Don’t you just hate it when the newspaper item says Mrs. instead of the woman’s first name?

I know I’ve posted about this before but this post is different because it took me a long time to find Mrs Charles Beattie first name. Normally I can find the woman’s name within the obituary or on a record that comes up in a search. With this particular obit, it took me many hours and many obit clues to find out that her name was Marie.

I found the following obit and cropped it to fit the square of the Ancestry dot com profile box.

No where in the obituary can one find her name, so I created a tree to see if that way I would find out who she was.

I had her father’s full name Hugh Kirk and that helped me find new information for the tree. I worked on it for a couple of days and was able to find many obits, most from Google News Archive but a couple from Newspaper Collection on Ancestry dot com.

Here is what I finally ended up with. Notice I had to cropped several to make them fit into a profile page.

Started with this one: obit – Mrs Charles Beattie – Jan 1901 – Mich

and then I found all these:

obit – Addison M Brewster – Mar 1955 – Mich

obit – Clark Norton – age 72 – May 1950 – Mich

obit – Edith Kirk Brewster – age 85 – Nov 1964 – Mich

obit – Elizabeth Kirk Gensen – Nov 1917 – Mich

obit – Hugh Kirk – age 90 – Aug 1905 – Mich

obit – Jessie Kirk Norton – May 1970 – Mich

obit – Maude Kirk Ewald – Jul 1900 – Mich

obit – Rebecca Kirkpatrick Darke – Apr 1923 – Mich

obit – Stephen P Darke – Jan 1929 – Mich

obit – William J Kirke – Oct 1928 – Mich

obit – Zella Mae Kirke – Nov 1916 – Mich

The final tree had the following statistics:

Hugh Kirkpatrick Kirk – obit – 14 Aug 1905 – Mich – Family Tree

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61 people on tree

24 last names on tree:
Beattie, Brewster, Colins, Darke, Darks, Eckley, Ewald, Ganson, Gensen, Hoe, Kirk, Kirke, Kirkpatrick, Lunny, Nason, Neil, Norton, Panfilo, Roberts, Robinson, Smith, Tate, Thurston, Van Wormer

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The reason the tree was created:

Created using info off of obit – Ludington, Mason, Michigan
Ludington Daily News – Aug 17, 1905