Second-generation Bavarian/German-American.
Emma Ada Slider was a daughter of John Quincy Adams Slider and his wife Augusta Johanna Stelzer.
3 SLIDER siblings: [Self], Alexander T., Bella, and Margaret.
Emma was the oldest surviving child. She was born in Cohoctah Twp., Livingston, MI. She attended the Oak Grove School in Cohoctah. (A list of the children attending the Oak Grove School in 1896 is available, as of 2011.)
Emma married W. Irving Crippen on April 29, 1914 at the home of her parents. She was 30 years old at the time. Her only child, Kathryn Elizabeth (April 15, 1915-May 4, 1973), was born on their first anniversary.
After her marriage, she and Irving lived on his farm in Conway township, just south of Cohoctah township. A few years after the death of Irving's parents who lived nearby, Irving decided to give up farming and retire. In about 1927 they purchased the house at 810 East Grand River, Williamston, Ingham, MI, where the remainder of their lives were spent.
1 CRIPPEN child: Kathryn Elizabeth (Crippen) Warner.
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"Regarding Grandma Emma, my impression was that her German grandparents were somehow refugees from the 1848 revolutions. One of my earliest memories was being very small and standing near a cluster (more than three) tall (to me they looked like giants) women whispering together about how some woman they each knew had cancer. I didn't understand why they whispered about cancer, but I remember them and their very long skirts, not quite ankle length, although to be honest, I was just calf or knee high. I think she might be a third generation American, that her grandparents immigrated from one of the German principalities, perhaps Bavaria, from that revolutionary time in Europe.
"Our awareness of Emma's lineage was cut off by the kurfuffle about mother's grandfather's messing with his promises to leave his estate to his children, then by-passing them and leaving his estate "per stirpes" to his grandchildren which gave mom 1/5 of his estate as I recall.
"Much bitterness and harsh words which mom never forgave....that's my view of things, anyway. My only memory of mother's grandfather is that we took a visit to his farm, and that was where you got bitten by a dog."
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Memories of Dale I. Warner, Grandson, 2011.
Emma was a superb cook, and the grandchildren remember holiday meals that would include several kinds of meat. Let her only grandson, Dale, describe the feasts:
"As I recall there were always 3 meat dishes, usually duck, chicken, and ham. There may have been beef dishes, too, but I don't recall them, maybe pot roast. She would have little side dishes for beets and creamed corn. There were at least two potato dishes, perhaps our Mother [Kathryn] brought escalloped potatoes (made from scratch--her specialty), and Grandmother served them alongside mashed potatoes and gravy. No alcoholic beverages; perhaps milk, water, etc. She used the kind of margarine that came in plastic as a white substance with a yellow tab inserted which, when squeezed properly, would turn the white substance into a yellow imitation of real butter. She would get up at 4 AM to cook the turkey and ham. She had a wonderful dessert of a kind of rice pudding...Morning breakfasts featured grapefruit halves with as much white sugar on them as one could want. Plenty of brown sugar for sweetening other foods, and a nickel ice cream cone on trips to the A&P grocery store in Williamston, Ingham, MI. And who could forget the buttery, salty, delicious Toad-in-the-Hole for breakfast? Deliciously salty, soaked in butter, with an egg fried in a hole torn in the middle of the bread..." This type of cooking was probably a carry-over from the German/Bavarian influence in Emma's line, rather than the English on her husband's W. Irving's line.
Emma and W. Irving were wonderful as grandparents, providing vacation time in their home, gifting the grandchildren with bicycles and other special items--but never to the point of spoiling their only grandchildren: J.C.W., D.I.W., and M.E.W.
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Lineage to Wolfgang G. STELZER:
STELZER: Emma-4 Ada (Slider) Crippen, Augusta-3 Johanna (Stelzer) Slider, John-2 Wolfgang Stelzer, Wolfgang-1 G. Stelzer who was the only one of his family who came to the United States (from Bavaria) and he migrated in 1853 with his wife Anna Margrett/Margurete/Margaret (Cryle) and family of six children: Margaret, John W., Adam, John B., Elizabeth, and James. Youngest son, Henry, was born in Cohoctah Twp., Livingston, MI.
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Research: Mary E. Warner, 2011.
Emma Ada Slider was a daughter of John Quincy Adams Slider and his wife Augusta Johanna Stelzer.
3 SLIDER siblings: [Self], Alexander T., Bella, and Margaret.
Emma was the oldest surviving child. She was born in Cohoctah Twp., Livingston, MI. She attended the Oak Grove School in Cohoctah. (A list of the children attending the Oak Grove School in 1896 is available, as of 2011.)
Emma married W. Irving Crippen on April 29, 1914 at the home of her parents. She was 30 years old at the time. Her only child, Kathryn Elizabeth (April 15, 1915-May 4, 1973), was born on their first anniversary.
After her marriage, she and Irving lived on his farm in Conway township, just south of Cohoctah township. A few years after the death of Irving's parents who lived nearby, Irving decided to give up farming and retire. In about 1927 they purchased the house at 810 East Grand River, Williamston, Ingham, MI, where the remainder of their lives were spent.
1 CRIPPEN child: Kathryn Elizabeth (Crippen) Warner.
__________
"Regarding Grandma Emma, my impression was that her German grandparents were somehow refugees from the 1848 revolutions. One of my earliest memories was being very small and standing near a cluster (more than three) tall (to me they looked like giants) women whispering together about how some woman they each knew had cancer. I didn't understand why they whispered about cancer, but I remember them and their very long skirts, not quite ankle length, although to be honest, I was just calf or knee high. I think she might be a third generation American, that her grandparents immigrated from one of the German principalities, perhaps Bavaria, from that revolutionary time in Europe.
"Our awareness of Emma's lineage was cut off by the kurfuffle about mother's grandfather's messing with his promises to leave his estate to his children, then by-passing them and leaving his estate "per stirpes" to his grandchildren which gave mom 1/5 of his estate as I recall.
"Much bitterness and harsh words which mom never forgave....that's my view of things, anyway. My only memory of mother's grandfather is that we took a visit to his farm, and that was where you got bitten by a dog."
__________
Memories of Dale I. Warner, Grandson, 2011.
Emma was a superb cook, and the grandchildren remember holiday meals that would include several kinds of meat. Let her only grandson, Dale, describe the feasts:
"As I recall there were always 3 meat dishes, usually duck, chicken, and ham. There may have been beef dishes, too, but I don't recall them, maybe pot roast. She would have little side dishes for beets and creamed corn. There were at least two potato dishes, perhaps our Mother [Kathryn] brought escalloped potatoes (made from scratch--her specialty), and Grandmother served them alongside mashed potatoes and gravy. No alcoholic beverages; perhaps milk, water, etc. She used the kind of margarine that came in plastic as a white substance with a yellow tab inserted which, when squeezed properly, would turn the white substance into a yellow imitation of real butter. She would get up at 4 AM to cook the turkey and ham. She had a wonderful dessert of a kind of rice pudding...Morning breakfasts featured grapefruit halves with as much white sugar on them as one could want. Plenty of brown sugar for sweetening other foods, and a nickel ice cream cone on trips to the A&P grocery store in Williamston, Ingham, MI. And who could forget the buttery, salty, delicious Toad-in-the-Hole for breakfast? Deliciously salty, soaked in butter, with an egg fried in a hole torn in the middle of the bread..." This type of cooking was probably a carry-over from the German/Bavarian influence in Emma's line, rather than the English on her husband's W. Irving's line.
Emma and W. Irving were wonderful as grandparents, providing vacation time in their home, gifting the grandchildren with bicycles and other special items--but never to the point of spoiling their only grandchildren: J.C.W., D.I.W., and M.E.W.
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Lineage to Wolfgang G. STELZER:
STELZER: Emma-4 Ada (Slider) Crippen, Augusta-3 Johanna (Stelzer) Slider, John-2 Wolfgang Stelzer, Wolfgang-1 G. Stelzer who was the only one of his family who came to the United States (from Bavaria) and he migrated in 1853 with his wife Anna Margrett/Margurete/Margaret (Cryle) and family of six children: Margaret, John W., Adam, John B., Elizabeth, and James. Youngest son, Henry, was born in Cohoctah Twp., Livingston, MI.
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Research: Mary E. Warner, 2011.
Second-generation Bavarian/German-American.
Emma Ada Slider was a daughter of John Quincy Adams Slider and his wife Augusta Johanna Stelzer.
3 SLIDER siblings: [Self], Alexander T., Bella, and Margaret.
Emma was the oldest surviving child. She was born in Cohoctah Twp., Livingston, MI. She attended the Oak Grove School in Cohoctah. (A list of the children attending the Oak Grove School in 1896 is available, as of 2011.)
Emma married W. Irving Crippen on April 29, 1914 at the home of her parents. She was 30 years old at the time. Her only child, Kathryn Elizabeth (April 15, 1915-May 4, 1973), was born on their first anniversary.
After her marriage, she and Irving lived on his farm in Conway township, just south of Cohoctah township. A few years after the death of Irving's parents who lived nearby, Irving decided to give up farming and retire. In about 1927 they purchased the house at 810 East Grand River, Williamston, Ingham, MI, where the remainder of their lives were spent.
1 CRIPPEN child: Kathryn Elizabeth (Crippen) Warner.
__________
"Regarding Grandma Emma, my impression was that her German grandparents were somehow refugees from the 1848 revolutions. One of my earliest memories was being very small and standing near a cluster (more than three) tall (to me they looked like giants) women whispering together about how some woman they each knew had cancer. I didn't understand why they whispered about cancer, but I remember them and their very long skirts, not quite ankle length, although to be honest, I was just calf or knee high. I think she might be a third generation American, that her grandparents immigrated from one of the German principalities, perhaps Bavaria, from that revolutionary time in Europe.
"Our awareness of Emma's lineage was cut off by the kurfuffle about mother's grandfather's messing with his promises to leave his estate to his children, then by-passing them and leaving his estate "per stirpes" to his grandchildren which gave mom 1/5 of his estate as I recall.
"Much bitterness and harsh words which mom never forgave....that's my view of things, anyway. My only memory of mother's grandfather is that we took a visit to his farm, and that was where you got bitten by a dog."
__________
Memories of Dale I. Warner, Grandson, 2011.
Emma was a superb cook, and the grandchildren remember holiday meals that would include several kinds of meat. Let her only grandson, Dale, describe the feasts:
"As I recall there were always 3 meat dishes, usually duck, chicken, and ham. There may have been beef dishes, too, but I don't recall them, maybe pot roast. She would have little side dishes for beets and creamed corn. There were at least two potato dishes, perhaps our Mother [Kathryn] brought escalloped potatoes (made from scratch--her specialty), and Grandmother served them alongside mashed potatoes and gravy. No alcoholic beverages; perhaps milk, water, etc. She used the kind of margarine that came in plastic as a white substance with a yellow tab inserted which, when squeezed properly, would turn the white substance into a yellow imitation of real butter. She would get up at 4 AM to cook the turkey and ham. She had a wonderful dessert of a kind of rice pudding...Morning breakfasts featured grapefruit halves with as much white sugar on them as one could want. Plenty of brown sugar for sweetening other foods, and a nickel ice cream cone on trips to the A&P grocery store in Williamston, Ingham, MI. And who could forget the buttery, salty, delicious Toad-in-the-Hole for breakfast? Deliciously salty, soaked in butter, with an egg fried in a hole torn in the middle of the bread..." This type of cooking was probably a carry-over from the German/Bavarian influence in Emma's line, rather than the English on her husband's W. Irving's line.
Emma and W. Irving were wonderful as grandparents, providing vacation time in their home, gifting the grandchildren with bicycles and other special items--but never to the point of spoiling their only grandchildren: J.C.W., D.I.W., and M.E.W.
__________
Lineage to Wolfgang G. STELZER:
STELZER: Emma-4 Ada (Slider) Crippen, Augusta-3 Johanna (Stelzer) Slider, John-2 Wolfgang Stelzer, Wolfgang-1 G. Stelzer who was the only one of his family who came to the United States (from Bavaria) and he migrated in 1853 with his wife Anna Margrett/Margurete/Margaret (Cryle) and family of six children: Margaret, John W., Adam, John B., Elizabeth, and James. Youngest son, Henry, was born in Cohoctah Twp., Livingston, MI.
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Research: Mary E. Warner, 2011.
Emma Ada Slider was a daughter of John Quincy Adams Slider and his wife Augusta Johanna Stelzer.
3 SLIDER siblings: [Self], Alexander T., Bella, and Margaret.
Emma was the oldest surviving child. She was born in Cohoctah Twp., Livingston, MI. She attended the Oak Grove School in Cohoctah. (A list of the children attending the Oak Grove School in 1896 is available, as of 2011.)
Emma married W. Irving Crippen on April 29, 1914 at the home of her parents. She was 30 years old at the time. Her only child, Kathryn Elizabeth (April 15, 1915-May 4, 1973), was born on their first anniversary.
After her marriage, she and Irving lived on his farm in Conway township, just south of Cohoctah township. A few years after the death of Irving's parents who lived nearby, Irving decided to give up farming and retire. In about 1927 they purchased the house at 810 East Grand River, Williamston, Ingham, MI, where the remainder of their lives were spent.
1 CRIPPEN child: Kathryn Elizabeth (Crippen) Warner.
__________
"Regarding Grandma Emma, my impression was that her German grandparents were somehow refugees from the 1848 revolutions. One of my earliest memories was being very small and standing near a cluster (more than three) tall (to me they looked like giants) women whispering together about how some woman they each knew had cancer. I didn't understand why they whispered about cancer, but I remember them and their very long skirts, not quite ankle length, although to be honest, I was just calf or knee high. I think she might be a third generation American, that her grandparents immigrated from one of the German principalities, perhaps Bavaria, from that revolutionary time in Europe.
"Our awareness of Emma's lineage was cut off by the kurfuffle about mother's grandfather's messing with his promises to leave his estate to his children, then by-passing them and leaving his estate "per stirpes" to his grandchildren which gave mom 1/5 of his estate as I recall.
"Much bitterness and harsh words which mom never forgave....that's my view of things, anyway. My only memory of mother's grandfather is that we took a visit to his farm, and that was where you got bitten by a dog."
__________
Memories of Dale I. Warner, Grandson, 2011.
Emma was a superb cook, and the grandchildren remember holiday meals that would include several kinds of meat. Let her only grandson, Dale, describe the feasts:
"As I recall there were always 3 meat dishes, usually duck, chicken, and ham. There may have been beef dishes, too, but I don't recall them, maybe pot roast. She would have little side dishes for beets and creamed corn. There were at least two potato dishes, perhaps our Mother [Kathryn] brought escalloped potatoes (made from scratch--her specialty), and Grandmother served them alongside mashed potatoes and gravy. No alcoholic beverages; perhaps milk, water, etc. She used the kind of margarine that came in plastic as a white substance with a yellow tab inserted which, when squeezed properly, would turn the white substance into a yellow imitation of real butter. She would get up at 4 AM to cook the turkey and ham. She had a wonderful dessert of a kind of rice pudding...Morning breakfasts featured grapefruit halves with as much white sugar on them as one could want. Plenty of brown sugar for sweetening other foods, and a nickel ice cream cone on trips to the A&P grocery store in Williamston, Ingham, MI. And who could forget the buttery, salty, delicious Toad-in-the-Hole for breakfast? Deliciously salty, soaked in butter, with an egg fried in a hole torn in the middle of the bread..." This type of cooking was probably a carry-over from the German/Bavarian influence in Emma's line, rather than the English on her husband's W. Irving's line.
Emma and W. Irving were wonderful as grandparents, providing vacation time in their home, gifting the grandchildren with bicycles and other special items--but never to the point of spoiling their only grandchildren: J.C.W., D.I.W., and M.E.W.
__________
Lineage to Wolfgang G. STELZER:
STELZER: Emma-4 Ada (Slider) Crippen, Augusta-3 Johanna (Stelzer) Slider, John-2 Wolfgang Stelzer, Wolfgang-1 G. Stelzer who was the only one of his family who came to the United States (from Bavaria) and he migrated in 1853 with his wife Anna Margrett/Margurete/Margaret (Cryle) and family of six children: Margaret, John W., Adam, John B., Elizabeth, and James. Youngest son, Henry, was born in Cohoctah Twp., Livingston, MI.
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Research: Mary E. Warner, 2011.
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