 1888 - 1931 (42 years)
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| Name |
MARGARET GRACE STARK |
| Born |
7 Dec 1888 |
Lake Otsego, Otsego Co., Michigan  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
4 Jul 1931 |
Bay City, Michigan |
| Buried |
Oak Ridge Cemetery, Bay City, Michigan |
| Notes |
- Margaret Grace was a short, heavy woman. She loved to sing and could play the piano slightly, as long as the tune was on the black keyes. She likely finished only the 8th grade. There was a fire at her school, during which she fell and was
trampled on the stairs. She lived only because someone pulled her up and got her down the stairs. She worked for the Carrington family on S. Union St. This family was a wealthy lumber family. They made her use the name Margaret because of a
conflict within that household. She worked there until, at age 28, she married Herman. Her marriage certificate lists her birth place as Lake Otsego, Michigan. Walter Sims presided at the ceremony with Ross Doan and Estella Stark as
witnesses. She and Herman started life with very little. The Carrington's gave her a Tiffany lamp, an old threadbare rug, and an old, broken leather couch. Someone else gave them 2 rocking chairs and a table. That was the extent of what they
owned. She would bake cakes and other goodies on Saturday, which she sold up and down the street on Sunday, for extra money. She was a skilled seamstress. The Sim's family, then of Chicago, would send boxes of clothes for the children.
Margaret would rip the clothes apart, turn the cloth around, and remake the clothes to fit her family. She first became ill around 1928. By the time she was 40 years old, she was unable to walk. Then she had one last child, Carl. She was
unable to care for him very well by herself. Complications of tubercular meningitis was the cause of her death. Her death, a gruesome, painful ending, was witnessed by her family from the doorway of her bedroom. Margaret's funeral was held in
the family home at 107 E. Clara (across the street from 600 N. Dewitt).
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| Person ID |
I13518 |
Windemuth Descendents |
| Last Modified |
30 Nov 2007 |
| Father |
THOMAS C. STARK, b. 5 Jan 1858, Clarendon, Pontiac Co., Quebec, Canada , d. 3 Sep 1936, Bay City, Michigan (Age 78 years) |
| Mother |
MARGARET JANE TELFER, b. 25 Feb 1863, Bristol, Pontiac Co., Quebec, Canada , d. 23 Nov 1935, Bay City, Michigan (Age 72 years) |
| Married |
14 Apr 1886 |
| Family ID |
F9827 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
HERMAN LESLIE DOAN, b. 20 Sep 1889, Bay County, Michigan , d. 28 Nov 1934, Bay City, Michigan (Age 45 years) |
| Married |
20 Jun 1916 |
Bay City, Michigan |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F9828 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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