Michigan Family Group Sheet

David Henry DALY Family

Counties: Montmorency


 HUSBAND & WIFE
Husband: David Henry DALY
Birth Date: 13 Apr 1869 
Birth Place: Varney, Grey Co., Ontario, Canada
Death Date: 15 Oct 1936
Death Place: Alpena, MI
Burial Place: Hillman-Rust Cemetery
Father: Thomas Hopkins DALEY I (1843-1911)
Mother: S. Frances WILDER (1852-1931)
Wife: Elmira WILDER
Birth Date: 2 Aug 1883 
Birth Place: Ontario, Canada
Death Date: 16 Sep 1929 
Death Place: Traverse City, MI
Burial Place: Briley Township Cemetery, Old Section 3: Lot 243
Father: William Henry WILDER Jr. (1852-1916)
Mother: Eliza Jane JAMISON (Abt 1853-1897)
Marriage Date: 17 Jul 1900Marriage Place: Hillman, Montmorency Co., MI

CHILDREN
Child No. 1: Laura Isabelle DALY
Sex: F
Birth Date: 7 Mar 1904 
Birth Place: Hillman, Montmorency Co., MI
Death Date: 4 Aug 1947
Death Place: Atlanta, Montmorency Co., MI
Burial Place: Briley Township Cemetery, Montmorency Co., MI
Marriage Date: 15 Mar 1922
Marriage Place: Atlanta, MI - Rev. T. A. Kitchner
Spouse's Name: Russell Alger McKENZIE (1898-1959)
Child No. 2: Angus Harold DALY
Sex: M
Birth Date: 31 Mar 1905 
Birth Place: Hillman, MI
Death Date: 28 Jan 1938
Death Place: Hillman, Montmorency Co., MI
Burial Place: Hillman-Rust Cemetery
Marriage Date: 
Marriage Place: 
Spouse's Name: 
Child No. 3: Cora Lavena DALY
Sex: F
Birth Date: 25 May 1907
Birth Place: Hillman, Montmorency Co., MI
Death Date: 19 Nov 1998
Death Place: Sturgis, MI
Burial Place: Hillman-Rust Cemetery, Montmorency Co., MI
Marriage Date: 9 Jun 1925
Marriage Place: Hillman, Montmorency Co., MI
Spouse's Name: Roy Raymond WILDER (1903-1951)
Child No. 4: Lillian Letha DALY
Sex: F
Birth Date: 21 Sep 1909 
Birth Place: Hillman, MI
Death Date: 4 Jul 2006 
Death Place: Hillman, MI
Burial Place: 8 Jul 2006 - Hillman/Rust Twp. Cemetery
Marriage Date: 25 Jun 1930
Marriage Place: Hillman, MI
Spouse's Name: Leonard Lee McCONNAUGHEY (1905-1961)
Child No. 5: Loletta Frances DALY
Sex: F
Birth Date: 1 Jan 1914 
Birth Place: Hillman, MI
Death Date: 16 May 1988
Death Place: Atlanta, Michigan
Burial Place: Briley Township Cemetery, Atlanta
Marriage Date: 25 Dec 1932 
Marriage Place: Alpena, MI
Spouse's Name: Garnet L. BEAUREGARD (1910-1994)
Child No. 6: Arthur Shepherd Ford DALEY
Sex: M
Birth Date: 9 Sep 1923
Birth Place: Traverse City, Grand Traverse Co., MI
Death Date: 19 Jul 2001
Death Place: Coldwater, Branch Co., MI
Burial Place: 
Marriage Date: Married later in life
Marriage Place: 
Spouse's Name: Mary Ellen DALEY

Documentation:GeneralNotes (Husband)

Owned property in Egremont Township in 1899, per Land Registry OfficeRecords.
Picture of David H. and Elmira taken December, 1916. [He about 46and she about 33]
Medical Notes (Husband)
According to the Michigan Dept. of Health Certificate of Death -David H. had other contributory causes of importance to his death - HypertropiedProstate - 2 years.
 

General Notes (Wife)

When Elmira and David got married she was about 16 or 17 and he wasabout 29 or 30. They moved to a farm 1 1/2 miles West of Hillman. It wasbordered on the south by the Thunder Bay River and on the north by themain highway.

In 1913 she became pregnant with Loleta and left the following September,1913 for the Ann Arbor Hospital on doctors orders. She was there untilthe spring (March or April) and came home with the baby, nothing was everthe same again. She left for Detroit for an operation which she never had.Then Grandpa Wilder died and she returned home. Aunt Eliza took care ofLoleta and Lillian. The doctors said she was not to do any heavy work.She asked for a divorce and David refused. She tried to take her life andthey drifted apart, she ended up in Traverse City. She loved life and "itwas love your neighbor as yourself" (Quote from letter written by CoraDaly Wilder). She died in Traverse City in 1929.

Medical Notes (Wife)
According to family reports Elmira was anemic, had congestive heartfailure, edema, dropsy and eczema on her hands and needed a hysterectomybut never had one. She was in and out of hospitals in Detroit (St. Marysin 1912), Ann Arbor and Traverse City. Last Modified: 6 Aug 2006. Source Citations 1. Montmorency County Tribune (Announcement of Death),Col. 4 & 5, Thursday, Mar 12, 1953. 

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