Adah Elizabeth (Hubbell) Raymoure (1858 - 1929)

Born 2 Sep 1858 in Plymouth, Wayne, Michigan, United States [uncertain]

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Died 7 Oct 1929 at age 71 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States

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Biography

Adah was born in 1858 in Michigan.

Charles and Adah lived in Foster Township the first few years of their marriage and at least their three oldest children were born in the village of Damon (now called the Lost City of Damon.) This area was known as the plains area ... miles and miles of jackpines and huckleberry bushes and very sandy soil. Most of the men were engaged in the lumbering business and when the area had been cut most of the village was abandoned and people moved on. It probably was at this time that the family moved to West Branch where the rest of the children were born. Charles acquired a farm about two miles northeast of West Branch, but did not live on it. The biggest portion of it being an orchard containing many varieties of apples, and he also had pear trees. A small lake was on the back of the property, but was so swampy that it was accessible only in the wintertime. Sometimes in the 1930s oil was discovered in Ogemaw County and this farm eventually had at least two wells. This remained in the family until the early 1950s when it was sold, the land going to a neighbor. The oil rights were retained a little longer, but eventually sold because the number of descendants sharing int he royalties had grown so much that bookkeeping and check writing costs became prohibitive. The wells were the type (we were told) that had to be shut down for a period of time to allow the oil to seep into a basin that was then pumped out.

Besides farming, Charles was a sewing machine salesman and also sold insurance. He was a tall man with very blue eyes, light complexion, and in his old age had very white hair and white 'cookie duster' mustache. Adah, in later years, was heavyset with dark brown eyes. While living in Foster Township prior to her marriage she was the reporter for the area for the Ogemaw Herald newspaper in West Branch.^[1]

Occupations

• Ogemaw Herald reporter

Residences

• 1900: Birdsell Street, West Branch, Michigan with her husband and children

Census Race

• 1900: White

Death

She passed away in 1929.

Sources

1. ↑ Raymoure 1982, p. 16

• 1900 United States Federal Census Year: 1900; Census Place: West Branch, Ogemaw, Michigan; Page: 2; Enumeration District: 0135
• Raymoure, Dorothy. Raymoure Hubbell Franklin Osborne. 1982.