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Personal data Walter Edward Garver 

• He was born on April 15, 1891 in Washington Twp., Defiance Co., OH.
• He died on July 20, 1971 in Gladwin, Gladwin Co, MI, he was 80 years old.
• He is buried after July 20, 1971 in Cherry Grove Cem., Clare city, Clare Co., MI.
• A child of Charles Lester Garver and Emeline Heilman
• This information was last updated on May 1, 2009.

Household of Walter Edward Garver

He is married to Hazel Irene Mark Alwood.

They got married on January 18, 1914 at Arthur Twp., Clare Co., MI, he was 22 years old.

Walter Edward Garver oo Hazel Irene Alwood

Marriage source: Stringfellow, Helena, The Alwood Family Tree, (Grantville PA, Wert Bookbinding, 1996), pg II-FGS-16 for dom.

McDonald, Betty, Alwood/Mark FGS, (Lima OH, B.M., Jan 2002)

'Hazel Irene [Alwood] Birth Mar (1896) DeKalb Co. IN (VR) Mar. 18 Jan 1914 Arthur Twp. Clare Co MI V2 pg 138 #4 Death Jul 1968 Clare Co MI (CR) Burial Cherry Grove Cemet (CR) Spouse Walter E. Garver' <>

Child(ren):

1. (Not public)
2. (Not public)
3. Doris Irene Garver  1914-1992 
4. Charles Warren Garver  1916-2001 
5. Wayne Edward Garver  1918-1989
6. Forest Leroy Garver  1920-2003
7. Lester Jay Garver  1922-2004
8. Fern Maxine Garver  1924-2012 
9. (Not public)
10. Walter J. Garver  1928-1999 
11. (Not public)
12. Max Ray Garver  1931-2007 
13. Robert Vern Garver  1932-1998 
14. Rex Roy Garver  1933-2007 
15. William Lyle Garver  1939-1939

Notes about Walter Edward Garver

Walter Edward Garver

Source: Stringfellow, Helena, The Alwood Family Tree, (Grantville PA, Wert Bookbinding, MCMXCVI), pg II-FGS-16, Repository: Dallas TX Pub. Lib.

Might this man be our Walter? Addie (Mark) Alwood, Hazel's mother, died in Clare Co., MI.

SSDI: 'WALTER GARVER Residence: 48617 Clare, Clare, MI Born 15 Apr 1891 Died Jul 1971 Issued: MI (1955 and 1956)'

McDonald, Betty, sent Cherry Grove Cem. Clare, MI cenetery records

'23 Garver Charles L. 1866 1931 ... 31 Garver Hazel Irene 1896 1968 (Jul 22 1968) 31 Garver Walter Edward 1891 1971 (July 20 1971)'

Hanna, Jackie, The Alwood Family Tree -- William Allwood (Alwood) descendants, (Portage MI, http://wc.rootsweb.com, xxvii Jul MMIII)

'... Walter Edward GARVER Sex: M Change Date: 27 JUL 2003 Birth: 15 APR 1891 in Henry Co, Ohio Occupation: Farmer Death: 18 JUL 1971 in Gladwin, Gladwin Co, Michigan Burial: Cherry Grove Cem, Clare, Clare Co, Michigan

Father: Charles L. GARVER b: ABT 1866 in Ohio Mother: Emma HEILMAN b: ABT 1870 in Ohio

Marriage 1 Hazel Irene ALWOOD b: EITHER MAR 1896 OR MAY 1896 in De Kalb Co, Indiana Married: 18 JAN 1914 in Arthur Twp, Clare Co, Michigan

Children

1. Doris GARVER b: 07 MAR 1914 in Michigan 2. Charles W. GARVER b: 10 NOV 1916 in Michigan 3. Wayne E. GARVER b: 11 JUN 1918 in Michigan 4. Living GARVER 5. Living GARVER 6. Living GARVER 7. Walter J. GARVER b: 11 APR 1928 in Clare Co, Michigan 8. Living GARVER 9. Robert V. GARVER b: 16 FEB 1932 10. Living GARVER 11. Max GARVER 12. Living GARVER 13. Living GARVER'

Walter's parents: Charles L Gerver & Emma Heilman

Mosey, Susan, Wallin-Mosey 3, (Pub. location unknown, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com, i Mar MMIX)

"... Walter Edward Garver Sex: M Birth: 15 APR 1891 in Washington Twp, Defiance Co, OH Death: 18 JUL 1971 in Gladwin, Gladwin Co, MI

Note:

Walter was the only sibling to be born in Washington Township (Ohio). After that, his parents moved to Mark Township, where six more children were born, and then his parents relocated to Michigan. Walter dug ditches as a young man inMichigan--a photo survives. He signed his name "W.E. Garver."

His WWI draft registration card (1917) says he was "medium height, stout build, brown eyes, brown hair" with no physical disabilities. He is 26 years old and gives his birth date as April 15, 1891. He is a farmer with a wife and twochildren, and he asks to be exempted from military service for that reason.

Walter and Hazel were married in 1914. After living in two other places, they purchased the 80-acre piece of land known as "The Grove" in 1920 from relatives of Hazel's. In 1931 they were forced to move from The Grove to his Aunt Ellen'svacant farm; they were regrouping from a 1928 fire in which the barn burned down. Their son Forest, years later, described the fire this way: "The second year at school we saw smoke to the west; when we got home that day we found out itwas a barn that was a ways from the other buildings. They had thrashed beans that day and stored them in the barn. In pulling out after finishing thrashing, a spark from the steam engine fell on the shingle roof and set the barn afire.That was the crop that was to make the farm payment that year. Because of that the farm was lost, forcing the move to Aunt Ellen's a couple of years later."

They made one more move after that, in 1933, onto his widowed mother Emma Garver's farm; Emma had moved out after her husband, and then her 26-year-old son Roy, had died. (This was the same farm that Walter's parents, Charles and Emma,had bought in 1902.) Walter and Hazel purchased the farm in 1938. They raised a variety of livestock there--sheep, chickens, milk cows, and pigs. About 10 cows were kept across the east end of the barn, with horses and pigs occupying thewest part. The milk was separated; the cream was sold and the skim milk fed to the calves and hogs. The hogs were sold for meat. Eventually the youngest son in the family, Rex Roy, and his wife Carrie began to take over the farm, and theytook full ownership in 1972.

Walter was thought to be to be a 'workaholic,' and he would stop for lunch so the animals could rest and he would come into the house to say grace over the meal, but he wouldn't take the time to sit down and eat. Although he would saygrace, he was not a believer; but according to his daughter Betty, when he eventually became a believer in Christ at a later age, Walter, who had smoked for over 40 years, threw away his half-used pack of cigarettes and never smokedagain.

After Hazel died, Walter was remarried, to Lelah Guilds. Walter died of coronary occlusion 18 hours after onset. He died at Gladwin Area Hospital, MI and was buried at Cherry Grove Cemetery in Clare, MI.

Census info:

1930: Walter (39) and Hazel (34) live on a farm they own with their nine children, ages infant to 16. They were first married at age 22 (Walter) and 18 (Hazel). All their children were born in Michigan. Warren Alwood (her father) has afarm nearby; he lives alone. They have no radio. Walter is not a veteran.

More memories, from Walter and Hazel's son Forest: "My earliest memories were of the two room, tarpaper house on Rodgers Ave. between Browns and Adams Roads, known as the Grove. The kitchen/living room was about 20' x 20'. The bedroom was about 16' x 20'. There was a chicken coop,corncrib and a catch-all shed. The barn was poles with rails covered with straw. And an outhouse or privy. Mother cooked on a wood stove that included heating wash water. Everything was done by hand, clothes dried on a line outside. Wealso had a fresh mattress every thrashing time. We had baglike [mattresses], ticks we called them, that we filled with fresh straw for our beds.

I remember going to the Brown School for a short time. The two things I remember, when the teacher had roll call I wouldn't answer and the other time mother needed a spool of thread so I was sent to the store for it at noon. Shortly afterthat I got what they said was scarlet fever. We were quarantined for a couple of months, no one in or out, not even to get groceries. During this time a bunch of neighbors got up a Buzzing Bee, got a bunch of wood and buzzed it up so wehad wood to burn. When the quarantine was lifted, the two older brothers and one sister had to go to the Brand School as we lived in the Brand district even though the Browns School was closer. I didn't go until the next year.

The two things that happened while we lived at Aunt Ellen's were, Robert was born on February 16, 1932, mainly because it was so cold. We four boys, Charles, Wayne, Lester and I, slept upstairs in one bed. It was next to impossible toheat the downstairs, let alone the upstairs. The other was when Charles got shot. He and Wayne went rabbit hunting after school. They tracked one under a stump, Charles set the shotgun against the stump, got down to reach in after therabbit, the gun slipped off the stump and discharged in his arm pit, and came out the back of his shoulder.

I don't remember having many outside chores as I remember I had house chores. Dishes, rocking the babies, both at Aunt Ellen's and after we moved to Grandma's. We did have cows to milk. Mother went to the barn to milk, she said she wouldrather do that than listen to Pa jaw about it. He hated cows, his thing was hogs. We always separated the milk, sold the cream and fed the skim to the calves and hogs. We butchered hogs, took them to Jackson's Meat Market in Clare andsold them for 6 cents a pound. There was never pasture enough for the cows so they were turned out on the road to graze the grass on the side of the road. It was our job to see they didn't get too far or in some place where they didn'tbelong."

Father: Charles Lester Garver b: 24 OCT 1866 in Adams Twp, Defiance Co, OH Mother: Emeline (Emma) Heilman b: 26 APR 1870 in Henry or Defiance Co, OH

Marriage 1 Hazel Irene Alwood b: 27 MAR 1896 in Angola, DeKalb Co, IN Married: 18 JAN 1914 in Arthur Twp, Clare Co, MI

Children

1. Doris Irene Garver b: 7 MAR 1914 in Arthur Twp, Clare Co, MI 2. Charles Warren Garver b: 10 NOV 1916 in Arthur Twp, Clare Co, MI 3. Wayne Edward Garver b: 11 JUL 1918 in Arthur Twp, Clare Co, MI 4. Forest Leroy Garver b: 16 JUL 1920 in Arthur Twp, Clare Co, MI 5. Lester Jay Garver b: 4 JUN 1922 in Arthur Twp, Clare Co, MI 6. Fern Maxine Garver b: 27 JUL 1924 in Arthur Twp, Clare Co, MI 7. Donna Mae Garver b: 28 MAY 1926 in Arthur Twp, Clare Co, MI 8. Walter Garver b: 11 APR 1928 in Arthur Twp, Clare Co, MI 9. Virginia Ruth Garver b: 15 MAY 1929 in Arthur Twp, Clare Co, MI 10. Max Ray Garver b: 7 JAN 1931 in Arthur Twp, Clare Co, MI 11. Robert Vern Garver b: 16 FEB 1932 in Arthur Twp, Clare Co, MI 12. Rex Roy Garver b: 22 MAY 1933 in Arthur Twp, Clare Co, MI 13. Living Garver 14. Living Garver 15. William Lyle Garver b: 31 AUG 1939 in Arthur Twp, Clare Co, MI

Marriage 2 Lelah Guilds Married: 8 AUG 1969" <>

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