They had two children Laura and Louise. Laura Wilbur along with her daughter Beula helped to raise my grandfather Wilbur Strong Sargent after his father left him behind at birth. Laura, Beula and new born son Wilbur spent many happy days living near Lake Michigan where my grandfather developed a passion for sailing. Later they traveled to California where I have a photo of them together on a smal boat in Newport Harbor. Beula worked as a bookeeper, housekeeper and kept re investing in a Kodac stock portfolio to support her son and he was left with a sizeable forture. Laura inherited $25,000 when Mr.Henry Strong passed away in 1919. This money supported my grandfather Wilbur through college as well as a Kodak stock portfolio Beula had been collecting over the years.∼My gg grandmother Laura and her daughter Beula took care of my grandfather Wilbur soon after he was born in 1904 in Niles Michigan. This is where my grandfather developed a passion for sailing. Laura did not reach the bedside of her sister Helen Griffin Strong before she died an obituary reads. According to a newspaper article she inherited $25,000 after Henry Strong passed away in 1919. Using the inflation calculator that is equivalent of $377,000 of buying power in 2015.
They had two children Laura and Louise. Laura Wilbur along with her daughter Beula helped to raise my grandfather Wilbur Strong Sargent after his father left him behind at birth. Laura, Beula and new born son Wilbur spent many happy days living near Lake Michigan where my grandfather developed a passion for sailing. Later they traveled to California where I have a photo of them together on a smal boat in Newport Harbor. Beula worked as a bookeeper, housekeeper and kept re investing in a Kodac stock portfolio to support her son and he was left with a sizeable forture. Laura inherited $25,000 when Mr.Henry Strong passed away in 1919. This money supported my grandfather Wilbur through college as well as a Kodak stock portfolio Beula had been collecting over the years.∼My gg grandmother Laura and her daughter Beula took care of my grandfather Wilbur soon after he was born in 1904 in Niles Michigan. This is where my grandfather developed a passion for sailing. Laura did not reach the bedside of her sister Helen Griffin Strong before she died an obituary reads. According to a newspaper article she inherited $25,000 after Henry Strong passed away in 1919. Using the inflation calculator that is equivalent of $377,000 of buying power in 2015.
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