Mattie May Palmer was the daughter of Louis Eugene Palmer and Clara A. Scarritt. She married Leonard Douglas of Pontiac on Dec. 5, 1905 in Essex, Ont., Canada. Following his death in 1907, she remarried. She married Hartwell Benson on June 27, 1911 in Rochester, Michigan.
She had two daughters: Clara Maude Douglas and Joan (Eileen) Benson.
As young ladies, Mae Palmer and her sisters, Clara Louise and Marigold, learned the art of hat making as apprentices to Miss Julia A. Church (1872-1951). Miss Church ran a millinery on the east side of Main Street in Rochester in a store front she rented from L.E. Palmer.
In the 1910 census, Mae Douglas is listed as a "widow" living with her parents on Main Street.
Residence 1917: 949 Lawndale, Detroit, Michigan.
Residence 1958: Corner of the Orion Road and Gunn Road, Goodison.
She had two daughters: Clara Maude Douglas and Joan (Eileen) Benson.
As young ladies, Mae Palmer and her sisters, Clara Louise and Marigold, learned the art of hat making as apprentices to Miss Julia A. Church (1872-1951). Miss Church ran a millinery on the east side of Main Street in Rochester in a store front she rented from L.E. Palmer.
In the 1910 census, Mae Douglas is listed as a "widow" living with her parents on Main Street.
Residence 1917: 949 Lawndale, Detroit, Michigan.
Residence 1958: Corner of the Orion Road and Gunn Road, Goodison.
Mattie May Palmer was the daughter of Louis Eugene Palmer and Clara A. Scarritt. She married Leonard Douglas of Pontiac on Dec. 5, 1905 in Essex, Ont., Canada. Following his death in 1907, she remarried. She married Hartwell Benson on June 27, 1911 in Rochester, Michigan.
She had two daughters: Clara Maude Douglas and Joan (Eileen) Benson.
As young ladies, Mae Palmer and her sisters, Clara Louise and Marigold, learned the art of hat making as apprentices to Miss Julia A. Church (1872-1951). Miss Church ran a millinery on the east side of Main Street in Rochester in a store front she rented from L.E. Palmer.
In the 1910 census, Mae Douglas is listed as a "widow" living with her parents on Main Street.
Residence 1917: 949 Lawndale, Detroit, Michigan.
Residence 1958: Corner of the Orion Road and Gunn Road, Goodison.
She had two daughters: Clara Maude Douglas and Joan (Eileen) Benson.
As young ladies, Mae Palmer and her sisters, Clara Louise and Marigold, learned the art of hat making as apprentices to Miss Julia A. Church (1872-1951). Miss Church ran a millinery on the east side of Main Street in Rochester in a store front she rented from L.E. Palmer.
In the 1910 census, Mae Douglas is listed as a "widow" living with her parents on Main Street.
Residence 1917: 949 Lawndale, Detroit, Michigan.
Residence 1958: Corner of the Orion Road and Gunn Road, Goodison.
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