Flora
Adele SWABY
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1908
- 1997
- BIRTH: 24 APR 1908, Bay City, Bay County, Michigan
- DEATH: 29 AUG 1997, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona
Father: Roy SWABY
Mother: Bessie Viola BLAKE
Family 1 : Martin J WAGER, Sr.
- MARRIAGE: 3 APR 1929, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan
2. James Bartlett WAGER
__Christian SCHWABE_____
Christian Friedrich Traugott SCHWABE____|
| (1828 - 1878) m 1850 |__Marie
Justina ?????_____
_Franz Alfred SCHWABE__|
(1793 - 1863) m
| (1851 - 1909) m
| ___Franz Anton
SPEER_________
| |__ Anna Marie SPEER___________________| (1791 - 1845) m
| (1829 -
1910) m 1850 |____Margarethe
TRUNK_______+
__ Roy SWABY___________|
(1798 - 1864) m
| (1879 - 1967) m 1904 |
|
| ____ William ANDREWS__
|
| | (1802/3 - 1862) m
|
|____ Flora ANDREWS_____|
| (1853 - 1927) m |
|
|____ Eliza DAWLEY____
| (1815
- 1872) m
|
|-
- Flora SWABY
| (1908 - 1997) m 1929
_____Henry BLAKE________
|
___ William BLAKE______________| (1786/7 - 1853) m 1822
| | (1826 - 1864) m 1849
|____Sarah GRAY__________
|
_____ James BLAKE_______| (1801/2
- 1868) m 1822
|
| (1853 - 1904) m 1881
| ___James JONES_________+
| | |_____Mercy JONES______________| (1790 - ....) m 1814
|
| (1833 -
1912) m 1849 |
|___
Bessie BLAKE_______| (1795
- 1885) m 1814
(1882 - 1968) m 1904 |
_____David DOW___________+
| _____ Amos DOW__________________| (1801 - 1888) m 1824
| | (1825 - 1879) m 1853 |_____Mary WAY____________+
|____ Ada DOW___________|
(1799 - 1881) m 1824
(1861 - 1907) m 1881 |
_____William WATSON______+
|______Sophia WATSON_____________| (1801 - ....) m 1824
(1842 - 1871) m 1853 |_Jane Philips WOLVERTON___+
(1804 - ....) m 1824
TIMELINE
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929 - MARRIAGE
1930 - Martin born
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938 - James born
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964 - DEATH of Martin
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972 - moved to Sun City, Arizona
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
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1994
1995
1996
1997
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Flora showed an early aptitude for music, singing solos in church when she was three years old and learning the piano. She was an accomplished cellist, who graduated from Cass Technical High School with a degree in music when she was 16 and then attended the Detroit Conservatory during the "roaring" 1920s. Meanwhile, her younger sister Ada partook in the more spirited lifestyle dubbed "flapper." Flora sometimes used the German spelling of her name, "Schwabe," when giving cello recitals. She won second place in a national cello competition. After her marriage, she moved into the Wager family farm, adjusting to the more rural society of Waterford, Michigan. She purchased a Baldwin piano and worked out of the farm house as a piano teacher. After her husband's death, she continued to live on the farm with her sister-in-law, Etta, but after several years, decided to move to Sun City, Arizona. In 1972, the Wager family farm was sold, and the main part of the house moved to another property a mile away. Flora lived 25 years in Arizona playing organ for church and cello in the local symphony.
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