Tombstone Tuesday – Edith M. Lindsay

Sunday, I posted about my Grandmother Edith M. Lindsay (see Sunday’s Obituary: Edith M Lindsay). So today, I would share a little more about her and a few more pictures.

Edith Margret was the youngest of 7 children born to Charles and Mary Anne Brewer Basham in Chigwell, Essex, England.  She married Oscar Lindsay in 1911 in West Ham, London. By May of 1913, they were leaving England for Canada. While in Canada, they had two children, a daughter (18 Nov 1916) and a son, Oscar Rowan (21 Nov 1917). Their daughter (I don’t know her name) died two days after birth and is buried Avondale Cemetery, Section A, Stratford, Ontario, Canada. They lived in Stratford, Ontario,  Canada until 1923 when they immigrated to Detroit, Michigan. In 2 Nov 1926, her husband Oscar passed away. In 1948, when my grandparents, Oscar and Lucille, married, she came to live with them. She lived with them until the mid 1980s when they could no longer care for her at home. She lived to be 97 years old.

She is buried at Grand Lawn Cemetery in  Detroit, Michigan.

Grandma Edith and my mom, Donna (August 1950)

Her first grandchild! She look’s so happy and proud!

Edith and husband, Oscar Lindsay (circa 1919)

Happy Searching!

SueAnn

Wednesday’s Child – Nova “Novie” Seavers

Nova “Novie” G Seaver
daughter of William Kzar and Sara Claudia Brewer Seaver
30 Jun 1908 – 12 Sep 1911
Buried at New Bethel Cemetery
1854 Warrior-Jasper Road
Warrior, Jefferson County, Alabama

Happy Searching!

SueAnn

Tombstone Tuesday – George A J Mielke

George Arthur Johann Mielke (1877 – 1943)

My great-grandfather George Arthur Johann Mielke was born in Big Rapids, Michigan on 20 Feb 1877 and died from Carcinoma on 30 Nov 1943 in Detroit, Michigan. He is the 4th of 9 children born to German immigrants, Johann L “John” Mielke and Augusta Strauss.

He was married twice. He was first married to Margaret Jones (1887-1913) on 21 Oct 1911 in Essex, Ontario, Canada. Margaret and he had two children, Marjorie (b. 1912) and Frances (1913-1913). Frances died 2 months after she was born, from Inanition. Margaret also died shortly after giving birth to Frances from Acute Enteritis.

Secondly, he married my Great-Grandmother Elsie Jane Yetman (1887-1973) on 10 Sep 1915 in Detroit, Michigan. He and Elsie had 7 children, George, Mildred, Dorothy, Marion, Lucille (my grandmother), Doris and Audrey. They were married for 33 years when he passed away.

He is buried in Woodmere Cemetery in Detroit, Michigan.

George Arthur Johann Mielke (1877 – 1943)