Verne
Horace CHURCH
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1875
- 1949
- BIRTH: 12 SEP 1875, Lowell, Kent County, Michigan
- DEATH: 25 MAR 1949, East Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan
Father: Eustace Eugene CHURCH
Mother: Elizabeth Ann LEARY
Family 1 : Cora Louesa
HARKER
- MARRIAGE: 10 NOV 1897, residence of James and Sarah Harker, South Boston, Boston Township, Ionia County, Michigan
1. Jessie Eugenia CHURCH
3. Verna Harriet CHURCH
4. Lawrence Allen CHURCH
___ Marvil CHURCH____
| (1796 - 1863) m 1820
___ Harley CHURCH.____|
| (1821 - 1901) m 1842
| ___John SNEATHEN_________
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|__ Martha SNEATHEN___ | (1776/7 - 1859) m
| (1804 - 1840) m 1820 |____Susanah BLAKESLEE_____+
__ Eustace CHURCH.____|
(1768 - 1819) m
| (1845 - 1922) m 1868 |
___Lemuel TRAIN_________+
| | ____ Sylvester TRAIN_____| (1765 - ....) m 1787
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| | (1795 - ....) m |___Clarissa
MORTON________+
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|____ Delia TRAIN______| (1764 -
....) m 1787
| (1826 -
1906) m 1842 |
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|__Lucinda WILLARD_____
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(1813 - ....) m
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- Verne CHURCH
| (1875 - 1949) m 1897
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_____ Jacob LEARY_____
| | (.... - 1848) m
1833
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Elizabeth LEARY___|
(1843 - 1936) m 1868 |
| ___ David GRAYHAM___
| | (1770/1 - 1843) m
|____ Mary GRAYHAM__|
(1810 - 1864) m 1833
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|_____ Elizabeth ?????____
(1777/8 - 1836) m
TIMELINE
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879 - family moves to Ionia County, Michigan
1880 - sister Lena is born
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891
1892 - graduated Saranac High School at age 16
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897 - MARRIAGE
1898
1899
1900 - Jessie born
1901
1902
1903
1904 - Geneva born
1905
1906
1907 - Verna born
1908
1909
1910 - Lawrence born
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948 - DEATH of Cora
1949
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At the age of 4, his family moved to Ionia County to take over the farm of his grandfather, Harley B. Church. Verne started out his professional life while still in High School, at age 16, as a reporter for the local newspaper. He met his wife, who was five years his senior, while she was giving piano lessons to his sister. Cora also taught Verne violin and let him play in the Harker Family Band, which she directed. In 1899, there was a big freeze that ruined the family peach orchards, forcing his family out of the farming business. He and Cora then moved to Clarkston where he become editor of the Clarkston Register. He studied also pharmacy and worked as a druggist. In 1902, he began working for the federal government in meteorology and self-taught himself statistics to the level where he taught the subject at Michigan State University. He moved frequently, living in various parts of the country (Columbia, South Carolina; Toledo, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Salt Lake City, Utah; Indianapolis, Indiana), although his life began and ended in Michigan. Wrote an extraordinary memoir of his life, mostly about his professional life and travels, but including excellent depictions of the times in which he lived. Was very distraught when his wife died and died himself seven months later. He is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Lansing, Michigan.
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