Archive for the ‘Hayes’ Category
On This Day … 15 August
1889 – Emma Moritz was born in Michigan 123 years ago. (wife of Joseph Sternad)
1895 – Ella Hayes was born in Joliet, Illinois 117 years ago to Sylvester Hayes & Mary Broderick. (great-grandaunt)
1919 – Blanche Hincka was born in Rogers City, Michigan 93 years ago to Joseph Hincka & Frances Soik. (1st cousin 2x removed)
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On This Day … 21 July
1876 – Kathryn Hayes was born in Youngstown, Ohio 136 years ago to Mr. Hayes & Mary Broderick. (great-grandaunt)
1891 – John Barnes (33) married Elizabeth Bittles (24) in Illinois 121 years ago. (2nd great-grandaunt)
1906 - Florence Hallman was born in Presque Isle, Michigan 106 years ago to Joseph Hallman & Dorothy Durecki. (1st cousin 2x removed)
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On This Day … 19 June
1863 – John Barnes I died 149 years ago in Lemont, Illinois. He was 37 years old.
1879 – August Kessler died in Detroit, Michigan 133 years ago at 10 months old. His grief-stricken parents are William Kessler & Philomina Hengstebeck. (1st cousin 3x removed)
1894 – Roy Velger was born 118 years ago in Detroit, Michigan. (husband of Mamie Ostrowski, great-grandaunt)
1912 – Stewart Sinyard (26) married Mary Hayes (25) in Joliet, Illinois 100 years ago. (great-grandparents)
1953 – Joseph Hincka died 59 years ago in Alpena, Michigan. He was 51 years old. (1st cousin 2x removed)
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On This Day … 12 June
1851 – August Hoeninghausen was born in Germany 161 years ago to Joseph Hoeninghausen & Susanna Kessler. (1st cousin 4x removed)
1897 – Zygmunt Nowak was born in Michigan 115 years ago. (husband of greataunt, Martha Hallman)
1901 – John Ostrowski was born in Detroit, Michigan 111 years ago to John Ostrowski & Frances Karschnia. (great-granduncle)
1932 – Anna Detlaff Soik died 80 years ago in Alpena, Mchigan. She was 70 years old. (2nd great-grandaunt)
1941 – Kathryn Hayes Mccraney died 71 years ago in Joliet, Illinois. She was 64 years old. (great-grandaunt)
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Sympathy Saturday – Sylvester Hayes

Sylvester Hayes died of tuberculosis at 53 years old. He was an Irish immigrant, and married his wife in Ohio before ending up in Illinois. His wife Mary died 2 months after him, supposedly of the same thing, and left 8 children orphaned. The oldest son, William, took care of his younger siblings. Sylvester rests in an unmarked resting spot in Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Joliet, Illinois.
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