30y, 4m, 8d
This is my grandmother. Her only child to live to adulthood was my dad, Dale A. Brown (1899-1974). Dessie's full name was Adessa Winifred Adair, but everyone called her Dessie Bordner, since she was raised by her great aunt Emiline Bordner. If there's room I can post a photo of her. Dessie was a school teacher in the Montpelier area before she married. I have her school bell. She died after complications of child birth in 1902.
She was a native of Montpelier, Ohio, where she married Melvin Clark Brown around 1897. shortly before they moved to Michigan. Melvin was a blacksmith and farmer, but never very prosperous. My dad worked his way through the University of Michigan. He was always greatful to the help he got from the Evart high school teacher and principal I think. Once in the 1960s I went with my dad to Evart where he presented a framed painting of this person whose name I have forgotten to the town library I think - his name was Myron D. Jerome. I wonder if it is still there. Dad's best childhood friend was Homer Crawford who was also a native of the Evart area, and a prosperous farmer.
Randall Brown on Oct 19, 2014 3:42 PM
This is my grandmother. Her only child to live to adulthood was my dad, Dale A. Brown (1899-1974). Dessie's full name was Adessa Winifred Adair, but everyone called her Dessie Bordner, since she was raised by her great aunt Emiline Bordner. If there's room I can post a photo of her. Dessie was a school teacher in the Montpelier area before she married. I have her school bell. She died after complications of child birth in 1902.
She was a native of Montpelier, Ohio, where she married Melvin Clark Brown around 1897. shortly before they moved to Michigan. Melvin was a blacksmith and farmer, but never very prosperous. My dad worked his way through the University of Michigan. He was always greatful to the help he got from the Evart high school teacher and principal I think. Once in the 1960s I went with my dad to Evart where he presented a framed painting of this person whose name I have forgotten to the town library I think - his name was Myron D. Jerome. I wonder if it is still there. Dad's best childhood friend was Homer Crawford who was also a native of the Evart area, and a prosperous farmer.
Randall Brown on Oct 19, 2014 3:42 PM
30y, 4m, 8d
This is my grandmother. Her only child to live to adulthood was my dad, Dale A. Brown (1899-1974). Dessie's full name was Adessa Winifred Adair, but everyone called her Dessie Bordner, since she was raised by her great aunt Emiline Bordner. If there's room I can post a photo of her. Dessie was a school teacher in the Montpelier area before she married. I have her school bell. She died after complications of child birth in 1902.
She was a native of Montpelier, Ohio, where she married Melvin Clark Brown around 1897. shortly before they moved to Michigan. Melvin was a blacksmith and farmer, but never very prosperous. My dad worked his way through the University of Michigan. He was always greatful to the help he got from the Evart high school teacher and principal I think. Once in the 1960s I went with my dad to Evart where he presented a framed painting of this person whose name I have forgotten to the town library I think - his name was Myron D. Jerome. I wonder if it is still there. Dad's best childhood friend was Homer Crawford who was also a native of the Evart area, and a prosperous farmer.
Randall Brown on Oct 19, 2014 3:42 PM
This is my grandmother. Her only child to live to adulthood was my dad, Dale A. Brown (1899-1974). Dessie's full name was Adessa Winifred Adair, but everyone called her Dessie Bordner, since she was raised by her great aunt Emiline Bordner. If there's room I can post a photo of her. Dessie was a school teacher in the Montpelier area before she married. I have her school bell. She died after complications of child birth in 1902.
She was a native of Montpelier, Ohio, where she married Melvin Clark Brown around 1897. shortly before they moved to Michigan. Melvin was a blacksmith and farmer, but never very prosperous. My dad worked his way through the University of Michigan. He was always greatful to the help he got from the Evart high school teacher and principal I think. Once in the 1960s I went with my dad to Evart where he presented a framed painting of this person whose name I have forgotten to the town library I think - his name was Myron D. Jerome. I wonder if it is still there. Dad's best childhood friend was Homer Crawford who was also a native of the Evart area, and a prosperous farmer.
Randall Brown on Oct 19, 2014 3:42 PM
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