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 | Charles True Goodsell
I ask that you please transfer the memorial for this individual to me, his grandson. | | | Ellinda
| Runyan's
Hello! I just added a picture for a Robert M. Runyan in The Millington Cemetery, Tuscola County. also a Julia and Ruth Runyan. EllindaAdded by Ellinda on Mar 24, 2013 5:47 PM | | | MJ Mahala
 | Francesca Barbagallo Leonardi
Hello,
I have added a few memorials for this person. She is my great great Grandmother. I have added memorials for her sons Rosario, Frank, and Giovanni. There was at least one more son but I have not found his memorial. Also I went out there to hunt down her memorial.... I have not found it yet, nor have I found her husband Angelo Leonardi's. Will you please add them to her memorial so they are linked together?
Frank: Find A Grave Memorial# 106425427
Giovanni: Find A Grave Memorial# 107177710
Rosario: Find A Grave Memorial# 106425332 | | | William Nees
| North Cedar Hill Cemetery
Thank you for taking the photograph for me. | | | Susan Kimes Burgess
 | Loretta Lee
Link to memorial: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=101367939
Hello,
Thank you for creating the memorial for Loretta Lee. (This memorial is in the correct cemetery.)
I am working on linking my step daughter's mother's family together. Loretta is her great grandmother. She was quite infamous the last few years of her life as a girl bandit.
Her maiden name was actually: Lareta Coleman.
Loretta is one of her nicknames as was Laureta.
Please link her to her parents:
Father: Charles Clinton Coleman Find A Grave# 103255983
Mother: Edith E. Angell Coleman Find A Grave# 103256083
Here is a bio I wrote for her you are welcome to use all or any part of it on the memorial.
Lareta Coleman was born October 14, 1899 in Wheeler, Gratiot County, Michigan to Charles C. Coleman and Edith E. Angell. She was orphaned at the age of seven. Her father died the 6th of June, 1906 and her mother died the 29th of March, 1907. Lareta then went to live with her mother's sister, Martha/Mattie (Angell) Russell and her husband Isaac Russell, who had no children of their own. She was boarding at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Gargett in Alma while attending the Alma High School in 1915 and 1916.
Lareta and Glenn/Glen Clarence Lee ran off and got married June 10, 1916 at St. John's Church, Alma, Gratiot County, Michigan. Although the marriage license says she was 17 years old, she didn't turn 17 until October of that year according to her birth date. Their son, Gerald Dale Lee was born, March 14, 1917 when she was just 17 1/2 years old. In 1918 Lareta and Glen were living on what had been her parent's farm of 80 acres in Wheeler township, Gratiot County, Michigan. According to the farm journal they had 3 horses and 3 cows.
According to a newspaper clipping from 1956, Lareta left Glenn and went to the Detroit area where she became involved with a "wild bunch of companions" who swindled her out of her money and talked her into participating in a jewelry store robbery. According to family oral history, Glenn was part of a gang and he and this gang involved her in the robbery. There is no evidence he was arrested or charged. We don't know the validity of any of these stories.
Recollection of Janis Elaine Lee of her father's one conversation regarding his mother: "She was the driver of a car during the robbery of a jewelry store. She kidnapped Gerald from his paternal grandparent's care and went into hiding. She was located by the police and sent to jail. She was afraid Glen Lee would take her son from her." We are unsure if she went into hiding to escape the police or Glen or both. According to a newspaper clipping written in 1956 Lareta and Gerald were in hiding for a year in the hills of Kentucky before her arrest.
Lareta Lee was sentenced to prison in October 1922 for her participation in a robbery of the Meier Jewelry Store in Detroit, Michigan. Detroit women's club members were upset by the severity of her sentence and protested in her behalf. By July of 1924 Glen and Lareta had divorced. Glen married his second wife, Edna Florence Phillips the 25th of July, 1924. This marriage was kept secret from the imprisoned Lareta as was the birth of Glen and Edna's first child in 1925.
In 1926 Lareta contracted double pneumonia because of the terrible conditions for women inmates in the Detroit house of correction. She was sleeping on a mattress on the floor in a cold, wet, dilapidated building. While hospitalized she became a local curiosity with processions of hundreds of people filing through her hospital ward to see "Detroit's girl bandit." She relapsed and died the 11th of March, 1926 and was buried the 15th of March, 1926 in Riverside Cemetery, Arcada Township, Alma, Gratiot County, Michigan.
Loretta Lee of Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan signed a legal document on Mar. 10, 1926 deeding her property (It had originally belonged to her parents.) designated East 1/2 of the N-E 1/4 of section 16, town 12 North, Range 1 West in Wheeler, Gratiot County, Michigan to the lawyer James J. Spillane who came to her bedside. She deeded her farm to him as trustee for her son, Gerald Dale Lee to insure that Glen, her exhusband, wouldn't sell it and take the money. She wanted the farm, or money from it, to go to her son when he reached adulthood. She hoped it would further his education.
Loretta signed this legal document as Loretta (not Lareta) Lee.
Witnesses included a notary and
Kenneth W. Doyle
W. Lalorery
According to correspondence to Gerald D. Lee by James J. Spillane, he met Gerald two times. The first time was in 1922 when Loretta and Gerald came to the Stroh Building where he, James J. Spillane, was an attorney. A second time was when James J. Spillane took Loretta Lee to Douglass Township, Montcalm County, Michigan after her aunt died (I believe this is referring to Martha (Angell) Russell.) where he again met Gerald who was living at his grandparents' home at the time.
James J. Spillane told Gerald Lee in his letter not to believe anything anyone said about his mother, even his father. He said she was a good woman.
Compiled by Susan Kimes Burgess
Thank you,
Susan Kimes Burgess (Find A Grave# 47528859) | | | The Lady in Black
 | RE: George Kincaide
You wrote:
"Sorry,
Sometimes I draw a blank."
Happens to me all of the time--I call them "senior moments." :-)
I hope you didn't take it the wrong way--I certainly didn't mean it that way. | | | The Lady in Black
| RE: George Kincaide
The babies are not twins--look at the birth dates. One was born in February and the other was born in November of the same year--it is possible. :-) | | | The Lady in Black
| George Kincaide
Posted a photo of his grave, and am going to add the rest of the people in the plot. Are they related to you? | | | Chanavee
| RE: August Luth
That's good to hear.
Keep up the good work...it's sooo time consuming isn't it. Thanks for your hard work.
ChanaveeAdded by Chanavee on Dec 29, 2012 12:25 PM | | | Chanavee
| August Luth
Hello
After looking at much of your info. and info. that I waited a month to put into Find A Grave, I see we are getting the same info from the same source.
Certainly nothing wrong with that, but can I ask why you didn't put in the parents info. . I know it take's extra time, but do you realize how much it will help the genealogist. After all, isn't that why we are doing this.
Keep up the great work. I don't mean any harm by asking...just wondering.
ChanaveeAdded by Chanavee on Dec 28, 2012 2:56 PM | | | | [View all messages...] |
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