Louis Alfred Straw

  General Notes:

1880 Census PlaceMattawan, Van Buren, Michigan
Louis A. STRAW
Birth Year<1874>
BirthplaceMI
Age6
Head of HouseholdGeorge F. STRAW >RelationSon
Father's BirthplaceMI
Mother's BirthplaceNY

KALAMAZOO GAZETTE -
22 Apr 1894 - Louis A. Straw and Louisa Beck, both of Kalamazoo [marriage license]
28 Sep 1898 - Louis A. Straw, a Kalamazoo blacksmith, and Miss Bertha Nash of this city were married Sep 24 by Justice O. F. Coleman.
MI records
Groom name Louis A. Straw Groom age 23 years Groom birth year 1875 Groom birth place Kalamazoo, Michigan Bride name Bertha Nash Bride age 19 years Bride birth year 1879 Bride birth place Michigan Marriage date 24 Sep 1898 Marriage place Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan Father of groom name Geo. F. Straw Mother of groom name Mary Hodge Father of bride name Unknown Mother of bride name Unknown Film number 2342509 Digital GS number 4208258 Image number 272 Reference number v 2 p 403 rn 4473

1900 Rose City, Ogemaw County, Michigan
Louis (1874) & Bertha Straw (1879) are boarding with the family of John Armstrong [age 21] his wife, Rose [19] & the two Armstrong dtrs Edith & Lizzie [both age 2]

1910 Algoma, Kent County, MI
Louis A. STRAW age 36 MI
Cora age 32 married 4 yrs born MI [Cora May Gearing Meldrum]
Flossie age 16 (dau) MI

1917 - WWI draft registration - Louis Alfred STRAW age 45 with medium height and build with lt blue eyes and brown hair. Big Rapids, Mecosta County, Michigan ; occ: blacksmith for George D Stover; nearest relative is Florence Straw of same address. (wife?)

ancestry.com
Name:Florence E Finoh
[Florence E Hanchett]
Gender:Female
Race:White
Birth Year:abt 1882
Birth Place:Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Marriage Date:28 Jul 1918
Marriage Place:Ionia, Ionia, Michigan, USA
Age:36
Residence Place:Hanor, Michigan
Father:Geo E Hanchett
Mother:Clara Smith
Spouse:Louis A Straw
Record Number:5070
Film:139
Film Description:1918 Eaton - 1918 Kent

1920 Big Rapids, Mecosta County, MI
Louis A. STRAW age 47 MI; married
Florence age 40 WI (wife)

1921 Jackson, MI City Directory
Straw, Louis A. (Florence) cond, res 502 Francis

Michigan, Divorce Records, 1897-1952
Oct 1922 div Florence

1930 - can't locate him [died 1929]

findagrave has two burial listings for Louis and both list his parents as George and Mary
1871-1929 Louis Straw - no headstone photo
1874 - 1942 [headstone photo]
I found a death rexcord for a Louis Straw s/o George F. Straw who died in Lansing, Michigan in 1929 at age 58y 1 m and 26 days which would calculate to a date of birth as 7 Feb 1871. These two burials appear to be of the same person with conflicting dates. I am unable to determine why the headstone so similar to the style of his brother and mother has a death date of 1942 and year of birth as 1974, I will use the FAG #
179891665 based on the documentation of a death certificate

Louis married Bertha Nash, daughter of Caleb O. Nash and Helen M. Williams, on 24 Sep 1898 in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan. (Bertha Nash was born on 31 Jul 1870 in Van Buren County, Michigan.)

Louis next married Louisa Beck on 14 Apr 1894 in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan. (Louisa Beck was born in 1873 in Michigan.)

Louis next married Florence Elizabeth Hanchett, daughter of George Ernest Hanchett Sr. and Clara Lavina Smith, on 28 Jul 1918 in Ionia, Ionia County, Michigan. The marriage ended in divorce in Oct 1922. (Florence Elizabeth Hanchett was born on 26 Dec 1884 in Westfield, Marquette County, Wisconsin, died on 3 Dec 1930 in Mercy Hospital in Cadillac, Wexford County, Michigan and was buried on 5 Dec 1930 in Lansing, Michigan.). The cause of her death was toxemia/severe injury to hip and leg when caught in a buzz saw.

Louis next married Cora May Gearing, daughter of George Edward Gearing and Kiziah Jane Noble, on 26 Nov 1915 in St. Joseph County, Indiana. (Cora May Gearing was born on 25 May 1878 in Covert, Van Buren County, Michigan, died on 10 Jan 1918 in McDonald, Van Buren county, Michigan and was buried in Thomas Cemetery Bangor, Van Buren County, Michigan, USA.)

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