PUFFER, Baby Boy

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• Name: Thomas Puffer (Livingston)
• Residence: Grays Harbor County, WA
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• Birth: 14 Oct 1886, Norwood, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1891, Asphodel, Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada
• Arrival: 1913, USA
• Residence: 1917, Grays Harbor County, WA
• Residence: 1 Apr 1940, Oakland, CA

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His parentage is undetermined. Both men Thomas/Thomas Nelson show in records with the same information but different parents.

According to his marriage certificate he was a lumberman.

He was found guilty of failure to register in 1943, when it was found that he had voted in the US elections even though he was a Canadian citizen. He was give 2 years probation. Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA, 19 Dec 1943, page 36.


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His parentage is undetermined. Both men Thomas/Thomas Nelson show in records with the same information but different parents.

According to his marriage certificate he was a lumberman.

He was found guilty of failure to register in 1943, when it was found that he had voted in the US elections even though he was a Canadian citizen. He was give 2 years probation. Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA, 19 Dec 1943, page 36.

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Thomas married WILLIAMS, Mary McKnight in CA 1914 in WI. Mary (daughter of WILLIAMS, Howard and TAYLOR, Rebecca) was born on 27 Dec 1890 in Walworth County, WI; died on 6 Dec 1933 in Walworth County, WI; was buried in Fond Du Lac, WI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Cremated: 10 Dec 1933, Saint Petersburg, FL

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• Residence: 1860, Flowerfield, MI
• Residence: 1870, Fairgrove, MI
• Name: 1880; Chancellor Livingston

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He took his mother's maiden name as his surname; married 3 times.

".. worked on a farm near Vasser, for five years. His family didn't learn of his whereabouts for 5 years." Ruth La Bounty Puffer.

A farmer at the time of his daughter's birth

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Chancellor married WOLCKE\WILKIE, Caroline Matilda on 2 Jul 1884 in Bay County, MI. Caroline was born in Feb 1867 in Mecklenburg, Germany; died on 30 Nov 1926 in MI; was buried in Hale, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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the birth certificate for her son Frederick shows "Wolcke" as her maiden name

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Howard married TAYLOR, Rebecca on 7 Jan 1889 in Washington, PA. Rebecca was born in Jan 1862 in PA; and died; was buried in Delavan, WI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In 1853 he removed to MI, locating on the homestead where he still lives, Fangione, Tuscola Co., MI. Served as a Pvt. in Co. A, 29th Mich. Regt. in Civil War.

Solomon and Charles were born in Owego, Tioga Co. NY. They both left the Ontario/Seneca Co. areas of NY in 1854. They parted ways in Lagrange Co. IL where sister Arvilla Nelson lived. Charles and Margaret went on to St. Joseph Co., MI where sisters, Roxanne Wood and Olive Sloan lived in the Constantine area. Solomon followed @1860, and Charles moved on to Fairgrove, Tuscola Co. where sister Charlotte Bishop eventually settled in. Sisters, Rachael Forsyth stayed in Oswego and died there. Sister, Mary Bishop stayed in Galen Twp. Wayne Co. NY and died there. Brother, Ira Jr moved on to Appleton WI. Sister Nancy Woodcock has yet to be found. Her husband and oldest son died in 1865 and are buried in Southwick Cemetery in Junius Twp, Seneca Co. NY. A sister who was younger than Rachael who was the oldest sibling, has not yet been identified. Brother, Timothy died in Oswego, NY early on.

Charles enlisted at Watrousville, MI for 3 years service at age 35 on August 29,1864. He was mustered out at Murfreesboro, Tennessee on September 6, 1865. His post war residence was Fairgrove, MI. He was light complexion, 5'' 6" tall, had black hair and blue eyes.

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Charles married LIVINGSTON, Margaret Charlotte on 17 Mar 1852. Margaret (daughter of LIVINGSTON, Aaron and HALLENBECK, Hannah Nancy) was born on 6 Oct 1832 in Geneva, NY; died on 5 May 1909 in Fairgrove, MI; was buried on 8 May 1909 in Fairgrove, MI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Burial: Fairgrove, MI
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Appears on one face of the Elon G. Parsons monument. Connections?

"Food and all provisions for the family had to be carried from Watrousville, MI, a journey of 18 miles. While Charles was at war, Margaret had to walk to Watrousville and back carrying on her back what she had purchased. Much of the trail was through swamps. In places she had to walk on logs to get through. Those who remembered her as Grandma Margaret Puffer remember that she walked with a stiff knee. This was the result of a trip one November when she had to spend the night in the woods." : Chauncey, eight, and Charles, six years old, were in charge of the younger brothers and sisters while their Mother was gone. When it came hingh time they would light a candle and put it on a bench in the center of the room and all hover around whiles Charles would tell them stories or they would sing songs to lessen their fears of the wild animals around the cabin. One night they got so scared theyw ent upstairs and called ou the window, "Fire, Murder, Help." Margaret was coming down the trail as fast as she could, and hastened even faster when she heard the children yelling, because she thought the Indians were molesting them." Ruth La Bounty Puffer

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Married:
Obituary says the marriage year was 1854.