Spouse's Death: 00/00/1892
Age: 49
Birth Date: 11/04/1867
Birth Place: GENESEE CO., MI
Death Date: 08/08/1917
Death Place: SAGINAW, MI
From obituary from Saginaw Courier Herald dated August 10, 1917:
Mrs. Emma L. Sweet, died at the Saginaw General Hospital at 3:45 o'clock Wednesday afternoon of paraplegia, age 49 years. Emma L. Stafford was born in Genesee county, Michigan, November 4, 1876, where she grew to womanhood and was married to Harvey Sweet. After marriage they lived in Genesee county until Mr. Sweet's death in 1892 when Mrs. Sweet came to Saginaw. Since coming to Saginaw she has been connected with Saginaw General Hospital. She was an attendant of the M. E. Church. She leaves one daughter, Mrs. J. S. Wallace, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Stafford of Clio; one sister and three brothers, Mrs. William Brown of Thetford, Mich. Harley and Wallace Stafford of Montrose and Bert Stafford of Detroit....
Spouse's Death: 00/00/1892
Age: 49
Birth Date: 11/04/1867
Birth Place: GENESEE CO., MI
Death Date: 08/08/1917
Death Place: SAGINAW, MI
From obituary from Saginaw Courier Herald dated August 10, 1917:
Mrs. Emma L. Sweet, died at the Saginaw General Hospital at 3:45 o'clock Wednesday afternoon of paraplegia, age 49 years. Emma L. Stafford was born in Genesee county, Michigan, November 4, 1876, where she grew to womanhood and was married to Harvey Sweet. After marriage they lived in Genesee county until Mr. Sweet's death in 1892 when Mrs. Sweet came to Saginaw. Since coming to Saginaw she has been connected with Saginaw General Hospital. She was an attendant of the M. E. Church. She leaves one daughter, Mrs. J. S. Wallace, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Stafford of Clio; one sister and three brothers, Mrs. William Brown of Thetford, Mich. Harley and Wallace Stafford of Montrose and Bert Stafford of Detroit....
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Without question this is the most vexatious ancestor in my tree! Born a Stafford in 1868, she married, first, Harvey Rathbun in 1884, then George Dorn in 1889. A reference in an 1892 book on the Stafford family notes that Emma is the widow of George Dorn with one child, Iza B., yet Emma and daughter appear a year or two later in Saginaw with the Sweet name with no explanation how that name is arrived at. Based on many years of research into this specific family, there is no "Harvey Sweet" in Emma's life, the only Harvey being Rathbun. Check the 1900 US Census details for Emma and "her" Harvey. Emma provided all the information needed for an explanation of her life. For the record, her daughter, Iza Belle, is my paternal grandmother.
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