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William Bramwell Hepworth, Sr. (Samuel, Martha) was born about
1852 KA5,
1855 UN12
or 1856 UN11
in Michigan UN11, UN12, KA5
or on September 12, 1855 in Adrian, Lenawee County,
Michigan, according to both Justin E. Wilder WI1 and handwritten family records in a Bible
which had been owned by Bill and Edna De Shong; these
records were transcribed by Shirley Turner Shiver SH8. William’s death certificate also listed
the same birthdate: September 12, 1855, in Lenawee County, Michigan. William
attended school until the end of the fourth grade, according to the 1940
census. William resided in Prairie Ronde,
Kalamazoo County with his parents in 1860 and 1870 UN11, UN12.
An Osage County, Kansas marriage license,
issued on December 20, 1877, stated that Reverend J. Clarke Cline married
William B. Hepworth, age twenty-two, and Ann Eliza Emery, age nineteen, at the
residence of the father of the bride on December 22, 1877 KA1. Eliza’s obituary indicated that soon
after their marriage, they relocated to Oceana County, Michigan SE6. They moved from Kansas to Michigan
sometime after their wedding in December 1877, but before the birth of their
first child, Martha Ellen, who was born on November 1, 1878 in Pentwater,
Oceana County, Michigan WI1.
William
and Ann Eliza returned to Kansas by 1880, when in that census year William
stated that he was a laborer. Willam B.
Hepworth, Eliza, “Nattie”, and William resided in
Warren, Morris County, Kansas in 1885 KA5. The Hepworth family continued to reside in that state until
approximately 1889 or 1890, because his son, Johnson, was born on January 20,
1889 in Burlingame, Kansas, but Henry was born on November 26, 1890 in
Pentwater, Michigan WI1. The
1900 census stated that William and Eliza had been married for twenty-two
years, and it recorded that he was a farmer.
According
to the 1911 Canada census, William and Eliza immigrated to Canada in 1908. He applied for the northwest section of
Section 22, Township 27, Range 12 of Saskatchewan on December 10, 1906, but the
record of this homestead grant (grant number 261724) was marked “cancelled” MA42.
William
B. Hepworth, Sr. applied for a homestead grant (grant number 318183) on
November 18, 1908 MA42. The
sworn statement of William Bramwell Hepworth, Sr. in support of the application
for his homestead patent for the “South East qr of ---- Section 24 Township 27 Range 11 west of 2nd Meridian” was dated June 13, 1912 PR21. In this statement, William stated that
his full name was William Bramwell Hepworth Sr., his occupation was farming,
and his post office address was Beckenham in Sask. PR21. He stated that he had another
homestead entry located at “N.E. 22=27=12, W. 2nd M.” which was abandoned, and that he
had never mortgaged assigned, or transferred any part of his present homestead
(the southeast quarter of Section 24 in Township 27) PR21. He stated that he was presently a
British subject but was not born as a British subject, but that he had begun
the application process for naturalization PR21. He stated that his family consisted of
his wife and six children and that he obtained homestead entry in mid-November,
1908 and built his house in March 1909, and that they moved into that house on
March 25, 1909 PR21.
The size of his log house on his homestead was 18x41 feet and was worth $300 PR21. He also erected two stables which were
14x40 feet and 18x20 feet, a well which was 23 feet deep, which had a total value
of $230 PR21. He
installed 1 ½ miles of fencing on his property, which had a value of $75.00 PR21. He stated that there was no indication
that any minerals or quarries existed on his land and that they lived on that
land from that date until the date of the sworn statement, which was June 13,
1912 PR21. He
stated that in 1909 he had four head of cattle, in 1910 and 1911 he had five
head of cattle and four horses, and in 1912 he had six head of cattle and three
horses PR21. In
1909 he had broke five acres
of land but none was cropped or cultivated within that year, but the following
year he broke another five acres and had cultivated ten acres of land PR21. In 1911 he broke another ten acres and
cultivated twenty acres, and in 1912 he broke ten acres and cultivated twenty
acres PR21.
William
B. Hepworth, Sr. was granted the southeast section of
Section 24, Township 27, Range 11 of Saskatchewan on July 22, 1912 MA42 and a patent for the SE ¼ of Section 24
in Township 27, Range 11 West of the 2nd Meridian, bearing the date July 29,
1912 was issued to “William B. Hepworth Sr. Esq” of “Beckenham,
Sask” and was “forwarded to the Registrar of the Land
Registration District of Saskatoon” from the Department of the Interior in
Ottawa on August 14, 1912 PR21.
The file number for this patent was 142341A PR21. The application for William Bramwell
Hepworth’s application for a homestead patent was accepted as sufficient on a
date which appears to state January 12, 1915 PR21. That exact parcel of land, the
southeast quarter of section 24 in Township 27, Range 11 of the 2nd
Meridian,
had been abandoned by Thomas Perris Yates of Beckehnam,
Saskatchewan in a Declaration of Abandonment dated December 8, 1906 PR21. Thomas Yates stated
“Land covered with wood & water there being not 5 acres of arable Land
& cannot possibly make an existence on same” and that he “resided there
since 1st of
May 1906” and that he “put up house & stable” PR21.
He
may have been the “Wm
Hepworth”, a farmer who was sixty and who was born in the United States, who
travelled by ferry from Detroit, Michigan to Windsor, Ontario on July 24, 1916 BO30.
William’s
death certificate stated that he died at age eighty-five in Pentwater, Oceana
County, Michigan at 4:00pm on February 19, 1941, and he was buried on February
22, 1941 in North Weare Cemetery in Oceana County,
Michigan. He and Eliza share a headstone there. William’s doctor wrote that his
immediate cause of death was “carcinoma of prostate extending into rectum
secondaries in bones”, from which he suffered a duration of twelve months.
Additionally, William had arteriosclerosis. Two obituaries were published in The Daily News of Ludington, Michigan;
the first, dated February 20, 1941 stated LO10:
William Hepworth, 85, a long-time
resident of Pentwater vicinity, passed away at his home in Pentwater at 5 p.m.
Wednesday following an illness for the past several
months. Mr. Hepworth was born on Sept. 12, 1855, at Adrian, Mich., and when a
young man went out West to Kansas and Oklahoma, where he met and married Miss Eliza Emery, 65 years ago. Shortly after their
marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Hepworth came to Michigan and
had lived in Pentwater and vicinity, for over 60 years. As a young man Mr.
Hepworth was a sailor out of Pentwater on the lakes and he homesteaded a farm
in North Weare township following this. Mr. and Mrs. Hepworth had lived on the farm for 30 years and then
moved to Pentwater where they had since made their home. Survivors are three
sons, William Hepworth Jr. of Pentwater, John Hepworth of Dyer, Ind. and Sam
Hepworth of Pentwater; three daughters, Mrs. Thomas Haase and Mrs. James Fishel, both
of Riverton township, Mason county, and Mrs. Emery Wilder of Bruce, Wis. He is
also survived by 88 grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Funeral services
will be held at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon, Feb. 22, at the Church of God in
Pentwater, with burial being made in the North Weare
cemetery.
Another obituary dated March 7, 1941 stated
SE7:
Joseph Nickles
of Camloche, Ontario, conducted funeral rites on
Saturday, Feb. 22 at 2 o’clock in the Church of God at Pentwater for William
Hepworth Sr. who passed away on Feb. 19 at his home in Pentwater. A true
husband and a kind father, Mr. Hepworth was a firm believer in his faith and
was loyal to his church. Surviving to mourn his loss are his wife; three sons,
William Jr. and Samuel of Pentwater and John of Dyer, Ind.; three daughters,
Mrs. Thomas Haase and Mrs. James Fishel
of Mason county and Mrs. Emery Wilder of Bruce, Wis.,
and a foster daughter, Mrs. Ezra Towne of Shelby. A number of
grandchildren also survive. Many tokens of sympathy
were shown by a wide circle of friends. Pallbearers were grandsons of the
deceased. Internment was made in North Weare
cemetery.
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1860 US Census: lived in Prairie Ronde, Kalamazoo
County, Michigan.
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1870 US Census: lived in Prairie Ronde, Kalamazoo
County, Michigan.
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1880
US Census: lived in Dragoon Township, Osage County, Kansas.
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1885
Kansas State Census: lived in Warren, Morris County, Kansas.
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1900
US Census: lived in Weare Township, Oceana County,
Michigan.
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1911
Canada Census: lived in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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1920
US Census: lived in Hammond, Lake County, Indiana.
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1930
US Census: lived in Weare Township, Oceana County,
Michigan.
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1940 US
Census: lived in Pentwater Village, Oceana County, Michigan.
Ann Eliza Emery (Edward, Elizabeth Ellen) was born on December
15, 1858 in Clarinda, Iowa WI1, SE6, SH8. Both the Bible record and her obituary listed her name as “Ann
Eliza” Emery SE6,
SH8. The marriage license application for her
daughter, Selina E. Hepworth, stated that Selina’s mother was Anna E. Emery,
and she was born in Indiana IN21. All census records in which she was
listed, and the death record for her husband, stated that her name was Eliza,
or Eliza A., except for the 1860 census, which listed a one-year-old daughter
of Edward Emery named Anna (Eliza would not turn two until December, and the
census occurred in June). Eliza’s death certificate stated that her full name
was Hannah Liza Hepworth, born on December 15, 1858 in Iowa. In 1940, she
stated that she was eighty-one years old, she was born in Iowa, and that that
eighth grade was the highest level of education she had achieved. Her parents
were Edward Emery and Ellen Holiday Emery, both born in Indiana, according to
her death certificate. The 1900 and 1930 censuses also stated that her parents
were born in Indiana.
Eliza was the
mother of Martha Ellen, William Bramwell, Selina Eliza, John Newton, Henry, Samuel
Edward, Daisy Amelia, and Eugene O. Hepworth. She may have also been the mother
to John, who was born in Kansas in
1880 and lived for just one month WI1.
Martha Ellen Hepworth (Mattie) was born on November 1, 1878 in Pentwater,
Oceana County, Michigan to William B. Hepworth and Ann E. “Emory” (or Eliza A. “Emory”)
IN21, US27, US26. She was called “Nattie”
on the 1885 Kansas Census, which indicated that she was born about 1879 in
Michigan KA5. Martha E. Hepworth, age twenty, and
Isaac Burling, both of Weare, Michigan, were married
by Ebinezer B. Clark, Justice of the Peace, on Mattie’s
birthday, November 1, 1891, in Pentwater, Michigan MI8, but their divorce occurred in August
1906 in North Dakota IN21.
She and Thomas A. Haase were married by John H. Renigar, Justice of the Peace, on October 10, 1906 in
Morgan County, Indiana IN21.
Mattie E. Haase died on December 15, 1970 US26.
William B. Hepworth (William Bramwell, Jr. WI1, SE7) was born about 1883 KA5 or on December 17, 1882 MI20, WI31 in Kansas WI31, KA5. He moved to Pentwater, Oceana County,
Michigan at the age of seven and married Rosie Poore on August 15, 1912 in
Indiana WI31. William B. Hepworth died at age
ninety-four WI31 on July 19, 1977 in Whitehall, Muskegon
County, Michigan MI6,
MI20, WI31.
Selina Eliza Hepworth was born on November 24, 1886 in Kansas IN21. John
Newton Hepworth was born on January 20, 1889 in Burlingame, Osage County,
Kansas US28,
FL6, US26. He married
Anna on September 3, 1918 TH45, CO21.
The death certificate of their son, Robert B. Hepworth, stated that his parents
were John Newton Hepworth and Annie Mary Atkinson IN20. On September 23, 1937, Anna Hepworth
of Dyer (or Hammond), Indiana filed a request with the Hammond superior court
for a decree of separation from John because she alleged that he treated her in
a “cruel and inhuman” manner TH45, CO21.
John’s cross-complaint stated that Anna would “stay away from their home at
long intervals visiting taverns in Calumet City” DY2. This divorce case was heard by Judge
John Cody, who on October 2, 1937 awarded custody of their six children to John
Hepworth; after this decree, Anna “objected so strenuously in an altercation
with her husband that bailiffs had to step in and part them in the court room” AW1. He resided in Dyer, Indiana and was
employed by an oil refinery in December, 1937 DY2. His draft registration card for World
War II stated that he lived Calumet Farms, north of Dyer in Lake County,
Indiana and worked at the Sinclair Refinery US28. John married Helen Showalter on June 17, 1939 in Lake County,
Indiana IN21 and he died on March 23, 1972 in
Okeechobee, Florida FL6.
Henry Hepworth,
the son of William and Eliza Hepworth, was three years, eleven months, and
thirteen days old on his death on August 13, 1894 in Weare
Township, Michigan, which indicates that he was born on August 31, 1891 MI3. His death was caused by ingestion of scoke root, a poisonous
substance MI3 which is otherwise known as Phytolacca americana,
pokeweed, and American Nightshade.
Samuel Edward Hepworth was
born on March 6, 1893 in Pentwater, Oceana County, Michigan US14, US28, US26. Samuel E. Hepworth and
Edna G. Wilder were married on the same day that Daisy A. Hepworth and Emery R.
“Welder” were married MI23.
Both Hepworth/Wilder couples were married by George Lambrix,
Justice of the Peace, and both marriage records stated that the license was
issued on August 7, 1914, but the wedding occurred on August 4, 1914 in Weare, Michigan MI23. Samuel died on December 30, 1988 in Grand Haven,
Ottawa County, Michigan MI6.
Daisy A. (Hepworth) Wilder was
born on February 5, 1897 US26,
and she married Emery R. “Welder” on August 4, 1914 MI23. Emery and Daisy Wilder lived in Thornapple, Rusk County,
Wisconsin at the time of the 1940 US Census UN18.
The obituary for her brother, William B. Hepworth, indicated that Daisy resided
in Bruce, Wisconsin in July 1977 WI31.
Daisy Amelia Wilder WI41 died
on March 4, 1991 US26, WI41 in
Rusk County, Wisconsin WI41.
Eugene O. Hepworth,
the son of William and Eliza, was born on May 20, 1899 in Weare
Township, Michigan MI1. His
middle name may have been “Orson” WI1. According
to his Oceana County, Michigan death certificate, Eugene O. Hepworth, the son
of Wm. B. Hepworth and Eliza Emery, was born in Michigan and died of pneumonia
at the age of four years, four months, and ten days on September 30, 1903 in Weare Township, Oceana County, Michigan.
A June 1953
newspaper article from The Ludington
Daily News stated that she and her husband had been “pioneer residents of
this village and Weare township” HE14. The obituary for her husband listed their children who were alive in 1841:
William Jr., John, Samuel, Mrs. Thomas Haase of Mason County, Mrs. James Fishel,
Mrs. Emery Wilder, and a
foster daughter, Mrs. Ezra Towne of Shelby SE7.
The 1940 census for Shelby Township, Oceana County, Michigan recorded that
Maggie was the wife of Ezra Towne.
Eliza’s Oceana
County, Michigan death certificate documented that “Hannah Liza Hepworth” died
at age eighty-eight as a widow in Hart, Oceana County, Michigan at 8:30am on
January 4, 1944 from carcinoma of the rectum, of which she was ill for two
years prior. Her husband suffered from a very similar
disease. Her obituary stated that she had been an invalid for several months
and died on January 4 at the residence of her daughter, Mrs.
Thomas Haase of Hart, Michigan SE6. Her death certificate stated that she was
buried at North Weare Cemetery in Weare
Township, Michigan on January 8, 1944. Eliza’s funeral service was held on
January 8, 1944 at the Pentwater Baptist Church SE6.
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1860 US
Census: lived in Polk, Taylor County, Iowa.
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1870 US
Census: lived in Sidney Township, Champaign County, Illinois.
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1880 US
Census: lived in Dragoon Township, Osage County, Kansas.
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1900 US
Census: lived in Weare Township, Oceana County,
Michigan.
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1911
Canada Census: lived in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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1920 US
Census: lived in Hammond, Lake County, Indiana.
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1930 US
Census: lived in Weare Township, Oceana County,
Michigan.
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1940 US
Census: lived in Pentwater Village, Oceana County, Michigan.