I am posting information gleaned from land records in the areas where our family’s ancestors resided. You can read more about this project in the overview. You may also check my deed record listing, which I will update with each post. The names of members of George W. Burdick’s family appear quite often in the …
Category: Papa’s Ancestors
People from Papa's family
Oct 27
Liber 2 Page 403 Land Records, what next?
I am writing a little about my experience working with deed records, using Wexford County, Michigan as an example. After I had collected a list of the names and location of the records, I started through the deed record books using my form. It might be helpful to explain that although recording this information directly …
Oct 23
Wexford County Deeds
Several years ago I read some deed indices in Wexford County, Michigan, looking for transactions for our ancestors. Papa had to travel to Cadillac, the county seat and our former home, for work, so I just hitched a ride and had him drop me at the courthouse. I did not go just once, I went …
Oct 02
Walton Cemetery, Grand Traverse County Michigan
This cemetery is just west of US 131, about 2 20 miles south of Kalkaska. Walton Junction is a ghost town, little remains of the once thriving logging community. I consulted a book of cemetery transcriptions at the library in Kalkaska, which listed lot A lot was listed on the index as that of containing …
Oct 01
Chartiers Cemetery, Carnegie, Pennsylvania
In July, 2007, Papa and I spent a week in Pennsylvania, searching for information on his elusive Warren ancestors. One day, we drove south through Pittsburgh to this very large cemetery where some of his ancestors are buried. I wrote a letter to this cemetery in April, 2001, inquiring about Papa’s ancestors, James and Emily …
Sep 28
Soper Cemetery, Colfax Township, Wexford County Michigan – Fenton
This is the cemetery we visit most often. I am posting the gravesites for those who are associated with Papa’s family by surname. Fenton Alfred Thurston and Hazel Jeanette (Tossey) Fenton. Alfred was Papa’s granduncle, a brother of Papa’s grandfather, Ross Fenton. Papa’s grandparents, Ross P. and Edna (Fellows) Fenton On another lot at the …
Sep 27
Soper Cemetery, Colfax Township, Wexford County Michigan – Fellows
This is the cemetery we visit most often. I am posting the gravesites for those who are associated with Papa’s family by surname. Fellows Brenda Fellows, Papa’s second cousin Loren and Edith (Watson) Fellows Loren was Papa’s first cousin, once removed, he and Edith were Brenda’s parents, and he was Frank and Lila (Longstreet) Fellow’s …
Sep 26
Soper Cemetery, Colfax Township, Wexford County Michigan – Burdick
This is the cemetery we visit most often. I am posting the gravesites for those who are associated with Papa’s family by surname. Burdick These four graves are near a large tree, and nearly 40 years ago, when I first saw them, two of the stones were being raised by the roots of the tree. …
