Jacob Deyoe died in Kalamazoo ,
Michigan , at the home of his
daughter. His short obituary ran in the Detroit
Free Press out of Detroit ,
Michigan on Monday, 10 January 1898.
Kalamazoo , Mich. ,
January 9 – (Special) – Jacob Deyoe died to-day at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. James Mills, from a stroke of paralysis, aged 80 years.
Elizabeth ’s death certificate
notes that her parents – Jacob Deyoe and Cynthia Conklin – were both born in New York . Elizabeth and
Jacob had both been born in Waterloo .
Elizabeth was
born in 1847.
Detroit Free Press. (Detroit , Michigan ),
10 January 1898.
His obituary reads:
If Jacob died at 80 in 1898, then he would have been born in
1818 – give or take a year. Find A Grave puts his birth date as 11 July 1820.
However, I found a 59 year old Jacob Deyoe living in Kalamazoo in 1880. He was
a farmer living with his 59 year old wife Cynthia, his 38 year old daughter
Elizabeth Mills, a 38 year old “boarder” James Mills and seven year old
grandson Harry Mills. Jacob and Cynthia were both born in New York .
Jacob’s death certificate shows he is now a widower who had
been married 25 years. He was born in Seneca
County , NY to William
DeYoe and Hettie Clute. His parents were both born in Saratoga County , NY .
He died of apoplexy and is buried in the Riverside
Cemetery in Kalamazoo , Michigan .
Jacob may or may not be related to my husband’s Deyoe line.
A branch did end up in Michigan
but, to be honest, there are so many Deyoe family members that I have not
traced all the side branches!
Sources:
Ancestry.com. Michigan ,
Death Records, 1867-1950 [database on-line]. Provo , UT , USA : Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.,
2015.
Year: 1880; Census Place : Comstock, Kalamazoo , Michigan ;
Roll: 586; Family History Film: 1254586; Page: 62C;
Enumeration District: 129; Image: 0126
Sunday’s Obituary is a genealogical prompt of GeneaBloggers.
© Jeanne Ruczhak-Eckman, 2016
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