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Albert Jeremiah House (1865-1928)

Albert Jeremiah Howse
Albert with his son James Daniel
Born:9 Apr Omard, Michigan
Died:22 Nov 1928 Corwith twp., Michigan
Father:Daniel Howse
Mother:Catherine Snell
SiblingsJacob House
Marey Ellen House
Adelbert House
Ida May House
Adelbert Jeremiah Howse
James Milton House
Married:28 Oct 1888 Sanilac, Michigan
Spouse:Joanna Barrett
Children:Pearl Francis Howse
James Daniel Howse
Mary Jane Howse
Irene Amber Howse
Married:31 Dec 1910 Gaylord, Michigan
Spouse:Stella Sherman
Children:Carrie M. Howse
Married:26 Dec 1917 Gaylord, Michigan
Spouse:Grace Morhorter
Obituary

Otsego County Herald Times, Wednesday, November 28, 1928, p. 1:

Another Pioneer
Of County Is Dead;
Lived at Vanderbilt

Albert House died at his home in Vanderbilt, Thursday Night, November 22, at about ten o'clock following an illness, which covered a period of about two years.

Nearly two years ago it was discovered that a cancer was working in his left lower jaw. While every effort was made thru medical care and operations at different times to destroy the dreadful disease, it was of no avail. At times he suffered untold agonies, but thru it all he was ever most kind and patient to those who had the care of him, and made little or no complaint of the ravishing pains and onslaught of the diesaes, until a few weeks ago when he became so much worse that he was kept to his bed most of the time until the end came to his blessed relief.

Mr. House was born July 9th, 1865, at a little place then known as Elk Creek near Brown City in Sanilac County. He was the 4th youngest of the eight children of Daniel and Kathern Snell House, who were formerly of Canada.

He grew to manhood in and around Sanilac County and on October 28, 1888 was united in marriage to Miss Joanna Barrett of Detroit. To this union there were born four children, three girls and one son, all of whom survive.

His wife Joanna died November 2, 1908.

In the fall of 1892, he and his family came to Vanderbilt. He has since resided in or on a farm a few miles from the village, with the exception of about eighteen months spent near New Berry.

James Milton House (1866-1951)

Jame Milton House
James Howse
Born:29 Jul 1866 Omard, Michigan
Died:3 Sep 1951 Petoskey, Michigan
Father:Daniel Howse
Mother:Catherine Snell
SiblingsJacob House
Marey Ellen House
Adelbert House
Ida May House
Adelbert Jeremiah Howse
James Milton House
Married:29 Jul 1893 Vanderbilt, Michigan
Spouse:Emaline Amanda Hunn
Children:Raymond Leslie House
James Milton House
Married:4 Apr 1905, Michigan
Spouse:Sarah Ellen Phillips
Children:Annie Overholt
Eisey May Howse
Melvin Earl Howse
Myrtle Sena House
Charles Adelbert Howse
Sylvia Pauline Howse
Clifford Leroy Howse
James Milton House was the second husband of Sarah but her true love, so she said. They had several children together, lost their first daughter, Eisey, when she was 11. They also raised his son, by his first wife, Raymond. Sarah and Raymond were very close. James worked in the lumber camps in Pellston for several years where Sarah often worked as a cook. Their oldest children were born there. When Myrtle was ten years old, which would be in the year of 1914, her family moved to an old farm which stood at the top of the east hill in Harbor Springs, where the stadium parking lot once stood, followed by the city skating rink and currently is the site of the care facility, Bay Bluffs. Myrtle has told her family that she was glad to be back at the spot where she spent much of her childhood, before the end of her life. From this location, they moved to a 2 story frame house on Lake Road. Sarah told Joanne Heinz that the house was yellow when SHE bought it. She said that their bluff house was really a shack with space between the wood (logs?) and didn't keep out much weather. The only work I remember her saying was to do laundry for the resorters. Perhaps she had earlier income? Sarah mentioned that the Lake St. home had no bathroom, running water or electricity when they moved into it. Her children were enthralled with turning on the lights when they finally had electricity put in. She still had the little hand pump over her sink and the outhouse in the backyard when the Heinz family moved in next door to her. Her entire family stored potatoes for the winter in her Michigan basement.

Myrtle told of her father, James, singing them to sleep often, and telling them stories. She fondly recalled going to the lumber yard at the foot of the East Hill, in Harbor Springs, to walk home with their father. One day, he led them to the edge of the lake, near the Wequetonsing entrance, and dived in. He proceeded to swim to Harbor Point and back. This to the delight of the children!
   
James' death record, in the Emmet County Courthouse, says that he was a machine operator, probably in Lansing, but he was a lumberjack for most of the years he was with Sarah. It also states that he died of aterioschlerosis and that he was 85 at his death.

Obituary

Petoskey Evening News, Petoskey, Michigan, Tuesday, September 4, 1951, p. 4:

Former Harbor Man Dies Monday

HOWSE, James M., 85, an Emmet county resident for many years before going to Lansing 30 years ago, died Monday at a Petoskey convalescent home where he had been a patient for some time. He had been ill for two years.

Mr. Howse was born in Sanilac Co. July 29, 1866.

He was married in 1895 at Gaylord to Miss Sarah Phillips.