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Personal data Eunice May Fair 

  • She was born on November 3, 1888 in Limerick Twp., Hastings Co., Ont.
  • (note1) .Source 1
    Source: Robert Yarrington
  • She died on March 3, 1946 in her home, Drayton Plains, Waterford Twp., Oakland Co., MI, she was 57 years old.
  • She is buried on March 7, 1946 in Downing Cem., Wheatland Twp., Sanilac Co., MI.
  • This information was last updated on October 4, 2020.

Household of Eunice May Fair

She is married to Levi Sawdon.

They got married on December 12, 1906 at Deckerville, Sanilac Co., MI, she was 18 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Harold Sawdon  1914-2002


Notes about Eunice May Fair

Eunice May Fair

Sources: Author: Yarrington, Robert, Title: "Eunice May Fair Sawdon," (Publication location: Deckerville, MI, Publisher: Find-a-Grave, Publication date: iii Oct MMXIII), Repository: The Cloud

Link: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118117821/eunice-may-sawdon

"Photo[graph of grave-marker shared with Levi Sawdon] added by Robert Yarrington
Picture of [her portion of grave-marker shared with Levi Sawdon] Added by Robert Yarrington
Picture of [newspaper clipping of her obituary] Added by Terri (Haupt) Huizenga

Eunice May Fair Sawdon BIRTH 3 Nov 1886 Ontario, Canada DEATH 3 Mar 1946 (aged 59) Waterford, Oakland County, Michigan, USA BURIAL Downing Cemetery Deckerville, Sanilac County, Michigan,
USA PLOT Section 12 Lot 16 MEMORIAL ID 118117821

Parents
Photo[graph of his stone] John Morgan Fair 1846-1932
Photo[graph of her stone] Sarah Ann Baker Fair 1856-1904

Spouse
Photo[graph of grave-marker shared with Eunice M. Sawdon] Levi Sawdon 1882-1968 (m. 1906)

Siblings

Photo[graph of eroded stone with family name NUNHAM legible] Eliza Fair Nunham 1875-1966
Photo[graph of stone shared with Ben A. Howard] Jennie B Fair Howard 1880-1961
Mallard Ezra Fair 1882-1958
Photo[graph of his mausoleum plaque] Orville Joseph Fair 1893-1987
Photo[graph of her stone] Martha Agnes Fair Wood 1896-1997

Children

Photo[graph of stone shared with William A. Brian] Sarah Jane Sawdon Brian 1907-2001
Photo[graph of stone shared with Stanley H. Frusher] Zella Mae Sawdon Frusher 1910-2000
Photo[graph of stone shared with Viona P. Balhoff Sawdon] Floyd Sawdon 1912-1996
Photo[graph of his stone] Harold Sawdon 1914-2002

Created by: Robert Yarrington Added: 3 Oct 2013Find a Grave Memorial 118117821"

Text of her newspaper obituary:

'www.sandusky.lib.mi.us Genealogy search historic obituaries Added by: Terri (Haupt) Huizinga on 31 Oct 2018

Argyle, March 4 - Mrs. Eunice Sawdon, 59, former resident here many years, died Sunday afternoon after an extended illness in her home in Drayton Plains, Mich.

The former Miss Levi Fair, was born in Limerick Township, Ont. Nov. 3, 1888 and was married to Levi Sawdon Dec. 12, 1906, in Deckerville. Mr. and Mrs. Sawdon moved to Drayton Plains six months ago.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in the home of Floyd Sawdon and at 2 p.m. in Wheatland Mennonite church. Rev O. P. Eastman, Detroit and Rev. C. B. Wilson, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Downing Cemetery, Deckerville.

The remains will be in the Hacker Funeral parlors. Sandusky, until Tuesday when they will be taken to the home of a son, Floyd Sawdon, near Argyle.

Mrs. Sawdon is survived by her husband; two daughters, Mrs. William Brian, Clarkston, Mrs Stanley H Frusher, Pontiac; two sons, Floyd Sawdon, Deckerville, and Harold Sawdon, Detroit; three sisters, Mrs. Eliza Nunham, Melford, Mich., Mrs. Jennie Howard, Snover, and Mrs. Walter Wood, Deckerville; two brothers Mallard Fair, Port Huron, and Orville Fair, Deckerville, and six grandchildren."
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Ancestors (and descendant) of Eunice May Fair

Eunice May Fair
1888-1946

1906

Levi Sawdon
1882-1968

Harold Sawdon
1914-2002

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Historical events

Birthday November 3, 1888

  • The temperature on November 3, 1888 was about 6.2 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1888: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • March 23 » In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
    • May 13 » With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Empire of Brazil abolishes slavery.
    • June 15 » Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors.
    • September 8 » In England, the first six Football League matches are played.
    • September 30 » Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
    • October 17 » Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).

Day of marriage December 12, 1906

  • The temperature on December 12, 1906 was between 1.7 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 6.3 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
    • May 6 » The Russian Constitution of 1906 is adopted (on April 23 by the Julian calendar).
    • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
    • September 5 » The first legal forward pass in American football is thrown by Bradbury Robinson of St. Louis University to teammate Jack Schneider in a 22–0 victory over Carroll College (Wisconsin).
    • September 25 » Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered to be the first use of a remote control.
    • September 30 » The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.
    • November 9 » Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.

Day of death March 3, 1946

  • The temperature on March 3, 1946 was between -2.3 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1946: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
    • January 31 » Cold War: Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling that of the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
    • January 31 » The Democratic Republic of Vietnam introduces the đồng to replace the French Indochinese piastre at par.
    • May 25 » The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
    • July 7 » Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
    • July 26 » Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport.
    • October 1 » Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg trials.

Day of burial March 7, 1946

  • The temperature on March 7, 1946 was between -2.4 °C and 0.9 °C and averaged -1.1 °C. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1946: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.3 million citizens.
    • January 31 » Cold War: Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling that of the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
    • April 1 » The 8.6 Mw  Aleutian Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami reaches the Hawaiian Islands resulting in dozens of deaths, mostly in Hilo, Hawaii.
    • April 5 » A Fleet Air Arm Vickers Wellington crashes into a residential area in Rabat, Malta during a training exercise, killing all 4 crew members and 16 civilians on the ground.
    • May 7 » Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded.
    • June 7 » The United Kingdom's BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of the Second World War.
    • December 7 » A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history.


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