Donald Gene Cheney

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• SSN issued: California, USA
• Name: Donald Cheney
• Reference Number: 3485
• Residence: Flint, Genesee, Michigan, USA
• Birth: 1923, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1940, Flint, Genesee, Michigan, USA

Donald married Alice Marie Thiel on 5 Aug 1944 in Flint, Genesee, Michigan, USA. Alice was born on 28 Apr 1925; died on 18 Sep 2002 in Flint, Genesee, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living
2. Living
3. Living
4. Living

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• SSN issued: Michigan, USA
• Name: Jay Cheney
• Reference Number: 2801
• Birth: 1905, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1940, Flint, Genesee, Michigan, USA

Notes:

Terry---Hazel Seeley born 17 Feb 1896 Bay City. In 1934 lived in Flint. Later years in Ft. Meyers Florida. She used to send Mom a Xmas card every year from Florida. Then the cards stopped. I found a death notice 5 Sept 1990 with info that seemed to fit her online. Mom said Yeah that is about the time the xmas cards stopped. Anyway I have a note that she died in Flushing, MI and is buried at Gracelawn Cemetery in Flint. She married Jay Cleaon Cheney on Aug 29, 1894. I think they had kids. Mom would know.

Jay married Hazel Seeley on 4 Nov 1915 in Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA. Hazel (daughter of George Seeley and Harriet Emily Schultz) was born on 17 Feb 1896 in Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA; died on 5 Sep 1990 in Flushing, Genesee, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• SSN issued: Florida, USA
• Name: Hazel Cheney
• Reference Number: 2827
• Birth: 1897, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1900, Frankenlust, Bay, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1940, Flint, Genesee, Michigan, USA

Notes:

Buried:
Gracelawn, Flint, Genesee, Michigan

Other Events:

• Reference Number: 2525
• Residence: 1930, Flint, Genesee, Michigan, USA

James married Jennie Anna Chapman. Jennie was born about 1865. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Reference Number: 248

Notes:

Birth:
based on spouse's birth date

Other Events:

• Reference Number: 5950
• Birth: 17 Mar 1862
• Residence: 1870, Portsmouth, Bay, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1880, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1900, Frankenlust, Bay, Michigan, USA

Notes:

Birth:
calc from dod on Bay County death register

Birth:
dob on michigan death certificate-age at death per death certificate would calc to 26 Mar 1862

Buried:
Pine Ridge Cemetery

George married Harriet Emily Schultz on 12 Sep 1889 in Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA. Harriet (daughter of Joseph Oscar Schultz and Sarah Rebecca Phelps) was born on 26 Mar 1872 in Fairgrove, Tuscola, Michigan, USA; died on 11 Jul 1934 in Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA; was buried on 14 Jul 1934 in Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Reference Number: 5947
• Residence: 1880, Tuscola, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1900, Frankenlust, Bay, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1910, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA; Ward 6
• Residence: 1920, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA; Ward 6
• Residence: 1930, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA

Notes:

Betty Osborne/A.R. common ancestor Jesse Shultz/Hannah Mayberryper Terry-Harriet Seeley died according to my notes on July 11th, 1932. I did see her death certificate at the Bay County Records.
4/16/08-Terry had a conversation with Dorothy Seeley (daughter of Harry Seeley)-The only thing she remembers about her Gramma Seeley (Harriet Schultz Seeley) is that she laid in bed upstairs at uncle Clarence's house ill. She used to moan and yell out. Her funeral home record says she died of paralysis so probably had stroke at some time??
4/16/08-Terry had conversation with Phyllis Watson and Dorothy Seeley--Harriet and George II Seeley are buried in Pine Ridge Cemetery. There is a grave marker according to both Phyllis and Dorothy. It is just a flat brick like marker with their names on it. They both think they could find it if we were to go to the cemetery. So that is a project we want to do. Dorothy said seems like it is by a big tree. I had looked in the past for their graves but assumed there was no marker since I could not find it. (update: got location of grave plot from historical society. It is under a big tree, but there are no gravestones there. Stone apparently was removed.)


Buried:
Pine Ridge Cemetery

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• Race: White
• Name: George Seeley
• Reference Number: 5894
• Residence: South Bay City
• Residence: South Bay City
• Birth: Abt 1826, Hesse-Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
• Birth: 1826, Germany
• Birth: Oct 1826, Germany
• Birth: Abt 1827, Prussia, Hesse, Germany
• Birth: Abt 1828, Hesse-Kassel, Hesse, Germany
• Birth: 14 Oct 1832, Germany
• Residence: 1860, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA; Ward 10
• Residence: 1862, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA
• _MILT: 4 Aug 1862, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA
• _MILT: Between 4 Aug 1862 and 14 Nov 1865; 24th Michigan Infantry
• Residence: 1870, Portsmouth, Bay, Michigan, USA
• City Directory: Between 1873 and 1905, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1880, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1894, Bay, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1900, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1902, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA; Webster near 31st

Notes:

George was born about 1826. He passed away in 1905.

NAME: George Zulch-Spelled with an umlaut over the u is apparently the proper ancestral spelling of this German name.

BIRTH: Most likely 14 Oct 1826. Census records have his birth year 1826 to 1828. His death certificate and gravestone have month and day as Oct 14, but the year as 1832. Which is an obvious error. Born 14 Oct 1826 to a single mother, Anna Catharina Schuch. At age 3 1/2 his mother married Lorenz Zulch. The Evangelische Kirche Von Kurhessen_Waldeck archives note that when George Schuch was confirmed in 1841 his mother was then married to Lorenz Zulch. The archives furthur note that George along with his Uncle Ludwig Carl Schuch and Ludwig's family emigrated to America. An undated note on his church record, states that the priest knows that Lorenz Zulch was the father. The birth record and confirmation record in Germany use the Schuch surname. Apparently, in coming to this country he decided to use his fathers name.

BIRTHPLACE: The state of Hesse-Kassel, Germany based on census records. Information had come forward previously that he was born in Raboldshausen, (which is in Hesse-Kassel) Germany. However, there is reason to question that. According to information obtained from Gene Roeder in 2006, Georg Zülch was born 14 Oct 1826 in Raboldshausen, Hesse-Kassel. The son of Lorenz Zülch and Anna Catharina Schuch. (from church records in Raboldshausen per Gene Roeder). However a search of actual church records in Raboldshausen reveals that on that date Anna Catharina Schuch, a single woman, had an illegitimate child, George Schuch. Those same church records show that three and one half years later Anna Catharina Schuch married Lorenz Zulch. The presumption must have been that George Schuch took Lorenz's family name and then later emigrated to the United States as George Zulch.

However, there is very strong evidence that George Schuch of Raboldshausen emigrated to Ohio using his own name, showing that George Schuch and George Zulch are two different people. It is even noted in Raboldhausen records that George Schuch, along with his Uncle Ludwig and Ludwig's family emigrated together to America. George, Ludwig and family ended up in Cincinnati, Ohio. There is evidence that these Cincinnati families are the ones mentioned in the Raboldshausen records. We have no corroborating evidence that our George Zulch came from Raboldhausen. The fact that there is a George Schuch whose mother married a Zulch in Raboldhausen could be nothing more than a coincidence.

The Cincinnati family was involved in testifying in the divorce case of the Cincinnati George Schuch and his wife. The daughter of Ludwig, whose name is Elizabeth Springer testified that George Schuch was her half-brother. George Schuch of Bay City would be her first cousin. It is possible that Ludwig had a child with another woman than Elizabeth's mother and that person is the Cincinnati George Schuch. Whereas, then George Zulch would be the Nephew mentioned in the Raboldhausen records.

I reviewed Raboldhausen birth and confirmation records online on archion.de. I was unable to find a record for another George Schuch.

We have at least 8 autosomal DNA matches to descendants of Johann Georg Schuch, who would be Georg Zulch's grandfather if he is the son of Anna Catharina Schuch. Two of those matches are to descendants of George Schuch of Ohio. So apparently both George's are closely related to each other and most likely both came from Raboldshausen. The fact that George Zulch's death record had a birth date of October 14th, although the wrong year (his daughter who reported, presumably knew his birthday but was confused on the actual year of birth) gives support to the theory that George Zulch was actually born Georg Schuch and the other Georg Schuch was someone else who is also connected with the same family. Very confusing.

In 1866 Hesse-Kassel was annexed to and became a part of Prussia. Today Raboldshausen (50.9166667° North, 9.5333333° East) is a part of the German state of Hesse.

DATE OF IMIGRATION: Unknown

MILITARY: On 4 Aug 1862 George Zulch of Detroit joined the 24th Michigan Infantry at Fort Wayne, Detroit, Michigan.

On 1 Jul 1863 George Zulch was present when Confederate forces attacked Union forces at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. George Zulch's military records show that after the first day of the three day battle of Gettysburg, he was reported as killed in action. Fortunately for George and for his descendants, he was found 16 days later in a hospital in Little York, Pennsylvania with grievous, but not fatal, wounds. He was admitted into the hospital under the name of George Celce?. The army changed his status to Wounded In Action.

He was released from the hospital on 24 Dec 1863, whereupon he was assigned to the Veterans Reserve Corps (VRC). The VRC is a place for combat unfit soldiers where they are assigned light duty. For example, guarding prisoners or public buildings, honor guard duty or anything they can do to free up able bodied men for the fighting. He was released from the service 14 Nov 1865 and returned home to 416 W Fort St, Detroit, Michigan.

His wounds included a rifle ball (bullet) which went completely through his right ankle. Another rifle ball entered his left upper thigh and exited his left buttocks shattering his hip. He also had a forehead wound which was not serious enough to warrant anything on his disability pension, although he complained of severe, continuous headaches later in life.

MARRIAGE: George Zulch married Christina Amalia Theresia Thuemler (b. 1834-1835 in Saxony) abt. 1855 (date based on the birth of their first child). We assume they were married in the United States, based on the fact that they were from geographically different parts of Germany. On one census entry, their first born child lists her birth state as Maryland, although she lists Michigan on other census records. Also, her parents listed her birth state as Michigan on the 1860 census while they lived in Detroit. Therefore we say that it is possible that they both immigrated to the United States by 1855, at some point lived in Maryland and by 1860 had moved to Michigan. She died 16 Oct 1889. She took extremely ill while cooking dinner and died shortly after the doctor arrived at her house on Webster St. She is buried at Pine Ridge in Bay City.

He married second to Jane (Janette) Chapman (b. 1832 in Ireland) on 9 Jul 1890. The name George Zulch was used on the marriage certificate. When Jane Chapman died on 2 Jun 1898 the death certificate listed her name as Mrs. George Seeley. They had no children together.

RESIDENCE:

Born 1826 in Hesse-Kassel
By 1856 living in Michigan (first child)
By 1860 living in Detroit (census)
By 1870 living in Bay CIty area (census)
1905 died in Bay City

NAME CHANGE: By 1880 George and his family had become Americanized. He, his wife and children appeared on the 1880 census with the last name of Seeley. Most documents after that used the name Seeley with some exceptions. His pension still came to George Zulch at 912 Webster St, Bay City. Although for most (but not all) years the Bay City city directory showed George Seeley living at that address. His children always appeared thereafter as Seeley.

DEATH: George Zulch died 11 Oct 1905. His death certificate and the cemetery records both show the Seeley name. He is buried in Elm Lawn in Bay City with his second wife. However he does not have a gravestone. The burial itself was paid for by the County.

. CHILDREN:

Mary Zulch b.12 Feb 1856 Michigan m. James West Bowyer 18 Dec 1874 d. 13 May 1897 Bay City
Minnie Seeley b. 26 Apr 1861 Michigan m. Daniel H Shawl abt 1878 d. 22 Mar 1903 Bay City
George Seeley b. 26 Mar 1863 Michigan m. Harriet #Emily Schultz 12 Sep 1889 d. 6 Apr 1904
Edward Zulch b. 1868 Michigan d. bef 1880
William Seeley b. 19 Feb 1871 Bay City d. 24 Nov 1894 Bay City
Lewis Seeley b. 26 Sep 1873 Bay City d. 4 Apr 1909 Bay City
Herbert Henry Seeley b. 23 Sep 1877 Bay City m. Cecelia Longton 2 Apr 1901 m. Lorinda Hoyt 14 Jun 1909 m. Dora Monahan 17 Mar 1916 d.15 dec 1957 Bay City
Emma Bessie Seeley b. 1879 Bay City m. Charles Fredrick Storrs 7 May 1903 d. 27 Jun 1937

Birth:
calc backward from dod

Buried:
Elm Lawn Cemetery

Died:
Age: 72

George married Christina Amalia Theresia Thuemler about 1855 in USA. Christina was born on 24 Oct 1834 in Sachsen, Germany; died on 16 Oct 1889 in Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA; was buried after 16 Oct 1889 in Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Amelia Dimbere
• Name: Amelia Seeley
• Name: Amelia Zulch
• Name: Mary Zulch
• Name: Tressa Truebler
• Reference Number: 6200
• Birth: 1834, Sachsen, Germany
• Birth: 1835, Sachsen, Germany
• Residence: 1860, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1870, Portsmouth, Bay, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1880, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA

Notes:

BIRTH: 1834-1835 in Saxony per census records. 24 Oct 1834 by calculating birth date from age of 54 yrs 11 mos 22 days on death certificate.

NAME: have seen references as Mary, Amelia and Tressa. From a child's baptism record in a German Language Church in Detroit her full name is Christina Amalia Theresia Thümler.
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PARENTS: Unknown

DATE OF IMIGRATION: Unknown

MARRIAGE: By 1856 when she had the first of 9 children. Place of marriage unknown.

RESIDENCE:
Born 1834-1835 in Saxony
By 1856 living in Michigan (first child)
By 1860 living in Detroit (census)
By 1870 living in Bay CIty area (census)
1889 died in Bay City

DEATH: 16 Oct 1889 in Bay City, Michigan. She took extremely ill while cooking dinner and died shortly after the doctor arrived at her house on Webster St. She is buried at Pine Ridge in Bay City.


Birth:
calc backwards from dod

Buried:
Pine Ridge, Bay City

Notes:

Married:
based on date of first child

Other Events:

• Name: Joseph Shultz
• Reference Number: 6546
• Birth: Abt 1837, Pennsylvania, USA
• Birth: 1842, Pennsylvania, USA
• Residence: 1850, Hayfield, Crawford, Pennsylvania, USA
• Residence: 1860, Juniata, Tuscola, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1 Jul 1863, Juniata, Tuscola, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1870, Fairgrove, Tuscola, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1880, Fairgrove, Tuscola, Michigan, USA

Notes:

Joseph apparently died between 1880 and 1889. Joseph appears in the 1880 census. In the 1889 Bay City Directory, Sarah is listed 'widow of Joseph'.

Unable to find death record in tuscola, bay or saginaw.

No record of Joseph Schultz in the Tuscola County Probate Index.

Tuscola County Deed Record. 28 May 1884 Sarah R, Shultz Purchased 40 acres from Joseph R. Shultz for $700 (NW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of section 14 of Town 13 of Range 8E). The sale of his share of the real estate to the wife is suggestive of a divorce settlement. Although later she is listed as a widow.

Joseph married Sarah Rebecca Phelps on 15 Dec 1861 in Fairgrove, Tuscola, Michigan, USA. Sarah (daughter of Norman Phelps, Jr and Minerva Burdick) was born in Apr 1845 in New York, USA; died on 5 Apr 1932 in Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA; was buried on 8 Apr 1932 in Fairgrove, Tuscola, Michigan, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Sarah Phelps
• Name: Sarah R Phelps
• Name: Sarah R Shultz
• Name: Sarah Scherttz
• Name: Sarah Schultz
• Name: Sarah Shultz
• Reference Number: 6536
• Birth: 1845, New York, USA
• Birth: 1846, New York, USA
• Birth: 1847, New York, USA
• Birth: Abt 1847, New York, USA
• Birth: Apr 1847, New York, USA
• Birth: 1848, New York, USA
• Residence: 1850, Fort Ann, Washington, New York, USA
• Residence: 1855, Fort Ann, Washington, New York, USA; Age: 66; Relation to Head of House: Head
• Residence: 1861, Fairgrove, Tuscola, Michigan, USA; marriage
• Residence: 1870, Fairgrove, Tuscola, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1880, Fairgrove, Tuscola, Michigan, USA
• City Directory: Between 1889 and 1916, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA
• Occupation: 1890, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA; listed in City Dir as Dairy at her address----occ milk
• Residence: 1890, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA; Per City Directory-515 Polk St-Widow of Joseph
• Residence: 1894, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA
• Residence: 1900, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA; Ward 6
• Residence: 1910, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA; Ward 6
• Residence: 1920, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA; Ward 6
• Residence: 1930, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, USA

Notes:

Sarah Rebecca Phelps was born 1845 in Fort Ann, New York to Norman Phelps and Minerva Plum Burdick . She married Joseph Oscar Shultz (b 1837 in Pennsylvania) in Fairgrove, Tuscola, Michigan on 15 Dec 1861 in a ceremony performed at the home of William Irish (who is married to her niece, Henrietta Phelps), per the Tuscola County Marriage Ledger. She died 05 Apr 1932 in Bay City, Bay, Michigan.

Sarah Phelps appears on the 1850 census in Fort Ann, New York with her parents, Norman and Minerva.

Sarah R Phelps appears on the 1855 New York State Census for Fort Ann living with her parents, Norman and Minerva.

We have been unable to locate Sarah Phelps on the 1860 census.

Our next record of her is her marriage 15 Dec 1861 in Fairgrove, Tuscola, Michigan.

The census records for 1870 and 1880 show her living in Fairgrove.

She lived in Fairgrove near William and Henrietta Irish and apparently had a close relationship with them. We find Sarah's name on the wedding records of two of Williams daughters, Mary as a witness and Sophronia as a mother! (This was after Sophronia’s mother, Henrietta had died, either an error or an honorary title???)

Tuscola County Deed Record. 28 May 1884 Sarah R, Shultz Purchased 40 acres from Joseph R. Shultz for $700 (NW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of section 14 of Town 13 of Range 8E). The sale of his share of the real estate to the wife is suggestive of a divorce settlement. Although later she is listed as a widow.

Sometime between 1884 and 1889 her Husband Joseph had died. She moved to Bay City, Bay, Michigan and is listed in the 1889 City directory as ‘widow of Joseph’. Also on the 4 census records from 1900 to 1930 she is listed as a widow.

On the 1894 Michigan Census and the 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930 Federal census she is living in Bay City at 515 Polk. The Bay City city directory lists her address as a dairy. Her occupation selling milk.

She died in Bay City on 8 Apr 1932. She is buried in Fairgrove (AKA Brookside) Cemetery. Her stone reads Sarah R Schultz 1846-1932. (most documentary information has her born in 1845 including census records for 1850, 1855, 1920, 1930, her marriage certificate and her newspaper obit)

She is mentioned as a surviving sister in the 1923 obituary of her brother Andrew J Phelps of Fort Edward, NY.
On 14 Mar 1878 Sarah R. Shultz of Tuscola County, Michigan received consideration of $5 to sign off her interest as an heir of Norman Phelps Jr in the real estate of which was transferred by Norman Phelps Sr (to his children in 1839), lot 53, Lake George Tract in Fort Ann, NY. (on file with the Washington County, New York, Clerk) -see Norman Phelps, Jr property notes.
listed in 1889 Bay City directory Schultz Sarah, widow joseph, res 515 Polk

4/16/08 Terry had conversation with Dorothy Seeley (daughter of Harry Seeley). Dorothy remembers her Gramma (Sarah Phelps) Schultz. This gramma used to go for walks by Dorothy's house and then stop in to say hi. Then she would go home. Dorothy just a little girl then, remembers Gramma Schultz (our Sarah) as a tiny short little lady. Uncle Reube used to live with her she told me.

8/16/18- notes from terry on cemetery.:
Lot numbers online for Brookside are not right. In Lot #449 are per Brookside records (which began after 1921 Sexton house fire):
Grave 1 west side, no stone is Eunice (Bills) Schultz
Grave 2 West side is Sarah R. Schultz
Grave 4 East half is Wm. Schultz
Grave 4 West is H. Schultz

No other burials are listed in the Sexton records as being in lot 449. The lots are all 8 people lots with 4 buried on East and 4 buried on West. The Sexton said the grave #s meaning grave 1,2 etc and the east & west info could be mixed up. He has the longitudinal and latitude directions for them also.

The Sexton told me an interesting story. As we know Brookside began around 1898 when the owner of the property where Hinson cemetery was wanted all graves removed from his land. So graves and markers were removed. The Sexton Doug Foster remembers his brother’s telling him how they would go look for Indian arrowheads on the Land where the Hinson cemetery was 50 years ago when they were kids. They seen grave stones when looking for the arrowheads. So obviously not all were removed. Now there are wind turbines going up in that area so digging is going on.


Buried:
Fairgrove Cemetery