Re: Let's work from only the info you know is yours ...
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Let's work from only the info you know is yours ...
Kathleen Herron 3/29/12
What I think I know as fact. Being adopted I know very little as fact. I do have, and have met my half sister. I also met my aunt Leone Dwyer Mertica Lombardo once had started some genealogy records but more about the Ovens. Less about John Dwyer and sister Mary A.
Emma Oven is born in Ogdensburg, NY 3 Jul 1868,1871
City dir Ogdensburg 1894 Miss Emma bds 122 Main
Married George Frank Disberry
Birth abt 1853 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
Death 1887-1945 in Colorado, USA1. Marriage records from Christ Church in Detroit, Michigan. Detroit Public Library.. Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA 15 Mar 1877
Don't know when they got divorced
Emma then marries my John Dwyer in 1880 as evidenced by the 1990 census which states they have been married for 10 years.
3 Children listed on both the 1895 MN state census and 1900 US census for Duluth, MN. 1900: Clifford John age 10, Earl Joseph age 7, both born in MI and William Roy age 6 born in MN.
I do have a copy of the death cert for a John Dwyer as well as my aunt's records stating that John,a longshoreman on a lumber boat died on Dec 21, 1912 after a load of logs broke loose and fell on him on Dec 17th.Interesting it as a Mary A Dwyer who does the reporting on the death cert. The death cert says he is buried in Oniota Cemetery but a check with the cemetery says no not there.All other family members are there in that cemetery as well as obit and related news articles from 2 different Duluth papers.Also a check with the other 2 cemeteries also have no record of him. Death cert says he was born 1872 died 1912. Death cert says father, Mike Dwyer was born in Ireland.Mother was Martha E. Baker from Ohio.
George Henry Oven (Dufore) baptismal record that I have states child of Jean Baptiste Dufore and Elmire St. Jacques born in Ogdensburg, NY on 8 Apr 1861, baptized 14 Apr 18611900 census has George age 36 and Mary age 27, Geroge jr age 11 and Edward age 10 living in Alpena, Alpena, MI. Mary died at age 88 in 1957. George died in Duluth, MN