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Elery Lee Michael
1878 - 1953 (74 years)
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Name Elery Lee Michael Born 13 Nov 1878 Pennsylvania, United States 
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] Gender Male AFN 4ZVN-G0 Died 8 Jul 1953 Seattle, King, Washington, United States [6, 8, 9, 10] Buried 13 Jul 1953 Pilot Rock Cemetery, Pilot Rock, Umatilla Co, Oregon [11, 12, 13] Person ID I1873 Wagner-Thomas | Hallmark Last Modified 11 Jan 2014
Father Albert Frank Michael, b. 8 Feb 1854, Berwick, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States , d. 14 Feb 1941, Pendleton, Umatilla, Oregon, United States (Age 87 years) Mother Mary Evelyn Reynolds, b. 3 Sep 1856, Laporte, Sullivan, Pennsylvania, United States , d. 15 Sep 1931, Pendleton, Umatilla, Oregon, United States (Age 75 years) Married 11 Feb 1875 Nordmont, Sullivan, Pennsylvania, United States [14, 15, 16, 17, 18] Family ID F608 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Elsie Mae Wegner, b. 23 Apr 1880, Pilot Rock, Umatilla, Oregon, United States , d. 12 Nov 1934, Pilot Rock, Umatilla, Oregon, United States (Age 54 years) Married 27 Sep 1900 Pendleton, Umatilla, Oregon, United States [19, 20, 21, 22, 23] Children + 1. Grace Mae Michael, b. 16 Apr 1902, Pilot Rock, Umatilla, Oregon, United States , d. 14 Oct 1990, Walla Walla, Walla Walla, Washington, United States (Age 88 years)+ 2. Chester Lee Michael, b. 2 Jun 1906, Pilot Rock, Umatilla, Oregon, United States , d. 21 Nov 1981, Vancouver, Clark, Washington, United States (Age 75 years)3. Floyd Lowell Michael, b. 17 Apr 1908, Pilot Rock, Umatilla, Oregon, United States , d. 14 Sep 1932, Pilot Rock, Umatilla, Oregon, United States (Age 24 years)4. Elbert Russell Michael, b. 17 Aug 1911, Pilot Rock, Umatilla, Oregon, United States , d. 2 Nov 1986, Walla Walla, Walla Walla, Washington, United States (Age 75 years)Last Modified 22 Nov 2014 Family ID F553 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Jessie May McFall, b. 31 Mar 1877, Farmington, Whitman, Washington, United States , d. 1970 (Age 92 years) Married 23 Nov 1940 Vancouver, Clark, Washington, United States [24, 25, 26] Last Modified 30 Jan 2015 Family ID F609 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map 
Born - 13 Nov 1878 - Pennsylvania, United States 
Married - 27 Sep 1900 - Pendleton, Umatilla, Oregon, United States 
Married - 23 Nov 1940 - Vancouver, Clark, Washington, United States 
Died - 8 Jul 1953 - Seattle, King, Washington, United States 
Buried - 13 Jul 1953 - Pilot Rock Cemetery, Pilot Rock, Umatilla Co, Oregon = Link to Google Earth
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Documents 
Marriage certificate for E. L. Michael and Jessie (McFall) Connor
November 23rd, 1940, Vancouver, Washington
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Notes - 1878 BIRTH: PA-no county or town shown, Elery Lee Michael born 13 Nov 1878. Called Mike
HIST: Grace Michael Smith, Autobiography abt 1986: "...family was just an ordinary family, like a lot of people at that time, not much education. My dad just went through the third grade."
1880 CENSUS: KS, Norton Co-Solomon Twp: Ellery Michael 2/PA, son of Albert F & Eva Michael
1900 CENSUS: OR, Umatilla Co-Alta, 19 Jun, Dw 217: Ellery Michael 21/PA-Nov 1878, son of Frank & Mary Michael, single farm laborer
1900 MARRIAGE: Oregon,Umatilla Co-Pendleton, Elery Michael md May Wagner, both of Umatilla Co on 27th September 1900 by Pastor M.E.Church, John Uren
1902 BIRTH, CHILD#1: Oregon,Umatilla-Pilot Rock, Grace Mae Michael was born on April 16 on a farm near Pilot Rock
1906-08 HIST: Grace Michael Smith: Oregon,Grant-John Day: ...the family moved to a farm that her father bought, then they moved back to Pilot Rock in about 1908.
"In The Footsteps of the Pioneers, 1862-1962," by Will M Kidwell, Ed.D., PG 278: " Joe Arbuckle homesteaded the Mathews place and ran stock in the 1870s. This ranch was located on Stewart Creet about 6 miles SE of Pilot Rock. He sold it to Henry Doane, then Jimmy Ironberg, followed by Elery Michaels."
1908 HIST: Oregon,Umatilla-outside Pilot Rock, family moved to one of Grace's grandparent's [probably the Pearsons, as they lived a ways out of Pilot Rock]
c1909-10: Oregon,Umatilla-Pilot Rock, where father bought a 3-bedroom house, bought a freight business.
1910 CENSUS: OR,Umatilla Co-Pilot Rock:film #...pg 1746, 25 Apr, Dw8485:
MICHAEL, Ellery G 32/PA (PA,PA)md 9yrs,farmer,rent; Elsie M 29/OR (GY,OR)
3/3 children; Grace M 7/OR; Chester L 3/OR; Floyd L 1 11/12-OR
c1915: Oregon, Umatilla Co-Lehman Hot Springs, Elery leased the freight business to someone and the family moved to Lehman Hot Springs for the summer, where they had a little store. They then moved back near Pilot Rock, about 7 miles out of town.
1920 CENSUS: OR, Umatilla Co-prec 59-out of Pilot Rk, pg 4001, Dw 17/19-Co Rd:
MICHAEL, Elery L 42/PA (PA,PA)stock farmer; Elsie M 39/OR (GY,OR);
Grace 17/OR; Chester L 14/OR; Floyd 11/OR; Albert 8/OR
1923: Oregon, Umatilla Co-Pilot Rock; WA,Walla Walla-Walla Walla: Grace Michael Smith: "folks had moved bk to Pilot Rock, so when we [Vern & Grace Michael Smith] left Hermiston, we moved in with them... expecting first baby... The family moved to Walla Walla to send 3 boys to college."
1930 CENSUS: OR,Umatilla Co-Plot Rock City Pr 59: Anc.com Img2 pg 1B/9201, 2 April,Dw 1818:
MICHAELS, Elery L-head 51/PA (PA,PA)md at 22,renting, farm laborer; May-wife /OR (GY,GY)
md at 20, no occ; Chester-son 23OR (PA,PA) S-no occ; Elbert-son 18/OR (PA,PA)S
farm laborer
1934 DEATH of wife: OR,Umatilla Co-Pilot Rock: Elsie Mae Wegner Michael died 12 Nov 1934
1940 MARRIAGE: Elery Michael married Jessie McFall November 21, 1940, moved to Seattle [or perhaps he moved to Seattle first-CK OUT]
1953 DEATH, BURIAL: WA,King Co-Seattle, Elery Lee Michael died 8 July, buried 13 July at Pilot Rock Cem-vault, Umatilla Co, Oregon
ACTION-CHECK OUT-Elery Michael:
1. Find land rcds for purchase of farm at John Day, ranch in Pilot Rock, also home in Pilot Rock
2. Find out where Elery meet and marry Jessie McFall
3. Find out cousins who owned funeral home in Seattle [note from Grace Michael Smith Aug 1982]
4. 1930 census for Elery and family
- 1878 BIRTH: PA-no county or town shown, Elery Lee Michael born 13 Nov 1878. Called Mike
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Sources - [S165] Family Rcds: SMITH, Grace Michael.
Elery Lee Michael born 13 Nov 1878 in Pennsylvania
Family group sheet in brown book of remembrance in Grace's brown suitcase; says from Albert Frank Michael & History of Umatilla County - [S179] Oregon,Umatilla Co-Pendleton, Funeral Program.
Elery Lee Michael bn 13 Nov 1877 [no place shown]
Date: July 1953 - [S160] Oregon,Umatilla Co-Pendleton: 1986 Michael Family Tree.
Albert Frank Michael md Mary Evelyn Reynolds, children: ...Ellery Lee born 11-13-1879 [no place shown]
Date: 1986 - [S161] History of Umatilla and Morrow Counties Oregon, Pg 467.
Albert F Michael -- On Feb 11, 1875, he was married to Miss Mary E Reynolds...Sullivan County...following children born...Ellery F born Nov 13, 1879... [no place shown]
Date: 1905 - [S248] Family Rcds: HALLMARK, June B Smith.
Elery Lee Michael born 13 Nov 1878 in Pnns, son of Albert Frank Michael and Mary Eva Reynolds Michael
Ellery E Michael born Nov-13-1879 [no place shown]
Family group sheet in blue Bk of Remembrance, now in brown suitcase, belonging to Grace Smith; also pink sheet [no name of sender] - [S164] Oregon,Umatilla,Pilot Rock Cemetery head stone.
Elery L. Michael 1877 - 1953 [no places shown]
photo taken - [S422] Internet: Ancestry.com, Plot 13.
Ellery L bn 11-13-1877, died 1953, son of Albert (Elery 1877-1879)
Pilot Rock Cemetery, Pilot Rock, Umatilla Co, Oregon - [S179] Oregon,Umatilla Co-Pendleton, Funeral Program.
Elery Lee Michael bn 13 November 1877, passed on 8 July 1953, services at Burns Mortuary Chapel in Pendleton OR on 13 July 1953; buried Pilot Rock Cemetery-vault. Officiating-Dr Earle P Cochrane, Soloist-Ted Roy, Organist-Mrs Helen Brawn, Bearers: Lawrence Hemphill, Tom Stanton, George Johnson, Arvine Porter, Arthur Osborn, Bill Baker, Honorary bearers: Jack Folsom, Alfred Smith
Date: 13 July 1953 - [S165] Family Rcds: SMITH, Grace Michael.
Elery Lee Michael died 8 July 1953 in Seattle, King Co, WA
Family group sheet in brown book of remembrance in Grace's brown suitcase; says from Albert Frank Michael & History of Umatilla County - [S248] Family Rcds: HALLMARK, June B Smith.
Elery Lee Michael died 8 July 1953 in Seattle,King,Washington
Family group sheet in blue Bk of Remembrance, now in brown suitcase, belonging to Grace Smith - [S165] Family Rcds: SMITH, Grace Michael.
Elery Lee Michael buried in Pilot Rock, Umatilla Co, Ore
Family group sheet in brown Bk of Remembrance in suitcase belonging to Grace - [S179] Oregon,Umatilla Co-Pendleton, Funeral Program.
Elery Lee Michael bn 13 Nov 1877, died 8 Jul 1953, bur Pilot Rock Cem-vault [13 July 1953 date of funeral]
Date: 13 July 1953 - [S248] Family Rcds: HALLMARK, June B Smith.
Elery Lee Michael was buried in Pilot Rock,Umatilla,Oregon [no cemetery or date shown]
Family group sheet in blue Bk of Remembrance, now in brown suitcase, belonging to Grace Smith - [S162] 200 Years of Michael History & Genealogy, Pg 96.
Frank & Mary Eva married same day as Frank's sister Ella on 11 Feb 1875 in Nordmont, Sullivan PA. Left PA in 1880, homesteaded in Kansas near Cawker City, then settled Edmond, Norton Co, KS
Date: 1977 - [S161] History of Umatilla and Morrow Counties Oregon, Pg 467.
"On Feb 11, 1875, he was married to Miss Mary E Reynolds, whose father was a general merchant in Sullivan Co Pennsylvania, where their marriage occurred... children: Lillie May; Ellery E.; Ella R; Charles A; Sadie E; Bessie; John W; Roy M; Nora B; Josie M; Ivy M." no places shown, Eva and Frank Albert left out of this writing.
Copy of book in possession of Pam Hallmark Wagner
Date: 1905 - [S160] Oregon,Umatilla Co-Pendleton: 1986 Michael Family Tree.
"Albert Frank Michael md Mary Evelyn Reynolds, children: Lillie May; Ellery Lee; Eva; Ella Rebecca; Charley Andrew; Sadie Edith (Marie); Bessie Evelyn; Frank Albert; John Wallace; Roy Monroe; Nora Belle; Josephine M; Iva Marie Michael" - no date or place shown for marriage.
Date: 1986 - [S165] Family Rcds: SMITH, Grace Michael.
Albert F Michael md Mary Evelyn Renold on Feb. 11, 1875 [no place shown]
Family group sheet in brown bk of remembrance in brown suitcase, belonging to Grace; says from Albert Frank Michael and History of Umatilla Co - [S248] Family Rcds: HALLMARK, June B Smith.
Albert F. Michael married February 11-1875 to Mary E Reynolds [no place shown]. To this union the following children were born [name and birthdates shown-see children]
Pink sheet in blue bk of remembrance [no name of sender], in brown suitcase belonging to Grace Michael Smith - [S165] Family Rcds: SMITH, Grace Michael.
Elery Michael of Umatilla County and May Wagner of Umatilla County were by me United in Holy Matrimony, According to the Ordinance of God and the Laws of the State of Oregon at Pendleton on the 27th day of September 1900. Witnesses: J. E. Pollock and Miss Ella Michael, married by John Uren, Paster M.E. Church of Pendleton
Copy of original Marriage Certificate & family group sheet in brown Bk of Remembrance in suitcase belonging to Grace Michael Smith
Date: 27 September 1900 - [S160] Oregon,Umatilla Co-Pendleton: 1986 Michael Family Tree.
Ellery Lee md [no name shown], children: Grace, Ted, Floyd, Elbert [no dates or places shown]
Date: 1986 - [S177] Family Rcds: POUND, Iva Wegner Royse.
Elsie Mae Wegner md Elery Michael (date unknown), 4 children: Grace Mae Michael, Chester Lee, Floyd Lowell, Elbert Russell [no place shown]
1955 letter from Iva Pound to Mary Marks, Eads doc#87b - [S230] Oregon: State Marriage Rcds.
Elery Michael md Elsie Wegner 17 Sep 1900, Pendleton OR
Umatilla Co OR MG Rcds - [S248] Family Rcds: HALLMARK, June B Smith.
Elery Lee Michael md Elsie Mae Wegner 27 Set 1900 [no place shown]
Family group sheet in blue Bk of Remembrance, now in brown suitcase, belonging to Grace Smith - [S165] Family Rcds: SMITH, Grace Michael.
"Elery Lee Michaeld married #2, Jessie McFall" no date or place shown.
Family group sheet in brown Book of Remembrance in suit case belonging to Grace Michael Smith - [S180] Family Rcds: MICHAEL, Jessie McFall.
...I was married in 1940 Nov 21...
Mar 1961 letter from Jessie Michael-Seattle to June Hallmark, Eads doc#90, now in June's blue bk of remembrance in Grace Smith's brown suitcase
Date: 1961 - [S248] Family Rcds: HALLMARK, June B Smith.
Elery Lee Michael md Jessie McFall md 21 Nov 1940 [no place shown]
Family group sheet in blue Bk of Remembrance, now in brown suitcase, belonging to Grace Smith
- [S165] Family Rcds: SMITH, Grace Michael.
