Alger Streeter family photos

  

Harmon & Lucy, Charlie & Gladys

Note: Jillie did the baptism for Gladys Spencer Streeter in 

May 2010 at the Palmyra New York Temple.

Baptism Certificate Violet J Atwood Armstrong

Mary Carpenter Obituary

Mary Carpenter

Born: March 25, 1904

Died: September 19, 2010

Services: The service for Mary will be 2:00 p.m. Sunday, September 26, 2010, at Rockford United Methodist Church, 159 Maple St., Rockford with the Rev. Richard Riley officiating. Interment in Rockford Cemetery.

Visitation: Relatives and friends may meet with the family at the Pederson Funeral Home on Saturday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

Mrs. Mary Ann Carpenter, age 106, the senior member of the Rockford Community, passed away late Sunday evening, September 19, 2010, at her home. She lived all her life within five miles of Rockford, MI. Mary was born to Jennie and George Dunn on a farm on Courtland Drive where she grew up. She attended Shank Elementary School on 12 Mile Road and graduated from Rockford High School in 1922. Mary worked for Citizen Telephone Company, Michigan Bell from 1922 to 1927 and Wolverine World Wide for five years. She married Walter L. Carpenter on July 24, 1926. They lived on Lewis Street and then moved to a farm on Shaner Avenue. The next house was in Rockford on Summit Street for a short time until purchasing the farm on Tefft Avenue where they lived in for 20 years. After retirement they purchased a home on South Main Street in Rockford. Mary enjoyed gardening, crocheting, playing cards with friends, crossword puzzles, the Golden R, and keeping track of her grandchildren. She was an avid fan of the Detroit Tigers Baseball Team. For many years Mary was an active worker at each Rockford United Methodist Church Pastie Bake. She drove until the age of 99 and was able to live in her home until the age of 101 when she moved to Bishop Hills Retirement Home. Her family thanks the great care given to Mary at Bishop Hills and most recently Spectrum Hospice and Dr Longley. A special thanks is given to the Rockford United Methodist Church, Pastor Riley, the staff and entire congregation for the continuous love given to Mary. They also would like to thank her sons, Gerald, his wife Jeri, and Jim, his wife Cathie, and granddaughter, Deena, her husband Art who took the emergency calls and opened their homes to special events for Mary. She was preceded in death by her husband, Walter (1982), two brothers (Chester Dunn 1952 and Earl Dunn 1963), as well as two sisters (Elva 1959 and Orpha 1936). Mary is survived by her son, Gerald (Jeri) of Livonia, MI, son, Jack (Darlene) of Evergreen, CO; daughter, Joan (Carl) Doyle of Modesto, CA and son, Jim (Cathie) of Grand Rapids, MI. She leaves 12 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews and their children who were also very dear to her throughout her life.

Mary Ann Dunn Carpenter

(This is a long post, but well worth reading to get to know her!)

 "Aunt Mary" passed away last night at 106 years old. She was my grandfather, Harold Streeter's aunt.  Here is some info I have on her life...  She is amazing- and a loyal Detriot Tigers fan!

1925 Walter and Mary Carpenter

Let's have a cheer for Rockford High School's class of '22

Published: Thursday, June 25, 2009 The Grand Rapids Press

She's not sure she remembers all the words to the fight song, and rather than dressing up in orange and black, she plans to simply wear "whatever slacks are clean."  But no one's going to insist on high protocol from Mary Carpenter when she attends Rockford High School's "Golden R" reunion Saturday.  When you're 105 years old, you get to make your own way.

Not only is Mary the oldest resident in her retirement community, she is one of the oldest men or women in this area going to their high school get-togethers. 
And she will get noticed. "When you're 50 or so, nobody cares much what you're saying," says Gene Berry, RHS Class of '54, who is helping to organize the event. "But double that and ... people pay attention.
"She's a neat ol' gal."

Mary got her diploma in 1922 as Mary Dunn, in an era marked by flappers, gin joints and, in May of that year, groundbreaking on something known as Yankee Stadium.

Do the math, and it has been 87 years since she wore a mortarboard and tassel. She will join more than 460 others for lunch at noon Saturday, all out of RHS for at least 50 years and thereby members of "The Golden R."

"It's like a family picnic," says Berry, emphasizing the group also collects funds to award a $1,000 scholarship. This year's recipient is Alicia Dickinson, Class of 2009.

Emily Zoladz | The Grand Rapids PressGraduated 87 years ago: Mary Carpenter, who is 105, plans to attend Saturday's "Golden R" reunion.

Where Rockford typically has classes of 600 or more in recent years, Mary graduated with just 4 boys and 13 other girls. And, unlike seniors of today who spend a king's ransom on graduation pics, Mary doesn't remember posing for any solo shots.

But she does remember.

She is spry and lucid for someone born in March 1904, and she vividly recalls life on her family's 80-acre farm in Courtland Township, where she did just about everything but milk cows.

"I tried it a little bit and, when my father saw me, he said, 'OK, I think that's enough of that.' Of course, there weren't machines then."

She and Walter married and had three boys and a girl, all of whom survive. She is proud of them, but doesn't dote. When I asked if any were naughty, she answered, "You ever see one that wasn't?"

She has been living since age 101 at Bishop Hills Elder Care Community east of downtown Rockford, where she works crossword puzzles, takes in programs sponsored by the building and devotes TV time to the news and her beloved Detroit Tigers.

Well, maybe "beloved" is a reach. "I do like 'em, even though they don't know how to hit some days."

She has not driven for years and misses "being able to go where I want to go and when I want to go," but admits "the more I see some people drive these days, I figure I'm lucky."

Mary is not interested in setting records for longevity but is thankful for her good health. Outside of arthritis and using a walker, she has no major issues.

She is thankful, too, for her grown children and grandchildren who come to visit, though Julie Shupe, the facility's director of nursing, chuckles in recalling that, sometimes, Mary will stick her head out after they've left and joke, "They think they have to check up on me."

She appreciates her high school education and encourages kids today to finish, too. She is aware, though, that, for most, it's not the same sort of passport it was eight decades ago. "So much more that they can get," she says of college and trade school opportunities.

If she has any complaints about the current system, it's that "now, I think they have too many sports in the schools. Of course, it keeps them busy, and they have to have something to do. But too much time out of school. Back then, it didn't interfere with our learning," which she remembers included Latin for all.

She has no secret formula for a long life, but figures "lots of fruits and vegetables" didn't hurt. And she never followed the road to perdition with alcohol or tobacco.

Growing up immersed in a life of hard work served her well. "Farming was a tough life, but we didn't mind the work." She appreciates modern conveniences, stopping short of saying that she misses everything about the good ol' days.

In her early days, they lit their way with lamps and relied on a windmill for power. Before their first auto, they got around on foot or via horse and buggy.

"Sometimes, I don't think these days everything is all so good. Of course, I'd hate to go back to the way we used to live.

"I like electricity."

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Carpenter remembers past with great fondness

Valerie Clarke

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 The Rockford Independent

Among the most venerable of Rockford's population is Mary Dunn Carpenter. She has experienced 105 years of Rockford history and, as with many senior citizens, remembers the distant past better than what happened yesterday. 

Now a resident at Bishop Hills Elder Care Community, she will celebrate her 106th birthday next month.

Carpenter is a piece of the sturdy Courtland Township fabric of farmers. Born in 1904, she was the youngest of five children of George and Jennie Dunn. She grew up on the road now called Tefft. 

"I used to tag along with my dad on the farm," Carpenter said. "When I was little he showed me how to milk a cow, but I took too long and the cow dried up. He said I had to wait until I was bigger to help with the milking." 

She said her family did everything by hand - washing the clothes, tending the garden, canning and feeding the animals.

"There was no electricity where we lived until I was in high school," she said. "Farmers didn't have cars. We came into Rockford by horse and buggy to get feed for the cattle and groceries."

The children in Courtland Township attended Shank School. Smiling at her memories, Carpenter can still look at photos of the children she went to school with and rattle off their names as if it were yesterday. The one-room school went through the eighth grade and had an outhouse, a pot-bellied stove in the middle and no running water. 

"We had to run over to the neighbor's farm to get water from their pump," Carpenter said. 

Rockford High School followed and Carpenter was a proud 1922 graduate from what she calls "the old high school." After the school burned down, the "new high school" was built. 

The "new" one she refers to is the school on North Main Street, which now houses the administrative offices and Rockford Community Education.

She married Walter Carpenter after working a few years at Wolverine Shoe Factory and the couple bought their first home in Rockford's New Addition, a section of town built for factory workers. Mary Carpenter continued to work at the factory until she had her first child. Four children were born to the couple, Gerald, Jack, JoAnn and Jim. 

The family moved around to different homes and owned a farm on Shaner Road where they worked for many years together. 

Carpenter proudly stated her address has always been in Rockford.
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Found in the Rockford Squire April 1, 2010

by CLIFF AND NANCY HILL

Mary Carpenter received so many cards in celebration of her 106th birthday, she has yet to find the time to open and read them all. The cards were an outpouring of love and best wishes from the Rockford community and her Rockford United Methodist Church family.

Mary Carpenter receives hundreds of birthday cards in celebration of her 106th birthday on March 25.

Best of all, an anonymous good Samaritan dropped off an autographed Tiger baseball to the Bishop Hills Elder Care Community office, where Mary resides. Mary, the oldest-known living Tiger fan, couldn’t have been happier.

Mary asked us to thank all of the many well-wishers who sent cards and flowers. Squire readers are the best!

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This is a MUST SEE VIDEO!        

http://www.wzzm13.com/video/default.aspx?bctid=76927712001

This link is a local TV interview with her in April 2010.  Not only do you get to see how wonderful she is, but there's some good family history info there too!

Violet Janey Atwood Williams Armstrong

I found some interesting pictures of Grandma Vi  (b 11 Aug 1908, d 14 Jun 1976) .  This "picture" is a copy of a picture taken of her around 1924-1925. The picture of her with the baby (Pauline) was taken May 1926, Violet was 17. On the back of this picture, Mom (Pauline) writes "Taken the day she met Mary Lou Jontz" (the daughter she had to give up at birth).

The last picture is of Violet and her 2nd husband, John Daniel Armstrong (b 12 Sep 1911, d 5 Apr 1974)  They were married 29 May 1942 in Toledo, Lucas, Ohio.  They did not have any children.  John was not married previously. There is no date on the picture.

~Pam

Randy and Jane Streeter's Wedding

Craig (Randy) Randolph Streeter and Jane Dykema
 20 Sep 1997


Left to Right:
Mitch Myckowiak, Tamara (Tami) Leigh Streeter Myckowiak (with Michael Myckowiak), Catie Streeter Cooley (holding the hand of Alex Myckowiak), Mark Richard Allen Streeter, Pauline Violet Williams Streeter, Emily Streeter HImstreet, Randy Streeter, Jane Dykstra Streeter, Abigail Streeter Mix, Greg Garrick, Nicole (Nikki) Noel Wadsworth Garrick (holding Jillienne Garrick), Chris Armstrong, Pam Armstrong (holding Adam? Armstrong), Craig Randolph Streeter II, Pamela Ruth Streeter Wadsworth, David Cecil Wadsworth, Harold Rex Streeter

Frances Pearl Perry Atwood and her children

This picture was take a short while before Pearl died (b 4 Mar 1890, d 5 Nov 1961).  Seated with her are her 5 surviving children :

L to R:

Violet J Atwood Williams Armstrong, Glenn Atwood, Byrdie Atwood Sarkees, Gladys Atwood Armstrong and Clifford Armstrong.

 

Children who died earlier:

Goldie May Atwood (b 6 Oct 1906, d 6 Oct 1906)

Frances Richard Berkley Atwood (6 Mar 1911, d 12 Jul 1911)

Roy Jay Atwood (b 30 Nov 1920, d 25 Jan 1945)  never married

Chester Dunn

Chester Dunn, 

b 21 Dec 1886

 d 25 Jan 1952, 

the brother of Elva Dunn Streeter and

 son of George Henry Dunn and Jennie Ann Davis.

Thomas Randolph Streeter

 Thomas Randolph Streeter, 

b 3 May 1859 

d 10 Oct 1938 

m Susie Huckleberry 30 Apr 1882, 

parents of Alger R Streeter, son of Harmon Dazue Streeter.

Arver Family

Here is a change of pace.  This is from the other side of the family. As best as I can figure this out, it appears to the the picture of some of Richard (Dick) S Arver and Olive Jane Sitzer children or in law children and grandchild & wife. Here is what is written on the back of the picture: Seated, left to right:    Margaret Catherine Close Arver, Mary Jane Arver (unmarried) Standing, left to right:    Bessie Mona Clark Arver, James Edward Arver, Richard El-Nathan Arver   Bessie and Richard are married Margaret and James are married Mary Jane is the sister of James & is unmarried.   Time for you to do some research.  I know that James and Mary Jane are 2 of the children of Richard (Dick) Arver and Olive Jane Sitzer.  What I believe is Richard El-Nathan Aver is the son of Margaret Close (her father's name is El-Nathan Close) and James Arver. I have no information about Bessie Mona Clark & Richard El-Nathan except he was born 20 Jun 1881 in Rockford, MI and died 1 Jan 1963(which I found on new.familysearch.com).  Who can fill in the blanks?   Perhaps I should also tell you about the link to these people for us.  George Richard Atwood's parents were George Washington Atwood and Frances Adele Arver, sister of James and Mary Jane in this picture.  Good luck! Pam.

Arizona Atwoods

Note from Pam Wadsworth: I feel a family history would not be complete without a picture of the man who did much to keep this family active. Mom (Pauline Violet Williams Streeter) often talked about his dedication to the gospel and to being active. She said he was the one who would invite everyone to ride with him to church when she was a teenager.  Roy had a weak heart and died unexpectantly at the age of 25 while having a dental procedure (family tradition is we never buy or used flat toothpicks because of this - long story for another time).   Roy Atwood, b 30 Nov 1920 d 25 Jan 1945,was a young brother to Violet Janey Atwood Williams Armstrong. On the back of the family picture: L to R in back:   Frances Pearl Arver Atwood, Pam Streeter Wadsworth (topless), Dale Armstrong holding me, Bill Gable behind Audrey Armstrong Gable holding son Brian, and Ronnie Armstrong L to R seated:    Frank Armstrong, Crystal Armstrong Franklin, Barbara Armstrong(wife of Dale), Gladys Atwood Armstrong, Violet Atwood Williams Armstrong, and in the very front, Pauline Williams Streeter.  Date is around 1948-1949. In case you didn't know, brothers (John and Frank Armstrong) married sisters (Gladys and Violet).  Grandma (Violet) used to say that when she and Gladys would argue, they were in laws and when they got along, they were sisters.

Arver Family

The picture of the woman is a rare photo of  Olive Jane Sitzer Arver, b 31 Aug 1824 d 22 November 1870, wife of Richard (Dick) S Arver.

The group picture is of Hannah Arver Chitterling (sister of Richard (Dick) S Arver) and James E Arver and Margaret Close Arver, her nephew and his wife.

George Richard Atwood

Note from Pam Wadsworth:

Some pictures of Great Grandpa George Richard Atwood.  Millie is his 2nd wife that he married 8 Aug 1959.  You can see where some in the family got those long legs.

Alger Streeter

Alger Streeter early family pictures

Newspaper clipping about Alger's death and obituary.

Note from Pam Wadsworth: 

Harold is born 1926 and Carl (the youngest at the time) was born 1914. I think there is a casual picture of all of them together.  Carl looks like Alger the most.  The more I see old pictures of distant relations, I realize we look like the Dunns, not the Streeters.

Governor Roger Conant

Relationship Report for
Governor Roger CONANT-26181 b.1592 and
Pamela Ruth STREETER-32 b.1947



Governor Roger CONANT-26181 is the 10th great-grandfather of Pamela Ruth STREETER-32.


Lines of Descent from Governor Roger CONANT-26181

Governor Roger CONANT-26181 b.1592
Lot CONANT-26179 b.1626
John CONANT-26177 b.1652
Elizabeth CONANT-6069 b.1681
Berthia COBURN-6067 b.1713
Berthia RICH-3748 b.1746
Perley STREETER-1211 b.1766
Rev. Randolph STREETER-1201 b.1796
Harmon DaZue STREETER-28 b.1828
Thomas Randolph STREETER-9 b.1859
Alger Randolph STREETER-7 b.1887
Harold Rex STREETER-17 b.1926
Pamela Ruth STREETER-32 b.1947

Immigration: 1623 Roger Conant emigrated to the Plymouth Colony with his brother (Christopher), his wife and first son, Caleb, aboard the "ANNE" in 1623. He served as governor of the Dorchester Company at Cape Ann From 1623 to 1626.

Occupation: He served his apprenticeship in London, England as a salter.

Migrated 1624 Removed to Nantasket (now Hull, MA) because he was uncomfortable with the strictness of the Puritans. He founded Salem, MA, and was it's 1st governor, but in 1627 he was replaced by John Endicott.

Roger Conant (c. 1592 – 1679) was the leader of the company of fishermen who founded Salem, Massachusetts (then called Naumkeag) in 1626. He was later supplanted by the governor sent by the Massachusetts Bay Company, John Endicott. He nevertheless remained in high standing with the community, giving long service as a juror and member of the Board of Selectmen, with duties including the establishment of boundaries for new communities.

He married Sarah Horton in 1618 in London. He immigrated to Plymouth Colony in 1623 or 1624 with his wife and his son Caleb, possibly aboard the ship 'Anne' with his brother Christopher.[3] In 1624, he relocated to Nantasket because he was uncomfortable with the strictness of the Puritans.

In 1625, he went to Cape Ann to assess the struggling colony that had been overseen by Thomas Gardner (planter) since 1624. By 1626, he had obtained permission from the Dorchester Company to move the colony to the mouth of the Naumkeag river. This settlement, that was successfully established by some of the "old planters", became Salem, Massachusetts and, in Conant's words, laid the "foundation" for the Commonwealth. Conant was its first governor but, in 1627, was replaced by John Endicott. He remained active in town affairs and is today memorialized in a statue across from the Salem Common.[4][5] He diedon November 19, 1679 in Beverly, a nearby town which he also helped found.[6]

One of the earliest known genealogies of Roger Conant and his descendants is the volume written by his descendant E. W. Leavitt and privately printed in 1890: "A Genealogy of One Branch of the Conant Family, 1581-1890."[7] An earlier Conant genealogy, published in Portland, Maine, in 1887 and written by Frederick Odell Conant also delved into the English origins of the Conant family.[8

Source: Wikipedia

A handsome statue of Roger Conant, the founder of Salem, stands outside the Salem Witch Museum. Because of the statue's proximity to the museum and because of his cloak and hat and generally impressive appearance, Roger Conant is often mistaken for a participant in the Salem witch trials. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

We know that Roger Conant was baptized in All Saints Church in the parish of East Budleigh, Devonshire, England on April 9, 1592. His father was the leading merchant of Clayton, a neighboring parish. Family tradition says that as a boy young Roger met Sir Walter Raleigh. Later Conant and his young family came to New England probably arriving in Plymouth in 1622.

The Dorchester Company established a fishing settlement on Cape Ann during the winter of 1623-24 under a charter with England. Located at Stage Point, now Gloucester, the company invited Roger Conant to join them in 1625 as their governor "for the management and government of all their affairs at Cape Ann".

After a year's residence, Conant became convinced of the need for a more permanent settlement and found an ideal site at the mouth of the Naumkeag River (now the City of Salem). There the settlement thrived and grew by farming as well as fishing. When Governor Endicott arrived in 1628, he incorporated Conant and his men into the new government. (The Dorchester Company went into bankruptcy in 1627 and became the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629 under charter from England). Known as the Old Planters, Conant and his followers lent continuity to the new settlement and can be considered the founding fathers of Naumkeag, renamed Salem for "Shalom" or Peace on June 29, 1629. Roger Conant died on November 19, 1679 considering himself "...an instrument, though a weak one, of foundering and furthering this colony..."

After Conant's death, the colony suffered through the witch trials of 1692.

http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com/education/conant.shtml

Documenting the family

The Streeter Side is a blog aimed at storing the family history of the Streeter Side of my family. My mom, Pamela Ruth Streeter Wadsworth has bucket loads of family history newspaper clippings, pictures, postcards, etc, that have been passed down through the family lines. As she scans the documents, I will post them here in hopes that other family members can easily access this info. If you have further information on the ancestors listed here, please leave that information in the comments. You can also email anything (stories, memories, documents, pictures, etc.) for me to post for you on this blog. Happy Browsing! :)

-Nicole Noel Wadsworth Garrick,

daughter of David Cecil Wadsworth and Pamela Ruth Streeter Wadsworth