Edwardsburg Photos Circa 1900 to 1920 Cass County, Michigan The Andrus Collection Page 3

092-girlhorse young girl with horse

Photos property of Dean Andrus and @ copyrighted with special permission given to the Cass County Genweb to use them on site.
To find out about purchasing a CD, which has approximately 339 photos, not all of the photos are here on site, contact Mr. Dean Andrus at - hazard139@aol.com

Dean Andrus, son of Charles Andrus who, with his Uncle George Andrus and Grandfather, Henry Andrus owned and operated the Edwardsburg Argus for many years. Dean grew up in Edwardsburg and as kid found a box of 350 glass plate negatives of photos taken of the Edwardsburg area from 1900 to 1920 or so by George. The story of my finding them and finally scanning them and producing a CD of the images is attached in the introduction that Dean wrote to go along with the CD which he donated to the Edwardsburg Library, the Edwardsburg Area Historical Museum and to this web site (most recently) Dean had recently been in touch with a cousin, Ben Kinsey, who had submitted a number of items for our inclusion on this GenWeb site and this has led Dean to consider submitting the photos for use on the site to make them more widely available to the public and hopefully get some help in identifying some of the people and places depicted.

This collage includes photos of churches, streets, houses, barns, schools, businesses, cottages, lake, auto livery, horse and buggy, funeral home, hearse, etc. and a lot of people. Those of Dean's family have been identified along with a few of the others and the Museum has identified a few more. They take walks around town yearly to try and identify other homes in the photos.

Can you help identify anyone or place in the collage of photos below? Some have been identified and others are a mystery.

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See below photos for additional information

061-persons-4 unidentified	062-man-girl unidentified	063-cottage-9p unidentified	064-16p unidentified
065-60p mostly unidentified	066-70p mostly unidentified	067-14p unidentified	068-4p unidentified
069-4p Wilkinson also see 82, 86, 87 & 94	070-15p Silas Paul with 15 people	071-2p Mr & Mrs. Silas Paul	072-6p-Andrus Andrus family
073-Zennie Zendella Turitt Andrus	074-11p Belle Packard & family	075-2girls Dora Dugdale & Lottie Roath	076-girl little girl
077-5Andrus Andrus family	078-6 people Silas Paul people	079-13p Andrus & Kitchen families	081 - 30p Silas Paul picnic or renunion
82-6p also see 069, 086, 087 & 94	083-6p Kitchen family	084-10p 12 people need indentifying	085-22p 22 unidentified people
086-4p also see 69, 82, 87 and 94	87-4p Wilkinson - see 69, 82, 86 & 94	088-6Andrus Andrus family see below	089-momanddad Charles & Letta Andrus
090-zen-1p Zendella Andrus & sb. Glenn Sherman	092-girlhorse young girl with horse	093-18p 15 people unidentified	094-1p Mrs. Wilkinson

Reference Number and description

061 People, 3 adults, 1 child
062 Man holding child
063 Cottage at Pleasant Lake with 9 people.
064 People, group of 16
065 People, large group of 60. Zendella Andrus, second from left in back row, Frank Hanson, back row right of center post.
066 People, large group of 70, Zendella Andrus, second row right, Frank Hanson, front row seated second from right, possibly Charles Andrus, second row 4th from right.
067 People, group of 14
068 People, 3 adults, 1 child in front of brick home.
069 B. F. Wilkinson house at 26902 Maple St. with 4 people. See 082,
086, 087 and 094. People shown are Jerome, John, Edith and Dean Wilkinson and probably Mrs. B. F. Wilkinson.
070 Silas Paul house with 15 people. Mr. and Mrs. Silas Paul 3rd and 4th from right in front row.
071 Mr. And Mrs. Silas Paul on their front porch, 26875 Main St., opposite the Argus Office.
072 Andrus family, Charles, Letta, (James) Henry, Ida, Zendella and George. Taken about 1918 when Charles and Letta (Beardsley) were married.
073 Zendella (Truitt) Andrus
074 Belle Pickard house, 69030 Elkhart St. Belle at left and Ida Davis seated at left.
075 Dora Dugdale on left and Lottie Roath on right
076 Young girl
077 Andrus family, George, Zendella (Truitt), Charles, Ida, and (James) Henry.
078 Silas Paul house, Mr. and Mrs. Silas Paul and 4 others.
079 Andrus and Kitchen families. Seated child, unknown. First row seated, Nelson and Subrina Kitchen, James Hudson Andrus and dog Ted.
    Second row, Matie, Mattie, Minnie, ----, and Ida (Kitchen) Andrus.
   Back row, (James) Henry Andrus, ----, Zendella (Truitt) Andrus, and Charles Andrus

080* 6 people with Zendella Andrus right rear, double exposure. - omitted from page
081 30 people, outdoor picnic, Silas Paul.
082 4 people, see 069, 086, 087 and 094.
083 Kitchen family with Subrina and Nelson Kitchen and daughters, Mattie, Matie, Minnie and Ida (Andrus).
084** 11 people
085 22 people
086 4 people, see 069, 082, 087, and 094.
087 4 people, “ “ “ “ “ “
088 (James) Henry and Ida Andrus with George, Zendella, Letta and Charles in front of their home on Cass St. (Lee house across the street.
089 Charles and Letta (Beardsley) Andrus, married in 1918.
090 Zendella Andrus and stepbrother, Glenn Sherman
091* 3 women, 1 in wheelchair, and baby. omitted from page
092 Girl with horse.
093 15 people and 3 babies.
094 B. F. Wilkinson house with Mrs. Wilkinson. See 069, 082, 086, 087.

* Indicates newly scanned negatives, shown as “not printed” on the Flip Album
CD due to under- or over-exposure.
** Indicates rescans of negatives of poor quality on the Flip Album CD.

These photos are included on a separate CD, not in the Flip Album format. They are in the .jpg format and may be viewed by any computer image viewer.

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