Rhoda Ruth Prosser (1860 - 1915)

Born 22 Jan 1860 in Hillsdale, Hillsdale County, Michigan, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Crawford Strunk — married 10 Nov 1878 in Hillsdale, Hillsdale County, Michigan, United States

Wife of Henry Hickox Chase — married 31 Dec 1890 in Marshall, Calhoun County, Michigan, United States

Descendants

Died 4 Aug 1915 at age 55 in Bear Lake, Manistee County, Michigan, United States

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Birth

Birth:

Date: 22 Jan 1860

Place: Hillsdale, Hillsdale County, Michigan, United States

Source: #S192

Source: #S54

Death

Death:

Date: 4 Aug 1915

Place: Bear Lake, Manistee County, Michigan, United States

Cause: apoplexy (cerebral hemmorage)

Source: #S185

Page: Obituary for Ruth Chase, week of August 4, 1915

Quality or Certainty of Data: 3

Date: 8 Dec 2003

Source: #S192

Burial

Burial:

Place: Fairview Cemetery, Bear Lake, Manistee County, Michigan

Source: #S267

Census

Census:

Date: 13 Jun 1870

Place: Hillsdale, Hillsdale County, Michigan, United States

Note:

Jones, Henry; age 41; male; white; laborer; b. Massachusetts

----- Rhoda; age 40; female; white; keeping house; b.Canada

----- Rhoda; age 10; female; white; at school; b.Michigan

----- Stephen; age 7; male; white; at school; b.Michigan

Jones, Mary; age 4; female; white; at home; b.Michigan

----- Hattie; age 68; female; white; b.Massachusetts

Source: #S193

Census:

Date: 9 Jun 1880

Place: Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan, United States

Note:

Strunk, Crawford; white; male; age 34; married; printer;

b.IN; father b.IN; mother b.IN

----- Roda; white; female; age 20; wife; married; keeping house;

b.MI; father b.MI; mother b.MI

----- Edmund A.; white; male; age 2; son; single;

b.MI; father b.IN; mother b.MI

----- Burney; white; male; age 6/12; son; single;

b.MI; father b.IN; mother b.MI

Source: #S194

Census:

Date: 6 Jun 1900

Place: Bear Lake, Manistee County, Michigan, United States

Note:

Chase, Henry H.; head; white; male; b.Apr 1870; age 30; married; 9 years;

b.MI; father b.NY; mother b.OH; occupation: paper hanger

----- Ruth; wife; white; female; b.Jan. 1860; age 40; married; 9 years; 5 children/4 living;

b.MI; father b.NY; mother b.Canada

----- Ruba; daughter; white; female; b.Feb. 1892; age 8; single;

b.MI; father b.MI; mother b.MI

----- Myrtle; daughter; white; female; b.Apr. 1896; age 4; single;

b.MI; father b.MI; mother b.MI

Source: #S48

Census:

Date: 26 Apr 1910

Place: Bear Lake, Manistee County, Michigan, United States

Note:

Chase, Henry H.; head; male; white; age 40; married once; age at 1st marriage 19;

b. MI; father b. OH; mother b. OH; occupation painter

----- Ruth; wife; female; white; age 50; married 2nd time; age at 1st marriage 19;

4 children; 3 living; b. MI; father b.NY; mother b. Canada East

----- Ruby; daughter; female; white; age 18; single; b. MI; father b. MI; mother b. MI

----- Myrtle; daughter; female; white; age 14; single; b. MI; father b. MI; mother b. MI

----- Mary A.; mother; female; white; age 78; widowed; 3 children; 3 living;

b. OH; father b. unknown, mother b. CT

Source: #S183

Residence

Residence:

Date: Aug 1882

Place: Grayling, Crawford County, Michigan, United States

Note:

"Mrs. C.E. Strunk and her two children were picking whortleberries a few days since, when the little ones found and interviewed a wasps nest, with such sharp results that Miss Edna's eyes were closed and Master Birney's limbs badly swollen from repeated stings."

(Grayling, MI Avalanche: 10 Aug. 1882)

Source: #S940

Residence: Grayling, Crawford Co., MI

Date: Jan 1883

Note:

"Miss Julia Strunk, of Hillsdale, this State, arrived in the city Wednesday, and is the guest of her brother, Mr. C.E. Strunk, of the Avalanche office."

(Grayling, MI Avalanche: 4 Jan. 1883)

Source: #S940

Residence: Bagley, Otsego Co., MI

Date: Mar 1884

Source: #S283

Residence: Gaylord, Otsego Co. MI

Date: Jan 1887

Note:

"Mrs. Rhoda STRUNK has been appointed postmistress at Gaylord. Otsego county vies Miss Faustina M. TOWLE, removed. "

(Grayling, MI Avalanche: 13 Jan 1887)

Source: #S940

Event

Event: the Battle Creek Sanitarium

Type: School

Date: 1889

Place: Battle Creek, Calhoun County, Michigan, United States

Note: from the Willard Public Library in Battle Creek:

Yes, your grandmother could well have trained to be a nurse in Battle Creek.

The Battle Creek Sanitarium had a nursing school associated with it that

trained many folks for the profession. It was founded in 1883.

Source: #S14

Event: Bear Lake (MI) Beacon

Type: Obituary

Date: week of 4 Aug 1915

Place: Bear Lake, Manistee County, Michigan, United States

Note:

SUDDENLY CALLED BY DEATH

«tab»The people of Bear Lake were filled with sorrow Wednesday evening because of the sudden death of Mrs. Henry H. Chase which occurred about six o'clock. Though she had been in poor health for some time, having had three or four strokes of apoplexy within the last two years, and an attack of tonsillitis recently, she was able to be out on the street that day and the news of her sudden call came as a great shock to her friends. Definite arrangements have not yet been made for the funeral, but it will probably be held at the Methodist Church next Sunday.

«tab»Mrs. Ruth Chase, nee Prosser, was born in Hillsdale in 1860 and grew to womanhood there. After her marriage to Mr. Chase, at Marshall, they lived at Battle Creek for two years, moved from there to Pleasanton and later to Bear Lake. She was a member for many years of the order of the Ladies of the Maccabees and a charter member of Bear Lake Camp of Royal Neighbors. Mrs. Chase was a lady of unusual ability, a good wife, mother, friend and neighbor, respected and beloved by all who knew her. She leaves to cherish her memory her husband and four children: Edna Strunk of New York state, Bernie L. Strunk of Belding, Michigan, and Ruby and Myrtle Chase, who have been attending the State Normal College at Ypsilanti.

Source: #S185

Page: Ruth Chase obituary, week of 4 August 1915

Quality or Certainty of Data: 3

Data:

Text: SUDDENLY CALLED BY DEATH

The people of Bear Lake were filled with sorrow Wednesday evening because of the sudden death of Mrs. Henry H. Chase which occurred about six o'clock. Though she had been in poor health for some time, having had three or four strokes of apoplexy within the last two years, and an attack of tonsillitis recently, she was able to be out on the street that day and the news of her sudden call came as a great shock to her friends. Definite arrangements have not yet been made for the funeral, but it will probably be held at the Methodist Church next Sunday.

Mrs. Ruth Chase, nee Prosser, was born in Hillsdale in 1860 and grew to womanhood there. After her marriage to Mr. Chase, at Marshall, they lived at Battle Creek for two years, moved from there to Pleasanton and later to Bear Lake. She was a member for many years of the order of the Ladies of the Maccabees and a charter member of Bear Lake Camp of Royal Neighbors. Mrs. Chase was a lady of unusual ability, a good wife, mother, friend and neighbor, respected and beloved by all who knew her. She leaves to cherish her memory her husband and four children: Edna Strunk of New York state, Bernie L. Strunk of Belding, Michigan, and Ruby and Myrtle Chase, who have been attending the State Normal College at Ypsilanti.

Event: from Myrl Chase Ijams to Claudia Reed

Type: Letter

Date: 19 Jul 1974

Note:

7/19/74

Dear Claudia,

Your nice little note about the ring came the other day. Since then our Auntie Grace died. She was the wife of my half-brother, Birney Lincoln Strunk whom we always called "Brother" as though it were his name. Edna Strunk was sister to B.L.S. The latter BLS died & "Aunty Grace", his wife, married Ernest Everett who died about 5 years ago. Edna Strunk married & her last name was "Barrington" if I remember correctly. But Claudia I was never interested in family trees and I still am not. I'll tell you all I recall: Henry Hickox Chase, my father & your great-grandfather (on maternal side) was son of Marshal Jackson Chase & Mary Ann Hickox Chase (I don't even know how to spell all names exactly right!) This couple had 3 children: H.H. Chase, Carlos, and Florence Chase. They had a cousin, Merton G. Chase who lived in Lodi, Ohio at one time. He had a daughter, Joyce & my daughter Joyce is named after her. The Merton G. Chase family (wife Dora) moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico after their Joyce died. All are now deceased.

Florence was mother of Karl & Josephine Heidley. (Father of them William Heidley). Josephine is still living tho almost blind. She is about my age. She probably would know more family history than I. If you want it I'll send you her address in Ludington, Michigan. Her married name is Daron. But writing for her is prob. much harder than it is for me. (It's no trouble for me to write but I can't read it very well after I've written!)

Carlos Chase married Lavina Dancer. They had 2 children: Clara & Lulu. Clara married a wealthy architect in the East Coast (of U.S.) whose name was David Breese Jones.

My mother's name was Rhoda Prosser, she changed to Ruth. There were some relatives a brother named Charlie Prosser. I met some of his children in Oak Park, Ill. one time but I don't remember their names. When Ruth Prosser married Mr. Strunk they lived in Hillsdale, Michigan. He had 3 "maiden lady" sisters; Aunt Julia, Aunt Rose & Aunt Rue.

I don't suppose much of this info will fit into your research but here it is & that's all I can think of now. Thank you for the snapshot. It is of my mother & me I think I was 18. It's located in Bear Lake, Mich., on a cold winter day! My mother had brown hair & hazel eyes. Ask me any questions that may occur to you, Claudia.

Myrl

Source: #S1121

User ID

User ID: D2CD787B4BDD4744972E75890891D6B62DB9

Object

Object:

Format: jpg

File: Ruth Prosser about 1868.jpg

Note: School photo of Ruth Rhoda Prosser, taken in Hillsdale, MI, about 1870.

Scrapbook: Y

Type: PHOTO

Object:

Format: jpg

File: Ruth Prosser Strunk 1878.jpg

Note: Ruth Prosser as a young woman - possibly taken in Hillsdale, MI about 1878.

Scrapbook: Y

Type: PHOTO

Object:

Format: jpg

File: Battle Creek Sanitarium circa 1900.jpg

Title: Battle Creek Sanitarium

Note: Ruth Prosser Strunk probably went here for nursing school; here she met Henry H. Chase

Date: Cir 1900

Scrapbook: Y

Type: PHOTO

Object:

Format: jpg

File: Ruby and her mother, 1914.jpg

Note: Ruby Marie Chase (right) with her mother Ruth Prosser Chase, in Bear Lake, about 1913-1914.

Scrapbook: Y

Type: PHOTO

Object:

Format: jpg

File: Ruth Prosser Chase, Bear Lake, MI.jpg

Note: Ruth Prosser Chase, near Bear Lake, about 1914-1915.

Scrapbook: Y

Type: PHOTO

Object:

Format: jpg

File: Ruth Prosser Chase in Bear Lake.jpg

Note: Ruth Prosser Chase, Bear Lake, about 1914.

Scrapbook: Y

Type: PHOTO

Object:

Format: jpg

File: ruthprosserchase.jpg

Note: Ruth Prosser Chase

graduated from nursing school in Battle Creek, 1890

Scrapbook: Y

Primary or Preferred: Y

Type: PHOTO

While processing relationships in the gedcom some additional information was found which may be relevant.

@F39@ FAM

Husband: @I108@

Wife: @I34@

PREF Y

Divorce: Y

Date: 1884-1890

Marriage:

Date: 10 Nov 1878

Place: Hillsdale, Hillsdale County, Michigan, United States

Source: #S23

Source: #S24

Note: @NF39@

Child: @I115@

Child: @I116@

Child: @I111@

Child: @I109@

Status: Stillborn

PREF Y

Data Changed:

Date: 26 May 2008

Time: 13:57

@F13@ FAM

Husband: @I33@

PREF Y

Wife: @I34@

PREF Y

Marriage:

Date: 31 Dec 1890

Place: Marshall, Calhoun County, Michigan, United States

Source: #S13

Child: @I29@

PREF Y

Child: @I49@

Data Changed:

Date: 7 Jun 2008

Time: 13:39

Sources

Source S1121

Media: Letter

Abbreviation: Letter from Myrl Chase Ijams to Claudia Reed, 19 July 1974

Title: Letter from Myrl Chase Ijams to Claudia Reed, 19 July 1974

Italicized: Y

Paranthetical: Y

Source S13

Media: Vital

Abbreviation: Marriage Record for Henry H. Chase and Mrs. Ruth Strunck

Title: Marriage Record for Henry H. Chase and Mrs. Ruth Strunck

Text: Name of Groom: Henry H. Chase

Name of Bride: Mrs. Ruth Strunck

Age of groom: 20

Age of bride: 30

Times previously married: Groom (0), Bride (1)

Birthplace of each: Groom (MI), Bride (MI)

Occupation of each: both nurse

Name of father of each: Groom (M.J. Chase) Bride (blank)

Name of mother of each: Groom (Mary A. Hickox) Bride (blank)

Married by Justice of the Peace

Date of marriage: December 31, 1890

Place of marriage: Marshall, Michigan

Repository: #R1

Italicized: Y

Paranthetical: Y

Repository R1

Name: Claudia Breland

Address: Claudia Breland

27115 212th Pl. SE

Maple Valley, WA 98038 USA

Name: Claudia Breland

Address 1: 27115 212th Pl. SE

City: Maple Valley

State: WA

Postal Code: 98038

Country: USA

Phone Number: 425-443-2968

E-Mail Address: ccbreland@comcast.net

Source S14

Media: Medical Records

Abbreviation: Henry H. Chase hospital records

Title: Henry H. Chase hospital records

Text: (probably written by Ruby Chase Reed)

I do not regard the patients married life as satisfactory. His first wife was divorced from her husband (because of drunkenness) and had two children. She loved Mr. Chase but his dislike for steady work and his procrastination in getting things done for the family and home, were always a source of contention. His mother lived with them throughout their married life. He was always hard to live with and could keep the four women in the household running to wait upon him and do errands for him.

He always thought that he had a scientific mind and wished to do things by theory. When his house caught fire, he ran for a little hand pump he was saving for such an emergency. Meanwhile his wife put out the fire with a bucket of water. When he returned, he scolded her for not letting him do it "scientifically". He was handy at jobs and was a great hand to praise his own ability. These characteristics gave him the nickname around the village of "Handy Hank" and "Scientific Chase". Little things such as unfilled salt dishes, a pit or seed in a pie, would set him scolding and being very disagreeable. He talked a great deal of being "tied down" and seemed to resent married life and its responsibilities. He was inordinately vain, and had to show off when performing the simplest tasks if there was an audience or he could possibly obtain one. It was a life long desire of his to have a full length mirror inside the bath room door, where he could pose naked and admire his own reflection. He lost no opportunity to be photographed and has as many photos of himself as of family and friends.

After he had been married some twenty years or better, he went to Ohio one summer to work on a farm. Pickpockets got his wages on the way home and he arrived penniless, never-the-less, he made his wife and daughters quite ashamed of him by proclaiming about town to the barber-shop crowd that he had found his "affinity". He no longer would sleep with his wife but put up a tent in the back yard. This lasted only a short time. (He wrote to the girl but of course she wanted nothing to do with him) He could never understand this, seeming to think himself quite a prize. His wife died of applexy less than three years after this. His daughters were self-supporting and away from home but his mother still survived until her death two years later. He was at last free and owned a nice house on four village lots, a year-round cottage, and a lake shore lot in Bear Lake. No longer was he "tied down". However, he had already had the woman he wished to marry picked out.

2nd wife name: Ethel Dunbar father: Nathaniel Dunbar

born: Connecticut, 1881

married: June 29, 1919

divorced: June 25, 1925. Now living in the East. I have not her

address.

This marriage was not satisfactory. Reasons for saying so are mostly "hearsay" and the fact that it ended in divorce.

Ethel Dunbar was a teacher in the Bear Lake High School with a salary around $1400. She was fastidious, intellectual, and very pleasing to meet but at times extremely morbid or melancholy.

During the first two years of their married life Mr. Chase worked in the Hog Island ship yard in the East as carpenter on government built boats. His income was nine or ten dollars a day and they seemed to be happy. In 1920 they returned to Bear Lake and Mrs. Chase again taught school. Her salary was larger than his income could possibly be, depending as he always had on carpenter jobs, painting, and papering in a small village, but they made arrangements as to furnishing the home. Gossip rumored that she declared she would have no children and that she had an abortion after she married. This seems to be not unlikely, in view of the fact that she lost her mother through childbirth at the age of nineteen and was left with sole care of three younger children, one an infant in diapers. One of these children was Helen to be mentioned later.

In the spring of 1925 her youngest sister, Helen Dunbar came to live with or visit them. She was about eighteen, I've been told.

The next I knew, my father came to my home in Lansing and surprised me one day. I said, "Well, why the visit dad?" To which he answered, "Where else can I go?" It seems he had been indiscreet with his sister-in-law. He told Mr. Reed that Mrs. Chase would get him excited, give him no satisfaction, and leave him alone in the house with her sister, while she went away to teach. They had had no marital relations for many months.

Helen had already borne an illegitimate child in the east, according to Mr. Chase's conversation with Mr. Reed, and was a person of the sort referred to as "oversexed". It is not altogether surprising that in this situation certain things occurred.

This was the cause of the divorce, though in court it was named as non-support. Mr. Chase did not appear to deny the bill, and Mrs. Chase received all of his property. It took all he had other than real estate to pay her attorney fees and expenses growing out of the charge, as she insisted she had paid for an illegal operation which cost about $400.

Mr. Chase apparently thought he could win her back and on August 8, 1925 he made application in Grand Rapids for a marriage license for himself and Ethel D. Chase. when this fact became known in Bear Lake, Mrs. Chase published a statement in the local paper to the effect that it was done without her consent or knowledge.

He continued to correspond with her and always seemed to think she would return his property or some share at least. When she sold it (in 1934, I believe), he seemed quite disappointed and could hardly believe it.

I do not know how often they corresponded. There was a letter from her in his suitcase while he was at Manistee recently, dated about January, 1936. He may have it in his possession or he may have destroyed it.

TAG2

Repository: #R1

QUOTED Y

Paranthetical: Y

Source S183

Media: Census/Tax

Abbreviation: 1910 Census of Bear Lake, Manistee Co., MI

Title: 1910 Census of Bear Lake, Manistee Co., MI

Repository: #R4

Italicized: Y

Paranthetical: Y

Repository R4

Name: Ancestry.com

Address: Ancestry.com

Name: Ancestry.com

TAG

Source S185

Media: Newspaper

Abbreviation: Obituary for Ruth Chase, August 1915

Title: Bear Lake Beacon

Publication: Bear Lake, Michigan

Repository: #R1

Italicized: Y

Paranthetical: Y

Source S192

Media: Vital

Abbreviation: Death Record for Ruth Chase

Title: Death Record for Ruth Chase

Text:

Full Name: Ruth Chase

female, white, married,

date of death: Aug. 4th, 1915

date of birth: Jan. 22nd, 1860

age: 56 years, 6 mo. & 12 days

Occupation: housewife

Place of birth: Hillsdale, Mich.

Father's name: ---- Prosser

Father's birthplace: unknown

Mother's name: Rhoda Prosser (crossed out & marked "unknown")

Informant: B.L Strunk, Belding, Mich.

Cause of death: apoplexy (cerebral hemmorage)

Contributory: arterio-schlerosis

Place of burial: Fairview Cemetery, Bear Lake, MI, Aug. 8th, 1915

Italicized: Y

Paranthetical: Y

Source S193

Media: Census/Tax

Abbreviation: 1870 Census of Hillsdale, Hillsdale Co., MI

Title: 1870 Census of Hillsdale, Hillsdale Co., MI

Italicized: Y

Paranthetical: Y

Source S194

Media: Census/Tax

Abbreviation: 1880 Census of Monroe, Monroe Co., MI

Title: 1880 Census of Monroe, Monroe Co., MI

Repository: #R4

Italicized: Y

Paranthetical: Y

Source S23

Abbreviation: Crawford Strunk application for admission to The Michigan Soldiers' Home

Title: Crawford Strunk application for admission to The Michigan Soldiers' Home

Text: Applied for admission: 10 Aug 1895, Grand Rapids, Kent Co., MI

Enlisted 25 July 1864, as a private, at Hillsdale, MI

Company A, 4th Michigan Infantry

Discharged 31 July 1865 in Detroit, MI

Disabled by heart disease, lung trouble & failure of eyesight

Where born: United States

Age: 49

Height: 6'2"

complexion: light

Eyes: grey

Literate: yes

Occupation: printer

Marital status: single

Nearest relative: Julia Strunk, Hillsdale, Michigan (sister)

Rate of pension: $8

Date of admission: 13 Aug 1895

Date and cause of death: 12 January 1902, cause: pyaemia

Notes: Enlisted at age 18 for 3 years. Died in Michigan's Soldier's Home Hospital.

Italicized: Y

Paranthetical: Y

Source S24

Media: License

Abbreviation: Marriage Record for Crawford Strunk & Rhoda Prosser

Title: Marriage Record for Crawford Strunk & Rhoda Prosser

Text: Record #E-256

Date of License: Nov. 10, 1878

Date of Marriage: Nov. 10, 1878

Groom: Crawford E. Strunk, age 32, white, residence Hillsdale, MI

Birthplace: Dover, Michigan Occupation: Painter

Parents names not given

Bride: Rhoda L. Prosser, age 18, white, residence Hillsdale, MI

Birthplace: Hillsdale, Michigan

Parents names not given

Officiant: I.B. Card, minister

Witnesses: Andrew Winters, Theressa Winters

Italicized: Y

Paranthetical: Y

Source S267

Media: Personal

Abbreviation: Cemetery Records of Fairview Cemetery, Bear Lake, Manistee Co., MI

Title: Cemetery Records of Fairview Cemetery, Bear Lake, Manistee Co., MI

Publication: Observations made during visit to Fairview Cemetery, June 2004.

Italicized: Y

Paranthetical: Y

Source S283

Abbreviation: Death Record for stillborn Strunk

Title: Record of deaths, Otsego Co., MI, p. 11, #128

Text: Date of death: Nov 3, 1884

Name: ----- Strunk (male, white)

Place of death: Bagley, MI

Cause of death: stillborn

Parents: Crawford E. Strunk & Rhoda L. Strunk

residing Bagley, MI

Father's occupation: printer

QUOTED Y

Paranthetical: Y

Source S48

Media: Census/Tax

Abbreviation: 1900 Census of Bear Lake, Manistee Co., MI

Title: 1900 Census of Bear Lake, Manistee Co., MI

Repository: #R4

Italicized: Y

Paranthetical: Y

Source S54

Media: Family Memoirs

Abbreviation: Ruby Chase Reed notes

Title: Ruby Chase Reed notes

Italicized: Y

Paranthetical: Y

Source S940

Abbreviation: Newspaper articles in the Grayling (MI) Avalanche

Title: Grayling Avalanche

Publication: online at: http://members.tripod.com/~stoliker/index.htm

Text:

The following information extracted from the Grayling, Crawford Co., MI Newspaper Avalanche. NOTE: The date at the end of each extract indicates the date of the publication:

Mrs. C. E. STRUNK and her two children were picking whortleberries a few days since, when the little ones found and interviewed a wasps nest, with such sharp results that Miss Edna's eyes were closed and Master Birney's limbs badly swollen from repeated stings. ( 10 Aug 1882)

-Miss Julia STRUNK, of Hillsdale, this State, arrived in the city Wednesday, and is the guest of her brother, Mr. C. E. STRUNK, of the AVALANCHE office. (4 Jan 1883)

-SAD ACCIDENT.

"Mrs. Jenry JONES, of this city, who has been a great sufferer from severe sickness during the last four months, in a fit of mental abberation arose from her bed on Sunday night last unobserved by the members of her family and wandered upon the railroad track near her home and was instantly killed by a passing train. The coroner's verdict was in accordance with the above facts. Mrs. JONES was 53 years old and leaves a husband and three children to mourn her untimely death. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon at her late residence on West street, Rev. I. B. CARD officiating." - Hillsdale Leader.

Mrs. JONES was mother to Mrs. C. E. STRUNK, of this city. (14 Jun 1883)

-Mr. Douglass PROSSER, of Hillsdale, this State, 4th of Julied in this city. He was a guest of his sister, Mrs. C. E. STRUNK. (5 Jul 1883)

In Grayling, on Saturday, July 7th, 1883, at the residence of C. E. STRUNK, by Rev. Wm. PUTNAM, Mr. Albert RODRICK and Miss Mattie C. SILSBEE, both of this city. May peace and prosperity ever attend the happy couple. (5 Jul 1883)

-Chas. D. PROSSER and Melvin BATES bid their host of friends in this city good-bye last week Wednesday and started for Redfield, Dakota, where they expect to make an independent fortune. It is the wish of the AVALANCHE that their expectations may be fully realized and that the day may not be far distant when they will return to the pleasant and beautiful little city they have left. (17 Apr 1884)

-MARRIED.-At the residence of the brides parents in this village, Mr. Chas. D. PROSSER and Miss Amanda QUA were united in the bonds of holy wedlock on Monday evening, Dec. 22d 1884, Rev. J. H. MARSH officiating.-Ots. Herald.-Mr. PROSSER will be remembered as a former type in this office, and will receive the best wishes of friends here. (8 Jan 1885)

-BORN.-On Sunday, April 4th, 1886, to Mr. and Mrs. C. D. PROSSER, of Cheboygan, a son-10 pounds. "Pros" is happier than he was when travelling with the minstrels.'-Independent. (15 Apr 1886)

-Mrs. Rhoda STRUNK has been appointed postmistress at Gaylord. Otsego county vies Miss Faustina M. TOWLE, removed. (13 Jan 1887)

C. E. STRUNK, for several years employed in this office, is now an inmate of the Michigan Soldier's Home, and true to his instincts, has started a paper in that institution, The VIDETTE, No. 3, of Vol. 1, which has just reached us and is a creditable little sheet. (28 Oct 1897)

C. E. STRUNK, who years ago was foreman of the AVALANCHE office, and who will be well remembered by many of our citizens, died at the Soldier's Home in Grand Rapids, January 12th. (23 Jan 1902)

Repository: #R30

Italicized: Y

Paranthetical: Y

Repository R30

Name: Michigan GenWeb

Address: Michigan GenWeb

Name: Michigan GenWeb

URL: http://www.rootsweb.com/~migenweb/