William Bramwell Hepworth, Sr. and Ann Eliza Emery

Their child:		Individuals in this page:		Their parents:
		William Bramwell Hepworth, Sr.	{	Samuel Clayton Hepworth & Martha Holliwood
Selina Eliza Hepworth	{	&
		Ann Eliza Emery	{	Edward Emery, Jr. & Elizabeth Ellen Holiday

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 2^nd 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. 2^nd 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 2^nd 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 2^ndMeridian, 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 1^st of May 1906” and that he “put up house & stable” ^PR21.

He may have been the “W^m 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.

· 1860 US Census: lived in Prairie Ronde, Kalamazoo County, Michigan.

· 1870 US Census: lived in Prairie Ronde, Kalamazoo County, Michigan.

· 1880 US Census: lived in Dragoon Township, Osage County, Kansas.

· 1885 Kansas State Census: lived in Warren, Morris County, Kansas.

· 1900 US Census: lived in Weare Township, Oceana County, Michigan.

· 1911 Canada Census: lived in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada.

· 1920 US Census: lived in Hammond, Lake County, Indiana.

· 1930 US Census: lived in Weare Township, Oceana County, Michigan.

· 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.

· 1860 US Census: lived in Polk, Taylor County, Iowa.

· 1870 US Census: lived in Sidney Township, Champaign County, Illinois.