 and 1940 census records. It appears LNAB should be Hole rather than Hoel but will leave it for now. Father is already on WT. Hole-853

Sources

1. ↑ "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X88J-NPV : 8 March 2021), Alva F. Hole and Addie E. Maffet, 03 Feb 1907; citing Marriage, Mercer, Ohio, United States, p310 cn619, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.
2. ↑ "Michigan Deaths and Burials, 1800-1995", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHGZ-9ZH : 23 February 2021), Alva Hole in entry for Alda Hole, 1908.

• FamilySearch ID: LWBB-B8R (https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LWBB-B8R)
• "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VN7V-94L : 8 March 2021), Alva F. Hole, 1885.
• Email from descendant B. Hilbrands to Katherine Bogue Chapman , 18 Aug 2021.

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MM6M-2KV : accessed 23 August 2021), Alvah F Hole in household of John S Hole, Jefferson Township (excl. Celina), Mercer, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 83, sheet 7A, family 120, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,304.

• "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZ6Q-RVS : 23 February 2021), Alva Franklin Hole, 1917-1918.

• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZQN-1VV : 2 February 2021), Alva Hole, 1920.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQB6-JX3 : accessed 23 August 2021), Alva F Hoel, Kalkaska, Kalkaska, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 8, sheet 5B, line 54, family 126, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 999; FHL microfilm 2,340,734.

• "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J4S1-M5C : 10 March 2021), Alvah Franklin Hoel, 1942; citing NARA microfilm publication M1936, M1937, M1939, M1951, M1962, M1964, M1986, M2090, and M2097 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153411485/alva-franklin-hoel