Adeline Wurts

   Other names for Adeline were Ada Wurts and Ada Wurtz.

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Research of Ray and Mary Straw

1870 census Saginaw, MI
Charles age 37 born ME; occ: meat market
Ada age 25 born Canada
William age 11; born MN
Charles age 2; born MI

The Genealogy Page of John Blythe Dobson
URL = cybrary.uwinnipeg.ca/people/Dobson/genealogy/index.html
Adeline Wurts, b. 3 Nov. 1844 at Markham, Ontario, d. March 1901, aged 56 years, at Ann Arbor, Michigan.[167] She m. before 1870, Charles Straw, b. ca. 1833 (aged 37 in 1870), who d. Feb. 1908, also at Ann Arbor, and who in his obituary is called a "former resident of Saginaw."[168] They appear in the 1870 census of Michigan in Ward 2 of the city of East Saginaw, Saginaw Co., Michigan, with two children, William, aged 11, and a 2-year-old child whose name is illegible on the copy available to us.[169] Considering the gap in the ages of these children, and the age difference between Charles Straw and his wife, one suspects he had been married previously and that William was not Adeline's son. They are found in the 1880 census of East Saginaw, in which Charles is called a grocer; their household at that time included her father, and her sister Susan.[170] Adeline's obituary refers to her as "mother of C. Orrin Straw." Known issue:
Charles Orrin Straw, b. 1866-67 (aged 13 in 1880) in Michigan, probably still alive at his mother's death.
Cora M. Straw, b. 1869-70 (aged 10 in 1880) in Michigan.
Arthur Straw, b. 1875-76 (aged 4 in 1880) in Michigan.
Gertie Straw, b. 1878-79 (aged 1 in 1880) in Michian.

Find A Grave Memorial 73268999

Adeline married Charles Straw, son of William Straw and Susan Carpenter, about 1866. (Charles Straw was born on 15 Jun 1832 in Limington, York County, Maine, died on 19 Feb 1908 in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA and was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery Saginaw, Saginaw County, Michigan, USA.)