Alcona County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Curtis, Ebinezer And Mary 
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Cemetery:           Curtisville Cemetery
Name:               Ebinezer And Mary Curtis

Date Of Photograph: June 25, 2007
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CURTIS
Ebinezer
1822-1913
Mary
his wife
1830-1905

FS-Mother
FS-Father

Row 3 Lot 27

Additional Comments:
Ebinezer Curtis was the first white man in the area now known as Curtisville 
in Alcona County. Ebinezer D. Curtis married Mary Hodgeson, probably in New 
Brunswick, Canada; as they were both born there.  As was their oldest child, 
Allen.  E. D. worked as a ship builder and also as a lumberman in Maine.

Mary's father was born in Maine.  Her mother was born in Ireland.

Curtis' had seven children:

[1.] Allen, born in New Brunswick, Canade.  Married Lillian Dawes of Wilber, 
Michigan.  They had one child, Mary.

 

 

[2.]  Malvina, born in Portland, Maine in 1851.  Died in Seattle, Washington 
about 1927.  Married Manley Wilber, Aprile 21, 1871.  They had two daughters:  
Alberta and Ethel.

[ 3.]  Edwin.  Lumbered in Benizi, Minnesota.  Died there.  Nothing more is 
known of his life.

[ 4.]  Jennie, born in Maine 1858.  Died at Curtisville, Michigan on October 
22, 1892.  Married Joseph Bell, a Civil War veteran.  Died at birth of son 
Daniel.  Joseph and Jennie Bell had seven prior children:  Edward, born April 
12, 1876 at Wilbur, Michigan.  Died October 29, 1927.  Married Mary 
Wilkerson.  One adopted daughter Nina Wilson Mousseau.  Joseph born January 
15, 1878 at Wilbur, Michigan.  Died at Curtisville, Michigan May 19, 1945.  
Graduated from Ferris College, 1906.  President of his class.  Druggist in 
Seattle all his life.  Five children:  William, Keith, Richard, Patricia and 
Elizabeth.  Manly A. born Stillwater, Minnesota September 30, 1880.  Died at 
Curtisville, Michigna June, 1956.  He was a lumberman, farmer, sportsman and 
Consumer Power foreman.  He married Harriet T. La Fleur, November 12, 1899.  
They had five children:  Maly Lyle, Alvin Edwin, Georgia Rose, Grace Martha,  
Arbutus Burnice.   William Kenneth, remained a bachelor until well into his 
60's, he then married Bessie Spencer ___?____ a childhood sweetheart.  Their 
years together were very happy. Faith, died at age 35 following heart surgery 
in Ann Arbor.  Never married.  Buried in Curtisville Cemetery.  Frederick 
Goodfellow, born at Curtisville, Michigan in 1891.  Died July 17.  Married 
Mabel Beldon of Goodar, Michigan.  They had nine childrem: Iladawn, America, 
Wanda, Audrey, Curtis, Larry, Joan, Sharon, Tamara.  Daniel, born October 22, 
1892.  Raised by his grandmother and grandfather Curtis.  Married Myrtle 
Bovia.  They had three children:   Olga, Chancey Dan (died at six weeks) and 
Richard (Shop teacher at Scottsville, Michigan).

[5.]  William born in Maine and moved to Roseburg, Oregon.  Three children 
(possibily four):  William, Ethel, and Edith and possibly another girl.

[6.]  Mary (Mame) born in Maine in 1861.  Married Truman Simons January 19, 
1879.  Died in Curtisville, Michigan in 1949.  Four Children:  Eben, Cora, 
Elva and Richard (Dick).

[7.] Richard born December 11, 1868.  Married Mary Goodfrellow.  One son 
Charles, who later married Alice Simons.  They had three sons:  Vivian Eugene, 
Richard, and Stanley.



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